Statue decorated for Obama here in the PA Burb

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Tuesday April 22, 2008 · 3:58 AM PDT

2008/04/22 · 03:58

We decorated our statue for Obama and the PA primary.......
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My 18 year old daughter casts her vote for the first time today.Diary will be short as we are working the polls at the middle school here.

I live in a small suburb just over the Philadelphia city line. The statue that is decorated for Obama is actually at the top of my driveway on my property. While it's on my property, I can't sell it because the township passed an ordinance after the matching statue was sold 2 doors down. My house is on the property of the Stotesbury Estate (also called Whitemarsh Hall) The estate has been torn down and the statues and walls are the only remaining history of this incredible place.

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Saturday April 19, 2008 · 1:48 PM PDT

2008/04/19 · 13:48

My 18 year daughter made the Obama rally last night. I was too bone tired after hauling mulch all week and pulling weeds.I have almost 3/4 of an acre and my husband used to take care of the outside. He killed himself in July after years of suffering bi-polar disorder. At least for the time being I am staying here.

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Wednesday October 03, 2007 · 11:28 AM PDT

2007/10/03 · 11:28

After almost ten years in IT, my job was eliminated in May.Along with my job went the health insurance for myself, my 17 year old daughter and my bi polar husband. Cobra was too expensive so we actually ended up on 2 different policies; one for him that covered the 7 different medications he was on and another policy and a different insurer for myself and our daughter. On July 29 he took his own life. His policy was paid up through the end of July: he took his own life two days before his insurance expired.My daughter and I found his body in the bath tub.

At the time of his death we were being seen at no charge by an incredible Psychiatrist.We found this Dr through a friend after I went through every single Psychiatrist in the Personal Choice network to find him help. Not one single shrink was taking new patients. But this diary isn't about the sad state of our health care especially in regards to mental health..Its about SCHIP...Apparently we aren't destitute enough to qualify and we already HAVE insurance through a private insurer.

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Saturday April 28, 2007 · 5:03 AM PDT

2007/04/28 · 05:03

Yesterday at 3:30 PM I was IM'ed by one the HR hacks and asked to come into her office. When I got there my previous boss ,the VP of my department was there. In order to cut costs my job was eliminated. He said he " struggled" with the decision to cut my job. "It has nothing to do with you or your work he said;Sales are down." He had to think about the "good of the company". After all, you have to save money by eliminating jobs to pay for the $13,000 private golf course for one of the execs. But more about that later..

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Tuesday April 17, 2007 · 5:00 AM PDT

2007/04/17 · 05:00

Yesterdays shooting opened up the feelings all over again. My daughter goes to Springfield High School where a student killed himself in December with an AK 47. Unlike the parents of those killed yesterday I guess we were "lucky" that he killed only himself:because there were at least 15 other bullets found with the gym bag that he carried the gun in. We will never know if he intended to kill other students.

My husband who has a home office called me at my work. He said there were helicopters over our house and did I know anything. I checked my email and sure enough the school had already sent out an email that there was a shooting and the school was in lock down. he jumped in the car to find her...I don't have to tell you the pandemonium...Eventually they found each other and she called me.I can't even describe the feelings I had that she was OK.

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Saturday March 31, 2007 · 4:37 AM PDT

2007/03/31 · 04:37

If this has been diaried please ignore...

My back was bothering me on Thursday, so I stayed home from work.I plopped myself on the sofa with an ice pack and turned on c-span. I spent all day watching the Kyle Sampson hearings. There were 2 things that have been bothering me the missing emails and using Black Berrys. Unless I missed the questioning I don't think these issues came up on Thursday.

I work in IT. On one side of me sits the Admin who manages our mail server: on the other side of me sits the person who is our Black Berry expert and configures them for corporate use. I asked the Black Berry expert for one and was looking at the in box and noticed that there was a message that looked different than the others. Then I asked him how it was sent. He said it was sent pin to pin from one Black Berry user to him. If you use a Black Berry and know the pin of another Black Berry user you can send your message pin to pin without detection. It bypasses mail servers...I then asked him if someone wanted to send a message with out being captured electronically any where Is this how you would do it? He said yes.

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Monday September 19, 2005 · 9:58 AM PDT

2005/09/19 · 09:58

From the cities that stagger on the coast lines In a nation that just can't take much more Like the forest buried beneath the highways, never had a chance to grow/never had a chance to grow.

From Winter In America- Gil Scott Heron.. Read More

Schrader out of 08 Congressional Race, vote for Patick Murphy as a DFA lister

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Tuesday September 13, 2005 · 2:57 AM PDT

2005/09/13 · 02:57

Virginia Schrader dropped out of the PA-08 race yesterday.Today DFA will be posting a grassroots survey to vote for 10 congressional candidates (from a list of 40) to compete to be on the DFA ALL STARS EARLY endorsement list.

The link will be live TOMORROW: democracyforamerica.com/housevote

Patrick Murphy has a real shot at this seat. Being a DFA lister would be a huge boost!!!!

cross posted at mydd.com and pafordemocracy.com

Mrs. Clintons comments about Womens health care choices(abortion)

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Tuesday January 25, 2005 · 4:29 AM PST

2005/01/25 · 04:29

Whose the flip flopper now?

Just another piece of bad advice from the highly paid consultants that a middle of the road position on abortion will win voters voters for her when she runs in 2008. Did any of their advice help Kerry?

I'm old to enough to remember back alley abortions. My older sister got pregnant in college and had an abortion blindfolded. She's pretty sure it was a Dr. but never saw his face.

As a party yes lets talk about the choices. And yes we all know that decisions to terminate or not terminate a pregnancy isn't easy for anyone to make. But advocating a centrist position? It's a slap in the face to all those women who died or who were maimed by back alley abortions.

abortion Dems and refaming...

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Thursday January 13, 2005 · 3:48 AM PST

2005/01/13 · 03:48

My older sister had a back alley abortion in college in the early sixties; she was blindfolded and never saw the doctors face. Thankfully she had no complicationsThat is something I hope to never see again.

This issue is ripe for refaming. It's not about abortion its about our right to control our bodies The right to decide whether it is in the best interest of that individual to end her pregnancy. And if we " give in" or move to the center or pick someone like Roehmer we have lost. And you know that these conservative men driving the Republican party will start in on contraception too.

I believe most women ( even Moderate Republicans) do not want to turn back the clock on reproductive rights. And like you I am not interested in giving time money and energy to a party wimping out on this issue in the hopes of moving to the "center"

Canvassing yesterday in suburbs of PA

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Sunday October 17, 2004 · 4:53 AM PDT

2004/10/17 · 04:53

I have been doing Leave no Voter behind canvassing.
Yesterday I did door to door canvasing for the local
Dems( Joe Hoeffel, A Swartz) We met at the local Democratic headquarters, where we also had college kids from NY going door to door targeting specific voters.Even with some overlap, and some houses being "hit"muliple times, it was pretty awesome out here.Only one woman was annoyed at being called on 3 times in one afternooon.

I'm 52...I haven't seen anything like this kind of local participation since the 60s.

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Statue decorated for Obama here in the PA Burb

Passover,Obama and feeling blessed

SCHIP and my husbands suicide.

I just got laid off..Welcome to the corporate life under GWB...

My daughters high school shooting...the call that no parent wants to get

using Black Berrys to escape detection

Being a Jewish Democrat

Schrader out of 08 Congressional Race, vote for Patick Murphy as a DFA lister

Mrs. Clintons comments about Womens health care choices(abortion)

abortion Dems and refaming...

Canvassing yesterday in suburbs of PA