As you went about your day today...to work, the store, gas-station, day-care, etc.

[Beausoir]

Did you hear anyone talking about the Move-On newspaper ad?

Did you hear anyone talking about the lawmakers who stopped this nation's business for an ENTIRE day to pass some silly resolution?

Have you encountered anyone today...in real life....who is talking about this issue?

I have not. Been to the market, the gas station, 2 elementary schools, countless car-pool lines, the clinic, the Veterinarian's waiting room, a coffee shop, the dry cleaner and the butcher.

I didn't hear one word about this issue.

[DaveJ]

1. They're just measuring each other up

The resolution wasn't about us it was about them.

[Beausoir]

3. Playing to the base? The 27%?

[DaveJ]

6. No, the Rethugs inevitably pander to the military...

IMHO, my working theory, is that the military industrial complex (MIC) is running the show and the MIC wants to know where they stand among the new controlling party.

[AuntPatsy]

2. no

[rwheeler31]

4. not in Missouri

[peacetheonlyway]

5. great point

but sadly the majority of the folks we see shopping and at gas station, on way to work, don't know or care how many soldiers died in iraq today or that Isreal started the nuclear armageddon by bombing syrian nuclear facilties last week.

overall, your point is made but the indifference of the american people to even allow this kind of silliness betrays a greater WHO CARES of a populace that has long since lost faith in their government to do anything.

catch 22

how do you revive the very folks who have the most control over government to overthrow the traitors and start a brand new government?

[Beausoir]

7. I wasn't trying to make a point. I am just confused.

Here...everyone is talking about "it".

Out there, in the real world, no one is talking about "it".

It's a disconnect.

[CoffeeCat]

10. I feel the same disparity...

In real life, we go about our day. Like you said, we carpool, we get gas,
we attend book clubs, visit with friends and chat with the grocery-store clerk.
However, politics is rarely mentioned.

On DU, that is all we talk about. The truth stands here, on our screens. We
can talk, commiserate, express fears, share ideas. It's like my little oasis,
despite the desert of concern in which I live.

The disparity between DU and real life is disconcerting. It's as if this entire
country has PTSD. Many are in denial and many are hunkered down--as if we're
bracing for the next traumatic bit of news.

This country is sick. We're not healthy.

[peacetheonlyway]

15. you said it twosparkles

it has me really worried.

tonite I was an HRC event, bunch of political gay folks and all they could talk about was their dogs and cats... it's like folks can feel something WICKED THIS WAY COMES in the air and they dont' want to talk about it.

i personally want to talk about it to everyone including the iranian man in my microsoft cafeteria, I want to say , 'man I apologize in advance for pulverizing 2,000 of your supposed military sites and countless thousands of innocents' when Bush and Cheney decide to press the button.

[CoffeeCat]

18. Speaking of those 2,000 military sites...

I was reading a bit about the Iranian military. I guess the Iranian military
runs many things in Iran: Schools, hospitals, construction companies, and many
other businesses. It dawned on me that our government probably defines an Iranian
"military site" as a building or organization that has any ties to the Iranian
military.

The military in Iran isn't like the military in the US. We have bases and specific
buildings clearly identified as "military". Our military doesn't run schools, bakeries
and concrete companies.

However, the Iranian military has their hand in many businesses and areas that are normally
deemed private sector. Will we be bombing these targets too? If so, I cannot even imagine
the civilian casualties and the destruction.

I'll have to read more about this, but I wanted to share the information I read, because
I thought it was important.

Hang in there peacetheonly way. We live in troubled times, but at least we have each other.

:hug:

[peacetheonlyway]

19. I love you twosparkles

can I contact you when the war breaks out,I always get freaked out and need friends that get how horrible war is then....

let's hope I don't have to contact you.

the iranians are very spiritual people.

i have enjoyed many lates nights on the danube river in vienna with iranian families just enjoying their culture and their food and their laughter.

I can't imagine a future of those people so victimized by US the global superpower on an ego trip.

[CoffeeCat]

21. Awww...hang in there...

...and I love your name...peacetheonlyway. So true.

You can contact me anytime. PM me if things get too rough. I always
feel that way when BushCo gets a bit too heavy on my mind. I like
connecting with others who feel the same. It helps to know that others
understand.

You have connections to people from Iran. I'm sure this is very hard for
your--knowing that this horrible administration may try to start a war
with Iran.

It's horrendous to punish innocent civilians, because you disagree with
a few leaders. After all, the leaders don't die in wars, it's innocent
men, women and children who live lives very much like our own. They all
love their families. They're all busy with life, school, jobs and trying
to find meaning in life.

Let's all hope that this never comes to fruition...and by all means PM
me anytime!

:hug:

[sandnsea]

8. The war and health care

That's what people are talking about that I know. Wondering how Hillary is going to increase their income so that they even have $12,000 of taxes to benefit from a tax cut in the first place.

[Beausoir]

11. Do you really have people wondering that about Hillary? I'm curious about where you live.

Here, in rural MN, nobody is talking about Hillary. Mostly, they are talking about getting out of the war. And gas prices. And the drought/flood. Farm community, y'know.

[sandnsea]

12. Oh yeah, we talk primary politics

About all of them. And the war, health care and gas prices. And the fishing and the weather.

Oops, I live in Oregon, on the coast. It's DU Live, I keep sayin'. :)

[Beausoir]

13. You are on the Oregon coast? Lucky bugger.

Doh! I just "got" your screen name.

I'm slow that way.

You got oysters yet?

[sandnsea]

14. I go to the oyster farm

I got some about a month ago, yum, soooo good. Crab are in good this year too. Terrible salmon season, my very favorite of all. :cry:

I am very fortunate to live here, even if I whine about my income all the time. :)

[stillcool]

9. I went to the doctor today...

and in the waiting room, I talked to one lady about a lot of things. My cat died, Iraq, depression, corporations, health-care, the weather, my necklace...and we snickered over the ad. In the grocery store, at the drug store...I didn't talk to anyone about anything.

[AlCzervik]

16. Not one word. I went to the open house tonight at my daughter's school

nothing, nada, zippo.

[bridgit]

17. now i didn't, the vast majority of americans seem to be worried about other matters altogether...

different; it's life out here, it just keeps rolling along :shrug:

[AZBlue]

20. Please. If Britney Spears doesn't shave it, snort it or run her car into it,

people in general aren't going to talk about it.


"Move On? Is that Britney's new single?? I have to get home and download it!"