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Monday July 13, 2015 · 5:16 PM PDT

2015/07/13 · 17:16

Last year my good friend was in a car accident on his way to work. It was a giant thunderstorm, and a deer jumped out in front of him. He was driving a Ford Expedition, if you're familiar with how big those are, they're pretty large vehicles, and fairly high off of the ground.

The deer was mid-jump, and went up over the hood. Half of its body went through the windshield, and the other half went through the driver's side window. It was a 10 point. I.E. - a REALLY big frigging deer, and it landed pretty much in his lap, and face. The deer was torn in half, and as you can imagine my friend was pretty hurt pretty badly as a result from this accident.

MichiganGirl

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Wednesday November 26, 2014 · 7:08 PM PST

2014/11/26 · 19:08

After all of the bullshit I've seen on Facebook since Michael Brown died, today I finally just had it, and decided to address the racism, and hypocrisy in a status update.

I think it may have worked, because even the usual "conservative" bomb-throwers (they call themselves "conservative", apparently "republican" is embarrassing these days for them) on my friend list that comment on every single political post I ever make (and I make a LOT) haven't even attempted to argue with me... Mostly because I think they can't.

I believe I may have found a good way to show that I'm right, and I think they aren't arguing, because they know I am.

I thought my Facebook status might be worth sharing, so here it is:

MichiganGirl

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Tuesday November 18, 2008 · 6:28 PM PST

2008/11/18 · 18:28

Well now that I've (hopefully) gotten your attention, I'll let you in on a little secret... You know all those things you've been told about crashing the gate, and taking over the Democratic Party?

Well most of them are wrong... Ass-backwards to be precise.

You can't take over the Democratic Party by voting Democratic at your local polling station, donating to Democratic candidates online, or even hitting the streets volunteering for Democratic candidates...

Don't get me wrong, all of those actions are fantastic, and are absolutely vital to grow the Democratic voting block, but those actions are all geared towards electing specific Democratic candidates during specific election cycles... and the Democratic Party itself, the party apparatus behind those candidates we all volunteer for, donate to, and vote for; is eternal.

It will outlive every single Democratic elected official currently in office, and it will select the replacement candidates as each of those current Democratic elected officials leave office.

MichiganGirl

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Monday November 03, 2008 · 5:24 AM PST

2008/11/03 · 05:24

I just got a kick out of this pictures I took over the past few days at both my local Democratic county party headquarters, and the local republican county party headquarters; and thought I'd share them.

The first two pictures are photos I took while out canvassing with our absolutely fantastic Democratic candidate for State Representative Dan Scripps, then you have pictures of both the Manistee Dems headquarters and Manistee repubs headquarters on Saturday, and then both county party headquarters yesterday....

MichiganGirl

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Wednesday October 22, 2008 · 11:28 AM PDT

2008/10/22 · 11:28

For those of you that don't know, I'm the Vice Chair of my county party, which is the Manistee County Democratic Party, and last week my party found ourselves in a bit of a quandary.

We wanted to get some slate cards printed up, add to our phonebanking operation, rent was due... and we didn't have the money in treasury to accomplish all three, and keeping our earlier commitment to helping our local candidate's campaigns financially was completely out of the question. We could either pay the rent, get some slates printed, or get some more phones... but we didn't have the money to do all of the above, and I really wanted to do "all of the above".

When you're worrying about how you're going to pay rent and get a measly 2,000 slatecards printed up; you're definitely not in any kind of position to be writing checks to anyone else. So we had thought the only way we'd be able to help our local candidates was by knocking doors with them, making some phone calls, and giving them our best wishes... Not at all what we'd wanted, but it was looking like that was the best we were going to be able to do...

MichiganGirl

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Saturday October 11, 2008 · 10:55 AM PDT

2008/10/11 · 10:55

My County Democratic Party needs your help.

I'm sure you're wondering: "Which Democratic County Party is yours, and why does it need my help?"

Well the answer is easy, I'm a proud member of the Manistee County Democratic Party, and we need money.

MichiganGirl

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Wednesday September 17, 2008 · 9:52 AM PDT

2008/09/17 · 09:52

I'm sure you've all noticed what I've been seeing - i.e. - All of a sudden the media is calling out the McCain/Palin campaign for it's lies and they're even starting to call them out on their policies and I'm sure you've all been thinking the same thing I've been thinking, which is:

Why now? Why at all when you've never shown any interest in telling the truth about republicans before?

I think the answer might be that the combination of the McCain campaign's blatant lies and the economic meltdown is simply leaving them no choice but to do the job they should have been doing all along.

MichiganGirl

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Sunday August 31, 2008 · 1:35 PM PDT

2008/08/31 · 13:35

I have an Action Alert for all of you:

I just got a robocall recording of John McCain to the effect of "Hello my fellow Veteran, this is John McCain." and then he goes on to tell me that he's sending me and all of his fellow Veterans an application for an absentee voting ballot through the mail.

I jumped up right away to grab our digital recorder, but the recording was only about 30 seconds long and I only ended up recording the last few seconds of it.

Now he's the deal... I'm clearly not supporting John McCain, nor am I a Veteran... So why would he be calling me and thinking that I'm a Veteran?

I happen to know the answer to that, because the only group I've ever had anything to do with in my entire life that is in anyway connected with Veterans is when I have donated to the USO and I've been getting tons of Veterans/republican donation asks in my mailbox ever since... So I know that the USO is either selling their donor lists or giving them away.

Regardless, there's only one place that John McCain could have gotten my name and phone number and thought I might have been a Veteran... The USO.

Anyway, I have a favor to ask... If anyone gets a call from "Unknown Name - 817-288-1609", PLEASE record it if you're able?

Obama's keeping me up nights.

MichiganGirl

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Saturday August 02, 2008 · 2:19 AM PDT

2008/08/02 · 02:19

I can't sleep and it's all Obama's fault... and no, I'm not a concern troll or suffering from insomnia.

I can't sleep because I had a very busy week and I am way behind on finishing up some very important work that I've got to have finished by 9:00am tomorrow morning.

I know you're probably wondering what could possibly be so important that it would keep me up until 5:00am when I've got to be up so early the next day and how could it possibly in any way have anything to do with Senator Obama?

The answer is simple:

Parades.

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Wednesday July 09, 2008 · 11:58 AM PDT

2008/07/09 · 11:58

I only ask, because I've read a lot of pissing and moaning on this site lately and pissing and moaning accomplishes exactly only one thing... It makes you feel better.

That's it. That's all it's ever done and that's all it'll ever do.

I don't know about you, but I'm mad... I'm fucking pissed off and I'm WAY past the point where crying, screaming, depression or even throwing a goddamned beautiful hissy fit - the caliber of which the world has never known; is going to make me feel better.

I left "mad" back in the dust about 50 miles ago and am well into vengeance territory now.

We lost this one and we lost it bigtime... So now what are we going to do about it? We can't change history. This one is already over with... It's done and there's no going back.

A line has been crossed for me and no amount of "Whoops, my bad!" out of any of the cravenly Dems that vote in favor of this piece of shit today is going to cut it with me.

They've crossed the line and now they're going to have to pay.

Now we need to think about what where we're going to go from here and what we're going to do to prepare for the future.

MichiganGirl

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Tuesday March 11, 2008 · 2:11 AM PDT

2008/03/11 · 02:11

I think something is fishy about the Spitzer investigation.

The NYT is reporting that the Spitzer/hooker revelations came about not because of an initial investigation into the prostitution ring, but the other way around...

The prostitution ring was apparently uncovered because of a Spitzer investigation that was triggered by a bank employee reporting "suspicious activity."

To my mind, that "suspicious activity" was more than likely a CRT (cash transaction report) and a CRT is triggered every time a person makes $10,000 or more in cash transactions during a single 24 hour period... There are tens of thousands of CRT's filed every single day though and they don't always trigger full-out federal investigations with wiretaps and everything... Especially not for a guy known to be one of the richest people on earth.

MichiganGirl

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Wednesday February 13, 2008 · 10:09 AM PST

2008/02/13 · 10:09

I want to know, where's this "leadership" our two Democratic Presidential candidates keep telling us about?

One would think that two such individuals that are brimming over with leadership (two veritable founts of leadership to hear them tell it, really) would be able to manage to at least lead the members of their own damned party into not caving to bush.

We keep hearing about how they're going to "reach across the aisle" and "get things done."

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