Chronicles of a Chronic Brain Disease: What I learned

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Friday August 06, 2010 · 9:07 PM PDT

2010/08/06 · 21:07

I am a young man, slightly more than midway through his 20s, who is cognitively disabled. My working memory, the seemingly simple ability to attend to something and hold it in my mind long enough to think about it, was gone. It has now, fortunately, mostly returned, and that is the only reason I am able to write this diary now.

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Thursday May 14, 2009 · 10:47 AM PDT

2009/05/14 · 10:47

Today in a WSJ article by Gary Fields, Gil Kerlikowske, Obama's Drug Czar, has said that the "War on Drugs" is counter-productive, and has expressed his desire to banish the term.

Mr. Kerlikowske says something I've been waiting to here for quite awhile from the people at the top:

"Regardless of how you try to explain to people it's a 'war on drugs' or a 'war on a product,' people see a war as a war on them," he said. "We're not at war with people in this country."

More after the jump.

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Tuesday August 26, 2008 · 10:34 PM PDT

2008/08/26 · 22:34

I have no idea if a diary on this has already has reached the rec list as I have been off and on. Others(Pluto and DemocraticLuntz) have written highly recommended diaries about this very alarming story: Premier Election Solutions(formerly known as Diebold Election Systems) has admitted that its voting machines have a critical programming error in them that could have caused them to drop votes in transit 'from memory cards to a central tallying point.

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Will you see to it that your votes for Barack Obama and other Democrats are tallied correctly?

16 votes Vote Now!

Will you see to it that your votes for Barack Obama and other Democrats are tallied correctly?

Yes, I will call my Secretary of State

1 vote

Yes, I will email my Secretary of State

1 vote

Yes, I will mail my Secretary of State

1 vote

Yes, I will raise hell by doing all of the above if I am not satisfied that all measures have been taken to ensure that the integrity of our election is safeguaraded

12 votes

No, COUNTING IS HARD and I don't want to force people to do it any more than they want to

1 vote

We need quick unity because of upcoming nastiness(with VIDEO)

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Wednesday May 07, 2008 · 1:45 PM PDT

2008/05/07 · 13:45

I'm just as happy as everyone else about the surprising results last night. And I'm glad to see a lot of gestures towards unity. But I think we need to go further with this, and I'll explain after the jump.

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Chronicles of a Chronic Brain Disease: What I learned

WSJ: Obama's 'Drug Czar' wants to END War on Drugs

Diebold: Voting Machines IN USE are DEFECTIVE

We need quick unity because of upcoming nastiness(with VIDEO)