Posting History for gas28man
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| Lose debt now, ask me how! After seeing Lava20's diary on how to beat the credit card companies at their own game, and reading the comments from ... |
gas28man | 07/18/2008 | 15 | 20 | 4 | 22 |
| NASCAR confronted on issues of race and gender How true are the allegations of racism and sexism in the highest ranks of stock car racing?
I don't know how many of you have been following the Mauricia Grant case. She's the black, female NASCAR ... |
gas28man | 07/11/2008 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 2 |
| I couldn't be prouder of my sister-in-law My wife and her little sister, who is 17, have been highly distressed about their mother these days. No, not because of Mom's bad knees. It's because Mom is still one of those dreaded undecided ... |
gas28man | 10/26/2012 | 9 | 33 | 1 | - |
| I let go of a good friend Thursday
I let go of a good friend Thursday night. Aspen, a.k.a. The Big Dawg, accepted final relief for his pain. For about two years, he had experienced a progressive degeneration of the nerves in his ... |
gas28man | 04/13/2013 | 26 | 53 | 1 | - |
| TN-04: An embarrassment for the GOP either way I can’t imagine a bigger electoral dilemma than trying to decide which Republican primary contender is more deserving of my schadenfreude. To wit, the results -- as yet incomplete -- in the TN-04 ... |
gas28man | 08/08/2014 | 16 | 38 | 1 | - |
| Twinkle Preggers? So who da babydaddy? Oh, man, the Bush family is just the gift that keeps on giving.
This is a third-hand report so confirm for yourself, but I just got a call from my Mom, a reliable source if ever there was one, who ... |
gas28man | 08/22/2007 | 46 | 11 | - | 3 |
| Hillary: She's no Bill Unlike some diarists here, I recall fondly the Bill Clinton presidency. Domestically speaking, my life and the lives of countless others improved as a direct result of his policies. I agree with ... |
gas28man | 02/19/2008 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| Ahhh, the Lame David Brooks returns Ahhhh, The Lame David Brooks is back! I was wondering where he’d been for a while, as we seemed to have ... |
gas28man | 03/25/2008 | 12 | 1 | - | - |
| A mental exercise (shudder!) I read Joe Biden's outstanding op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, and started reading the ... |
gas28man | 05/23/2008 | 20 | - | - | - |
| Another stupid, effen' diary on why Hillary won't be VP If there was ever a media narrative that deserved to have a stake driven through its heart, it's the one about Hillary as candidate for the vice presidency.
That the media are even discussing it is ... |
gas28man | 06/04/2008 | 15 | 4 | - | - |
| Did Dick Morris Just Rat Out Dick Morris? Because it pays to know what the other side is thinking, one of my alter egos regularly drops Dick Morris' e-mail blasts in my Inbox. It's not nearly as bad as you would imagine. He is, after all, a ... |
gas28man | 06/05/2008 | 34 | 11 | - | 3 |
| Does my early vote count in TN? Tennessee is vulnerable to a "my vote doesn't count" mindset because practically everyone running is safe one way or another.
The latest polling here shows McCain ahead by 19 points, but there hasn'... |
gas28man | 10/17/2008 | 25 | 5 | - | 13 |
| Healthcare Lobby Defrauds In Defense Of Privatization We all know those senior citizens love to write their letters to the editor, don’t we? And as a politician, you ignore these letter-writing seniors at your peril because they vote, too.
Well, |
gas28man | 04/15/2009 | 4 | 9 | - | 11 |
| Could old dealership model be the disruptive innovation to save Chrysler, GM? I want to riff a little bit on an outstanding suggestion in a diary by FoundingFreedoms com.
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gas28man | 05/15/2009 | 68 | 11 | - | 33 |
| The REAL reason Sen. Conrad is pimping co-ops Roll up your pant legs and get your paddles out, folks, because we are about to be sold down the river. I know some people are trying to give a fair shake to the idea of health care co-ops as a ... |
gas28man | 06/12/2009 | 6 | 8 | - | 12 |
| Wal-Mart supports employer mandate! Good news or not? I'm surprised this hasn't been diaried yet, according to my attempts at search, so I'll lay it out there.
Wal-... |
gas28man | 07/01/2009 | 77 | 6 | - | 104 |
| New narrative? "Leave Sarah Palin aloooooone!!" Somebody has to check this out for me. I don't pay much attention to right-wing media, but my mom does. And in the past couple of weeks, as I have forwarded her various commentary citing Sarah ... |
gas28man | 07/15/2009 | 43 | 9 | - | 134 |
| UPDATED: How Long Before Limbaugh/Beck Says Nobel Peace Prize Means Obama Is "Acting White"? Like most people my first reaction to Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize was "What?!?!?"
But I got on the internet and looked up some info and history on the prize, and I can see where ... |
gas28man | 10/09/2009 | 27 | 7 | - | 100 |
| Triggers? Opt-outs? Useless political cover for Blue Dogs and DINOs So I see where we are now lambasting Bill Nelson for taking the goofy position that a trigger for the ... |
gas28man | 10/12/2009 | 7 | 2 | - | 56 |
| Tommy Thompson agrees: Public option will win Tommy Thompson, the former Wisconsin governor who was George W. Bush’s first Secretary of Health and Human Services predicts that a public option will pass.
Nobody else picked up on this, so ... |
gas28man | 10/14/2009 | 18 | 14 | - | 311 |
| 5 ways to win an argument over individual mandate As of today, 14 state attorneys general have promised to file suit in federal court in Florida, (they haven't, yet) against the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, ... |
gas28man | 04/01/2010 | 13 | 2 | - | 12 |
| Doh! Did Congress Just Make Itself Uninsured? Step right into the cafeteria line for a heaping, warm serving of irony with a side of schadenfreude.
It appears that the new healthcare reform law has taken away the health benefits of Congress ... |
gas28man | 04/14/2010 | 34 | 12 | - | 37 |
| David Gregory "hearing from people" I couldn't help but notice the Tweet that ran across the bottom of the screen during MSNBC's debate debriefing.
It was from @DavidGregory -- which I assume to actually be David Gregory -- and it ... |
gas28man | 10/11/2012 | 33 | 11 | - | - |
| Here's another way Wal-mart is getting spanked Wal-mart has always targeted the rural customer, but built big stores in small towns. So it wasn't so much, as Kos suggests , that urban or suburban customers were driving out to the boonies to ... |
gas28man | 02/25/2014 | 24 | 31 | - | - |
| It's happened again: Car drives into marchers at LGBT vigil I haven’t seen this diaried here, and it hasn’t made it on TV yet, but the St. Louis Post Dispatch, London Independent and Huffington Post are all reporting another hate-motivated ramming of protesters with a vehicle. We saw it Charlottesville and now... |
gas28man | 08/24/2017 | 453 | 282 | - | - |