The news is making me sick

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The news is making me sick

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1inkdrinker
Bewerkt: okt 10, 2007, 6:27 pm

I think I’m going to have to stop listening to the news. Maybe I’ll move into a shack in the middle of nowhere. In the past few days I have arrived at work furious. Last week it was that our illustrious leader vetoed SCHIP. All I could think is that no child may be left behind but some of them may not live to see it. Then I listened to a story talking about creating a new court system just to handle terrorism cases. With the new system terrorists could be tried by a select few who are authorized to hear classified information. When I heard this it just made me think of the kinds of things people accused the USSR of doing during the 80’s. Secret courts where people were not allowed to even hear the evidence against them? Yep. Sounds just like the stuff we used accuse the Soviets of back in the day. Today as I was headed to work I listened to a story relating that Bush retracted us from part of a treaty which said that when arrested in a foreign country a person has a right to seek the counsel of their consulate, because he doesn’t want to give this right to people visiting our country. Ummmm…. What’s going to happen to the 6000 or so of Americans who get arrested in foreign countries every year? Everyday there’s something new which makes me want to stand on a street corner and scream.

Yep a shack and a typewriter is sounding pretty good right now. Angry letters a fly’n.

Sorry. I needed to rant a bit.
I'll shut up now.

2clamairy
okt 10, 2007, 1:28 pm

Well, at least you're still listening. I don't listen in the morning, because I don't want to ruin my whole day. :o/ I'm an ostrich with her head in the sand, I know... I just keep repeating this mantra: It will all be OVER soon.

Sadly, that's the same mantra I was using before the 2004 election.

3dchaikin
okt 10, 2007, 1:43 pm

I feel your pain inkdrinker... 13 more months until election day.

In the mean time I'll filter my intake of news through Jon Stewart (who had a great segment on the SCHIP veto).

4nickhoonaloon
okt 10, 2007, 2:09 pm

#1

"I needed to rant. I`ll shut up now."

No need. As I`ve said before, if you can`t rant here, I don`t know where you can.

Best,

Nick

5maggie1944
okt 10, 2007, 2:13 pm

And the more we rant, the more we build up energy for change!

6lquilter
okt 10, 2007, 2:50 pm

#3 dchaikin - That was the only way I could really get through the months prior to and after the 2004 election. If I wasn't laughing I'd be crying.

7sisaruus
okt 10, 2007, 8:26 pm

What worries me is all the news that is not in the mainstream media. But, according to tonight's news reports, someone named Jennifer Lopez might be expecting twins.

8dchaikin
okt 11, 2007, 9:15 am

#7 grrrrr - mainstream media... so many problems, so easy to get started... so difficult to stop...
ooh so much pent up anger and questions and .... so many evil players (Fox, Clear Channel, Micheal Powell) ... and the rest acquiesce (NYTimes, Hearst Corporation, AP, Reuters...) ...and the traitors (New Times)... I've have so many issues with the media I have trouble staying coherent.

9Arctic-Stranger
okt 25, 2007, 12:59 pm

#8

yes, and it is damn time progessive and liberals starting playing the same game. I have George Lakoff's Moral Politics on my tbr list, and I think I need to get to it soon.

10nickhoonaloon
okt 25, 2007, 2:36 pm

As your president`s announced that the `special relationship` is over, I`m in two minds if I`m allowed to talk to you all any more !

Be that as it may, you sound like you could all use some good, healthy irreverence.

Try this -

www.private-eye.co.uk (let`s see if my links are working this time !)

11geneg
Bewerkt: okt 25, 2007, 4:24 pm

Here is what we here in the US have to help keep our current national tragedy in perspective.

12MissTrudy
okt 25, 2007, 9:05 pm

Oh I love The Onion! Is it me or are people posting in the Political Conservatives (both progressive and conservative posters) getting a bit edgy? It is hard for me to take the discussions deeply to heart, as I feel that nobody will ever convince anybody to accept an opposing point of view if individuals are deeply entrenched in their beliefs, and that goes both ways. But I have been gone for over a month and now I feel as if the general mood is getting angrier. Or maybe I just need to get used to it all over again! Part of the problem, I am afraid, is that perhaps people are posting lightly but since we cannot hear tones of voice, things are taken somewhat out of context.

13Arctic-Stranger
okt 26, 2007, 1:19 pm

I think over in PC a lot of people like me were posting. I am not conservative, but I like listening to intelligent conservatives. But many of them were feeling (rightly, perhaps) that we were taking over. So I started Pro and Con as a place for cross fertilized debate between Progressives and Conservatives.

The last few times I have been in PC, I have noticed the level of platitudes has risen, and the level of intelligent talk has fallen. Which saddens me, because many of them are truly bright people.

Come check out Pro and Con.

14geneg
okt 26, 2007, 1:30 pm

The biggest problem with PC is that I have stopped posting over there. With the addition of Pro and Con, which is dedicated to discussion from both sides, I am perfectly content to leave them alone and indeed am weaning myself from even lurking there.

PC was apparently set up for conservative mental masturbation and I see no reason to disrupt their little fantasy world. Of course P&L is even more restricted, for much the same reason, in that you must join to post. At least PC didn't have that restriction.

If drafted I will not join, if forced to join I will not participate!

15dchaikin
okt 26, 2007, 2:55 pm

In my recent experience, the PC group was pretty darn belligerent.

16nickhoonaloon
okt 27, 2007, 5:22 am

I thinkg possibly geneg has it right, I think the PC group probably want a group for like-minded people to compare notes, or indeed just have a chat or share a joke.

Given that there are a couple of groups (there`s one formed by Akiyama - Politics and the State or something) that exist for people of any persuasion to discuss topical issues, maybe that should be confined to those groups.

17tropics
okt 29, 2007, 11:47 am

Check out the most commonly shared books in the PC group. Not surprisingly, Ann Coulter looms large.

18Truthseeker013
okt 30, 2007, 9:09 am

I'm the self-abusive type. I have to know what's going on, no matter how horrific it may be. Knowledge is power, and I don't want to be one of the powerless.

19Arctic-Stranger
okt 30, 2007, 2:21 pm

Are you saying that there is KNOWLEDGE in an Ann Coulter book? (recoils in horror)

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