Your comments have no substance.......

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Sunday December 13, 2009 · 8:25 AM PST

2009/12/13 · 08:25

Updated for 2009

Uhhh, your response to this diary is completely without substance..... I am astonished by the lack of rationality in reponse to this diary. Do you not see the point to my diary and the subsequent defenses I make regarding what I have written here? How can you not see that? Have you not read the FAQs about the proper response to my clearly superior reasoning? Obviously you haven't been paying enough attention. It's so unproductive!

This blog has been completely taken over by people who disagree with me, and I have suffered all alone at the hands of all of you horrible people who clearly don't appreciate my point of view and clearly superior reasoning. It's very lonely being so right, all by myself, here. If I wasn't right about how alone I am on this blog, how did I end up on the top of the rec list, hmm? Just ask the Fifty Seven Other People who agree with me. They see it too, they know exactly what I'm talking about. Can we all be crazy? I don't think so. You and the Forty Five People who agree with you are just out to get us me us. It's unprecedented. I mean, you keep coming into our diaries and disagreeing with us. I mean, come on...

Buffalo Girl

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Tuesday November 10, 2009 · 6:13 PM PST

2009/11/10 · 18:13

Earlier today, Adam B put up a diary about his ActBlue page We've Got Your Back for the twenty most vulnerable Democrats who cast the toughest votes in favor of health care reform and in favor of reproductive freedom Saturday night.

The goal was to reach at least 300 overall contributors raising a total of $20,000 for these candidates. Right now we're just at 194 overall contributors for a total of $13,935.

Good, but not there yet!

Let's keep it coming!

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Tuesday October 20, 2009 · 10:41 AM PDT

2009/10/20 · 10:41

Senator Ron Wyden from Oregon is fighting the good fight out there for progressives but isn't getting enough credit or support, in my opinion, for his efforts. He is currently trying to get language into the floor bill to open up the exchanges to anyone who doesn't like their current insurance. Without this, a public option would not be available to most people even if we did get a robust version onto the floor.

Yesterday, the Democratic Senate leadership sent out its daily talking points to its members' offices. Among them was the relatively anodyne argument that, "Under our [health-care reform] plan, if you like what you have you can keep it, but if you don’t there will be affordable choices for you that can’t be taken away."

The only problem with this talking point: It isn't true. Sen. Ron Wyden's communications director, Jennifer Hoelzer, has spent the past few months fighting for her boss's amendment that would make it true, and she blasted a quick fact-check to 490 addresses on the reply all:

Buffalo Girl

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Thursday October 01, 2009 · 3:22 PM PDT

2009/10/01 · 15:22

I wrote this diary back in 2007 about the common netroots call for primary challenges and why it's a weak response. I'm going to revisit that today in light of the health care reform lobbying that we're all concerned about right now.

Calls for primary challenges is a largely useless, ineffective tactic. Why? Let me quote Adam B:

Here's a list of all the incumbent Senators who've lost primaries since 1981:

* Joe Liebeman (D-Ct.) defeated by Ned Lamont (2006)
* Bob Smith (R-N.H.) defeated by John Sununu (2002)
* Sheila Frahm (R-Kans.) defeated by Sam Brownback (1996)
* Alan Dixon (D-Ill.) defeated by Carol Moseley Braun (1992)

Lieberman, we know. Smith had left the GOP briefly for an independent presidential run and returned; Frahm was an interim gubernatorial appointee to fill Dole's seat; Dixon lost during the Year of the Woman in a three-way field. That's it.

Buffalo Girl

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Saturday August 08, 2009 · 3:32 PM PDT

2009/08/08 · 15:32

My beloved kitty is gone....

She was 18 years old and I had her for 12 of those years. She was a wonderful, gorgeous little creature, my little angel. A few months ago I had a minor surgery, and when I came home and went up to bed, she came with me and stayed with me right there on the bed all day long.

She was very VERY loved....

She had a few kinds of cancer in the end, had survived quite a number of close calls and pulled through much to the surprise of the vet. She was a real fighter. I think she went through about 12 or 13 lives, much more than 9...But in the end, she started building up fluids in her abdomen and may have had a ruptured gall stone, and had a severe infection that just wasn't treatable.

I'm already haunted by her missing footsteps....

(and no, Tuna Breath was not her real name....she just loved to come by after eating some tuna and say hello....with her tuna breath....)

Buffalo Girl

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Thursday July 30, 2009 · 7:21 PM PDT

2009/07/30 · 19:21

I need cat help.

She's 18, she's had lymphatic leukemia for a year and a half (NOT the virus), went through chemo, had a very rough time but went into remission for a year, with a few minor episodes, got pancreatitis, nearly died, then recovered. She seems to have gone through another episode of pancreatitis, but I can't get her to eat more than a tablespoon or half a tablespoon of pot roast. (I've tried feeding her EVERYTHING under the rainbow - roasted chicken, eggs, tuna, 5 kinds of cat food, baby food, chicken broth, pot roast, steak.) It's been more than a week since she's eaten more than a tablespoon of food a day... She doesn't seem feverish or lethargic any more, and she has become very affectionate and somewhat more energetic (jumped on the bed for the first time in over a week yesterday).

Buffalo Girl

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Monday February 02, 2009 · 12:04 PM PST

2009/02/02 · 12:04

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

After a year of yawning losses at the company, employees lamented that times were getting lean. The giant bank, the recipient of two multibillion-dollar rescues from Washington, had paid out only about $4 billion in bonuses.

Only?"I feel like I got a doorman’s tip, compared to what I got in previous years," said a 30-something investment banking associate at Citigroup’s offices in Lower Manhattan.

Yes. It IS your doorman's tip. From HIS FREAKIN' TAXES. If you CAN'T FREAKIN' HANDLE IT, then WHY DON'T YOU GIVE IT BACK TO HIM? He could probably use it, you F!*@#&(!*.

Buffalo Girl

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Tuesday January 20, 2009 · 5:52 PM PST

2009/01/20 · 17:52

(photo from GETTY)

What an amazing day!

Been seeing clips about the Inaugural Balls, but it's not broadcast on ABC here on the west coast until 8pm.

But anxious to hear about it, scrounging for tidbits on CNN until there's more....

Provide links if you have them, any other tips for following the happenings in DC tonight. Will update.

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First Day of Winter Open Thread

Buffalo Girl

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Sunday December 21, 2008 · 9:44 AM PST

2008/12/21 · 09:44

WELL.

I don't know about the rest of you, but the first day of Winter out here in the Pacific Northwest is something else..... I got 10 inches of snow, and this ain't Buffalo. Not a lot of snow plows here and I'm not sure if any of my neighbors have shovels. ON TOP of that, we had freezing ice from last night. Everything is coated with about a 1/4 inch of ice, and more ice expected tonight. All flights were cancelled out of PDX this morning, until 3pm today... Had to change my flight to tomorrow night, and I'm not sure THAT will work either since it's not going to warm up before then and we might get more snow.

It' REAL PURDY out, but I hope there's not too much ice tonight that could cause more power outages.......not sure what I'd do then....

(photo courtesy Randy L. Rasmussen/The Oregonian)

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Thursday December 18, 2008 · 6:53 AM PST

2008/12/18 · 06:53

Ok, people. Let's get something straight, here.

EVANGELICALISM:

of, relating to, or being in agreement with the Christian gospel especially as it is presented in the four Gospels

protestant

3: emphasizing salvation by faith in the atoning death of Jesus Christ through personal conversion, the authority of Scripture, and the importance of preaching as contrasted with ritual
4 acapitalized : of or relating to the Evangelical Church in Germany boften capitalized : of, adhering to, or marked by fundamentalism : fundamentalist coften capitalized : low church

marked by militant or crusading zeal : evangelistic <the evangelical ardor of the movement's leaders — Amos Vogel>

Many people on DKOS seem to be mixing this up with:

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Tuesday October 28, 2008 · 11:31 AM PDT

2008/10/28 · 11:31

Big news! On the heels of endorsements from Republicans like Colin Powell, leading Neo-Con Ken Adelman, and former Republican Senator Lary Pressler, it has been confirmed, as many have been predicting since the beginning of the Republican Convention, Senator John McCain's subconscious has endorsed Democratic Senator Barack Obama's campaign for the Presidency.

"John McCain is the wrong choice to be President in these trying times" revealed the McCain psyche today in a phone call to David Letterman. "He does not have what it takes to lead our nation through these totally, totally messed up times. Please don't vote for him. Me. Him. Us. Seriously. Everyone should just vote for Obama."

Buffalo Girl

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Sunday September 21, 2008 · 11:28 AM PDT

2008/09/21 · 11:28

If there's anything to learn from Barack Obama it's that people CAN make a difference, change CAN happen, and it's UP TO US, not just one guy, or two guys (Obama/Biden.) The ONLY reason Obama has succeeded to date is because MILLIONS OF INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE sent him money, volunteered for his campaign, and VOTED FOR HIM.

Today is one of those days when it is VITAL for us to take that to heart, and to avoid succumbing to cynicism.

A lot of people around here tend to call the game while the ball is still on the field and the clock still has considerable time on it. For example: Why should I call my Congresscritters about the bailout when they caved on FISA? It'll never make a difference. They'll just cave again. They're [blue dogs][republicans][DINOS][Joe Lieberman].

You are abdicating your citizenship when you do that. You are enabling the defeat of progressive values. If this is you, knock it the fuck off. Get on the freakin' phone anyways. Calling makes a difference. They DO pay attention, and they have acknowledged as much.

Maybe they will cave. And MAYBE THEY WON'T. Maybe THIS TIME there will be JUST TOO MUCH PRESSURE. Starting with YOU.

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