http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 21 May 2013 17:33:56 Tue, 21 May 2013 17:33:56 ...that she is NOT eligible for a colonoscopy and REFUSES to order one - even though Mom IS high-risk because she's had polyps (which can be pre-cancerous). Mom has Senior Advantage with them - basically Medicare gives K-P boatloads of TAXPAYER money to take Mom's care off their hands. And they are ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/42 Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:44:43 ...when he sang "Ben" I was there - I know every song - the same pain he felt, being "strange", and "weird" and having skin problems (though not nearly as bad his his, bless his beautiful heart) - and being SO lonely as a child and adult, I felt his pain - AND his heart and his joy and his ecstasy w... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/41 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:17:43 http://gi0007.photobucket.com/groups/0007/JE638GEUUS/MichaelJackson-5.png

Beloveds, now we know that we know nothing
Now that our bright and shining star can slip away from our fingertips like a puff of summer wind

Without notice, our dear love can escape our doting embrace
Sing our songs am... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/40 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:24:55 ...but for WHAT JOBS? It cracks me up to hear idiot politicians (of any stripe) babbling about spending money on "job training" in the US.

FOR

WHAT

JOBS?

There ARE no jobs out there that require training. LACK OF EDUCATION / TRAINING ISN'T THE PROBLEM. The PROBLEM is that all our jobs h... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/39 Tue, 26 May 2009 06:15:08 "But why then did Obama pick him for Afghanistan? In the wake of horrifying news of unintended civilian casualties, in a war where the US is already intensely unpopular, Obama has picked a leader who can be directly linked to the worst images and incidents of prisoner torture and abuse under Bush."
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/38 Sat, 16 May 2009 12:18:27 Have you asked the American people what they want in the way of health care reform? Or, does their opinion (they who are MOST effected by it) not count?

Why do you bother with it? Why not save your time and taxpayer money and just leave the broken for-profit (by denying payment for care) system... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/37 Tue, 12 May 2009 23:41:36 The following index ran in this week's Facing South e-newsletter.

Estimated value of assets the IRS believes to be held in offshore tax havens, countries with nominal taxes and minimal reporting requirements: [b]$5 trillion[/b]

Number of countries that aggressively market themselves as tax ha... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/35 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:47:08 [b](NOT that I expect the majority of people in THIS society to ever grok that...)[/b]

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I dread to think of how Susan would have left the stage if her voice had been less than exceptional. She would have been humiliated in front of 11 million viewers. It's the equivalent of being put in the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/34 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:28:30 John McCain ran for President beneath the phrase: [i]"Country First"[/i], and lost, thank God.

So, our new Democratic President entered office with multiple daunting crises on his plate, created by the last administration, a Republican one, and left for him to clean up. There's the economic cris... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/33 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:54:36 A woman is not a pear tree
thrusting her fruit in mindless fecundity
into the world. Even pear trees bear
heavily one year and rest and grow the next.
An orchard gone wild drops few warm rotting
fruit in the grass but the trees stretch
high and wiry gifting the birds forty
feet up among inch... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/32 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:21:53 http://www.cassandrafiles.com/badasss.jpg... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/31 Sun, 04 May 2008 01:53:51 After Edwards left the race (he was my choice) I was on the fence for a few months. Wasn't crazy about Hillary or Obama. I wanted to support Hillary because I'd like to see a woman in the Oval Office. But I was on the fence between her and Obama and I'm still am not really crazy about either of them... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/28 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:54:20 ...internet, clean clothes - if people weren't so comfy (and many aren't but those who are are too complacent) they'd get mad and get involved. It's all about me me me me me me me....if "me me me me" is OK - then "me me me me me me" thinks everything is OK and if someone ELSE isn't (the vet who slee... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/22 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:08:02 "LET THEM EAT CAKE!"

...says she of her own constituents outside her home and the rest of us urging her to (God forbid) do OUR will since she is (supposedly) OUR representative "up there". Of course there is some debate that Marie Antoinette ever actually uttered that phrase, but nonetheless, her... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/20 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:30:28 It is a very proud day when we have TWO Democratic Presidents who have won the Nobel Peace Prize: Yourself and The Honorable Jimmy Carter.

You are in VERY good company!

President Gore, you are a true visionary and regardless of what some right-wing pundits and the media says or does - MANY MA... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/19 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:27:09 The future of independent magazines like Ms., Mother Jones, The Nation, etc. is at
risk with a massive new postage hike!

The U.S. Postal Service has accepted a Time Warner proposal that would significantly
increase postage rates for smaller magazines, while reducing costs for the nation's
lar... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/18 Wed, 16 May 2007 14:04:51 By Riane Eisler, AlterNet
Posted on April 19, 2007, Printed on April 23, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/50727/

If you're a woman, or a man who cares about his mother, sister, or daughter, there's something you need to know. Seventy percent of those living in absolute poverty in our world --... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/17 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:19:58 ...and won't run in 2008. And I'm quite at Peace with that, and here's why:

What happened in 2000 was unprecedented. Gore WON that election. We know that. But he didn't get the job. It was excruciatingly disappointing for us all. If there was ANYONE who was qualified to lead the United States of ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/16 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:34:47 Okay. I KNEW they were out there but I guess I didn't know they were so organized:

http://www.ncfm.org/about-ncfm.php

"National Coalition of Free Men" (?)

Read some of the crap they have on this page about women (and how much of the truth they leave OUT of their "facts"):
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Am... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/15 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:25:13 “…chose their own political security rather than our national security and followed george bu$h into the wrong war (Iraq) - and then they lost that war”...

I’ll add that that while the Republic Party has been busily fighting the wrong war for power, profit and political gain, the REAL war (on ter... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/14 Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:00:22 NASA has quietly terminated the Deep Space Climate Observatory, citing "competing priorities." The news media took little notice. Few Americans, after all, had even heard of the program. But the entire world may come to mourn its passing.

Earth is growing warmer. Even the most strident global-war... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/13 Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:42:55 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triana_(satellite)

Just FYI where the name came from...http://www-pm.larc.nasa.gov/images/triana_logo.gif ...note what the Repukes had to say about it. The program was scrapped as soon as bu$hit took office.
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[b]Triana[/b] is a [a href="/wiki/NASA" title=... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/12 Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:30:58 (WOMENSENEWS)--As a young woman, I stepped out into the treacherous waters of opinion journalism, and was amazed by the lack of civil discourse and the intensity of personal attacks that I received via e-mail, letters to the editor and on Web postings.

Subjects such as women's issues, racism, ant... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/11 Wed, 24 May 2006 13:37:46 [b]UNBELIEVABLE. Is BIRTH CONTROL covered under their labor agreement too? VIBRATORS and other sex toys? This is absolutely rediculous. These cretins deserve to go out of business - unfortunately, it hurts a lot of decent people when they do. Bastards.[/b]

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DETROIT (AP) — Viagra, Cial... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Triana/10 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:46:57 [h2][i]The Answer Box[/i][/h2]
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[h2][i]Justice?[/i][/h2]
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[h2][i]Bearing Witness-Women Victims of War[/i][/h2]
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