http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:40:25 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:40:25 You can see how long it lasted and also see how there were a couple of really hard jolts in there. What you aren't able to hear is how darn loud the thing was. I'm sure better footage than this will soon surface, but it's a start for anyone who is curious. If you're not, if you are tired of hearin... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/42 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:53:18 and saying it was no big deal were not here. I can tell you it scared the crap out of me. I literally saw the walls moving back and forth like a house of cards. It was also very loud. I am 70 miles from epicenter.

I am grateful my husband and I are okay.

Drawers open in all the dressers ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/41 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:06:28 Really helped me understand the alcoholic family I grew up in, much much much better. I hope it might help someone here too who is or has been or will be in a relationship with an addict or alcoholic.

My name is ---- and I am an alcoholic. This is what alcoholics do. You cannot and will not chan... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/40 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:53:59 http://www.alternet.org/economy/152016/debt%2C_debt%2C_debt%3A_90_of_americans_experience_income_decline_as_wealth_gets_sucked_back_into_top_.1_--_debt_explodes_as_we_try_to_make_ends_meet

Two paragraphs really jumped out at me:

To understand the significance of its revised methodology, curren... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/39 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:09:49 You Know You're from Montana when...

The wind is faster than your truck

Every other vehicle is a 4x4

When the sun goes down you start looking for your coat

In March your vehicle is 43% mud

You leave your keys in the car and the next morning it's still there

You installed your new c... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/38 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:56:58 didn't have the goddamn votes. He cares very much for our state and our nation. I'm sorry for getting a little defensive here, but I think the world of Senator Baucus.

He got single payer for Libby Montana because the votes were there for it.

And that's all I'm going to say about this. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/37 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:10:09 that he and his wife will end up with an even stronger relationship after going through the aftermath of all of this. I hope they will have a healthy, beautiful baby in six months. I hope they will have more blessings than they can even imagine at this point.

Don't know if anyone else feels lik... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/36 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:28:03 information for people and helpful. I'm an INFP, like the author of this system, Isabella Myers.

Here's my personality type:

INFP: The Idealist

The INFP is a dreamy, imaginitive, idealist, capable of finding the good in anything or anyone, even something as foul as Newark, New Jersey. IN... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/35 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:30:17 the 60's and 70's remembers those, LOL! I grew up wondering where I could get a job like that! :evilgrin: ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/34 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:54:01 secretary might have accidentally erased them while reaching for the telephone?

Oh, sorry, wrong scandal.

I'll just go back to sleep now. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/33 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:44:38 I know that many here would like him to resign, and I respect your point of view, but I would like him to stay, and I am dismayed by the growing chorus of voices among the Democrats in Congress asking him to resign.

I feel I need to do everything I can to support Congressman Weiner because he has... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/32 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:51:51 today added his staff members (no pun intended) to my prayers. I am honestly worried for Rep. Weiner and his wife, for the hurt and worry and embarassment and every other bad thing they must be feeling. At this point in the game I just am worried for their mental health through all of this. I am ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/31 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:18:02 R's to try to entrap them. I guess it would be the patriotic thing to do. But it won't be me. I was willing to put my life on the line for my country once, sure, but some sacrifices are just beyond what I can bear. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/30 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:55:35 He wouldn't have made our flesh so soft.

Who needs the unions with their focus on worker safety? Bah, humbug. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/29 Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:17:08 of us who feel Keynes was right and those who feel Friedman was right?

Keynesian economics was what was done during FDR's rescue of America and through the 40's, 50's and 60's and into the 70's.

Friedman (Chigaco-school) style economics have been in vogue since 1980.

Keynes believed dem... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/28 Sun, 05 Jun 2011 10:47:24 so many in the population believe the lies that Fox news propogates. It's hard to have a conversation with someone who watches FOX news about current events. For example, my father, who is in his late 70s and a very devoted Glenn Beck fan (Dad is disappointed he is off FOX now) STILL believes ther... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/27 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:25:34 terrible storms. It has just been such a bad spring/summer so far. It's just hard to comprehend so much destruction and suffering. :( ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/26 Tue, 24 May 2011 18:15:37 a wide variety of ideas about economic policies, etc. I think a professor has just as much of a right to espouse these ideas, as he has a right to espouse Keynesian economics. In an ideal world, a good professor would lay out all the competing economic theories before the students, expecting them ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/25 Mon, 23 May 2011 12:27:19 saying they ought to become more savvy consumers of health care, more discerning, instead of using so much healthcare.

There is no way that seniors existing on Social Security, with whatever savings they had depleted by the collapase in home prices and the collapse in the stock market, can afford... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/24 Sun, 22 May 2011 12:17:47 posting about how slow the military tends to be about policy changes (the moderator and me) are AGAINST ending DADT and are AGAINST equal rights for gays. I could show you a few petitions I've signed for the repeal of DADT but that probably would not change any minds.

You asked what kind of tr... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/23 Sun, 01 May 2011 14:47:49 ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/21 Sun, 01 May 2011 10:59:24 it is WRONG to torture. Have there been soldiers who tortured? Sure. But not every soldier "kills and tortures" and the soldiers who have been convicted of torturing, have faced stiff penalties.

Torturing as national policy was not a doctrine dreamed up nor embraced by the military. It came... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/20 Sun, 01 May 2011 10:57:25 subject to UCMJ action including time in prison at Ft. Leavenworth as well as dismissal from the service.

But of course, what do I know? I'm one of those evil brainwashed former military robots who should be burned at the stake so this country will be a better place (rolls eyes right back at yo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/19 Sun, 01 May 2011 10:48:23 http://www.alternet.org/food/150783/mind-gut_connection%3A_why_intestinal_bacteria_may_have_important_effects_on_your_brain/?page=entire... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/18 Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:15:21 millions of other men, not just here at DU but everywhere, and around the whole world, so that the world becomes a safer place for women and children to live in.

And thank you. I am still here. Like that song "The Boxer" by Simon and Garfunkle..


In the clearing stands a boxer
And a fig... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalLoner/16 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:35:39