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The Media Whoracle

Very progressive, I’m sure. Quite ridiculous when many of us made friends with people we met there that have carried over into our private lives, they are simply nuts and don’t deserve the respect they are trying to attain for themselves. Many of us know the truth about them, it’s too little too late. The cat’s out of the bag and running up the street.

» Posted By Kalima On December 14, 2009 @ 4:18 pm

Oops!

Saying “Hello” and greeting friends is not allowed, sounds like a “chain gang” policy to me.

That is really quite funny considering the amount of on topic posts that have been and still are trashed there every day.

» Posted By Kalima On December 14, 2009 @ 4:07 pm

Well done, that is exactly how she has come across, especially since the start of the primaries last year. At first it seemed very subtle, then the blaring, intentional, troll inducing headlines started, I remember the number of times that goosebumps would appear on my arms.

While claiming to fully support the candidate Obama and quite blatantly allowing HC bashing, HP began to highlight stories that would discredit Obama. A perfect example was the length of time she pushed the Rev. Wright fiasco, much longer than most msm networks, but surely just as long as Faux news. The next was taking Obama’s comment about people “clinging to their bibles and guns” totally out of context before he was forced by media challenge to explain his words. After this and several more hair raising headlines, I remember feeling an emptiness in the pit of my stomach each time I logged in there. I stayed until the GE, until the President was sworn in and visited less and less for reasons ranging from scrubbing, endless moderation, trolls gone toxic, tabloid style headlines, unfounded criticism of the President and finally for the banning of old posters who tried to state facts where none were welcomed or said what was on their minds about the path down which HP was heading. I didn’t make a song and dance, I know it would never have seen the light of day, a bunch of us just drifted away and found another place to blog.

I never go there directly anymore, when I do, it’s because of favourite bloggers who have posted something new and this information lands via email in my inbox. AH is on this list, I have never bothered to take her off, I was happy to be rid of the place, it was dragging me down and sapping my energy. I check out her new posts with a growling deep in my chest, swear words forming on my lips and read her gradual descent into the person she is and has always been if we had been on guard at the times our hopes were overflowing for the election of a man who spoke of turning America around, of change.

Now I read only lies, assumptions mixed with blatant shit stirring from a bitter woman who jumped on the Progressive bandwagon as a way to infiltrate and in her mind, own the internet Progressive blog market, when it started to take off and rake in the lolly, AH woke up every morning, sporting $ signs in her eye sockets and we who cared, really cared, were left to rot by the wayside, trampled underfoot on her path to imagined glory.

» Posted By Kalima On December 14, 2009 @ 2:36 pm

Hanukkah: the festival of light

A truly wonderful post and very enlightening. I love traditions and try hard to keep up with most of them living here in a place so far away from my family, my friends and my roots.
Holidays are tough but my memories manage to keep me afloat.

Thank you for this delightful glimpse into your world, into your life, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

» Posted By Kalima On December 14, 2009 @ 3:13 pm

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

Gosh does that include litter boxes, I’d be Rockyfella by now.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 3:12 pm

My PMS rages were enough to sink a battleship at times. 🙂

Good afternoon javaz.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 3:10 pm

Oh javaz, “Anyone brave enough to order an armed menopausal woman to peel potatoes or scrub the toilets?”

I laughed until I cried, the image was so bloody funny. 😆

Thanks, I needed that.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 2:29 pm

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

Good night Patsy, stay tuned for the adventures of “Calamity Kalima.”

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 11:09 pm

Oh gosh, don’t tempt me, I’m almost out of the front door and it isn’t even dark yet.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 11:04 pm

😆 now I just can’t stop laughing. I’m a bit of a klutz in the dark and can just imagine stumbling over something, cussing and waking up the whole bloody neighbourhood in the process. I’m beginning to feel like Benny Hill.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 11:02 pm

Good night kesmarn, I was on the phone, sorry I missed you.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 10:59 pm

Why do they insist on calling this man an Independent, he has betrayed his constituents by not following up on his promise to promote healthcare reforms. The man is a Repub slug, ready to fall on his knees to the highest bidder. His chairmanship should be revoked, he is nothing but a traitor.

Good night boomer, rest well.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 10:57 pm

I was just talking to a friend about it saying that I’m very tempted to sneak out in the dead of night, in disguise if need be, to start collecting it and dispose of it when the stuff which doesn’t burn trash collection is due. It’s a thought spinning in my head as I type.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 10:49 pm

That’s the only reason I can think of, yes.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 10:45 pm

Yes, St. Francis is a busy man, but I’m sure he has time for 10 more kitties.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 10:43 pm

That’s very sweet of you but it’s still only 2:52 in the afternoon here. I might see you in your morning.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 9:52 pm

We certainly are richer for your comments here.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 9:50 pm

Yes I’m afraid the “critical” thinking is something many Japanese still have to learn. It exists where people have lived some time abroad but is sorely missing in the majority of others, a failure in the education system here. You learn what is taught, questions are not that welcomed.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 9:48 pm

Yes they are clever kesmarn, it’s just that once the last feeding is over, they are on their own until the next morning and a lot can happen when I’m sleeping.

LOL he sounds huge and you don’t have to tell me about those pitiful, feed me looks and meows, I’ve seen them all and still fall for them every time. Once a sucker always a sucker. 🙂

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 9:43 pm

You both could be right, I call him Tuesday and Saturday mornings to get his shopping list and sometimes he has forgotten what day it is, nothing strange, I forget myself sometimes.

One evening this summer, I received a late night call from him asking if he could come to collect his shopping now, it was Sunday and his shopping had been delivered on Saturday afternoon. I was worried but it had slipped my mind.

He has a nephew living close by, the son of another brother who died about 5 years ago, I am not family, don’t know the nephew, so don’t think it’s my place to voice my fears, they see him much more than I do.

In the meantime, I hope that my little outsiders have enough sense to stay away from this imminent danger, it’s his property, can’t do very much about it.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 9:28 pm

Yes that is it exactly, it was frightening an quite unexpected. He has a brother next door, they are not very close, but the brother confronted me years ago about “my” cats using his garden for a toilet. I spent almost 6 months going there every morning to check and clean up to keep the peace. When I later found out it wasn’t any of my cats and was sickened by his daily messages in German left on the soil for me to find, I lost my temper and refused to go there again. His brother and his wife were on my side and now he seems to be doing the same thing.

I have a toilet for my outsiders, they use it, so what I’ve just witnessed was a total shock.

I help him out because I was fond of his wife and will continue to do it, however my personal feelings have changed in just the space of 30 minutes and I hope he comes to his senses, I have a feeling he won’t.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 9:09 pm

I have just spent a bewildering 30 minute with a neighbour I organize the shopping for twice a week. He is an 81 years old former professor in European history, a Japanese man, married to a wonderful German woman who died 2 years ago. He speaks 3 languages and is usually fun to talk to, but he has just knocked the wind out of my sails twice.

While waiting for the door to be answered, I couldn’t help but notice the pile of broken mirror in front of the gate which leads to the back of his house, I didn’t have to ask why the glass was there as one of my outside cats returned with a bleeding paw last week.

Armed with my camera, I followed him up the steep and winding staircase to view the reason for my visit, his nativity statues displayed as a nativity scene on his living room floor, they are Catholics, the whole family. As I was there taking pictures of what really was a beautiful display, I started thinking about just how Catholic or Christian it was to intend to hurt living creatures and I felt a slight chill.

We talked for a short time and just as I was leaving, he said that he had just been reading about someone saying that Obama was a radical Marxist. I laughed and told him just how ridiculous these statements from the RW machine were but he continued. He said that Obama had been active as a student with a group of radicals protesting the Vietnam war. When I pointed out that the President was 8 when the war started and 13 when the war ended and that maybe he would be better off checking these facts for himself before falling for the propaganda, he was silent. I was going to ask if he had read this in Japanese or English but to tell you the truth, it left a bitter taste in my mouth and made me wonder and think about how far flung the RW machine has cast it’s web of deceit and lies.

I’m happy to be home, where things are calm and I know that I decide for myself what is right and what is true.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 8:50 pm

The photos all went poof too and they were stored in my IPhoto album. From that day I muddle through by myself and frantically email a friend who worked as a computer programmer to walk me through it, but he gets so mad sometimes when I don’t understand what he’s explaining, he disappears for hours.

I always say that I am and will remain a total technofart, I do just fine with only an on and off switch.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 6:01 pm

Last year I was working on a little cat photo book with comments, an option on my IPhoto on Mac, I had just one page left before sending it off, when something knotted inside my old Mac. Off to to the doctor at the local Apple shop, they informed me that a lot of my stored data, including the unfinished book was damaged. I know little about what goes on under the hood of my computer and always had help, this time, too many cooks had spoiled the broth and the desire to start again was lost. Shame really.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 5:41 pm

Thanks, I took a look and with these poor eyes of mine was unable to read the print, sorry.

I did something similar with my hubby, as a coffee table, limited edition book in 88′ and we gave it away to friends as gifts.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 5:31 pm

You are most welcome.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 5:11 pm

😆 javaz, I loved it!

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 5:06 pm

You have a very positive attitude that will serve you well. It’s never too late to start a new life or to learn something new. We have all been there at one time or another and somehow have found the strength to go on to more rewarding things, you will too I think and don’t ever give up trying.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 5:03 pm

I do write and keep a diary, I’m running out of space to store them in.

Over the years since about 15, I wrote poems but recently life got in the way. One of these days I’ll start again I’m sure but personal things are still much too painful for me, I’ll just keep them in my head.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 4:54 pm

That is really all we need and I’m lucky too. Good health would be nice too but I don’t want to seem greedy.

» Posted By Kalima On December 13, 2009 @ 4:49 pm