Nobel Peace Prize

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Monday April 25, 2011 · 3:47 PM PDT

2011/04/25 · 15:47

I haven't been stopping by - for so many reasons. I was taught if one doesn't have anything nice to say...don't say anything...

Funny, I never followed that advice...why now? Becasue I do not see any political way out of the mess we are in. GOP or Dems - doesn't seem to make a difference...the idea we have true representation through either of these two political parties has died for me.

I feel things are really out of control on so many fronts...

But, most importantly - our militariy actions.....(without mentioning a certain young man still held w/o charges wrt to wikileaks).....

oh - on the poll..it is a bit sarcastic.. I have again received a "real survey" that asks me to rate problems of importance facing the US (this one by an investors group)...and no where did the answers give me an option to say...F'ing wars and bombs and killing are our big problems....

so I did it for myself below.

As I was wondering today just what type of politician could help (couldn't think of any)
I recalled the honor bestowed Obama...before he put us further in forgein wars...or grabbed even more power under the patriot Act..

that everyone..the whole world - was so sick of Bush wacking... well he was Gold with Promise...

THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

really? seems a bit premature now.

the poll below - representative of those I get from various groups....so slanted with bias in the questions...often not even offerring options such as ending military conflicts...so I have....

I actually do want to know though.... do you think our military actions should be ended....before we decide just how to"fix" our Nation?

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22 votes Show Results

Of all the issues facing us, which do you think should have priority?

22 votes Vote Now!

Of all the issues facing us, which do you think should have priority?

ending military conflicts

18 votes

everything else

4 votes

Amigo - illegal immigrant taxes pay who?

mjgl

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Monday July 26, 2010 · 9:22 AM PDT

2010/07/26 · 09:22

Illegal immigrants often use SS# cards that aren't theirs - not sure how those numbers get generated.... Can an illegal work a liftime on a fake SS# and not get retirment benefit or medicaid? Curious...seems I should know this answer. Seems the IRS should know too...or someone whose number is being used....

mjgl

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Thursday March 12, 2009 · 11:09 AM PDT

2009/03/12 · 11:09

I am impressed by the writing and knowledge here. It is inspiring in a very difficult time. I would like to join in and I would like to become a better writer. I want to try to be relevant to more than myself, but I am no longer interested or emotionally able to write the long tedious research pieces I earned a living on. And boy, that's what so many of you do so well here. So you kow although these will end up touching on my political views, it will be more about what shaped them..my experiences, personal to me.

I am getting old enough to start thinking about what will I leave behind when I die? I hope some good memories for my family, but what else? Nada... so maybe you know a 'family' history of sorts makes sense for the kids. But if only I read it, well it won't be as good as if I am striving to get the attention of the really good thinkers here .....

I know the blog crowd moves fast and a once a week or so posting probably lost, except that it isn't really. I listened to a writer on NPR the other day, unapologetic for her perspective on her husband's imprisonment and later abandonment of her. She said simply, "Now it is written." I got that. For the first time I think.

I added a poll b/c well..it was just easy to do.

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104 votes Show Results

mjgl

104 votes Vote Now!

mjgl

you know it's not really the forum for this

1 vote

it's just not good enough or worth my time, where is this going?

2 votes

I think you should continue even if I know I won't open your diary again, sounds like you need it

10 votes

this is within the Kos community, but you have to make it work

6 votes

this works I didn't mind reading it

85 votes

just learned to post photo.. Tonto basin

mjgl

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Sunday March 01, 2009 · 7:11 AM PST

2009/03/01 · 07:11

i want to escape today and I can't...another damn open house in a dead market...but if I could I would drive here... streams, walnuts, Bigfoot

This is the road down from Young, AZ in the Sierra Anches to the Tonto Basin .... recently paved for a good portion...too bad.

okay I am leaving the original post as evidence of my idiocy...but I think this will work:

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mjgl

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Saturday February 28, 2009 · 4:30 AM PST

2009/02/28 · 04:30

I received this in my email today.... and I see they have a "24 hour" plan to remove the over $250k limit on mortgage interest deduction....

What? I don't agree...no one asked me... I pay association dues.

Could it be b/c Paradise Valley, AZ (the $2mil neighborhood of homes) is actually seeing an increase in sales volume and prices... rebounding already? The rich?

While the median home price in Phoenix fell 51% last year? Come on.... the "class war" is getting just a little obvious......

I am posting this so the Obama staff (or whoever reads this) has a heads up and knowledge that the NAR does not speak for all realtors (even though we have to join).

Many in the trenches think it is time to stop the "trickle up" economics of the last few decades...even if it means we lose money and can't recover it...

I personally am looking to my kids future... and I do not want them with the same quiet resignation my dad had... beaten down by a society that will trample it's own in the stampede for stuff....

text in diary body:

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76 votes Show Results

Is the NAR's forecast accurate?

76 votes Vote Now!

Is the NAR's forecast accurate?

yes

11 votes

65 votes

Dream Job.. please Pres. Obama!

mjgl

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Wednesday February 18, 2009 · 7:57 AM PST

2009/02/18 · 07:57

I discovered Dorthea Lange in 1967, I was 10. I obtained a book with photographs the Farm Security Administration commissioned to document the Great Depression.

I look back now and see that as a defining moment in my life. I understood the look in the mother's eyes of Lange's famous photograph "Migrant Mother." I had seen it first hand. Oddly, it was reassuring.

No wonder I chose photography early as a solution to the difficult life I was dealt. No wonder decades later - after I stood back from a pen and ink I had been working on - did I recognize that photograph in my work.

I want to be hired by our Government to photograph and document what is happening to overlooked and disenfranchised individuals along with the emerging seeds of change I am expecting in our culture. I want an opportunity to tell Americans stories as I hear them, unhampered by commercial goals.

Of course, if I want that then I know others even more qualified would too. But, I am willing to compete in that arena with a portfolio. I think there is room for many in this endeavor, the more the better.

Please President Obama find room in our stimulus recovery to document our changing America.... and include me... me, among the 350 million that want your attention...

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100 votes Show Results

Would you support tax money to subsidize documenting this Depression?

100 votes Vote Now!

Would you support tax money to subsidize documenting this Depression?

no, no more pork

50 votes

the documentation already exists, just hire an eiditor and get releases for public domain

28 votes

yes, we need this

8 votes

i want this job

14 votes

So you say it's your Birthday...well, it's my Birthday too..

mjgl

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Friday February 13, 2009 · 5:06 AM PST

2009/02/13 · 05:06

52 today... rockets are bursting overhead and the flag still waves?
As a small child somewhere along the line I got it into my head that I shall live to 110.
And, until recently I thought that was OK.....
Today, I would be Ok with 67.....
So, if I have 15 years to crawl this earth... what shall I do?

this is for the over 50 crowd...

mjgl

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Wednesday February 04, 2009 · 7:06 AM PST

2009/02/04 · 07:06

$750Bil later (that includes emergency Tres. funds '08 and $350 bil TARP) and the banks still haven't eased their strangle on credit (or dealt with their "toxic assets" - which aren't the mortgages but the speculative CDS/hedge funds on top of them.......)

Perhaps we should exercise a Credit Holiday ..... to help them and our Congressmen along

the mechanics... April 1-May 1 one no one pays their monthly due to the following companies: top 20 mortgage lenders, top 20 credit card companies

Hold back one month...then May 1 pay "under protest" as usual...but ignore your credit score hit and late fee....

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31 votes Show Results

You would participate in a Credit Holiday?

31 votes Vote Now!

You would participate in a Credit Holiday?

yes, if most did and all our credit scores were trashed

5 votes

never, I honor my debts

10 votes

yes, I am bored out of my mind

0 votes

no, b/c If I don't and others do my credit will look stellar

3 votes

no, b/c if we all do the banks will fail and then the sky will fall

0 votes

yes, if just might be a "bargaining" chip they didn't bargain on

13 votes

I finally see the light – we’re toast – and I am sorry Mom and Dad

mjgl

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Wednesday January 14, 2009 · 8:36 AM PST

2009/01/14 · 08:36

I didn’t get it then. I am getting it now. Thank You Capitalists.

mjgl

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Sunday January 11, 2009 · 6:12 AM PST

2009/01/11 · 06:12

If you were informed that you would be dying (without significant prior symptoms) within four years what would you want?

Set aside your love for your family and friends and any desire you have involving those relationships...and then what would you want?

Limit yourself to desires that you can possibly, or perhaps even reasonably, fufill in four years...and then what would you want?

Limit yourself to desires that involve your endeavors, rather than desires fulfilled by others....and then what would you want?

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69 votes Show Results

In four years I could

69 votes Vote Now!

In four years I could

treat my pets a lot better

4 votes

create a work of art

14 votes

get out of debt

4 votes

develope good personal health habits

0 votes

volunteer through a local charity

4 votes

join the Peace Corp

3 votes

advocate for a group I believe in

3 votes

retreat to the country

2 votes

retreat to Canada

4 votes

travel

20 votes

quit whining

11 votes

A Perfect Life

mjgl

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Friday January 02, 2009 · 7:51 AM PST

2009/01/02 · 07:51

mostly i contribute on this site with comment graffitti..if that can be considered a contribution.... and here I add the worst of all sins...my own creative writing as produced minutes ago.... it would be an even greater sin to save and edit or rework... so this amounts to emotional graffitti i guess.

mjgl

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Friday November 14, 2008 · 6:03 AM PST

2008/11/14 · 06:03

I'd let go if I could...

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Nobel Peace Prize

Amigo - illegal immigrant taxes pay who?

Is this Ok on DKos? Is any body out there?

just learned to post photo.. Tonto basin

Nat'l Ass Realtors.... 24hr plan to remove from Obama Plan

Dream Job.. please Pres. Obama!

So you say it's your Birthday...well, it's my Birthday too..

Credit Holiday

I finally see the light – we’re toast – and I am sorry Mom and Dad

Before I die in 2012

A Perfect Life

We can't let go yet....