Whooping cough, the "new" epidemic--that nagging cough

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Sunday December 12, 2004 · 11:51 PM PST

2004/12/12 · 23:51

With all the fuss about flu and flu vaccine shortages, it seems sort of ironic that the thing that's been making our lives hell since the election is not Bush, but a disease for which I was once "fully vaccinated" and which people seem to know next to nothing practical about. So listen up, this may be critical for you or someone in your life....

What does it have to do with politics? Well, let's just say that sometimes when politics takes over the whole "spin" department in the medical world, sometimes the things that get fussed about are not the things that SHOULD get fussed about. Read on, boys and girls, you NEED this info. Pass it along.
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Comprehending high turnout and a Bush victory

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Thursday November 04, 2004 · 1:05 AM PST

2004/11/04 · 01:05

Oregon, I believe, had the highest voter turnout of any state. I cannot guarantee we were fraudless, but what I can tell you is that no voters were challenged at the polls, ballots were cast on paper and optically scanned, and there were no huge surprises. Except, maybe, one.

We voted for Kerry--that's not a surprise. The only surprise for us is how narrow the margins were.

When you look at voter turnout, I think you find an answer.

My county, Lane, is very politically active and motivated and we hit 90% turnout. Yes, really. 90% of all registered voters voted. Our turnout was 76% the day before the election, because it's all vote by mail.

State average turnout was 84%. Great! Right?

Except that turnout in our biggest, most liberal county in the state, Multnomah, was only "average".

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Victory in Ohio Vs. Vote Fraud?

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Thursday October 28, 2004 · 3:30 AM PDT

2004/10/28 · 03:30

Judge temporarily halts hearings on Ohio voter registration challenges

Judge temporarily halts hearings on Ohio voter registration challenges
COLUMBUS (AP) -- One voter picks up letters at the post office because trucks kept hitting his mailbox. Another serves in Iraq. Hundreds more are homeless, listing shelters as permanent addresses.
All are among the 35,000 whose eligibility has been challenged by the Ohio Republican Party. Since mail came back undelivered, the GOP says, those registrations could be fraudulent. Democrats say the GOP is trying to keep poor and minorities, who move more often, from voting.

A federal judge put a temporarily halt to the challenges Wednesday, ruling in favor of Democrats who said the GOP was targeting new voters registered by political groups supporting Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic challenger to President Bush. U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott ruled that six county elections boards should stop hearings scheduled this week in Ohio, a hotly contested state in the presidential election.

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Saturday October 16, 2004 · 4:05 AM PDT

2004/10/16 · 04:05

The War on Affordable Housing

Damn him.

Just damn him.

I got knocked up when I was 20. Decided to keep the baby. Went on welfare when my child's father decided that he wasn't ready for parenthood and that he'd rather I went on welfare than continue living with him. My preference was to wait a few more months, get work, then move out. He made life intolerable enough that waiting was not an option.

At that point in my life, the waiting list for Section 8 was between 1-3 years. I first rented a single room from a midwife. After about 6 months, I moved in with my parents, paying rent out of my welfare money. Food stamps helped too, as did WIC. I managed to scrape up just enough extra cash to buy a crappy old car, which ran so well that when it got swiped a couple years later, it was still running when they found it in the Goodwill parking lot.

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Bush Misses Link

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Friday October 15, 2004 · 4:00 PM PDT

2004/10/15 · 16:00

Or maybe he is the missing link? I don't know. I just know that the following headline left me spitting mad:

Bush: Kerry misses link between education, jobs

Bush said good jobs begin with education and that Kerry "failed to recognize the changing realities of today's world and the need for reform."

Tell that to my daughter's father, who's been out of work for 2+ years. He has a degree in electrical engineering.

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A little hope, a little fear: Young voters in Oregon

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Thursday October 14, 2004 · 11:11 PM PDT

2004/10/14 · 23:11

My mother's doorbell rang this evening. A couple of young college students were there--no, they weren't canvassing, they just wanted to introduce themselves as Mom's new next-door neighbors and let my parents know they'd be throwing a party Friday night. How considerate to check in with the neighbors!

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A post to a group of conservatives, synopsis of the issues

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Sunday October 10, 2004 · 2:06 PM PDT

2004/10/10 · 14:06

On another board I frequent, a group of women were saying, "The president deserves respect because he is the president." This is my answer to them.

When Bush was appointed president, I did not get terribly upset. I thought, "You know, if he does what he said he was going to do, most of it won't be so bad." Then he went on vacation. I wasn't impressed, but figured he'd do less damage that way. Then 9-11 happened, and I thought, "He'll either shine, or he will flop..." And it seemed, for a moment, like he might shine. He said mostly the right things.

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Talking to my neighbor

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Monday October 04, 2004 · 8:11 PM PDT

2004/10/04 · 20:11

I was chatting with my neighbor about this and that, when I asked her, "Are you registered to vote?"

She said, "Yeah."

Her grandson came over and said, "Who are we voting for, Gramma?"

She looked at me, looked down, and said, almost embarrassed, "I'm a Republican". (We have lawn signs...)

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