You know what occurs to me with horror? I'm sure you guys think of me as that easily empassioned hangingchad, going off the deep end again, every time I post *LOL*! Seriously, because I've been a member of this board only since after the 2000 election (although I've been a Gore aficionado since 1988), and the whole time you guys have known me, I've been UPSET! :lol:

I've been upset about the 2000 election, upset about shrub and his rogue administration, upset about the profound damage the aforementioned shrub has done to this country, upset about Gore not running in 2004, massively upset about Gore not running in 2008, and finally upset about the BLEEPED DNC stripping Florida and Michigan of delegates.

It must seem like I am just perpetually upset, but I think it is seven years of shrub that has done this to me! :wacko:

Please know that I am actually a peace-lovin', let's-gather-around-the-campfire, kumbaya'ing, consensus-building, come-on-people-now, smile-on-your-brother sort of gal and that the empassioned hangingchad who seems to always post about how her head is about to explode right off due to WHATEVER is not the totality of me!

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. :lol:

Oh yeah sure brag about how normal you are (Sarcasm and good fun intended in this post if ya can't read tone?)

At least you are a smile on your brother, takes a lot to rile ya, kumbaya decent person!

Me, I am Bi-Polar and I used to be just Manic-Depressive?

Now that would really bother me except that I read well on the subject and find that many of the greatest achievers and breakthrough thinkers and doers; did so on the manic phase of their condition?

Anytime I truned things around in a positive manner for myself or enlisted others who helped me to do so was in that Manic phase of getting things accomplished--(Boy I am glad I did not say Git-R-Done?).

However, I certainly strain those who love me in the depressive phase and I just despise to think it is chemical. No one should be depressed by chemical imbalance, I wish to earn my depression the old fashioned way, by hard luck, bad breaks, and being without?

So sure just brag, just because when you are angry and unhinged, you have good reason and present great arguments and points, etc!

And then the gaul to ask forgiveness for you normal reasoned affront to injustice.

I always have had disdain for the "beautiful" people! I hope you get thrown off the next plane you take with your beauty! Hmmmph :laugh: :tongue: :P :rolleyes: <_< :D :wacko:

It's okay, Edna. We're all upset, and we've all been upset since 2000.

You're in good company. :wacko:

Thanks, guys.

It's just that the last few times I've posted, I've thought: whoa. I sound like a total WINGNUT! And then I thought, whoa: I always sound that way on this board!

It's just, ever since shrub grabbed the reigns, there is just so much to be outraged about, and so little time... :lol:

Anyway...I'm gonna make it. I am not going to spontaneously combust. I'm glad this board is here so that I can periodically rant/vent, thus decompressing enough to avoid the aforementioned combusting.

Keep hope alive! :good:

Edna, read the end of the thread called "We're starting our work toward a Gore presidency." That's where the discussion about the possibility of Gore getting in at a deadlocked convention is taking place. It remains an extremely long shot, but it really is beginning to look as if Hillary and Obama are going to pretty much split the delegates and neither one will have enough to win on a first ballot.

WHAT .... Manic depressive



Now that really makes me so mad mad mad



Now I am depressed



:laugh: :unsure: :angry: :( :wacko: :laugh: :rolleyes: :angry: :blink: :wacko: :P :huh:

:)

Giiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirl, don't toy with me about Gore becoming the nominee. My heart can't take it.

I mean, if it is a split convention, wouldn't some negotiation have to take place to unsplit it (i.e., to get some of the delegates to switch) so that either Hillary or Barack would win? Isn't the idea of a third person, who wasn't even in the race and didn't earn even one delegate, ultimately walking out of the convention with the nomination just totally impossible? Because if it were even a slim hope, believe me, I would cling to it for dear life. But, I'm sorry, it just seems, frankly, impossible. But then again, hopefully I don't know what I'm talking about, because I really don't know how conventions work if they are split down the middle. Somehow, though, I just don't see anyone other than Hillary or Obama walking out of there with the nomination, sadly.

I've really warmed to Hillary, but I still want Gore instead of her or anyone else. It would be a miracle if he could be the Democratic nominee, proof of divine intervention!!! I would hope for it if there were even a tiny chance, trust me. But I don't see it. If I'm wrong, tell me, because I pray to be wrong on this!

Where the heck have you been, Reverend Wally? :?:

I thought maybe you got filthy rich and went over to the dark side.

:tongue:

I love your rants. You have plenty to rant about. Has it occurred to you that there's a chance you (Florida) might get the LAST laugh? ;)

IF ... I ever did get rich, the Dark Side is the ONE place I would NEVER go to ... LOL

I don't think I will ever get even financially able ... much less rich. I feel like there is something working against me ever having any success at about anything.

Well ya see Rev Wally, you got awareness, caring, brains, etc, and therefore missed the money line like I did.

I like to point out that I have everything money can not buy and very little that it can!

I also beg my wife especially on the depressive side to marry for money next time cause 34 years of love is enough!

However, I suspect that you and I and many of us were not born as nearly as high as we might have thought on the hidden social caste system in the USA?

It was easier perhaps to fit in when there was actually a Middle Class in the nation?

I have been so broke for 3 weeks now (Nobodys fault but mine), that I couldn't even afford the Magarita pitcher I live for twice a month in the past?

I am tempted to find a good spot and hold the sign that states:

"Will work hard for Margarita on Saturday night!"

I bet after 24 catcalls and cans thrown at me that I might find enough work to finance that drink from what used to be an actual Middle Class American?

Shoot we are both certified educated nowadays and doing worse than ever? :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :dripple: :unsure: :Y: And you are in Texas too aren't ya, not much better than TN in having educated people available for employment?

I am SO VERY BLESSED, but we are so very much on the edge of total disaster?

I want so badly to be thrilled about the end of my life and the love around me and all I can do is worry, worry, etc.

So see Hanging, you are just plain Normal and someone that is a pleasure to be around compared to the likes of me, unless you need a Republican put in their place!

All we should do is think about Patrick Swayze and how he and his family would trade all of their wealth for his health and more time with him to have to just love, HUH :good:

Funny you should bring up Patrick Swayze. I was really surprised how much that news upset me this morning. I was never a fan--I mean, I liked him well enough, but it's not like I thought he was this tremendous talent or anything. But somehow hearing the news about his pancreatic cancer really affected me. I had a close friend who died of pancreatic cancer at age 45. She left two relatively young kids and a husband. I know they're trying to paint a happy face on it, but it's one of those cancers that's rarely diagnosed early enough to treat. I feel terrible for him and his family. He's exactly my age, which I've tended to think of as old lately, but when you look at it from his perspective, it's very young to be leaving this world.

May he beat the odds and conquer this thing.

Way worse than that .... I am in Florida

:unsure:

A fellow musician, who lived in Pinellas County, Florida, and fellow band member, Ronnie Lowe, died of Pancreatic Cancer in 2002 or thereabouts.

It is sad to lose someone to these things.

Ronnie was a mover/shaker in Pinellas County, Florida, and our band, Ronnie Lowe and the Dominoes, pretty much ramrodded a big movement whereby white and black musicians were able to work together and break down a racial prejudice which dominated this area of Florida for many years. I, a few years later, was a member of an all black (except for me) band in the St. Pete area called "The Train Robbers Band". We played primarily at The Three Oaks club on tangerine Avenue in St. Pete, but did record a record, and traveled extensively throughout Florida, doing shows and concerts all over the state. One of our big performances was a concert at Williams Park in St. Petersburg in 1973. Ronnie Lowe also ran for a political office as a democrat at one point, but was not successful in that endeavor.

Some of the members who passed through the ranks of the Dominoes were, Jim Stafford, Dickey Betts, and many others.

Also a former member of that band (an original member along with Nick Lowe, Ronnie Lowe, and myself) Guy Page also passed away. I am trying to locate Nick Lowe, Ronnie's brother (our drummer) but have had no luck so far. I hope he is still kicking.

If any of you reading this are in the Saint Petersburg, Florida area, you may remember a place on Tyrone Boulevard called Pat's Supper Club (renamed the Tyrone Inn). That is where we played for a few years.

I will always remember and miss Ronnie Lowe. I knew him long before the Dominoes and did for long after.

Boy ... I sure can ramble on .... LOL

:rolleyes:

Good to see you Rev Wally! I was kinda worried! :!:

I am still buried in crap right now, but I still want to do what I discussed with you by E-mail...as soon as I can get around to it...that is... ;)

Thanks for loving my rants! Ranting is a very under-appreciated art form, so I appreciate your appreciation!
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Rev. Wally, I'm in St. Pete! Beautiful city, this. One of these years, maybe our votes will even count. Dare to dream!

Oh, that reminds me--TNblue, about has it occurred to me that FL may get the last laugh, the answer is: not really. I'm still so shell-shocked over what happened to Gore in 2000, and now they want to take away my vote in this primary and it seems everyone on the net (judging by comments added to articles and blogs re the FL & MI delegates) feels it is just peachy and great that Howard Dean is "standing up" to "them", "them" apparently being the millions and millions of us innocent voters who have had our delegates taken away. Yeah, Dean is sure showing us, boy oh boy. And no, I won't get much of a chuckle out of it, even now that Dean is hoisted by his own asanine pitard, because my party is at stake, as is my country. Otherwise, true, it would be fun to see Dean as well as Obama squirm in the realization that, oh, sh*t! Maybe I should have thought of the fact that I really don't want to massively p*ss off, alienate and disenfranchise millions and millions of voters in two states that I really NEED in the general election...day-uuum!

I'm just NOT enjoying this at all, even the part where Dean is finally starting to have to face the consequences of his boneheaded, draconian decision.

...Although I DID thoroughly enjoy "Florida This Week" over the weekend, when the pundits were saying things like Howard Dean should be "horse whipped" and, my personal favorite, that the Florida Democrats are all so infuriated, we really want "Dean to be waterboarded". YEAH! Now we're getting somewhere!

...I'm afraid, in all seriousness, though, that there is no last laugh to be gotten in this sitch, no matter how it plays out. This primary process has been so royally screwed up that, at this point, there is no way to unscrew it. No matter what happens, some faction is going to feel that it was unfair to them or their candidate or WHATEVER.

The only solution I see is to appoint Gore our nominee and scrap the whole elections held thus far. Then I will commence with my last laugh!!!

;)