Maria

I don't need no one to tell me about heaven
I look at my daughter, and I believe
I don't need no proof when it comes to God and truth
I can see the sunset, and I perceive
- Live, Heaven
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CLICK HERE TO READ KEVIN TILLMAN'S ARTICLE ON TRUTHDIG
…there is one thing on this February night that we do not need the final results to know. Our time has come…Our movement is real…
What began as a whisper in Springfield soon carried across the cornfields of Iowa, where farmers and factory workers, students and seniors stood up in numbers we have never seen before. They stood up to say that maybe this year we don't have to settle for politics where scoring points is more important than solving problems. Maybe this year we can finally start doing something about health care we can't afford. Maybe this year we can start doing something about mortgages we can't pay. Maybe this year, this time can be different.
Their voices echoed from the hills of New Hampshire to the deserts of Nevada, where teachers and cooks and kitchen workers stood up to say that maybe Washington doesn't have to be run by lobbyists anymore. Maybe the voices of the American people can finally be heard again.
They reached the coast of South Carolina, when people said that maybe we don't have to be divided by race and region and gender -- that the crumbling schools are stealing the future of black children and white children -- that we can come together and build an America that gives every child everywhere the opportunity to live out their dreams. This time can be different.
And today, on this Tuesday in February, in states north and south, east and west, what began as a whisper in Springfield has swelled to a chorus of millions calling for change. It's a chorus that cannot be ignored, a chorus that cannot be deterred. This time can be different because this campaign for the presidency of the United States of America is different.
It's different not because of me. It's different because of you -- because you are tired of being disappointed and you're tired of being let down. You're tired of hearing promises made and plans proposed in the heat of a campaign, only to have nothing change when everyone goes back to Washington.
Nothing changes because lobbyists just write another check or politicians start worrying about how to win the next election instead of why they should -- or because they focus on who's up and who's down instead of who matters.
And while Washington is consumed with the same drama and divisions and distractions, another family puts up a "For sale" sign in their front yard, another factory shuts its doors, another soldier waves goodbye as he leaves on another tour of duty in a war that should have never been authorized and should have never been waged…
I am blessed to be standing in the city where my own extraordinary journey of service began. You know, just a few miles from here, down on the south side, in the shadow of a shuttered steel plant, it was there that I learned what it takes to make change happen. I was a young organizer then -- in fact, there are some folks here who I organized with -- a young organizer intent on fighting joblessness and poverty on the south side.
And I still remember one of the very first meetings I put together. We had worked on it for days. We had made phone calls. We had knocked on doors. We had put out fliers. But on that night, nobody showed up. Our volunteers who had worked so hard felt so defeated, they wanted to quit. And to be honest, so did I. But at that moment, I happened to look outside and I saw some young boys tossing stones at a boarded-up apartment building across the street. They were like the boys in so many cities across the country, little boys, but without prospects, without guidance, without hope for the future. And I turned to the volunteers and I asked them, "Before you quit, before you give up, I want you to answer one question: What will happen to those boys if we don't stand up for them?"
And those volunteers, they looked out that window and they saw those boys and they decided that night to keep going, to keep organizing, keep fighting for better schools, fighting for better jobs, fighting for better health care. And I did too. And slowly but surely, in the weeks and months to come, the community began to change.
You see, the challenges we face will not be solved with one meeting in one night. It will not be resolved on even a Super Duper Tuesday. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. We are the hope of those boys who have so little, who've been told that they cannot have what they dream, that they cannot be what they imagine. Yes, they can.
We are the hope of the father who goes to work before dawn and lies awake with doubt that tells him he cannot give his children the same opportunities that someone gave him. Yes, he can.
We are the hope of the woman who hears that her city will not be rebuilt, that she cannot somehow claim the life that was swept away in a terrible storm. Yes, she can. We are the hope of the future, the answer to the cynics who tell us our house must stand divided, that we cannot come together, that we cannot remake this world as it should be.
We know that we have seen something happen over the last several weeks, over the past several months. We know that what began as a whisper has now swelled to a chorus that cannot be ignored -- that will not be deterred, that will ring out across this land as a hymn that will heal this nation, repair this world, make this time different than all the rest. Yes, we can.
-Barack Obama's Feb. 5 Speech
www.dividedwefail.org
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General
What is your height? 5'2"
Do you have any siblings? 1 little sister
What is your eye colour? brown
What is your hair colour? brown
Do you wear glasses or contacts? 18/20 vision baby!!!
Are you right handed or left handed? righty
Do you have any piercings? all gone except for 1 in each ear
Do you get along with your parents? love them very much
Your heritage FILIPINA!!!!!

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Your fears cockroaches and clowns
What time do you arise in the morning? 6/6:30 a.m. depending on how ambitious i feel
First thoughts waking up? gotta go potty....(can you tell i have a 4-year-old?)
Have you ever...
Laughed for no reason? all the time…i’m laughing right now...
Been caught doing something you weren't supposed to do? far too many times
Been in love? yes
Been beaten up? lol by my parents, they’re old school, they don’t play
Favorite...
Planet? pluto, you're still a planet in my eyes
Age you've been so far? i've liked them all really
Random...
How much cash do you have on you? $12.80 + a crap load of pennies
What's a word that rhymes with 'door'? poor?
What did your last text message say? lol ok
What were you doing at midnight last night? frolicking in the land of slumber
What's your current desktop picture? kayla's first day of school!!!
If you were a crayon, what color would you be? sea foam green
What is the first thing you notice about the opposite sex? eyes, they tell a lot
Who would you like to see right now? Kayla, she didn’t want me to leave her at school this morning: (
How many things, in your past, do you regret? none, i don't believe in regret, just life lessons
Do you want to get married? definitely not now, but i'd like to do it again one day
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