What’s pissing you off?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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What isn’t? 😉
The whole fucking Bush family, frat boy jocks, Lou Dobbs, my flabby stomach, my ex, time marching on.
Okay, SN, let’s do some sit-ups.
I gotta work on my stomach too.
Can I eat Pringles while I’m doing them?
yeah, but don’t let Boo get wind of them. Or else he will drool on you.
The fact that the FBI is setting up stakeouts at bookstores. Too bad they didn’t buy a copy of the Constitution while they were there.
don’t they have better things to do??
CodePInk here meets in a bookstore.
The surveillance report notes that “flags and banners with the colors black and pink” were observed.
This from the Colorado ACLU site:
Do you protest? Do you read books? Hey, you’re a terrorist!
Not only do I protest and read books – I also GASP wear pink… and MAGENTA.
Our country is entrenched and ruled by pigs.
If they’re looking for people in black and pink, they’re going to end up with a lot of ballet dancers.
Just… swell!
Today? People that go back on their word.
Has happenned to me so many times that I am used to it! Now, when someone says something, I automatically don’t believe them. If you say you are going to do something, you do it!!! Why is that so difficult for people to comprehend????
Nothing at the moment, I feel mellow.
Nicotine Gum, Septa, Heartburn and Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid git!
What’s pissing me off is all the mileage the whole so-called immigration reform so-called debate is getting. I think it’s just another sideshow contrived to distract us from the monumental mess the Republicans have made of our government, our economy, and our place in the world. They throw some red meat out there and we all salivate right on cue.
Buckminster Fuller wrote about this thirty years ago. I don’t remember the numbers he used, but at that time the prevailing wage in south Texas was something like $5/hr. The prevailing wage across the border was some number of pennies per day. Fuller wrote that there is not enough military power in the world to enforce a border between that kind of wage disparity.
Our so-called immigration problem is no more and no less of a problem today than it was thirty years ago. All the numbers have gotten bigger, but the basic truth Fuller wrote about hasn’t changed much. Certainly it deserves our attention, but it is rather far down my list of urgent matters needing our immediate attention. I think it is being ramped up now by the RWNM not because it is any more of a crisis than it always has been but because the Republicans don’t have anything else to run on.
Pardon my rant. What really pisses me is not the issue. It is a serious issue and deserves serious consideration. What pisses me is that they wave a shiny thing and we all follow it just like we’re supposed to. That’s what’s pissing me off.
I understand what you are saying and in a way, I am kind of pissed about it too, although I do agree with it. Does Medicare D(isaster) get that much coverage? NO!!! After all, Medicare D(isaster) only effects people with disabilities and senior citizens…no one gives a damn about them. Sometimes, in my nastier moments, I really wish that everyone would have to go thru 1/2 of the stuff I went thru after my traumatic brain injury. Wonder how many would make it?
Some more of the hidden changes in Medicare D(isaster)! After all, people with disabilities are just a drain on the budget, nothing more!
And I am also pissed about the fact that no one gives a damn, unless it effects them. I am beginning to think that no one should have health insurance–why the hell do others who do think they are better than me?
As you can tell, I am really pissed!!!!
((((Street Kid)))) you are working and speaking up for those who have no voice.
Don’t let dispair stop you. You are truly doing the work of higher beings.
XOXOXO
And no one is paying attention!
I am. Because although we now are covered… it all can be taken away. So many don’t worry till it happens to them and then forget when that worry is over.
I don’t tick that way. So what am I doing? Since I moved here.. not much to be honest. But I did enough to piss off the local pols in N. Calif enough for some nasty retaliation which prompted me to get the hell out of there. Then I got involved in easing Wesley into school and the anti-war movement.
Let me think on this and see how I can help you. Maybe a fax campaign?
Thanks–anything would be appreciated. This gets so damn frustrating, especially after what I read today!!!
Isn’t Michael Moore asking for health care nightmares?
I gotta head out now. Be back later unless the Marines sent us off to G.W.uantanamo.
Emailed him and never got an answer.
That tells me that he is another lying hypocrite, just like most that I have come into contact w/recently. They say what a person wants to hear and do the exact opposite!
Street Kid,
There are days that’s frustrating, and we tell ourselves, what’s the use, “no one is paying attention.”
Thing is, we can’t give up. Right here at BooTrib you’re doing yeoman’s work on Medicare disaster -keeping the helpful info flow updated. If one dairy benefits 1 senior citizen, you’ve saved a life somewhere.
You’d be surprised whose eyes grace these pages, without comment – downloads and prints copies for other seniors. More than you know.
We do appreciate your efforts.
If one dairy benefits 1 senior citizen, you’ve saved a life somewhere.
Yeah, well that’s nice. Just once I would like to see something do something to benefit me, or not lie to me about something, for a change. (There have been a lot of things going on that I haven’t posted and I am royally pissed about them.)
I may not comment on them…but i do read them when i catch them…dealing with it right now with the hubby’s grandmother…keep em coming. Don’t get discouraged.
{{{{streetkid}}}}
And it is all senior citizens who are benefitting by what I write. Anything about people with disabilities and their needs? Anyone wanting to help me get something started on that? No, SK can take care of herself is the prevailing attitude–it’s her problem that she is a trumautic brain injury surivor, not mine. That is the big thing that is getting to me. Well, if I don’t get my meds next month, I’m sure someone will be glad to pick up where I left off. After all, what does a person w/a disability matter? The pet topic for now is immigration rights. What about disability rights? Yeah, I know, wait!!!
Kid, I certainly know how you feel. I got burned so bad when I was trying to get help for myself many years ago and no one to help me but my sister…I wrote letters for over a year to all my Congress people, medical boards, national news shows, Oprah(at least 30 times-no answer) local papers, had my sister half carry me into local news stations, wrote numerous times to the White House and surprisingly even had the Clinton White House send several letters to State Health Agency here in California and I still couldn’t get anyone to listen to me. And most of the time I was so out of it I didn’t know what I was doing(couldn’t walk at the time(and wasn’t given a wheelchair even though I lived alone) or barely use my hands..what a long story)anyway I finally gave up and to this day I do not have a doctor for my neuromuscular disease. I also think I was blackballed for awhile here by doctors in this area.
Anyway………that’s the very very short version. You’re diaries I believe are making a difference whether you may think so or not…ripples in the pool at least that is what I am hoping for.
Have been getting burned repeatedly since last week by supposedly well-meaning fucking bureaucrats…it is still continuing. That is a very short version of what has been going on in my life. Just once, I’d like to not get burned by bullshit policies, or, better yet, see someone actually tell me the truth and follow through on something. That is not asking too much, IMO.
So today I’m going to do something about it.
I’m heading out to go stand in front of a Marine Recruiting Station, a nasty little fucker that hires thugs to harrass the protestors, and stand in unity with VFP, CodePink and some other groups and have a vigil outside of the station.
Brining the kids. Bringing some anxiety along, too. …
I worry that it will take protestors being killed for others to drop what they are doing and join in.
I sometimes think we should just march non-stop – join the immigrants and Iraqi delegation and just not stop marching till we get to DC.
What about including those who are effected by Medicare D(isaster) to the march??
All of us.
Next month my mom won’t get her oxygen. She got cut. She can’t march but she can write, call, fax and email.
Well, if that ever comes into play, I’d definitely be interested in joining you!
Corporations underfunding and or dumping their pension plans. Sticking it to the people who worked hard and long for them. Sticking it to the people who made concessions in earlier contracts so they could have their pensions. Sticking it to people who no longer have any leverage over the companies.
This effects so many people and it is being paid so little attentin.
I’m reading this piece over at Commondreams. org that confirms, (no tinfoil) we’re in a police state- stripped of freedom of speech. And it’s not the first incident that one could term an aberration. It’s a pattern.
“Woman Gets $100 Ticket For “BUSHIT” Bumper Sticker”
Can’t make this up. What has become of America, land
of the free?
In my neck of the woods, we’re tired of all the Bush shit, 5 towns so far voted resolutions for Congress to begin impeachment hearings. What’s lewd is that Congress has completely failed us.
First Amendment is getting to be a fond memory, damn it!
Um… Well, at the moment it would be my husband, who has had some free time on his hands, which turns him into:
IDEA MAN
Invariably these ideas entail me having to do something or write something or SOMETHING.
As if I have the time.
Through no fault of my own, with the exception of some personality imperfections, I haven’t ‘got lucky’ in far too long. I think pissed off is one of the stages of acceptance. I jumped the order of every 12-step I tried so I’m not sure where it belongs.
Waiting to hear if my Niece’s Husband still has his job at the GM Tech Center in Warren Mi., after what is being called Black Tuesday here in S.E. Michigan.
here is what is i’m pissed off about – at this point in time. The simple fact that I just don’t see any followup organization building on the fabulous success of the protest marches that took place all over this country. This is the kind of participatory involvement that can ( with a little help) grow in size power and comittment. These protestors are the future of this country but does anyone hear anything about fanning this spatk? does anyone hear that more marches are being called for in the coming weeks? Has anyone yet called for a march on washington ? And does anyone see that the kids walked out!!!!!!!!!!!! And given the visual support of adults following their lead, doesn’t anyone realize that this could be the start of a unifying force that could become strong enough to alter the control of congress!
That is what I am pissed off about.
billjpa
be marching again on Saturday. I’m hearing rumblings in the latino media that April 10th will be a national day of solidarity. I’ll keep you all informed as I hear concrete plans.
return on April 10, bringing 10 relatives, friends, and where possible, ten of each.
And may the nation follow Tucson’s example, and may the jonquils pop up their heads, buried for half a millennium, and bloom!
I’m hoping that on April 10th anyone who believes in fairness and whose ancestors were immigrants will get out and march.
A man from India last week asked a man from Honduras, what are you doing at work, I thought all the Mexicans were on strike today, why are they doing that anyway?
The Honduran did not bother to correct the other about his origins, but answered him, Everyone who could is on strike today, they are doing it to get human rights for you and your family.
Will there be anything going on re: Medicare D(isaster) included in the march?
it’s being coordinated by an alliance of Chicano agencies in commemoration of Cesar Chavez (his b-day would’ve been Friday). Here in Pima County it’s already an official holiday, with the City of Tucson following suit. They are lobbying to make it more widespread and on par with Martin Luther King Day. Given the protests of the past month, there is a huge crowd expected.
I’m pissed off about re-Treads. open or not.
What’s pissing me off?
Seeing names like “Gore” and “Kerry” being floated about as possible Dem presidential candidates when there are ALREADY people who have proven to be better, more imaginative, more open campaigners…Dean, Feingold just to name two (and what a ticket THAT would be!!!)…already waiting in the wings.
Just for starters.
AG
Right about Kerry.
Way wrong about Gore.
See thread one below, for instance.
Gimme a break. If the Dems can’t find anyone better than Gore I’m gonna Ralph.
that was tried in 2000 and we got bush.
“There are no second acts in American lives.”-F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1940
Still true.
None that are not tragic failures, anyway.
Fuggedaboudit.
AG
Arthur: Fitzgerald is not a political philosopher. There are MANY great second acts in American political history. Richard Nixon is the most prominent recent example. George W. Bush is another (he got crushed in his first campaigns).
You’re not paying attention to what Gore is saying and doing.
In other words, you’re out of touch with what is really going on.
Wake up.
Fitzgerald may or may NOT have been a “political philosopher”. I am, though. And I agree with what he said.
Nixon? That wasn’t a second act…that was just another scene in an ongoing tragedy, as far as I am concerned. He lost to JFK; his controllers killed JFK and installed him. He crossed his controllers, and they Watergated him because there had been too many assassinations previously.
Nixon was the first Saddam. The first Noriega. He got too big for his britches, and he got taken down.
And G. W. Butch? Don’t make me laugh. Game show hosts don’t HAVE “acts”. One bad show gets cancelled and they move on to another until they are replaced due to lonf-term falling ratings.
You say: “You’re not paying attention to what Gore is saying and doing.”
I am INDEED paying attention.
Just not exclusively to whatever Gore is saying and doing.
To the PICTURE of what he is saying and doing.
The image.
Because that is all that matters here, now.
How it PLAYS.
Saying and doing don’t mean shit in Spinworld, USA, Aminius. On the evidence of the current administration’s ongoing successes over the past 6 years if for no other reason. And they’re not finished yet. Not by a LONG shot.
I am not “anti”-Gore. He seems a nice enough man. And he will lose like a MOTHERFUCKER if he comes up against the Rovers. Because he is not…a powerful enough presence.
Because his HSTORY AS A LOSER will be the “ARRRGGHHH!!!” with which they will take him down, and I do not believe that he has the personal power or charisma to overcome that.
That’s MY take on it…politico/media philosopher that I am.
Feel free to ignore it.
But don’t tell me that I am not paying attention.
Because I am.
I am just not paying attention exclusively to the content of what politicians say. I also attend to how it/they can be spun.
And right now, the combination of content and spinability…which is also spelled winablility, BET on it…that looks VERY interesting to me is NOT Uncle Al.
It’s Cousin Russ.
He FRESH, yo.
FRESH!!!
In in staled-out America…that’s POWER.
Like it or lump it.
That is POWER.
Later…
AG
Interesting. FWIW, I respect the opinion. You like Russ. I like Al, then Russ. Not so much different.
This country seems to have run out of leaders.
It’s got PLENTY of leaders.
It’s just that the ones who are leading in the wrong direction get all of the positive spin, and vice-versa for GOOD leaders.
Hell, Arminius…John Conyers has been “leading” for going on 4 years now.
See HIS picture on the cover of Time?
Nope.
Ditto Dean and now ditto Feingold.
And these are GIFTED “leaders”.
Got the ol’ charisma. As opposed to say Dennis Kucinich, who is simply right. but lacks the proper front.
But,,,,f a tree has charisma in the forest but no one gets to SEE it….sometimes a tree is just a tree no matter HOW big it is.
So it goes.
Have a cigar.
You lose.
We ALL lose.
NEWSTRIKE!!!
It’s the only answer to this madness.
Really.
Later…
AG
I have just lost my posting privileges at dKos for joining a debate over whether DHinMI is operating in good faith.
You mean…there is still some QUESTION about that idea?
Still???
Unbelievable.
He isn’t even one PERSON!!!
AG
Try as I do not to nurse suspicions, that did not occur to me.
Or if he is…he’s a championship speed reader and touch typist. Who shoots from the hip for hours at a time.
I did a time study of his posts once…somewhere around the time that I got dKrossed…and came up with some ridiculous timing things.
DHinMI and one of his allies.
Addison.
Here are the facts…you could look ’em up, if they are still on the site.
Otherwise…trust me. I have no reason to lie.
At BEST…shallow like a MOTHERFUCKER.
At worst…piecework in a virtual sweatshop.
07/07/05 Comments.
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Some bladder!!!
First burst…one every 9.5 minutes.
Second burst…one every 3.24 minutes. Breathtaking.
Third burst…one every 3 minutes. Final burst of speed. A real sprinter, but with great endurance as well.
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Addison
Comments+ diaries, Sun., 07/03
Average 9.25 minutes per comment. PLUS two diaries.
First burst…1 every 33 seconds. Astounding!!
Followed by a diary.
Then a 14 minute break.
Followed by two in the space of one minute.
Then another 12 minute break.
Then a burst of one every 5.5 minutes
Followed by a diary.
Followed by a burst of one every 2 minutes.
Piece work.
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Nice,
Choose your poison.
A group of piece workers.
A VERY industrious hireling.
Or a truly insane obsessive compulsive .
No win any way you cut it.
YAY Big Orange!!!
YAY Dem Central!!!
And you think that you are going to “reform” the party from the netroots?
I got yer “netroots”, right HERE!!!
DhinMI
RedDan
(Sorry…”addison” seems to have gone to the way of all non-flesh. So it goes.)
Nice.
Good luck.
AG
I had a run in with the incredibly rude and often irrational DHinMI last year. I don’t think the concept of “good faith” resonates with him except in the context of how much one agrees with or supports his perspective.
After my series of exchanges with him I just gave up and ceased paying attention to his angry and uninformed judgmentalism.
He is so blindly combatively that it is clear he is not there to debate but to marginalize anyone who brings up certain critiques, particularly where election technologies are concerned.
The firestorm started when someone publicly demanded that he deny being on the take in an Ohio primary. Those who don’t get the business end of his bullying do not understand why someone would do something so outrageous.
For my part, I don’t think dailyKos is going to have many victory celebrations until it allows more indignation over the idiotic use of magical election gizmos.
I think that orange thing has gone way downhill!!! All the good writers left, and the FP’ers just are there to have their ego stroked. Too many people bully each other because they see the Fp’ers doing it. Only reason I xpost Medicare D(isaster) diary’s there is in the faint hope that some might, just might Wake the fuck up!!!
Yes! The combativeness is really off-putting, to say the least.
My sense from the thread over there is that if someone did ask him to deny being a paid blogger without submitting any evidence to support the idea that he was a paid blogger; that this sort of question is illegitimate in that context. It’s like Michelle Malagong asking Kerry to deny he inflicted his war wounds upon himself deliberately, or someone asking a politician publicly whether he beats his wife when there’s no indication he engages in such behavior.
Certainly I have no idea what this guy does politically beyond his blogging but if I were a politician I don’t think I’d want someone that angry and that belligerent and that dismissive of everyone else working on my campaign.
Yeah, I also lost posting privileges at DKos due to that asshole and others. Fuck their little tin pot dictatorship of the like-minded. That’s why I’m here and elsewhere.
And I REALLY don’t think DKos is all that important in the long run. I haven’t posted there in more than a year, after being an early member of the group and a trusted user for a long time. My life is BETTER for the change!
Ah, yeah, but I’m still BITTER about the way I was treated by those sanctimonious pinhead cultist assholes!
Bush is no longer the benign Village Idiot who means well, who is strong, and who has resolve and courage.
He is a proven liar, he’s a cheater, he’s petulant and stubborn and vindictive.
I’m pissed because the battalion of Dem strategists and consultants don’t seem to be flooging these memes relentlessly for all they’re worth.
Bush is the anvil hung ’round the neck of the GOP. When are the Dems going to engage on this theme?