An Open Letter to Representative Brad Miller

Mr. Miller,

I am writing you today to let you know how disappointed I am in your decision to both vote in favor of allowing the indefinite detention of American citizens while preventing them any recourse or due process, as well as your vote to prevent members of the public from being able to scrutinize Congressional meetings regarding H.R. 1540.

Obama's health reform: A year by year breakdown

Curious what the health care bill means for you? Don't listen to misinformation coming from the right. Courtesy of Reuters, here's a year by year breakdown of what health care reform means for you:

WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR OF ENACTMENT

Obama's first year accomplishments

Obama hasn’t been perfect, but contrary to the right wing narrative, he’s accomplished a lot in his first year despite facing extraordinary challenges from his first day in office. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Here's a (partial) list collected from various sources:

1. Banned the use of torture and the ordered the closing of Guantánamo, bringing us back in line with the Geneva Conventions.

2. Reversed Bush’s funding cutoff to family planning organizations overseas, saving millions of lives with the stroke of a pen.

Which other proverb would you like? -- Post your name and which proverb to the comments after voting

عقلي مش دفتر (My mind is not a notebook)
50% (2 votes)
فوق الريح (On top of the wind)
25% (1 vote)
في المشمش (In your dreams / When pigs fly)
25% (1 vote)
Other (dont vote on this one, post in comments)
0% (0 votes)
Total votes: 4

Arabic QWERTY Keyboard Layout for Windows

I'm taking Arabic this semester, and one of our final assignments is to type a 175+ word essay in Arabic.

If you own a Mac and have reason to type in Arabic, you've probably seen the Arabic-QWERTY keyboard layout that comes standard with Mac OS X, which has the keys assigned intuitively for a non-native speaker who's used to a normal, QWERTY English keyboard and probably associates Arabic letters and sounds with comparable ones in the Latin alphabet.

Alif = A, Baa = B, Nuun = N, and so on.

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