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August 22, 2008
Moran: Life before the convention

Kennebec County Democratic Committee Chairwoman Rita Moran of Winthrop, who leaves Saturday for the Democratic National Convention in Denver, took some time to record her thoughts before she heads West.

Here's (most of) what she wrote:

As we convention delegates sat around the table at the Blaine House Wednesday, the reality of what was to come next, and the road we had all taken to get there, finally hit home.

Let's go back a few months.

Becoming a national convention delegate isn't an easy process. It begins with commitment, the strong desire to be part of a team poised to make history.

Of course we didn't know what sort of history would be made at that point, but we were all pretty sure the Democratic Party would nominate either the first American woman, or the first African-American, to run for president in a major party. But despite the long caucus/primary season, many Maine Democrats wanted to be part of the national convention process, to raise the money (somewhere between one and two thousand dollars) and take a week out their busy lives and go to Denver.

We began by gathering about forty (a few extra to be sure) signatures on a nominating petition, much as candidates for elected office do. Delegates come in several categories: congressional district, at-large (statewide), and PLEO (party leader and elected official). Each requires a separate petition, but many of us ran in multiple categories to maximize our chances.

Some won; some lost…this is politics, after all. A preliminary meeting for delegates and alternates was held. This would be the last time we would be together until the Blaine House reception (not all of us could get there), and then Denver. There was the usual give and take of information, finding of roommates, and excitement at the road ahead.

In the last few weeks, as each of the national delegates managed to get information about events in Denver, we would quickly e-mail it to the rest of the group. We even designed delegation t-shirts (imagine the "kicking donkey" Democratic Party logo with added antlers), had them made up at a union shop, and will be wearing them during the convention. We've become a close group, these Obama and Clinton delegates and alternates, and it bodes well.

I'm off to Denver and hope to keep in touch.

Posted by Susan M. Cover at 02:31 PM
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August 22, 2008
Moran: Life before the convention
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NEW LETTER TO SENATOR BARACK OBAMA
Laval, Canada, August 6, 2008

SENATOR OBAMA,

‘It is in adversity’, I was going to say in ‘darkness’, that one recognizes true friends.

Energy of the Sixties tested, confronted by Todays’s Energy crisis, what does Science hold for us in this field at the crossroad of the third millennium?

Each of us should express solidarity, according to his means.

My contribution, apparently futuristic, refers, Senator Obama, to an inexhaustible source of energy, which one should tame now.

In a book with limited publication, translated in English for the needs of the cause, entitled ‘BILL A RI And There Was Light’, addressed during his last American election campaign to President Bill Clinton who acknowledged having received it, I dared to tackle this subject.

It’s like to say to you, Senator Obama, that in the exceptional circumstances in which we live today - in the point of view of energy - no exploration in the mid or long term, by the american expertise , of an additional source of energy, at the same time safe and profitable, should not be ruled out.

There is no witchcraft at all involved in all that, Mister Obama. In spite of my Haďtian ascent and my carefully phrased remarks. It is undoubtedly so when a taboo should be broken through. A taboo of magnitude, Sir, I admit it. A ’scientific’ taboo, seldom encountered.

‘ The taboo arises as a negative categorical imperative,’ affirms Roger Caillois.

It is not saying little. Especially when it is a question of adequately correcting the theory of Newton on light and colors.

However, at the dawn of the twenty first century, to denounce this taboo, to reverse it, should I say, what an asset! Moreover, at the same time the multiple taboos grow blurred which surround another phenomenon of the highest scientific range, the well known phenomenon under the abusive name of ‘Black Holes’, synthesis of light and colors. Indeed Newton, in good faith undoubtedly in his time, really reversed the interpretation of the phenomenon of light. He took the part for the whole ! So much and so well that today like yesterday, the visible appears so much more tempting. Physicists say it: ‘ninety to ninety nine percent of the matter of the universe (Grosso Modo - said here roughly by Lucien BONNET - for more precisions see "LINKS" or "GOOGLE") is made up of a dark matter, invisible, which generates, propels and surrounds the visible, like the sea surrounds the continents’. Scientists such as Stephen Hawking affirm it. The Hubble Telescope confirms it. But theoretical Optics is stagnant.

My intervention, here, Senator Obama, would mean that. It is possible to use another form of energy. By decoding the Black Matter.Without a play on words. Theoretically initially. While ‘returning the elevator to Newton’ - without a play on words. By the Act which consists in making an AMENDMENT TO THE LAW OF NEWTON ON LIGHT AND COLORS.

Presently, why should we take the result instead of the cause?

— Objectively and in a pragmatic way, how not focussing on a new synthesis?

Consequently, what a liberation !

At the threshold of the third millennium, let light live, invisible by synthesis, visible by analysis !

‘Synthesis and analysis are two wings of the same bird, the rythm of the universe’s heartbeat, tamed inside the infinitely small having mass. Successively contracted and deployed. In the benefit of humanity.’

One small step for Man, one giant leap for Mankind - I also said myself - in ‘ BILL A RI and there was light !… ‘

Unfortunate, yes, but how much a convenient Energy crisis if I dare say, which invites us to explore other avenues, other concepts and, therefore, other resources so far neglected.

Invitation to go from the invisible to the visible and vice versa. Taking advantage of the sequence of colorless and colored luminous speeds. In order to better understand the Universe. Where Law and Order prevail. Just like in Democracy !

Energetic formula with a unique character !

In the name of Science and Technology, vapor is being reverse !

A winning formula !

In The United States Of America.

By The United States Of America.

For The United States Of America and abroad !

With you today, Senator Obama, I repeat this sentence - since 1972 and 1978 - that is to say forty years old, but always, in my opinion, carrying the same message that I wish more and more positive for the years to come, in the third millennium, as I said since 1972 and on April 10, 1978, in a Letter to Doctor Carl Sagan:

‘On the cosmic scale as on the terrestrial scale, darkness or blackness forms an integral, sine qua non part, of color and light pocess’.

Is it still broad daylight
in the shadow of the black sun?

Yours truly,
Lucien BONNET

PLEASE SEE ‘Bill A Ri And There Was Light !’

LINKS (JANUARY 12, 2008)
UBC astronomer makes first map of dark matter
CTV.ca - 11 Jan 2008
For the first time, a team of UBC scientists have mapped the elusive ‘dark matter’ in a supercluster of stars in the night sky.
New map lets scientists ’see’ dark matter CBC News
Astronomers get best look yet at dark matter surrounding galaxies The Canadian Press.

Posted by Lucien BONNET
August 22, 2008 04:43 PM

You need signatures to be nominated as a Democratic delegate? How undemocratic. As a Republican, you can just be nominated from the floor.

Which is the party of inclusion now?

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August 24, 2008 08:11 AM

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