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David Kroning II

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Tuesday November 06, 2012 · 8:20 PM PST

2012/11/06 · 20:20

Phew!

Disenfranchised and Pissed!

David Kroning II

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Sunday October 28, 2012 · 8:52 PM PDT

2012/10/28 · 20:52

I won't make this a long diary. I am an American living in Canada. In 2008, I received my absentee ballot from Ohio with no problem.

This election year, I received a form that said I was required to send some piece of paper that proved my Ohio residency. I called the Election Office and asked how the hell am I was to do that since I have not lived there in 20 years? She told me I could simply send a copy of my passport with my absentee ballot request.

I took her name and did EXACTLY as she told me to do.

I waited...and waited...and when I started receiving campaign ads from the Republican Party (I'm a Registered Democrat), I knew something was foul.

I called two weeks ago and she told me "it was in the mail!"

More bullshit arrived from the Republican party.

I called last Thursday and some nasty old hag told me it was "too late" for me. That I hadn't followed the "process" because my fucking Passport was not a VALID form of ID to get an absentee ballot because, and I quote, "your passport says you were born in Washington State." Of course it does...since that is where i was born before my parents moved to Ohio where I spent the next 20 years of my life at the same fucking address!

Now I do not get to vote...and I am sure it was not only done on purpose, but it has been done to others. And, I am PISSED.

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Thursday March 22, 2012 · 4:22 PM PDT

2012/03/22 · 16:22

I'm sick. I'm a 42 year old male, outside of some gastric issues, in good health. I haven't had the flu in well over 15 years.

I was feeling a bit feverish at work on Monday and had uncontrollable coughing so my boss told me to get the hell out of there. It hit me very fast. Now I've been sicker than a dog for the past three days with something that just pinned me to my bed like some quivering pile of human jelly burning up with a fever that soared on several occasions to 105.5 degrees.

I figured it was the flu and I'd just let it burn itself out. After a night of sleepless fits and dehydration (everything I drank just went right through me), my fever broke.

I thought it was over. It wasn't.

I'm sick. I'm a Canadian and I'm supposed to live in a country with universal health care.

I know this won't be a popular diary, but this isn't meant to be some Republican hit job. It's a real experience. It's anecdotal, but it's representative of why people who think a Public Option is a magic bullet need to think about it more carefully.

My experience follows:

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Saturday January 21, 2012 · 6:41 AM PST

2012/01/21 · 06:41

This just in from The Hill.

Down in South Carolina, all the really good Conservatives are pressing their sheets in preparation for the big rally, er...Republican Primary vote. Assorted Liberal Media Polls are now showing Mitt Romney's campaign in about the same state as the Hidenburg as he and his staff scurry off to Florida like Palmetto bugs from the Orken man.

Word on the American streets--where Mitt once lived--is that the scion of industry may have fired his campaign manager and his entire staff and replaced them with Céline Dion and the Cirque du Soleil.

On top of Mitt's misery we now can add more great news for Newt Gingrich.

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Will Chuck Norris' endorsement...

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Will Chuck Norris' endorsement...

Put Newt over the top!

6 votes

Cause rapid hair growth on Newt's chest.

20 votes

Cause Bill

3 votes

Give liberals athletes foot.

9 votes

I got buzzed today and it changed my life (Update).

David Kroning II

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Wednesday December 14, 2011 · 3:37 PM PST

2011/12/14 · 15:37

Today, my cell phone buzzed in my pants. It surprised me so that it made me leap up and startle the people standing around me. They all started to giggle as I walked away to answer.

Now, you must know that my cellphone never buzzes for any reason. I don't even know why I carry it with me. I was only in my pocket this morning because I had an interview on Monday and, although I was sure I didn't get the job, I still grabbed it this morning motivated by a small measure of hopeful cynicism.

I was expecting some telemarketer, but to my surprise the person on the other end said one simple phrase that caused tears to well up in my eyes.

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Sunday September 25, 2011 · 6:59 AM PDT

2011/09/25 · 06:59

The details are known to friends, and there is no need to go into them here. I'm writing this diary to seek tips and hints from others who have been, or are still residing, where I find myself today...

Single at 40.

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I would be best to avoid at all costs...

Blondes

6 votes

Brunettes

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Redheads

1 vote

Quiche

25 votes

So my phone rang today...

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Tuesday September 20, 2011 · 4:00 PM PDT

2011/09/20 · 16:00

That might not be such a strange occurrence for most. However, since I've only lived where I'm living for less than 40 days, and in that time the phone has never rang, it was rather odd. I only know one person in my new location and that happily happens to be Chacounne--a lovely soul who has been nothing but a source of friendship and encouragement since I've arrived.

So back to the phone call...

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Do good things eventually happen to good people?

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Do good things eventually happen to good people?

Yes

86 votes

6 votes

Gooseberry Pie

8 votes

Sacré Bleu! UFO's and the French COMETA Report

David Kroning II for The Week In UFO Phenomenon

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Saturday July 23, 2011 · 10:15 AM PDT

2011/07/23 · 10:15

Many of you have probably heard of Project Blue Book; the US Government Report that detailed the systematic study of the UFO phenomenon. The report began in 1952 and was supposedly stopped in 1970, concluding that the vast majority of UFO's were explainable phenomenon.

You may be less aware that the United States was not the only major Western country to study the UFO phenomenon. Indeed, most, if not all of the Western governments have conducted their own studies of UFOs. All of those studies have one thing in common--a desire by the State to find out who, or what, is violating their airspace.

Almost all of them share the same generic conclusions that 95% of UFO sightings can be explained by common, scientific, explanations like weather balloons, atmospheric phenomenon, faulty equipment, swamp gas, deluded observers, etc. The other 5% of unexplained cases? Well, quite unusually, the studies are very dismissive and don't really seem all that concerned with them.

The British study known as Project Condign, undertaken with input from the Russians and the Chinese, simply concluded that the 5% of unexplainable sightings were, "most likely, not connected to visitations by extraterrestrial beings."

That's it.

That's where these government studies, conducted to understand, who, or what, is breaching their sovereign airspace, indubitably end.

Nothing to see here, folks. Everybody move along.

David Kroning II for The Week In UFO Phenomenon

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Thursday July 21, 2011 · 6:00 AM PDT

2011/07/21 · 06:00

Let's face it. The mere mention of a belief in the existence of UFO's (Unidentified Flying Objects), or Extraterrestrials (beings not of this Earth) can often cause people to be marginalized as "kooks," or "flask carriers." It's part of the culture of the phenomenon and it can be intimidating enough to many otherwise inquisitive people that they simply discount the subject out of hand and leave it to the crystal-gripping converts fluent in Klingon and Zeta-Reticulan.

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Do you believe our government is aware of extraterrestrial invasions of our airspace by UFO's and is keeping this information from us?

Yes

68 votes

Maybe

24 votes

23 votes

Moon Pies

16 votes

I got a job...(update)

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Monday April 04, 2011 · 3:53 PM PDT

2011/04/04 · 15:53

Ok, so it's not a very good job.

It pays 14.67 Canadian per hour...doing Census work for the Canadian government.

But, I had to take a 20-question test to show I can read a street map and demonstrate that I can speak both official languages better than Stephen Harper.

(Thank goodness for all that postdoctoral work in cultural geography!)

I have to work from home. I have to use my own computer. I have to use my own phone. I have to use my own toilet paper.

But, I do get .67 cents extra an hour for the wear and tear caused to my personal belongings used in my official duties.

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Thursday February 17, 2011 · 6:39 AM PST

2011/02/17 · 06:39

As an executive officer on the board of directors for a government-subsidized local immigrant aid society in Québec, Canada, I have the privilege of being part of the hiring (and unfortunately, firing) process for our small staff.

That responsibility has provided me greater insight into the culture of workplace discrimination and how it can be simultaneously so insidious, yet so commonplace and difficult to address even in a more liberal and tolerant social environment like Canada.

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Zombie Apocolypse Safehouse- "Night of the Living Dead Edition"

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Monday November 22, 2010 · 6:17 PM PST

2010/11/22 · 18:17

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"Don't you know what's goin' on out there? This is no Sunday School picnic! Now get the hell down in the cellar. You can be the boss down there, but I'm boss up here!" - Ben

Newscast over a crackling radio:

"It has been established that persons who have recently died have been returning to life and committing acts of murder. A widespread investigation of funeral homes, morgues, and hospitals has concluded that the unburied dead have been returning to life and seeking human victims. It's hard for us here to be reporting this to you, but it does seem to be a fact."

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