SWHM Seeks Health-Care Covered SHF

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Friday October 17, 2008 · 7:22 AM PDT

2008/10/17 · 07:22

This is my story, inspired by nyceve's diary, of how health care coverage has shaped my life and the life of my spouse.

My wife and I met in Spring 2004, while I was working in the Detroit area. She was as a forms librarian at a company that created, revisioned, and maintained the myriad forms required for financial and government institutions. In late 2004, she was abruptly laid off. In what I guess they consider fairness, she was given two weeks to decide if she wanted to relocate her life to Minneapolis since they were consolidating, post-merger.

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Have you forgone preventive health care due to lack of coverage or lack of money?

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Have you forgone preventive health care due to lack of coverage or lack of money?

yes

30 votes

4 votes

Better off? Foreclosures up again in August

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Friday September 12, 2008 · 7:55 AM PDT

2008/09/12 · 07:55

The bad news? Foreclosures are up. Way up. Up 23% over the last quarter of 2007. One in 194 households received a foreclosure filing. And that's a national average. If you focus on the hardest hit areas, the numbers are staggering.

The good news?

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Do you know someone in default or on the way to default?

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Do you know someone in default or on the way to default?

no - thankfully everyone has weathered the storm

8 votes

yes - i know someone who is behind one or more payments

0 votes

yes - i know someone who is receiving government help to catch up

0 votes

yes - i know someone who has received a foreclosure notice

0 votes

yes - i know someone whose home has been lost

5 votes

Debunking phforamerica.com swiftboating of Obama

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Saturday September 06, 2008 · 8:23 AM PDT

2008/09/06 · 08:23

My wife and I are always getting kooky mails from the right, largely coming from her family and their friends in Macomb County, Michigan. We get the usual double-secret-muslim jive, the not-a-real-christian videos and so on.

I have a feeling this has all been diaried before, but this one video we just received got my ire up and I wanted to find the source and wrap some context back around the 527 smear, and send it back to them in the hopes that they'll at least have the complete text of the speech that's hatcheted and used against Obama. The hope is maybe others hearing the same stuff can use some of this to refute the nutso claims regarding Obama's faith.

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If you have received smears from friends/relatives, do you think you have had success changing their minds?

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If you have received smears from friends/relatives, do you think you have had success changing their minds?

they are headstrong and convinced Obama is muslim

20 votes

they may be swayed and are seeking more information

2 votes

i have had some success changing minds

18 votes

it's easy once they have the facts

1 vote

fortunately I don't have anyone in my life I need to convince

7 votes

RNC Wrap - What on Earth is their message?

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Friday September 05, 2008 · 3:35 AM PDT

2008/09/05 · 03:35

Up late night/early morning, and reviewing McAint's speech here again, listening more carefully, studying the looks on the faces of the crowd. This speech is the grand finale. The send off and last great opportunity to tie together themes introduced throughout the convention. What I see in the crowd and what I felt watching the speech was just plain confusion.

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