Posting History for chichagof
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| What democrats need to do next | chichagof | 11/07/2004 | 6 | - | - | 1 |
| A drama coach for Obama A quick diary. Just to share an idea.
Watching Obama's stance during the debt ceiling battle, I saw him adopt two different persona. Most of the time he was the professor, talking rationally, ... |
chichagof | 08/06/2011 | 9 | - | - | 49 |
| People-first language and Hillary's basket (poll) I support her and will fight for her. i think she will make a big difference as president. But in the “basket of deplorables” comment, Hillary goofed!
In mental health and disability fields, |
chichagof | 09/13/2016 | 13 | - | - | - |
| Form a congressional coalition - save health care and maybe the nation Kansas did it, Alaska did it. Sometimes it is possible to form a middle coalition when faced with destructive policies and governance. Dr. Sharyn O’Halloran, Senior Vice Dean and Chief Academic Officer for the School of Professional Studies at... |
chichagof | 03/13/2017 | 16 | - | - | - |
| Avoiding the next opioid crisis... And saving health care dollars at the same time.
As most know by this time, one of the core reasons for the widespread use of opioids is the overprescribing of pain medication leading to the initial addiction. And at least a good deal of this... |
chichagof | 10/28/2017 | 5 | - | - | - |
| The Broken Urn (part 2) i blogged a story yesterday, The Broken Urn, reflecting my sorrow after a contentious county Democratic meeting. And I was answered by others who reminded me that there was truth on both sides. This is my attempt to walk in the shoes of those on the... |
chichagof | 11/20/2017 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Protect the filibuster. The Republicans are being bullies | chichagof | 11/20/2004 | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| I am thankful for... | chichagof | 11/24/2005 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 |
| Don't just vote, get out the vote | chichagof | 10/28/2006 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 |
| We're making a list and checking it twice A list of everyone who justifies, approves, or tries to explain away or normalize Trump’s behavior. What they said, when they said it AND WE WILL NOT FORGET.Let’s get started. 2018 is just around the corner. |
chichagof | 01/04/2017 | 2 | 1 | - | - |
| Reflections after Meryl Streep: Make America Kind Again I feel very lucky that I had people in my life teaching and reinforcing what kindness was. In his last years, my father guided us with his frequent reminder:
Don’t be mean.
And my husband, who died a year ago after many years of living with... |
chichagof | 01/12/2017 | 5 | 1 | - | - |
| Gaining the millennial vote for the Repubs - Trumpcare's Trojan horse I’m perseverating on Trumpcare because I ran the numbers and saw both how Trumpcare will kill many people and how the ACA really did let young people and some middle class, middle age people down. I don’t think Trumpcare will pass in its current form,... |
chichagof | 03/08/2017 | 5 | 1 | - | - |
| Salary cuts for equity: a crazy idea? I want to do my part to clean up this mess. No one is talking about how we can help those around us. I see my savings shrinking, but have a roof over my head and enough to take care of me and mine. ... |
chichagof | 10/12/2008 | 15 | 2 | - | 4 |
| What do you think? Loretta Lynch for vice president I hesitate to post this because of all the reasons it may not be a good idea, but I found myself asking what voices had been clearest during these horrific last few weeks and her name rose to the top for me. It would be a choice of statesmanship, not... |
chichagof | 07/09/2016 | 18 | 2 | - | - |
| Make America Great Again: Let Government Govern Again! American government should be like a three legged stool. Donald wants to cut off the legs.
Perhaps one of the greatest differences between the two major parties is their contrasting beliefs in the role of government in our nation. Based on the... |
chichagof | 07/22/2016 | 1 | 2 | - | - |
| Mr.Trump: Where are your campaign emails? Hilllary Clinton is taking some heat from a number of sources for her campaign emails that were released by Wikileaks. And some of them do show the process of “making sausage” is less than pristine. But, as I see it, the most amazing thing so far is... |
chichagof | 10/17/2016 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| How we can have impact beyond our state and district I live in a blue state. Represented by Senators Merkley and Wyden and Representative Bonamici, I have little need to contact my representatives to advocate change. i contact them to say thank you. I read their stands to understand the nuances of... |
chichagof | 01/30/2017 | 1 | 2 | - | - |
| Thank you to all who helped: reduced worry about health care Finally, with universal, fair health care:
I don't need to fear leaving a dead end job,
I don't need to remain living somewhere I don't want to live because I lose my health care if I ... |
chichagof | 03/21/2010 | 3 | 3 | - | 8 |
| Center for Public Integrity: Clinton more transparent. A quick diary because I don’t want this to be missed and noone else seems to have blogged it. The Center for Public Integrity released a detailed report on comparative transparency of the two presidential candidates. Conclusions include:
Neither... |
chichagof | 09/17/2016 | 7 | 3 | - | - |
| What deep anger and revulsion... I am feeling towards Trump and his deplorables. This is a “vent” diary, little new info, just deep sorrow at the perversion of the political process I am seeing. I have believed in the political process, I have worked hard within it. i have actively... |
chichagof | 10/14/2016 | 6 | 3 | - | - |
| 3 choices...and radical honesty With Trump and his administration going into meltdown, I can think of three possibilities to resurrect and save the things we care about, such as respect, dignity, comity, and the rule of law in our nation. Something must change drastically with... |
chichagof | 03/06/2017 | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| Joy 7 years ago, remembering and mourning the ACA I posted on March 21, 2010:
Thank you to all who helped: reduced worry about health care
Finally, with universal, fair health care:
I don't need to fear leaving a dead end job,
I don't need to remain living somewhere I don't... |
chichagof | 05/04/2017 | 2 | 3 | - | - |
| Al Franken, I hardly knew ya - power and sex Watching Al Franken resign leaves me sad. I am an ardent feminist and see the abuse, harassment, and inappropriate flirting women have experienced as somewhere between inappropriate and evil. But I fear that this wave of firings and resignations is... |
chichagof | 12/07/2017 | 8 | 3 | - | - |
| 49% of the nation, 89% of the Supreme Court | chichagof | 01/13/2006 | 16 | 4 | - | 4 |
| Medicare for all? Maybe not... I am struggling with what a health care bill should look like. We need to be able to say what we want to change in the ACA and counter the Republicans and Trump with a positive vision of what would happen in health care when we get back in power.
... |
chichagof | 04/24/2017 | 4 | 4 | - | - |
| Troopergate and the Justice Department Attorney Scandal As an Alaskan, I am watching the news closely these days. With the pending release of the Alaska Legislative Council report on Troopergate, it is ... |
chichagof | 10/10/2008 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| Palin ensures Bush admin presence in Alaska oil decisions Palin and the Alaskan legislature did not see eye-to-eye. With the first overturn of a gubernatorial appointment in Alaskan history, the Republican legislature rejected her choice, Wayne Anthony ... |
chichagof | 07/15/2009 | 5 | 5 | - | 17 |
| Let's just call it murder So many arguments about what happened in San Bernadino, in Colorado, in Oregon… Many of them center around what to call the shooters — were they wackos, terrorists, zealots?
I have an easy answe |
chichagof | 12/05/2015 | 5 | 5 | - | - |
| I didn't work for years calling voters so that Votecastr could make money So, I am not so calm. Votecastr in conjunction with Slate will be using voter profiles and other profiling data to track the results of the election as it unfolds during the day and publishing it in real time. This breaks a tradition where many news... |
chichagof | 11/07/2016 | 14 | 5 | - | - |
| White House Easter Egg hunt: Another reason to miss the Obamas How I miss the Obamas. I am comparing the traditional White House Easter Egg event that Trump is officiating over today to last year. Looking back at the informal, happy event where the Obamas read a book to the kids with a lot of miming responses... |
chichagof | 04/17/2017 | 4 | 5 | - | - |
| Help me..a new way to do outreach I venture into this diary hesitantly because I don’t see anyone else talking about this. If you know of other outreach efforts, please let me know. And I hope that those reading this can give me feedback and help shape these ideas if they make sense.... |
chichagof | 10/25/2017 | 17 | 5 | - | - |
| HOW SIMPLE IT IS... | chichagof | 01/30/2005 | 5 | 6 | - | 4 |
| More men than women sexually assaulted in the military (poll) I am surprised that, with all the punditry around the commander-in-chief forum, that no one is discussing sexual assault in the military more in depth. Trump’s tweet:
which he stood by yesterday assumes that it is the presence of women that... |
chichagof | 09/08/2016 | 6 | 6 | - | - |
| Hillary's emails are the most terrible... Compared to what? The media continues to talk about the access to emails of both Hillary and staff as if they showed unprecedented corruption and cynicism. Of course it is unprecedented. No candidate I can find has ever had campaign and work emails... |
chichagof | 10/29/2016 | 7 | 6 | - | - |
| Two incidents which help me decide I know that it is absurd to worry over whether I prefer Trump or Pence as president. But I do. Somewhere in the reaches of my mind, I feel a need to hope for something to change, but have felt that Pence was no improvement with his homophobic,... |
chichagof | 06/05/2017 | 10 | 7 | - | - |
| Working the brunch lines for Bernie... Oregon is a sure blue state at the federal election level, but we have many down ballot races that help us make or break our current progressive government. As I call and walk door to door, I find many people who are so bummed by the battles at the... |
chichagof | 10/22/2016 | 7 | 8 | - | - |
| Trump's Death Squad - You against your grandmother I just ran the numbers as best I could for the changes in health insurance with the new House plan, approved we are told by Donald Trump. This comes from data on the Kaiser Family Foundation site combined with information from reading the... |
chichagof | 03/07/2017 | 12 | 9 | - | - |
| Maybe now is our Australia moment The worse mass shooting in US history. But I haven’t heard a single person speak of gun safety. Too busy talking about international possible links. Please say — this may be a hate crime against the gay community made much worse because of the... |
chichagof | 06/12/2016 | 21 | 10 | - | - |
| Learned Helplessness and the new New Deal I am dismayed to hear the right wing talk about why people failed to "take care" of themselves in New Orleans. The party line is that the "welfare state" causes people to become dependent, so they ... |
chichagof | 10/08/2005 | 8 | 11 | - | 7 |
| Please help - Massive housing bargain may go to corporations that made the crisis I haven't seen anyone writing about this - so I will give it a try. It is confusing but the gist of ... |
chichagof | 09/23/2011 | 17 | 11 | - | 90 |
| Trump will raise the cost of birth control, look at Oregon for an alternative As everyone probably knows by now, Donald Trump tried to cater to the woman’s vote on the Dr OZ show by saying that birth control shouldn’t require a prescription. This is a demonstration of the tone of much of his campaign, it sounds good until you... |
chichagof | 09/15/2016 | 4 | 11 | - | - |
| AK: Sen - McAdams represents the real difference The Juneau Empire ran a letter to the editor today that grabbed the issues of the Mcadams/Murkowski/Miller election better ... |
chichagof | 10/08/2010 | 9 | 12 | - | 83 |
| Jared, I'd like onions on that burger I am a middle class caucasian professional who would barely make the cut if I were emigrating to Canada at this time — so, by Trump’s merit system, would probably get into the US by a hair if I wasn’t already here (because I am old and don’t have... |
chichagof | 01/16/2018 | 5 | 12 | - | - |
| Please Act: Insurance for 9 million children due to expire in two days CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program provides insurance through state and federal funding for children through age 18
if their parents don’t qualify for Medicaid but can’t afford private insurance.
It covers 9 million kids and expires... |
chichagof | 09/28/2017 | 1 | 14 | - | - |
| We need to make our stand on abortion clear | chichagof | 10/30/2005 | 31 | 16 | 1 | 1 |
| RIght Now!! On CSPAN 2, Some content from Merkley filibuster Sorry to duplicate another call to watch. But I am afraid this will disappear. Merkley isn’t reading some book, he is giving a lesson on what is going wrong in governance. I will try to get the gist of it — it is not verbatim.
Some transcription:... |
chichagof | 04/04/2017 | 13 | 16 | - | - |
| Has Trump heard this neonazi talking about his daughter? Like everyone else, I am sickened by what I see happening, in Charlotteville and wherever Trump is. And I wonder, has Trump heard this Vice interview?
https://t.co/XdKif66A0B
Sorry, I don’t know how to embed a video — but go to 3:50 in the... |
chichagof | 08/15/2017 | 18 | 17 | - | - |
| Dem's filibuster holds. 45 against closing debate just now! Their only option now is the nuclear option. Just to let you know. NY Times says
Senate Democrats on Thursday filibustered the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, holding the line with a precedent-busting partisan blockade of a... |
chichagof | 04/06/2017 | 91 | 18 | - | - |
| So I'm ready to vote for Bernie now.. I want a do over, I want Bernie to be my President. No can do, but there may be alternatives to just waiting 2 or 4 years. We have a platform. We have the issues Bernie ran on. And we have Bernie (bless him) still going around the country and... |
chichagof | 03/17/2017 | 54 | 19 | - | - |
| Merkley filibuster live blogging #2 Rough transcription — he is amazing, ad-libbing most of this, looking at notes only occasionally.
He is now talking about the Trump budget — first cutting funding to rural areas that are hurting. Now about the Coast Guard. This is the front line... |
chichagof | 04/04/2017 | 3 | 20 | - | - |
| The broken urn Once upon a time there was a people who thought that their world could be better. They looked around and were saddened by what they saw. Not knowing what to do, they began, as mankind has begun from the start, by creating something they hoped would... |
chichagof | 11/18/2017 | 31 | 24 | - | - |
| AK-Sen, I had brunch with Scott McAdams I joined Juneau Democrats for brunch with Scott McAdams this morning. I was ready to work for him, but also wanted to see him in person so I could pass on my impressions to others who might be ... |
chichagof | 09/25/2010 | 32 | 32 | - | 240 |
| An Alaskan responds to Sarah Palin's "alaska" I'm sorry, this isn't well researched. It isn't about any current political topics, it is just a rant. I know it will scroll off the listing quickly. That is fine, for I don't like to be a ranter. |
chichagof | 12/12/2010 | 51 | 36 | - | 138 |
| A boy tosses a firecracker - a too real metaphor One firecracker, 107,000 votes, it takes so little to destroy so much.
The Columbia River Gorge is one of the world’s most magical places. The Lewis and Clark expedition used it to reach the coast. it has the first paved highway in the Northwest.... |
chichagof | 09/05/2017 | 34 | 38 | - | - |
| 45 years ago I could have been charged with accessory to homicide.. for helping a woman get an abortion. I travelled from Indiana to New York with a woman who had a life threatening pregnancy. We continued to do our outreach and help other women.
45 years ago, I ran a woman’s consciousness raising group where we... |
chichagof | 11/09/2016 | 13 | 45 | - | - |
| We need a Harvey CCC - making opportunity out of tragedy In a crisis like this, there should also be opportunities. People will be frantically trying to renovate their homes and will not be able to find contractors or qualified people to help them. Meanwhile, we have a glut of people who are in dead end... |
chichagof | 09/04/2017 | 60 | 46 | - | - |
| A Day with Fewer Smlles I felt silly. I was walking through a mall on the other side of town from where I live. I had never been there before. And over 50% of the mall was boarded up. And I had tears in my eyes.
At some point in my life, malls became the churches of... |
chichagof | 12/01/2017 | 26 | 48 | - | - |
| Hillbilly Elegy, Hillary, and the deplorables I just finished reading Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance.
The premise is that, even though people move out of the poverty of Appalachia, they carry many of the traits and ties with them. They still struggle to make a living, but also are... |
chichagof | 11/21/2016 | 351 | 58 | - | - |
| Merkley filbuster liveblog #4 It sounds like some people cannot get to the live feed, I have been covering as much as I can by loose transcription. To catch up from liveblog #3.
After 7 hours, Merkley is still engaging in substantive teaching. He is reading an article that... |
chichagof | 04/04/2017 | 34 | 58 | - | - |
| Gallup: Hillary chosen as most admired woman in the world for last 14 years With all of the bashing of Secretary Clinton, I keep wondering why we aren’t being reminded of how we looked at her just a little awhile ago. Gallup polls people in the US every year with the question:
What woman who you have heard or read... |
chichagof | 08/09/2016 | 19 | 67 | - | - |
| Merkley filibuster liveblog #3 I hope this is working, OK, have never live blogged before.
Now going over Supreme Court 5-4 decisions that have significant impact.
Favor corporations over people. Help elect republicans,
Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby — religious freedom act... |
chichagof | 04/04/2017 | 21 | 71 | - | - |
| AK-SEN: After phoning for McAdams I was walking home through the streets of Juneau about 8:30 tonight. The rain was falling lightly, just enough to leave the wet sparkle, like diamonds, on my jacket. The lights of the city were ... |
chichagof | 10/13/2010 | 27 | 81 | - | 66 |
| I just read two of Hillary's emails and.... Wow. These are the emails released in June from 2010. I searched for emails from Clinton and started to read. I’ve read two so far (pretty minor research but enlightening.) The first was a request from her for a printed copy of an economist... |
chichagof | 10/13/2016 | 226 | 382 | - | - |
| I worked for Sarah Palin As a former low grade employee for the State of Alaska, I spent 16 months observing Sarah Palin's executive experience first hand. I've been trying to write a diary about this, but want to do it in ... |
chichagof | 09/20/2008 | 418 | 1260 | 49 | 202 |