For all those folks with Confluence Envy or who live in a Stalker’s Paradise, or hey, just those of you who think you’re smarter, and brighter than any one else, and dammit! you like yourselves! or for that matter, those of you that have formed your own version of the thought and dogma purity police and ban any one who doesn’t agree with you, this thread’s for you!!!
So, here’s to you all those Echo Chamber blogs!!! (cue the music)
We salute you, all those good American Echo blog HEROS!!!!
And here’s your play book:
Ten Quick Steps to becoming your own Echo Chamber:
1) Only quote blogs, people, and news sources that agree with you. Be certain to run all your sources through your own personal filter!
2) Never say any thing original. Continually repeat the same threads or better yet, just say one sentence saying READ this! or WOW this is so right on! Then, refer every one to the place where you always steal your best ideals!
3) Link to the same sites or your own repeatedly!!!! Preferably your linked sites should always be the same folks that front page for you!
4) Never quote a source who doesn’t send chills up your leg! Why that would resemble journalism a little too much and we wouldn’t want that, would we?
5) Always publish your hot button topics while your emotions are running amok! Be especially certain to go to other folks blogs with differing viewpoints and leave some cryptic sentence that points to your blog! This always gives you people to take it out on!!!
6) Be sure to use those buzz words that piss people off! I’ve got a few for you, racist meme, right wing dog whistle, libtard, etc.! I’m sure you have plenty of labels to lay on folks that may possibly have a point so use them liberally so you can pseudointellectually dismiss them immediately!
7) Go to other blogs and whine!!!! Bet yet! Whine, then link to them then go to bigger blogs and whine and link to them too! Wow, if you’re going to have a pity party for you and the rest of the dilettantes, you might as well start a blog war while you’re at it! It can only help your traffic!
8 ) If all else fails, be sure to start your very own exclusive blog and limit the ability of folks to post there! Of course they’re rude if they disagree with you! Just go right ahead and block them after maybe one comment, then once they can’t defend themselves any more, just continue discussing them over their dead and rotting carcass! Nothing says I got absolutely no class like this step!
9) Absolutely make sure that you create side blogs to ensure that the worst you have to offer up is safe from your main blog site. That way you can innocently deny you or your beloved reader had anything to do with a hit job!
10) Do absolutely everything to ensure your own comfort level on the blog. Make sure every one addresses your ego needs generously. Make sure you put just enough in about your reader to elicit the attagirls! and wow, I couldn’t have said it better myself. After you’ve given the stick to about 99.9% of the population that disagree with you, you gotta give that carrot to the .01 that hang on your every word!
Yup, here’s to you, you beautiful people! You’ve created your own reality and echo chamber so celebrate by thinking I wrote this one about YOU!
Open Thread and Open Bar
(Notice: no copy cat sites were hurt in the making of this thread)
Filed under: cocktails | Tagged: Open thread
Will Marilyn Manson be performing at the first annual PUMA Purity Ball?
PUMA balls are big balls.
you’re so vain, you probably think this thread is about you, don’t you? don’t you?
I feel like Somebody’s Watching Me.
lol, that was a creepy song, and now it’s being used for an insurance commercial, go figure
I wonder how many emails flag@whitehouse.gov got, lol. I bet many of them are hysterical.
I’ve been turning in Failbots and Blogstalkers.
Let them explain that on payday.
oooo, that’s a good one
lol. i turned myself in and “some guy in a bar with brown hair”. Someone else i know turned herself in and asked them to recommend an angry mob for her to join. lol.
lol
Send them this…
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/health/policy/06insure.html
lol. i already sent it, but the more the merrier. The fishy thing is hysterical to me for some reason, white house is filled with such a bunch of freaks.
And the Failbots were created in His image
I read a post by WMCB, and she sent them a link to the Declaration of Independence.
I think I would send them a link to the movie or book 1984.
thought police any one?
Someone rec’d sending them a copy of HR 3200. lol. Mad fishy.
Do it!!!!
1984 is their manual.
Send them their Harry and Louise ads from the primary and from now.
lol @ harry and louise. lololol. Totally sending that one.
Ok, i just turned in FactCheck.org for their analysis of Obama’s harry and louise tactic.
from Factcheck:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/harry_louise_again.html
and added a note “please send the author of the Factcheck piece to Gitmo, if there’s any space left. Thanks”.
Send them old videos of Obama himself.
My cat sent them this:
http://tinyurl.com/n6wvyx
SOD,
That kitty, has a ‘fishy’ side look…hope you let them know that one was a priority.
annienyc,Said: 1984 is their manual
I thought Soilent Green was
Here’s mine: Hope they liked it…
Text of email:
I find the following the fishiest of all regarding this issue and Know you will be interested to hear it:
Every comment out of the mouth of Barack Obama..the DNC…and the socalled leadership of the Congress re this bill STINKS WITH THE STENCH WORSE THAN ROTTING SHRIMP BAIT LEFT ON THE DOCK IN THE LOUISIANA SUN.
Moreover..to put out a call for Americans to act in a manner that characterizes free speech as that which somehow should be reported to you is outrageous.
I repudiate this latest application of the “Alynsky” way as I have each time it has been used and continues to be used in similar fashion over the last year eivery time someone or ones have the audacity to assert rejection of what this Administration and its Congressional and financial cronies seek to do.
And for the record : I am no Republican. This lifelong Democrat will continue to monitor and to speak and to act in ways appropriate under my Constitutional rights of free speech and assembly given to me first by God…and then by the founders of this country.
Put that in your fish nets!
NewOrleansPuma …end of email
lol! awesome. and lol @ fish nets. love it.
I’m Rick James, b*tch!
you rick rolled us!
Now that’s funny, myiq!!
LOLOL!
Here’s my personal favorite
wow, that’s a church I could actually attend if any one is awake on sunday morning
Rico…a nice glass of pinot noir please. and put it on my tab.
ScaryDAve damaged my retinas and organs of corti. I’m suing you, sod!
SOD, did you become a surgeon while on vacation? If so, I must see if you are in my network and if they will allow me to schedule an appointment.
naw…Captain Spaulding is the only one around here brandishing surgical knives. He’s not a “preferred provider” however.
better get that taken care of before the insurance companies downgrade the policies any more
They already booted me long ago for inability to pay rapidly escalating premiums after divorce. Eff them. I live in Statisticville now and I don’t need their stinkin’ “health care”.
well, i’m hoping that maybe they’ll at least lower the age for medicare so one of my bag lady nightmares goes away
Who knew we would ever dream of making it to Medicare age? Not me, for sure. They should lower the Medicare entrance age and expand Medicaid until they can get real enough to enact single-payer. Losers.
well, I still don’t understand why they can’t make some of it means tested; the elderly right now are the richest age group by far, you’d thing some of them could help out with their less fortunate peers
AlJazeeraEnglish: Al Jazeera English makes its debut on television airwaves in the US, Changing Channels – 02 Jul 09 – Part 1
Did Obama get that approved with Dick Cheney yet?
Hemmm, don’t know, but they claim they are going to cover every story from every angle, but will they be; ‘Fair and Balanced’ and ‘The Most Trusted’. :lolL Make room big boyz and galz. Frost and his team are moving in to cover every story, from every angle.
Hey! Stop showing the terrorists our stuff!
Never mind. The terrorists here probably have their targets already. Just kidding!!!!! I’m sure Dear Leader has everything under control.
Don’t make me turn you in.
Say, the White House is also keeping track of the cookies?
Heh,
That should be filed under instructional video. Perhaps it will help them understand that “questions” are how you find things out and not necessarily some E-VIL and diabolical plot.
I think you missed the message there. Prairie Dawn is an obvious subversive. First, there’s something unAmerican about oatmeal cookies. They make those in the kinds of countries where they have universal health care and no chocolate chips. Second, you can’t have a cookie, you can have ALL the cookies? She’s treating CM as a human being. A nonsubversive would have yelled at him, given him nothing, called him a Nazi and had him removed from the premises. She needs to take diplomacy lessons from Guy Smiley.
You guys are hysterical. Do you realize how easy politicians make it for the comedians to make a living? Jon Stewart will never run out of material—I thought Bush was the pinnacle for political funny theater but the Dems and Obie have just as much fodder and I think it may be richer grade—-I guess that means the droppings can pass a smell test.
you have to laugh, otherwise what would you do with the fear?
Dakini: Why don’t you organize a Confluence conference in NO? It is on my bucket list to go to NO and I am not averse to combining my tourism with some noble Puma cause. The University must have some dorm rooms they could rent out for cheap. You could set up a jam session with the local talent. We could chip in to fly Rico to be on tap. RD could probably be pried away from her test tubes. We could watch the NJ returns. We could plan Puma Pac adventures for 2010. We could have a chat with Landrieu (sp?). We could TP Jindal’s digs. Then there is the whole NO food scene I have only savored from the printed page. If health care fails we could set up alternative death care based on NO cuisine and drown out the terrible emptiness of the wordy One.
Well, you don’t want to do it during hurricane season, but our average winter temps like 65. And, yes, there are facilities like that at UNO.
Love it! Especially teepeeing Jindal! I’ve been wanting to go there, too!
Let’s make it happen; surely there might be interest in something like real face time in NO. Let’s start with what time is best.
I’d be in if we could plan it far enough in advance for me to make arrangements!
well, frankly if you want much involvement from me it has to between semesters, maybe we should arrange a spring break thing?
Just for the record, I won’t do that “bead” thing
…at least not before a few drinks.
Me, either, SOD. Although I did once post a pic of them on the internet, for a buddy who was doing an online breast-cancer research fundraiser called “Flash For The Cure”.
Well, the tea bag crowd certainly has the kossacks jazzed. I snuck a peak to see if they were worried at all about the Dem leadership “frowning” on Kucinich’s opt-out for single payer at the sate level amendment, or Pelosi’s disdain for the surcharge on the rich for health care, or the co-op talk, or the big deal with big Pharma, or that Pharma will spend 200 mill this month advertising this sham, or the biz week expose on how health insurers have basically written this POS, you know, anything about this stuff. But, instead, it’s post after post of “reporting from so and so’s townhall”, teabaggers, republicans…heck, you’d think the dems were the minority Party. Though I am sure some of the natives there have begun to get restless about this shat. Still, it’s pretty fun in a sad, weird sort of way.
Same ol, same ol. They were celebrating and saying their “pressure worked” at the same time that the news about the Senate Finance Cmte trying to eliminate SCHIP came out.
hmmm… taxing health benefits, no negotiation of pharma for medicare, no “public option,” health care coops, eliminating SCHIP — now where did I hear that crap before???
Oh yeah, “W”
“W,W” is on the ball
It’s like your “first time” when you’re thinking — when do I get to the good stuff?
Don’t tobacco taxes go to SCHIP? So what were they gonna use those for? They eliminated the public option also didn’t they? So the only money spent would be for subsidies for those paying more than 20% of income in premiums as far as they’re concerned? Or not even that? So confusing.
I think the idea was that they would wrap SCHIP subsidies into the exchange for families. Yes, tobacco taxes. It’s funny. It’s not like the IRS has some account marked tobacco taxes they pay for SCHIP out of. It goes into the general fund. But this was a way to make the expansion policy politically palatable to Congress.
I am so confused as well. How do we know what is the latest, they’re about to basically start from scratch, right? it’s almost like there is no plan.
Oh if only there were indeed no plan. Nope, what we are getting is much, much worse than no plan.
They can’t shift gears, masslib. They don’t know how. I honestly think they really are a bunch of amazingly psychologically stunted individuals. I was a frequent poster over there at one time. Looking back, I’ve come to believe that their “progressive” activism NEVER had much at all to do with having real beliefs at the core of their person. I think they just got their psychological jollies, sense of self, and endorphin rush from “destroy the identified enemy”.
That worked well when Bush was in power. But now they CANNOT shift gears, they are stuck in “dump on the evil republicans” mode, no matter how useless and irrelevant that approach is in this new political landscape. They exist in an ugly little tribal world of “us good, you evil”, because it gives them pleasure and ego-bumps from their fellows, not because they actually believe in anything other than their infantile political version of fantasy war games.
I think you nailed it. I can’t imagine living that way.
“you’d think the dems were the minority Party.
0’s supporters are the worst winners I’ve ever seen!
I’m late to the party, but could I still get some iced tea with a spash of limeade?
Love the post, Dak!
well, given the emails back and forth all day, and the stuff yesterday, I just was inspired by all that show of bluster and ego! It wasn’t that difficult to notice the tricks of their trade and compile it into ten easy steps!
I am going to explode if you don’t spill names very soon! What may I bribe you with?
nah, i’ve gotten used to poverty, besides bribes are so my ex congressman Dollar Bill Jefferson!
Like I have any $$$. I wish!
well, now my interest is piqued, you’re not bribing me with money … does it involve chocolate then?
dakinikat: In da freezer? Almost 20 years in Congress..ya woulda thought he woulda had” more
bettah” hiding places than dat..huh? Ah mean even under a fig tree would be “more bettah” …or…unda a fern or somethin…!!!
I really love this place. I love that we don’t all agree, that we have everything from outright socialists to centrists, to the occasional republican drop-in. I know it’s a liberal blog, and we all respect that. But mostly we have a lot of people who reject labels, and think that one is actually allowed to pick and choose ideas. And to think what one thinks, and ponder what one ponders, even if it’s all over the damn “approved political map”. So? Who made the map? And when did I give them permission to assign me a team jersey, hand me a compass pointing relentlessly right or left, and think for me?
If there is one good thing that has come out of the travesty that was the 2008 election, it’s that I now have no idea why I spent so much of my life mostly agreeing with the left, but still feeling like I had to lop off pieces of, and contort, and otherwise cram my actual (and often inconveniently shaped) thoughts into the approved square or round hole. 2008 cured me of that, and I will never, ever go back to the groupthink echo chamber again. That’s a good thing.
Political polygons are growing in number. Hope the trend continues.
I hope it continues too! I know how you feel, believe me.
What a great comment!
wmcb – you speak for me – thanks!
Joan—-I think I missed something. What did Princess Dakinikat do to be worthy of sincere bribe offers?
I’m playing Carly Simon and not releasing the source of this You’re so Vain thread …
for annienyc: I copied my email to the fish boys and girls White House email..under your comment above as an example of one email the fish boys and girls got at the White House..but for some reason it posted at the bottom…anyway….the shrimp is even more rotten now…
Big Dawg receives a hero’s welcome on the streets of NYC:
Awwwwww! Way to go, NYCers! Thanks for posting.
general alert and announcement to all of you californians out there with tv access to the cal. leg. channel or i suppose you might see this at californiawomen.org. the only young kennedy i see who is worth her bloodline is maria shriver and every year she heads up a conference on women. please try to see it if you can. there are some truly amazing women with truly amazing and surprising things to say, even the gloria steinems etc. maria gives a wonderful, touching and strong introduction that i will bet any ot you out there you will need several tissues. she talks about her mom, eunice and uncle ted in such sweet terms.
Speaking of other points of view, David Frum has a post up about how killing ObamaCare would be a nightmare for the GOP. He says they will have to kill it by scaring old people, which will make “tinkering” with Medicare in the future impossible. That’s the thing. In many ways, we could as easily have a say, Mitt Romney proposing the same exact system sans the public option thingy and it may appeal to repubs. People scream at me the wingers are against this so it must be good but I’m thinking well, maybe they just think they can score political points by defeating Obama-Care.
Frum also had an article up the other day about the greatest single-payer supporter he knows, is a small business woman who is a Republican. I got the feeling he was making fun of the Democrats for not seeing the political gold Medicare for All would have been.
Everyone should make fun of the Democrats for not see the political they had in Medicare for All. Stupidest decisions ever to not try and sell that to the people.
HR 676 is still in the house. I’m writing my reps/senators on Monday about it. I’m slogging through 3200 but its a mind deadening experience. Now I remember why I went to med school instead of law school.
dakiinikat: This thread …ya got anybody in mind?
I see you are still paying excellent attention!
oh, there are were a few inspirations, yup
Well may you continue to be inspired! I know you will continue to pay attention!
Masslib: Who has been the most vocal re wanting the importation of drugs from Canada? Ain’t no liberal….ain’t no Democrat…
Who is it dakinikat?
Give up? Ready?
None other than da boy: Sen David Vitter…
oh weird stuff going on everywhere.
he invited me to his little get together re health care in Jeff Parish tomorrow … may go for fun and and videotaping opportunities.
Unbelievable. Is it the Apocalypse yet?
Huh. That’s interesting. I support that policy, what’s in it for him?
He’s afraid the domestic diaper supply is drying up?
A whole group of them have been for it for years. Vitter, McCain, Lindsey Graham – sounded like a GOP proposal.
Lot’s of libs in MA are for it. i mean, Canada is right around the corner. Hmmm, I will have to research that. My Gov. wanted to reimport but the Pharma’s beat that down.
I think the “leadership” in both parties was against it. I still remember all the talk in Congress about “foreign” drugs when they were re-importing them back into the US. Never made one bit of common sense.
Big Dawg so deserves his legacy accolades. It is so wonderful for him that after all he has experienced in public life, he still gets the good stuff.
BTW, I understand that as Obie’s poll numbers drop, Bush II’s #s are breathing new life. I sill can’t stand the guy but somehow I find that news sort of fun, sort of a skewed up ‘atta boy.
Dakinikat: Between semesters sounds like a winner. Since that time has shifted all over the place, when is it for you?
I’ll have to check the academic calender. I’m busy with Rico right now … lemme check tomorrow.
love this post and thread Dakinikat. You are too funny and right on!
ty, malady, I’m sure you’ve got a better inkling than most to said inspiration
PNHP, HealthNOW!, MadAsHellDoctors and other single payer groups are against HR3200 and they’re hardly Republicans. Sounds like Conyers who called it “crap” and the CPC, CBC and CHC want to vote against it too.
Yeah, but progressive groups are already going after Congresspeople who are opposing it from the left, like Massa. They’ll be targeting advocacy groups for single payer next.
I’d like to see fauxgressives try to primary all the POC in Congress/Conyers/CPC/CBC/CHC.
Is there a reason why the font size has slipped to about 9 or did I hit some unknown key on my computer?
It looks small to me, too. May be the pitcher of Bahama Mamas though.
You guys, too? I thought I was just getting old and tired and myopic.
Anyone here seen the “Yes Men Save the World” on HBO? I love those guys. It’s their second doc. You should rent it if you don’t get HBO. It is fantastic how they pretend to be from companies and the government to show how corrupt or uncaring or whatever they are. They pretended to be from Haliburton, HUD(in New Orleans), Dow Chemical(Bhopal disaster) and some others. I just rented the first doc but haven’t watched it yet. They pretend to be from the WTO. They make a website similar to the real one and then people contact them for interviews and off they go!
Valvoleum! Yum.
I just came across a few quotes in a column at the times that I just can’t believe.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/minette_marrin/article6788645.ece
From The Sunday Times August 9, 2009
“Women aren’t equal to men”
“This is a great pity. Women still need feminism and perhaps, given the profound differences between women and men, we always will.”
“The first such fact that feminists forget, or won’t accept, is that some things in life cannot be fixed. There is, for example, a tragic opposition between a woman’s desire and need to work and her baby’s desire and need for her, not to mention her love for her child.”
“Men and women really are different. The findings of hard science – in endocrinology, brain structure and function and genetics, for instance – have forced rational feminists to admit that, statistically speaking, men and women have different aptitudes, interests and responses, little though this is yet understood. Such generalisations never apply to an individual, of course, and although – for instance – women are underrepresented at the extremes of intelligence and statistically are less good at higher maths, chess, musical composition and physics, any one woman might be brilliant at any or all of those things.”
“The point here, and it’s another centrally important fact, which feminists either don’t know or refuse to admit, is that you would not therefore necessarily expect men and women to be equally represented in any particular occupation.”
sounds like some of the things larry summers, ex harvard and now obama administration, had to say about women in the sciences. bah.
uh- evidently these morons don’t get the fact that everyone is different(it isn’t restricted to something as simple as men or women). Furthermore, babies need “daddies” also and we don’t expect them to give up everything in order to raise and nurture them.
Charles Lane of WaPo has penned one of the sanest treatments I’ve read yet of the whole end-of-life counseling brouhaha. No, it’s not forced euthanasia. Yes, it is troubling.
Go read. SANITY! REASON! Whoodda thunk it?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/07/AR2009080703043.html
my end-of-life plans include avoiding any facility that contains anything remotely related to the words catholic or baptist
but that was also true when I had a functional uterus, and especially true when I had a functional uterus with a high risk pregnancy
Get into a Baptist hospital and have no insurance or personal money to pay the bills. You will have no end of life problems then.
My sister works for CHW and they are using their stim money to connect their hospitals. She is traveling all over the country working on this project. If they don’t meet the deadline they will be fined $9M a day.
Yes, I read that section for review at PUMA PAC and I think end of life counseling can be beneficial, but there are a great many problems with this. It’s Monty Python’s “I’m not dead yet” Section. I question whether doctors would be given a morbidity ‘quota’ to meet to contain costs.
I agree with the author — Charles Lane — that paying doctors to do the “death” talk is really the wrong way to go.
IF the patients initiates the discussion THEN and ONLY then is it not Government interference.
This thing (death talk) must have been put in the the Insurance companies — because we KNOW that they wrote the whole damne bill.
The fact that the consumers (that would be us) have not been brought into this discussion and the fact that single payer is off the table makes this a non a very bad bill.
As we learned yesterday — the Insurance company CEOs are already picking out their new jets etc. with all the gross profits they are expecting when most of the nation will be paying a huge percentage of their incomes to the “health” insurance companies.
We know that Goldman Suck & assorted Wall Streeters put up millions for 0bama’s white house — now it appears that the other major deep pockets was the “health” insurance companies — based on all the goodies 0bambam is delivering to his bestest buddies.
SUCKERS who voted for Obama — go to hell.
End of life issues are far more legal than they are medical. This is not what a health care professional, including a Dr., is trained to do. I have done this end of life planning with an attorney and financial planner (lic.). The documents are legal documents. This could also be put on a government web site with free access for every American.
They can say all day long that the intent is not to cut costs by “encouraging” seniors into refusing expensive end of life care. But if that’s not the intent, why is it even in there? Why address it at all? Why incentivize it by paying docs to do it?
And BTW, I’m a big proponent of living wills, etc. But that’s my choice.
Yes, but, lots of old people will never see a lawyer. I think, could be wrong, the idea is that this is a point of intersection where living wills, etc. could be discussed and explained. I, frankly, would never have tried to change Medicare in the middle of this. Certainly no one ran on making these sorts of specific changes to Medicare. There was no public debate.
Docs already do it, all the time. But why address it as part of the govt plan to pay for healthcare? What does it have to do with paying for healthcare?
Stop looking for logic WMCB…how many times do I have to tell you!? /snark/
Anyone else find it ironic that Bill Clinton is a key note speaker at Netroots Nation?
Isn’t he worse than the antiChr*st to the netnuts?
Yes, just saw that. I find it odd too.
it seriously turns my stomach. ugh. hopefully it won’t be too foul, i’m sure he’ll know what to do. *shudder*. Maybe obamadinijad will tank miserably and hill will have to run next year and he’s just getting them ready. lol.
Oh crud…I hope Obama doesn’t have him out there pushing Obama-Care.
But…but…but…he’s a RAYCIST! He coldheartedly threw welfare families onto the streets to die! He hates teh gayz and betrayed them all! He is a secret tool of the Saudis, cuz they donated to his library!
NAFTA! NAFTA! NAFTA! TRIAAANGUUUULAAATOOOR!!!!!
Now we discover he was really ‘bringing people together.’ The danger has passed, he has a penis, and Hillary made him do it anyway.
hmmm so that was a diffrant take on a post 2 night
I had a flashback to the early primaries, when I frequented the Cheeto. Those were all the talking points about Bill from the Obamabots.
Eiw! anyone have the link to that? oh gross.
oh god, found it. that is disgusting.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09220/989655-100.stm
wtf?
Is this comedy?
Name ONE, you smarmy self-congratulatory tool. Name ONE thing that the bloggers and activists have held Obama fucking accountable for. He’s caved on every damn issue you supposedly elected him for. He is Bush III.
Name ONE, you lying sack of preening shit.
*crickets*
Someone from here should go and hold their groups responsible for their actions. really.
http://www.netrootsnation.org
Poor Bill
He keeps telling them to keep their eye on the ball and concentrate on ISSUES. Most of them don’t know how to do that. They are to busy playing cult of personality.
They can’t seem to get past the Republicans Bad Democrats good mode that many of the brainwashed masses get from watching to much Olbermann or Hannity.
I am afraid this may have happened to my father. I am very upset and have been since he died on Jan. 29, 2009. I have not posted here for a long time. I am not mentally coping well with my father’s death and the bankruptey I am now going through from taking care of him. I won’t make you read the details of his death but from the time I called 911 I will never be the same.
I am so sorry.
pdgrey: I am glad you have returned. I hope the clatter of other peoples words and our sometimes aimless chatter is a reassuring noise for you. Your words say so much.
is there any thing we can do to help?
I’ll say a prayer for you pdgray. Don’t be a stranger. Sometimes having support from others can make a difference.
Sorry. ):
Please let us know the details of the bankruptcy-that is really bad.
Hillary Busts a Move, Part Deux
The fanfare was enough to make America’s top diplomat dance. Then again, as we saw earlier this week in Nairobi, Kenya, it clearly doesn’t take much for Clinton to get funky.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/08/hillary-busts-a-move-part-deux.html
Classy lady. Makes me sad that she’s not President.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124967502810515267.html
“WASHINGTON — When 10 members of Congress wanted to study climate change, they did more than just dip their toes into the subject: They went diving and snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef. They also rode a cable car through the Australian rain forest, visited a penguin rookery and flew to the South Pole.”
“Taxpayer-funded travel for Congress is booming. Legislators and aides reported spending about $13 million on overseas trips last year, a Journal analysis has shown, a nearly 10-fold jump since 1995.
For Mr. Baird, the trip was one of two such excursions in six months. Last summer, he went to the Galapagos Islands with several lawmakers, also to gain expertise in climate change.”
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Perhaps these elected officials should have to put themselves into the shoes of their average constituents every once in a while. The could take trips back home and bunk in with an average family.
I personally think they ought to have a barracks in DC for them just like the military gets to use when they are temporarily assigned away from home. I get real tired of hearing how they need more money to retain the two residences they “need”.
Bunk them two to a room.
Bill at Netroots Nation—oh karma thy name is sweet.
Ugh. I don’t want them pawing him. Two-faced traitors!
He’ll probably say something they disagree with and they’ll rush the stage. Not a lot of self-control there.
Okay, i’m seriously wondering about this Netroots thing. KO’s is still a sponsor, and the founder of KO’s is in a video on the front page. I’m sure he has his reasons, but i don’t know how he can legitimize an organization that would call themselves progressive and still allow KO’s as a part of their organization.
KOS? DAILY KOS aka The Big Orange Satan? Markos Moulitsas? He thinks he is a progressive but it no longer means what it used to due in part to him. I don’t know what KO’s is otherwise.
I will admit sometimes it is hard to take especially when other people are laughing and talking about ( the way I see them right now) “small” things”. I honestly just don’t know if I am going to get through it all. Thanks for the care in your post.
is there anything we can do to help you with this?
Maybe the confluence could register and go and even ask them a question relating to the behaviour of grassroots net groups of recent? And we could donate for the price of registration?
http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=639966
Of course, anyone here who registers might have to require they not give any of the monies to specific sponsors, as groups like KO’s will receive monies from the registration fees.
I guess it would be mean of me to nominate Captain Spaulding and his rusty kitchen utensils eh?
Anyone have any good screen shots of KO’s most disturbing pieces on Hillary? I’d like to forward them to netroots nation in a letter.
Thanks , dakinkat, I really appreciate that, but I don’t know what to ask for. There is really no way for anyone to tell me I made the right choice.
pdgrey,
Regardless of thechoice that you made I want you to know that we care and we are hear if you need to talk.
cwaltz, I think that is one of my problems, talking about it. This is the first time I have. I’m still not ready to tell everything. But I thank you.
we’re here if you need us, never be afraid to ask for help, every one needs it at some point … every one
Yep and it takes a great strength of charecter imo to come to the conclusion that you may not be able to handle something on your own and seek someone to help you work through it.
If the choice is what I suspect, I may be somewhat familiar with your doubts. My Mother passed away in Dec 2007 in hospice care. Most of the time, I’m sure there was no other way but, occasionally, one has to wonder and that’s difficult.
Please let us know if there is any way we can help you. Dak is totally right, we all need it at some point.
I want to thank “you all” (that’s southern) for listening. I didn’t mean to stop the thread. I guess it just came so close to home. Good night to all. Thank you again. Pd
I’m pulling for you Pd … take care!!!
Violet Socks is on fire, she’s got a great post up about health care if anyone’s interested.
I just saw post from other people I missed. It did help to read them and I Thank you all. I will be back again.
I’m sorry you’ve lost your dad, pdgrey. Take good care of yourself.
dear pdgray, the worst day of my life but the beginning of sanity was the day i hired an atty. and made a counseling appointment after my mom died. i knew it would be good to talk with someone, but i delayed it until i felt better. well, it kept getting worse until i made the appointment and two years later, i look back at that time and never want to repeat it or would ever want anyone to go through it. please find someone to talk with. taking care of someone who is ill and not getting better is a selfless act of love. you will never ever need wonder and play the “what if” game because you stepped up to the plate. that is the true volunteerism i keep hearing from our pols who will never find themselves in that position. my thoughts are with you.
From the Bacon Liberation Front at Ace of Spades (a winger blog, but funny).
So what do you do when you have a couple of high power CO2 lasers lying around and a bunch of beef jerky? Why make jerky business cards of course! And how to you get the word out? Well sponsoring a contest where you have people recreate classic Frank Frazetta paintings in real life seems like a good way to start. God I love American creativity.
http://www.meatcards.com/challenge/
More from Ace…
Recent headlines: unemployment down!
Latest food stamp figures:
…As the nation’s unemployment rate nears 10 percent, a record 34.4 million people – or one in nine Americans – were participating in the food stamp program as of May. That’s an increase of 650,000 people from the previous month and up 6 million from the same time last year…
The food stamp figures DO INCLUDE those people who used up all their unemployment eligibility or have simply given up looking for work. Just because you’ve fallen off the “official” (i.e. phony) employment radar, doesn’t mean you’ve fallen off the food stamp radar. In fact, you become more dependent than ever on that small bit of assistance once you’re “invisible” and don’t matter to blog trolls and the lying asshats in Washington.
Of course, I’ve reported the Dept of Agriculture to the Whitehouse for promulgating this obviously “fishy” data. It was the only patriotic thing to do when I realized Dept of Agriculture was distributing these counter-revolutionary numbers.
Lol I believe in my fellow Americans, the raw data on who we the smartasses are actually reporting would make a great book.
Back in 2001, before Star Trek: Enterprise premiered on The Space Channel in Canada, the Channel ran this ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_2760OoAVg
LOL. that was funny.
Great post. I know some PUMA sites that fit the bill.