Monday, August 29, 2005

Pat Jehlen's getting it done

The current post on Blog for America is Pat Jehlen's getting it done, by Jim Dean.

Excerpt:

We've spoken often about the importance of taking our country back and understand that this effort is a continuous campaign—day in and day out. We win as long as we keep fighting, and we lose if we stop. There have been some great efforts in the "vacation" month of August—particularly in California, Long Island, New York, and Massachusetts.

We're going to talk about all of this, but today I hope you will take some time to focus on Pat Jehlen's campaign for Massachusetts State Senator in a special election that is being held tomorrow, August 30th. That's right—the Tuesday before Labor Day. We supported Pat in her state rep race in 2004 because she is a true progressive who has stood up for her values with conviction, and has the guts to stand up to Mitt Romney's shameless pandering to the right-wing nuts of the Republican Party at the expense of the taxpayers and voters of Massachusetts.


Read the rest here.

104 comments:

  1. Howard Dean is First!

    w00T!!

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  2. And Renee , and all worker bees, are dang close!

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  3. This is where you find the daily (nightly) comics - coming soon.

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  4. Hi, guys, hope to see ya'll here soon!!

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  5. Oscar ~~ so good to see you!

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  6. boy the bloggers here sure aren't very wordy. I like how you advertise on the BFA Renee

    Good firsties puddle. No competition from trolls here :-)

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  7. holly, I think there's a certain mass that has to be built up. A certain magical *number* before this kind of blog works. Wish I knew what it was. . . . Wonder if Sylvie has any idear? It *is* her dissertation, lol!!

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  9. Hard work, indeed! And thank you for doin' it. Wonder how the pictures will work here. Let me get one, and try. . . .


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    LOL! Clearly it's gonna take some work.

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  10. I guess people will need to continue to post this link on BFA and ask them to come over here to blog.

    Renee, can you set up an automatic RSS feed from BFA to this blog that includes summaries of the BFA current posts? I know a lot of state blogs do that.

    One site is www.blogforarizona.com. If you scroll down pretty far and look to the right, you will see "blog for America" with the most current threads listed and a summary. I really like how he did that and it would be nice for this one if possible.

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  11. Oh, Bummer. It does not let me post my name like the this "cHeRyL!"

    I don't get to be special anymore.

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  12. I've emailed some people to let them know about this blog--and the promise of seeing Oscar's 'toons. Feel free to share the link anywhere that you know BFA people hang out.

    Namaste, and nighty-night.

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  13. Renee, what does the list of names mean that is on the right column, starting with Andrew C. White?

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  14. "cHeRyL!" ~~ You'll always be special, anyway you look at it, lol!

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  15. Thanks, Puddle!

    Renee, are we going to be required to register? I don't really like to but I see how easily someone could steal our ids and post as one of us. I know blogger was working on a way to make the blog private so that invitees were the only ones who could post but I don't know if they have rolled that out yet.

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  16. Oscar, what did you type (code?) to get the urls in your post?

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  17. cheryl--I am new to the whole RSS thing, and don't have any idea how to set that up, but was planning to look into it.

    Regarding the list, take a look at the link "People-Powered Blogs". It's a page I've been working on for a while to help us find members of our blog family elsewhere in cyberspace. Well, I recently signed up for a "blogrolling" account for one of my other blogs, and I thought, since I was doing this new blog, the blogroll should include links to *our* blogs. I had to pick one for each person so that it wouldn't be too cluttered.

    I'm still collecting blogs and diaries to add to the People-Powered Blogs page, and when I add new ones, I'll add them to the blogroll here.

    Okay, *really* good night. If that explanation was somehow too muddled to comprehend, I'll have to try again after a good night's sleep. ;-)

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  18. Renee,
    Gotcha! It looks great. Thanks. Does the heart thing work here? Let me try:

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  19. Cheryl,

    The following code:

    BFA

    gives you:

    BFA

    I have a cheat sheet that I use here - click and bookmark. :)

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  20. I just heard a good one on the news. Chavez said he wants the US to take action on Robertson for his comments or else he will accuse the US of harboring a terrorist.

    The Christian Terrorist.

    Someone finally gets it, lol.

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  21. http://www.blogger.com

    Cheryl, it's the: < a >

    And the < /a >

    before and after the URL
    close the spaces

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  22. Lol, Oscar. I can't see the code because it appears as a link. Try typing the code again with periods or dashes or something in between.

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  23. Oscar, lol, preview is our friend. . . .

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  24. Cheryl,

    It worked in preview but I guess it translated my code into the actual code - grrrr. Do this - replace both of the "(" with a "<" in the following code and it will work:

    (a href="http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/quicklist.html">cheat sheet(/a>

    yields:

    cheat sheet

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  25. Whoops! Pride goeth before the fall. . . .

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  26. Okay, so the code is basically the same as you would type on a webpage. Let me try:

    http://blogforamerica.com

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  27. Oscar, thanks! I was hoping there was a shorter way to do it but I guess not, lol.

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  28. This blog is much too nice. People might actually be respectful toward each other and stuff. ;)

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  29. That was for me, in case you wuz wondering, lol!

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  30. Are we able to post pics here? And if so, what is that code?

    I tried to do it on Kos but could not get the code to work.

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  31. RE: cheryl said...

    And if someone should come over here and choose to be nasty, brutish and short then their tripe will be promptly removed. Somehow I don't think we'll be having that problem.

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  32. As for pictures, we can only post the link in the comments - it won't let us display the pictures, otherwise that's what I'd do with the 'toons.

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  33. Hi, Susan, welcome!! Gosh, this just feels sooooooooo good!!

    I was checking out the space board today, where someone used to post, and the threads are overrun with commercial spam. Looks like nobody gives a rat's bum.

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  34. Well, I was getting really close to "solving" the problem o'er yonder, and seeing how Texas has a knack for executing people of color I figured it would be best for me to simply disengage. Hereabouts we have the means to solve the problem more peacibly so I can hang out here without my blood pressure rising to critical levels.

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  35. You know what? This place makes me feel like I have my power back!! It's been like living with kryptonite, LOL!!

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  36. Self-determination - there's nothing like it.

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  37. Only in the Rumsfeld mode of perpetually believing your own hype, completely divorced from reality.

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  38. Speaking of getting power back: Cindy Sheehan has been making me feel that way, too. Lord, I hope she manages to stay in front of this.

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  39. Perfectly qualified indeed! :o))

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  40. Cindy is one of the most articulate and well-spoken people that I've heard. She's good.

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  41. oooo! What a good damn idea!!

    The banner is TOO funny!! Hi guys!!

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  42. Oscars toons even!!

    YES~!!

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  43. Hi guys!! This is so exciting!

    Look forward to directing people here..

    Everyone has so much to offer but directing people to BFA is now a really bad idea.... hard to wade through the b.s.

    Cant wait to see this hoppin'!!

    xoxox

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  44. BTW, I'm so relieved that New Orleans was spared. It would have broken my heart to have lost it. And I believe a direct hit would have left nothing. Not wishing ill on Mississippi, but I think really less damage overall, this way.

    What's really scary is that the Big (fives) hurricanes are getting closer and closer together. Each new one has about halved the interval. Means next one, if one schedule would be 2012. . . .

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  45. Hey, hey, hey: it's our KIMMY!!! oops, our: kimmy

    ♥s!!!!!!!!

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  46. I'll check BFA too but..anyone hear from JC? Is she ok down there (hurricane) I've been thinking about her off and on all day

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  47. Yeah, I was saying that with a direct hit from a Category 5 hurricane you could probably rename N'Orleans "Atlantis"...

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  48. Wonder how active one of these blogger dealies can get before they, um, get upset? or sumpin. Hope somebody is/will archeiving these threads, too. After what happened to Renee. . . .

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  49. jc is OK last I heard - she's in northern Louisiana IIRC.

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  50. Puddle,

    We had a thread go 600 comments long on the DFL blog with no issues, but I'm not sure if there's an overall storage limit - I'll check.

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  51. jc's fine, but her old home and friends are in the area that took the direct hit. I suspect she's a bit depressed. Though she did say that she really felt they would have left rather than try to stick it out, but they are going to have nothing to come home to.

    Wonder if there is some way, we as shadow bloggers could help, directly? She is right there. . . .

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  52. Puddle ♥

    Thanks Oscar.. Northern LA whew!

    Lots of work for me to do tonight, so I better quit while I'm ahead here! Great to see everyone! :)

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  53. Damn good idea puddle!! Lets find out!

    Denise hi and bye!!
    I actually have work to do! Amazing (new jobs!! yes!)

    Love!!

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  54. *Western* LA, and I had an email from here tonight. She'd been looking for her town, and when she found it: it was landfall.

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  55. There doesn't seem to be a limit - from the Terms of Service:

    "11. STORAGE AND OTHER LIMITATIONS Pyra assumes no responsibility for the deletion or failure to store information entered into Blogger.

    Pyra has set no fixed upper limit on the number or posts Member may send or receive through the Service or the amount of storage spaced used; however, Pyra retains the right, at Pyra's sole discretion, to determine whether or not Member's conduct is consistent with the letter and spirit of the BTS and may terminate Service if a Member's conduct is found to be inconsistent with the BTS (Blogger Terms of Service)."

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  56. Oh susan that's sad. I didn't remember you were a blanketeer (I signed up right after Howard "resigned" but haven't ever been active). How's Inanna? I think of her.

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  57. Night Denise: Moonbeams, or else!

    Boy am I ever not used to the blog moving this fast. Purely out of practice, LOL!

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  58. seashell, hey hey hey! Oscar gives better instructions than me, grin. . . .

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  59. Inanna and youse guys is amazing!! Easy to forget how much DFA *is* doing, isn't it?

    You guys need to get front paged more often!

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  60. If you hit the "other" button, you can put in any name (I think) you want. When you're registered, your name is blue.

    Heck who knows, once we learn this system maybe we *will* all end up with our own blogs, sorta like Kos diaries or sumpin.

    Realllllllllllllly grassroots, lol!

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  61. You know, I'm getting a blogger's high from this. I did not know that free blogging was so intoxicating. Been waaaaaaaay too long!

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  62. seashell, see my post at 1:26 to cheryl about how to post live links.

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  63. Oscar went back to work for a while, I'm supposed to call him if something nasty shows up and posts something that needs removing.

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  64. BTW, seashell, talked with the vet today, he sez there's a chance that there's a medication that *may* work for Hannah. I'm picking it up tomorrow. Pray.

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  65. I'm just a shadow of my former self

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  66. susan, that's how I remember it when I first started blogging: Lord! All these interesting people saying these interesting things, and encouraging each other, you could just NOT make yourself leave, grin!

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  67. BFA gets *mighty* quiet when all the cool kids leave ;-)

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  68. seashell, thankee. Glad to hear about Dante, too.

    jc, that's cause MOST of BFA is cool kids?

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  69. puddle,

    That's something I *already* knew! LOL ;-) ♥

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  70. Liz, that page that asks you to name your blog is the one that fummoxes everbody! It did me, lol!

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  71. Denise,

    You mentioned the Hyatt in New Orleans - click for a picture:

    A tattered U.S. Flag flies in the foreground of the Hyatt, in New Orleans, Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, where dozens of windows were blown out when Hurricane Katrina made land fall. ( (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

    http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20050830/capt.laeg11808300124.hurricane_katrina_laeg118.jpg

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  72. Liz,

    Let me try again. I must have done the code wrong.

    Hyatt Hotel

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  73. It could be cosmetic, but Denise may want to consider reservations elsewhere.

    More than likely, other sides of their building didn't get damage, but I imagine their room space will be limited during some renovation.

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  74. Hello all,

    I've found may way into the shadow.

    I can't sign on as franster, don't know why. But it is me.

    Looking forward to this lovely new blog.

    --franster

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  75. franster, if you punch the other button, you can sign your own name. But keep trying to "create an account" ~~ seems to be a little buggy. And don't worry about creating your own blog: if you get that far, you are registered, lol!!

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  76. Liz, oh dear! That is however a very charming story. ♥

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  77. Thanks, Puddle. I'm feeling rather "other" this morning anyway.!

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  78. The FDA is soliciting public comments about its boneheaded decision not to sell emergency contraception over the counter.

    If you would like to let Commisioner Lester Crawford know what you think, here is his email address:

    d.commissioner@fda.hhs.gov

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  79. I'm really going to have to thank Renee twice. Because of her, we not only have our own, totally troll-free thread, but I *finally* have my own blog. Right now, am feeling a little protective of it, baby that it is, so its name will have to be a mystery. But heck, anything that keeps me off ebay, lol, has GOT to be great!!

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  80. TeaTime ~~ I agree with volney.
    volney ~~ yeppers. Poverty is one biggol teacher.
    Karen ~~ kewl to you, too, LOL!! Ain't it just? Feel like I've been set FREE!!

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  81. Good morning, everyone!

    It's really nice to see everyone--especially you, jc (I was a bit worried about you)--I plan to hang out here a bit more than BFA.

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  82. Phil*from*Iowa. wrote on August 30, 2005 07:57 AM:

    I'm having jumpy mouse syndrome again this morning.

    I may have to reinstall my mouse driver.
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    Wierd kinda farming, Phil. You drive mice? (Jumpy mice at that, lol!) Where to? Do they have to haul wagons or anything. What does a finished mouse bring on the market.

    Nevermind me. I'm just dopey from lack of sleep.

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  83. Karen, GOOD EYE! I don't see yours, but noticed I have one I can see. Clicked it, and evidently, one can delete their own comments, lol!!

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  84. Good morning, corinne: Great to see you here. I've missed you. And that's the truth!

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  85. Okay, got tired of seeing my name all in a row. Amend: evidently you can delete your own comments for a period of time. Don't see the trashcan for my first two posts.

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  86. jessica! Aren't babie blogs nice, lol?!! Welcome.

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  87. Karen, doesn't look like you can't edit them, just dump them.

    I'm wondering if there's a blog nanny, but don't want to try, and then mess up this lovely thread, grin. . . .

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  88. Thanks, puddle! {{hugs}} I've missed being around but it was more painful to be there than not.

    Everything is cute when it's a baby...

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  89. karen*in*mi--

    I can't see the 'fire hydrant' thingie but maybe it's because you and puddle have Blogger accounts?

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  90. Wow 155 comments and I can still post. Crushie blog wouldn't let me do that.

    Anyone else having trouble getting on at a later time. It keeps wanting me to create a new user name. I don't make a new blog each time though lol

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  91. Too funny, Jessica! I wrote a comment in the new thread, and as an afterthought I added, "Oh, and...First! ;-)"

    But on preview I discovered that I *wasn't* first, so I just deleted that part.

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  92. listener comes dancing in to say...

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    Delightful Deaniacs! ♥

    How lovely to find you here!

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