This is a bandwagon I would gladly climb onto. 
1. Mr. Moyers has a genuine, civil, positive, hopeful courage of conviction that we the people can and will serve our own common good if we are properly informed and use the tools of our great democracy wisely. His passion for our country is rooted in a deep understanding, respect for, and unswerving adherence to the bedrock values and principles our Founding Fathers left us for us to preserve.
2. Mr. Moyers has a profound vision about how the United States of America can be unified again by the fullest exercise of self-government by we the people around our basic commitments to simple, commonly accepted all-American values and policies such as equality of opportunity and caring for your neighbor and telling the truth.
3. Mr. Moyers is a fearless advocate. He is unafraid to say that many politicians are simply the shills of selfish, greedy corporate interests; that false prophets are heretics; and that powerful media and lobby groups are peddling corruption.
4. Mr. Moyers espouses and upholds very high standards of professional ethics and personal integrity.
5. Mr. Moyers brings significant hands-on White House experience to bear on his thinking about America's future.
6. Mr. Moyers lifetime of public service as an honest political journalist has earned him national esteem and the respect of millions of people.
7. Mr. Moyers talks openly and comfortably about the role spiritual values play in his progressive outlook without abusing or disrespecting the line that is supposed to separate religious belief and political thought in America.
8. He is an exceptionally smart person. He has a truly impressive command of the facts underlying the fundamental connection that exists between progressive policies and electoral results. Further, he has demonstrated a unique ability to think ahead of the curve and craft and manage creative, state-of-the-art, successful enterprises, including ones that involve media planning.
9. He is a mesmerizing public speaker and a superb debater.
10. Mr. Moyers understands expressed the view that the perfection of our union will require new and perhaps unprecedented sacrifices by all of us. He would be a captain who bravely acknowledges the turbulent waters roiling all about and inspires us to do the right things needed to safely sail through them.
NASA briefed
senior White House officials Wednesday on its plan to spend $100 billion and
the next 12 years building the spacecraft and rockets it needs to put humans
back on the Moon by 2018.
NASA has been working
intensely since April on an exploration plan that entails building an 18-foot (5.5-meter)
blunt body crew capsule and launchers built from major space shuttle components
including the main engines, solid rocket boosters and massive external fuel
tanks. More
According to sociologists, looting and violence in the wake of natural disasters tends to be limited – and is often exaggerated by rumors and media reports.
By now the stories of looting and mayhem in New Orleans--the black residents looting, the whites scavaging or finding bread, water, diapers, baby formula...or nonessentials in abandoned shops,
alleged rapes in the Superdome, a shot fired at a rescue
helicopter--these images have been burned into the brain of every television watcher
and newspaper reader in America.
But do they give us an accurate picture of the aftermath of the flood? More
In the chaos following the hurricane on Thursday this group of refugees stood
out: a 6-year-old boy walking down the road, holding a 5-month-old,
surrounded by five toddlers who followed him around as if he were their
leader.
They were holding hands. Three of the children were about 2 years old, and one was wearing only diapers. A 3-year-old girl, who wore colorful barrettes on the ends of her braids, had her 14-month-old brother in tow. The 6-year-old spoke for all of them, and he told rescuers his name was Deamonte Love.
"How did a 6-year-old end up being in charge of six babies?"
At rescue headquarters in Baton Rouge Deamonte volunteered his vital statistics. He said his father was tall and his mother was short. He gave his address, his phone number and the name of his elementary school. He said that the 5-month-old was his brother, Darynael, and that two others were his cousins. The other three lived in his apartment building.
In time Deamonte began to give more details to rescue workers. How he saw his mother cry when he was loaded onto the helicopter. How he promised her he'd take care of his little brother.
Late Saturday night, they found Deamonte's mother, who was in a shelter in San Antonio along with the four mothers of the other five children. What happened the Thursday after the hurricane, she said, was that her family, trapped in an apartment building on the 3200 block of Third Street in New Orleans, began to feel desperate.
The water wasn't going down and they had been living without light, food or air conditioning for four days. The baby needed milk and the milk was gone. So she decided they would evacuate by helicopter. When a helicopter arrived to pick them up, they were told to send the children first and that the helicopter would be back in 25 minutes. She and her neighbors had to make a quick decision.
It was a wrenching moment.
Deamonte's grandfather, Adrian Love, told his mother told her to send the children ahead.
"I told them to go ahead and give them up, because me, I would give my
life for my kids. "They
were shedding tears. I said, 'Let the babies go.' "
His daughter and her friends followed his advice.
"We did what we had to do for our kids, because we love them."
The helicopter didn't come back. While the children were
transported to Baton Rouge, their parents wound up in Texas. Days
passed without any contact. On Sunday, she was elated when her children were found.
"All I know is I just want to see my kids," she said. "Everything else will just fall into place."
--adapted from an LA Times article found here
