Joining Ranks of Uninsurable....

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Tuesday July 21, 2009 · 9:20 PM PDT

2009/07/21 · 21:20

All the literature tell you to seek help...... All the public service announcements, and advertisements tell you..... you are not alone and to call a hotline or reach out.

Little do they know that if you do, you may be signing away your ability to purchase health insurance for at least 5 years and possibly more.

Curious? Join me on the flip for one MORE tale about the morally bankrupt health insurance industry....

kbee214

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Tuesday March 17, 2009 · 6:28 AM PDT

2009/03/17 · 06:28

It was 2 years ago. The lead up to the election was in full swing. Things were starting to heat up. I was an avid reader of Daily Kos and disgusted critic of the Bush debacle. One day I started reading a blogger on dK called Bonddad. He had some pretty gloom and doom things to say. Mortgages resetting. Foreclosures coming. Banks going under.

Who was this guy? I never read any thing like what he was saying anywhere else. I followed links, looked things over and tried to understand. Economics isn't my forte by any means but I'm interested.

After reading several of his diaries and checking out his links, I decided to leave Wells Fargo and move to my local credit union. That took some doing as we had 4 accounts. At a credit union, we had to have 7 accounts because each account required a "share account". But despite the hassle, I felt good about joining a "coop" of my neighbors that lent locally in my hometown.

Then late one night, I read one of Bonddad's insightful and frightening analyses of what was coming down the pike. It sent a bolt of energy through me. More after the flip.

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Reading Bonddad, Jerome and others

911 votes Vote Now!

Reading Bonddad, Jerome and others

saved my family big time! THANKS

162 votes

saved us some, glad I listened

340 votes

feh.

41 votes

CRAP! wish I had listened or that I could have at the time

210 votes

didn't listen. didn't need to.

158 votes

Helping ourselves: No time for despair

kbee214

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Tuesday July 01, 2008 · 9:48 PM PDT

2008/07/01 · 21:48

I've been engaged in several long diary discussions on peak oil and gas prices over the past few days and a recurrent theme is what can we DO about it. We feel incapable and despairing of getting train service or bus service in our particular locality, so what else can we do?

I teach sustainable living classes so I have some suggestions on the flip.... This is only my second diary so please be kind!

kbee214

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Friday May 09, 2008 · 4:52 AM PDT

2008/05/09 · 04:52

As the primary winds down, as it dawns on the MSM that Obama is our nominee, as we turn to the hard work of beating McSame in November, let us not forget HOW we are going to beat McSame. We are going to beat McSame by registering new voters, GOTV drives, donating time and money and more.

But let us also not forget the less visible and well known need of working the polls on election day! This is a critical and often overlooked effort in making sure votes are counted and voting is executed well.

I became a pollworker in the 2006 election and what I experienced was truly frightening.

Follow me on the flip......

kbee214

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Monday November 13, 2006 · 6:32 PM PST

2006/11/13 · 18:32

I was contacted by Pollworkers for Democracy about a month before the election and encouraged to become a poll worker. I decided to make the call and before I knew it, I was in training at the County Clerk's office. I'm glad I did. It was an eye opening experience to say the least.

What I learned is that it doesn't take nefarious misdeeds by the Republicans to wreck an election. It only takes incompetence. And unfortunately that is not in short supply.....

Why YOU should think about becoming a pollworker on the flip..... Read More

Proposals to Crush Nanny State

kbee214

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Friday August 18, 2006 · 12:45 PM PDT

2006/08/18 · 12:45

Dean Baker of Center for Economic Policy and Research is at it again. This time with a list of recommended policy changes to reverse the decades-long "upward movement" of cash from the have-nots to the haves.

These are actual proposals that spring from his recent book for how Democrats could REALLY turn things around if they had a mind to - not your usual minor "corrections". It includes corporate reform to address pay packages, funding all drug research so patents aren't in the private domain and all drugs are generic (ouch!) and others.

I don't agree with all the proposals but it makes for some very interesting reading and I would think, interesting debate.

Any Democratic candidates want to take a bite and respond? Link is http://www.cepr.net/... Read More

Ads Against Net Neutrality?

kbee214

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Thursday June 15, 2006 · 7:58 PM PDT

2006/06/15 · 19:58

This is my first diary after lurking for 3 years, so please forgive me if this is inappropriate. (And no I didn't get to go to Yearly Kos either, darn it!)

Why are colleagues of Daily Kos accepting ads against Net Neutrality? Is there something I don't understand about the pressures of operating sites like this?

I was at Talking Points Memo today reading, of all things, some of their great articles or memos about the latest legislation that could kill net neutraility. And lo and behold there's an ad on the front page that asks readers to find out about the future of the internet. It's a bad cartoon full of rosy pictures of the future if the anti-net neutrality bill passes. I've sent e-mail to Josh Marshall asking about this. Does anyone have any insight? Markos, can you weigh in?

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Joining Ranks of Uninsurable....

Reading Dkos and Bonddad saved us! (updated)

Helping ourselves: No time for despair

Democracy Needs You: Be a Poll Worker!

Democracy at RISK: Pollworkers NEEDED!

Proposals to Crush Nanny State

Ads Against Net Neutrality?