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DisabledDem's JournalHow to defeat Senator Brown in MA
I think Warren can still climb over Brown in the Massachusetts senate race but still think she'll have a tough time doing it though. KKKarl Rove and the batshit crazy right wing radio in the state(yes, conservative radio in fucking MASSACHUSETTS) are trying to portrait Warren as a out of touch elitist carpetbagger from Oklahoma. My relatives that live their keep bragging about how Scott Brown is the balls, how he for the common people, how much he loves the Boston sport teams, and most importantly how Warren is another tax and spend socialist liberal that the "Dumbocrats" as one of my relatives calls adore. One of my relatives just reads sport news and that pretty much it for him when it comes to news but likes that Scott Brown is a "common man". I kept telling him that Warren is the champion for working families but he keeps doing the same old "welfare queen" trick. He keep the discussion on saying how Warren hates the white working class and pardons to the illegal immigrants and lazy people. This made me calling him a xenophobic and racist during our discussion but he just hang up his phone while we were texting.
For Massachusetts folks, what ways could we get those 20% or whatever the fuck it is Democratic approval ratings of Scott Brown to drop down. How do we get indies to vote for our ticket come November?
Insprational story about a disabled guy running for office!
"I think I'm a hero to the disabled because no one who is disabled
has ever tried to run for City Council," he said.
His mom, Karin Ahlf, agrees.
"You're a longshot, but you don't know until you try," she said.
"Plus you are a tremendous inspiration to a lot of people like you
right now."
Ahlf was born in 1984 in Santa Ana and moved to Costa Mesa in the
same year. He enjoys living here because it has a "great police
department, fire department and City Council," he said.
His campaign doesn't have a huge budget -- only two banners and
two lawn signs, Karin said. But his vivacious personality is a huge
asset, she said.
"He's friendly and outgoing," Karin Ahlf said. "That's something I
really admire about him -- a kid with a speech impediment who is
verbally outgoing, because most of his classmates were not. They had
to know you for a long time before they got comfortable. Not Karl --
he goes right up there and talks. I tell people, if you don't
understand him, just say, 'Can you repeat that?' He's so used to
that."
Some of his goals, if elected, are to create safer conditions for
pedestrians and drivers through measures like audible crosswalks --
ones that emit chirpy signals -- for the disabled.
He also wants to make sure street corners are safe and accessible
for seniors, so there is less chance of them falling.
Another priority is providing activities for disabled residents to
connect to each other, Karin Ahlf said.
"He's seen my mom have to move into an assisted-living facility,"
she said. "He said, 'We have a great senior center for them to
socialize. How about the disabled? How about a recreation center
where they can hang out and have social activities. Because that's
really hard because a lot of times they say, 'I can't.' My philosophy
is, 'Give it a try. You might surprise yourself.' Karl is very
can-do."
He would also like more after-school activities for kids to keep
them away from gangs and drugs, he said.
Councilman Chris Steel nominated Ahlf to the Human Relations
Committee as an alternate member and the full council approved it.
"He really wanted to get involved," Karin said. "We're really
involved in current events and what's going on in our town and city."
Young Ahlf is interested in international traveling and will be
going to China two days after the election in November with the
Newport Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council, where he will see sites like
Tian'anmen Square and the Great Wall of China.
"I always wanted to see China after I saw the opening ceremonies
of the Olympics," he said.
Karl Ahlf enjoys running and is preparing to run the Orange County
Half Marathon later this year. He works at IKEA in its kitchen.
Thoughts about Zeitgeist ideology
All the mods seem to think this is some right-winger republican movie but it's not once you start looking at the views presented in the movie such as the abolition pf human labor and currency.
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