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Sunday January 31, 2010 · 8:37 AM PST

2010/01/31 · 08:37

It was a good week overall.....
I woke up this morning and even though it's very cold outside, it's very sunny and very blue sparkly sky and I started thinking about spring and how I can't wait to hear the birds again and smell the fresh organic earthy smells, how I long for green and new life springing everywhere.
So I wanted to compile some photos for your enjoyment.
I am looking forward to new beginnings.....

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Friday October 10, 2008 · 3:38 PM PDT

2008/10/10 · 15:38

Sorry for the short Diary.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that at McCain’s rally in La Cross, WI, a woman yelled out why he has to lie about Obama?

Mcain was trashing Obama's policies and tax proposals when a woman named Theresa Carey of Viroqua asked him why has to lie about Obamas tax proposal?

At one point at the rally in La Crosse, a woman in the crowd yelled out that McCain was lying about Obama's tax proposals. McCain supporters around her yelled out in response. The woman, who identified herself as Theresa Carey of Viroqua, refused to leave. The rally ended shortly afterward without her being forced to leave.

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Tuesday October 07, 2008 · 9:37 AM PDT

2008/10/07 · 09:37

I am a small business owner, who’s concerned about the future, about sky rocketing cost of health insurance, about the economy, and I have yet to hear anything from McCain/Palin to make me believe that they care about me. I am anxious about the education of my children, about the ongoing war in Iraq, about the environmental and energy issues, and McCain/ Palin have no fresh ideas. They want to continue the failed policies of the last eight years. The tax cuts for the wealthy in McCain administration leaves me out. Under McCain administration, I may loose my health insurance. McCain talks about cutting Medicare and Medicaid, and this will affect my elderly parents.

It’s difficult to see how McCain/Palin administrations will be able to provide any solutions or plans for the problems we are facing in this country. Instead of discussing how they will help the middle class, Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin want to distract us with politics of hate and fear. They want to lie to us about Barack Obama.

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Friday October 03, 2008 · 5:01 AM PDT

2008/10/03 · 05:01

I think the fix was on. The McCain campaign had already painted Gwen Ifill as in the tank for Obama and she caved in to pressure to go easy on her. The questions were like softballs, easy to dodge with no follow up and no insistence that she answer them.
Palin came across as a "Stepford candidate" who was programmed to say a series of talking point. On the other hand Biden was articulate, spontaneous, and very real and that’s what the audience saw.
I thought she was very condescending, and had no vision of McCain/Palin ticket would be different than the last 8 years. She must have said "Maverick" at least eight times referring to herself and John McCain. She used the words of Ronald Reagan a lot and yet she spoke and acted like GW. (I.e. saying "nucular" and being folksy and trying to be likeable).
She did not come across as a statesman, Biden did. She came across as out of her league.

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Saturday September 27, 2008 · 4:54 AM PDT

2008/09/27 · 04:54

Short diary:
During the first debate:
The number of times John McCain brought up Hillary’s name: 2
The number of times John McCain said POW: 1
The number of times John McCain said Israel: 3
The number of times John McCain said Senator Obama doesn't know: 8
The number of times John McCain said Senator Obama is dangerous: 1
The Number of times John McCain mentioned middle class: 0
The number of times John McCain smirked: 200

Add your own observations below.

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Who won?

101 votes Vote Now!

Who won?

Obama

85 votes

McCain

6 votes

neither

10 votes

McCain's presidency will be a disaster.

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Friday September 26, 2008 · 6:50 AM PDT

2008/09/26 · 06:50

Americans should ask themselves these questions:

In this time of crisis, who looks like he will actually work with the other side to come up with a solution?

Who looks more like leader who will be calm and collected and will put his country rather his own political ambitions first?

Who’s shown time and again that he will not gamble with our future?

Who picked their vice president not because it will energize the base but because he/she will him govern?

Who has real plan for America to go forward rather than stay the course?

Who’s surrounded himself with the good ole boy network and divorced himself from the problems of real America?

Who is been in Washington for 26 years and has done nothing to actually help the average American families?

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Thursday September 18, 2008 · 10:07 AM PDT

2008/09/18 · 10:07

Sorry this diary is short, but I just wanted to share this with you.

Rep. Wayne Gilchrest, a maverick Republican from Maryland, endorsed Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Obama for president in an interview Wednesday with WYPR, Baltimore's National Public Radio station.

More Good News:
Gallup Daily: Obama 48%, McCain 44%

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Saturday September 13, 2008 · 8:13 PM PDT

2008/09/13 · 20:13

The Providence Phoenix Just posted an article that no one dares to talks about: John McCain’s mental health.

While some worry about the impact of John McCain’s age on his physical health and his potential longevity in office, others are more concerned about his mental health.
The more than 1500 pages detailing McCain’s medical information do not dispel the notion that the candidate’s notorious temper may be related to his more than five years in a Vietnam prison camp. Reporting on his health in May, the New York Times noted how McCain’s doctors called him robust. The end of the story also noted: "As a prisoner of war, Mr. McCain told doc-tors, he had tried to commit suicide twice. But by 1977, he said he had ‘all but forgotten the traumas of captivity.’ "

Yet Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD) — which is diagnosed in one of eight veterans returning from the hell that is Iraq — did not appear in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders until 1980, seven years after McCain’s release from Hanoi. Anger and depression are two key symptoms of PTSD.

more below:

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Wednesday August 20, 2008 · 6:49 AM PDT

2008/08/20 · 06:49

There’s a new editorial in Wall street Journal by Peter Ferrara that portrays Barack Obama’s tax cut plan as "welfare for the poor".

Ferrara who worked in the Reagan's White House argues that Barack Obama's tax credit to 90% of the Americans is actually like giving welfare to the poor!
Here's the link:

http://online.wsj.com/...

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33 votes Show Results

Who's with me?

33 votes Vote Now!

Who's with me?

25 votes

not me

8 votes

McCain's Surge

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Tuesday August 05, 2008 · 7:42 AM PDT

2008/08/05 · 07:42

McCain’s campaign has always been about the surge. He has nothing else. So to distract us and the media he will continue to attack Obama from all fronts. Sadly, It seems like it’s working. To combat this, what senator Obama should do is to focus on what the war is costing us in lives and treasure and put McCain on defense. The real story of the Iraq War is far different that what McCain wants you to know.

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Thursday July 31, 2008 · 9:38 AM PDT

2008/07/31 · 09:38

Summer is almost over.
Hope you're enjoying your summer.

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Wednesday July 30, 2008 · 5:36 AM PDT

2008/07/30 · 05:36

Please forgive this short diary. I am not very good at writing long essays. I am not sure that this has been discussed here before but I felt that we need to talk about this epidemic: the rapes and murders of our female soldiers and contractors by their male counterparts.
This makes me sick to my stomach. And for the most part is not getting a lot of coverage by the media.

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