Isn't It time: Kennedy Center honors for The Grateful Dead

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Saturday April 06, 2013 · 5:02 PM PDT

2013/04/06 · 17:02

This has been bothering me ever since I watched President Obama honor Led Zeppelin at Kennedy Center. I really like Led Zeppelin and have great respect for their influence in rock and roll. They were truly a great band, from England. The Grateful Dead are THE American band and I believe they should be honored for their long and illustrious career at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. by the President of the United States of America.

Please follow me down below the squiggle to find out why.

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Should the Grateful Dead be honored at the Kennedy Center

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No honors for hippies

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Some questions for Romney

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Sunday October 14, 2012 · 9:17 AM PDT

2012/10/14 · 09:17

I am hoping some of these questions are asked in one form or another:

1: You have said you will lead and not duck the tough issues. Please tell us what the parameters are for a Romney led comprehensive immigration reform program.

2: How do you expect to provide care for the approximately 50 million people who will not have insurance after you repeal the ACA?

3: If rich people will pay the same amount of taxes after your tax reform plan is instituted, why bother changing the tax code?

4: What is to keep wealthy people from investing their substantial tax cuts in Swiss bank accounts or Cayman Islands corporations? How will you make sure the job creators are creating American jobs?

Those are just a few. I'd also like to know why he will not release his tax returns, what loopholes he will close. How would change foreign policy? What banking regulations would he repeal or keep from Dodd-Frank and why.

And of course, my signature line in the form of a question. Is it better that a thousand psychopaths have access to semiautomatic assault weapons than that one innocent person be denied his second amendment rights? Put another way, is it better that a thousand innocent people are murdered by psychos with weapons than for one person to be denied access to firearms?

What are some of your questions for Romney?

Rope-a-dope?

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Friday October 05, 2012 · 4:06 PM PDT

2012/10/05 · 16:06

My initial reaction to the debate has been a lot like many of the diarists, Obama got his clock cleaned. All the while I was asking myself, how could they let this happen? I thought, Obama's team is smarter than that. He just laid down for Rmoney. I watched the post debate coverage and the reaction of the punditocracy was a lot like mine.

The next day, I began to see the fact checkers on all the legitimate networks paying as much attention to the lies, as to Obama's sub-par performance. That got me to thinking about how and why that happened. My thinking is below the squiggle, I'd really like some feedback on this.

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Was it a rope a dope

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Obama won the debate

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Oh! they just take away Medicare for my kids. That's OK

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Friday September 07, 2012 · 3:17 PM PDT

2012/09/07 · 15:17

I am amazed that no one is approaching the Ryan Medicare plan this way. I am 59 years old, so I'm OK according to their plan, (except that their plan will bankrupt Medicare in 2016, before I am eligible for it). Most of all, I am angry that their plan gets rid of Medicare for my children. Most seniors are also parents, and they should be reminded that the idea is to make life better for our kids, not take away the benefits that this country has promised them. We are the only advanced country without universal health care, and the repugs think it's too much. How much will insurance cost my son when he turns 80, if he makes it. How much does the average 45-50 year old think private insurance will cost them when they turn 80, not 65, and how much do they think the gov't will contribute to the price. What sane insurance company would provide insurance to anyone 80 or older.

The fact that no one has discussed the potential price and availability of private insurance as people reach more advanced ages is a significant omission from the argument against plans to privatize or voucherize Medicare.

Scott Brown says he was molested and I take him at his word

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Tuesday February 22, 2011 · 4:04 PM PST

2011/02/22 · 16:04

The thought that it might be otherwise would not even begin to consider to cross my mind. The possibility that this is a story made to sell books and win democratic votes, I am certain, have nothing to do with his confession at this time. The fact that he must choose between representing his constituents and siding with an increasingly radical gop, he says (and I take him at his word), were never considered in this very personal decision.

He says he was molested as a boy, and I take him at his word, despite the fact that there is no one to confirm or deny the story, or even a witness to say Sen. Brown confided in them some time after the accident.

I know that child abuse is a horrible crime and, more often than not, goes unreported for years, if ever. I am always willing to give the benefit of the doubt to anyone, especially in a case like this, just as I would if someone told me their religion. On the other hand, Sen. Brown's confession does seem to come at a very opportune time for him.

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Egypt follows the Iranian model

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Wednesday February 02, 2011 · 8:54 AM PST

2011/02/02 · 08:54

While the MSM is quick to point out the parallels between the troubles in Egypt and the overthrow of various governments, they are missing the real parallel: That between Egypt and Iran. On examination, the similarities are striking.

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Thursday September 09, 2010 · 2:35 PM PDT

2010/09/09 · 14:35

According to both CNN & MSNBC, the nutbag book burner has announced that he will cancel his book-burning if the Park 51 center will be moved. AND THIS HAS BEEN AGREED TO?.

Isn't it bad enough that we just dont ignore this guy or organize a counter demonstration 50 times the size of his stunt? Couldn't we get 2500 people to show up and counter with a demonstration of our own? Instead, we deal with this terrorist and give him and his right wing cohort a great victory against Islam. This is a shame and a travesty.

The good people at Park 51 are being denied their right to worship where they want through extortion. I am a 58 year old Jew and I truly resent the way this has gone down. How did this guy get a mike? How could we be held hostage for days by this crazy preacher? How can the idea that we don't deal with terrorists have any credibility?

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Tuesday August 31, 2010 · 11:07 AM PDT

2010/08/31 · 11:07

The burning question in the MSM over the last couple of days has been whether or not President Obama will congratulate GWB for the surge, which has allowed us to withdraw.

I'm all in favor of that, providing we also give him credit for lying us into the war in the first place, for the more than 4000 US fatalities, tens of thousands of US casualties (physical and mental/emotional), and trillions of dollars spent to achieve a fragile peace between factions that cannot agree on a government and could once again erupt into civil war at any time.

We should also remember to give him credit for prolonging the war in Afghanistan by invading Iraq before the job was finished.

As long as the MSM also gives credit where it is due to the above accomplishments, I don't believe we should give credit to people who started a war, let it languish for 5 years, for coming up with a strategy to bring the violence down to where we can safely get out.

Those pundits who think we should credit Bush are engaging in revisionist history, nothing new for Republicans. Without reminding us who started this misbegotten, illegitimate war, they want to give themselves credit for winning it, kind of like robbing a bank, then claiming credit for recovering 10% of the money stolen.

Letter to my "progressive" senators

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Wednesday December 16, 2009 · 1:20 PM PST

2009/12/16 · 13:20

Today, I am finally fed up with all the bullshit. While I have been writing my representatives fairly regularly in support of health care,today I told them how I really feel. I doubt it will have an impact because this "is too important" to fail (much like the banks are too big to fail) so we have to pass the bill.
Well, today was the last straw. They have already stripped out any real reform of health care, leaving only toothless regulation of the industry, and now they are going to further restrict a woman's right to choose. This is too much!

Follow me below the fold for my letter to my representatives (Schumer, Gillibrand, and Tonko). Perhaps if these Senators in "safe" seats feel a little heat, they will apply a little more pressure. We need to let these people know that, while we will support them when they do the right thing, we will not support them with money or votes if they fail. Maybe this will move them. (fat chance)

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Tuesday September 29, 2009 · 1:22 PM PDT

2009/09/29 · 13:22

After watching the vote on the Rockefeller amendment in the Senate Finance Committee, I contacted all 5 "democrats" who opposed it as well as Senator Snowe.

I then wrote a letter to the DSCC asking them to remove me from their mailing list as I will only contribute to individual candidates who support true health care reform. It occurs to me that we are all constituents of the DSCC and DCCC, and millions of letters and phone calls to them would have a much greater effect than letters to individual senators.

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Saturday February 12, 2005 · 6:35 AM PST

2005/02/12 · 06:35

I don't know if anyone else picked up on this but Wal-Mart (formerly known as Satan's Five and Dime), just reached a settlement regarding child labor. From today's NYT:

"Wal-Mart and the Labor Department have reached a settlement over what the government said were 24 violations of child labor laws. Wal-Mart Stores, the nation's largest retailer, has agreed to pay $135,540 to settle federal charges that it violated child labor laws in Connecticut, Arkansas and New Hampshire. Read More

Questions about Social Security that are not being answered, or even asked.

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Saturday February 05, 2005 · 2:38 PM PST

2005/02/05 · 14:38

This is my first diary. It's kind of long, but it only scratches the surface of what I have to say regarding Social Security. Feedback is greatly appreciated.

After the baby boomers retire, what will be the ratio of retirees to workers? Will SS go back into surplus? If we consider the age of baby boomers from 1945 to 1960, the youngest of those boomers will be 82 years old. It would follow that, at some point, the worker-to-retiree ratio will rise and the system will again reach a balance, especially if, at a current ratio of 3.3 to 1 we are establishing large surpluses. What is the estimated worker to retiree ratio in 2042? What about 2060, when the baby boomers are dead?
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Isn't It time: Kennedy Center honors for The Grateful Dead

Some questions for Romney

Rope-a-dope?

Oh! they just take away Medicare for my kids. That's OK

Scott Brown says he was molested and I take him at his word

Egypt follows the Iranian model

Capitulating to terrorists

MSM: Mad props to GWB

Letter to my "progressive" senators

Boycott the DSCC

Wal Mart

Questions about Social Security that are not being answered, or even asked.