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Obama Signs Health Care Overhaul Bill, With a Flourish



http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/health/policy/24health.html?_r=0

Obama Signs Equal-Pay Legislation



http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/us/politics/30ledbetter-web.html



What They’re Saying: President Obama Signs Executive Order on LGBT Workplace Equality



http://www.gayrva.com/news-views/breaking-obama-signs-executive-order-protecting-lgbt-free-of-religious-exemptions/

http://www.upi.com/News_Photos/News/Obama-signs-Finance-Reform-Bill/3584/



U.S. President Barack Obama (C) signs the the financial reform bill into law during a ceremony with (L-R) Robin Fox, Andrew Giordano, Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-CT), House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center on July 21, 2010 in Washington, DC. A sweeping expansion of federal financial regulation in the wake of the worst recession since the Great Depression, the bill will create a consumer protection agency, lay out a blueprint for disassembling financial entities considered "too big to fail," and many other reforms. UPI/Chip Somodevilla/Pool

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http://www.upi.com/News_Photos/News/Obama-signs-Finance-Reform-Bill/fp/3584/

President signs expanded domestic violence legislation
Advocates for gay rights, others hail added protections



WASHINGTON — President Obama signed expanded protections for domestic violence victims into law Thursday, renewing a measure credited with curbing attacks against women a year and a half after it lapsed amid partisan bickering.

The revitalized Violence Against Women Act also marked an important win for gay rights advocates and Native Americans, who will see new protections under the law, and for Obama, whose attempts to push for a renewal failed last year after they became entangled in gender politics and the presidential election.


‘‘This is your day. This is the day of the advocates, the day of the survivors. This is your victory,’’ Obama said. ‘‘This victory shows that when the American people make their voices heard, Washington listens.’’

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The law authorizes some $659 million a year over five years for programs that strengthen the criminal justice system’s response to crimes against women and some men, such as transitional housing, legal assistance, law enforcement training, and hot lines. One element of this year’s renewal focuses on ways to reduce sexual assault on college campuses. It also reauthorizes the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, adds stalking to the list of crimes that make immigrants eligible for protection and authorizes programs to reduce the backlog in rape investigations.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2013/03/08/obama-signs-expanded-violence-against-women-act/NJVwvKjdgdCeES5C5rHiPP/story.html

Okay, I get it! Seriously, I do. Hey "Folks" I read DU tonight when I came home from work. I do believe that this President is the worst ever! He is worse than Regan Bush1 Bush2 and ahhh gee let's toss Hitler in there too. "Sanctimonious" ?? Take a word and spin it, then comes the outrage! Damn this President is a POS! He lied and I never got my pony. I know this because there are so many fevered post about it, it's like a CNN non stop news feed about the Disappearance of Natalee Holloway....24/7.

Holy Shit! Another Bashathon, come on down!

[IrishAyes]

1. Preach it, sister! Somebody has to.

I'm nowhere near as good at it as you. I'm a pretty good backup in a bar fight, but that's a whole different skill set. Not a particularly widely admired one either in a delicate little flower as myself, yet I hope the surprise factor makes up for it a bit.

[sheshe2]

2. IrishAyes!

I would love it if you took my back in a bar fight and I am damn sure that you could cut them in half with words alone!

[IrishAyes]

11. Thank you, and same back atcha!

I miss the dojo. Might be getting older and slower, but I can still reach most people's knees. My nickname in those days was the Sicilian Girl. Of late I've been looking for my inner Gandhi, but some days he's nowhere to be found. Have to end my morning prayer with, "... and please help me be nice to at least one Republican today."
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BTW, many people misunderstand the true purpose of martial arts, which is self mastery. I just like to trot that reminder out once in awhile. Not aimed at you (certainly) or any particular individual. It's simply one of the best life lessons I was ever given, even if it cost me terrible discomfort at times. But I do believe it's helped put the brakes on the natural human tendency to lie to oneself in the many ways we all manufacture to one degree or another.

It also helped cement liberalism in my soul. Does the human soul immeasureable good to get its butt kicked by a great variety of other people in a socially sanctioned, closely monitored environment. I mean realistic humility, not a crushed spirit.

[Cha]

7. Ain't that the truth, IrishAyes!

[JDPriestly]

3. I love President Obama but he shouldn't give the torturers a free

ride. They should face charges. They violated a US and international law. It's not Obama's call, of course. But they should face charges either here or abroad.

It is one thing to support President Obama, but you must remember that if we allow this torture to go without at least bringing charges, we do not know who the next person to be tortured will be. Or the next person after that.

Could be you or me or someone we love.

Torture is a crime per se. There is no argument about it. It is a crime, and it should be charged as a crime.

[IrishAyes]

12. True, to a degree; but why, dear heart, do you say in one breath

that President Obama shouldn't (therefore presumably does) give torturers a free ride - yet in the next breath state correctly that it's not his call? That is self contradictory.

He has called them out in public and created quite the firestorm as a result. I'm terrifically impressed. All the executive power in the world can't and shouldn't give him or anyone else complete free rein to mete out deserved punishment. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Since it isn't his personal call in this instance, let's pressure those who are responsible for bringing the matter to justice. Even a sideways hint that he surely could've done more if he chose is counterproductive, a waste of time, and ultimately unjust in itself.

That said, I certainly agree with President Obama AND you about the unacceptability of torture.

[onecaliberal]

4. Thanks for the post

I didn't read the sanctimonious post I knew it would piss me off.

[IrishAyes]

13. Are you aware of how sanctimonious your own words sound???!

Maybe it was a service to piss you off.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. People forget the "Change" was from THIS....

[Cha]

6. Sorry, I didn't see this earlier, she.. outstanding! I'm not coming on to DU much

lately and when I did I see the usual suspects and others are all in a lathered frenzy over "Folksgate"..

And, we're all "sanctimonious" according to President Obama because we hate that the bush-cheney coup were torturing people. Nah, I don't let others put words in the President's mouth and tell me what they think is going on with him. "Folks" have been trying in vain to do that for over 4 years now.. and they're really bad at it.

[sheshe2]

8. I know you have been staying away Cha.

Don't blame you, not in the least. Sadly those that say they are or were supporters of this President never really were.

So many believe that we are blind and stupid. Ya know what , they are. Sadly they are.

An excellent picture! Spot on. And yes, for now I will hang in there.

I love ya Cha!

[Cha]

9. I thought that was a good image to depict sweetly what

you, I, and a lot of others are experiencing now for a lot of different reasons. Not just what's going on in the world but in our personal stories as well.

she

[sheshe2]

10. Yup. Yes...

You said it all.

So many of us are just hanging on, while others rant and rave and have no clue.

Cha, you are a sweet friend.

[IrishAyes]

15. The commonality of our struggles unites us and makes us stronger.

[Cha]

16. A-men to that, IrishAyes! :)

[IrishAyes]

14. I don't participate much in most forums with a potentially political turn either.

But sometimes when I see an OP by you or certain other compatible souls, I'm too tempted to resist. Otherwise DU would quickly grow unbearable for me as well. I don't like to use thread trash or blocking because I want and need to see what's going on wherever I (rightly or wrongly) stick my long nose. And then there are posters whose very name as OP author alerts me to discretionary avoidance.