I never listen to the radio.

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Thursday October 16, 2008 · 8:05 AM PDT

2008/10/16 · 08:05

I do not write well so do your best to follow and if that is not possible say to hell with it and move on.This will be short but should be eye opening to fence sitters. I am and always have been a liberal but I referred to myself in a generic term as a conservative. I was parked in my pickup Monday and being bored turned on the radio. It happened to be on an AM talk show. Since I do not visit Repug sites or pay attention to their TV ads, I did not have a true feeling for the far right people. I think, based on absolutely zero research, that most people voting republican are more well off and thus have a different perspective. The foreman is R and the workers are D.

The best of the poor is after the jump. Follow me.

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Wednesday August 27, 2008 · 4:56 AM PDT

2008/08/27 · 04:56

I wrote a snarky convention diary yesterday which drew a little return fire, which was mostly meaningless one liners. You are a dickhead etc. It did not accomplish the purpose of starting a discussion of why we support Obama and why we believe in him other than he is a democrat and we have no choice.

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Tuesday August 26, 2008 · 4:34 AM PDT

2008/08/26 · 04:34

Thus far this convention looks just like '04, just more lavish. As Carville said he had not heard either of the words war,gas(there was plenty from the podium),mortage, bankruptcy, etc. Just change change and more change. Change what and change it to what. Does the average American living hand to mouth care that the bigwigs sit in massage chairs? Who pays for this extravagance? Who is the gaudiness supposed to impress? Michell looked kind of foolish trying to explain how they were just ordinary folk running for president. I guess DKos is impressed since most nouns are preceeded by at least five meaningful adjectives such as wow and absolute most, and a sentance not ending in !!! is considered meaningless.

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Wednesday March 05, 2008 · 7:21 AM PST

2008/03/05 · 07:21

I can remember when I knew no one who had ridden in a plane and when a plane (DC-3) passing over was an event and when it was found that we each had 23 chromosomes and when Crick and Watson discovered the structure of DNA, amazingly from xray refractions and when Asimov predicted no one would ever decode DNA and when inside plumbing was far from being universal and when no one I knew had health insurance and when a single worker could support a family and when only the more affluent workers had an automobile and when a sizable portion of the population did not have a drivers license and when the only credit card was a Diners Club which I had never seen.

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Monday December 24, 2007 · 12:00 AM PST

2007/12/24 · 00:00

I am adding to my hone security system as I expect burglaries and break-ins to increase as the economy deteriorates. I have lived thru several recessions and was born during the big one. The thought that this one will make the 1930's look like "a cake walk" scares hell out of me. I live in a small subdivision and in 35 years there has never benn any trouble, leaving doors unlocked while going to the store was common.. Lately the local nightly news is getting scary, with the elderly middle class being targeted.

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Thursday December 13, 2007 · 10:11 AM PST

2007/12/13 · 10:11

Sorry I could not think of a word to rhyme with tree except pee and I did not want to offend the sensibilities of thin skinned Kossacks. What I did think of was that the brainpower and writing ability of so many Kossacks not as effective as it could be.

I propose that when a democratic leader votes in a manner which is unacceptable to most Kossacks, we respond by running an uncomplimentary ad in their hometown newspaper which describes their evil deed. Likewise we would reward a leader who does a deed substantially above the norm.

I propose that this could be done by selecting via a poll some reasonable number of volunteer writers who would agree on a rotating basis to write the ads. To pay for the ads and alternately to pay the authors the author could post the ad and the cost. An easy way to accumulate the funds would be to add the add to the act blue page.

I request that you rec this so everyone has a chance to considerate it. If we have no one with more skills than I to put this idea to work, then close down the board and wear a wingnut hat. I will contribute to every ad whether or not I agree with it.

Effectiveness aside, this would allow a way to vent as opposed to ripping and tearing at each other over choice of candidates.

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Should we proceed and would you contribute?

yes and I think you write wonderfully

1 vote

yes but I will keep my opinions private

0 votes

its a fair idea but I would never contribute

0 votes

its a fair idea and I would contribute as I saw fit

5 votes

you are prolly a troll

5 votes

Korea vs Nam vs Terror War

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Sunday November 11, 2007 · 3:17 PM PST

2007/11/11 · 15:17

I apologize for this short diary. I did the calculations and could think of no way to make a meaningful diary as so many here are able to do.

I got all the figures for the three wars from wikipedia.

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Saturday November 03, 2007 · 4:51 PM PDT

2007/11/03 · 16:51

The basic idea is to influence the election of some targeted candidates such as Donna Edwards who is receiving a lot of attention on Kos.

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Wednesday October 24, 2007 · 9:16 AM PDT

2007/10/24 · 09:16

I dislike burdening you with another sad story although I suspect many of you ( and you know who you are) enjoy reading such and secretly murmuring ; ‘glad that is not me’.

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Monday July 02, 2007 · 6:21 AM PDT

2007/07/02 · 06:21

This is my first ever diary so usual first timers plea applies. I think the reason coke enjoys such an edge over competitors is because it represents what America was before bush. I think all American products enjoy this slight edge.

bush has tried to repair some of the damage his roughshod personality has caused by appointing Karen Hughes 'Goodwill Ambassador' or some such. She appears to either have a problem with access to facts or to the use thereof. I think that with Elizabeth Edwards as our first lady and/or 'Goodwill Ambassador' we will sell more cokes. She is such an engaging personality that she can repair perceptions abroad in one term what george tore up in two terms.

I was leaning toward Edwards before I began to consider how Elizabeth would affect the mix. It then became a slam-dunk. (sorry bout that)

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I never listen to the radio.

You want to Fight. OK!

I need help: I been thinking.

The Ship is Sinking

Scam warning

Many Kossacks sitting in a tree

Korea vs Nam vs Terror War

An idea not yet posted

If I Didn’t have bad luck then.......

A short plug for Edwards