Looking Up at the "Poverty Line": Real Life
One Kossack replied to a previous diary of mine to point out that she sees some of the same attitudes toward the poor in the middle class that I described in some of my wealthy acquaintances. She is...
View ArticleFiring Loaded Words from Below the "Poverty Line"
In my previous diary I called the current growing American gap between the rich and poor "savagery." A conservative Kossack replied to that choice of words, "I don't know what you're talking about."I...
View ArticleInternet Freedom & Ongoing: it's mostly fear below "poverty line"
I'm going to share a matter that's a little off-topic from my usual theme of life below the "poverty line," though this is about powerful corporations showing their usual greed, so it's still related...
View ArticleMORE REAL LIFE below the "poverty line"
My diaries are first drafts. I don't write them to dazzle anyone, obviously. I hope to inform and lend moral support to others trying to bear up under the kinds of hardships I'm facing. I go into...
View Articlechronicles from below the "poverty line"
I haven't written a diary in awhile because everyone has been so preoccupied with the elections.Speaking of which, unlike some Kossacks who are firmly in the Clinton or the Obama camp, I am truly...
View ArticleObama/Clinton; race/gender: NOT either/or!
In the space of under half an hour a few nights ago, I had a frightening, compelling lesson in the fact of race and gender not functioning as a matter of either/or; rather, the issues are mixed like...
View ArticleUp Against the Machinery: Work in 21st Century America
Looking up at the "poverty line" from below, the rules are different. I'm emerging from a lengthy, costly disability. When you haven't been gainfully employed for several years, that's one strike...
View ArticlePoverty chronicles: this IS about the election!
Most of the diaries published in recent months have been about the elections--the various state primaries and the approaching national election. My diary may deal with struggles with poverty--mine and...
View ArticleFalling Through Safety Net Holes into Poverty Pit
I've been writing diaries for some time about struggling to climb out of poverty. I've written about how I fell into poverty, by becoming disabled with pain. Kossacks have replied in comments, asking...
View ArticleI have to vent, Clinton supporters
I'm a 55-year-old white woman. Our greatest matter of urgency in America is to be sure a Democrat becomes President in November, and to get as many Democrats as possible elected to both houses of...
View ArticleNot Venting at Clinton People, Writing a Diary While Calm
A couple of days ago, in a wicked snit about something I'd just witnessed on TV, I did what I've disapproved of in other Kossacks and bloggers, namely, I wrote a really radioactive diary.
View ArticleBarack: it isn't just the Bush Administration!
No one wants to keep the Republican out of The White House more than I do. I support Obama and I will vote for him.
View ArticleA Few Words About "Pro-Life" Conservatives
I started to write this as a comment to another diary, but my impatience with this matter got the better of me. I don't do anger very well, so please be patient. But every time I see this, it drives...
View ArticleMedia Critique on the Subject of Palin
I'm getting impatient for a really pit bull media that goes after elected officials aggressively and calls them on their inconsistencies.
View ArticleOpen Letter to Democratic Bigots
I want to believe with all my heart and soul that the polls are wrong--the polls reporting that one-third of white Democrats express bigoted attitudes about African Americans---which suggests to me a...
View ArticleVoted this morning in Pennsylvania
I just tried to report on my voting experience on My Fair Election, and couldn't. The site didn't give me the option of reporting, only of reading the reports of others. So I'm reporting here.
View ArticleSeeking Microphilanthropy Partnership
The microphilanthropy movement is revolutionary and innovative, it promotes sharing, and carries the promise of changing society. I'd like to be a part of that movement, and I'd like to form a...
View ArticleAn Answer to Anti-Muslim Hate?
This is a deeply flawed idea and diary. And the model I have in mind for an answer to the rabid anti-Muslim hatred circulating today took place years ago, so my memory is fuzzy. I'd welcome accurate...
View ArticleA Movement to Put the Right to Shame
I’m trying to brainstorm my way out of a pinch that too many of us are caught in, in this time of conservative-wrought hardship. I’m hoping DKos readers with higher-performing brains than mine can...
View ArticleACA: Urgent Questions from Pennsylvania
This diary is about questions, not observations or my opinion, though that said, IMO, I place responsibility for the current state of health care access mainly at the feet of the Right. My questions...
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