Monthly Archives: October 2010

Common Sense 4: 100 year old man speaks on voting

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Common Sense 3: Brief History of Getting Out the Vote

Today I saw Karen and her “Sidekick” hitting the streets and ringing doorbells FOR THE VOTE.  I thought of our lovely chairwoman, Emma who got us all together FOR THE VOTE.  And Lee who left the hospital and started dialing … Continue reading

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This was an off the cuff respose to an anti-Obama email in the same mode

We have no more socialism then we had before so the Republicans’ cries of doom are really a bore They don’t like Pelosi she is nobody’s stooge but the real reason they don’t like her is because she has boobs … Continue reading

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Either he dies, or the country dies – long way to go to sanity

Great article in Politico called Obama vs. the loonies, by Roger Simon: Obama vs. the loonies He talks about how bad the discourse has gotten when a guy with a T-shirt that says “Either he dies, or the country dies” … Continue reading

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Take Back America

When I see people marching the streets with signs that read “take America back,” I want to ask them, “Take America back?  Take it back to what?” Maybe back to when religion, nationality, skin color, or sex determined where you … Continue reading

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Letter to Ann Kirkpatrick

Dear Ann Kirkpatrick, Thank you so much for giving me encouragement when I talked to you at DOOR’s picnic about the need for bringing a stronger libel law to deal with the abstractions we have to deal with in the … Continue reading

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Ah, Arizona….

In these perilous times, with the Republicans in the State Legislature seemingly bent on destroying whatever is left of civil society in our state, and turning the jewel of the West into an impoverished banana republic before our disbelieving eyes, … Continue reading

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Common sense 2: Real “Do Good” Works

Last night I went to a community forum at the library to hear the Ambassador from El Salvador talk about the progress many post civil-war El Salvador schools and communities are making in becoming self-sustaining.  Each school and home is … Continue reading

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