Mitt and Richard

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Monday November 21, 2011 · 4:51 PM PST

2011/11/21 · 16:51

I am somewhat embarrassed to admit that one of my favorite feel good movies is "Pretty Woman" with Richard Gere and Julie Roberts. The movie often comes to mind when Mitt talks about his business acumen.

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Saturday April 23, 2011 · 12:33 PM PDT

2011/04/23 · 12:33

As I gaze thru the window on the way to work I've passed many gas stations and watched the price creeping up. I'm grateful that my seventy-five cent senior pass is going to pay for my three bus ride to work as I certainly couldn't get there on seventy five cents worth of gas, let alone the cost of the car payment and insurance. I wonder how other people are coping with limited incomes and the need to find a job. However, my mode of transportation was not really a choice.

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Tuesday January 18, 2011 · 9:29 AM PST

2011/01/18 · 09:29

On Wednesday I went to the board meeting of my homeowner’s association to take care of some business before our annual meeting. At the end of the meeting I made an off the cuff comment out being feeling stressed out by the recent events in Tucson. The President then commented to the effect that Ms. Giffords shouldn’t have held her Congress on the Corner meeting without having security – in essence blaming the victim. I knew she and her live in boyfriend were senior citizen teabaggers and I was ready to jump down her throat. (The old me would have.) I didn’t do it, though I did make some innocuous comment about costs. Why?

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Would you rather be right or happy?

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Would you rather be right or happy?

I'd rather be right

14 votes

I'd rather be happy

21 votes

Why can't I be both?

35 votes

Christine O'Donnell - It's Not Her Fault

orca43

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Thursday January 06, 2011 · 8:22 AM PST

2011/01/06 · 08:22

We've heard it all before. The politician who plagarizes, who steals, who screws up - it's never their fault.

orca43

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Wednesday December 15, 2010 · 9:34 PM PST

2010/12/15 · 21:34

When I get depressed or frustrated or infuriated with how things are going politically I escape into a home-made fantasy whereby someone from the past time travels to the present to advise one of our political leaders for a week. Who would you pick?

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Who would you pick?

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Who would you pick?

Thomas Jefferson

7 votes

Abraham Lincoln

3 votes

Benjamin Franklin

10 votes

Theodore Roosevelt

2 votes

Franklin Roosevelt

4 votes

Harry Truman

1 vote

Lyndon B. Johnson

0 votes

James Madison

3 votes

Someone else

8 votes

The America I Love - Jury Duty

orca43

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Saturday October 16, 2010 · 8:20 PM PDT

2010/10/16 · 20:20

As I've been reviewing the prospect of the loss of the House of Representatives to Mr Boehner I have found myself slipping into that same sense of doom and gloom I felt when Mr. Bush was president and the Republicans controlled Congress.

However, I was reminded recently that a lot of things still work very well in this country and I need to be grateful for what we have instead of what we might lose.

Being called for jury duty was a wakeup call.

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What is your view of jury duty?

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What is your view of jury duty?

I want nothing to do with it.

5 votes

I'd do it but I can't afford to.

7 votes

Would look on as a duty and look forward to the opportunity to participate.

57 votes

You've got to be kidding.

1 vote

SEC grants "leeway" on marked to market rules today-- 3rd Quarter End

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Tuesday September 30, 2008 · 8:18 PM PDT

2008/09/30 · 20:18

On the Rachel Maddow show today I saw a congressman from Texas saying he wanted to do away with the "marked to market" accounting rules. Looks like that was happened.

orca43

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Friday September 05, 2008 · 1:20 PM PDT

2008/09/05 · 13:20

After listening to all those delegates chanting "drill, baby, drill" last night I thought about James Watt. For those of you who weren't around in the early 1980s, Watt was Ronald Reagan's first Secretary of the Interior, a strong proponent of exploitation of the environment. He didn't last very long.

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Friday August 15, 2008 · 3:40 PM PDT

2008/08/15 · 15:40

I sometimes wonder how much my small contributions to the Democratic cause will matter in a very blue state (WA) but I have come to believe it does count in our local elections which can be just as important as the presidential election.

orca43

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Wednesday August 13, 2008 · 6:59 AM PDT

2008/08/13 · 06:59

What a great choice!

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Sunday August 10, 2008 · 7:47 PM PDT

2008/08/10 · 19:47

As I watched Bush frolic at the Olympics in China and saw a newclip on TV of him leaving church there this morning, waving, grinning in his uniquely simian way, and saying "God is love", I knew I was seeing a man with nothing on his conscience. All's right in his little world. Yet, over the last 7 plus years I have said so many times to myself - "how does he/she sleep at night?"

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Do the ends justify the means our government uses?

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Do the ends justify the means our government uses?

Always

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Never

28 votes

Sometimes

12 votes

It depends

17 votes

Other

1 vote

I miss Tim Russert

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Tuesday August 05, 2008 · 1:12 AM PDT

2008/08/05 · 01:12

I was very new to dailykos when Tim Russert died. I cried when I heard the news - perhaps because he was younger than me and I had a heart attack myself in January, alone at home, and I survived with the help of 911 and some great caregivers. I was appalled at some of the negative comments written here about him then. Perhaps some of those who were so critical then have had time to reconsider.

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Who would you ask for advice?

The America I Love - Jury Duty

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Remembering James Watt-Secy of Interior

Campaign Activism - every little bit helps

Mark Warner is the Keynote Speaker

Do the ends ever justify the means?

I miss Tim Russert