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Friday June 14, 2013 · 12:25 PM PDT

2013/06/14 · 12:25

This will be my third trip to "Democratic Central," but hopefully not my last! I am already excited and refuse to give up this trip despite the great turmoil where I work. I deserve a break today...but I will take it next week.

So, I am hoping to get two things out of this diary:

1. The latest roll call of attendees so I can put you on my list to hunt down with extreme prejudice...and get a real life handshake.

2. I must have hit my head when I made my reservations, or failed to make them, so if anyone is looking for a room share, you will save me from having to commute in from a more far flung hotel. Okay, Okay, it is less than two miles away, but hyperbole sells.

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Thursday November 01, 2012 · 9:09 AM PDT

2012/11/01 · 09:09

I asked permission from a friend of mine to repost his rant from Facebook. I don't think there is any information that we don't already know, but it sums up the state of the election and the thinking of the country quite nicely in my opinion.

Without further ado, I give you the bagel-free, shiney offerings of Tarryk:

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Great Rant

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Decent rant

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Meh

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Why are you wasting my time?

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Pie, definitely Pie

2 votes

Kickstart Creativity

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Thursday February 09, 2012 · 6:11 PM PST

2012/02/09 · 18:11

I have contributed to a variety of charities including Kiva, Medicine Sans Frontiers, and Habitat for Humanity. Here we have the next generation of charity or "crowdsourcing" creativity.

Meet Kickstarter. What is Kickstarter you may ask:

Kickstarter is the world's largest funding platform for creative projects. Every week, tens of thousands of amazing people pledge millions of dollars to projects from the worlds of music, film, art, technology, design, food, publishing and other creative fields.
A new form of commerce and patronage. This is not about investment or lending. Project creators keep 100% ownership and control over their work. Instead, they offer products and experiences that are unique to each project.

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Tuesday December 27, 2011 · 11:35 AM PST

2011/12/27 · 11:35

I bought my brother-in-law a twin pack of inhalers for Christmas. What is this world coming to when you buy someone a gas card and a box of Primatene mist? This is supposed to be the season for candies, cookies, gingerbread houses, socks, mittens, games and other fripperies that one wants but doesn't need. Honestly, I shouldn't be buying medical necessities for my family for Christmas, but this is what America has come to.

To find out why it was necessary for me to buy Primatene mist for my BIL, follow me over the artistic orange cloud...

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Tuesday October 11, 2011 · 7:12 PM PDT

2011/10/11 · 19:12

I live in midtown. I love it here even though it is a little run down because I can walk to everything I need. In the evenings my son and I will sit on the porch and watch the neighborhood kitties face off while people walk home from the light rail exit about two blocks from our house. I also met a woman tonight.

Her name is Georgina. She was in the military until very recently. She has never lived in California, much less Sacramento. She was sent here after having a medical discharge so that she could see a doctor her at Mather Airforce Base. She has been in the military for well over a decade but her "brain bruise" has made her unfit for duty.

I met Georgina when she asked for directions to somewhere that you cannot get to from here. Not easily. Not without a car. After breaking the news she sat on the porch, tired, dejected, frustrated and dispirited. She says that she is in culture shock. No one is looking out for her. There are not social services and she has nowhere to turn. She has been to all the midtown shelters, the churches, every place she could think of that would put her and her teenage daughter up for the night.

We talked about how the military takes care of your needs. You get housing, uniforms, food. All you have to do is show up and do your job, everything else is handled. She already misses the military. She talks about base housing and how she has been in a hotel for five weeks. She talks about how the churches will only help people from their own congregation, even after they called the VA to verify her story.

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Saturday September 17, 2011 · 5:18 PM PDT

2011/09/17 · 17:18

At least in part, the Great Depression was caused by underlying weaknesses and imbalances within the U.S. economy that had been obscured by the boom psychology and speculative euphoria of the 1920s. The Depression exposed those weaknesses, as it did the inability of the nation's political and financial institutions to cope with the vicious downward economic cycle that had set in by 1930. Prior to the Great Depression, governments traditionally took little or no action in times of business downturn, relying instead on impersonal market forces to achieve the necessary economic correction. But market forces alone proved unable to achieve the desired recovery in the early years of the Great Depression, and this painful discovery eventually inspired some fundamental changes in the United States' economic structure.

The Great Depression

As I read these words, it is impossible not to see a mirror of what we have been seeing for the last four years. It seems that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, but what does that mean?

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Wednesday August 03, 2011 · 6:12 PM PDT

2011/08/03 · 18:12

Now that we have failed in hostage negotiations 101 on our first go 'round, we are going to have a chance to do it all again.

You all know about the partial FAA shutdown and how the GOP is holding it hostage, but did you know that the federal fuel excise tax is set to expire on September 30, 2011? That is right, at the end of September 14.1 cents of the 18.4 cents excise on fuels is set to expire. The remaining 4.3 cents has no sunset clause.

Under normal circumstances the extension of the excise which goes to the Highways Trust Fund, would be a no brainer, but apparently nothing is that straightforward any more.

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Sunday July 03, 2011 · 9:35 AM PDT

2011/07/03 · 09:35

That's right, I am a bureaucrat suckling off the teat of public largesse. I work 40-60 hours per week for which I get a big, oversized check once a month. Out of that check I pay part of my medical, retirement, dental, taxes etc.

I get awesome benefits like 8 hours every month for sick leave. And it cumulates. That means if I feel well for a year, I have 12 whole days where I could be sick and I would still get my regular pay. In fact, if I saved it up for say 6 years, I could probably have back surgery and not go bankrupt. Suck that taxpayers!

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Tuesday April 05, 2011 · 4:46 PM PDT

2011/04/05 · 16:46

Yesterday I was angry (as I so often am) at negative comments that mischaracterize progressives and or the left wing of our party. I went and looked up the Democratic Party platform and in addition I found this, the 1940 Democratic Party platform. I have included some of the interesting portions for people to look at:

Industry and the Worker
We pledge to continue to enforce fair labor standards; to maintain the principles of the National Labor Relations Act; to expand employment training and opportunity for our youth, older workers, and workers displaced by technological changes; to strengthen the orderly processes of collective bargaining and peaceful settlement of labor disputes; and to work always for a just distribution of our national income among those who labor.
We will continue our efforts to achieve equality of opportunity for men and women without impairing the social legislation which promotes true equality by safeguarding the health, safety and economic welfare of women workers. The right to work for compensation in both public and private employment is an inalienable privilege of women as well as men, without distinction as to marital status.

We shall continue to emphasize the human element in industry

More over the jump

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Monday April 04, 2011 · 1:22 PM PDT

2011/04/04 · 13:22

I keep seeing people say, "I am not a progressive," and "Those far left Progressives," so I wanted to put out there what I think Progressive Democrats stand for and see if anyone disagrees.

1. Civil Rights - Civil Rights are not just abstract principles. They represent nothing less than our ability to provide for ourselves and our families and to live free from discrimination or persecution. For decades, Democrats have fought for these values, working to ensure that all Americans have the opportunity to fully participate in our society—to live in a place where there are no second-class citizens, where each of us can go about our lives without fear of discrimination.

More over the jump

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...and I am a progressive

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...and I am a liberal

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...and I am a conservative Democrat

1 vote

...and I am an Independant

4 votes

...and I am a Republican

2 votes

...not even a little bit

1 vote

Pie

1 vote

Republican Offers Blank Bill as Solution to California's Budget Woes

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Monday March 07, 2011 · 2:34 PM PST

2011/03/07 · 14:34

State Senator Joel Anderson proudly touts SB 851 as the solution to California's budget woes. On his website he calls SB 851, "A Revolutionary Vehicle to Improve California's Highways and Save Tax Dollars."

The problem is that SB 851 is an empty vehicle. A shell if you will. It says nothing, means nothing and solves nothing.

SB 851

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Clusterific Circular Firing Squad Epic Fail

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Friday August 13, 2010 · 2:26 PM PDT

2010/08/13 · 14:26

What in the fuck...I mean seriously, what in the motherfucking hell is wrong with you people?

Let me start with a premise. Most of us here at DKos are Democrats, we have a sprinkling of Socialists, Communists, Greenies, and fails to be classified properlies, but on the whole we are Democrats. We believe in Democratic ideals. We agree with the planks of the Democratic party and we tend to vote for Democratic politicians. The vast majority of us are here because we want more and better Democrats.

From that starting point it would seem like this would be a good place to refine our thinking, motivate each other, share news and events and snark at the Republican Fucksticks in a way that the MSM never will.

So, what do I see here day after day? Some motivation, some news, some snark but a veritable fucking shitstorm of, "I know you are but what am I."

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