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Pessimism in the Age of Mass Manipulation and Plutocracy…

I think I’ll just return it then, thanks.

» Posted By deygirl On February 26, 2011 @ 1:13 pm

What a pantload. I am watching a church knock down every tree around here, and waiting for them to dig up the body of a stray cat I inherited when I moved here.

There is NOTHING in this life that is a gifr.

» Posted By deygirl On February 26, 2011 @ 1:08 pm

Give me a clue. I’m tired of crying.

» Posted By deygirl On February 26, 2011 @ 11:35 am

There is a place for us. We just need to learn to LIKE being ground into the dirt.

» Posted By deygirl On February 26, 2011 @ 7:34 am

“The American Dream…a Cautionary Tale”

Maggie sees you trying to usurp her rightful position.

Don’t plan on sleeping.

» Posted By deygirl On February 25, 2011 @ 12:47 pm

EXACTLY!!!

» Posted By deygirl On February 25, 2011 @ 12:42 pm

Awwwww, maaaaaan……. I don’t want to end up the ugly step-poster.

» Posted By deygirl On February 25, 2011 @ 12:41 pm

I was actually PHYSICALLY ill when I heard the shrub say “ownership society” the first time. I knew there was only one way it would end.

» Posted By deygirl On February 25, 2011 @ 12:40 pm

Dumbass. You were supposed to make the GIRL drink it. 😉

» Posted By deygirl On February 25, 2011 @ 12:37 pm

Empress Maggie.

» Posted By deygirl On February 25, 2011 @ 12:34 pm

I call princess.

» Posted By deygirl On February 25, 2011 @ 12:30 pm

I saw it coming.

I, a housekeeper in a small town in Oregon.

They knew. They hid it and milked the very last cent out of the people.

» Posted By deygirl On February 25, 2011 @ 12:29 pm

One of the HUGE factors in the demise of my last marriage (other than that he was a complete a…….) was that he bought into the bullshit that was the credit scam. He ran up massive credit card debt, which he hid from me until it hit crisis. Then he would want to “consolidate” with a refi. And then he would do it again.

To be fair, I had started that whole ball rolling by initiating the first refi, but in my case it was to re-roof and update from aluminum windows. I reasoned that it was worth it because it added to the value of the house. His refi’s, on the other hand, simply ate up equity.

During one of our last battles, he insisted that it was our money to spend, and that we should use it for nicer cars and fancy vacations. I told him he was insane, and that at the rate he was going we would one day find ourselves in a position where we would have to COME UP with money simply to sell the house. He told me that I was the insane one, and a fool, and a control freak.

We were divorced by the time the whole thing came crashing down. And while I never got the satisfaction of saying “I told you so,” neither did I have to suffer the consequences of his foolhardiness.

I blame the Bush administration and all of their crooked cronies for what happened to the housing market. They used refinancing to hide the drop of wages. They made our housing market into a ponzi scheme, and only the very wealthy have avoided paying the price for this scam.

My mortgage is under water, not because I was foolish with my money (I managed to dump the over-mortgaged one just in time) but because the wealthy wannabes overextended themselves and defaulted on their trophy beach houses.

» Posted By deygirl On February 25, 2011 @ 12:23 pm

The Kochroaches Emerge from the Woodwork

If I’m not mistaken, that’s what happened in his last gig. He fired state workers and replaced them with contractors They successfully sued and won.

» Posted By deygirl On February 24, 2011 @ 2:47 pm

🙂 I can always count on you to get it.

» Posted By deygirl On February 24, 2011 @ 1:03 pm

It’s ridiculous. We have bought into the “all or nothing” mindset that the right has peddled. The irony is that, while we think ourselves not to be sheeple because we fight our own side, we have blindly followed the right’s false choices.

It’s NOT all or nothing. Not in the real world. I will take something, anything, even if it’s small. Then I will build upon it, because slow progress ALWAYS beats regression and stagnation.

» Posted By deygirl On February 24, 2011 @ 1:02 pm

The message? “HA! Take THAT, nose-less face!”

» Posted By deygirl On February 24, 2011 @ 12:57 pm

Amen, Abby!

» Posted By deygirl On February 24, 2011 @ 12:53 pm

WE DO NOT NEED ANOTHER PARTY!

What the hell is wrong with dems? Do we not see that the republicans are united, NO MATTER WHAT against us? Do we not get that they win because they are willing to do whatever it takes to have power?

They have no ideals and no principles to hold them back. They simply unite AGAINST US and win. They tell us that our president is ineffective and inexperienced and lousy and arab and a huge disappointment to dems.

And our response? WE EFFFING BITE! We swallow the lies whole and decide that the answer is not to be glad, AS WE SWORE WE WOULD, to have a reasonable, decent president who moves the country forward. NOOOO. We turn on him because the media says we should. We want a MORE progressive president. We want a perfect president. We want a third party.

The republicans have shot themselves in the foot with THEIR “third party,” and now we, instead of using the opportunity to unite and end the rule of the right, decide to splinter and assure their rise to power.

WAKE UP! What is happening in Wisconsin is the DIRECT RESULT of “sending a message” with a third party.

» Posted By deygirl On February 24, 2011 @ 12:41 pm

The Daily Planet, Vol. 4

HUGE fan of yours!! Seriously! Hope to see a lot more of you here. 🙂

» Posted By deygirl On February 23, 2011 @ 3:38 pm

I Never Saw The Temple…..

You’d have loved my visit-ending exchange with them. they were trying to get me to come to their Easter service (the only holiday the celebrate is the anniversary of christ’s death. Go figure.)telling me how I’d like it because of the wine, which symbolizes the blood of christ, and the bread, which symbolizes his flesh.

So, what do the blood and the flesh symbolize? “Well,” they told me,”the wine symbolizes the blood and the bread symbolizes the flesh.” Yeah, I got that. What do the blood and the flesh symbolize? “‘The wine, you see, symbolizes the blood, and the bread symbolizes the flesh..” Yea, I get that. What I want to know is, is what the blood and the flesh symbolize. “‘Cause the wine, you see…..”

Then they ran away and never came back.

» Posted By deygirl On February 23, 2011 @ 4:33 pm

The Death of Moderation

Effing LOTM.

I call him “the voice of frauderation.”

» Posted By deygirl On February 23, 2011 @ 10:31 am

What Is Love?

Don’t you think that forcing or trying to forsee the future is the very thing that will prevent us from getting to know someone? That maybe we try to mold them to fit into the future we’re fantasizing about?

In my closest friendship, all 30+ adult years of it, we have NEVER put the pressure of “can I see myself being friends with this person for the rest of my life?” She has changed. I have changed. In the resulting bumps in the road, we never contemplated “divorce,” because we never plan futures with friendships. We just trust that the future will come and our friends will be there. I guess I was thinking our love relationships would fare better if we could let them follow that less demanding path.

But I’m twice divorced. I recommend you take my opinion and do the opposite. 😉

» Posted By deygirl On February 21, 2011 @ 8:31 pm

Hey Wolf– Found my answer to the same question when it was aked of me:

For me, it means knowing that you can feel happy alone, but that the happiness is sharper and fresher with that person there to share it.

Waking in the night to the person’s sleep sounds and feeling blessed to hear them, glad that the person is there with you, a shared sweetness of just being.

The urge just to reach out and touch, to make contact, to make the sharing physical for a moment, to complete the intimacy that you feel mentally and emotionally.

The knowledge that life’s moments would feel somehow LESS without that person there to share them.

The letting go of the safeties we try to build to protect our emotions, our hearts… accepting that in order to feel all of the good, there will also be the definite risk of letting in some of the bad. Taking the chance, trusting the other person to love us enough to take great care with the vulnerable parts of us so that we still feel safe when we allow them in.

The willingness to be in the moment without trying to predict the future, because we just can’t. Allowing the moments to become the future at their own pace, in their own way, and being open to the surprises–both good and bad– along the way.

The problem, as I see it, is that too often we keep looking for the same thing over and over even though it has never worked in the past. Perpetual fireworks and perfection, absolute knowledge of the future–those are not realistic. Pretty in the fairy tales, but not acheivable in reality where people are imperfect and life is unpredictable. Life too often gets ugly and messy and colors, briefly, our perceptions of those around us.

Friendships –without the mess of romance– are hard work, they fluctuate in the day-to-day. Sometimes easy, sometimes difficult. Sometimes wonderful and sometimes not. Sometimes incredibly close and nurturing and sometimes just frustrating and even painful. Bottom line is that we never plan to be forever friends with someone, we allow the bond to form and wait to see if it holds through all of life’s ups and downs. Given room and patience, the right ones show themselves in time, the others just drift away. And we know and we accept it, and we let it be.

I wonder if the problem with finding longterm love is that we put too much pressure on it, expect it to be revealed quickly and with absolute signs and guarantees. The most important choice we can make, and we think it can be done quickly and easily and surely. We think we need to plan its future for it in a way we would never attempt with any of life’s other important choices or paths.

Sooo….I wonder if the secret is just to be where we are, take the moments as they come and let the future build itself, albeit with a little help– nurturing and forgiveness and patience and laughter — from us. To surrender and to trust and to be willing to continue even when it seems hard, because we know what could be or may be is worth the scary parts of the journey and because we know the journey is worthwhile in itself.

And maybe the problem with trying so hard to forsee the future is that we forget to enjoy the present for what it is and to allow time to build a history for that future–whatever it may be– to stand on.

» Posted By deygirl On February 21, 2011 @ 7:48 pm

Invite For Collaboration Part 2:

There is a huge difference between “more noble” and “not as big a sh*tbag.” 😉

» Posted By deygirl On February 20, 2011 @ 12:39 pm

Posted a reminder there to the cackling trolls that once the unions were successfully dismantled, there would be a return to indentured servitude and horrific working conditions, and that their all-important children and grandchildren would NOT thank them for it.

Shockingly, it was deleted. This, however, remains:
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Lousy dims just want the poor beleaguere­d corporatio­ns to have to take money away from their CEOs and pay it to the people who keep those corporatio­ns afloat.

Lousy dims want children to be educated so that they can escape servitude.

Lousy dims.

Betcha THIS comment doesn’t vi0late any [guideline­s].”
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Dipshit moderators need to learn to read beyond the first two words they agree with.

» Posted By deygirl On February 20, 2011 @ 12:26 pm

I am certain Geithner rebuffed her advances at some point. She has that whole “woman scorned” air about her.

» Posted By deygirl On February 20, 2011 @ 12:08 pm

God’s Blog – 2-19-2011

If there is a god, I imagine he’s screaming, “That’s not what I MEANT!”

» Posted By deygirl On February 19, 2011 @ 10:02 pm

Whoopee Goldberg?

» Posted By deygirl On February 19, 2011 @ 9:57 pm

Doing Business – The Right Way (Part 7)

Check your e. 🙂

» Posted By deygirl On February 19, 2011 @ 8:10 am

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