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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on July 30, 2008, 07:16:00 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=230x3328
This bonfire was started a month ago, but it's still burning on Skins's island.
Journalgrrl Donating Member (616 posts) Mon Jun-30-08 09:04 PM
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I think the heat is sucking the life out of me... at least SOMETHING is!
Meanwhile, back at the farm…
Today has been frustrating on many fronts:
Job insecurity = Still waiting on a call from the radio station for a 5-15 hr a week gig as production asst… Then, I got shined on for a third time from the MG Ed at the local daily because they are too corporatized to hire me to replace the lady I have been filling in for the past 2 years (she’s retiring) It would be a big break – but it occurs to me that the newspaper may not be a stable place to work…
My job at the church is only worth $200/week at best, and my ONE client that I freelance for is to poor and has cut me to 5 hours a week…
Housing grief= My “long term†rental arrangement is over by September (preferably August) because the couple is getting a divorce and he is taking this house (she gets the kids…) Since I have a Sec 8…finding a house should be easy. At least I know I can look at a place for 1200, instead of looking at the back seat of my Honda as the only option! Everyplace is either a major dump with not enough bathrooms, etc, or isn’t available till the end of the summer, or just out of price range. I am really a little disappointed today at our options, and still have to figure out how to deal with the packing and moving right before the new school year. Ack.
News fatigue= Every time I look at headlines, the whole thing is just so damn impossible. I can’t even bear to look or be involved anymore. My activism is directly proportionate with my feeling of success any given week...
Poverty stress= Survival is the name of the game here - we are so close to the edge, I actually had to put groceries back at the grocery outlet! I realized that I only had $30 on me, because I had to put the other $20 in the gas tank! (driving around looking for houses is eating gas too)
Just a hard Monday, and I have deadlines to meet and all I wanna do is drink my wine and veg out.
I wish I could run away to 1988 for a little while, and just be 18 and have no worries or responsibilities. Just for a day?
bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Tue Jul-01-08 12:40 PM
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1. You don't deserve this.. to be hit from so many directions, when you are working so hard to do all that is asked of you... "pull yourself up by your bootstrings".
So many are so close to just giving up, and where is the outrage?
I realize that giving up *IS* my only option.
Will it matter?
Naw.....
snappyturtle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-27-08 04:26 PM
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4. Here almost another month has gone by! I hope your situation is less stress producing each day forward. You're not alone.
Yeah, I wanted to find out if maybe the bobbling primitive took her in, as a good Democrat, liberal, or primitive would do.
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Holy crap! Here 1200 a month rent gets you a huge house in a good school district with almost 0% crime. Maybe she should think about moving away from whatever welfare paradise she lives in.
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Holy crap! Here 1200 a month rent gets you a huge house in a good school district with almost 0% crime. Maybe she should think about moving away from whatever welfare paradise she lives in.
Hell, $1,200 a month here will buy you a pretty nice home.........uh......I don't think they let you use section 8 to buy though.....that might remove you from the democrat roles.
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So we subsidize this worthless DUmmy to the tune of $300/week? That SUCKS!!!
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Journalgrrl Donating Member (616 posts) Mon Jun-30-08 09:04 PM
I wish I could run away to 1988 for a little while, and just be 18 and have no worries or responsibilities. Just for a day?
Worthless Nanny State Citizen, thy name is liberal.
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Journalgrrl Donating Member (616 posts) Mon Jun-30-08 09:04 PM
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...I wish I could run away to 1988 for a little while, and just be 18 and have no worries or responsibilities. Just for a day?
JESUS CHRIST!!
When I first read this DUmmy's plaintive wailing, I was thinking this chick's probably, what 24, maybe 25 or 26, and bitching about how terrible life is just out of college.
This shitbird is a YEAR OLDER THAN I AM! I was born and raised a Navy brat. Never had a damned thing handed to me, and I was working for my own rent, food, gas and insurance before I graduated high school (in 1989). I busted my ass for 8 years to pay my way through a 4-year Engineering degree from the University of Washington - all while I was working as a draftsman for the Boeing Company. All totaled, I've busted my ass for 21 years now in my chosen profession, and things are only just starting to get "comfortable" for me.
What the **** has this chick been doing for the last 20 years of her life? I am embarrassed to be of the same generation as this twit.
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What the **** has this chick been doing for the last 20 years of her life?
D6, do you really want to know? :mental:
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Journalgrrl Donating Member (616 posts) Mon Jun-30-08 09:04 PM
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...I wish I could run away to 1988 for a little while, and just be 18 and have no worries or responsibilities. Just for a day?
JESUS CHRIST!!
When I first read this DUmmy's plaintive wailing, I was thinking this chick's probably, what 24, maybe 25 or 26, and bitching about how terrible life is just out of college.
This shitbird is a YEAR OLDER THAN I AM! I was born and raised a Navy brat. Never had a damned thing handed to me, and I was working for my own rent, food, gas and insurance before I graduated high school (in 1989). I busted my ass for 8 years to pay my way through a 4-year Engineering degree from the University of Washington - all while I was working as a draftsman for the Boeing Company. All totaled, I've busted my ass for 21 years now in my chosen profession, and things are only just starting to get "comfortable" for me.
What the **** has this chick been doing for the last 20 years of her life? I am embarrassed to be of the same generation as this twit.
As Lou Gossett Jr. said in a movie "Smokin' dope and bad mouthing your country I'll bet"
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You would think that a "journalist" would have better grammar and know the difference between to, too, and two. :whatever:
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You would think that a "journalist" would have better grammar and know the difference between to, too, and two. :whatever:
Perhaps that's one of the reasons she's struggling in this "horrible Bush economy".
Nah. It's all those rabid right wingers in the mainstream media, trying to keep her under their boot. :loser:
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My oldest kid is 10 years younger than Journalgrrl and has done 2 years in the military then earned a Bachelor's degree...is now considering going back in the Army as an officer. My next oldest is 12 years younger, has her Bachelor's, her former boss's job, has owned a house for 3 years, is definitely providing a great home for her 2 boys. But, of course, my kids are smarter than the average DUmpMonkey... :-) :-)
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My oldest kid is 10 years younger than Journalgrrl and has done 2 years in the military then earned a Bachelor's degree...is now considering going back in the Army as an officer. My next oldest is 12 years younger, has her Bachelor's, her former boss's job, has owned a house for 3 years, is definitely providing a great home for her 2 boys. But, of course, my kids are smarter than the average DUmpMonkey... :-) :-)
Well, Mrs. Smith, this is a POSITIVE example of the apple falling close to the tree.
:)
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My oldest kid is 10 years younger than Journalgrrl and has done 2 years in the military then earned a Bachelor's degree...is now considering going back in the Army as an officer. My next oldest is 12 years younger, has her Bachelor's, her former boss's job, has owned a house for 3 years, is definitely providing a great home for her 2 boys. But, of course, my kids are smarter than the average DUmpMonkey... :-) :-)
Well, Mrs. Smith, this is a POSITIVE example of the apple falling close to the tree.
:)
They've both done much better than I. It just amazes me to see those on the DUmp who are so pathetically unable to take care of themselves...and so pathetically unable to take responsibility for that failure. :thatsright:
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Journalgrrl Donating Member (616 posts) Mon Jun-30-08 09:04 PM
Original message
...I wish I could run away to 1988 for a little while, and just be 18 and have no worries or responsibilities. Just for a day?
JESUS CHRIST!!
When I first read this DUmmy's plaintive wailing, I was thinking this chick's probably, what 24, maybe 25 or 26, and bitching about how terrible life is just out of college.
This shitbird is a YEAR OLDER THAN I AM! I was born and raised a Navy brat. Never had a damned thing handed to me, and I was working for my own rent, food, gas and insurance before I graduated high school (in 1989). I busted my ass for 8 years to pay my way through a 4-year Engineering degree from the University of Washington - all while I was working as a draftsman for the Boeing Company. All totaled, I've busted my ass for 21 years now in my chosen profession, and things are only just starting to get "comfortable" for me.
What the **** has this chick been doing for the last 20 years of her life? I am embarrassed to be of the same generation as this twit.
Ditto. She's my age. I just went to my 20th reunion this year. It's actually amazing (or not) to see that people really are who they were in high school. I bet this DUmmie is no different.
I wonder if I can tell her to get off the damned computer and DU. After all, I'm sure my tax dollars are supporting her. *eyeroll*
And I'd kind of like to turn the clock back too. Hearing "President Reagan..." again would be nice. :evillaugh:
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My oldest kid is 10 years younger than Journalgrrl and has done 2 years in the military then earned a Bachelor's degree...is now considering going back in the Army as an officer. My next oldest is 12 years younger, has her Bachelor's, her former boss's job, has owned a house for 3 years, is definitely providing a great home for her 2 boys. But, of course, my kids are smarter than the average DUmpMonkey... :-) :-)
Well, Mrs. Smith, this is a POSITIVE example of the apple falling close to the tree.
:)
They've both done much better than I. It just amazes me to see those on the DUmp who are so pathetically unable to take care of themselves...and so pathetically unable to take responsibility for that failure. :thatsright:
That is it...they don`t want to take care of themselves.
They want someone else to do it along with a galling sense of entitlement that they deserve it for no other reason then they exist.
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I always wonder about people wanting to go back to their high school days. My memories of those days are not so kind.
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I always wonder about people wanting to go back to their high school days. My memories of those days are not so kind.
My memories of those days are a large chunk of the reason I don't get to hold "The Button" for safekeeping. (It has nothing to do with the fact that I'm not in the chain of command in this case; National Command Authority (thus far; we'll see if it remains so when Obama-lama-ding-dong is sitting in the Oval Orifice) somehow knowt that giving the button to me for "safekeeping" would be the surest way I know of to launch the nuc-u-lar holocaust we all fear so much. Did I mention that I thought The Stand was the vision of utopian paradise to me that The Communist Manifesto is to Obama and Clinton?)
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I had lots of fun in my 20s, wised up in my 30s, and now, at 40, own a home and have two children. Even screwing up early, you can get on track, if you're willing to do a little work and stop blaming eveything but yourself.
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I had lots of fun in my 20s, wised up in my 30s, and now, at 40, own a home and have two children. Even screwing up early, you can get on track, if you're willing to do a little work and stop blaming eveything but yourself.
Amen! Hi5!