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- What I would Change About the World: Peace, Fix the environment (for starters), Eliminate all Right-wing-corporate-fascism
- Current Gig: Under-employed as so many are.
- Influences/Heroes: Julia Child, Bruce Sterling
- Political Bent: Progressive!
- Favorite TV Shows: Breaking Bad, Weeds, Justified, True Blood, Game of Thrones
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- MSII voted up Petition: Cut Social Security & Veterans' Benefits? Cut the Pentagon Instead! 1 month ago
Petition Background President Obama has endorsed cutting Social Security and veterans' benefits by using the "chained CPI" to lower the cost-of-living adjustment. But the... more
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- MSII voted up Petition: Cut Social Security & Veterans' Benefits? Cut the Pentagon Instead! 1 month ago
Petition Background President Obama has endorsed cutting Social Security and veterans' benefits by using the "chained CPI" to lower the cost-of-living adjustment. But the... more
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- MSII voted up Misconceptions Among the Masses 1 month ago
I am always amazed at people’s misconceptions concerning rumors. Just start rumors about something, (it doesn’t have to be the whole truth and nothing but…) and before long it... more
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- MSII voted up Two explosions at Boston Marathon; many injuries, three dead 1 month ago
Dozens of people injured; very few details so far http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbcnews.com/51546697
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- MSII voted up Petition: Tell The Tribune Company: Stay Koch Free! 1 month ago
Petrochemical billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch are vying to purchase the Tribune Company’s media assets, including the critically important Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune,... more
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- MSII voted up Low pay, cut food stamps = No sales & more Felony convictions, NO WORKERS! 1 month ago
As you know when you cut the foundation you will impoverish the labor pool! It is really easy to get a felony, you can get one from eating cookies while you work at Walmart! "As to why she... more
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- MSII voted up ‘Does Jesus Really Love Me?’ 1 month ago
“Yeeeah, Sydney!” the songwriter and comedian Tim Minchin shouts into a microphone. “Are you up for a . . . sing?” The crowd laughs a little nervously when Minchin, an... more
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- MSII voted up Death and Taxes 1 month ago
Abraham Lincoln, The Civil War and Tax Day "In a letter to Jean Baptiste Leroy in 1789, Benjamin Franklin penned one of the most fatalistic phrases in history. At the moment of his... more
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- MSII voted up Boehner Warned Not to Break ‘Hastert Rule’ on New Gun Measures 1 month ago
Although the Senate just jumped a procedural hurdle, clearing the way for a fresh debate on gun control, two hard-right conservatives in the House of Representatives have worked in the past week... more
