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It’s Time To Rethink Re-Instituting the Universal Draft

Good day KarateK, very funny for such a serious topic, my first thought though was that, while it is more than unfortunate, that our soldiers are deploying again and again, more soldiers would allow for more and longer wars. But dang, if it didn’t make some kind of crazy sense. It was a good read.
And I left a little message for you late last night. I’d seen a message you left for LTTL about this place and I wanted to thank you, also, ….
you’re 61? How funny, I had you pegged for 30 something, should have known, Guess I mistook your cantankerousness for for feisty-ness.:)

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 12:27 pm

A Reckoning Long Overdue

TRP… me too
hopeington@yahoo.com

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 4:04 pm

Obama2008, I thought I read yesterday that they are not going to let those tax breaks for the wealthy expire. They are going to keep them in place, some crazy reasoning that times are too tuff be burden anyone with more taxes. I’ll have to look for that link, I’m fairly certain I saw the story over at HuffnPuff.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 3:42 pm

Seems everybody and their uncle is growing these days, that’s why I thought he was so smart to go in to this side of the biz. It’s a safer bet, but I do wonder what will happen if they legalize it. I think his business might suffer then and he might have to be watching when the right time is to fold up before the loss starts effecting him.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 3:27 pm

Oh, but I’m a seamstress and he is going to let me set up my workshop in one of the empty offices in the bldg he leases. It’s a pretty nice set up. And it will get me and some of my stuff out of his small house.
Here’s what I do
http://abagahope.etsy.com
I also sew for a business, that my friend owns, on the wharf called Made in Santa Cruz.
I’m under employed, making less than $1000 a month but I am working.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 3:24 pm

He has a business partner, they’ve both been working 24/7. They recently hired a weekend employee because they also have a huge sound business they run and are quite well known for.
He’s worked every weekend since Burning Man in Sept.
He can’t hire me cuz I don’t have the knowledge of growing anything indoors, which is quite a science.
I’m more of an outdoor fruit, veggie and flower kinda girl.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 3:18 pm

They will, I’m determined and intelligent. I still have great faith in myself and only momentary moments of complete failure.
I actually started commenting on HuffnPuff because I also had split my upper lip all the through up to my nose and my bottom lip also and I’ve had to learn to use my mouth again.
I love to do me some talkin and I found I needed an outlet where I wasn’t spitin all over people when I spoke nor looking at me like I was an idiot…glad it all led me here…see good comes from the bad!!!Positive.
Lively up yourself is my motto. My friend just bought me a tshirt with Bob Marley picture with that on it. While it is a small group, I do have folks that love me still!!

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 2:42 pm

Ok, about the misery thing, the reason we need to stick together and discuss the what fors and how tos, is because it’s too close for comfort for the people that are still(just barely) holding it together, and unless you’re here, in it, you can’t really understand the pit falls we are navigating. It gets hard to be with my friends that have money cuz I can’t go out unless someone’s paying for me and we just don’t have the same things to talk about anymore. We scare them a bit.
But sometimes I find if you don’t let anyone know where you’re at, how will they know if they might have the help you need, it’s a fine line.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 2:34 pm

Yes and as hard as it is to think some times, it’s up to us to take control, for all the talking these politicians do, you rarely hear them talking about the people that are living below the middle class and what are we going to do for them. Once again we don’t contribute in cash to keep this economy going, we’re only going to cost everyone more in subsidies or “hand outs’, and yet there are so many us us, the invisible and unmentionable society.
I keep telling my kids, you have to think outside the box right now if you want to get ahead.
My oldest son did just that and bought the store he was managing and at the moment is doing a booming business in the hydroponic and organic gardening supplies business.
There’s a “goldrush” of sorts here in CA, and he brilliantly made the call, that just like the real gold rush, the folks that made the most money were the ones legally supplying the tools to do the job.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 2:23 pm

and kisses

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 2:10 pm

That weariness thing is the hardest to overcome, sometimes your brain can just freeze up and I can’t think of what to do except keep putting one foot in front of the other and keep moving on.
But I do, and I am moving forward, but talking about the toothless thing, that’s my thing, I smashed my face up pretty bad in a bicycle accident and knocked my 10 front teeth!! 2 in the front are missing the rest need to be removed, but after losing my job because of the accident, my insurance was cut off after they removed those 2, but finding a job when you have a toothless grin, well people just don’t take you serious and literally treat me as if I was a stupid drug addict
With no job and no state funds for dental work, I was losing out, FORTUNATELY, a friend of my signed me up for a dental plan for only $11 a month (Safe Guard) and said she would pay that and make my co pays until I can get on my feet. She told me this a couple of days ago, so I’ll swallow what ever pride I have left and take the hand that is reaching out.
In many respects I am truly blessed.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 2:08 pm

I just want to say, one of the things that kept me going back to “that other place”, was the new ease of being able to track comments and responses.
There’s no way to do there here is there?
I’m getting used to this and figured that if I am responding, it helps to put the person’s name up in the top of your reply. But if you’re not here to catch it, it just drifts away.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 1:54 pm

Thanks I missed it.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 1:35 pm

The story of stuff….I remember taking a trip years ago and passing shopping mall after shopping mall of stuff. I kept wondering, how did they expect to sell, lets say, all the sheets and towels that were in these stores all across America? But lately I feel like my question was answered….they’re not. Macy’s, Mervyns and many other big stores have closed. I’ve always been dismayed at the stuff this country produces, like the stupid little toys in cereal boxes and mc donald happy meals, etc etc etc.
This keeping up with the jones thing got out of hand.
Am I too off topic? Well let me go a little further.
TRP, I’m in your boat…I’ve been staying on my 36 year old’s couch, going on 4 months now, I don’t see an end in sight, although it may just be around the corner.
They want to release my son from the hospital today, but he has no where to go.
My son I’m with is pissed, but he will let him stay here while he recuperates, but boy do I feel like I failed as the parent right now.
It’s a small 1 bedroom cabin, my older son is feeling pushed out.
My daughter and a couple of friends have decided they need to form a partnership and pool their resources to get into a household…kinda reminds of the farm you mentioned earlier with a modern spin on it.
Coming together to help each other is one way to combat these tuff times, but I’m sure you feel the same isolation I do.
When you can’t spend money in the town, you don’t have the feeling you’re part of the community or that anyone has any use for you. I am homeless even though I have 4 walls around me. This past year I have just been existing, not living, it wears ya down.
What part of the states are you in?
Hope I didn’t ramble on too much.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 1:26 pm

Are Americans Too Broken for the Truth to Set Us Free?
http://www.counterpunch.org/levine12042009.html
I posted this the other day, but it so fits this conversation and because I got no sleep I’m not so sure I should let my brain do the talking today, I thought I’d put it out there again.
It really backs up a lot of what The Rarest was saying.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 12:45 pm

Stupid is a Pre-Existing Condition: Whatever Happened to Suffering Real Consequences?

Dang, I had to go do some work, I guess I’m a bit late to say good night, but It was good conversing today…see ya then.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 8:49 pm

One of the reasons I can forget I don’t have a lot of money, is that I am wealthy in the things that really matter to me,
the love of my friends and family.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 4:37 pm

Ditto about the growing up part, and everyone had kids, we had 6, lots of folks had 10 or more, 4 was small. There was always someone there.
My grandkids have to really struggle just to find kids to play with and they certainly don’t live in the neighborhood.
When I was my son’s age, all my friends had kids, very few of his friends do.
Civics isn’t being taught in schools any longer and I think that contributes to people not understanding the community effort it takes to be a healthy society, nor the responsibility of big business to lend a hand to the community they do business in.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 4:14 pm

Perfect, you are the first, I can see this could be a trend.
Tigers…oh yeah.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 3:13 pm

Javaz
I found them quite disgusting, I happened to see one interview, one of them was asked if she knew he was married and if she thought that was wrong, she said yes, she wasn’t raised that way!!!
But she did it anyway.
I think the ease and availability of getting sex is a large contributing factor to the high divorce rates.
It used to be women respected other women’s marriages. It was much harder to have an affair, so if you wanted sex, you better stay with your partner. Now, it’s not something that can hold a marriage together. There’s always another one some where else.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 3:09 pm

perfect sense

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 2:57 pm

Yikesy!! that was unpleasant. I can really relate, to say the least!!
There is a definite unrest that needs to be addressed.
Idleness is the devil’s playground, whether it’s the idleness from lack of jobs or the idleness of the politicians not doing enough for the people and too much for big business I don’t know, but I am concerned with this direction it seems so many are headed.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 2:49 pm

I’ve got to agree that the consequences of losing your family and their love is a far worse consequence than losing your sponsorship.
But…this is the only place I’ve read or commented on this Tiger situation, the news coverage has been OVER the top.
If he’s had only one or two, he might have survived, but 13 or more??!!!
He blew it, he’s a ho.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 13, 2009 @ 12:59 pm

Un(der)reported News—Weekend Edition

Good job Nellie…particularly moved by the returning soldiers story.
So much more than the war goes on. These men and their families are in serious need of our support.
This article is the tipping point for me, I’ve been wanting to do something, since I’m supporting President Obama’s surge, I feel I should do something more than just talk. Vets and returning soldiers are the over looked part of the senseless wars we are involved with and volunteering is the only thing I can think to do.
We’ve got a lot of old vets in my town, many of them homeless.. I’ll get back to you on that..
Also glad they’re getting some money to LA for disaster relief…

off topic alert…
but it’s Saturday, this news is bouncing around in my brain like a little ping pong ball, I’m off to the hospital to visit my son and yes, do some work. I might be under employed, but at least I’m employed!!! I do most of my work for a business called Made in Santa Cruz. Here’s is a shameless link to a web site I just put together for myself.
http://www.abagahope.etsy.com

» Posted By Hopeington On December 12, 2009 @ 12:11 pm

Talk Me Down!

I will boomer, and I too have written a lot, something I’d never done either.
I don’t want to hear the news about it, but I still think we should continue to raise our voices in the best way we can.
We each have to do what we can to be part of the change we voted for, that’s the responsibility I accepted when I voted for Barack Obama.
My congressman Sam Farr said he received over 5,000 letters in favor of the health care bill and 200 in descent. It made a difference to him.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 11, 2009 @ 7:23 pm

I don’t think I can talk you down either. Like Kalima’s friend, I’ve had to pay no attention to what they’re doing, for a minute, and give it a rest. It’s like a little pingpong ball bouncin around in my head. ?????what will they do????
That’s why the music thing has been such a nice distraction today.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 11, 2009 @ 7:14 pm

Rashomon 2: Nine views of bank reform passed by the House

Oh I just love to be proved correct in my thinking.
I’ve only been able to go to that other place once, to try and discreetly tell one person I thought they should come on over.
I have a different moniker that I snuck in there with…but I want to pull Hopeington out completely, I can see it takes a minute to unplug.
They scrubbed half of what I said, probably because I never had a kind word for the Queen and kept trying to point out…we’ve been duped!!

» Posted By Hopeington On December 12, 2009 @ 12:45 pm

Thoughts on the Bailout Reporting—FWIW Department

Yep, I was wondering the same thing.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 11, 2009 @ 1:32 pm

I agree, we can all agree on more regs and less loops.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 11, 2009 @ 1:09 pm

Thanks Cher, You’ve articulated for me one of the reasons I completely support our President. Being naive , or inexperienced as they called it during his campaign, didn’t allow him to know the full extent of the powers that be in Washington.
I’m hoping once he figures out how to navigate the “mine fields” he’ll be able to do a better job at fulfilling some of the promises that will lead to change.

» Posted By Hopeington On December 11, 2009 @ 1:06 pm