FSogol
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Gender: Male
Hometown: Northern VA
Member since: Fri Oct 29, 2004, 10:34 AM
Number of posts: 40,384
Hometown: Northern VA
Member since: Fri Oct 29, 2004, 10:34 AM
Number of posts: 40,384
About Me
I've been a member of DU for over 14 years, but now it is time for me to check out.
The glee people on this site took over bashing Gov Northam is too much. EW Jackson, VA's version of a RW troll is being respected and his options considered while the Gov who expanded medicare to 800,000 citizens of my state (including an adult son) is bashed over a 35-year old indiscretion.
I see DU as being infected by RW trolls and ratfuckers while the admins are largely absent. See 2016 if you don't believe me. While Northam was being bashed, threads appeared bashing Harris (she took a hard stance against Franken) and Booker (he's corporate) and promoted people who will never be elected in America such as Gabbard and Sanders. Their indiscretions are ignored. For what reason? Their unelectability?
The members here that aren't RW trolls or ratfuckers are attempting to achieve some type of purity that will never happen due to mankind's flawed nature. People ar human and prone to mistakes. The rhetorical tools that attack people such as HRC, Franken and Northam will be turned on people like Kamala Harris and Justin Fairfax. It is only a matter of time. I refuse to help the RW and the PURE destroy people and our party.
DU was a noble idea, but is a tool on the internet being used to ruin the Democratic Party, suppress the vote, and destroy decent candidates. I won't take part in this crap any longer.
To my couple of friends here, so long, it was nice chatting with you. You know how to reach me if you want.
Journal Archives
Prediction: The Next GOP Debate!
I predict the next debate will be moderated by Khloe Kardashian who will read question submitted by the candidates themselves.
Top that! 
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Posted by FSogol | Fri Oct 30, 2015, 09:17 PM (7 replies)
The Latest Vintage Craze In Music Isn’t Vinyl — It’s These Old-Fashioned Recording Booths
Before smartphones, before voicemail, before the advent of answering machines, the easiest way to record your voice for a loved one was to step into a Voice-O-Graph booth.
The Voice-O-Graph was a do-it-yourself recording studio the size of a small closet. Walk inside, close the door, deposit 35 cents and make a record of your own. The machines cranked out a lacquer-coated disc that held about a minute of crackling sound. During World War II, soldiers and their families swapped the plates across oceans. They felt more alive than a letter, and they didn’t clog up what was then a limited number of long-distance phone lines. Painted advertisements on Voice-O-Graph booths promised technological wonder rarely available to regular folks at the time. “Step in! Record your voice!” “Hear yourself as others hear you!” Voice-O-Graph booths once peppered movie theaters, arcades, state fairs and bus stations across the U.S. But with the advance of compact cassettes in the ‘60s, the machines were relegated to garages, cellars and garbage heaps — obsolete and unwanted. Whole article by By Ally Schweitzer here: http://bandwidth.wamu.org/the-latest-vintage-craze-in-music-isnt-vinyl-its-these-old-fashioned-recording-booths/ 
Came across this thanks to Kojo Nnamdi's show on NPR today. |
Posted by FSogol | Thu Oct 29, 2015, 04:19 PM (2 replies)
The incredible story of a Chesapeake steamship that helped create Israel
Posted by FSogol | Fri Oct 23, 2015, 04:41 PM (2 replies)
O'Malley's been highlighting a proposal to modernize and streamline Food Stamps
Here's what that is all about: https://twitter.com/EasyFoodStamps
and why it is so needed: Navigating a Bureaucratic Maze to Renew Food Stamp Benefits by Winnie Hu of the NYT (July 23, 2015) Three months after Delbert Shorter’s food stamps were cut off, he still does not know why.
At first, he thought that his $180 a month allotment from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly called SNAP or food stamps, was just late. But as one week turned into another, Mr. Shorter, 78, who lives in a fifth-floor walk-up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, grew more anxious, and hungrier. He stockpiled canned foods from a church food pantry, borrowed $60 from his home health aide and turned to a senior center to help get his food stamps back. “It’s very hard,” he said. “If I knew it was really going to come, I would not have to worry about the next meal.” Even as New York City has embarked on a campaign to increase access to food stamps in recent months, Mr. Shorter’s plight illustrates the barriers that remain for those who are already enrolled. Many people who rely on the benefits say they have had to navigate a frustrating and overly bureaucratic process whenever there is a question or issue with their benefits, or when they are required to renew their eligibility. In the confusion, some lose the benefits. Whole article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/24/nyregion/navigating-a-bureaucratic-maze-to-renew-food-stamp-benefits.html?smid=tw-share |
Posted by FSogol | Thu Oct 22, 2015, 01:47 PM (4 replies)
Ok, Everyone can stop bashing Biden. Repeat, all the Biden bashing can end.
Posted by FSogol | Wed Oct 21, 2015, 12:20 PM (19 replies)
Paul Ryan sez he'll be House Speaker, under certain conditions. Here's the conditions:
Posted by FSogol | Wed Oct 21, 2015, 07:35 AM (7 replies)
I remember my days back at old Trump University.
From Ruben Bolling's "Tom the Dancing Bug"
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Posted by FSogol | Tue Oct 20, 2015, 02:22 PM (6 replies)
Martin O'Malley to appear on the Daily Show tonight
The Governor will be on @TheDailyShow tonight. Make sure to tune in!
x-posted from DU's O'MG |
Posted by FSogol | Mon Oct 19, 2015, 02:17 PM (0 replies)
Martin O'Malley to appear on the Daily Show tonight
The Governor will be on @TheDailyShow tonight. Make sure to tune in!
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Posted by FSogol | Mon Oct 19, 2015, 02:16 PM (0 replies)
