Documenting Voting Irregularity
I'm writing this diary after a suggestion by biscobosco that I document a problem my husband and I had with our first time voting on a Diebold machine. Biscobosco said that there would be a Google...
View ArticleKO Four More Years.
Just announced on MSNBC, Keith Olbermann will be with them for four more years and has a contract to work with NBC to do some commentary and opinion. More below.I know this is little more than a...
View ArticleRace, Gender, and a Funeral
On Tuesday of this week my niece buried her second husband. It was her 49th Birthday. Her first husband died of lung cancer around ten years ago, it was horrific.This was different, it was a shocking...
View ArticlePathetic
I'll say it again. Pathetic.The dictionary doesn't do it justice, it defines pathetic as affecting or moving the tender emotions (NO!); causing pity (Now we're talking!)Pissed-offish? Head in hands...
View ArticleOk, I Give Up.
Most of ya'll know me by now. I have always tried to remain a fair player in the candidate wars. I am an Edwards Democrat and maybe for that reason I've worked at keeping my end of the conversation...
View ArticleA Warning For Dog Owners
Yesterday my neighbor lost her new little dog, Lucy, to a disease that neither of us knew existed. Canine Hemorrhagic Gastroenteritus (HGE). The symptoms of this disease are very much like those of...
View ArticleThis is ugly
My profile spells it out, I'm a 57, married, and am the full time care-giver for my 88 year old mother. She has been living with my husband and me for about five, maybe six years.My mother is old and...
View ArticleHow I learned to stop worrying and love the gun.
I made a comment in a RKBA diary that I understood the thinking of people who are against personal gun ownership because I used to be one of them. I was asked to expand on it and felt that it really...
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Far worse than what three idiots can do.
There has been a couple of diaries about the idiots who thought it would be a great idea to rearrange nature and topple a hoodoo at Goblin Valley State Park in Utah. No doubt those fools deserve all...
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She's Leaving
I always knew that my sister would go before me barring some accident or terrible illness, she is ten years older after all. I just never thought she would leave this way. I never thought she would...
View ArticleShe's Gone
I wrote a diary about my Sis' dementia and how devastated I was about it April of 2014. That diary enabled me to let out the pain I was feeling at the time.The community here gave me an incredible...
View ArticleOntario Is Giving A Basic Income A Try
According to BBC Ontario Canada is going to provide a basic income for poor people who have been randomly chosen.Canada's largest province is experimenting with giving poor people a basic income with...
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