June 22, 2015

Gee, all those new jobs, well, that would be terrible now, wouldn't it!

When I see items like this posted, I find myself wondering if we have some people in Congress who might want to try slipping this into the language of some CON bill that is definitely gonna get passed. Because it'd be done without a lot of attention, it might go through the Senate and then to the President's desk. It'd have to be in a bill that President Obama would be willing to sign.

If I were in Congress, that's how I'D do it. Figure out how to sneak something in there and not say one word to attract any attention to it. Might even speak out against the bill itself to throw some GOPers off. And then sit back and "watch 'em squeal!"

I'd be trying to do that with all sorts of issues.

June 22, 2015

Hate rag. The Dixie Swastika.

Thank you BartCop for that one, and thank you DUers Dubbers and brewens, for dropping that excellent little meme into our discussions here! I think calling it the Dixie Swastika really frames it accurately and rather exquisitely. That's what it IS. And anything I can do to help further sully its image and render it that much more undesirable (so we can banish the damn thing and finally put it on ICE), I will do!

Let's get that horrid, divisive, hateful eyesore OUT of our sight - once and for ALL!!!!

June 21, 2015

Welcome to DU, DrBulldog!

Glad you're here! You are SPOT-ON! We should all be screaming "Vote! Vote! Vote! Vote! Vote! Vote!".

+ a BILLION!!!

We ALL need to come out and vote, hopefully united as a party when it's time to vote. Behind Bernie, or Hillary, or whatever Dem is going to be our nominee. I don't even care. I'll actively support EITHER ONE. Hillary supporter but they're BOTH great! And if it's him over her for the nomination, I am SO THERE! Hey, last I heard, so is Bernie. He's already stated flat-out he's not going to be a spoiler, whatever happens. I believe him and I sure thank him for that! I think Hillary would do likewise if Bernie got the nod. She sure got behind Barack Obama when it became clear that he was gonna be the nominee.

We ALSO need to come out in MORE THAN droves - ALL-of-us because we not only have to win, we have to make sure it's not close enough to steal. Because with these bad guys we're up against, steal it they will, if there's even a shade of a chance that they could.

June 21, 2015

Welcome to DU, I hate liars!

Glad you're here! Dayum - when I was working, I had a chance to interview the four of them. They all sat around the kitchen table at one of their houses and started riffing. I held the mic as best I could, but I didn't do the best job. It wound up not being usable. There were lots of clonks and other noises on the tape throughout - because I was laughing and trying to stifle it, and I didn't have a mic stand. Not that it would have helped. If I'd put it on a mic stand, it would only have picked up whoever's voice was closest to it. I wish that would have worked better, audio-wise. I had no way of knowing but I probably should have expected it. My VERY bad! I should have known that if all four of them were together, that's exactly what they'd do.

I found myself thinking back to those college radio days and thinking - "MAN, if they could see me NOW!"

June 21, 2015

Same here.

I've been crying for three days now. This'll be the fourth.

June 21, 2015

I agree. So glad my husband finally gave it up.

But MAN, when I walk our dog around the neighborhood, I am utterly disgusted by all the litter and trash strewn about. And cigarette butts by the DOZENS. It's so bad I have to take several dog-poo bags with me - one bag for what Goldie makes and then sometimes another one - OR TWO - just for trash. And for every coffee cup lid or take-out container or wrapper of energy bars or candy or gum or potato chips or whatever - including cigarette pack wrappers - there are usually at least half-a-dozen cigarette butts strewn around. Frequently it's even more than that.

I keep thinking - that's one more piece of garbage in the Pacific garbage gyre. Or that's one more piece of plastic in the gullet of some sea bird or other creature - that will starve to death with a belly full of plastic and trash and other recklessly-discarded shit.

Just pisses me off like nobody's business!!! I find myself getting really angry - "you mean you have so little courtesy and consideration for your neighbors that you let your kids/gardeners/contractors/friends/visitors/whoevers just leave trash around and you're okay with that? You have no pride in where you live, in your neighborhood where the rest of us have to live, too? Evidently not.

And mind you, that's just the trash and the litter. You wouldn't believe how many people either live here or visit and walk their dogs and crap them wherever - and then just leave it there. Almost every single time I walk our dog, I wind up picking up after her - AND somebody else's dog, too. Sometimes it's brand new, too - we will have just walked there and gotten a block or so away and then by the time we've turned around and headed back up, there's a fresh new dog pie there. Amazing. Sometimes it's not even on the grass or in the weeds next to the sidewalk. Sometimes, it's actually ON the sidewalk itself. Fucking lazy selfish thoughtless assholes! What the hell is WITH some people?????

June 21, 2015

Off with their heads. Of every CONfederate statue everywhere.

But with that one pictured in the OP, I might not be able to decide where to aim. (Maybe the "little head"?)

June 21, 2015

Welcome to DU, esreveR!

Glad you're here. I must add, though, that whenever someone makes the point that "Law Blah-blah-blah got passed and it sure didn't keep Crime Blah-blah-blah from happening", I go directly to "well, then, the answer is we just sit here and do NOTHING??????????"

You've GOT to start SOMEWHERE.

Doing nothing is not an option. Doing nothing is the surest way to guarantee that whatever happened WILL DEFINITELY happen again.

June 21, 2015

Welcome to DU, theycallmetrinity!

Glad you're here! Actually, in the question you pose - I believe I would support that. As a non-smoker I was always grateful when some over-arching rule would come down, or some law would be passed, or some restriction imposed, that made the smokers go outside. I had a sensitivity to it and cigarette smoke was very bothersome to me, especially whenever I wore the contact lenses that never fit correctly and that I finally gave up on. One time I gently and very politely asked a man at the next table if he wouldn't mind please putting the cigar out, inside the restaurant where we were all trying to eat. Because if cigarette smoke bothered me, sometimes cigar smoke actually made me ill. He harrumphed at me and bellowed - "I most certainly will NOT."

Whereupon one of the guys at our table next to his hollered out - "well some people are just ASSHOLES!!!!!!!" That was a fine moment!

Hey, when people won't cooperate, when they insist on being selfish, when they insist on disregarding the need or comfort or clean air of the person next to them or within their little personal smoke factory, when they absolutely MUST be thoughtless about it, and they won't do it voluntarily (especially when asked nicely and politely) - then I'm all in favor of some larger, over-arching, dominating entity stepping in and MAKING them do it. Sometimes you need an intervention by something bigger than the both of you. Sometimes you need something bigger than the bully - to turn the tables and bully the bully.

That's what regulations are. If people refuse to do the right thing, then maybe we have to step in as a larger entity, and MAKE them do it.

June 21, 2015

I'll bet they don't allow guns inside the grounds of the republi-CON Convention next summer.

I'll bet everyone entering has to go through a metal detector and frisking and let's-look-in-your-bags and stuff. Which seems crazy and kinda hypocritical to me. Why would they care? Hey guns everywhere! Guns guns and more guns! Yahoooooo!!! And happiness is a warm one, too, like the Beatles said. John Lennon even sang lead on that. And probably still would be if he hadn't been permanently silenced by one.