Bay Area Kossaks, got a spare armpit?

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Saturday May 28, 2011 · 11:38 AM PDT

2011/05/28 · 11:38

You don't know me but I am about to become one of you. So to speak.

We are moving. If you want some history, read this. My mom passed a couple of months ago (please don't feel sorry for me, she was a bully and now she's gone and my life is so much better now, even my brother is much easier to deal with) and my dad, my 93 year old dad, believe it or not, said he wanted to move to California

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Saturday May 21, 2011 · 9:22 AM PDT

2011/05/21 · 09:22

Sophie

needs to go west because my Dad (93!)

looked horrified when he thought I meant she wasn't moving with us to Berkeley California.

Anyone got a couch she can sleep on till we get there?

What Sophie, my dad, and me (to be perfectly honest) need is a place for Sophie to stay when she arrives in the Bay Area by trucker. We are taking the train.

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Sunday October 03, 2010 · 10:46 AM PDT

2010/10/03 · 10:46

Dec 18th, 2008 I called home after work to see how everybody was doing. I started doing this every week or so because my parents are rather old, and while they are fiercely independent to this day, it seemed like the least I could do. I had checked out the independent living facilities near me and there were several within blocks of my rent controlled apt overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Bonus points: they would take my paranoid schizophrenic aspergy brother too. He has lived at home with my parents for 15 years and they go together as a threesome, or they don’t go at all. This is one reason they hadn’t moved into a facility in Maryland. They couldn’t find one that would take Charles. And they immediately rejected moving to California when I had brought it up earlier.

The rec list? Huzzah Trizza!!!! Lets barf grass.

commutergirl

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Friday October 01, 2010 · 6:17 PM PDT

2010/10/01 · 18:17

Change our electorate?

I'm sorry, I don't have any quotes for you, or even timely references to pin this diary to, but it seems to me that, basically, our electorate doesn't have a clue what government is. Civics used to be a semester long course in high school. When education is done right, (I know, All Children Left Behind kinda killed a class like this), there are no right answers; only long thoughtful ones called essays in which the student has to develop a theme and support it with facts (may I again apologize for not having any of those?), and teachers have to read them and think about them before they can give them a reasonable grade.

commutergirl

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Saturday September 25, 2010 · 11:12 AM PDT

2010/09/25 · 11:12

Because I'm gonna get a Foster Kitty!!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I only have a few minutes to share it and there's no one else to share it with so YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Monday June 28, 2010 · 4:13 PM PDT

2010/06/28 · 16:13

This is by no means an official pootie diary. But I completely revamped my photobucket pootie album with hundreds of more recently stolen pootie pics and I even made it to Dkos before the diary came and went only to find that it seems to not be happening at all. I apologize if its still in the works but I just cant wait. I must post pooties now or my head will asplode. It just will. SO please forgive me if I'm stepping on anyone's toes, or paws.

Oh, and if you clicked on this diary just to give pootie poeple crap, please just click your way back on out. We're not picking fights, why don't you reciporcate. The pootie zone is a recognized nonpolitical, community zone and you will be treated with all that implies.

Let the pooties begin!

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Tuesday October 14, 2008 · 12:45 PM PDT

2008/10/14 · 12:45

Granted this may not be the number 1 issue voters are usung for resistance to voting for Obama but I'm thinking that if anyone listened to the Jobs speech yesterday, they may be thinking about it.

So I'm imagining a coversation in which the undecided voter says something about Tax and Spend Liberals. And then you show them this graph here

(Sorry, I tried to paste the graph but it wouldn't let me.) and then see what they have to say.

commutergirl

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Wednesday October 08, 2008 · 3:16 PM PDT

2008/10/08 · 15:16

3 different segments that can be found here

This is what NPR says about them:
'In Justice': David Iglesias On U.S. Attorney Firings
An internal Justice Department investigation has concluded that the controversial U.S. attorney firings of 2006 were of a partisan political nature. One of the seven fired attorneys, Iglesias discusses his book, In Justice, an insider's account of the affair. (about 30 mins)

Voter Intimidation Efforts In Philadelphia (about 5 mins)
Last week, fliers went up in predominantly African-American neighborhoods of Philadelphia warning that people with outstanding warrants or unpaid parking tickets could be arrested if they show up at the polls. Zach Stalberg of the Committee of Seventy discusses this effort to discourage voters.

Voting Access In 10 Key States (about 15 mins)
A new report issued by the nonpartisan advocacy group Common Cause gauges the voting infrastructure in 10 swing states. Tova Wang, the primary author of the report, discusses the findings.

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Tuesday October 07, 2008 · 3:18 PM PDT

2008/10/07 · 15:18

here (if don't screw it up)

I'm annoyed by some of the reporting on NPR but Terry Gross and Ira Glass put out some very indepth discussions of important issues and this is one of them.

It discusses how the cfta played into the current financial crisis and goes on to discuss how it slipped past Clinton and certain aspects are being ignored by the Bush Admin. Also discussed: why we will never see one drop of our oil in our tanks no matter how much we drill; how the available off shore drilling spots will release lots of Methane, a much bigger global warming gas than Co2, what's deregulated and what's not and how they shifted, and how banks are looking oil companies and morphing inot Oil companies and buying up the oil fields.

once they qualify as commercial traders of oil, they slip into a less regulated category of trader.

The guest is Antonia Juhasz and her book is 'Tyranny of Oil' Is A Grave Threat.

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Thursday October 02, 2008 · 7:11 AM PDT

2008/10/02 · 07:11

Yesterday NPR's Terry Gross interviewed Steve Fraser for the bulk of her show. I didn't see it mentioned so I thought I would. Fraser’s a historian working on a book comparing the 2 gilded ages of our country. Steve Fraser had some interesting things to say about the Republicans who voted against the bailout using public sentiment against Wall Street as a cover to push their own desire to cut cap gains. How ironic.

There's a great discussion of how wall st was originally seen as a place for gamblers. The senile candidate from Arizona would've felt right at home but he wouldn't have had half the base he has now b/c they hated it. Really good discussion of Christians vs. Wall St. Parasitical and moral hubris=divination.

You can listen to it here if I get this link right.

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