It's Not Envy

porchdog1961

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Friday January 13, 2012 · 10:04 AM PST

2012/01/13 · 10:04

I have a visceral reaction to Mitt Romney, a very unpleasant one. It's unfair of me, and he may have some very fine qualities, but he really comes off to me as a stiff and dishonest hack, and a child of privilege. Being a rich kid is not a crime in itself, but to convince yourself that it makes you better than someone or worthy of envy is not an attractive trait in anyone, especially someone running for the Presidency.

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Wednesday October 05, 2011 · 2:00 PM PDT

2011/10/05 · 14:00

KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday and Wednesday by volunteer diarists. This is a gathering place for people who are living with disabilities, who love someone with a disability, or who want to know more about the issues surrounding this topic. There are two parts to each diary. First, a volunteer diarist will offer their specific knowledge and insight about a topic they know intimately. Then, readers are invited to comment on what they've read and/or ask general questions about disabilities, share something they've learned, tell bad jokes, post photos, or rage about the unfairness of their situation. Our only rule is to be kind; trolls will be spayed or neutered.

According to the U.S. government, I became disabled in Dec. of 2010. The truth is that it snuck up on me, and while I stayed largely in denial about it, I gradually lost the ability to work and do most of the things that I took for granted. I'd like to briefly tell my tale and relate a few things I've learned as a result.

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Wednesday August 12, 2009 · 3:04 PM PDT

2009/08/12 · 15:04

I attended a town hall meeting in Cottage Grove, Oregon held by Rep. Peter DeFazio. I went down to see if I could prevent anyone from being shouted down, and because I think an awful lot of Rep. DeFazio.
The meeting took place at 9:30 AM. It was originally scheduled to held inside of the Community Center, but wound up in the parking lot because of the size of the crowd, which I estimate at 300-400 people, and which seemed to be about evenly split between pro-reform and anti-reform people.
Cottage Grove is an old mill and mining town, about 25 miles south of Eugene, OR. It's got a redneck logger element to it's culture, but it's grown a lot over the last twenty years, and become somewhat of a bedroom community to Eugene/Springfield.

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Monday April 27, 2009 · 9:55 AM PDT

2009/04/27 · 09:55

I signed up for email updates from Americans for Prosperity, a group I'm sure many of you are familiar with. I originally did it to keep an eye on them, and see what they have going on around my town of Eugene, Oregon. I love Oregon, and for the most part the larger cities are fairly liberal, but there's a major wing-nut component, too, and I like to see what they have going on.
Phil Kerpen, the policy director for AFP, sent out an email this morning exhorting one and all to pressure their elected representatives on the conference committee to keep health care out of reconciliation:

Reconciliation is a trick, a procedure designed for deficit reduction being misused to jam through a government takeover of health care with only 20 hours of debate, no amendments, and just 50 votes instead of the usual 60. This trick will silence Republicans and centrist Democrats, and allow a radical leftist plan in which government takes away control of health care from patients and doctors, and rations care by denying it to people judged by bureaucrats to be too old or too sick to justify the cost.

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