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micki commented on the blog post Clyburn Rejects Obama’s State’s Rights Approach on Marriage Equality
Feeling the same as you.
Sigh.
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micki commented on the blog post Has Your Member of Congress Told President Obama to Issue an Executive Order on ENDA?
Called Rick Larsen’s office (D-WA) — Nick (who seemed terribly bored with all this) told me he does not know if Rick has even seen the letter but promised to ask him and get back to me via email.
I asked how long that would take and he said, bulging with “magnanimousity”: “It SHOULDN’T take more than a couple of weeks.”
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micki commented on the blog post Obama’s Job Rating Continues to Improve Slowly
Gee, I wonder if Obama’s super secret, under-the-cover-of-night trip to Afghanistan will improve his favorables.
Struck me kinda funny that he had to sneak into Kabul for safety reasons, when the purpose of the trip is to sign a security agreement. LOL!
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micki commented on the blog post Independents Turn Away From Romney
Hmmmmm….hadn’t thought of that. You may be on to something.
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micki commented on the blog post Independents Turn Away From Romney
Looks like Romney will have to pick Condoleezza Rice as his running mate.
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micki commented on the diary post Cuts to Medicare and Social Security were “on the table” during the debt ceiling debate. by TomThumb.
Oh. Come to think of it. Obama could have raised the debt ceiling on his own
Not that I’m telling you anything you didn’t already know. ;-)
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micki commented on the diary post Cuts to Medicare and Social Security were “on the table” during the debt ceiling debate. by TomThumb.
You’re right, Blue — I didn’t expand enough on the breadth of the problem. What was pointedly missing in the debt ceiling debate was that not ONE Democrat (that I know of) declared in unequivocal terms that it was a phony issue. The Obama administration and congressional Dems displayed their hypocrisy, pretending it was principled resolve, [...]
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micki commented on the diary post Cuts to Medicare and Social Security were “on the table” during the debt ceiling debate. by TomThumb.
I hate it when these professional liars think they can fool us with their Orwellian spin. For anyone who’s paid attention, we know that the WH (Obama) and Congress (including Dems), in the negotiations to raise the national debt ceiling, proposed significant cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. They offered to: – Cut Social [...]
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micki commented on the blog post Mandate Has little Impact on What Exchange Users Would Pay for Insurance
I still believe that this is exorbitant expense for a person earning 26.5 K.
I totally agree. Not only that, if they could pony up the premium, could they afford to use the insurance with the co-pays, deductibles, etc?
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micki commented on the blog post Mandate Has little Impact on What Exchange Users Would Pay for Insurance
KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION asks: The Individual Mandate: How Sweeping is it?
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micki commented on the blog post Afghan Massacre Suspect Had Foreclosure Problems at Home
Four deployments to Iraq & Afghanistan are no excuse, nor even a mitigating circumstance, for murdering women and children. If that’s accepted as a “reason” for going off the rails on a murderous rampage, then we’d better bar the doors when these guys return en masse to the good ole’ USA.
I’ve read lots of comments at various articles on this reprehensible story, and many people who claim to be active duty and retired military are eager to distance themselves from this guy. They not only say that literally hundreds of thousands of active military and retired vets never do anything close to what this guy has allegedly done, they say that the fact that he was allegedly drinking in a combat zone is unacceptable, and an insult to the integrity and safety of his comrades. I don’t doubt that he was under stress — but I also kinda feel that he was not a stable character before he enlisted. (How many people have assault charges lodged against them, hit and run charges, “bilking” people of their savings?)
The “nice boy next door” who had 4 deployments story just doesn’t cut it for me — this soldier committed a horrible crime for which there is no possible excuse. No amount of battlefield stress, marital strife, or other factors can possibly justify or excuse the cold-blooded murder of innocent human beings. All those excuses and “explanations” are perhaps relevant in the determination of punishment, but not in the determination of guilt.
Another thing that keeps me awake about this (yes, it does) is that many of us Americans are hell-bent on searching for a reasonable and understandable explanation for this American soldier’s rampage, while we “patriotically” make unsympathetic assumptions that all killers on the other side are ideologically-driven terrorists. Cold-blooded killers are what they are, no matter what side they are on.
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micki commented on the blog post Afghan Massacre Suspect Had Foreclosure Problems at Home
Questions & Answers for Reservists, Guardsmen and Other Military Personnel
Who Is Eligible?
The provisions of the Act apply to active duty military personnel who had a mortgage obligation prior to enlistment or prior to being ordered to active duty.Bales and his wife bought the Lake Tapps property after he enlisted.
According to an article @ Bloomberg:
A federal law, the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, provides some protection against debt collectors and foreclosure for military personnel. Those protections were no help to Bales, because they only apply to debt incurred before active service.
“The whole concept of the SCRA vaporizes when you’re on active duty,” said John S. Odom Jr., a retired Air Force judge advocate and partner in the Jones, Odom & Politz LLP law firm in Shreveport, Louisiana. “You are expected to know the debt you can and cannot service.”
I agree with juliana….
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micki commented on the blog post Marie Colvin, 1946-2012
May she rest in peace.
….proofreading your headline (not to be nit-picky) — but she was born in 1956 — she’d want the facts right. :-)
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micki commented on the blog post Kitchen Not Confidential
…and what does she make for dinner?
Reservations.
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micki commented on the diary post Occupy DC Eviction: Firsthand Account by jest.
Thanks!
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micki commented on the diary post Occupy DC Eviction: Firsthand Account by jest.
Afterwords, there was a post-mortem GA in the rain in front of the pigs about what went well, and what didn’t. There was a clear anti-Obama & anti-Issa sentiment in the air, as this could not be blamed on the mayor of DC; this was federal land. I’m wondering if you can expand on the post-mortem [...]
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micki commented on the blog post Tell Governor Cuomo and Mayor Brown: Stop Covering Up Your Corruption by Silencing Occupy Buffalo
Called the mayor’s office; got voicemail — “call is important to them blah blah blah” — then the voice said to give name, number and DATE that I called. Date?? That cracked me up. Made me think they get around to listening to the people’s messages when they are damned good and ready to.
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micki commented on the diary post Time for a Firedoglake Obama 2012 Campaign Slogan Contest Yet? by EdwardTeller.
Variations on slogans from the past — Words Not Deeds (“Deeds Not Words” W.S.P.U. suffragette slogan) In Your Heart You Know I’m to the Right (“In Your Heart You Know He’s Right”‘ – Slogan for Barry Goldwater’s 1964 campaign) Stay the course, of course (“Stay the course” — slogan popularized by GWB administration as the strategy for the [...]
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micki commented on the diary post Why Is NBC Complaining When Romney Runs a Truthful Ad? by Scarecrow.
Thought of that, too.
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micki commented on the diary post Why Is NBC Complaining When Romney Runs a Truthful Ad? by Scarecrow.
The Romney campaign should send Brokaw and the NBC legal beagles a bouquet of flowers and a thank-you note for guaranteeing that the brouhaha they’ve generated guarantees wider distribution of the ad. Free to Mitt’s campaign!
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