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I am a resident of Chatham County NC, near Chapel Hill. I make a living as a technical consultant on various engineering projects (programming, data acquisition, electrical and electronic issues, some mechanical). I am a Green, and the co-chair of the North Carolina Green Party, which is in turn nationally affiliated with GPUS.

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0 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 84 Comments, 0 Diaries, 0 Polls

84 Comments


Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 5:28:58 PM

Article : "Tea Party Types say: Next Overboard, Lifeguards!"

repeated and made up BS


Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 2:56:09 PM

Article : "Obama's Tipping Point"

Can't complain about results - what results?


Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 11:51:31 AM

Article : "OEN Policy on Vaccinations, Autism, and Disease Prevention"

Global; Warming Denier Also?


Monday, February 14, 2011 at 3:39:35 PM

Article : "Who Will Win the Republican Primary?"

wrong and wrong


Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 4:40:09 PM

Diary : "Pinheads on Parade"

Anti-intellectualism and Democratic Party


Friday, February 4, 2011 at 3:36:35 PM

Poll : "Poll: Do You Believe In Evolution or Creationism?"

I see that the crazies


Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 3:26:45 PM

Poll : "Poll: Do You Believe In Evolution or Creationism?"

Not a useful poll


Friday, January 14, 2011 at 1:05:23 PM

Article : "21st Century Segregation: Inverting King's Dream"

Segration is being driven actively


Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 7:36:35 PM

Article : "Stop FDA from voting to make mental illness treatment more d"

why is the FDA listening to this organization


Friday, December 24, 2010 at 11:42:26 AM

Article : "Obama versus Progressives"

the ballyhooed success of the lame *uck congress


Monday, November 15, 2010 at 12:58:45 PM

Article : "The Origin of America's Intellectual Vacuum"

That does not deligimitize the essay


Friday, October 8, 2010 at 5:39:31 PM

Article : "I screamed at the radio when I heard Todd Akin [R-MO] say..."

Lights are on but nobody's home


Monday, March 15, 2010 at 8:46:26 PM

Quicklink : ""This is Starting to Get Dangerous""

Dangerous to the warmongers


Monday, March 15, 2010 at 8:00:14 PM

Article : "Discussing American Ennui with Clinical Psychologist Bruce L"

Battered Public Syndrome?


Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 10:31:27 AM

Article : "Congress Votes for War, 65 Dissent"

oh well


Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 6:41:11 PM

Article : "The Moral Problem of Neocons like Bunning Who Love to Cut Of"

Bunning on principle?


Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 3:25:18 PM

Article : "We're Already Frozen"

Have to be careful characterizing independents


Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 10:41:58 AM

Article : "Republicans Massachusetts Victory Is a Potential Gift to Dem"

insanity


Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 10:30:37 AM

Article : "Supreme Court Strikes Down Campaign FInance Regulation-- Set"

Business as usual, brought to you by the Democratic Party


Saturday, January 2, 2010 at 12:50:55 PM

Article : "2010: Third Party Time for Progressives and Independents?"

Baker and Griffith


Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 3:17:06 PM

Article : "Obama Nobel Speech: We lose ourselves when we compromise the"

We should be directly under the North Star


Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 4:11:47 PM

Article : "China vs. U.S.: economic power vs. military might; which wil"

military might working for who?


Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 12:47:58 PM

Article : "Will we ever get Campaign Finance Reform?"

the single-party system


Monday, November 9, 2009 at 12:38:52 PM

Quicklink : "Murdoch Could Block Google Searches Entirely"

Have to agree


Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 3:30:39 PM

Article : "Obama, Harry Reid, and Machiavelli"

But, what if ....


Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 11:08:32 PM

Quicklink : "Losing Their Religion: 2009 officially declared year the med"

follow the money


Monday, October 12, 2009 at 1:27:59 PM

Article : ""Spoiler Theory" Spoils Democracy"

wrong, but I'm tired of explaining it


Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 11:42:34 PM

Article : "Health Insurers Threaten Rate Hikes"

No, its bullying


Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 3:28:21 PM

Article : "Goofing Up Health Care Reform"

Would that Baucus were the only one at fault


Monday, October 5, 2009 at 11:25:45 AM

Article : "How Obama Fooled the Left"

Fooled who?


Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 11:50:27 AM

Quicklink : "Is the party over for the Republicans?"

not really


Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 6:33:33 PM

Article : "GOP Is A Traveling Circus On Its Last Legs"

They are not dead, just letting the Blue Dogs do their work


Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 1:10:29 PM

Article : "The Neocons Strike Back"

Democrats the key to the Neocons success


Sunday, February 8, 2009 at 12:55:43 PM

Diary : "Good news for the Green Party, good news for progressives"

How does oppsing Democratic legisaltion = anti-progressive?


Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 12:20:52 PM

Article : "A $50 Billion Nuke Power Bomb is Dropping Toward Obama's Sti"

the public costs


Friday, January 2, 2009 at 8:26:38 PM

Article : "2009 is Starting Off with a Shameful and Criminal Bang"

You are being somewhat disingenuous


Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 12:30:16 PM

Article : "Don't Tell Me to Chill Out About Rick Warren!"

if rick can do it


Saturday, December 20, 2008 at 9:23:26 AM

Article : "Progressivism Continues its Regression – Warren Signals Arma"

Intolerant? How about seeing the truth


Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 11:01:26 AM

Article : "The Fall of a Free Market Prophet"

The amazing self-perputuating sustainable free market


Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 11:32:20 AM

Quicklink : "Untold Story of Election 2008: The Death of the NRA"

Good News, but


Sunday, November 30, 2008 at 4:50:45 PM

Article : "The Controversy Surrounding Obama's Birth"

One would think


Sunday, November 30, 2008 at 4:28:00 PM

Article : "Economists, Our New Philosopher Kings?"

Economist ethics?


Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 9:37:41 AM

Article : "71% of Liberals Think Obama is Liberal"

What's a liberal anyway?


Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 10:03:03 AM

Quicklink : "ACORN, Obama, and the Mortgage Mess"

keep intellectual honesty?


Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 9:06:19 PM

Article : "Death Rattles of a Criminal Class"

A new criminal class waits in the wings


Monday, September 15, 2008 at 7:13:52 AM

Article : "As Antidepressant Sales Sink Pharma Attacks FDA's Black Boxe"

privatized science


Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 11:11:00 AM

Article : "Another Reason to Vote Third Party"

Third party vote in Florida - keep perpetuating the myth


Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 9:38:39 PM

Quicklink : "Mission Not Accomplished"

ya know


Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 9:29:07 PM

Article : "Health Care for All"

The people vs our "representatives"


Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 9:22:00 PM

Article : "Why is Bush So Interested in Our Vaginas?"

Rich white religious fanatics


Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 5:07:24 PM

Article : "Is Jesse Helms in Hell?"

He should be, if he isn't


Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 3:14:21 PM

Article : "More Blood Money from Our Democratic Congress and Democratic"

Poll results show many Dems militant on election strategy


Friday, June 27, 2008 at 8:58:36 AM

Article : "Nader Calls on Obama to Challenge the White Establishment"

Obama will not lose in the African American community


Monday, June 16, 2008 at 3:15:22 PM

Quicklink : "Idea of the Day: Sell Oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reser"

'W' is saving the oil


Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 1:53:51 PM

Article : "Progressives Must Not Be Divided: We Cannot Afford a Pres. M"

They don't even care about vote caging


Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 8:05:37 PM

Article : "Progressives Must Not Be Divided: We Cannot Afford a Pres. M"

Why should I vote for a democrat?


Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 1:44:27 PM

Diary : "We need perestroika on Opednews"

A little confused


Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 7:00:50 AM

Article : "Campaign 2008: The Electoral College"

meaningles elections


Monday, May 26, 2008 at 2:00:37 PM

Quicklink : "Bob Geiger: Dead Troops Remembered By President Who Had Them"

Any decent human would be sickened


Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 1:18:52 PM

Quicklink : "Cheney says Iraq surge is a success"

Cheney's War - not ours


Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 12:30:46 PM

Article : "John McCain and the Death of Conservatism"

Money trail


Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 10:07:07 AM

Article : "Bending Over For Bush - 21 Dems Help with $165 Bil."

how will a Dem president fare with this many moles?


Sunday, May 18, 2008 at 11:56:24 AM

Quicklink : "The Militarization of American Police"

private security?


Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 8:39:42 AM

Article : "Election Fraud, not Voter Fraud, is a National Security Thre"

McKinney and election fraud


Friday, May 16, 2008 at 10:18:36 PM

Quicklink : "Peggy Noonan: Republicans -- Pity Party"

I agree


Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 7:18:30 AM

Quicklink : "Quiet US Confession: Weapons Were Not Made In Iran After All"

and the beat goes on


Monday, May 12, 2008 at 7:47:47 PM

Article : "McCain Is Dangerous"

Yup


Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 12:01:32 PM

Poll : "Poll: UFO and Exterrestrial Articles on OpEdNews?"

UFO articles don't bother me but


Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 12:03:44 PM

Quicklink : "Bush Comment on Food Crisis Brings Anger, Ridicule in India"

At least. to western MSM


Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 6:08:33 PM

Quicklink : "The Republicans simply have no ideas left"

Who will we call a conservative?


Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 1:57:57 PM

Quicklink : "The Republicans simply have no ideas left"

they are conservative values because .....


Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 8:11:14 PM

Quicklink : "The CRA Scam and its Defenders"

Scam?


Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 9:26:52 AM

Article : "According to Plan?"

Congressionla Progressive Caucus


Monday, April 28, 2008 at 7:57:43 PM

Article : "Is The SCOTUS Picking Another President?"

Difficult to imagine, but the law used to mean something


Monday, April 28, 2008 at 5:16:51 PM

Article : "Dear Democratic Party: Please Don't Become Racist"

What was that Cyndi Lauper song?


Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 5:04:28 PM

Article : "What do we do about the millions of deadbeat enablers of fas"

Deadbeats and enablers?


Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 8:47:56 AM

Article : ""Activist Base of the Democratic Party" in PA Shocked Over C"

Democrats are activists? Some are


Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 1:32:26 PM

Quicklink : "˜Blue Dogs' Become Fundraising Powerhouse"

why would anyone expect anything else?


Monday, April 7, 2008 at 7:39:47 AM

Article : "Time to Attack The Right Wing's Core Values-- Less Taxes and"

Free Markets and Capatilism


Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 8:52:24 PM

Article : "Time to Attack The Right Wing's Core Values-- Less Taxes and"

Good idea - but the Dems aren't the people to it


Monday, March 24, 2008 at 7:56:19 AM

Article : "Liberalism and America"

ideas if of liberalism and conservatism are behind the times


Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 3:57:39 PM

Quicklink : "Bush "Envious" Of Soldiers Serving "Romantic" Mission In Afg"

Lame excuses


Friday, March 14, 2008 at 12:09:17 PM

Quicklink : "NWV News -- Mercenaries Training US Local Police Officers"

Liberals like Blackwater?


Sunday, March 9, 2008 at 1:08:16 PM

Article : "A CNN Poll Is Currently Running That Indictes 44 Percent Of"

waterboarding poll shows our disconnect from the world