Good friggin moning, Meta eh? Well, okaaaay. I got meta, because it really isn't all about Byron. It's all about me right now. Life is trying mightily to fuck with my plans to be at the Pentagon protest on the 16-17. Something that has the potential to be a real protest, or at least more than a Sunday walk in the (roped off) park like the last few so called protest/photo ops for hollywood activists!!??. Sunday is the first anniversarry of my wife's Grandmother's death and she's feeling vulnerable and is requesting me to stay home and be by her side for support. How can I ever say no to a request like that? In mechanical land, the Jeep I bought for my son a week ago just popped a piston and thrown the family motorpool into disarray. I need to fix it. Good thing i have a knack for nuts and bolts, but bad that I haven't the dough for parts. Shit. Bailing wire and superglue are my friends :o) I have a boat that I need to finish painting and the owner is impatient to put it mildly. House is officially going on the market, such as it is, this week. Asshole adversarry broher is awarded administration of my Father's estate, also such as it is, and has the balls to request that I send him an itemized list of his belongings. Suuuuure asshole, I'll jump right on that for you, while you get compensated for it. Yup! best get your fat ass to NY and do it yourself.
Worst of all, I'm flat out of Oreos.
WTF!?
ps Brad Delp of Boston died on Friday night. That just sucks.....
Out of Oreos??? Unthinkable. Absurd. Super, this has completely lowered my respect for your ability to be cookie-prepared. For shame ;)
Good moning to you too :P
Sorry to hear your bro is still being such a shit after all he's put you guys through. Are you staying in LI after the sale?
Damn, I don't know what to say about the Pentagon march other than you do what you need to for yourself and your family... tending to your own community and family is important too, and you've put yourself out there many times before imho.
I should be ashamed of subsidizing Nabisco but I just can't kick my love of lard :o) I'm free to go to DC if I choose, but not sure now if I want to disregard something just as or more important than family needs. We'll see....developing as they say....
And yes, we're planning on staying in NY till baby #3 is outta school...if we?I can swing it.
In a better world, I'd be able to gift supersoling with my total lack of interest in attending so much as three seconds of any march. And some Oreos. :/
I was too depressed to contribute to last night's thread (for reasons having nothing to do with anyone on it), but for an alternate view regarding 3rd Parties, I present you with a couple of favorite tirades from UFO Breakfast Recipients:
I am starting my THIRD week of extreme back pain with a flu bug on top of it and feel like the walking dead.
Dealing with pain is the exact opposite of the stages of grief. You start out with acceptance -- you have no choice -- and work your way to denial/functioning anyway dammit. I'm at the mad-as-hell stage and everything irritates me. I could prob'ly write some mean rants if I weren't so damned tired and confused from lack of sleep.
ms_xeno, it's the thought that counts...I've heard :oP
I'll vote for Dennis in the primary like I did last strange trip, but when it comes to the general I'll probably sit it out. There's not one candidate that I could justify supporting. Edwards comes the closest but he's still a million miles down the road from impressing me. The Greens are fractured again. Nader, for all his ability to cut to the chase isn't in a position to get close to even avoiding the state police from blocking his access to conventions or getting the what? 3% or 5% that's needed for matching funds and inclusion in debates. Which was for me, my modest motivation for voting for him in 00, even though in NY it made little difference.
The duopoly defenders are in full throat again. Third parties only serve to hurt the dems in a winner take all system...blah, blah. Well yeah! Great Spirit forbid that the dems would ever have to compete for votes. And that's what it's all about.....
I could set up a PO Box for any potential future Oreo care packages you know :oP
NLinStPaul, that diary finally gets to it's point at the end...excusing the democrats from thier mandate. And while it reminds the people of their responsibilities to protest and force the issue, I can't endorse the notion that (the way I read the diary) the democrats need more political cover.
supersoling, the trouble with supporting Kucinich is that it's support that can't go outside to someone, anyone, else. That's why I won't be doing it again.
So much of our problems start with our own POV. Elaine Brown announced that she'll be running on the Green ticket, but you can bet your ass that nobody in the BBBs will say boo about it even if they know-- unless they can pin some freaky religion or unflattering hat on her or something.
Having been spoken to for years by their supposed betters as if they are not-too-bright infants, they turn on their supposed lessers and re-employ the same tactics. It drives me crazy
We could, as the adage goes, build Jerusalem if only we would. I am convinced that most people simply will not-- but I won't let that stop me from trying.
Super, I don't envy you the choice you have to make between the March and staying home..those are gut twister choices sometimes, I know. You DEFINITELY need to go get some Oreos, TODAY!
sjct, all I can do, as someone who also lives with pain issues, is empathize, totally. But it is really NOT fair for you to have a flu bug on top of it. Not fair at even all. I'd be bitching louder than YOU are!
In terms of the next election, it just might be the first one I choose to sit out totally. It will take a whole lot I am not seeing much sign of right now, to get me to even make the trip to the polls.
Yeah, if I won the lottery, I'd love to set up a good blogger or two or three who has all skills and ambition I don't, that could be a clear strong voice for the authentic left. With a goal of finding solid alternatives to this terminally fucked up two party corporate owned piece of crap we call a "government". It'd have to be folks who were seasoned and stable enough to not get hooked into the cultish "guru" kind of personalities-over process-mentality I see running things now in so many places. Talk about shooting your own good concepts in the foot with your own gun, both of them, then wondering why you can't walk so good anymore!
If you ask me, just about anyone in this thread could run a competent campaign;Or at least one as competent as most of the yutzes in the Big Two.
Trouble is, you have no private life when you run and we know for a fact that both heads of the Big Party hydra would throw a tanker's worth of mud at anyone who ran. No question. Most people won't put up with that shit, especially from those who claim to be their allies, which leaves... the cultists. :p
Totally unrelated to anything here: wtf is it with some (blogging) lawyers that they can make it through law school and yet know absolutely nothing about logic?? Did they miss that fucking semester or what?
catnip, haven't you ever heard the axiom about the scum rising to the top ? :p
BTW, I wanted to start a thread about this, but didn't know if it was acceptable to do that or not. I have posted it to Mcat's current thread and also to my LJ:
The beauty of it is that U.S. tentacles reach everywhere in the world. Think of Starbucks, or the banking industry. Anyone can make an impact, even a small one, on U.S. policy if they want to.
Dealing with pain is the exact opposite of the stages of grief. You start out with acceptance -- you have no choice -- and work your way to denial/functioning anyway dammit. I'm at the mad-as-hell stage and everything irritates me. I could prob'ly write some mean rants if I weren't so damned tired and confused from lack of sleep.
I resemble that remark pretty well every day. Hang in there, sjct.
super, I'm not an Oreo person myself but you really should be stocking up for nuclear winter. You can't eat duct tape and plastic sheeting after all.
Come with me? What a concept :o) But the truth is, she has no interest...none. 20 years of marriage tends to weed out the similarities and goals that people share :o) But I'm still reluctant to leave when she's hurting...so it goes.
Super, I wish we lived closer... it's one of the sucky things about the ineternet. It brings people together but sometimes one needs a small cafe table with a cup of joe between friends.
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Good friggin moning,
Meta eh? Well, okaaaay. I got meta, because it really isn't all about Byron. It's all about me right now.
Life is trying mightily to fuck with my plans to be at the Pentagon protest on the 16-17. Something that has the potential to be a real protest, or at least more than a Sunday walk in the (roped off) park like the last few so called protest/photo ops for hollywood activists!!??.
Sunday is the first anniversarry of my wife's Grandmother's death and she's feeling vulnerable and is requesting me to stay home and be by her side for support. How can I ever say no to a request like that? In mechanical land, the Jeep I bought for my son a week ago just popped a piston and thrown the family motorpool into disarray. I need to fix it. Good thing i have a knack for nuts and bolts, but bad that I haven't the dough for parts. Shit. Bailing wire and superglue are my friends :o)
I have a boat that I need to finish painting and the owner is impatient to put it mildly. House is officially going on the market, such as it is, this week. Asshole adversarry broher is awarded administration of my Father's estate, also such as it is, and has the balls to request that I send him an itemized list of his belongings. Suuuuure asshole, I'll jump right on that for you, while you get compensated for it. Yup! best get your fat ass to NY and do it yourself.
Worst of all, I'm flat out of Oreos.
WTF!?
ps
Brad Delp of Boston died on Friday night. That just sucks.....
Perfect,
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good friggin moning...exactly ;o)
Out of Oreos??? Unthinkable. Absurd. Super, this has completely lowered my respect for your ability to be cookie-prepared. For shame ;)
Good moning to you too :P
Sorry to hear your bro is still being such a shit after all he's put you guys through. Are you staying in LI after the sale?
Damn, I don't know what to say about the Pentagon march other than you do what you need to for yourself and your family... tending to your own community and family is important too, and you've put yourself out there many times before imho.
I should be ashamed of subsidizing Nabisco but I just can't kick my love of lard :o)
I'm free to go to DC if I choose, but not sure now if I want to disregard something just as or more important than family needs. We'll see....developing as they say....
And yes, we're planning on staying in NY till baby #3 is outta school...if we?I can swing it.
In a better world, I'd be able to gift supersoling with my total lack of interest in attending so much as three seconds of any march. And some Oreos. :/
I was too depressed to contribute to last night's thread (for reasons having nothing to do with anyone on it), but for an alternate view regarding 3rd Parties, I present you with a couple of favorite tirades from UFO Breakfast Recipients:
VSD.
And Kucinich.
I am starting my THIRD week of extreme back pain with a flu bug on top of it and feel like the walking dead.
Dealing with pain is the exact opposite of the stages of grief. You start out with acceptance -- you have no choice -- and work your way to denial/functioning anyway dammit. I'm at the mad-as-hell stage and everything irritates me. I could prob'ly write some mean rants if I weren't so damned tired and confused from lack of sleep.
ms_xeno,
it's the thought that counts...I've heard :oP
I'll vote for Dennis in the primary like I did last strange trip, but when it comes to the general I'll probably sit it out. There's not one candidate that I could justify supporting. Edwards comes the closest but he's still a million miles down the road from impressing me. The Greens are fractured again. Nader, for all his ability to cut to the chase isn't in a position to get close to even avoiding the state police from blocking his access to conventions or getting the what? 3% or 5% that's needed for matching funds and inclusion in debates. Which was for me, my modest motivation for voting for him in 00, even though in NY it made little difference.
The duopoly defenders are in full throat again. Third parties only serve to hurt the dems in a winner take all system...blah, blah. Well yeah! Great Spirit forbid that the dems would ever have to compete for votes. And that's what it's all about.....
I could set up a PO Box for any potential future Oreo care packages you know :oP
NLinStPaul,
that diary finally gets to it's point at the end...excusing the democrats from thier mandate. And while it reminds the people of their responsibilities to protest and force the issue, I can't endorse the notion that (the way I read the diary) the democrats need more political cover.
supersoling, the trouble with supporting Kucinich is that it's support that can't go outside to someone, anyone, else. That's why I won't be doing it again.
So much of our problems start with our own POV. Elaine Brown announced that she'll be running on the Green ticket, but you can bet your ass that nobody in the BBBs will say boo about it even if they know-- unless they can pin some freaky religion or unflattering hat on her or something.
Having been spoken to for years by their supposed betters as if they are not-too-bright infants, they turn on their supposed lessers and re-employ the same tactics. It drives me crazy
We could, as the adage goes, build Jerusalem if only we would. I am convinced that most people simply will not-- but I won't let that stop me from trying.
Super, I don't envy you the choice you have to make between the March and staying home..those are gut twister choices sometimes, I know. You DEFINITELY need to go get some Oreos, TODAY!
sjct, all I can do, as someone who also lives with pain issues, is empathize, totally. But it is really NOT fair for you to have a flu bug on top of it. Not fair at even all. I'd be bitching louder than YOU are!
In terms of the next election, it just might be the first one I choose to sit out totally. It will take a whole lot I am not seeing much sign of right now, to get me to even make the trip to the polls.
Yeah, if I won the lottery, I'd love to set up a good blogger or two or three who has all skills and ambition I don't, that could be a clear strong voice for the authentic left. With a goal of finding solid alternatives to this terminally fucked up two party corporate owned piece of crap we call a "government". It'd have to be folks who were seasoned and stable enough to not get hooked into the cultish "guru" kind of personalities-over process-mentality I see running things now in so many places. Talk about shooting your own good concepts in the foot with your own gun, both of them, then wondering why you can't walk so good anymore!
DavidByron, that is a flat out LIE.
I offered to refund your money REPEATEDLY.
You really are a scumbag, aren't you. Wow. And I can't prove it, because when you were banned every comment I ever made to you was deleted.
Motherfucker, tell me hwo much you donated and I will fucking send it to you tomorrow.
Wow. Unscrupulous lying hypocritical miogynist bastard fuckwad.
That's the last communiqué you get from me aide from a refund of your donation, whatever the fuck it was. And you may be cerrtain I will be crosschecking the amount.
Scum.
MSOC,
Personally, I consider that claim by Byron to be libelous (since you use your real name online) and will gladly delete his comment if you like.
scribe, re the candidate "set up":
If you ask me, just about anyone in this thread could run a competent campaign;Or at least one as competent as most of the yutzes in the Big Two.
Trouble is, you have no private life when you run and we know for a fact that both heads of the Big Party hydra would throw a tanker's worth of mud at anyone who ran. No question. Most people won't put up with that shit, especially from those who claim to be their allies, which leaves... the cultists. :p
Sad, really.
Totally unrelated to anything here: wtf is it with some (blogging) lawyers that they can make it through law school and yet know absolutely nothing about logic?? Did they miss that fucking semester or what?
catnip, haven't you ever heard the axiom about the scum rising to the top ? :p
BTW, I wanted to start a thread about this, but didn't know if it was acceptable to do that or not. I have posted it to Mcat's current thread and also to my LJ:
Anti-War Activists In The U.S. Call For A Week-Long Boycott of Corporations, starting April 15th.
The beauty of it is that U.S. tentacles reach everywhere in the world. Think of Starbucks, or the banking industry. Anyone can make an impact, even a small one, on U.S. policy if they want to.
ms_xeno, post away at your content. No restrictions on the contributors, just common sense and a willingness to debate.
catnip, haven't you ever heard the axiom about the scum rising to the top ? :p
Some "scum" does better than other "scum", apparently.
BTW, I wanted to start a thread about this, but didn't know if it was acceptable to do that or not.
We'll have none of that "impeachment porn" on this site, missy!
Just kidding. :)
You have keys to the dashboard. Post what you like.
Dealing with pain is the exact opposite of the stages of grief. You start out with acceptance -- you have no choice -- and work your way to denial/functioning anyway dammit. I'm at the mad-as-hell stage and everything irritates me. I could prob'ly write some mean rants if I weren't so damned tired and confused from lack of sleep.
I resemble that remark pretty well every day. Hang in there, sjct.
super,
I'm not an Oreo person myself but you really should be stocking up for nuclear winter. You can't eat duct tape and plastic sheeting after all.
Note: I deleted a comment by davidbyron that was potentially libelous after consulting with MSOC. It was my call.
put 'er up, Ms X, please!
Supersoling,
Do what you need to do, darling. It's too bad she couldn't come with you. Something will work out.
Come with me? What a concept :o) But the truth is, she has no interest...none. 20 years of marriage tends to weed out the similarities and goals that people share :o)
But I'm still reluctant to leave when she's hurting...so it goes.
Super, I wish we lived closer... it's one of the sucky things about the ineternet. It brings people together but sometimes one needs a small cafe table with a cup of joe between friends.
True Janet...true...
but I think we've done well with what we have, you and I :o)
DB -- I've said it repeatedly and I'm saying it again now, but for the final time -- and I would appreciate it if it could be settled now forever.
I have NO idea how much money you donated. I am willing to take it on faith. Name the amount, and I will REFUND it to you.
PLEASE stop bringing it up, however, if you do NOT want it, as you have repeatedly claimed in the past.
You emailed me about it. I opfered to refund it. You said that wasn't the point. I offered AGAIN to refund -- you declined.
So, which is it? I will refund whatever amount you donated -- but after this, I do not want to fucking hear about this again.
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