Tag: politics
group name: talkboutit
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October 25, 2007 04:58 PM EDT --
Back in October of 2006, one year ago, I applied for Social Security Disability Benefits. I have arthritis in both knees and can barely walk let alone climb up subway steps. I need to lug around my shopping . . .
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August 16, 2007 04:01 PM EDT --
NOTE: I received this as an anonymous email forward recently and thought it worth sharing. No need to agree or disagree... It's simply food for thought:
QUITE AN ANALOGY
I bought . . .
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September 14, 2008 02:48 PM EDT --
I've been reading a lot of political posts on Gather and have noticed that the Obama supporters seem to be very angry. You can almost heart hem screaming while reading their comments. It was the same . . .
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October 31, 2006 09:35 PM EST --
Is our Democracy near it's end ? While I was having lunch with my Dad today, he whipped out the following article, which I found to be very interesting.
Read and Think ....??
How . . .
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October 18, 2006 05:04 PM EDT --
I just read an article ( http://elections.us.reuters.com/top/news/usnN17259607.html/?src=092906_MARKETING_CMS_ElecMidArt )
In short, it said:
By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent
WASHINGTON, . . .
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September 01, 2007 04:48 PM EDT --
My sister has been battling colon cancer for 16 months. I would like to say that she is winning the battle but I don't think that is happening.
When she was first diagnosed in May of 2006 we were . . .
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October 12, 2006 10:51 AM EDT --
Iraq?
Iran?
or North Korea?
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February 07, 2008 10:40 PM EST --
I've read some articles the past few days saying that the authors were not going to vote for Clinton because she's a woman. Some of these articles were written by women. One female . . .
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September 10, 2006 01:12 AM EDT --
I sure everybody agrees that the iraq war is a tragedy, wheather you agree with the war or not. However, in my opinion, the biggest tragedy is that the insurgency could easily have . . .
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March 25, 2007 05:24 PM EDT --
I have a vent that is bugging me today. I have been trying to follow some of the "political" conversations on Gather and other places. Why is it that in every place you look, people are always . . .
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October 11, 2006 12:11 PM EDT --
Hopkins today announced the results of a study saying that over 600,000 Iraqis have died since the start of the Iraq War. How can we claim to be liberators if we are killing the people we supposedly wish . . .
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November 22, 2008 07:11 PM EST --
Maybe because this is the Dallas area, but today has always been something special here. I thought quite a few Gatherites would have posted their tributes. All the threats being tossed around about . . .
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October 26, 2008 03:34 PM EDT --
This really bothers me. A few years back the voters of New York City decided that they wanted a term limit for the mayor to serve. We said that a person could only be mayor for two terms and cannot run . . .
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August 27, 2009 11:21 PM EDT --
From the L.A. Times:
"The latest pol to receive a self-inflicted egg facial is Lynn Jenkins , a freshman Republican congresswoman from Kansas, who according to the Associated Press told a group . . .
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July 24, 2008 02:31 PM EDT --
Hispanic voters were overall pretty much Clintonistas in the primaries, a fact that, according to this recent poll, says much about the chances of McCain to pick up the Clintonista vote. From CNN
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March 20, 2009 12:13 AM EDT --
I've sat and listened to people accusing Dodd of just about everything but shoveling money to AIG Execs. No, I've seen that too. I'm not a big fan of Senator Dodd, but the truth needs to . . .
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July 11, 2008 07:05 PM EDT --
There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about how the two candidate's tax policies will affect everyone. I consider it an honor to shed some light on this war of obfuscation by linking to this . . .
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July 23, 2008 04:25 PM EDT --
You want one, go get it.
https://political.moveon.org/obamabuttons/index.html?id=13312-5615013-XejjKcx&t=2
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October 11, 2006 12:31 PM EDT --
Did anyone else watch the Bush press conference?
How many times has Bush said the will not tolerate a nuclear North Korea? And now that that is exactly what we have, all Bush wants to do his impose sanctions? . . .
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February 04, 2008 01:51 PM EST --
The government is going way too far in dictating what the citizens can and cannot do. This is ridiculous.
http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/01/no-fat-people-allowed-only-slim-will-be.html
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