Issa and the "little boy"

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Thursday July 18, 2013 · 12:28 PM PDT

2013/07/18 · 12:28

I am on hold with Issa's committee office. As soon as I started to express my disgust at Issa referrring to Elijah Cummings, storied champion of Civil Rights and amazing Democratic Representative from my home state, as a "little boy" I was immediately placed on hold. I do not think they are going to come back on the line. This is how they handle the people's opinion in Issa's office.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Here is the article about what was said. Follow me below the fancy orange frill

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Issa's comments, though not surprising are...

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Issa's comments, though not surprising are...

Racist

57 votes

Ignorant

18 votes

No big deal, words don't matter in a world that releases George Zimmerman

5 votes

Why young people in mental health crisis need ALL of us.

prgsvmama26

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Saturday December 22, 2012 · 10:30 AM PST

2012/12/22 · 10:30

A very good friend of mine gave me permission to share this. This friend works with mentally ill youth. I think the words are beautiful, but also informed. I share it with you now and ask you to read it and consider acting on its truths.

"I have been a social worker for 12 years at an inpatient psychiatric hospital working with children, adolescents, and their families. Among the adolescents who present as homicidal (and to a lesser extent, suicidal), the most pervasive phenomenon I have observed is that these children experience anomie. Anomie is defined as a breakdown of social bonds between an individual and their community, resulting in a disconnect between the person and society..."

Please read on below the orange frill:

prgsvmama26

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Sunday October 28, 2012 · 2:47 PM PDT

2012/10/28 · 14:47

My vote probably won't matter, but I voted in my solidly blue not swing state. I stayed in a cold and windy line for over 1.5 hours because I worry that power outages could affect turnout.

prgsvmama26

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Saturday September 15, 2012 · 10:43 PM PDT

2012/09/15 · 22:43

So I am a progressive who also does support the 2nd Amendment. My kids belong to an organization that provides excellent training and competition opportunities in shooting sports. We had a recent event and believe me I keep a low profile among all the NRA extremist positions (I think if you have nothing to hide a little background checking and license is not a bad thing, so not a big NRA booster type). I just keep my opinions to myself, but I get to hear what the other side is thinking/talking about. Follow me over the jump, so it looks like this might be a longer diary...sorry I am working and in school with kids to raise...

prgsvmama26

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Thursday July 19, 2012 · 12:43 PM PDT

2012/07/19 · 12:43

I haven't written a diary in a while so go easy on me here, but I just really lost it when I heard what Ann Romney said about giving "all you people need to know" about their finances. The arrogance of that statement. The entitlement. Who are "you people?" We are the people who would give your family the PRIVILEGE of living in our house, representing our values and our interests. We are the people who have need of an advocate for the nation, not the naked interests of the Romney's "us" crowd. We are the people who can't loan our children money for fancy schools, who need to be able to buy healthcare at a time of stagnant wages and rising costs. Where profits are shared only with the executives and the shareholders and never the workers who produced them. We are the 40% who make less combined than the Walmart heirs are worth. How dare you act entitled when you want to receive the highest honor in our land. Follow me over the orange frill.

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How hard should the Democratic surrogates be hitting this?

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How hard should the Democratic surrogates be hitting this?

Every time they get a microphone in front of them

44 votes

Their taxes don't register with the American voter, so let it be.

0 votes

George Washington chopped down a cherry tree and Martha made cherry pie.

0 votes

Some days I wish we could talk about the Middle East and not tiptoe around Israeli interests

prgsvmama26

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Saturday March 03, 2012 · 8:30 PM PST

2012/03/03 · 20:30

I am darn tired of Israel influencing the setting of US policy to the detriment of our interests and their lobbyists buying our legislators. America was nearly broken by the two wars we are still trying to get out of and over. I have no interest in Israel's issues with Iran. If they want to go to war, let em, they have plenty of military equipment and nukes too. I don't see Iran as worse than any of a half dozen other dictators we live along side with on the blue planet. Containment is a perfectly rational policy for a nation that is war weary and broke as we are. The sanctions are working for now.

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Netanyahu should come to DC and

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Netanyahu should come to DC and

Tell our nation that his country will start and pay for their own wars

32 votes

Go jump in the Potomac

45 votes

Actually try to work with our President for our nations mutual benefit, (snort).

12 votes

Fig and Date Pie

4 votes

Is Barack Obama Making Good Choices Mama?

prgsvmama26

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Thursday February 09, 2012 · 7:47 AM PST

2012/02/09 · 07:47

Out of the mouth of babes...as the saying goes. My sweet little six year old has always been more aware of adult things than one would expect of her at her age. She also pops out with some insights every now and again that put to rest all the dire predictions about her intellect that the neonatalogist told me when she was born 9 weeks early at 2lbs 10oz.

prgsvmama26

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Monday January 09, 2012 · 1:23 PM PST

2012/01/09 · 13:23

So I just read that Pres. Obama's second lousy choice of Chief of Staff, is leaving abruptly and being replaced by his budget chief Jack Lew. Now really, I am ever so tired of this parade of men.

prgsvmama26

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Friday December 02, 2011 · 7:56 PM PST

2011/12/02 · 19:56

I have been livid about the financial industry and the destruction of our nation's middle class by the greedy class. I have lost sleep over it. I have experienced it first hand. My home is not underwater, but the value dropped so precipitously that I doubt I will ever be able to sell it for a profit one day. My husband has been jobless for 18 of the last 24 months. My small business owner employer never knew from one day to the next these last two years if she could keep her doors open. She closed the office down last week. So now, I am out of work as well. Husband's unemployment is nearly gone, me getting unemployment rather than my salary, minus his unemployment means we can't pay the bills. We are grateful for the state health plan covering the five kids, but parents have had no health insurance for 2 years now. I am coughing horribly at this moment, but can't afford another trip to the urgent care place, I used up the coupon they offered on Monday.

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Whatcha' doing with your money?

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Whatcha' doing with your money?

You inspired me, I am moving it next week.

1 vote

Way ahead of you prgsmama26, been at a credit union for years

4 votes

Still with the banksters and don't know what is stopping me

1 vote

Love my big, fat, greedy bank

1 vote

How do I eat pie with a Guy Fawkes mask on?

2 votes

The new "caves" meme

prgsvmama26

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Friday September 02, 2011 · 9:31 AM PDT

2011/09/02 · 09:31

President Obama is in trouble. Really, he is in trouble. I am just an ordinary progressive mama. I work, I take care of my kids, I have a lot of Democratic friends. What I now see in most reporting by the media is what I have been saying and hearing from them for months. President Obama is a pushover, he caves, he won't fight. But, as with most things the MSM is the last to catch up on what is happening in the real world. But, I think this week they have caught up.

prgsvmama26

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Sunday June 26, 2011 · 8:30 AM PDT

2011/06/26 · 08:30

Lots of folks have networked here and found help. We need help. We have a rather large family and my husband has had two extended unemployment periods (six months each and current one stretching to month 7) since the recent financial crash. He has worked retail management, but having had long unemployment and too frequent job changes in the last 3 years, it seems that it isn't going to be a viable career now. He needs to do something else. He needs to make a salary that when paired with my own (mid 40s) is going to keep us solvent. Unemployment checks will stop in 11 weeks. Then we are in trouble. We have used cars and no credit card debt, butall my careful management and savings--well, the "rainy day fund" got spent. Nothing left. Home equity tanked with the real estate market so no hope or help there. I am working my but off. He has a bachelor's in Communications that has never really gotten him work in that field in 20 years. I think he has to get into a new line of work, but he is paralyzed about what to do or how to get there (esp. as quick as we need it).

prgsvmama26

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Sunday January 09, 2011 · 11:37 AM PST

2011/01/09 · 11:37

This is probably a too short diary that will bring out the diary police, but this shooting in AZ has really hit me in a big way. I have children around the age of this child. Politically interested children who like to attend local events with me. Who are aware of the left right divide. Who also happen to shoot in competitive sports and meet right wingers all the time at the range. But though we are not averse to the second amendment, we think playing with guns or gun metaphors is dangerous business.

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Should the Hatemailapalooza feature continue?

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Should the Hatemailapalooza feature continue?

No, we are just teasing a caged beast. Someone might end up hurt.

14 votes

No, I don't read it anyway.

19 votes

No, we should take the high road here.

33 votes

Yes, I love it. One of my favorite weekly reads

4 votes

Yes, I think it draws attention to the right's hateful thinking

70 votes

Yes, but I can't articulate why.

1 vote

Pie (cause its a dkos poll and I make award winning pies)

6 votes

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