I became s US citizen on February 21st, 2018 at 11am...

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Wednesday March 21, 2018 · 3:55 PM PDT

2018/03/21 · 15:55

…after living almost 30 years in America. By 1pm, I was registered to vote. It is *that* important.

This is not the country I moved to in 1989. Don’t get me wrong, it was not all wine and roses in 1989. LGBT rights campaigners had a long way to go and the majority of people opposed same-sex marriage. The country was reeling from the Savings and Loans farce (funny how history repeats itself), and we were living through Bush I.

I dutifully stayed out of politics while I was not a citizen. I did not vote, march or write letters to the government (even though I could legally have dome *some* of those). I respect the law. But I was finally compelled to make that final commitment to a country that has welcomed me over the years. I have volunteered in the Domestic Violence advocacy movement for many years and still do. I have written about it here before. I have an American wife and friends and I hate where this country is going.

And now I can vote, march and write my letters. I am happy to back to this community I left a few years ago and I am ready to fight for a freer, fairer America.

Please vote. Because after coming to America with $100 in 1989, and legally going through the immigration system — I certainly will.

EDIT: Many thanks for the good wishes everyone and I look forward to playing a full role in the community going forward.

Will someone better qualified than I please checkpoint the economy as it stands right now?

mmsood99

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Wednesday November 09, 2016 · 4:38 AM PST

2016/11/09 · 04:38

I would like to compare it with the economy 4 years from now. The more detail the better

National and State employment rates
National and State median incomes
The stock market
The deficit
The trade balances by country
etc etc

We will only convince with evidence, and I am sure we will be in a worse place in 4 years

How cheap is a black life?

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Thursday April 09, 2015 · 8:08 AM PDT

2015/04/09 · 08:08

Very cheap apparently.

There have been a couple of attempts to set up a crowdfunding site in support of policeman Mike Slager, after his shooting of Walker Scott and subsequent indictment for murder. One was taken down by GoFundMe for unspecified violations of Terms of Service. However, there is a one second live at IndieGogo.

In the short description there of the funds purpose, we have this gem:

Although he may have made mis-steps in judgement he was protecting the community. Michael is a former Coast Guardsman with two stepchildren and a wife who is expecting a chil

And from his Twitter defense account:

MichaelSlagerDefense @DefendMichaelS · Apr 8
http://facebook.com/... … … Help support Offc Mike Slager murder is too harsh a charge for 1 mis-step. His public service should be considered

So taking the life of a black man is a "mis-step in judgement". This continues a thread in societal discourse that explicitly or implicitly dismisses the value of the life of black people. Now everyone is entitled to a fair and vigorous defense, but not at the cost of minimizing the crime they are accused of.

As a father with a black children in their 30s, and grandchildren in age ranges 12 to 4, I cringe every time I read of shooting locally. And the conspicuous cheapening of my children's and grandchildren's lives makes it clear they are in real danger.

Carperbagger Scott Brown is Predictable (but then again he isn't...)

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Thursday June 19, 2014 · 5:30 PM PDT

2014/06/19 · 17:30

We have a new resident in New Hampshire. Fresh from his sound whipping in Massachusetts by Elizabeth Warren, he has decided he can't bear to be away from the expense lunches and billionaire donors and has come to New Hampshire. Calling his vacation home his long term ownership in the state, he has packed his carpetbag and come looking for his Golden Ticket to Washington.

Patently predictable is his effort to portray himself as "one of us". We already have fond memories of him in his truck from the campaign over the state line. Now he is saturating the airwaves in an ad that explains how his Mom and Dad are good old local folk, and he loves this state - which he needs to give him next job. So far - all very predictable. He has to make himself look like one of us.

Less predictable however is that he has hitched his star to bashing Obamacare. His latest ad, even at the first viewing, has one blatant lie and one blatant mislead. Give me time - when I see it again I will spot more.

The mislead is the "correct" statement that 10 of 26 NH hospitals are not available under the state program at the moment (with only Anthem as the insurance provider). It is misleading however because four more insurers have announced they are coming into our program in the Fall -Harvard Pilgrim, Minuteman Health, Assurant Health, and Maine Community Health. But do you think he mentions that in his bloody ad? - Nooooooooooooooooooo!

The lie is that Jean Shaheen was the "deciding vote" in the votes for the Affordable Care Act. If I recall correctly, 60 senators voted for the act. Unless Senator Shaheen had 11 votes, she couldn't have been the deciding vote!

I have news for Scott Brown - The Affordable Care Act is working. It isn't perfect. But it is huge leap forward from having patients bleeding from their nipples into their shirts from a tumor, then being denied by her insurance company because it wasn't an emergency.

So Scott Brown can't count, can't read a newspaper to figure out what is happening in the Fall and plonks his carpetbag down where it suits him. When he gets beaten in the Fall, I pity the next state he fixes his eye on

I am a little disappointed in the ACA

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Tuesday November 05, 2013 · 10:46 AM PST

2013/11/05 · 10:46

I am a long time user on dKos. I fully support the goals of the ACA.

However, I finally made it all the way through Healthcare.gov and got my numbers. In my position, where I don't qualify for any subsidies, frankly I am little disappointed. The cost is higher than I was expecting here in New Hampshire.

I pasted a screen capture of my offer, for my wife and I (in our 50s with no significant health problems), below the malformed squiggly. I only show the silver plans. I'm not interested in any lower plans, and Gold is more expensive still. All plans mean I won't go bankrupt over chronic health issues (good), but are quite expensive (bad)

Please don't misunderstand, this is not an ACA attack - I am just surprised and am wondering what other peoples experience is?

EDIT: Zero subsidy

EDIT 2: I currently have employer insurance. Good benefits. My share of the cost is $450 for the two of us. I went through this exercise to see what was available to us.

EDIT 3: Not a troll. Check comment history as I am rather light on diaries. You may not like what you read, but these are numbers I just generated.

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Monday October 21, 2013 · 7:44 PM PDT

2013/10/21 · 19:44

I've been around for a while, both in life and on this site. And I am familiar with RedState by proxy from reading about it here. I've only ever had the stomach to go to RedState's front page because I know that if I go any further, it will shoot up my blood pressure.

Today one diary piqued my interest - one with the imaginative title of The Greek Tragedy of Obamacare. I drilled down and scrolled to the first two comments (shown below).

Words fail me. Rebuttal to this is trivial and almost self-evident. How on earth do you deal with all the blind hate?

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I became s US citizen on February 21st, 2018 at 11am...

Will someone better qualified than I please checkpoint the economy as it stands right now?

How cheap is a black life?

Carperbagger Scott Brown is Predictable (but then again he isn't...)

I am a little disappointed in the ACA

How do you deal with the hate?