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Thursday April 29, 2010 · 5:34 PM PDT

2010/04/29 · 17:34

No doubt we have all engaged in windmill tilting at one time or another (healthcare, the environment...you name the issue), but somehow the windmills continue to go round & round and new ones keep cropping up...and I’m not talking about the proposed wind farms off of MA. I am talking about Corporate, Special Interest, Military- Industrial take over of our nation. I am talking about an America that is being crippled by Legislators bought & paid for by these foreign & domestic concerns. I am talking about Supreme Court justices influenced by the same forces. I am talking about predation of our earth and future.

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The Ex-terminator back in action

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Sunday February 21, 2010 · 9:48 AM PST

2010/02/21 · 09:48

I didn't vote for Schwartzenegger and am not generally enamored of him...but for today Arnold is once again a hero!! The Ex-terminator is back in action; not with a fusilade of bullets, but with simple straight forward words of truth.

On ABC's This Week, Arnold spoke truth about his party: he spoke truth about the Republican lying hypocrisy that seems so pervasive of late.

leema

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Sunday January 24, 2010 · 11:56 AM PST

2010/01/24 · 11:56

And I agree with him: "The President is losing his base".

It isn’t that Ed Schultz is one of the intellectual elites. It isn’t that I always agree with Ed (or anyone else from the President on down to my sig other) for that matter. And it isn’t that I don’t get pissed with Ed for laying so much on Obama and forgetting the role of Congress, because I do. And I know that Obama was never a raging progressive (unlike what Fake noise would have one believe).

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Is Ed Schultz Right or Wrong?

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Is Ed Schultz Right or Wrong?

Ed is right: The President is losing his base.

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Ed is wrong: The President's base is growing

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Who needs base if you have corporate backing?

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Can't even get to first base.

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Woolsey Calls Senate Health Bill Too Flawed

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Saturday January 23, 2010 · 9:12 AM PST

2010/01/23 · 09:12

This morning bloomed with a glimpse of sun which we haven’t seen much over the past week. Rain storm after rain storm have been rolling through northern California without much of a break in between. Our brief glimpse of the sun this morning is but a hiatus however, and more storms are to yet to come. It is not unlike the health care reform process...that keeps evolving and drenching us with rain and gloom.

So...as I settled down to my morning cup of coffee to watch the birds in the pine tree off the deck and slowly wake up with my newspaper....the first thing I saw sent me scuttling to Daily Kos to report.

leema

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Friday January 08, 2010 · 8:08 PM PST

2010/01/08 · 20:08

I am not an economist...but I am cognizant of a few things economic, so at the risk of being pinged for stating the obvious I shall take the plunge into diary land:

Economics is all about the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. Distribution and consumption of goods cannot occur without production....making production the cornerstone of human wealth as we know it.

This in turn makes the outsourcing of American jobs, manufacturing in particular, equivalent to the outsourcing of our wealth...and our opportunity for future wealth.

Today I was alerted to a new outsourcing of American jobs via Thom Hartman’s newsletter which was the impetus for this diary.

His source was The Economic Times of India, article here: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...

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By money (the wealth garnered from my productivity...or sweat of brow)

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Pie ala mode

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Back to the Basics: Healthcare Reform

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Monday November 30, 2009 · 2:21 PM PST

2009/11/30 · 14:21

Sometimes we get so caught up in the minutia of DC politics ...and the diaries that go there...we become distracted from the finish line. We find ourselves signing petitions galore, firing off emails to legislators who don’t read them, and donating to a multitude of progressively (pun intended) darker horses going down some distant stretch.

But this article in Sunday’s SF Chronicle pulled me back to the goal of meaningful healthcare reform for America and Americans. It focused on where we need to go....how and why...instead of focusing on the multitude of political why-nots and the personalities. I hope some of you find it as meaningful as I did.

leema

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Monday October 26, 2009 · 10:18 PM PDT

2009/10/26 · 22:18

Cold clouds of winter
Disperse to reveal the sun
Rachel radiates.

Today, Oct. 26, 2009, Rachel Maddow gave the clearest explanation of health care reform options for the US that I have ever heard or seen. Even my grandchildren could understand it. The clouds parted and comprehension flooded my mind and I realized we need a Public Option that all can buy into. Not a Public Option for 10% or only some states...but a Public Option for All. We need to make this succeed.

http://www.youtube.com/...

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Friday October 09, 2009 · 12:35 PM PDT

2009/10/09 · 12:35

Think Progress reports that Rush Limbaugh is to be one of 10 judges for the Miss America Pageant in 2010.

Limbaugh will be one of a panel of seven distinguished judges that will help decide which of the 53 contestants will capture the Miss America 2010 title and serve as the Goodwill Ambassador for the Children’s Miracle Network, as well as introduce the first Go Green platform for MAO.

As TP notes...Rush is not noted for being an environmentalist by any stretch of the imagination which makes this a truly ironic appointment from that viewpoint: the very antithesis of Green.

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Angry enough to take action

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The Miss America Pageant is misogynist to begin with

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All of the above

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Rush is just a clown who cares?

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Town Hall with Lynn Woolsey: impressions

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Monday August 31, 2009 · 10:33 PM PDT

2009/08/31 · 22:33

Tonight I attended a Town Hall meeting held by my representative, Lynn Woolsey. She was finally compelled to hold it I think due to a certain amount of clamor by those who didn’t feel her previous "telephone town hall" was sufficient to sate their need for ...what? noise, mob power...I don’t really know.

Having heard stories here on Kos of other Town Hall fiascos I felt I had to be there to support her...and Medicare 4 All. So this past weekend I helped make signs for others to hold ...then went home to make more for myself.

My best sign said: " Love Thy Neighbor" in red, with a red heart on each side and under that it said "MediCare 4 All" in blue with the CARE underlined in red. I did not take pictures (and wouldn’t know how to attach them here if I did) so use your imagination!

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Monday March 02, 2009 · 10:28 AM PST

2009/03/02 · 10:28

Last night I felt a major disillusionment as I watched the puff piece, the infomercial, the propaganda offered by 60 Minutes when they profiled Bobby Jindal. Up until that moment I had thought that 60 MINUTES retained some journalistic credibility above politics.

60 MINUTES piece here: http://www.cbsnews.com/...

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Wednesday June 11, 2008 · 9:45 AM PDT

2008/06/11 · 09:45

A person I think of as loving and kind (we both volunteers at the same humane facility) forwarded me the following Obama right wing attack that is obviously making the rounds in the conservative community... (excerpt and link below the jump).

I am asking for your help in evolving an effective response(s) to this email point by point and/or the "personal responsibility" meme. I want to be able to counter this type of crappola...concisely and effectively.

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Monday May 26, 2008 · 12:46 PM PDT

2008/05/26 · 12:46

For the past few evenings I have been reading a book of fiction that held me horribly transfixed with the pathos and poetry that are the essence of our human selves and our potential. About halfway through the book I found I could only take small portions of it at a time. Perhaps I felt it so poignantly given my perception of where our own world has been tilting of late. I don’t know. But it was one hell of a read that compelled and repulsed simultaneously as it flowed into me. It revealed the best and the worst we humans are capable of being...and yet somehow, someway, hope is born out of a hopeless situation.

The Lizard Cage
By Karen Connelly
Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Copyright 2005

The setting is a jail in Burma, the Cage. An all male cast predominates.

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