Please tell everyone over 50 this... it's urgent.

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Monday November 01, 2010 · 4:15 AM PDT

2010/11/01 · 04:15

Go to any republican senators website and if you can find one word about keeping social safety nets, like Medicare and Social Security, you have a miracle. These are our parents that will have no funds for medicine or hospitalization. One day it will be us.

Please tell everyone the real reason they are so against social programs. We are living longer. Science has made it possible to have a productive life into age 90 and older. This is why they also hate science. But all of this is a recipe for disaster in ways that we cannot even imagine.

Crispian Day

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Sunday October 31, 2010 · 6:36 PM PDT

2010/10/31 · 18:36

I am reading Nate Silver. I read his blog every day. He says that election night will be exciting. I am 58. If the republicans take over there very likely be no Medicare or hope of insurance for me... not just when I'm 65 but now if I lost my job. They plan to gut the President's healthcare plan, simply, by not funding it. Gone. Poof. I am diabetic and no insurance company would ever cover me at any price.

If you are a small business owner and you get sick they just drop you. Where is their incentive not to? Are you really going to pay a lawyer $300 and up, per hour, to go to court and lose?

Nothing about election night will be exciting. It will be terrifying because the election will not be what we lose... we lose all our safety nets.

Crispian Day

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Saturday September 11, 2010 · 4:35 AM PDT

2010/09/11 · 04:35

My husband died. I have not looked at Kos for months, but I knew what would be there so it didn't matter. I love this place because I love these people but they are talking about things like the dumping of toxic materials in poor neighborhoods while they are pooping all over their own nest and always have been.

President Obama is yours. He always has been. The liberal side of the world is just too wide a tent for any one man to get done more than about 30% of what liberals want.

If you have children or grandchildren and someone told you that if you did project A they would be dead in a week, would you do it? If you don't think he faces that every day you are naive beyond belief. But that is not my point.

Crispian Day

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Sunday June 20, 2010 · 9:23 AM PDT

2010/06/20 · 09:23

There is an incredible hero among us. He is trying to save our lives--literally in the scientific, medical sense he is trying to save our lives.

The thing is, Democracy can only exist if the people can find the truth somewhere, preferably in quantity. These days every reporter is suspect--in fact are there true reporters on the evening news? That depends. If someone is trying to hijack our Democracy, the reporter knows it, and talks about something like credit card interest rates, that may be good information but is it the main, most relevant, news? If it's the most critical thing to know (in order to make informed decisions at election time) and we never hear it, then no. If the difficult is avoided then truth is hidden forever.

That makes a real hero even more rare and valuable. This hero also gives us a fascinating look into the world how distraction and deception are used to deflect our attention from what we are really losing--or giving away without a thought. I do not wish to offend true believers, or question their motives. I certainly do not wish to hurt the feelings of those who believe in their church. I do question the motives of someone who would deny the gift of science given to us by God (in by belief).

Crispian Day

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Thursday May 27, 2010 · 7:54 AM PDT

2010/05/27 · 07:54

Remember when Pat Roberts said that the people of Haiti deserved what they got? Remember all the way back to Jim and Tammy Faye saying that aids was payback for the "gays." Okay folks, yes I think it is the height of sickness to say this but still... what did the people of New Orleans do (according to these same republicans) to deserve the oil spill. I don't personally believe that God is that horrific, but they want God to be like a world wide wrestling champ--then lets have it--what the heck are you saying that the people of the gulf coast did to deserve this?

Seriously, if you believe what you say, if you are not lying, cult producing phonies then what did they do to deserve that? Lets hear it from Pat Robertson...

So ante up, what did the people of New Orleans do to deserve this? Come on now, what did they do according to you? Pat Robertson... where are you?

Crispian Day

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Tuesday May 18, 2010 · 11:28 AM PDT

2010/05/18 · 11:28

My husband died 2 months ago. Since then I've been in constant pain like I've been shot in the heart. More than that it feels like someone is beating every part of me with rocks all the time. I have no one. My husband and I were almost 60 and we had started to "slow down" everything but work.

But my husband was the most dynamic man I've ever known. We sort of stopped going out at night, other than maybe for dinner, because we were suddenly tired more at 9 than 11. Plus, we totally entertained each other. We made each other laugh all day and night. We worked together. He was kind and generous and funny and beautiful, even at 60 and he died in a car wreck.

Crispian Day

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Sunday May 02, 2010 · 6:24 AM PDT

2010/05/02 · 06:24

There was a survey in the New York Times recently, wherein the Tea Partiers described themselves as smart, above average wealth and white male.

Now, I know it's a survey, but why publish it if you flat out know it to be untrue? So, at least these writers, believed the survey.

Crispian Day

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Sunday April 11, 2010 · 10:59 AM PDT

2010/04/11 · 10:59

Hi!
I love Daily Kos and prefer to get my news here rather than anywhere else. The only drawback of course being that someone does not always pick up on the true biggest story of the day. However, since the evening news virtually never picks up on the news of any day, it's pretty much the best news, with Rachel Maddow and Keith Oldberman on MSNBC that I can count on. Strange segue coming up...

Until March 7th I had the perfect marriage for 25 years. That is the day my husband died. I was lucky beyond measure and I knew it. I used to say that home was not home until he was home, including after work--and we worked together. I also used to say that many if not most of us have a perfect world and we are not fully aware of it. What I meant by that was that no matter how great your problems, if the people you loved were alive and in good contact or living with you, you really had all you need to be happy. Well fed, clothed, housed, health "insuranced" and employed are all necessities but not for happiness. Only those who have lost someone they loved beyond belief will fully understand this. Although most of us are destined to understand it one day.

Crispian Day

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Saturday March 06, 2010 · 6:30 PM PST

2010/03/06 · 18:30

explain. All of my life I have loved solutions for odd problems. I don't mean saving someone's marriage, I mean things like this:

I buy apples, pears, fruit like that and I want to eat the skin as it has all the vitamins. Apples are pretty safe bet year round (some fruit is terrible out of season) but to get the kind I liked I could rarely buy organic.

Apples are covered in a wax, and when I look at it all I can see is millions of fly footprints. So I had to get that wax off. I bought some of that fruit cleaner--- ha! I could run a knife edge over it and the was would curl right up. So I started washing it with dishwashing soap-- dumb. It does absorb no matter how much you rinse, and you do ingest some of it.

Crispian Day

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Thursday March 04, 2010 · 8:53 AM PST

2010/03/04 · 08:53

Citizens United for Separaton of church and state is sending an action alert for something that is apparently happening right now. I am going to copy my email from them in the body of the diary but first I wanted to give you the best way to contact your Senator.

If you go to www.senate.gov you get the real phone numbers and email addresses for your Senator. (The republicans have a fake site that looks real, but clearly is not the true government site, as when you send information through their site you are not asked to identify where you live, etc).

See action email and Citizens United for Separation of Church and State Website below.

Crispian Day

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Sunday February 28, 2010 · 3:36 PM PST

2010/02/28 · 15:36

Democracy is in trouble. Why? Because we have no news. Period. Nothing. You are either unwilling to be real news or you think that Republicans are right. Well, if it's the latter, boy are you in for a world of hurt in the next few years.

One question, how can so many bizarre things happen, so many things that are incomprehensible, that you don't say, even one time, why would that be? Why would someone do something that absurd? What is behind all this?
"What is behind all this" is why you were once relevant. Even if you agreed with Joe McCarthy there was a time when you would tell the story behind the sound bite. Today, all we would hear is "Joseph McCarthy is hunting down Communists in America." That would be it. You don't agree? Really?

Crispian Day

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Thursday February 25, 2010 · 7:42 AM PST

2010/02/25 · 07:42

wonderful thing called Democracy. The pen is still mightier than the sword and you have proven that, to us, and people around the world. Because of what you are about to do (healthcare) you will save so many the grief I carry every day. If you save even one person from living with what I live with, what so many of us live with, you will have fulfilled your promise, and your destiny as President.

I grew up middle class but 10 dollars less and we would have been lower middle class and barely able to afford anything extra. If you had been President when my mother died, she would be alive today. Because you are about to give America something my mom never had I would like to thank you in her name.

My mother worked every day of her life from the time she was 16 until the day of her death in 1995 at 72. Her story is the story of America. It is the difference in living in a third world country and living in a compassionate country.

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