This is going to be an angry week at DU.

[stevedeshazer]

The Iranian election fraud, our gay and lesbian friends righteously pissed off at the Obama administration, North Korean nukes and who knows what's gonna happen there.

Health care reform that's not really reform without single payer, the CIA director going off on Dick Cheney, the escalation of U.S. military in Afghanistan, and the complete meltdown of the Republican party.

DUer on DUer violence and poutrage, overworked and under-appreciated moderators, right-wing infiltrators, trolls and just general dumb-assiness. And, I expect, more caving from the blue dog Democrats.

Good times.

Except for the murders and assassination threats.

I'm hoping we can sort of stick together. I'm not optimistic.

I'll try if you will.

Flame suit on.

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[stevedeshazer]

3. You make my point.

:patriot:

[BzaDem]

4. I wonder if the OP realizes that saying that removes credibility from the whole post. n/t

[BlooInBloo]

9. He or she does - just trying to hide the shit-stirring by putting on sheep's clothes.

[NJmaverick]

41. I agree, pretty words but ugly message

[stevedeshazer]

14. It may for you.

I know I'm not alone.

[Bluebear]

22. You're not.

[Sal Minella]

28. Yeah, I guess I'm gone all stupidassery, but I fail to see how shoveling buckets of money

into greedy insurance-for-profit corporations (who make their money by limiting health care) is anything one could call "reform."

People want health CARE, not health insurance -- the insurance companies just get in the way and cost us money we can't afford to pay them (for the care we don't get).

I sure as heck would choose "government-rationed health care" over "insurance-company rationed health care" any day of the week.

Edit for clarity. Maybe.

[Mojambo]

32. Definitely not alone. n/t

[kath]

45. Again, definitely not alone.

[Starry Messenger]

7. Wow. I'd nominate that for a Duzy.

Way to make his point!

[Mojambo]

2. It does seem like the perfect storm... n/t

[DJ13]

5. I agree

See post #1 for an example.

[Raine]

6. Thanks for the warning

this will be good week to steer clear of DU, dealing with anger is not something I'm good at or I care to do.

[Mojambo]

8. I disagree. It's still reform. It's just reform that's not going to work. n/t

[depakid]

13. It's not designed to work- though there is some hope it will lead to reform down the line that does

[Mojambo]

16. That's cool. I'm sure not too many people will get sick until we're further down the line.

Sorry. I don't mean to be snarky with you.

I'm sure we'd all like to do single payer.

Except those of us getting massive dividend checks from stock in ghoulish health insurance companies.

[sandnsea]

19. It will give health care to more people in the short term

It won't be effective reform in the long term. And that's the best we can do for the next 20 years. And since that's my lifetime - I'll Fucking Take It.

[Canuckistanian]

10. Fasten your sealtbelts

It's going to be a bumpy ride.

[patrice]

11. That's "dumbassed-ness" you @#%*!! . . . . . . ; - )

Do you say, "That was a dumb-assy reply!" - no - you say, "That was a dumb-assed reply!"

;)

[stevedeshazer]

12. See?

We can't even agree on dumb asses.

:)

[scarletwoman]

15. Thank gawd. It was getting rather boring around here for awhile. (nt)

[SoCalDem]

17. There's always "Law & Order".. and the weather's quite nice in most places

Perhaps the pouters will get bored and take a walk outside:)

[flvegan]

18. I hope PETA does something super-outrageous!

:hide:

:rofl:

[The Traveler]

24. Your remain

a sick and twisted individual.

:toast: :fistbump: :applause: :rofl:

Trav

[jberryhill]

27. Well, they did object to the guys at Pike Place Market in Seattle

Who throw fish:

http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_060909WAB-peta-fish-KS.6438183a.html

Despite complaints by an animal rights group, a national veterinary association says it has decided to go ahead with its original plan to use real, dead fish in a fish-throwing demonstration at its Seattle convention next month.

Ron DeHaven, chief executive of the American Veterinary Medical Association, says his organization will proceed with a plan to host a team-building program offered by the famous fish-throwers of Seattle's Pike Place Fish Market.

[stevedeshazer]

31. They're dead. The fish are already dead.

It doesn't hurt them.

Catching them and smacking their heads with a club and gutting them hurts them.

Maybe DUers can toss me around when I'm dead. I'm sure some here look forward to it.

[QC]

57. Perhaps they can invade an Olive Garden and engage in group breastfeeding.

Afterward, a trip to WalMart.

That will certainly stir things up.

[walkaway]

20. It would be kind of boring if we stick together on all of this.

As long as we all come back at some point after our heads explode, things should be just fine.

[stevedeshazer]

21. Good point. n/t

[billyoc]

23. "reform that's not really reform"

I don't want to stick together with you.

[stevedeshazer]

25. Well, thanks for reading.

We probably agree on much, but if this is a deal-killer, so be it.

We single-payer advocates have lost that one anyway, it seems.

[rocktivity]

26. DU survived The Hillbots vs. The Obamatrons

It can survive anything.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[anonymous171]

49. Correct. Nothing could be as bad as that. nt

[QC]

55. The jury is still out on whether we survived that one.

I think that the nonstop ugliness we see around here has its roots in the way the primary was handled.

[medeak]

29. no flaming here

I just got thoroughly flamed and called a bitch for complaining about Palin threads... yep...think everyone is on edge. Thought mercury retrograde was over? LOL. Am having a glass of wine.... ;-)

[stevedeshazer]

33. I'll join you, if I may.

:toast:

[medeak]

34. CLINK!

Haven't seen this kind of verbiage since the primaries... ;-)

[OneGrassRoot]

37. May I have one of those?

I can't even tell what is going on any more...so much anger and bitterness and seemingly little in common about ANYTHING. Yikes!


:eyes:

We're screwn. Oy.

[medeak]

39. summer reruns and people are bored?

LOL...why don't we start a thread for everyone's bar order? I'm having a chardonnay...what would you like?

[OneGrassRoot]

40. May I sample things I've never had?

Which is pretty much anything en vogue in the last 10 years...lolol.

Otherwise, I'll stick with merlot, thank you.

:)

[medeak]

42. heck...let's just take a napa valley wine respite

and sample all.. ;-)

[OneGrassRoot]

43. :)

Okie dokie. I've never hung out there, but this may be the first week I hang out in the Lounge.

Perhaps we'll start there and do the Napa Valley tour?

Take care! :hi:

[hyphenate]

53. In honor of David Carradine

I will have a grasshopper. The drink kind, not the bug kind!

[medeak]

54. clink! for David

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[Deja Q]

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Wait, I haven't even thought of it yet. :evilgrin:

[stevedeshazer]

36. *splork*

Nicely played.

[madrchsod]

38. when is`t it?

i`m pissed off cause i keep missing who`s getting tombstoned.

[kath]

44. Hey, you forgot the Freepers' big anti-Letterman protest,

scheduled for tomorrow.

[stevedeshazer]

46. I'm just saying that we ought to try to get along.

I know it won't happen.

[kitty1]

47. Don't forget the underlying Israeli U.S. tension n/t

[Jack Sprat]

48. In a world where old men dominate,

what else can you expect? From Washington to Tehran, old men use religion as a shield to protect their power. Always have and always will. In a perfect world, old men would have to wear burkhas and keep house and not be allowed to lead anything but the family pet.

[stevedeshazer]

52. I live in that perfect world.

Well, I don't have to wear a burqa.

But I keep house and mind the family pets.

It can be done, I'm living proof.

[scheming daemons]

50. We won't stick together because too many are interested in only THEIR single issue

...at the exclusion of all else.

[donco6]

51. Yeah, I know, those cheerleaders get to me, too. n/t

[QC]

56. Yeah, why can't they understand that MY issues are the ones that matter, not theirs. n/t

[Swamp Rat]

58. .

:D

[stevedeshazer]

59. LOL!!