Tag: politics
member name: Elizabeth Madrigal
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November 02, 2008 05:46 PM EST --
This is Sunday and I cannot believe that in two more days I will actually have a life again. The rain started pouring down here today - late for the northwest where I live - and all I could . . .
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February 09, 2008 11:57 PM EST --
It was around 3:30 p.m. here in Ridgefield, Washington, when we finally left our Democratic Party caucus. My husband and I lingered there greeting old neighbors, parents of our children's classmates . . .
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October 03, 2008 03:37 AM EDT --
Everybody has a certain style. Mine could be described as spontaneous, enthusiastic, passionate, revealing, sometimes too loud and often out of bounds. That's exactly how I like my debates. . . .
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February 27, 2009 07:56 PM EST --
A few months ago I noticed a site, http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/news/pr/RadioAds.asp , that thrilled this lapsed Catholic. On it I discovered that there were many Roman Catholics like me . . .
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July 17, 2008 07:01 PM EDT --
I get a lot of emails, but I have to admit, the one I got today sickened me. It was from CommonDreams.org's News Center, and republished an article from The Independent, a United Kingdom . . .
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August 27, 2008 09:10 PM EDT --
Just when I think politics is enough to make me sick, the Democrats rise above resentment, bitterness, competitiveness and rancor. At 4:48 PM Denver time, Hillary Clinton released her New York . . .
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October 10, 2008 05:18 AM EDT --
As many of you know, I am passionate about our country, but the United States of America has fallen on very sad times. The economic breakdown of late is merely the latest symptom of the moral and . . .
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October 22, 2008 06:28 PM EDT --
On the Daily Show recently Samantha Bee and her real life husband, Jason, did a skit in which they interviewed a group of 'undecided voters'. Samantha was acting like a crazy woman eventually, . . .
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October 23, 2008 01:15 AM EDT --
Who are these wacko ignoramuses and their first cousins, the undecideds? I suppose I could use the phrase freaks and apathetic morons, but maybe I am being too harsh.
There was one year . . .
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November 03, 2008 02:58 PM EST --
Yes, that was the first thing I read this morning in the New York Times, courtesy of Douglas MacKinnon, a man who lives in an alternative universe. http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.c...
Like . . .
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January 23, 2008 02:06 AM EST --
Last night I watched an ER episode which opened with a young neo-con standing at his father's emergency room bed and spewing insults toward an undocumented co-worker whom he erroneously blamed for . . .
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December 30, 2007 06:50 PM EST --
The 12 months which proceed contested presidential elections have historically been nasty. The Swift-boating we saw in the last election was nothing, really, compared to other previous elections in which . . .
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January 03, 2008 09:47 PM EST --
Tonight while the Iowa caucus is underway I keep having this recurring thought... Pick a card... any card... but just pick one quick! I imagine a magician with extreme sleight of hands abilities flashing . . .
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March 26, 2008 04:58 PM EDT --
The Spitzer, Craig, Vittner and (Bill) Clinton 'sex scandals' seem to brightly illuminate one truth. Plenty of married people cheat on each other. Go to any community in the country . . .
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May 19, 2008 01:18 AM EDT --
We walked across the bridge and up hill to get into downtown Portland, Oregon, as our daughter had warned us that the V.I.P. tickets she got for the five of us would only be good until 12:45 p.m. and . . .
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May 20, 2008 01:34 PM EDT --
The New York Times just broke the news that Ted Kennedy's doctors at Mass General in Boston have found a malignant tumor in Ted Kennedy's brain. Nothing else is known (update below) , but . . .
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June 08, 2008 02:51 PM EDT --
When Senator Obama met with Senator Clinton at Senator Diane Feinstien's home in Washington, D.C., I will admit I was pleased. I wanted him to tell her she was acting like a Big Jerk, but you . . .
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June 20, 2008 04:46 PM EDT --
You might assume this story is about teen pregnancy, but the Associated Press and I think it is much larger than that. The basics are that as many as 18 teenage girls in the small Cape Ann town . . .
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August 29, 2008 06:38 PM EDT --
Hey. I am not criticizing John McCain for wanting to spend the next four years with an ex-beauty queen with a silver tongue, as that is his style, but one has to wonder if Sarah Palin is the . . .
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September 09, 2008 10:01 PM EDT --
I am not Sarah Palin - for which I thank ALL the Gods - but I am a pretty ferocious campaigner for what I believe is right and good in this life and Senators Obama and Biden fall into that category . . .
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