Thank you folks!!!!

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Wednesday February 13, 2013 · 1:07 AM PST

2013/02/13 · 01:07

Hi, boilerman10 here, cancer gives you odd sleep patterns sometimes, and having come off another bout of chemo side effects, I thought I would drop a line to all of you to say thanks for reccing up my recent diary "In Praise of Stephanie Miller."

Mary in Tucson wrote Steph and forwarded the diary to her, and Steph read it on the air! I had tears in my eyes. (Also, I see what drives some people nuts about my writing; I can sound like "The Grand Pooh-Bah.") "Mary," I want to thank you for sending in the diary to Steph. Thank you so much. To Steph, I love you too.

Aside from that, not much is happening here except we wisely stayed home instead of going to Connecticut for the weekend...they got snow the way we get snow up here and it raised hell on those poor folks. Here's hoping you are finally able to get out in Connecticut. Sorry about the short diary but it is all the time I have right now. So once again, thank you all for reccing up my diary about Stephanie Miller, thanks to the mysterious "Mary in Tucson" for sending the diary to Steph, and thank heavens that the big snow storm was not bigger, up here in Syracuse, we feel for folks who get Syracuse sized storms when they are not used to it. Have a good day folks!

In praise of Stephanie Miller

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Friday February 08, 2013 · 6:35 PM PST

2013/02/08 · 18:35

5 days a week, after the wife heads off to work and the grandkids are off to school I get the TV all to myself. In earlier times I was left with Morning Joe, or GMA/Rachel Ray/Local show called "Bridge Street" (all ABC) and the usual history channel offerings along with tons of comercials for aging prostate cures, Viagra, Stonedine pots and pans and of course how could we forget Phil Swift and Flex seal!

Then one day, Current TV picked up Bill Press and Stephanie Miller...It was like a magnificent dawn and a blast of fresh air! WOW! What an improvement!

Now that my diseased carcass has placed further limits on what I can do beyond tinkering with an ancient steam engine big enough we find out to run not only the slabbing saw, but the finishing saw AND the planer station! That's why this beast was so damn big, this thing ran a complete mill, not just a portable slab saw station. I wondered why a portable station would need a 2 and 1/2 ton flywheel...it would if it were the prime mover for a whole mill. We are making progress slowly with the engine. Let's jump for more on this.

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Friday February 01, 2013 · 7:08 PM PST

2013/02/01 · 19:08

In the realm of the tin eared Republicans and their pals in the NRA management any changes to the gun laws are unacceptable. Not even willing to try and make new rules are these otherwise educated (I think) folks. Yet, the public wants/demands changes and that damn quickly!

I am a life member of the NRA though I have resisted endless appeals for more money "to protect gun owners rights" for many years now. So, I might not be a lifer anymore. Oh well.

I want to see limits on magazines, limits on rifle style by that I mean autoloading military style assault rifles of modern types...exceptions being historical collector type weapons like the MP44 Sturmgewere and the caliber 30 US M-1 carbine which is a fine center fire training rifle for a younger shooter and a good "bottle buster" plinker for marksmanship sharpening. The MP44 is more likely to be stolen and fenced for cash than used in some drive-by, and the ammunition is unavailable for the most part. Let's jump.

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Thursday January 31, 2013 · 11:35 PM PST

2013/01/31 · 23:35

Just a short diry to let my friends here know that cancer has kept me away and just about got me last week. It isn't just the cachexia that eats you alive and leaves you looking like a WW 2 POW of the Japanese, I have lost 150+ pounds to date and cured my snoring and sleep apnea problem by losing so much weight and fat in my throat that I no longer need a CPAP machine. Yet as you watch yourself waste away, and suffer the pains of the tumors and the dopiness from the meds you have to take and the general brutal malaise of the chemo side effects and reactions a brutal sort of defiance overtakes you...you get really pissed off mad.

I think that is a normal reaction...it's coming for you and you just flip it the bird.

I'm hanging in there guys, but it is rough, say hi to Bill in Portland Maine and all my friends in the pootie crowd. My furry little friend has been a real pal and surprisingly good for me during this latest bout of reactions. Love to all, smack down a Republican and don't give Scott Walker one inch of leeway, that crook is sneaking up on 2016, and he needs to be stopped cold! Sorry for the short diary but I have to rest a little now.

Hey! Easy on us oldsters!

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Tuesday November 13, 2012 · 4:56 PM PST

2012/11/13 · 16:56

I was recently on a city bus where I was accosted verbally by two young black young men who asked me what I thought about Obama winning. The tone was confrontational. I disarmed these two by flashing my "IBEW for Obama/Biden" pin from 2008 that I had on under my jacket and this changed the tone. We talked briefly and I told them that many of us oldsters are scared to death about Social Security and Medicare cuts or elimination. As a staunch union man, anything other than Obama/Biden was utterly unacceptable.

They asked about how come so many whites voted for "that Romney dude?" I think some of it is racism, and a lot of it was Obama's capitulation in the face of Republican bluffing and plain obstructionism and I didn't hesitate to say so, even about the racism.

we parted company on good terms. Jump over the orange squiggle

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Thursday November 08, 2012 · 5:50 AM PST

2012/11/08 · 05:50

Dan Maffei leads Lady Akin, err I mean Ann Marie Buerkle by 14600 votes.

Buerkle will not concede at this point.

Ann, I don't think Karl is going to pull any levers to save you now. Jump

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Monday October 22, 2012 · 12:49 AM PDT

2012/10/22 · 00:49

I am a Obama optimist. Pending some foul trick or twist of fate I believe Obama will win. I don't want to speculate beyond that.

But, what of the aftermath? Notably, what about our Republican adversaries? I trust you all have read or are at least aware of the platform of the Republican national committee, you should download a copy of this to your machine for reference, because between now and 2014 it is going to be amusing as hell to watch the Pubbies try and "Luntz-ify" this hideous collection of frightening schemes. You can download this at http://www.scribd.com/...

Now why would we bother our heads about what Republican extremeism will look like two years down the road? Let's jump over the orange squiggle...

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Thursday August 09, 2012 · 4:12 PM PDT

2012/08/09 · 16:12

Hi, I opened the mailbox to find a mailer from NY Congresswoman Ann Buerkle, NY-25 hogging up space. At first glance it looked like a PAC promo, but it is actually done at taxpayer expense using Buerkle's franking priviliges.

Buerkle has her gale warnings up over the ACA, and how the Supremes have left it to Republicans to repeal this onerous, job-killing legislation.

In the very first paragraph, Buerkle plays the "it was a 5-4 decision!" meme, but the 2nd paragraph caught my attention. There were crocadile tears about "large tax increases" and , and "800,000 fewer Americans working!", How it would be "more difficult for small business to hire" with this bill in place. Jump over the orange eclair.

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Sunday August 05, 2012 · 2:05 PM PDT

2012/08/05 · 14:05

Cancer has a way of putting things into perspective unlike anything else. Especially when your cancer reappears, and you start a new round of chemo. There is a good chance that this is my last big campaign in politics and frankly I am not happy about that. So, I thought we could take a little time for a chat about things both here and in the big picture.

Why isn't Obama's team hammering day and night about the "Social Security killers" Boehner, Ryan, and Cantor? Why arn't these people being shown as bloated plutocrats vis-a-vis suffering old people having to root through garbage for food, for that is what that dastardly trio wants elderly Americans to do? Why oh why isn't the trad med "expressing concern" that the Republican ideas are just plainly not workable or even serious? Do we have to produce the ads ourselves?

I was quite impressed with Rafalca the horse and the "twinkletoes routine" at the Olympics, but dismayed that Mittens would leave Ann hanging, distancing himself at the one time when everyone would have given the dope a pass to be a rich asshole with a beautiful horse. I'm not done yet, let's jump.

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Friday June 29, 2012 · 5:26 PM PDT

2012/06/29 · 17:26

Like many, I am greatly pleased that the A.C.A. was upheld by the SCOTUS. I felt the legislation was perfectly constitutionally sound from day one, but was under no illusion about the reach and persuasion powers of the US Chamber of Commerce, the K Street Insurance lobbyists, and the general Pubbie windmill.

But, as the post decision hurricane promised by the Republicans, and particularly the verbal BM from Eric Cantor displays, is that information to the public is critical.
this is the point of this diary.

It is going to take more than Cenk and Eliot, and Jennifer on Current TV and maybe Al, Ed and Rachel and Lawrence on MSNBC to get this message out. Let's jump.

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Wednesday May 23, 2012 · 6:03 PM PDT

2012/05/23 · 18:03

Let me first say that cancer and chemo suck. You end up anemic, and dekadron makes your legs swell up like a blimp, let alone a balloon. Your insides hurt and things just seem run down. Yet, you are alive, and you should be thankful. You just wish you felt better.

Next, I am distressed that President Obama's message seems to be muted by a trad med that seems more interested in rainbow halos and unusual breast feeding habits. I thought the Joplin speech was exceptional. Plus when confronted by this, cons reverted to n word hooting. I think we have a good chance this year.

I am upset as hell at the DNC, first, Upstate New York has been ignored and wild-eye Ryan Budget honker and double speaker Ann Marie Buerkle R-NY25 which I believe is NY 24 now is already advertising heavily. She did the same thing in 2010 against Dan Maffei. Buerkle is a fierce anti-woman legislation hawk. Her anti abortion positions are legendary in New York State. I would warn the DNC to not ignor this area, for this is more like Ohio than Metro downstate New York. Hey DNC, HELP! Now Jump.

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Friday February 17, 2012 · 10:21 AM PST

2012/02/17 · 10:21

I am reading at TPM about how the Republican suicide club is trying to go back to the 50's.

Goddammit, at no time during that fabled age of Ike, McCarthy, In God We Trust, and "Town Without Pity" did anything come across as anywhere near as regressive as the claptrap spewing from Republican pieholes during this silly and hypoxic GOoPer Presidential Primary.

At no time in living memory of a World War One Vet even has anything been this nastily regressive in tone or spirit, with the possible exception of bombast about women voting. More below

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Thank you folks!!!!

In praise of Stephanie Miller

Gun Nuts Epic Fail and some points to remember.

Cancer is a MFer my friend....

Hey! Easy on us oldsters!

Maffei leads Buerkle!

As the aftermath gets closer....

NY-25, Buerkle mailer....The ACA lie wagon again.

The Last Hurrah.

Democrats must step up to help!!

Cancer sucks, and other things

Let's get this straight here....