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She doesn't seem to know about today's date or the law. Then I sat on hold until about 4:17 until she came back and told me my son wouldn't be eligible until July of 2011..(This I know to be wrong)
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/109 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:52:51 http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=jhKPIXPCIoE&b=2590179&aid=13890&ICID=T1002A03&tr=y&auid=5993960

[div class="excerpt"][font color="black" size="4" face="Times New Roman"]Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is on the verge of introducing legislation (S. 2977) that wou... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/95 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:22:05 http://www.alternet.org/story/145797/the_unemployed_now_have_their_own_union%2C_and_it%27s_catching_on_quickly

[div class="excerpt"][b]The Unemployed Now Have Their Own Union, and It's Catching on Quickly[/b]
An ingenious grassroots union for the unemployed is only a month old -- and its numbers... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/94 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:19:04 Mom, who has been living with Dad's decline for the 11 years since his stroke, hadn't even [i]thought[/i] of a Memorial Service until our dear family friend, who is the Priest at the Church here asked us what we would like him to do. She had not given thought to the disposition of his ashes. (She s... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/89 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:50:45 Eleven years after suffering a stroke that had left him with difficulty walking, he fell at home and broke his hip. Once that was repaired at the hospital, difficulties and complications cascaded down upon him until his dear 89 year old body couldn't make a come back.

From Hospital to rehab cente... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/87 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:06:51 If you've seen the news this morning, you know what happened on West 55th St. yesterday.

There was an audition for that [i]reality show[/i] "America's Next Top Model". Thousands of hopefuls crowded onto West 55th St. in Manhattan, waiting for their big chance. Apparently a car belching exhaust ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/68 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:13:45 Humans being the thick things that they are... the MESSAGE has been lost in the worship of the MAN. All religious traditions share some basic fundamental facts regarding how people ought to treat each other. All of them manage to crust up those essentials seeds with dogma and new rules that make s... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/67 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:17:18 I scarfed this graphic from Crooks & Liars, because it is [i]so clear[/i] and unarguable. It is to be shown to any remaining republicans you may know... especially the small businessmen, chamber of commerce local bully-type republican...You know.. The ones who still pretend to be reasonable...

h... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/65 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:25:20 He was put in office (NOT elected) in order to spearhead the ideologically bankrupt neo-con policies. He has shoveled out the Treasury to privateers ("Contractors") in every branch and office of the Federal bureaucracy. He has operated at the behest of the Cheap Labor "Free Market" Radicals.. He ha... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/57 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:32:09 cross and look at myself in the mirror.

It is the sanctioning of torture [i]in my name[/i] that jolts me from sleep and makes me cry. It is this issue that has me walking away from my dear, blinkered, church. It is this issue that makes it rough for me to go out in "polite company".

Knowing t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/56 Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:31:19 Is "The last, best, hope on Earth" forever beyond our reach?-

Will there ever be a place where no man is above the Law?

As it looks less and less likely that the brazen lawbreakers, the warmongers, the torturers, the despots will be called to account, here in America. . the Country "of the Peo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/55 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:16:55 the Reactionary Right. If they ever want to see the light of day they will have to return to True North... the REAL center, where America has been all along.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/53 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:35:19 "but we'll be a whole hell of a lot closer."

And this is the genius of the idea of America. There has never been, in the history of the World, a Nation as good as that envisioned by the Founding Fathers.

It is the Ideal America that we all, as engaged Citizens must strive for. That's our col... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/52 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:53:09 edited to add: REC THIS UP


This is the kind of thing that tends to get buried under all the "stuff du jour" stuff around here.

[b]"further evidence that the decision to endorse torture was made by the administration's most senior officials"[/b]

When we have the White House, the Senate and... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/51 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:43:04 Our Treasury will be so severely strained by this bailout, and servicing our enormous debt, and shoveling money to connected contractors, and subsidizing the oil industry and not taxing any of the people who are TAKING all our money..

that we will literally [b]not be able[/b] to perform any of th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/48 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:49:37 The Writ of Habeas Corpus was born on this day in 1215 in Runnymeade Meadow, England.

http://christiancovenanter.puritanhead.com/uploaded_images/Magna%20Charta%20Signing-755688.jpg

Let's raise a Goblet and say

"Whew, That Was a Close One"... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/43 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:07:46 I know that there has been lots and lots of good legislation passed in the Senate over the course of the last year. Most of it hasn't gone anywhere because the Republicans filibuster it over and over again. And not just the big stuff... even littler things like Amtrak funding gets stuck by the road... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/41 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:28:39 From AlerNet.com:
http://www.alternet.org/stories/69164/
[div class="excerpt"]
The heroes in today's Pakistan are not the returning former prime ministers -- Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif -- but the Supreme Court and High Court judges who refused to accept Gen. Musharraf's emergency law putting... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/37 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:49:23 It has been 100% process..(who "got in a good line", or who "showed their elbows" or who "bounced back" or who "attacked" or who didn't)

And it has been 0% content. NO discussion of issues, NO serious comparison of platforms or positions.

We go into the coverage ignorant, and we come out of th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/35 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:12:05 Bush Official in ‘Shouting Match’ with Open Access Supporters

[div class="excerpt"]The Bush administration’s top telecommunications official reportedly tried to “shout down” Net Neutrality and open access supporters after they called him out for spinning America’s Internet market as a wonderland ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/30 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:03:52 Wear these when you watch the talking heads. Be especially wary of phrases like "Most Americans favor a route to citizenship for those who want to [i]contribute to the economy[/i]".

There are two basic kinds of jobs; those that require considerable training +/or education, and those that don't. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/27 Sat, 19 May 2007 14:17:58 "We must hang together, for we will surely hang separately" - B. Franklin

When Ben F. said this, he was defending the signing of the Declaration. It was a "treasonous document" and they all knew they would be hung if they were caught. He also knew that they stood a chance if they remained united... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/26 Thu, 17 May 2007 13:52:52 How often have bills not been passed because the votes to sustain a veto weren't "there"?

How many subpoenas haven't been issued, because we know they'd be rejected for "executive privilege" and, if pursued, would end up at the Supreme Court?

How much business is not done because of foreordai... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/24 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:16:15 [div class="excerpt"] In 2000, Team Bush took over the Republican Party and laid out its promises to the American people. The following pledges and claims are taken directly from the [B]2000 GOP Platform[/B]. Should we laugh or cry at promises made by an administration that has ruled through decep... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/23 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:23:42 The word has been so cheapened by Madison Ave, that it is becoming clear that vast swaths of the population have no idea anymore what it means.

Every Mother of toddlers know that you don't ask a 4 year old what he wants for lunch.. You ask "Do you want PB & J? Or do you want cream cheese?" Or fo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/annabanana/16 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:09:35