My Blind Mom--47% "Moocher"

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Tuesday September 18, 2012 · 3:26 PM PDT

2012/09/18 · 15:26

I've written almost no diaries. Others often say what I would want to say, and better. But I need to get some information out there about people who supposedly do not take responsibility for themselves or their lives. I want to set the record straight by using the example of an old, blind woman, my mother.

Come with me over the divide. We can get acquainted with a small, white-haired "tiger" who will blow Romney's opinions of who comprise the 47% to cinders.

womankind

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Tuesday April 27, 2010 · 2:54 PM PDT

2010/04/27 · 14:54

In the western movies of old, you could tell the good guys from the bad. The good guys wore white hats. The bad wore black.

Here we are in the middle of perhaps the most important legislation of this year: financial regulation to keep us out of the catastrophe that almost took our financial system down, along with all of us, and Warren Buffett is backing a Senator from Nebraska who definitely wears a black hat.

Follow along with me, and we'll talk more about good guys and bad guys, and how their actions match their hats, or sometimes don't.

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Should Buffett wear a white hat and be a good guy on financial reform?

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Should Buffett wear a white hat and be a good guy on financial reform?

Yes. It suits him image.

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No, he looks better in black.

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Maybe. Depends on what matters to him financially.

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Open Letter to Blackwaterdog: Come back

womankind

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Monday April 12, 2010 · 10:08 AM PDT

2010/04/12 · 10:08

Dear BWD:

In several posts of late, it has come to my attention that you do not intend to bring your excellent diaries to Daily Kos. What a loss! What a huge loss!

There are times when a diarist can through copying, pasting and photographs bring a perspective to a subject that can't be adequately addressed in a writing that comes out of the opinion of the diarist's single mind.

Your diaries were everything I needed. If you will pretend to be a frog with me, and leap over the break, I'll explain in more detail the huge loss it is for you to be missing from this site, and what it would mean if you came back.

womankind

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Monday January 18, 2010 · 8:40 PM PST

2010/01/18 · 20:40

i've followed the race in Massachusetts, from both sides. What I can't understand is how an important state, a commonwealth so integral to the nation's inception, could let down the thirty million, I repeat THIRTY MILLION, Americans who need health care (you have yours, others do not have theirs), let down our chance to reduce the Federal Deficit, let down our chance to extend Medicare, let down our chance to regulate the big banks who by their bonus funds are thumbing their noses at America after it bailed them (and us) out from collapse, to vote for Scott Brown. Why? What did America do to you to deserve such a horrible consequence? Follow me after the break.

womankind

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Friday August 21, 2009 · 8:31 PM PDT

2009/08/21 · 20:31

I have a big question for you experts here at Daily Kos: Why do Democrats, the majority party, allow Republicans, the obstructionist party, to dictate the "Hoop Height", or the number of votes it takes to pass health care reform?
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womankind

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Saturday July 11, 2009 · 2:09 PM PDT

2009/07/11 · 14:09

Yesterday, in a fairly amateurish fashion, I spoke of a wish I had in a diary posted on DKos. I never got to read the comments until today.

Now I must, must say something to the folks who responded.

Follow me on this, over the break.

womankind

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Friday July 10, 2009 · 6:34 PM PDT

2009/07/10 · 18:34

When President Obama goes abroad, one waits and waits for really good photos that seem to keep us feeling we are not here, alone, with just the Republicans hammering away at Obama when he is out of town and can't protect his back very well.

Please follow me over the break

womankind

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Sunday March 22, 2009 · 8:28 PM PDT

2009/03/22 · 20:28

Lyndon Johnson supposedly said about the retention of J. Edgar Hoover as Director of the FBI that it was better to have him pissing out than pissing in. (I am paraphrasing.) This has special meaning for what we see in the writings of Frank Rich, Tom Friedman, Joseph Stiglitz, Tom Friedman, Maureen Dowd, and especially Paul Krugman. Follow me over the break.

womankind

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Tuesday October 07, 2008 · 11:52 AM PDT

2008/10/07 · 11:52

Today I have been reading the "incitement to violence" speech by Palin and McCain. Before someone is hurt, before we have violence that could spiral out of control, what can be done?

It strikes me that no one will do anything until the tragedy Palin and McCain seem to be stirring up occurs. This reminds me of the Brown shirts.

The reason I ask is that I know there are many lawyers and others with specific knowledge of the law who write comments on this blog, and I am hoping someone has an answer before the whole thing gets out of control. It seems to be doing no good for the press to comment on this. The traditional media is too tepid. But they should do more if, as was reported, a black reporter was insulted and the media covering the event were treated scornfully.

What can stop incitement to violence? As another diarist pointed out, We have no more Robert Welchs to make the candidates inciting violence feel any shame for what they are doing to a country whose citizens will need to work together in extremely perilous times once this election is over.

Thoughts on how to become calm, yet watchful

womankind

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Monday September 08, 2008 · 4:19 PM PDT

2008/09/08 · 16:19

I feel the Kossacks have done an excellent job of "vetting" Sarah Palin. Sure, there were too many diaries, because people have feelings and hopes for good, honest government that solves problems, not make them worse. But in the long run, without the tremendous efforts by the diarists here, I fear that dissemination of really good knowledge would not have happened. So follow along with me over the break, because I feel we can do something for ourselves, for each other, for Obama.

womankind

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Monday August 11, 2008 · 11:38 AM PDT

2008/08/11 · 11:38

Both offended me today. This is a short diary, but I think it is emblematic of how the punditry is blind to its own faults but not to Obama's. Follow me after the flip.

womankind

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Monday July 07, 2008 · 11:16 AM PDT

2008/07/07 · 11:16

I can't shake my intuition that there is something unhealthy in the Clinton's interactions with Obama. We read of their joint fund-raising efforts, but that some of Clinton's donors are looking for something back for their money, or that they are also wanting to meet with McCain.

I'm a bit troubled over the photographs at these events, the few I have seen. Hillary seems to be working for Hillary and Barrack usually looks left out and unimportant to the fundraiser.

There is the additional matter of neither Clinton mentioning Obama's name in personal conversations, or in fund-raising letters. It is as if they are trying to diminish him while getting full credit for helping him to the maximum. Here is what I think may be happening, and it does not seem helpful to Obama. It does, however, seem helpful to McCain:

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