Author: The 40 year old magpie

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The Events of the past few days

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If you haven’t heard about the popular uprising in Iran following a bad attempt to rig the election, you must be a member of the Limbaugh Party as evidenced by this asshat of a tweet into the coverage via twitter:

StaunchConserv ByACORNhere2!?@chicago2cali:@StopAhmadi NEWS: Ppl recving calls w/ msg “U’ve participated in protest” 2 scare ppl #gr88 #iranelection #tcot

Yes, just had to shit in the bed. The little asshole wouldn’t know “popular uprising if it severed his dick. In fact, it’s being popularly ignored by the G(n)OP, since it doesn’t serve their agenda for an air strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. They, like Edward Teller, don’t give a rat’s ass about the people who would die as a result of such an action. Only about the “result”… which means all out war on Israel, and, their aim of the End Times.

As I watch the unfolding of events tweet by tweet, I am struck by how the Iranian people are more participatory in politics than we Americans. To us, it’s a chore, a hardship to serve on a jury or even to vote. I am an American and a Jew, and to the people of Iran I say “Allah-OAkhbar” God is Great and may He bless you with a true and just outcome to your aspirations and a lasting Peace between all People in the region Shalom/Salaam/Peace

15 Minutes, Rumours Gin Mill

THANKS MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS!

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This has been weighing on me for a while. In college, I suffered a bout of severe depression. I told my parents about it, and they just blew it off. No surprise really. I mean when I was in High School, my mother noticed that I was indulging in “unhealthy brooding”, which I described to my friends as “suffering from melancholy”, but was anything done? No. Nothing, save that I was indulged in my unhealthy brooding. and, I learned to not let them know. I cut myself. with a pen. I was going to be an actor, and didn’t want scars. so, I ‘slashed’ myself with bic pens.

In junior college, I made an attempt to get counseling, but the mental health pro I saw sat there with a dispassionate, “You bore me” attitude. I never sought help again. The episode of depression happened while I was at UC Davis. I forced myself to class, and no one mentioned the silent crying in class. I sat there. with tears rolling down my face and not one classmate asked if I was “OK”. The first clue no one cared

My second clue was when, in 1997, I called the nyc Suicide Prevention, and had the dickhead on the line tell me he had to end the call. apparently threatening to kill ones self is not an emergency to him.

In 2001, a 9/11 crisis counselor sent me to a shrink and, I was diagnosed with Personality Disorder NOS. Which was a few years before my diagnosis of ADHD in 2005. Now, the doctor diagnosing my ADHD never prescribed anything for me.

and, where am I now? right about where I was in 1984. Unmotivated. and unhappy. and, the First Underachiever in my family.

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Presenting Cheney’s Tories: a Burlesque

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The original definition of “Burlesque” comes down to us from the French (yes, FRENCH, BEEE_YATCH) and Italian Literary form, where it referred to “a grotesque imitation of the dignified or pathetic”. Cheney’s Tories have become a grotesque imitation of the (once) dignified GOP. These New American Tories are indeed Monarchists. They support without question what ever spews forth from the mouth of Dick Cheney and his coterie of purveyors of Court Holy Water.
Below is a bit of a twitter exchange I had with@portermason, a witty and talented improviser about the very sad ‘game’ that is being played by Cheney’s Tories Burlesque Team:

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If you can’t read it, just click on the image for a high res. version

The Tories are fearful, superstitious and feeling cornered. They don’t like the idea of someone who isn’t ‘all white’ working in the White House in a position other than porter, maid, or dishwasher. They have seen America’s future, and it doesn’t include them

Activism, Rumours Gin Mill

Twitter just got very boring

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or, F$CKU “SOCIAL MEDIA FUCKUPS! today, the jacktards over @twitter (I’m talkin’ 2 u @biz) decided that unless we were following everyfuckingboody, we would no longer be privy to onesided conversations. Apparently, the “Social Media Mavens” with tens of thousands of followers decided they didn’t like the groundlings’ chatter polluting/pissing their one-way stream. We must listen. and only listen.

So, no more am I privy to wingnut chat – maybe #tcot and @KarlRove complained they were being made fun of…

For now.