a previous Du post gave us a link to the book online ((Link)) First, I cannot believe I actually read that book in 8th grade, seems way too harsh and sexy to be in jr. high required reading, but it was actually the 80's and that was a long time ago...before the right started rewriting our textbooks. I strikes me that the similarities about perpetual war and groupthink are already so prevalent in our current society. and i realize that the 99 percent ARE the proles. so what will they do? gun ...

comments or lack thereof on the OWS movement are being LOCKED and sent to the Sept 11 forum? I am getting really upset at being CENSORED here at DU of all places... okay i moved it...now why did you put my other thread in the SEPT 11 dungeon? why not General:Presidency? (Link) the question I am asking is about our PRESIDENT supporting CONSTITUTIONAL Rights....

Rethugs here... :puke: Can we talk about something else? Issues...fine. Articles on the issues....fine....Obama's press releases and speeches...fine... I thought we were a Democratic discussion board...can we stop giving the Pukes so much of our own airtime? we Don't need another thread about Bachman's crazy eyes, or her ability to deep throat a corndog Nor do we need another thread about Perry's similarities to *Bush* please, people...let's focus on what we CAN do, what we WANT to see, How ...

So, I have seen here a few scenarios with the default that mention inflation and cash running out or drying up. Can someone humor me and tell me what this really means? So if my grocery store isn't able to pay the supplier, there's no food? if the gas station owner has money, but the distributor can't get his gas from the refinery on credit, there's no gas? How does this thing work? I have no credit myself, and very little cash... so i really don't understand the concept or the mechanism. I've...

:shrug: We still have a couple weeks to see how this plays out, but it's not looking good...the Re-thugs are just about bat-shit crazy enough to think they can crash the US economy and that will increase their chances of gaining more control, even Executive Power. But what does it *really* mean...? I have seen the posts here about interest rates, and other banking effects... But I want to understand the TANGIBLE, ON-the-Ground, effects... SS checks and veterans checks not going out, that's o...

...or are you planning one for DU3...? Just curious.

:rant: So if gas is projected to hit $6+ this summer, and budget cuts continue to disembowel the safety net that more & more rely on, and houses and businesses continue to stand empty... what's next? Really, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? HOW BAD DOES IT HAVE TO GET!!!!? I have never seen the amount of empty businesses and homes that I do today. I see friends who have sold their cars because they cant afford to put gas in them, and aren't getting the hours at work to even break even. (and we're talking ...

I am listening and i agree with evrything he says... as much as the 'sanity' in me says to get over the bullshit and push on, I am MAD and want this FIGHT! how else can we FIGHT???

I am 40, so i was only a few years old when he appeared on Dick Cavett in 71 and 74(?) watching him and yoko now on you tube.. I miss him so much! wouldn't it be amazing if he had lived and been a contemporary advocate for peace? Shirley maclaine is on the too...wow I wish i had been of voting age back then...even though i know we have a more progressive chance NOW as ever before...I wish we had done this work back THEN... 30 years too late john, if it ever happens... (Link) i'm so sorry....

I say it in quotes because I wonder how willing I am to jump through these hoops to actually GET said job. Like, I really don't think I'd relocate my family to another city where I have no support system or relatives nearby to help with my kids, just for a job that may not last 6 months or more. Because so many of these employers are laying off and going unde as we continue to 'downturn'. But, like a good prole, I am submitting to everything I think i may be qualified for, even if it is in sac ...

I have been thinking about getting into the non-profit or public sector for some time, i hate corporate and private entities & need to have a cause to feel good about my work. So the idea hit me this morning and I cranked this letter out...who knows maybe there's a job there? so why not help my fellow dems too? ~~~~~~~~~~~ I am writing to you as a party member in the South __ __ area. I am a single mom of 3 and have been unemployed and on cash aid since 2008. I have been working as a self employ...

(Link)/ Found this site while poking around on MSNBC's page about volunteer orgs. I suggest we all try and contact our hairdressers or dog groomers LOCALLY and get them signed up with this program! every little bit helps...right? and ACTION is imperative for us all... Turns out that they can use hair to fill the booms and it will soak up the oil ... here's the link to MSNBC's blog with more volunteer orgs: (Link) Unfortunately, the link on the MSNBC home page was way too insignificant ...

I saw the promo for "The McVeigh Tapes" - though it took some digging to find info on the show - to be aired on the Anniversary of the OKCbombing. (Link) So Rachel Maddow is to be the host, but will that ease the fact that this may be the "special presentation" to send all the loonies over the collective edge? She is a great journalist, but I don't think she can make him look any less appealing to those whack jobs, they idolize him. If anything, her 'left-leaning' reporting would probaboly be...

I got yet another petition this morning It's from True Majority.org Usually I delete a lot of these because I am just so *over* the damn bickering over HCR and the wars and everything else that we try to get done to FIX this mess... Anyway, It caught my attention because the title was "What if it was YOUR last check" and ya, it scares me. And the reality of my personal situation of hanging by a thread became a little too clear. If it wasn"t for the good graces of my govt, I would be in a bad ...

At the very least, my Obama Biden stickers are coming OFF the car this week. and if I had the resources, I would be gone from this country... ...or at least run away to my ranch in the hills and stop paying taxes and voting...fuck em...if they want my livelihood, they can come after me to get it. ...Pull my kids out of school and go live off the land, set up my own off-the-grid home and just do what I WANT. I am tired of trying to find a job and make life work by THEIR rules, tired of having ...

Ya, I received the recent donation leter from Barackobama.com and I am just nauseated by the Platitudes: ... Yesterday's disappointing election results show deep discontent with the pace of change. I know the OFA community and the President share that frustration. We also saw what we knew to be true all along: Any change worth making is hard and will be fought at every turn. While it doesn't take away the sting of this loss, there is no road to real change without setbacks along the way. We c...

So I turned on the news this morning to check out what's up with Haiti...I haven't been watching much, been mostly reading things here and checking links to BBC and such. My daughter, who is almost 8 years old, has checked out a couple of the news stories over my shoulder and she joined me watching CNN this morning. Well, as always they were also talking about donations and such, she told me we should give something to help. I promised her I'd give $20 to the Red cross out of my next paycheck...

why...? for ALL the reasons you listed above. Obama was handed a steaming plate of crap and is doing the best he can to make something out of it... I honestly believe that he would much rather be working on the things he envisioned when he spoke of hope during the campaign. Instead he has to try and get these messes born of our 8 years of Cowboy Arrogance under control....and try to keep things from spiraling any further into destruction as he does so. ~~ I don't like the bankers getting the de...

Take a look at the unemployment lines, the bread lines and the homeless who are selling the tires off their cars for food... What happens when nobody can BUY the tires off your car ...? (Link) (Image) This Photo Essay is powerful and prophetic. Look at the pics and ask yourself, what will you do when it goes from bad to worse? What WON'T you do to survive and kep your family alive and fed...? (And another page: (Link)) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I may sound like a harbinger of doom & gloom....

So my son has this friend, they have known eachother since elementary school, and despite his father's anger issues and wierd attitudes, they have remained very positive forces in eachother's lives. They are each 17 years old, Seniors now, both are CO's in NJROTC and his friend already took the testing and is signed up to go into the Air Force as soon as he graduates....for the full 20 year package. This poor kid has been through the ringer. I don't know his dad, don't know if there is alcohol ...

I have always thought that Drug Testing is Unconstitutional. And yes, while it makes sense in heavy equipment operations, for admin. work, filing or answering phones...it is ridiculous to me. So the guy who goes on a bender all weekend and whose blood or urine is clean by monday can do whatever...but if I smoke a joint it is in my body for a month and I am the one who gets penalized? bullshit! I have recently re-connected with a temp agency I used to do work for about 10 years ago...and in th...

swine or otherwise...i feel funky... LETHARGIC, hot/cold, a little nausea...dizzy... been dealing with congestion for a long time, and this week had a really sore throat that went away yesterday and now here comes the 'sleeping sickness'...I am so wiped out! I have autoimmune issues - hence NO immune system thanks to Enbrel...so i can pick up anything from the kids bringing it home from school, even the freaking grocery store...! ugh...i wonder if this is just my hormones wiping me out or if ...

(Link) Me & the Teen are home sick today, took some Robitussin and laughed about this... Unfortunately it is too close to home for many of us! (sorry, I couldn't get it to embed right)

I recently applied for a Comunity Editor position at the Local Newspaper. Backstory: I worked there for 2 years as an Ed. Assistant (read, editorial grunt)and worked my way to staff writer. By the time I left, in 1998, my responsibilities had grown to layout of the stocks & weather sections (piece by piece in Quark, I pulled it off the AP wire & reformatted it), obituaries, and filling in reporter's beats when they were away or the spot was empty. I covered Education for 2 monts or more, never ...

I just got a phone call from a little older lady about 2 blocks away. She & her husband have been watching a cat make trips across the neighbor's yard at the same times every dya for more than a week. the neighbors across the street are vacation homes, so no people there to listen for sounds. They ahve not followed her and don;t know much about cats, they say...but they hope it is her! Laney and I are walking over that way RIGHT NOW with the cat box and some food to see if we can lure her out....

ha...that's not funny. As a Medi-CAL patient for my entire adult life, I have been my own advocate for my health and that of my kids for years... Thank godness I actually took pre-med clases in college and have a working knowledge of the human body and can ask questions and demand tests, etc from my LESS THAN MEDIOCRE doctors - There is only ONE dentist in town that takes MediCAL and only ONE pediatrician, and only ONE clinic with a rotating door for patients and docs...it's amazing we haven't ...

The one about John, Abraham, Martin...? I was not alive when the kennedy brothers were together, so I have missed the context... though i'd love to hear a clip and understand...Thanks!

I just got this one today: A bus load of politicians were driving down a Texas country road # R 44 when all of a sudden, the bus ran off the road and crashed into a tree in an old farmer's field. The old farmer, after seeing what had happened, went over to investigate. He then proceeded to dig a hole to bury the politicians. A few days later the local sheriff came out, saw the crashed bus, and asked the old farmer where all the politicians had gone. ~~~~ The old farmer said he had buried t...

This was an interesting article about the use of Cadavers in Medical school lessons. I had no idea that Med students only spend one semester with their cadavers...I thought it was (at least) a full year! How many doctors really have the expreience to see their patients as people, much less as people who experience pain and the discomfort and helplessness of death? (Link)/ With so much fear running rampant about "Death Panels"...shouldn't we at least be talking about our end of life choices? I...

I can't believe that this was sent to me by a fellow democrat liberal who has always been a huge proponent of President Obama. Maybe the meme about "killing old people" got her, since she ius caretaking BOTH her elderly parents and has had issues with Medicaid...but STILL! here's the email: TOP TEN INDICATORS THAT YOUR EMPLOYER HAS CHANGED TO OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE PLAN: (10) Your annual breast exam is done at Hooters. (9) Directions to your doctor's office include "Take a left when you ente...