Once again I pop into BT to see what issues are up for discussion. I pop into Man Eegee’s diary and, while reading it, think I might just link to it over at my blog to promote the protests against the war.
And then, I read the comments.
Here’s the deal, people: (…and you can call me an intruder who only pops in when there’s a controversy if you like, but this happened quite by accident…maybe I’m psychic or something…)
- Booman: you know I love you, but when someone gets banned, post an announcement with the reason ie. “stark was banned because she exceeded the 2 diary/day rule and refused to coelesce for the good of the community. When that limit is exceeded, others diaries are often missed”. Period.
- Once Boo posts his message, respect his decision. Everybody wins.
- Check your egos and anger towards each other at the door. Anger is a destructive emotion. Even continual anger towards Bushco will wear you down fast. Proceed with caution or you’ll be useless to the revolution.
- Everybody wants the same thing here: a community that works; a community where progressives can meet and exchange ideas about issues in order to develop solutions. Be the left-wing intellectual elitists that you are (that’s snark) and talk about the issues – not each other.
- Get mad at me for lecturing you if you need to let your anger out. I don’t care. I can take it and if it will help you treat each other better, I’m all for it.
- Running a blog is hard. Booman needs your help. If you can’t offer that, as they say (and, as I did): get your own damn blog or find another community. If you’re not willing to do that, then you’d better be willing to make things work here if you plan to stay sane while the Republicans are still in power.
- Focus.
- Get humble, damnit. Contrary to the popular belief among the voices in your head, the world does not revolve around you.
- Shit happens. Deal with it and move on when you’re done. Life is not like the movie Groundhog Day. You don’t get to do the same thing over and over until you do it right and there’s a happy ending. The reality is that you’ll just end up popping your head out of the ground and getting clubbed like the gophers in Caddyshack. Today is a new day. Do something differently that brings peace and happiness to your life instead of misery and angst (which is already provided in bulk via the Bush administration). Example: bashing Republicans=fun; bashing your community mates=not so much.
As usual, I’m long-winded. Oh well. My point is that diaries about the war and the economy and the poor ought to have 100+ comments. Diaries with infighting ought to slide right by.
Think about it: why are you here?
I will now go home to my blog and I will post the information about the protest, sans the link to ManE’s diary – unfortunately.
Don’t drag out the comments in this diary or I’ll have to come back here and lecture you again. And, neither you nor I want that to happen! Right??
P.S. You guys should be happy you don’t have right-wing nutbar trolls to deal with like I have over at my place. If you’d like some, however, I can send a few your way.
Look! You can even troll rate me if that’ll make you feel better.
No troll rates from me. I’m merely an occasional occupant here. Nothing more. Nothing less. I read stuff. Sometimes I get the urge to comment. Sometimes not. I write stuff. Other folks read, or they don’t read. Either way, the sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening.
I also posted the info from Manny’s diaries to my blog – hopefully he will not be the least offended that I didn’t link to the original diaries for reasons that I think are pretty obvious.
the info is what’s important. Besides, it was stark’s diary to begin with. Anywho, that site listing all the protests is a great resource. I’ve already contacted a few local peeps to see about meeting before our local event so I don’t show up alone (something I despise doing, even at parties)
That info needs to be spread far and wide, and that is what counts. Nothing more. Nothing less.
I think I’ll try to feed you liver-flavoured cheesecake instead :0
That can’t possibly taste good!
but Ductape keeps trying to feed it to Bud, he’s still an undecided voter methinks.
I would trust Bud to have excellent judgment in such matters.
I would suggest that anything liver-flavored requires a healthy amount of ketchup – preferably the whole bottle (let’s just say that growing up, there were months were that was about all we could afford in the way of meat – though I fear my ketchup consumption in those days might have partially offset whatever $ was saved!).
Oh…btw…we got a new puppy. Female, shepherd mix of some sort. Kids have named her Snickers. So now our household is up to two dogs and five cats.
I’m allergic to cats, so I stick to the canines, hopefully the kitty-worshippers will forgive me this egregious transgression.
I have a cat that goes bonkers over black olives & bananas.. I’m a confirmed cat person, but I love other people’s dogs.
He enjoys torture, obviously. Note the spelling of “flavoured”, however. He’ll be a Canadian in no time.
know no borders, even of the northern persuasion 😉
You’d have to like liver. A lot. And I don’t know anyone who likes liver that much.
I was going to post that maybe you could make liver-flavored cheesecake out of liver cheese, but then I found out that liver cheese contains neither liver nor cheese. Not only that, people already think I’m disgusting for bringing the kitty litter cake to the cafe yesterday. I probably don’t want to encourage that any more than necessary.
I had to trot out Mr. Yuck today, so I feel your pain. I would probably take my chances with the liver-cheesecake over the kitty litter cake, tho, hope you don’t mind. 🙂
Well, OK, but the kitty litter cake is just crumbled up yellow cake and vanilla wafers held together with pudding, and a few reshaped Tootsie Rolls for effect.
Sounds like it would taste pretty good if you can get past how it looks . . .
I think my doggies would loooove liver-flavored cheesecake. Me — not so much.
What a horrible thing to do to a delicious piece of liver!
less-violent alternative to ‘Shock and Awe’ 🙂
Lemme at it
ctrl clik for lg. view
Yo Catnip, Manny…que pasa?
Peace
at the full moon
Hi dada!
I heat that!
Every time I see a pic of Bud I miss my old Basset “Sebastian”…and it’s been almost 20 yrs that he passed.
Peace
Bud was full of it this past weekend, I think he got bored from being inside due to the snow and was whining excessively. Finally, he surrendered and went to his pillow/bed and refused to get up for any reason besides food.
They can be very stubborn…way cool with kids tho, both mine grew up w/him, and they could do just about anything to him…when he’d had enough, he’d crawl under my bed where they couldn’t get to him and hide for hours…
gotta unplug and call it, must try to get something done tomorrow.
Be well
Peace
have a good evening, my friend. See you on the flip.
Paz
Somehow I’d failed to note that today was a full moon. Then I realized I’d forgotten to change my calendar on my door and noticed that lo and behold that there was more to your full moon post today than snark.
I’d forget my head if it weren’t attached already.
eye on the moon cycles, as they tend to spark alot of…..fun at work. Glad you changed up your calendar, it’s the first step to reattaching your head. First-hand knowledge, of course 🙂
Makes me kinda glad our neighborhood beagle-breeders got out of the business. I don’t miss 15 beast braying all at once.
Woof. Might be the camera angle, puppy, but you look as if you could handle the whole cheesecake in one bite. Yikes!
Oh, catnip, you are the greatest! Excellent diary.
Oh, and I have cats that really like liverloaf – and almost anykind of meat/cheese they can find (which isn’t much. Strictly boring catfood here.)
But Eeuuu – liver cheesecake! Next thing someone will be bringing head cheese, or brains & eggs.
God, I’ve missed you Catnip. Thanks for the link, now I can find you anytime. You’re one of the few who make it all clear to me. And thanks for dropping by.
Miss ya…
I’ve got a diary up too with some protests — I’m going to try and compile a master list and get it posted on Thursday night. I’ll hit your blog and see what you’ve got. 🙂
When one of these diaries is up, I read it breathlessly. But, I think it’s just in our nature to be very interested in other people and community. It’s in our genes, and before the world got so complicated the infighting or gossiping or talking about who did what with who was politics.
That’s all well and good, but I don’t see the point of prolonging the already endless discussion. And I REALLY don’t understand some posters who kept bickering so long with Booman. I’m awed by his restraint.
That’s all well and good, but I don’t see the point of prolonging the already endless discussion.
I guess you missed the get on with it tone of my diary.
I support discussions about livor-flavoured cheesecake. That’s progress.
Yep, that went over my head. Indeed, I committed the blogging sin of reading your diary and posting my comment before reading the other comments. When I read them I thought, oh geez, this wasn’t what I thought it would be, and I gave 4’s to the dog pictures! I wish we could delete our comments sometimes. Sorry.
As a less-frequent poster I am usually bewildered by the community squabbles. I read these long impassioned threads where I gather that someone was banned (no one says who or why) or someone’s feelings were hurt (ditto) or someone has left the blog (ditto ditto).
I suspect there are many people like me who don’t read every thread and hence don’t know what the hell is going on. This is frustrating. I guess it is my own fault for not spending as much time here as a I should, but I gotta tell you, whenever this happens I tend to visit less, not more. No one wants to feel like the clueless outsider.
I know what you mean. I don’t like it either. To be fair though, it’s really only a handful of posters, and the Cafe is USUALLY immune from it, so stop in there!
Thanks for the reminder. That is where I usually post. 🙂
I missed a day and half home with head cold and missed all of this…
I’m starting to avoid all ratings and comments on these diaries….just like I did / do at the orange site. They are destructive to all of us…
Glad you still stop by….
Good to see you, catnip. Thank you for your post.
I’m especially with you on point #3. With ego in the forefront, conflict is inevitable. Every time.
Forward.
From where I stand it does……… 🙂
Change ‘world’ for ‘universe’ and I think Einstein would agree with you.
hugs Booman!