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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-18

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CIGNA denied Dawn Smith care for her brain tumor. Come support her Thursday at noon at 1601 Chestnut. RSVP at http://ping.fm/xhey5 # RT @common_squirrel da do run run run da do run run # Support CIGNA victim Dawn Smith as she confronts their CEO Thursday October 15 at noon, 1601 Chestnut Street. RSVP at http://ping.fm/vp6V3 # was offered tix for Springsteen on the 20th but had to turn them down because of our Time To Deliver day of action. # Continue reading

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-11

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Three friends with beautiful, sexy, womanly bodies have body image problems. Maybe this has something to do with it: http://ping.fm/5JDX2 # is now bored by the PP issue. Have more than 3 to think about it? Get busy on health care, energy, net neutrality or the PA State Senate. # Continue reading

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Fourteen hours in the lock-up

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It wasn’t much fun. Indeed for most of the time it was excruciatingly boring. But it was an interesting experience and I learned something from my almost fifteen hours in the lockup at police district 9. Of course, I could have learned most of this in a shorter period of time. If they ever give opportunities to be jailed for, say, three hours tops, you should grab it. Continue reading

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-04

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went walking in a light rain in the city and driving with the windows down in the country today. Two of my favorite things to do. # Maybe when this health care campaign is over I’ll be over to go to a movie on Friday night and not fall asleep in the middle. # Continue reading

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-27

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is back from location scouting for our next event. It’s going to be fun! # Senator Kyl (R-AZ): I don’t need maternity care. Senator Stabenow (D-MI): I think your mom probably did. # In mid-August I wrote that the right / GOP tactics on health care would help us. Here is the proof. http://ping.fm/q7N7n # Continue reading

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-20

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Patco open houses on Delaware waterfront transit lines. About time! http://ping.fm/taJ8k # If no one likes your bipartisan bill, you have to go back to your party. Good! http://ping.fm/EaaKc # Baucus brings us together with a bipartisan bill that no one likes! # Continue reading

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-13

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Cool RT @SenArlenSpecter $28 million in new funding for a high speed Maglev train from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia. http://tinyurl.com/r5me7c # Home run!!! RT @tomfitzgerald 2/3 of 427 adults who watched speech support O propoals, insta-CNN poll says. # petition @CongJoeWilson to apologize for yelling “YOU LIE” in Obama speech, and lying about #hcr http://act.ly/iq RT to sign #p2 # Continue reading

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Growing up in a Catskills resort hotel

  By About me, Family Stories

                    This is a long post, about 7000 words. It might be easier to download and print out the pdf version. Introduction One of the last times I walked on the grounds of the hotel my family owned—Stier’s Hotel—was about twenty years ago when I took my wife and some cousins to see it. That was also about fifteen years after we sold the hotel. At the time, our hotel still functioned as a hotel, although much had changed and it was owned by Hasidic Jews. They day we showed up was Shabbos and I was reluctant to walk onto the grounds. So we just stood at one of the gates and looked in. Soon a young boy, probably no more than 12 or 13, came up to us and asked who we are. I told him who I was and he… Continue reading

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-06

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has no events til Monday. Adrenaline levels are down and I'm catatonic. # Tell Obama we're counting on him to fight for bold change on health care including a public option http://tinyurl.com/lcx5j2 # Public Option or Insurance Companies?: Thursday Noon, 1900 Market Street in Philly, Noon. Stand up for health care reform !!! # Powered by Twitter Tools. Continue reading

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I was a liberal tea bagger

  By A political memoir, Health Care

Tonight we turned out a bunch of people for a Health Care Town Hall sponsored by Damian Dachowski, who used the event to announce that he would be running for Congress against Allyson Schwartz next year. Normally, HCAN in PA ignore most these events. Given that the press in Southeast PA pretty much doesn’t cover events held by issue activists unless there is controversy, it doesn’t make sense to show up and give the right wingers more publicity. And, given that we are a non-partisan campaign, we especially make a point of avoiding partisan events. But this was a special case. Allyson Schwartz has been a great champion of health care reform. Her districts is important in that a lot of people who live in it have influence far beyond it. It is a district that is becoming more progressive. And we expected a lot of press anyway given that… Continue reading