Canvassing yesterday in suburbs of PA
I have been doing Leave no Voter behind canvassing. Yesterday I did door to door canvasing for the local Dems( Joe Hoeffel, A Swartz) We met at the local Democratic headquarters, where we also had...
View Articleabortion Dems and refaming...
My older sister had a back alley abortion in college in the early sixties; she was blindfolded and never saw the doctors face. Thankfully she had no complicationsThat is something I hope to never see...
View ArticleMrs. Clintons comments about Womens health care choices(abortion)
Whose the flip flopper now? Just another piece of bad advice from the highly paid consultants that a middle of the road position on abortion will win voters voters for her when she runs in 2008. Did...
View ArticleSchrader out of 08 Congressional Race, vote for Patick Murphy as a DFA lister
Virginia Schrader dropped out of the PA-08 race yesterday.Today DFA will be posting a grassroots survey to vote for 10 congressional candidates (from a list of 40) to compete to be on the DFA ALL STARS...
View ArticleBeing a Jewish Democrat
From the cities that stagger on the coast lines In a nation that just can't take much more Like the forest buried beneath the highways, never had a chance to grow/never had a chance to grow. From...
View Articleusing Black Berrys to escape detection
If this has been diaried please ignore... My back was bothering me on Thursday, so I stayed home from work.I plopped myself on the sofa with an ice pack and turned on c-span. I spent all day watching...
View ArticleMy daughters high school shooting...the call that no parent wants to get
Yesterdays shooting opened up the feelings all over again. My daughter goes to Springfield High School where a student killed himself in December with an AK 47. Unlike the parents of those killed...
View ArticleI just got laid off..Welcome to the corporate life under GWB...
Yesterday at 3:30 PM I was IM'ed by one the HR hacks and asked to come into her office. When I got there my previous boss ,the VP of my department was there. In order to cut costs my job was...
View ArticleSCHIP and my husbands suicide.
After almost ten years in IT, my job was eliminated in May.Along with my job went the health insurance for myself, my 17 year old daughter and my bi polar husband. Cobra was too expensive so we...
View ArticlePassover,Obama and feeling blessed
My 18 year daughter made the Obama rally last night. I was too bone tired after hauling mulch all week and pulling weeds.I have almost 3/4 of an acre and my husband used to take care of the outside. He...
View ArticleStatue decorated for Obama here in the PA Burb
We decorated our statue for Obama and the PA primary....... http://www.flickr.com/... My 18 year old daughter casts her vote for the first time today.Diary will be short as we are working the polls at...
View ArticleVonage sucks...
I swear..Vonage is turning me into a right wing, zenophobic nut case.If I have to talk to some one else in the Phillipines again I will scream. The problem started last August. After my husband killed...
View Articlewhen the personal is political and driving a wedge between a friendship of...
I am sitting here shaking and crying.I just got off the phone with my best friend who is seriously depressed.She has just entered a day program at a local psychiatric hospital and hates it. What I...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Pa restaurant offering free Thanksgiving dinner and music
I just saw this on the Philadelphia Craigs list.They are actually having trouble finding people.. from Philadelphia Craigs list.. On Thursday, November 27th from noon to 4pm The Manayunk Brewery and...
View Articlehealth care benefits for the unemployed-stripped out of Senate version of...
The Huffington Post citizen journalists have reported this. http://tinyurl.com/... I don't know about you, but I have had it. As I said in my video in NYCeves diary http://www.dailykos.com/... one of...
View Articlewe've been robbed -stimulus edition
h/t to Howie Klein for posting this on down with tyranny http://www.youtube.com/... I think this fine American pretty much sums up how most of us are feeling given what those 4 centrist Senators have...
View Article14,000 people a day losing health insurance
diary is short as I am off to therapy.. I am trying to wrap my brain around this http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/... And while the original stim package from the house included covering the...
View Articlecleaning and getting rid of psychological chametz for Passover
cross posted at http://www.lavidalocavore.org I've just finished some of my cooking. Wed night is the first seder and I am having 11-15 people here.That does not include the 3 dogs;mine, my middle...
View ArticleI'm in Pa...Specter just said no to a public option for heathcare
This diary is going to be brief. I am leaving in a half an hour to go to a single payer forum at Swarthmore College. My daughter is a student there and is one of the organizers. Rep Joe Sestak is on...
View Articlelive blogging the c-span coverage on health care reform
I have never done this just tuned in
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