Obama Video Musical Tribute from Triangle, NC
Why do so many of us follow the news of the presidential campaign so closely? (I'm only asking) It's not like you have yet to make up your mind, is it?Isn't there a better way to spend your time? (lol)
View ArticleNew Obama Ads Just Released
Here's a link to the new Obama ad titled "Still"Update - And another titled "Real Change"
View ArticleNC Early Voting Report
Early Voting began in NC this morning and will continue until November 1st. Here's a glimpse from the ground.Update: Just to share this informative and timely diary by SneakySnu with early reports out...
View ArticleDurham, NC - 58% RV Ballots Cast in Early Voting
On the Ground In North CarolinaThis story must be told. And where better to share it than with the Kossacks here at Daily Kos? It seems that not a single day goes by without a tear in the eye or...
View ArticleObama Service Project - "Yes We Cans"
As we prepare for the Obama House Parties this weekend,http://my.barackobama.com/...this is to share a local community service project to be held in conjunction with the Inauguration of our President...
View ArticleCivil War Soldier Story - An Autobiographical Excerpt
My great-great grandfather was active in the South Carolina State Militia and served for a time as the Brigadier General of the Ninth South Carolina Cavalry Brigade. He was referred to as General until...
View ArticleBreaking: New Endorsement for Public Health Care Option
Health Care for America Now lists members of Congress that have endorsed a set of core principles supporting a viable public option in crafting legislation for National Health Care Reform. To date, 20...
View ArticleThe “Hagan Disconnect” – A Personal Story
Our Durham delegation of eight constituents left the NC Health Care for America Now Town Hall that was underway yesterday for a meeting with an aide to Senator Hagan. We were surprised to learn upon...
View ArticleSenator Hagan: Time to ActBlue
Last week, your humble diarist scribed "The Hagan Disconnect – A Personal Story", a chance meeting with Senator Hagan at the NC town hall meeting in DC focusing on health care reform legislation. Her...
View ArticleRevising OFA/Obama Health Care Declaration
Organizing For America lists three principles declared to be the "bedrock requirements for real health care reform" delineated by President Obama. Citizens can sign an online petition or print out an...
View ArticleAnnouncing: Health Care for America Petition Drive
A Daily Kos Diary posted on July 11 suggested modifying and strengthening President Obama’s Health Care Declaration presented by Organizing For America to include language supporting a public option...
View ArticleLocal Resolution Supporting Public Option: Available Here (with poll)
"So the need for reform is urgent and it is indisputable,", – President Obama says once again on July 20th.And yet, the American public is being treated to a bevy of conflict and controversy of a...
View ArticleConversation with President Obama (with poll)
If you could ask a question of President Obama concerning the Health Care Reform Legislation slowly winding its way through Congress, what would it be?As fate would have it, President Obama will be in...
View ArticleHealth Care March (w/ video) Wilmington, NC
Some pundits wonder why Americans (read their viewing audience) have not been treated to demonstrations and marches in the streets for meaningful health care reform. Setting aside the fact that...
View ArticleAnnouncing HealthcareWithHeart.org
Amidst the rancor and the tumult and the seemingly endless (and mindless) riveting punditry presented by mainstream media, somehow the narrative of meaningful healthcare reform in America has been...
View ArticleHealthcareWithHeart Video Documentary
This is to share a video documentary by HealthcareWithHeart of North Carolina featuring personal healthcare stories Kay Zwan of Wilmington and Rhonda Robinson of Durham.
View ArticleHCR is Personal (w/ video)
It was eleven o’clock just yesterday morning in the board room of the North Carolina Association of Educators’ offices in Raleigh. Twenty or so community leaders were gathered for a press conference...
View ArticleHCR bill and making lemonade outta this lemon (w/ poll)
Stardate September 1, 1997.The Kaiser Foundation releases Publication 1318: "Retiree Health Trends And Implications Of Possible Medicare Reforms" with an analysis of a legislative proposal to change...
View ArticleBreaking: MSNBC Re-Broadcast Today at Noon
MSNBC is rebroadcasting yesterday's programming of President Obama at the GOP retreat in its entirety today at noon. Consider this a headline (in case you were not aware).
View ArticleWas it all a Dream? (video) (w/ poll)
"Was it all a Dream?" of course is the opening line of Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 911. I love that quote because it reminds me to put things in perspective.
View ArticleFix it - Policy Solutions Found Here
All this wrangling over the Budget and attacks on entitlements is unnerving to me. If you want to talk about cutting back on entitlements, let's have the conversation. But let's open up the...
View ArticleOur Royal Family (video)
Making and sharing videos is an expression of my passion and my artistic self. While posting a new video (with permission from Carly Simon to feature her work), I came across one of my faves to share...
View Article#OccupyWallStreet: Haiku Contest
A diary titled "Poem: We are the 99%" by Killer of Sacred Cows demonstrates the depth of feeling about what is happening with the Occupy movement.The website "We Are the 99%" provides personal...
View ArticleOde to 2011. "This is so wrong..."
Good bye and good riddance to 2011.My year began in the emergency room and rehab center with Aunt El as she suffered a massive stroke. She is now confined to a wheelchair and needs assistance with...
View ArticleUpdate: Brad Miller Considering Run for NC Governor
Reporter Bob Geary of IndyWeek.com reports that Brad Miller is thinking about running for Governor in North Carolina. You can read about it here. This is great news!
View Article12 year olds tackle amendment one in nc (video)
Amidst the hate and the rhetoric of the fight to say "No" to NC's Amendment One, comes the exercise of civic duties by our youth. Follow below the squiggle.
View ArticleRev Dr William Barber's Speech to NAACP (video)(poll)
Yesterday’s Daily Kos diary by Denise Oliver Velez reported on the powerful speech delivered by Rev Dr. William Barber to the NAACP on Wednesday, July 11, 2012. His oratory followed the speech by Mitt...
View ArticleRepeal Obamacare = Weaken Medicare
Paul Ryan will be using his own mother as a prop on his campaign stop in Florida on Saturday. She will let the crowd know that "Paul would never do anything to harm Medicare, would you Paul?."We can...
View ArticleRomney-Ryan Pinnochio Graphics Needed
Maybe it's just me, but where is the iconic classic image of both Romney and Ryan together in their Pinnochio grandness? Can't "we" do better than (follow me past the orange squiggle) this?
View ArticleLyrics to "Your Ryan Lies" (sic Eagles)
h/t to elwior for reworking the chorus of the Eagles tune "your Lyin' Eyes" to "Your Ryan Lies." First appearing here as a comment in pittdem's recent diary. Now, I am not a songwriter but just offer...
View ArticleISO Second Senate Sequestration Bill
Enough already with the "Obamaquester" ranting by petulant prognosticators of pablum. Here's what will shut them up (after the orange biscuit).
View ArticleTonight’s Network Premier: “Escape Fire - The Fight to Save American Healthcare”
This is a “must see” documentary for our Kossack Community. Set your dvr to CNN at 8 pm this evening to record and view this most compelling and entertaining program. Escape Fire - The Fight to Save...
View ArticleIRS Scandal is Benghazi! All over again
The IRS scandal is Benghazi! All over again. But the target is the Affordable Care Act.And just like little is stated by MSM about how funding for security for embassies and such was less than needed...
View ArticleWake up North Carolina! Wake Up! Wake Up!
“Wake Up, North Carolina! Wake Up! Wake Up!” was a rallying cry led by Reverend William J. Barber II on Monday, May 20 in Raleigh.“It’s time to walk, it’s time to march, it’s time to say Forward...
View ArticleMega Moral Monday (video)
Here's a video to provide a slice of yesterday's mega rally of Moral Monday in North Carolina to follow on to today's earlier diary by ludkmr.Follow below the orange biscuit to view the 5 minute video.
View ArticleLink to TX Senate Livestream
The special session of the Texas Senate begins at 2 pm Central Daylight time. And here's a link to view: http://www.texastribune.org/...Of course, we have our own soggy event happening simultaneously...
View ArticleKossacks Unite! Help us in NC
The NC Association of Educators is calling for its members to attend the next (and last) Moral Monday in Raleigh on Monday, July 29th. Please watch this brief video and help make it go viral. (You know...
View ArticleThis is what democracy looks like (video)
Story of America is there as six young voting rights activists are arrested in the NC Speaker of the House's office last evening. Take a few moments to view this captivating and compelling footage.
View ArticleFlash Mob at Raleigh Walmart (video) w/ update
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View ArticleChanging the Narrative to "Tax the Rich!"
The recent bipartisan calls to remove the tax on medical devices demonstrates (once again) the stranglehold corporate interests exert on our democracy. You may recall that the tax was intended to...
View ArticleMy Reply to Obamacare Sticker Shock Posting on Facebook (NC)
Here’s my response (below) to the following posting that appeared on my Facebook timeline yesterday.FYI- very close friend friend and son with bcbs got notice hospital insurance as of jan 1st goes from...
View ArticleLive From NC - Moral March on Raleigh - Link
To follow up on yesterday's most excellent diary:http://www.dailykos.com/...Here's a livestream link to today's Moral March on Raleigh happening right now:http://new.livestream.com/...Life finds me...
View Article#ShakeupWake (video)
We got it going on here in Wake County, the Triangle, and North Carolina. Watch, Share, and GOTV!
View ArticleDonald Trump: "You Are Not Going To Support Me" (video)
Finally. Truth Be Told.xYouTube Video
View ArticleDem Unity Ticket - 2016
Just a voice out here in the intertubes that supports both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in 2016. The seemingly endless acerbic pontifications in our DKos Community to demean one or the other is...
View ArticleMy Convo with RNC "Free the Delegates" Founder
Kendal Unruh, an RNC delegate from Colorado, is leading the charge to have the RNC Rules Committee invoke a “Conscience Clause” to allow delegates to vote their conscience (and not be “bound”) on the...
View ArticleTime to Beat the Drum: "Medicare For All"
It’s time to beat the drum and demand Medicare For All. As long as the CBO is going to score the GOP replacement plan for the ACA, let’s see how it stacks up to a Medicare for All plan.Just sayin’How...
View ArticleDay 1 EV in NC: Dem=47.8% Rep=27.3%
Democrats crushing in-person voting on the first day of NC early vote. Democratic=47.8% Independent=24.7% Republican=27.3%Click here for link to U.S. Elections Project websiteAnd of the 333,466 voters...
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