It is a constant fight

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Tuesday March 27, 2012 · 2:51 AM PDT

2012/03/27 · 02:51

One diarist wrote about how she could not believe the hatred in this diary - Never before have I seen such hatred . I was in my mid teens when I first came face to face with such hatred, different issues but the same hate. It was 40 years ago.

And I know 40 years before that incident, in the 1930's there was lots of hate going round. Fruit of hate hanging from trees.

This hate is not new, it is ravenous and has been with us always. I think there are various reasons for it, but the emotion, how it stimulates the brain is not new.

But this hate can certainly stun a compassionate person who thinks that all around them are compassionate people. A person who thinks that reason should be the default, not the exception. I was stunned when it first happened around me. I just could not believe people were like that. It hurt very much. But compassion and empathy stimulates my brain in a certain way as well.

We were down south, Louisiana I think, and we were running out of gas. We came upon a gas station, and the people inside would not come out to pump the gas. I remember looking at them peeking out the window of their front door at us. I remember that is was sunny and we were in a red convertible. I asked my mother why they did not come out. I thought they looked scared of us. My mother said that they only probably served local Negroes and they did not want to serve us. Later my father had to walk for gas. I was filled with anxiety for him.

Maybe it is still like that in some back wood places, but not mainstream. What changed this? People did somehow. It is against the law and businesses can be sued.

Janeo

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Wednesday June 23, 2010 · 7:44 PM PDT

2010/06/23 · 19:44

Well, he was already in Rolling Stone. STephan Colberts says he is a Rock Star. Ollie North got his own radio show. Tom Delay was on Dancing with the Stars or some such show,

I mean...Mistresses lawyer up and want to get money. And Sarah Palin, she a millionaire and even though I didn't think Spitzer should have resigned, he has got a new show as well.

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Team Eric

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Team Bill

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Team Pam

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Team Jessica

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President Obama's base does not read Daily Kos

Janeo

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Sunday December 20, 2009 · 8:51 PM PST

2009/12/20 · 20:51

Get real.

This site may be a loud voice on the internets. But the regular Jane and Joe who voted for President Obama, they certainly are not on this site and probably do not spend much time on the internets even if they had a computer.

This is where the community lost me, thinking that they were the base that President Obama would be considering. He is considering the whole country, the left and the right but mostly the middle.

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Dump Rham, but I kind of like him.

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Don't dump Rahmn, but I can't stand him

4 votes

I don't care about Rahm, not one iota.

25 votes

Dump Joe Liberman, with afoot to his ass. Kick him out of congress hard

68 votes

Kick Lieberman out soft

8 votes

Rachel Madow for President.

20 votes

Rachel Madow Vice President to President Obama

15 votes

Throw the whole lot out and let God sort it out.

30 votes

Step away from the computer

Janeo

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Friday November 13, 2009 · 5:58 PM PST

2009/11/13 · 17:58

You know, take a break.

I have not been on Kos for umm...3 days and I totally missed the boycott thing. And even if I had seen it, I would have ignored it completely.

Take what you can from this site and the rest... move on, there is nothing to see here, probably what most of you will think of this sinfully short diary.

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Samantha Who

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Two and a half men

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Trueblood

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Fringe

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I don't watch TV because I am glued to my computer

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Don't bother me, I am outside communing with nature and my neighbors

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If there are more of us than them, why are we not shouting louder?

Janeo

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Sunday September 06, 2009 · 11:10 PM PDT

2009/09/06 · 23:10

Beckism, Limbaughness.

They shout what they believe for everyone to hear. The media sucks it up and out it goes on the airwaves. This minority, the losers seem to be making trails for their agenda. Stop President Obama in any way possible with lies and scare tactics.

We should be louder. There are more of us.

Janeo

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Monday July 06, 2009 · 8:50 AM PDT

2009/07/06 · 08:50

Janeo

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Friday June 26, 2009 · 2:18 AM PDT

2009/06/26 · 02:18

I read the news today, oh boy...

I was 7 years old, growing up in North Philadelphia, 43 years ago. We had the Supremes, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, but my parents listened to them. We danced to them, my girlfriends and I wearing towels on our head, prentending we had long hair, doing their routines on the street. But then came the Jackson 5 and the music became ours.

Janeo

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Thursday June 25, 2009 · 4:14 AM PDT

2009/06/25 · 04:14

How nice for him. So much in love that he cries at a press conference as he talks about crying in Argentina. Love. It is a beautiful thing, sometimes even a painful thing, when you have to make choices. Choice between old family and maybe someone new who you gave your heart to. I feel bad for his family. They get added to a list of lots of families that I feel bad for.

Janeo

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Tuesday June 16, 2009 · 5:03 PM PDT

2009/06/16 · 17:03

I am 50 years old. I lived through the 60's thru to the Naughts. I have seen race riots, class riots, shootouts and disco. Drugs devestated my family. I still have student loans to pay. My best and worse years were the 80's. I made lots of cash, spent lots of cash. I watched friends die from AIDs, dropped like flies they did. I lived through Reagan, Bush Sr and watch neighborhoods fall to crack. I watch meth make its way through the SW. Police corruption, government corruption, sunny days, cloudy days, the girl scouts, Mother Teresa...

Janeo

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Sunday May 03, 2009 · 11:11 AM PDT

2009/05/03 · 11:11

I think I understand why Arlen Spector and Nelson are against the public option on healthcare.

Healthcare business.

Janeo

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Monday January 05, 2009 · 6:31 PM PST

2009/01/05 · 18:31

I was raised Catholic.

I went to convent school.

Through the Catholic Church I learned to help the poor and to (try) and love my fellow humans. Very simplistic.

I never really was into to the dogma, but I still consider myself a Christian and that has facilitated my liberalism. Through the Catholic Church I was encouraged to join youth organizations that encouraged us to help those poorer than we were, to be kind and respectful of everyone.

Janeo

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Friday October 10, 2008 · 1:45 PM PDT

2008/10/10 · 13:45

that one of the reasons that John McCain is so hostile to Obama may just be that John McCain....if he loses to Obama, will be forever known as the white man who lost the Presidential race to the first black President?

I was reading a post on TPM Why Josh Marshall is Exactly Right about McCain’s Psychologyc and I was thinking that maybe that should be added to the list. I thought about this for a long time just based on watching McCain in the debates.

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