calimary
calimary's JournalGuess they cut the video before we saw christie get down on his knees and
blow the guy.
Just sayin' ...
Selfish, petty jerks.
PERIOD. MY GRIEVANCES trump your grieving for your lost loved one.
Welcome to DU, Shamash!
Glad you're here! And thanks for the reply, too. Your point is a good one. Some of "ours" are just as complicit. I am HOPING, HARD, that Hillary Clinton remembers WHY it isn't she who's serving the last half of her second term in the White House - because she caved to bush/cheney and swallowed the shit they were force-feeding everyone. I'm HOPING that she pays attention, and doesn't feel like she needs to just go along and rubber-stamp shitty ideas and shitty proposals and shitty bills - especially if she wins, and then faces the kind of opposition we've come to expect from the REAL "Sore Losermen." DAYUM! The GOP is the collective poster child for poor sportsmanship and sore losers!
As a mother, I thought when your kid acted out or threw a tantrum in the middle of the cereal aisle because they didn't get their five boxes of sugar cereal, or when they snatched a toy away from a smaller kid - I thought the wise response was always to check that behavior and CERTAINLY not give in to it. CERTAINLY you do not reinforce that behavior and teach that kid that this is what you can do to get your way, becuase it's always about getting your way. I HATE the very idea that mitch mcconnell not only survived in November but gets the reward he's always wanted - Senate Majority Leader. ICK!!! So his bad behavior and poor sportsmanship has been rewarded. Reinforced. This is just SHITTY!!!
I HATE to see bad behavior rewarded. It's not supposed to work that way.
Sounds like this friend of my late mom's.
He was so damn wrong-wing he was just simply irredeemable. And he'd send these obnoxious emails around, and forward email threads about such sterling topics as "why can't I say the 'N-word'? MY rights! MY rights!" Couldn't delete it fast enough but I never wanted to block him - I felt that I had better keep track. I did want to know what kind of shit my mother was being exposed to whenever they got together.
Dear GOD that was repulsive. And he was serious. And totally sincere. He really believed it. Cast-in-bronze teabagger he was.
My mom sure went downhill toward the end, and I'm not just talking health-wise.
LOVE IT!!!
"Kirby Delauter Kirby Delauter Kirby Delauter Kirby Delauter Kirby Delauter Kirby Delauter."
!!!!!!!
So THERE!!!
Okay, I'm NO football fan, and certainly NO sports fan. What I know about sports and
sports loyalties you could fit on the head of a pin. It's just not me, and it never has been.
But am I off base to question whether a HIGHLY-political and manipulative governor with obvious presidential ambitions should be rooting for a team other than one from his own home turf - or at least the turf immediately next-door? I don't even know if New Jersey has an NFL team. But as New Jersey governor he's so closely tied to New York through the Port Authority and other mechanisms. And Pennsylvania is his next-door neighbor, too. Wouldn't that include the Eagles (they're Philadelphia, correct? Truly, I know next-to-NOTHING about this stuff)? Shouldn't he be rooting only for the local team or the closest team - if for no other reason, how it looks? The optics of a New Jersey politician whooping it up for a Texas team? It looks bad to me. Does that look bad to you?
I don't get it. Maybe it's nothing. But if I were governor, seems to me I should at least put on a good face for the locals or near-locals, regardless who I really rooted for, in my heart. Shouldn't I? Or does that make any difference?
And then again, it could also be that I'm just automatically and instinctively wired to dislike and suspect the worst about ANYTHING chris christie does. Or ANY republi-CON, for that matter.
You make a good point. The country IS sick. We've surrendered completely to the lowest and worst
aspects of our nature. We're into acting out, and lashing out, bullying and being mean-spirited. That's us now. That's America. That's the so-called holy, sanctity-of-the "American Way." And it's shameful. As an American, I'm ashamed. And thoroughly disgusted.
I wrote this column, back when, that I called "The Meaning of America." It was NOT about some lofty rhapsody to our wonderful wonderful country and that tired old "shining city on a hill" canard. It was about how we're steadily devolving - we're turning more and more MEAN. As in mean-spirited. As in a bunch of meanies. As in mean and nasty. Outright hate-filled these days. As my husband now says - "America. We're not who we thought we were."
What really is the most galling, I think, is the overall lesson - the takeaway from this. And unfortunately it is that being mean PAYS. You get away with it. You're even praised and admired for it. LOADS of positive reinforcement out there for this kind of behavior. You're viewed as gutsy, ballsy, my-way-or-the-highway, get-outta-my-way, me-me-me, it's all about ME for ME and you can go fuck yourself. And there are no consequences. No accountability. You can shit on people, and if you're a cop, you can shoot first and not care about the fallout because it'll never touch you. NO! When you go mean, when do it that way, you're richly rewarded. Sometimes quite literally - you get wealthy. Or you get to feel as though you're one of 'em - because you vote for them and you think you're part of it. (Even though they're laughing at you and avoiding you like the plague!) And you think if you JUST. KEEP. ON. VOTING. FOR. THEM. and believing in them and swallowing the shit they spew, YOU TOO will be rich and powerful someday, and able to flitch off those who annoy you as though they were a spot of lint on the shoulder of your nice suit. And all the while, you loudly boast and swagger about what a devout holier-than-thou Christian you are.
It's a sickness. And I don't know when - or how - we're going to recover from it.
That's VERY welcome news, TM99!
Great! I hope he gains strength and momentum. Many hugs to your mom. AND to your sister.
There's always family "stuff" at times like these. Kinda like the boxes you have to trip over while you're either putting up or taking down the Christmas decorations. Or the toys and shoes and sippy cups littered all over the floor when you have a small child. It's just "stuff." It happens with every family. I don't know one family that doesn't have at least a small amount of it. Part of the human condition, I think. Don't let it get to you. She's worrying because she wants your dad well and healthy, or perhaps she prays for safe passage. Either way, she wants what she feels is best for him at this moment - how-ever one defines that.
I remember reaching the point - with BOTH my aging and ailing parents AND my sweet dear mother-in-law as she was fading away. There came a moment when I didn't know what to pray for - healing and recovery? Or safe passage? I guess that's part of it, too. For me, by the time that realization came, they were each so far gone that it would have taken a Lourdes-type miracle to reverse that downward trend. For you? Maybe the happier turn of events? Hope so! You have such a wonderful and still loving and sustaining relationship with your parents - we shall all hope that can extend for as long as possible! What's sadder is when that kind of loving and no-strings-attached relationship is not there - or no longer there. Leaves a real dilemma in the soul. It's really sad to see as I have witnessed, personally.
So glad that's not your situation!!!
Much love and many hugs - to ALL of you!
Hey friend - you've done a good thing here!
First of all, checking in - just anyway.
Second, this makes me think back to the night my mother died. My dad left years earlier, but she passed in late 2006. I could not share about my dad's death with DU - I wasn't even a member yet and had not even heard of DU back then. But I posted about my mom's passing that night.
I was OVERWHELMED. Literally. People here were just beyond the beyond. They were SO loving and sympathetic - and empathetic, too. First one, then a few more, then dozens - by the time the last person had posted, the count was somewhere around 300! People comforted me and embraced me and reassured me and mourned with me and kept me company. Helped keep me balanced through a very difficult week, what with the funeral and other mop-ups and all - arrangements it fell to ME to take care of and coordinate and oversee. I won't EVER forget that. Not possible! It was like an online wake. It meant The WORLD to me. THE WORLD!!! The companionship and consolation that flowed toward me washed over me like a tidal wave.
I will NEVER forget that. I will always feel a great love for DU and all DUers because of that. They're the family you never met and weren't actually related to. Stay close during this terrible and heavy time, dear TM99, and keep us close. Don't hesitate to share how you feel, what you're going through. Don't feel as though you're being annoying or unreasonably hogging attention. So many people here have had to face that same vigil - when an aging or very sick loved one is facing his or her last days. So many people here will, and can, and definitely do understand that special agony you're feeling now. So many of us have walked this path. And there's always somebody around to reply, if and when you need it. As our own Skittles once said - "someone's always here." Indeed, there are MANY pairs of strong and sturdy shoulders here for you to lean on - when you need it most.
Don't forget that.
DU will buoy you up.
Welcome to DU, cp!
Glad you're here! It IS interesting, isn't it!? It makes some troublesome points about our nation. I find myself fascinated and bothered like hell to discover how much propaganda we've fed our children via their textbooks at school, over the generations. AND how much propaganda WE ate from many of those textbooks. What I remember from ages ago was how "the COMMMMMunists" were always pointed to as the Great Evil of the World. "The COMMMMunists" were the source of all evil and "the COMMMMMunists" were this and "the COMMMMMunists" were that. I was seven years old when I started noticing that, and wondering what it was about these "COMMMMMunists" that was so doggone bad. That part of it was never explained.
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