I Hate Bank of America

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Saturday October 17, 2009 · 2:39 PM PDT

2009/10/17 · 14:39

A couple of weeks ago, I took my cat in for his shots. The bill was more than I was expecting, so I asked the vet to split it up and put $100 on my BofA debit card and the rest on my credit union debit card.

A few days later, I checked my balance at BofA -- overdrawn? Turns out, I only had 91 dollars in that account when I paid the vet bill. Instead of declining the charge, BofA paid it -- and charged me $35 for the $9 I was under.

But that's not all . . .

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How will this all end?

155 votes Vote Now!

How will this all end?

The Obama Administration will enact sweeping legislation to protect us from banking predators

22 votes

In me realizing I'm wrong and the bank is right.

15 votes

It will never end. We're all slaves now.

81 votes

The Obama Administration will enact sweeping legislation limiting such fines to $30 per month.

12 votes

tumbrils and knitting needles

25 votes

This Might Be A Shameful Breach of DKos Rules

LindaR

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Wednesday October 07, 2009 · 2:53 PM PDT

2009/10/07 · 14:53

And this diary will be brief.

I've been reading Kos, well, daily, for a long time. I've never subscribed, figuring the ads were bringing in the bucks.

But I just read Kos's post that reminded me of the polling, the expense, and asking us to consider subscribing.

So I did.

All I can say is . . .

LindaR

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Sunday February 15, 2009 · 11:09 PM PST

2009/02/15 · 23:09

Do you think this was too much? I just sent this email to Senator Cox:

Vote for the budget.

I cannot stand this irresponsible grandstanding. It is time to get the budget passed and save the economy of our state.

I appreciate that you might be in the grip of the sickness that has taken over the Republican Party. But if you don't vote for this budget, I will remember your name and think of you with contempt always.

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On Monday, Californians should:

87 votes Vote Now!

On Monday, Californians should:

Demonstrate like crazed weasels at the Capitol.

11 votes

Start recall petitions on all Republicans

27 votes

Start working on an initiative to repeal the supermajority requirement on budgets

45 votes

Move to Oregon

2 votes

Go to the movies and forget the whole thing

2 votes

Filibuster Abuse = Senate Californication

LindaR

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Monday February 09, 2009 · 2:24 PM PST

2009/02/09 · 14:24

Kos wrote earlier about how some people are wistfully wishing that Republicans had pulled their nuclear option regarding the filibuster after all. It's pleasant to think how nice it would be if the Senate would enact laws based on the desires of, you know, the people of the country -- who mostly voted for Democrats.

Here is a tweetfrom Senator McCaskill, as reported by Iglesias:

Just saw Krugman's comments on reduction in recov act. Question for him. Would no stimulus act be better than one thats 800 B instead of 900

Democrats are fighting with progressives because the minority Senate Republicans are throwing a tantrum -- when the Republicans are in the minority and despised by a majority of the country!

LindaR

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Sunday February 08, 2009 · 12:08 AM PST

2009/02/08 · 00:08

Frank Rich explores the rage "ordinary Americans" are feeling these days in his Sunday column. I was particularly struck by a figure in this paragraph:

Citigroup had one highly visible asset that Lehman did not: Robert Rubin, the former Clinton Treasury secretary who sat passively (though lucratively) in its executive suite as Citi gorged on reckless risk. Geithner, as a Rubin protégé from the Clinton years, might have recused himself from rescuing Citi, which so far has devoured $45 billion in bailout money.

$45 billion to one company? To one private company? That's three billion dollars more than would make California solvent.

LindaR

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Friday February 06, 2009 · 8:20 PM PST

2009/02/06 · 20:20

I'm watching the Senate on C-SPAN vote on an amendment to ensure that ACORN gets no money from the "stimulus" bill.

What kind of a country have we become, that the "leaders" would consider making a law to MAKE SURE that money will not go to a group that helps poor people?

UPDATE: I changed the title of this diary because someone asked me to with good reason.

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What to do?

150 votes Vote Now!

What to do?

fk it I'm going to Canada

4 votes

fk it I'm going to Goa

4 votes

fk it I'm joining the Juniper Creek compound

1 vote

Repulicans have destroyed the planet; we just don't know it yet

70 votes

chill, it's not that bad

49 votes

oh gawd I hate this country too but I don't know what I can do about it

22 votes

Lazy Government Workers -- Now It Can Be Told

LindaR

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Sunday January 25, 2009 · 10:17 AM PST

2009/01/25 · 10:17

In my job, I travel around the state of California doing support work for some state agencies. I am not a "state worker." I am what they call an "independent contractor" -- which means I have no retirement, no vacation, no sick pay, no job security, no job rights, no health insurance, and I get to pay double what everybody else pays in FICA and medicare taxes.

So you would think I'd have hard feelings when I listen to all the state workers I work with. They talk about their PERS options, their vacations, when they're going to retire (I will work till I die -- if I physically can do it).

I do wish I had the nice (I won't say excellent; it's all relative) benefits that California state workers have. That doesn't mean I want them to lose theirs.

Quite the opposite.

LindaR

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Saturday December 06, 2008 · 9:04 AM PST

2008/12/06 · 09:04

Everyone seems to be goo-goo gah-gah about how peachy it is that Team Obama is actually reading the suggestions they asked for.

Puhleeze. The video of Tom Daschle and Lauren Aronson gushing over the fabulosity people's suggestions about health care gives us every clue we need to know that forced insurance is in every American's future.

And PE Obama's sweet nothings about more efficient medical records? That's the sound of medical fascism on the march.

LindaR

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Friday September 05, 2008 · 10:02 AM PDT

2008/09/05 · 10:02

As many of us know, we in California are again suffering the results of elected Republicans who do not live in the reality-based community.

The elected Republicans of the California state legislature have stranded the entire state with no budget. In a time when our economic house is engulfed in flames, they have shut off the fire hoses.

They are despicable.

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I have been affected by the lack of a budget in California

22 votes Vote Now!

I have been affected by the lack of a budget in California

yes

10 votes

7 votes

no, but I know someone who has

5 votes

Are We All Palin-drones?

LindaR

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Monday September 01, 2008 · 11:26 AM PDT

2008/09/01 · 11:26

OR: Is Iraq our own Palin-baby?

I could go on.

This is getting to be like that old joke about the pious fellow who shows up at the Pearly Gates complaining about being drowned. St. Peter says, hey, we sent you a car, then a boat, then a helicopter -- but you just sat on your roof saying "the Lord will provide" while the water rose. . . .

LindaR

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Sunday February 10, 2008 · 11:16 AM PST

2008/02/10 · 11:16

I voted for Barack Obama in the primary. I had decided to vote for Hillary, but at the moment of truth, I thought of Terry McAuliffe and Mark Penn and I couldn't do it. I filled in the Obama bubble.

And as I left my polling place, I was surprisingly depressed.

I wanted my John Edwards back.

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I support

60 votes Vote Now!

I support

Hillary Clinton, and nothing will change my mind

6 votes

Hillary Clinton, but I am not rock-solid on that

1 vote

Barack Obama, and nothing will change my mind

38 votes

Barack Obama, but I am not rock-solid on that

4 votes

John Edwards, nah-nah-nah

11 votes

Whatever the Republicans end up with

0 votes

No one; I'm out.

0 votes

I support Edwards -- but I might switch POLL

LindaR

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Sunday January 27, 2008 · 10:45 AM PST

2008/01/27 · 10:45

{Note: I was just informed of the "call-out" diary no-no. My ignorance! I apologize, and I've changed the title.]

I am sure you are still a Kid for Edwards, even if you are going to vote for Obama.

Because we are never really for the person -- that would be a cult of personality, and that way lies fascism. Instead, we are for the principles a person calls out in us.

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250 votes Show Results

What's an Edwardsian to do?

250 votes Vote Now!

What's an Edwardsian to do?

Stay with Edwards -- don't lose heart now!

126 votes

Vote for Obama -- and think of the empire.

11 votes

Vote for Obama -- with enthusiasm!

94 votes

Vote for Hillary -- a woman president!

3 votes

Vote for Hillary -- she's got the chops to do it right.

9 votes

Forget it. This country will never elect a president who will work for regular people. Might as well re-watch the entire series of Buffy stock up on Soma.

7 votes

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