Posting History for lightarty
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| Observations from bike week ,bike fest at Myrtle Beach So we own a old trailer in North Myrtle Beach and the past month is when the bikers converge on the coast .The two events ,like most things in the south,are a throw back to segregation I think but ... |
lightarty | 05/28/2013 | 8 | 3 | - | - |
| unemployed and sequestration So I have been on unemployment for a few months .I went through a three week process to get a good job at a local meat packing plant. I was very excited it will be the first time my family would ... |
lightarty | 02/26/2013 | 7 | 2 | - | - |
| Why do the commercials work ? So I'm on utube looking at trying to listen to a few songs and I would click on a video and the commercial would work fine and i would be subjected to the whole 28 seconds but the video wouldn't work. |
lightarty | 03/03/2014 | 7 | - | - | - |
| A GOP congressmen from S.C. wonders why constituents are mad lol So I was reading the story on Huff post today about congressmen Mulvaney 's recent trip home to talk with his voters and his confusion over why some of them are upset he did what he said he would ... |
lightarty | 05/29/2013 | 6 | 4 | - | - |
| Bailouts and bombs I got home a little while ago and started to read all the updates on the Syria situation.A fellow diarist had wrote a piece about the whip counts in the house and senate . Read another piece about ... |
lightarty | 09/05/2013 | 3 | - | - | - |
| BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Breaking news … The word from New York is dtrumps donde was rejected but has 10 more days . The continuing saga continues |
lightarty | 04/07/2024 | 42 | 4 | - | - |
| California beef slaughter house sold meat from cows that had cancer? I was reading a story from Huff-post just now about a slaughter house that was caught butchering and selling meat from cancerous cows. We shouldn't be so shocked and amazed as a former meat cutter ... |
lightarty | 02/27/2014 | 23 | 3 | - | - |
| Cancer won my family lost I had planned to write a series of diaries about and for my wife and her battle with pancreatic cancer but it wasn't to be. I wrote the last diary jan 18 2015 and had figured that we would have ... |
lightarty | 02/27/2015 | 92 | 186 | 1 | - |
| Changing the historical record I'm a recovering conservative and have other family members who are conservatives or like myself are recovering conservatives. It can be so hard trying to debate with them because for them and at ... |
lightarty | 02/20/2013 | 9 | 4 | - | - |
| Debt and deficits "oh my" I need help but first a little about my self.I am a middle age bald guy been to college got a associates degree in general studies so I can read ,write and count to hundred in three languages no ... |
lightarty | 02/22/2013 | 7 | 1 | - | - |
| Died In The House .com Will the parasites that prey off the paranoid teabaggers get any more crazy in their pursuit of fleecing all those gullible right wingers? The title is a website that was advertised on patriot ... |
lightarty | 07/25/2014 | 25 | 2 | - | - |
| Ebola in N.C.? Early breaking word .We might have a ebola case in N.C. Well that will be all Kay Hagen needs ...The silly party afraid of their own shadow will ride this train for alls its worth .I guess we can ... |
lightarty | 11/03/2014 | 34 | - | - | - |
| EDSCAN a history lesson please I've been reading Daily Kos for several years and have seen Edscan posts in the hatemail thing and would love to read actual edscan diaries if possible? If some of you "old timers" out there could ... |
lightarty | 05/05/2013 | 27 | 3 | - | - |
| End of life planning for family dog :( So we adapted this very sweet Brittney spaniel from some friends of our who were going thru a divorce a few years back and were going to "put the dog down" because "suzy" ,the dog, had some age ... |
lightarty | 05/05/2013 | 40 | 16 | - | - |
| Fox News and the war on Thanksgiving ? So with Fox news going on and on about the war on Christmas do you think they will open a second front for the war on thanksgiving?Im just saying Thanksgiving is another traditional family values ... |
lightarty | 11/28/2013 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| Gas is $ 1.63/gal Just a short diatribe .How can there be such a huge difference in price between the wholesale price and the price at the pump? Oil has been dropping like a rock for a while now and yes gas has ... |
lightarty | 12/10/2014 | 32 | 3 | - | - |
| Horse rescue needs some help UPDATE: Wednesday, Mar 22, 2023 · 1:52:15 PM +00:00 · lightarty www.paypal.com/... My wife volunteers at a horse rescue located in North Carolina . It is run by this really nice retired lady who has been taking care of 50 plus horses pretty much by... |
lightarty | 03/22/2023 | 81 | 73 | - | - |
| I am a recovering Boomer I just finished reading the post by KOS talking about how religion is on the decline and find my soul to be conflicted. It was a great read. It reminded me of so many things that I have been trying to forget for years. I grew up in the 1970’s . My... |
lightarty | 11/07/2019 | 63 | 17 | - | - |
| I just can't believe its happening My wife ellie who was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in December has her good days and bad.We have been married for 25 years .We have been around the world together not literally but ya ... |
lightarty | 01/17/2015 | 76 | 246 | - | - |
| I know exactly how the next 2 years will go I live in a deep red county east of I 95 in N.C. I work for the sheriffs dept.I know exactly how these folks will operate because i got a front row seat during the budget battle in our county for ... |
lightarty | 11/06/2014 | 8 | 13 | - | - |
| I quit my job today So I decided to quit my job at Smithfields ,where I would cut meat for 12 hours a day 6 days a week .I miss the great folks i worked with they were some of the hardest working people i have ever ... |
lightarty | 01/27/2014 | 51 | 114 | - | - |
| I quit smoking 8 months ago I quit smoking but to be honest I switched to E-vapor electronic smoking.So I'm still addicted to nicotine but don't get all the other bad stuff with tobacco .I wanted to write this ... |
lightarty | 02/02/2014 | 22 | 16 | - | - |
| I Voted for Nikki Haley!!! Me and my wife just got back from our local voting place and we are registered Indy and voted for Haley . Fingers crossed she can pick up a bunch of our Indy votes in North Carolina today and throw a monkey wrench into the trump machine |
lightarty | 03/05/2024 | 12 | 13 | - | - |
| I was a armed security guard I was a part time armed security officer that worked for 4 years in neighborhoods that had existing residents and new contruction. |
lightarty | 07/14/2013 | 9 | 12 | - | - |
| I'm a Vet no thanks required I am a vet.I joined the army during the first gulf war as a artilleryman.I’ve served all over the world and ended my service at ft Bragg NC as a paratrooper.I just read another post from a vet saying he didn't want to be thanked for his service.His... |
lightarty | 08/07/2019 | 17 | 11 | - | - |
| In the Tank So a top Romney adviser comes out and claims he doesn't feel the media was in the tank for The Big O! Well, no DUH! I have forgotten the amount of times the so called LIBERAL media passed on so many ... |
lightarty | 02/25/2013 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Israel strikes back ! I saw this all over MSNBC www.msnbc.com/… It looks like Israel has begun its retaliatory strikes tonight in central Iran . No news on what they attacked or casualties or if its the beginning on a bigger strike or a one an done so they can say they did... |
lightarty | 04/18/2024 | 16 | 3 | - | - |
| IT IS WHAT IT IS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I have been on DK for like 15 years . T.U. Full MOJO and for the very first time got a comment removed, a donut tossed, a pie thrown at me as it were . I was shocked ! Shocked I say . I was a little mad to be truthful . I was here during the... |
lightarty | 10/15/2023 | 75 | 26 | - | - |
| It's not a hate crime... is all i've heard today on right wing radio .It is intermixed with" but libs didnt want to call the fort Hood shooting a few years ago terrorism".and blah blah blah BENGHAZI !!! It made me smile .... |
lightarty | 04/14/2014 | 4 | 3 | - | - |
| Its all your fault evangelicals stfu So my wife and I were driving thru whiteville NC today and saw a group of church goers holding a anti-abortion demo on the side of the highway. |
lightarty | 10/06/2013 | 19 | 14 | - | - |
| Just heard on RUSH lol So I was listening to rush and a "caller", "David in Tampa" said that his son loves the rush revere books that Rush supposedly wrote.Rush asks the man why the books made such an impact on his son ... |
lightarty | 10/13/2014 | 8 | 14 | 1 | - |
| Let the great war begin I was on media matters and saw this;http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/11/27/rush-lashes-out-at-the-pope-over-critique-of-in/197083 The link is a story about rush calling the pope a Marxist lol.Its ... |
lightarty | 11/28/2013 | 4 | 4 | - | - |
| Lets drug test congressmen So if Trey Radel,congressman from Florida believes welfare recipients need to be drug tested because so many of them use public money to buy drugs,which they dont,than we should drug test the House ... |
lightarty | 11/24/2013 | 34 | 12 | - | - |
| lost a friend over the SOTU So a face book friend of mine "Tim" and I have had many spirited debates on face book .I am the liberal bed wetter he the fox newser conspiracy believer.Last night I just couldn't take it any more ... |
lightarty | 01/29/2014 | 25 | 10 | - | - |
| LOVE COKE!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VM2eLhvsSM classic coke ... |
lightarty | 02/02/2014 | 30 | 4 | - | - |
| Love seeing papa John"s poster boy humiliated Just saying as a New England Patriot's fan its all the more sweet but knowing papa johns is sucking eggs is awesome!!!! |
lightarty | 02/02/2014 | 13 | 13 | - | - |
| MEGAN KELLY suspended??!! Just a quick note today but as I was looking through my facebook feed I came across a story about Kelly from FOX news is on a unplanned vacation?? Wonder if she getting thrown under the bus by good ... |
lightarty | 08/14/2015 | 23 | 3 | - | - |
| MOSCOW MITCH! Moscow Mitch is who he is! I filled out 25 post cards to him today sent to Moscow Mitch russell senate ofc.build. 317 Delaware ave.NE Washington D.C. 20510 today..Maybe we can get more of these sent nation wide to bug the crap out of him for his... |
lightarty | 08/02/2019 | 4 | 9 | - | - |
| My Buddy died today..suzie the wonder dog This is just a quick diary .Almost a year ago, I think, I posted a diary wanting some advice from folks on when was the right time to let a beloved pet go.I got lots of advice and I appreciated it ... |
lightarty | 01/02/2014 | 88 | 78 | - | - |
| My factory needs a Union! I just started working at a major pork producer in North Carolina and i ve never had a job like this!! I'm not afraid of hard work and it is very hard but what galls me is the the way the factory ... |
lightarty | 03/24/2013 | 12 | 11 | - | - |
| My life as a assembly line worker So this is the second diary on my new job.I recently started a job at a meat packing plant and plan to document my experiences there as long as I can keep doing the work but the company that owns ... |
lightarty | 03/24/2013 | 48 | 66 | 3 | - |
| My life as a assembly line worker pt.2 So on to the next installment of my experiences working as a meat cutter in a meat packing plant. One of the first and most depressing parts of the job is the physical plant and crew areas...in a ... |
lightarty | 03/25/2013 | 1 | 19 | - | - |
| My life as a assembly line worker pt.3 please come sequestration!! I know this may sound selfish but I hope sequestration does what the fear mongers foretell .Working in a meat packing plant 60-70 hours a week is a tuff haul.My hands ache like a little old woman's,... |
lightarty | 04/01/2013 | 6 | 14 | - | - |
| My wife has cancer We found out just before X-MASS the doctors had found a mass on her pancreas .The doctors did a biopsy and cat scan and confirmed stage 4 pancreatic cancer that has spread to her liver .They told us ... |
lightarty | 01/15/2015 | 173 | 177 | 1 | - |
| My wife was rushed to WakeMed cardiac intensive care this week My wife just came home from the cardiac intensive care unit at WakeMed yesterday .She was at her primary care doc's office having a base line EKG done because of some fainting spells she had and her ... |
lightarty | 02/09/2014 | 16 | 21 | 1 | - |
| My wife's poem When my wife got the word that her cancer was terminal she set forth to get our bills and stuff in order so it would be easier for me after she left .One of the things she organized was a notebook ... |
lightarty | 07/03/2015 | 14 | 11 | - | - |
| NEED SUPPLIES FOR OUR REVOLUTION!!! thedailybanter.com/… So the militia guys that took over that wildlife refuge had sent out a request for needed supplies.Many around the country answered their call and started mailing them all kinds |
lightarty | 01/12/2016 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| Nuclear Capable forces ?????? MSNBC reported today that the Russians are moving "nuclear capable forces" to the border of Ukraine ..What exactly are nuclear capable forces? Any large artillery piece can shoot nuclear artillery ... |
lightarty | 11/11/2014 | 18 | 2 | - | - |
| Obama makes good on immigration, DOW adds 125 points The day after obama's historic speech on immigration the DOW adds 125 points and stays in record levels .I guess the sky wont be falling anytime soon. Doesn't the republicans know the rich donors ... |
lightarty | 11/21/2014 | 6 | 4 | - | - |
| ON BEHALF OF ALL LAWYERS I APOLOGIZE TO YOU That is what my friends new lawyer said to her after reviewing the case file which took 2 weeks to get from her old lawyer she fired because of incompetence. If you live in North Carolina there aint much you can do about it. Lawyers in this state... |
lightarty | 10/17/2017 | 14 | 3 | - | - |
| PAPA JOHNS NOW HIRING !!! So I just turn on the computer pull up face book and see a paid for post by papa johns looking for delivery drivers!!! whoo hoooo!! I left a comment and shared the post to my wife but the comment ... |
lightarty | 02/27/2013 | 17 | 6 | - | - |
| PERPETUATION OF RACIAL ENTITLEMENTS So I heard the ass clown Supreme court judge say that the theory " perpetuation of racial entitlements" is a legit theory that even"has been written about" Oh my so because a thing has been written ... |
lightarty | 03/02/2013 | 13 | 5 | 1 | - |
| Please god let it be a teabagger gone wild I know this may sound a little crazy but hear me out. I do so hope this shooting in calif is the act of a right wing teabagger type person cause if it turns out to be a terrorist god help our country |
lightarty | 12/02/2015 | 27 | 1 | - | - |
| Really? Just a quick question. The news reported that the police used a claymore mine attached to a robot to kill the sniper in Dallas…..Why do the police even have mines????????? These are defensive weapons used to protect things like field outposts ,usually... |
lightarty | 07/08/2016 | 18 | - | - | - |
| Right Wing Wet Dream The state of North Carolina has private contractors that fulfill some of its DMV functions.Its funny because it exposes the innate problem with private business doing government jobs .The right wing ... |
lightarty | 01/28/2015 | 7 | 10 | - | - |
| Rush Limbaugh the author? So I put up a diary about Rush wanting to win some award for his children 's book "rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims" or some such shit. Was hoping to get a bunch of people to go the the web site ... |
lightarty | 03/26/2014 | 8 | 5 | - | - |
| Rush wants to win children's book of the year ! Ok so on the face of it i'm disgusted to think of young minds reading propaganda but besides that I would love to see him not win the award for obvious reasons so maybe a bunch of us can vote ... |
lightarty | 03/26/2014 | 17 | 1 | - | - |
| Saturday-hate-mail-a-palooza I don't know about any of you all but I miss the hate mail-a-palooza diaries. Maybe we can start a petition and kos will show some compassion !! |
lightarty | 10/15/2015 | 32 | 4 | - | - |
| so have you heard the one about President Biden www.breitbart.com/...Found on Breitbart.com just now That the president’s lawyers turned over classified documents from the Obama presidential time period that were found in an office that president Biden used .just what we need …any thoughts |
lightarty | 01/09/2023 | 51 | 3 | - | - |
| So much for fences This diary is not to start a pie fight or take any stance on the attack on Israel but to point out the obvious . The border between Israel and the Gaza strip was one of the most heavily defended border areas in the world and that fence didn’t stop a... |
lightarty | 10/10/2023 | 10 | 23 | - | - |
| So you want to intervene in the Ukraine I have been listening to the right wing talking heads go on about how weak we are and how we should do something about Russia going into the Ukraine.Thought we didnt have any money ??? piles of debt ... |
lightarty | 03/04/2014 | 18 | 5 | - | - |
| Thanks YA'LL ,DAILY KOS I wanted to drop a line or two to let you all know how much I appreciated the support and kind words this winter when my wife was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and passed away feb 20th. There ... |
lightarty | 06/06/2015 | 22 | 95 | 1 | - |
| that damn liberal media!!! So a top Romney adviser comes out and claims he doesn't feel the media was in the tank for The Big O! Well, no DUH! I have forgotten the amount of times the so called LIBERAL media passed on so many ... |
lightarty | 02/25/2013 | 1 | - | - | - |
| The annoying teabag lady in public I read this story on Huffpost http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/29/annoying-airplane-passenger_n_4360667.html?utm_hp_ref=comedy&ir=Comedy.This is a" must read".It has nothing to do with politics ... |
lightarty | 12/01/2013 | 23 | 9 | - | - |
| The end of the Obama Presidency ..death by a thousand cuts I was reading a posting by the rude pundit and it makes sad but realistic sense im afraid . Here are a few excerpts from it:"We needed someone who would lay waste to the political enemies of progress, |
lightarty | 05/14/2013 | 56 | 4 | - | - |
| The Great Lie As a 46 year old I feel the country since the late seventies has lied to us . |
lightarty | 07/21/2013 | 3 | 2 | - | - |
| The house passes a clean CR ! well the speaker calls the crazy caucus’ bluff it’s over people and now the count down clock begins to the speaker getting canned lolol |
lightarty | 09/30/2023 | 17 | 4 | - | - |
| The UN will take control of USA 11/14/13 So I was at work wed when a Friend of mine ,a very low info voter,came up to me and was telling me his new worry,that he had heard about from Glen Beck.Tim,my friend,goes on to explain that for ... |
lightarty | 11/14/2013 | 39 | 8 | - | - |
| Thought we were broke? So the weeping man says we should give the President what ever he needs to fight ISIS http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/11/boehner-obama-isis_n_5805230.html?utm_hp_ref=politics but I thought we ... |
lightarty | 09/11/2014 | 18 | 11 | - | - |
| TO BE DEPOSED AGAIN Breaking news more trouble for the former guy at TRUTH SOCIAL lol this should be fun ... Market Chatter: Trump Media & Technology to Depose Trump in Ownership Dispute April 05, 2024 08:25 AM ETPublished April 05, 2024 08:25 AM Eastern Time MT Newswires... |
lightarty | 04/05/2024 | 35 | 16 | - | - |
| TO HR OR NOT TO HR THAT IS THE QUESTION Today I read a diary that had snark boldly stated in the beginning . I am a older recoverying conservative who may not understand snark but I do understand distortions and lies.. |
lightarty | 07/04/2013 | 44 | 3 | 1 | - |
| Trump gets bulk purchase price? I am just curious . I have had to use a lawyer from time to time and these were run of the mill average lawyers that middle class folks have access to. How many lawyers does trump have right now and how does he afford them? Ya I get it he has a lot of... |
lightarty | 04/05/2024 | 19 | 10 | - | - |
| TRUMP IS GETTING ARRESTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just a few lines here today . Breaking news Trump posted this morning on truth social he is getting arrested this Tuesday and put out a call to his supporters to take to the streets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
lightarty | 03/18/2023 | 8 | 1 | - | - |
| Trump the Manchurian candidate? Could Trump be so vile that its too vile to be true? He has donated to many democrats and causes in the past and he has expressed contrary ideas. Could he be in "deep cover" double agent mode? I ... |
lightarty | 08/11/2015 | 20 | - | - | - |
| Wage theft and capitalism I have recently seen several stories about wage theft and blue collar folks taking the 1% to court and winning in some cases like this one about Domino's in N.Y. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/ |
lightarty | 10/10/2023 | 19 | 16 | - | - |
| Wage theft and capitalism I have recently seen several stories about wage theft and blue collar folks taking the 1% to court and winning in some cases like this one about Domino's in N.Y. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.... ... |
lightarty | 03/27/2014 | 7 | 5 | - | - |
| wally world ,wally world what has happened to Walmart? Is it just me or has Walmart taken a sharp turn to the worse? The stores seem to be filthy ,not stocked well ,and staffed with a bunch of un happy workers. Big it seems ... |
lightarty | 02/20/2013 | 14 | - | - | - |
| We aint gonna take it anymore lol As a child of the late 1970's and early 1980's this one song explains the anger the right wing has for America.The authoritarian power base woke up and realised that going into the future their ... |
lightarty | 03/12/2014 | 7 | 3 | - | - |
| We aint gonna take it lol This is why the right wing is so mad these days.Being a child of the late 1970's and early 1980's these songs were our anthems and the authoritarian right saw that things were going to change and ... |
lightarty | 10/10/2023 | 8 | 3 | - | - |
| We will settle this at high noon on main street Starting to think the stand your ground is actually a new reincarnation of old common law duels... |
lightarty | 07/28/2013 | 9 | - | - | - |
| Where is wage inflation? We have seen prices for every commodity ,goods,and services go through the roof with the one exception of the commodity we all hold and that's our time ...time we trade for pay.The ruling elite have ... |
lightarty | 12/22/2013 | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| white middle aged man goes to jail ,,go figure Read this story today on Huff Post:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/man-truck-black-lives-matter_55fdaa49e4b00310edf750fc .This was a hoax crime against the black lives matter community and ... |
lightarty | 09/19/2015 | 11 | 13 | - | - |
| Why the south was unprepared for the recent weather event Could it be possible that the reason for the south not being prepared for all the snow and ice was all the cost cutting the teabaggers have been doing? It's true, storms like the one we just had ,don' |
lightarty | 02/02/2014 | 18 | 5 | - | - |
| Will the DEMS ever go on offense Just a question or a plea but why won't our party go on offense?We need our leaders out there with a loud and clear message if the rethugs win big in the mid terms social security,minimum wage hike,... |
lightarty | 03/14/2014 | 12 | 5 | - | - |
| You get what you voted for The great state of NORTH Carolina,my adopted home.I came to this area of the country in 1994 with the US Army.I was stationed at Fort Bragg. The family and I decided to stay after I left the army. ... |
lightarty | 02/19/2013 | 12 | 4 | - | - |