http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:49:36 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:49:36 to watch the senate this morning? it starts at 9:45 am est according to cspan.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/283 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:51:38 http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/the-betrayal/?hp

[i]It takes quite a bit for Americans to say that the social contract is broken, or look upon concentrated wealth as anything except a virtue.

But we may have reached that breach. Our politics are not simply left and right, conservative... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/282 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:20:39 i like this guy (David Price, D, NC)

[i]Thank you for contacting me regarding your support of a single-payer program to achieve universal healthcare system in the United States. It is good to hear from you.



Like you, I understand that universal coverage must be a key element of the healt... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/281 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:46:25 and i don't think it's an accident that it's come to this. how much does this country spend on the MIC compared to what it spends on educating its citizens? it's rapidly approaching the day when only rich kids will be able to be educated well enough to have options that don't necessarily include a s... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/280 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:23:26 i still say no. if the question had been "are you a responsible citizen?" i would have said yes. worded as it is, "responsible for the deaths caused by these wars" - i cannot unlink that statement from guilt. my daughter was killed, and the person who was "responsible" for her death was and remains ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/279 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:51:56 the more i think about mandated health insurance without any public option, the more pissed off i get. my plan if such a thing happens is to refuse to buy insurance at all (disclaimer: i have ins through my employer at the moment and have been without it in the recent past).

[i]If we cannot have ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/278 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:04:59 i can't listen to a republican anymore. just seeing that R next to the name turns me off. they could be making total sense and i'd never know it because i am totally prejudiced. i just despise them.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/277 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:16:23 i was in LA when the Simi Valley jury came back with acquittals for the policemen who had beaten Rodney King to a pulp. i knew it was about race, and that it was racism. and on that afternoon, almost nine months pregnant, knowing my city was about to erupt in a very ugly way, i made a decision. i wo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/276 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:15:56 [i]VENUE

Americans United for Health Care and Insurance Reform

September 13, 2009, 12Noon – 5pm

Upper Senate Park



The location has changed from a march from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol to a rally at the Upper Senate Park.



All buses must be routed through Union Stati... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/275 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:44:10 have not done so well by those your age. :(

for me, 911 occurred less than 2 months after my life was hacked into two parts by the death of my daughter. but it is a digression and an indulgence to bring that up.

what i recall is that until 911 - or the gwbush presidency - i actually believed t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/274 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:27:41 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/10/11737/5798
March for Health Care September 13, 2009

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/273 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:38:40 yesterday i posted the email i wrote to my son's principal expressing my feelings about President Obama's speech not being shown at school.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6494424&mesg_id=6494424


i got a response this morning:

[i]T... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/272 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:41:13 comments welcome, thank you

[i]Dear ---,

I am writing to learn the reason why my son was not allowed to take part in listening to President Barack Obama's back to school speech to the nation's schoolchildren today. I am incensed that he could not share in the nationwide experience of the stude... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/271 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:14:39 to a live news feed for southern california? i'm in NC and my family's all out there.

eta thank you!... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/270 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:34:52 [i]affordable health care for everyone NOW. it is unconscionable that people in this richest of all nations are DYING and going bankrupt because the entities that provide "care" are more concerned with profits than with people. it is a sickness of its own. you have a chance to change this equation r... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/269 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:58:50 if health insurance is mandated and i can't afford it? fuck the insurance companies. i would much prefer to pay the doctor directly to tossing away unnecessary bucks that i can't afford just for the sake of the CEOs of some coldhearted corporation making a million or more bucks in a year.

i am ve... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/268 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:19:15 there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day

and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love
and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

those who pr... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/267 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:59:52 other than the profit aspect?

my son has an apparent pinched nerve in his back which is causing him constant pain. the doctor recommends an MRI. i'm scared shitless of how much this will cost me since my Aetna "gold" HMO has already resulted in surprise charges following my colonoscopy and IVP pr... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/266 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:14:43 but i will kick it, and the Trivettes will be today's mitzvah. i can't give a lot but i can give a little.

here's a link to the vanity fair article: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto200805

i highly recommend that anyone who is not familiar with monsanto's slash and b... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/265 Fri, 29 May 2009 09:25:28 in the interest of transparency. the damage and increased danger to our soldiers over there has happened already, because these stories are out, and they have been out. it's only the AMERICAN people (some of them that is) who are being "sheltered" from the truth of the atrocities committed.

as so... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/264 Fri, 22 May 2009 18:46:14 i skipped the last speech. i need my outrage to stop myself from slipping into oblivion and apathy and letting it all just play out in front of me. it's hard enough to get myself off my ass as it is. but i am so convinced after the disaster of the gwbush administration that the only way to achieve a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/263 Fri, 22 May 2009 09:19:15 in these memos (disclaimer: I am not finished reading them) it appears that confinement is not considered a hardship. solitary confinement, forced nudity, shackles, made to wear diapers, having water thrown at one, being forced to listen to loud noise 24 hours a day, all of these circumstances are n... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/262 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:23:21 my mother's father died and her mother ran a boardinghouse. i'd run a boardinghouse, but there are no resources already to even give that a serious consideration. my father worked for the CCC and WWII came along and he joined the navy. well, i would eat nails before i would let my son join the servi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/261 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:49:38 i fear the worst to come, but what is to be done about it? right now i have a job, a home, and the ability to feed myself and my son. what's next?

i can take the doom and gloom but i do need some kind of direction. i'm not going to curl up and die. i have children and grandchildren; i want them ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/260 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:19:00 cover to cover. i wish had the money to print it up many times and then send it on to president obama, every member of congress, the hague, every international court, etc.

and i want to know the names and the dispositions of the many people responsible for these series of travesties. we already k... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/barbtries/259 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:46:30