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Tuesday December 14, 2010 · 3:10 PM PST

2010/12/14 · 15:10

SInce Obama got blamed for the economy, he should get the positives.

One year of Obama the overall cost is DOWN half a point, and Energy DOWN by almost 20%
and Transportation DOWN 8 %
Food still INCREASED under Obama but less than percentages in 2005 and 2008 during GWB.

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Wednesday October 13, 2010 · 11:40 AM PDT

2010/10/13 · 11:40

UPDATE: Todays news has a current story of voting harrassment :
Ryan J. Reilly | October 21, 2010,

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmem...

When Maureen Haver went to the polls in Moody Park -- a historically Hispanic neighborhood in Houston -- she saw three poll watchers. She told TPMMuckraker that she recognized one of the poll watchers as a member of the Tea Party group called the King Street Patriots. There were two others that were talking about the Tea Party, she added.
TPM reports "The two poll watchers hovered behind, and then after the poll worker left to let the woman vote, both of the poll watchers stood behind this woman the entire time while she was voting," Haver explained.

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Have you had problems voting in the past 5 years?

25 votes Vote Now!

Have you had problems voting in the past 5 years?

I have had machines change my vote

0 votes

I have NO confidence in election procedures and equipment

12 votes

I have been turned away from a Polling place illegally

0 votes

I have registered to vote and later discovered I wasn't

4 votes

I have been prevented from voting as registered in college towns

0 votes

I have had to wait in line more than 4 hours in bad weather to vote

0 votes

I quit voting because of the hassle

3 votes

I was not asked to sign any pollbook saying I voted

1 vote

I have receipts for my various votes in every election

3 votes

I have had to present ID beyond the legally required items

1 vote

I have looked for local results posted on the door of polling place

0 votes

I have had my privacy interfered with during voting.

1 vote

All will lose as middlemen in Private firms count the votes

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Tuesday September 28, 2010 · 4:20 PM PDT

2010/09/28 · 16:20

We always struggle with the difference between reality and assumptions.

These are not your grandfather's elections. The centralization of computer voting enables election manipulation with one touch in a foreign country or even from Florida.

DID YOU KNOW the computer-based voting machine NH uses to count up to 85% of our votes is the SAME Diebold AccuVote model that recorded minus 16,022 votes for Al Gore in Florida in 2000?

http://blackboxvoting.org/

More and more voters will be finished voting by the Nov 4 election day, but our minds can't grasp that the final two weeks of campaigning is useless. What is hardest to understand is that the reliable integrity of elections has been deliberately attacked and is totally compromised.

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Sunday July 25, 2010 · 1:44 AM PDT

2010/07/25 · 01:44

"We've nothing to fear but fear itself" FDR " Fear is the mindkiller." Frank Herbert/Dune

I see a lot of Confusion and hurt around me, which has been increased by the shouting millionaires on the radio...(Seriously if you were that rich would you waste your life yelling about politics?) It is definitely a David Koresh-like cult.

Naomi Klein's book, Disaster Capitalism applies to Katrina AS WELL AS (pun intended) the oil spill they allowed to occur through carelessness or design.

(No creativity at the top in business, so Building markets by Making war or using Catastrophe to do slum clearance or Massive Pollution to take over invaluable coastlines by oil spill for example.) Instead of making things and progressing we destroy the stuff and then we need more stuff. Have you noticed no one cares what you think about the product quality?

Also, Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine can be applied to the ubiquitous Bullying and Emotional abuse of the body politic.

A Doctor gave me a book called Malignant Self Love by Vaknin. (Yeah he's creepy but the info is helpful) He discusses dictators, also.

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Monday June 07, 2010 · 9:54 AM PDT

2010/06/07 · 09:54

Book Review: an analysis from 2004 of how they do it by saying "Gummint" and the "Democrat Party" and "Uppity", similar putdowns and disrespect which are code words for "they're too dumb to realize we are "framing the issue our way."" No one ever stops them and requires they quit misusing their words.
"Tax cuts" mean "social program cuts", not military spending.
"Capping jury awards" means protecting corporate malfeasance. Damage suits are public protection and protection of open courts: alternative is secret trials, or none at all.
Public protection attorneys are the only "overpaid" attorneys who contribute to the Democrat(sig) party, so they are targets.
Everyone should understand what a "frame" around an idea is. Even if the progressives are nowhere near as methodical about teaching what is called "neurolinguistics" to both politicians and more importantly News and media people, we should learn somehow.

AM radio is the best, cheapest way to get Your Frames across to millions, and the ownership of the radio business is monopolized by companies and personalities who contribute to the republican causes by spreading Their Frames and collecting money for it.

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Monday December 07, 2009 · 7:54 AM PST

2009/12/07 · 07:54

The chorus of impatient, nagging and disrespectful slaps at the job Obama is doing reminds me of Overseer/slave dynamics.

We shut up for years and years while the War Profiteers and Oil Barons controlled and demolished the government. (since when can you do a good job of governing when you are trying to abolish government?)

We shut up about the destruction of the public health system as detailed in the book The Coming Plague.
(author Laurie Garrett, science and health writer, winner of the Pulitzer, Polk, and Peabody Prize, is the author of The Coming Plague and Betrayal of Trust)

We were quiet when they kept the cost of war out of sight and site (Dover) by doing it off-budget and without the press, when they embedded the press to control them, lied and cheated to get the wealth un-spread.

Now we are impatient with a brilliant guy who is taking the job seriously?

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Tuesday October 27, 2009 · 4:58 AM PDT

2009/10/27 · 04:58

Strategy-Rove:
You just accuse them of what YOU are doing to distract them. For some reason they don’t notice what YOU are doing, and shut up about you, and shake their heads, flummoxed.

If you add to that a process of normalizing authoritarianism and Orwellian distortion of the meaning of words, you have a plan for return of the Authoritarians to power.

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Friday October 23, 2009 · 5:28 PM PDT

2009/10/23 · 17:28

LYING CHORUS of Rants claiming Obama is failing!!!

HOW CAN they tell?

**he doesn't even have all his appointees approved yet.

**he has been obstructed in every loud and silent way and now the callers to C-Span claim he is a washout... Antiamericans all are talking a lot...

Think about Patriotic Americans!! Picture them marching and singing...

Now: quick!!!

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What are your daily activites?

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What are your daily activites?

VOTER support actions

2 votes

Texting and chatting inane stuff

0 votes

Tailgating Sports events

0 votes

Shopping/worrying about not having $$$ for shopping

0 votes

video games/music downloading/

0 votes

Reading: romance novels, escape fiction

0 votes

Gambling: sports, racing, dog racing/fighting, cockfighting

0 votes

nascar

1 vote

cleaning/buying/talking about your guns

1 vote

watching TV sports:

1 vote

serving others: food, reading, errands, care-taking

4 votes

making crafts

0 votes

Internet

8 votes

Worrying/fretting/complaining/grouching

3 votes

Planning to PICK UP A MOP and HELP GET 'ER DONE!!

7 votes

Songs that Inspire Political Participation-Links?

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Saturday September 19, 2009 · 11:49 AM PDT

2009/09/19 · 11:49

I am sixty years older than I was when I first heard music. It has followed me ever since, a soundtrack inside me in every day of my life.

On Facebook I find a friend from college who is a music teacher in a college. His personal information page is in itself a music education in rock, alternative, classical, baroque, and lots more if a student were to look up and listen to every bit. Like a blogroll of music history, we need a blogroll/links page, lyrics/tunes chords of the music detailing political history.

This gave me the idea of a political songlist, with links where the artists who have recorded them can be found.

Got any suggestions for how to organize this?

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Music is a big part of your life, and you

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Music is a big part of your life, and you

Occasionally listen to one kind

1 vote

Sometimes listen to some kinds

1 vote

Love all kinds of Music, listening mostly

11 votes

Feel inspired by Music toward action

4 votes

Prefer to play rather than listen to music

1 vote

Sing often whenever I can

0 votes

Can write songs and music

2 votes

Tin ear, but I like it anyway.

1 vote

"Germany, India, China to compete in health care insurance mkt

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Thursday September 03, 2009 · 10:42 AM PDT

2009/09/03 · 10:42

Here is the headline once the insurance market in the USA is no longer a monopoly:

"China, India, European Union and South American Insurance Giants now in Control"

by Health Advocates' News (snark)

"International insurance companies are undercutting the lucrative insurance market ever since American led health and life insurance companies were removed from the monopolistic control over insurance purchases made by American citizens.

Like heavy manufacturing, steel, pulp and paper, and other commodities, health insurance, and indeed health care is now outsourced to foreign nations, who have shown an ability to provide affordable, high quality, and comprehensive insurance and also health care to all Americans.

A huge battle was fought, for and against the Insurance Monopoly. Finally, a consensus between liberals and conservatives moved toward a completely free market in health care and health insurance. This turned into a bonus for consumers and a disaster for the insurance giants based in the USA.

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Monday August 31, 2009 · 11:43 AM PDT

2009/08/31 · 11:43

The Station Fire
It is named for the Ranger Station near where it started. I hope that doesn't mean the station occupants start it.

I am sadder still that two firemen were overrun and killed in their tumbled vehicle.

I am angry that we can do nothing to convince the refusniks who defy evacuation orders that they are endangering all the helpers and firefighters and rescue folks who have to fly them to burn treatment centers.

Maybe heavier security of the areas would allow more folks to leave. Maybe the animals need more places and transport, volunteer horse trailers etc.

I am watching the pictures and videos of piled up smoke in Los Angeles.
Is this the ongoing desert-ification of the USA? The drought and insects followed by fire and flood.

Angeles National Forest, my own personal New Orleans, is gone.

I suppose the salamanders that lived in my childhood memories in the streams behind Altadena were gone long ago.

How can it burn just my favorite patches of the landscape, the parts I remember???

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Saturday August 29, 2009 · 8:26 PM PDT

2009/08/29 · 20:26

We are underestimating FOX's ownership and use of local AM radio . A local issues talk show which usually stays out of labeling, at 10 am had a guy calling for a Tea Party here, with a march. The guy claimed he was non-partisan, but his program was clearly rabble rousing.
At the end he suddenly yelled out of context: "Lets let them know we are patriots and we are MAD !!"

Why wasn't he paying for advertising???

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