Family Rules

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Friday December 03, 2010 · 6:23 AM PST

2010/12/03 · 06:23

Bitching wasn't overly accepted in my family growing up. We had our fair share of things to bitch about of course. My younger sister has Cystic Fibrosis. Multiple family members suffer from depression. The sole wage earner from the time I was 8 until the time I was 15 is self-employed which meant that we'd have plenty of money on month and nothing the next. And we had to buy our own health insurance. And given that my sister had to get her own policy through a state insurer of last resort program a lot of money when to health care costs.

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Tuesday August 10, 2010 · 6:26 PM PDT

2010/08/10 · 18:26

I love the Anne of Green Gables series. Those books were my bedtime reading for at least a year and for all that they are good stories but they also have some good lessons in them. One of those was the saying that a used hat is bound to fit someone, but that doesn't mean it was made for them. Basically what it comes down to is that just because you think something was about you doesn't mean it actually is.

Jcavhs

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Wednesday January 20, 2010 · 4:21 PM PST

2010/01/20 · 16:21

Every time something frustrating happens in the political arena it seems like there is a rush of diaries saying the same basic thing - Democrats better shape up or I'm not going to vote for them in the next election. People say they will either vote for a third party candidate or not vote at all. That's their right to vote, or not vote, as they choose. But I've always felt that doing that is a classic example of cutting off your nose to spite your face. And I think the MA Senate special election illustrates why.

Jcavhs

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Saturday April 11, 2009 · 7:14 PM PDT

2009/04/11 · 19:14

Please forgive me if this is somewhat rambling but it has been something I've been ruminating on for a few days. One of the arguments against gay marriage that I've seen brought up a number of times is that allowing gay marriage infringes on people's freedom of religion. To me that is a huge misunderstanding of what freedom of religion entails

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Saturday March 07, 2009 · 12:00 PM PST

2009/03/07 · 12:00

It has been widely reported that on Monday President Obama will overturn former President Bush's ban on embryonic stem cell research funding. This is fantastic news for a return to focusing on science and preventing personal moral beliefs influence public policy without rational arguments to back it up. But for me the victory is much more personal.

Jcavhs

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Tuesday February 24, 2009 · 7:28 PM PST

2009/02/24 · 19:28

"Madame Speaker, the President of the United States"

These words have been heard before. Nancy Pelosi has been Speaker for two years now and former President George W. Bush would have been announced for the 2007 and 2008 State of the Union addresses this way. But tonight, this simple phrase illustrates to a big reason why I vote Democratic.

Jcavhs

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Saturday February 21, 2009 · 8:46 AM PST

2009/02/21 · 08:46

Well, that certainly didn't take long. According to the Huffington Post (
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...) you can already buy bumper stickers calling for President Obama's Impeachment. After all, after one month, a passed economic stimulus bill and reversals of many of the outrages of the previous Administration President Obama has clearly committed high crimes and misdemeanors worthy of being removed from office.

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Monday February 09, 2009 · 7:25 PM PST

2009/02/09 · 19:25

When Barack Obama was elected President I was happy, relieved and thankful that now we might have policies that actually made sense. There were a lot of things I wanted done. Some have already been accomplished via Executive Orders. And there are others (such as overturning the restrictions on stem cell research) that are on the way.

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