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8th cousin https://www.dailykos.com/user/8th cousin/rss/index.xml News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Mon, 27 Jan 2020 17:15:07 +0000 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 17:15:07 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) storm panic https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/28/1151826/-storm-panic I'm usually pretty blase about storms -- but this one is different..and I'm panicking for a different reason than the people filling their gas tanks (done it), buying water (we're stocked) and bread (got it) ahead of Sandy. I'm panicking about the election.  Think about it: would New Orleans have been ready to vote a week after Katrina?? yes, here in my royal blue state, we have early voting. I voted yesterday --waited about an hour to do so (at the end of the day). Earlier waits were as long as two hours and today was insane... I could see the lines -- and heavy traffic heading to the polling place as I drove by.  But that's just us in a heavily Democratic state.. and those of us who want to make sure our votes are banked before the election. what happens in those states that DON'T have a Democratic governor -- PA & NJ? rss@dailykos.com (8th cousin) democraticprocess Early Voting EarlyVoting Election Storm _1151826 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 01:06:51 +0000 Infuriated https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/7/1141463/-Infuriated I am -- and I shouldn't be -- I am a practicing Catholic who watches the shenanigans at Mass through eyes squinted with cynicism.  I know the difference between Man-made church law and God-made church law... (all but 2 are manmade)..but when my son came home from religious ed tonight - complete with flyers urging these teen-aged CHILDREN to participate in the public shaming of people at a nearby abortion clinic... I told him he should have left the flyers there...  My head exploded when he told me about what was said in class.  Follow me over the jump for the rest of the story. rss@dailykos.com (8th cousin) Birth Control BirthControl Catholic Church CatholicChurch Election HHSrule Obamacare _1141463 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 01:26:04 +0000 Blue Maryland on track to stay blue https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/10/29/914872/-Blue-Maryland-on-track-to-stay-blue In 2006, there was a poll in the last week leading to the election indicating that Then-Gov. Bob Ehrlich (R) and Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley (D) were tied.  Turned out they weren't.  This year, the latest poll has O'Malley up by 14 points going into the election... and in a year that's been so tough for Democrats, O'Malley's campaign has done a BRILLIANT job in showing how it's done.   O'Malley, on paper, should have been vulnerable... He raised the state sales tax for the first time in 30 years in 2007... and he also raised TOP level income taxes.  But he started advertising -- EARLY -- just after the primary.... in the Washington, DC. suburbs, reminding folks he grew up there himself... and stressing the area's top priority.. schools. that wasn't all, though. rss@dailykos.com (8th cousin) Democrats Election Maryland O'Malley OMalley Winning _914872 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:37:17 +0000 SMALL victory https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/9/7/899963/--SMALL-victory It's short because it just got posted at the NY Times... and I saw it on DU. The president will take a hard line on extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich.... He's decided NOT to take the advice of former budget director Peter Orszag... and he's finally doing something politically smart -- maybe a day late, but hopefully  not a dollar short.. especially considering the gallup poll's news. here's the link: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/08/us/politics/08obama.html?hp">http://www.nytimes.com/...</a> rss@dailykos.com (8th cousin) Bush Tax Cuts BushTaxCuts Obama Times Victory _899963 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:07:59 +0000 I'm starting to see a pattern https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/9/6/899504/-I-m-starting-to-see-a-pattern I've been hoping against hope now that Labor Day's here, President Obama will bring HOPE back....that he'll listen to people OTHER than the cautious "let's replay the 90's" chorus of Rahm, Robert Rubin's disciples, etc.   and I woke up to the R-&-D tax incentive for small businesses.....another half-measure that'll do nothing to put a dent in 9-point-6 unemployment before the election. and my stomach bottomed out..... and the puzzle fell into place. rss@dailykos.com (8th cousin) BarackObama Economy History Lincoln Pres. Obama _899504 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:15:56 +0000 funeral for a public option https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/8/778957/-funeral-for-a-public-option Did you see Keith tonight?  he did a segment with Lawrence O'Donnell, who provided some very cogent analysis of the Nancy Pelosi squishiness on the public option. I didn't like what he said -- I don't like his outcome... but he has a history in the Senate committees and his scenario for how it'll all turnout sounds spot-on. Sorry I can't put it here.. I don't think the segment's up - and really, I don't know how.  I know, I have to learn... rss@dailykos.com (8th cousin) Blue Dogs BlueDogs CapitolHill HealthCareReform KeithOlbermann NancyPelosi Pelosi Progressives Public Option PublicOption _778957 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:28:11 +0000 What Hath Newt Wrought https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/3/776616/-What-Hath-Newt-Wrought Keith Olbermann asked the question tonight... and I paraphrase, "What kind of a country have we become when a disabled woman telling her story is heckled at a townhall meeting?"  Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to Newt Gingrich's America.  It's a very scary place and.... it's at his doorstep.  HE was the one who let the crazy genie out of the bottle some 20 years ago when he was a bomb-throwing back-bencher in Congress.  He used to make those speeches on the empty floor of the house ranting and raving.  Newt was crazy like a fox.  He did it to get on C-span because local TV would pick up the sound-bite. He knew Republicans couldn't win on the merits of their ideas.. that had all been decided during FDR and LBJ's eras. So political guerrilla theater would have to do the job instead, Newt in Congress, Rush on the radio. rss@dailykos.com (8th cousin) America Crazy Danger GOP KeithOlbermann Newt Gingrich NewtGingrich _776616 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:08:18 +0000 here's my health care story https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/18/768871/-here-s-my-health-care-story I can't call it a horror story -- because it happened 14 years ago... and because of luck in a couple of places.  Maybe I can call it my-there-but-for-the-grace-of-God story. My dad was diagnosed with lung cancer in March of 1995. At the time, he worked for a world-wide non-profit... and had a strict PPO health plan.  His primary physician sent him to a pulmonologist.. who sent him to a thoracic surgeon.  All this took time..  a month had lapsed by the time he had his biopsy -- and he watched the coverage of the Oklahoma city bombing in pre-op before his lobectomy. The surgery determined his cancer had spread to lymph nodes.. and it was a fast growing cancer.  Nonetheless, it took another month to start radiation and chemo,(in part because of complications that grew out of his hospital care... a religious - sect run hospital.. it was cutting back as much as it could.)  First, of course, he had to see an oncologist.  His doctors recommended one of the area's best.  But he wasn't on Dad's plan. The doctors said,"We're gonna set you up with him anyway" My parents said, "but we can't pay the part insurance won't." follow me over the jump.... rss@dailykos.com (8th cousin) Health Care health care horror story. HealthCare HealthCareHorrorStory Obama Public Option PublicOption _768871 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:35:40 +0000 They've already killed the economy.. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/3/738560/-They-ve-already-killed-the-economy Now, the oil barons are trying it again.  Though I studied economics in college, it was so long ago that it was all theory-- no econometrics. Therefore, I offer my apologies to Bonddad and Jerome a Paris for my theories... I have no stats to back them up. I just know that the energy de-regulation itch reached its apex in 1999.. I mean who EVER thought people would buy the BS about lifting regulation resulting in lower bills?  Don't people have cable? But, electric utilities were set free of regulation in pricing for the first time in nearly 70 years..... rss@dailykos.com (8th cousin) Deregulation Economy Energy GasPrices OilCompanies OirPrices Rant rant. _738560 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:58:48 +0000 Why We Need to Make Something https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/3/30/714784/-Why-We-Need-to-Make-Something America doesn't manufacture much anymore. We all know and have lamented the outsourcing of our jobs... Over the years, in part, because of NAFTA, employers, in search of larger profit margins, have sent their manufacturing jobs overseas in ever greater numbers. It started with Big Steel.  Reagan outsourced that back in the 80s -- allowed it to happen, if you prefer (I don't).  And all the while we've been told, it's the unions' fault... American workers make too much money. In fact, a few years ago, a story in the WaPo business section actually "lifted" a quote from some Wall St. type (I can't remember titles or many of the details -- only the gist) about how Americans are going to have to get used to a lower standard of living. Join me after the jump: rss@dailykos.com (8th cousin) Autoindustry-bailout-Obama-homelandsecurity Military _714784 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:07:09 +0000 The stimulus is working already! https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/17/698744/-The-stimulus-is-working-already Not kidding. There's the provision in the just-signed stimulus bill that allows you to take state sales tax off your income tax -- if you buy a car. (Thanks, Sen. Mikulski! I'm told she slipped it into the bill.) That prompted my husband to get serious about replacing his 9 year old GM sedan.  He says it's the best car he's ever had -- all he's had to do to it is change the oil and slap new tires on it.. but now, the transmission is acting up, so the conversations we've had recently about what the next car would look like have gotten past the research stage. And we're apparently not the only ones.  He toured four or five dealerships after work today -- and was told at more than one that the President's Day holiday was a good one. rss@dailykos.com (8th cousin) Economy Obama Recession Stimulus _698744 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:31:18 +0000 Spontaneous Celebrating in the Nation's Capital https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/4/653754/-Spontaneous-Celebrating-in-the-Nation-s-Capital There is dancing in the streets tonight in Washington DC... both official DC and Local.   When the nets called it for Obama at 11pm EST (poll closing time on the West Coast), people poured into Lafayette Square -- across from the White House.... they poured out of Georgetown bars... and they poured (most fittingly) nto the streets of what used to be the heart of the black business district... which was gutted by the rioting 40 years ago that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. I work in news in DC... and I was working tonight - so I can confirm all this.  You want to know what this election means? It's dancing in the streets in a city that takes pride in its cynicism.  After all, administrations come and go, but bureacracy doesn't change. rss@dailykos.com (8th cousin) celebrations ElectionNight historic Obama Victory _653754 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:16:51 +0000 opie, andy, richie and the fonz https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/24/641286/-opie-andy-richie-and-the-fonz It's gone viral -- a friend saw it yesterday -- so apologies if I'm repeating someone. This is a nice comforting way to get the baby-boomers to laugh -- and vote Obama. kudos by the way, to andy griffith -- who's been the subject of rumors for years about his own views on race back in the day. <a href="http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/cc65ed650d">http://www.funnyordie.com/...</a> rss@dailykos.com (8th cousin) Change Obama Race Video Vote _641286 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:53:27 +0000