66.6% support for the Tea Baggers

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Sunday August 14, 2011 · 8:34 PM PDT

2011/08/14 · 20:34

The Iowa Ames Straw Poll favored the Tea Party by 66.6%. The winner, Michele Bachmann, won with 4,823 votes out of a total of 16,730 total votes. Ron Paul, came in second with 4,671 votes and Rick Santorum received 1,657 votes. That would be a total of 11,151 votes for the Tea Party. 11,151 votes received and 16,730 votes cast equals 66.6%. I find that kind of scary on many levels.

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Monday September 07, 2009 · 2:38 PM PDT

2009/09/07 · 14:38

"Name one thing that Barack has accomplished" was demanded of me recently.

My first thought was "We don't Torture" Lots more has been accomplished, but that was one big, bold, wonderful thing. This diary is about coming up with more "one liner, no brainers" for our president in the spirit of: "We don't Torture".

President Obama's "We don't Torture" didn't take a Congressional hearing. It didn't even have to be written down. One statement......... The US does not torture. From this day forward, pity to those in the CIA, Marines or Xe who weren't listening. We don't torture anymore-- and that is a glorious thing. President Obama's message was brilliant, timely, appreciated and is once again the law of the land.

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Your favorite No brainer...

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Your favorite No brainer...

As of today, Marijuana is not a Federal Crime.

14 votes

On January 1, 2010, the US will retire Daylight Savings Time.

1 vote

On January 1, 2011, the US fully accepts the Metric System.

0 votes

The original purchaser is responsible for any gun used in a crime.

3 votes

As of today, Corporations are not people.

18 votes

Land-mines are illegal in America.

1 vote

Effective January 1, 2010 all ballots will have a paper trail.

5 votes

I've got a better one, which is spelled out below.....

3 votes

Hidden costs of Health care...

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Sunday September 06, 2009 · 1:20 PM PDT

2009/09/06 · 13:20

This article is about hidden "other" costs of Health Insurance.

My father was a farm laborer and we were poor, --poor enough that I didn't go to a real barber until I was twenty one. For our formative years, Pop was the Barber, and Mom was the Nurse. Mom didn't know much about teeth, so I saw a dentist for the first time after landing a teaching job when I was thirty-five years old. My teaching job came with great pay and "full benefits". I soon discovered a hidden cost to the "almost free" medical care.

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Wednesday March 12, 2008 · 9:07 PM PDT

2008/03/12 · 21:07

If you are having trouble with that house payment, don't think you can just walk away...

The newspaper is filled with stories of desperation as people are losing, and/or giving back their homes. There is a new industry that details how to walk away when you are upside down. Don't do it. Don't go there. Find another way, this "easy" way is a set-up.

As always, the details are in the small print. If you walk away from your house, the bank will resell it at a loss. That is your loss, not the banks. You will owe all the money that the bank lost on "your" house, plus interest, plus closings, plus charges, and a few more incidental charges they have yet to dream of.

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Where do you stand with the bank?

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Where do you stand with the bank?

Blub, blub, blub

3 votes

Doing OK, so far

5 votes

That's not a problem

3 votes

I rent

4 votes

Been homeless for awhile

0 votes

It's paid for

5 votes

Doing a double flip...

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Thursday March 06, 2008 · 7:53 AM PST

2008/03/06 · 07:53

Hillary and Obama are in a tie--a dead heat--let's end it with a "double flip".

I suggest--- and I hope at least 100,000 Kos's will support this--- that the candidates toss a coin (with a guarantee) that the winner heads the ticket for FOUR YEARS ONLY, then in 2012 the "loser" heads the ticket for the next four years. In 2016, we switch again, and then once more in 2020-- then the person who "lost" the first coin flip gets to win big by selecting the vice president that will succeed both of them . This is a win--double win proposition. Both canditates win, America wins bigger-- and the Repugs go down in history with a footnote like the Whigs.

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66.6% support for the Tea Baggers

"We don't Torture" and other "one liner, no brainers"

Hidden costs of Health care...

Don't walk away...

Doing a double flip...