so i’ve stopped talking politics with my family 6 months ago. they are
the classic example of the ‘but the republicans are evil and we’ll all
die if you don’t vote straight blue’. tonight i was dragged into a
fight where my concientious voting objector position was compared to
the nazis, at least it was until i pionted out that the line being
used (the only thing needed for evil to flourish is for good men to do
nothing) is generally used when describing good germans. this whole
awful fight was because i don’t appreciate how hard dems have worked
but they are thwarted at every turn by republicans. i am just not
grateful enough and can’t do the simple math that 59 or 57 isn’t a
majority.
the entire time this fight is going on the cnn news scroll reads
‘white house comes out against moratorium on foreclosures’. but
everything is the republicans’ fault. uh huh.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

now to getting internet access. at least now going to the coffee place
with the free wifi won’t be an exercise in torture. but we still don’t
have it at home (hence the poor spelling, punctuation and formatting
of the mobile phone posts). being rural leaves us only 2 broadband
choices, and i owe comcast money for their craptastic service while
other people owe the phone company. it’s still an uphill battle, but
it’s less steep now.
thank you godless whores and evilmart clerk who risked her job because
‘i know what it’s like to be just this short of being able to get what
you need’. the damn internet is my lifeline to people and what tiny
bits of income i get. not having proper access to it for this last
year has really kicked my ass.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

whew. one whole year without my own compy or regular internet access.
having those things has become the equivalent of having a car. you
cannot function in society without them. can’t get a job, can’t go to
school, can’t check your bank account or pay your bills. can’t share
in a huge portion of modern social activities. it sucks and is
isolating, especially for those of with hermetic tendencies anyways.
so last night i was wondering in evil-mart. i had the 250 the godless
whores (bless them) and 100 for groceries. after having spent a year
searching, i was pretty sure all i was going to afford was some crappy
little 10′ netbook with a cell phone processor. but last night i found
a 15′ compaq with all the components to hackintosh it (provided i work
around the video card) for 348, still more than i had after tax, but
200 less than on newegg. the intensly kind clerk offered me her
employee discount and voila, i bought a compy. we’ll be eating ramen
for awhile and i feel like i’ve got an adderall snorting high

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

shows up in my email inbox, i wonder if i’m getting campaign spam or
another round of uninteligible rantings ala the 2008 prinaries.
at least the ranting was funny. this time she needs 375,000 bucks to
stop the tea partiers. uhmmmm, no. not gonna happen.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

there’s been a round of charts and graphs making their way through the
interwebs showing wealth disparity and our lack of knowledge as to how
great the disparity is. hell, the other night my auntie even recorded
a talking head discussing the gini index. it’s not new, this
disparity, but it’s getting some press now. the important thing to
remember is that all of us, anyone reading this and nearly everone
they know, fall into the bottom 80%, and the haves keep us bottom
feeders fighting for scraps with each other while they do swan dives
into pools of cash ala scrooge mcduck. that is the point to hammer
home. not left or right, conservative or liberal, but bottom 80 versus
the thieving assholes at the top who are carefully protected by both
political parties. eat the rich and feed our families. it’s not a
political/ economic spectrum, it’s a pyramid scheme and us bottom 80
are the last ones in.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

Red Queen, I hope you like this one:

A writer at the Cape Cod Times named Sean Gonsalves has come up with this handy checklist to see if your local political candidate is a “regular person” or is just pretending to empathize with the experiences of us regular folks:

1. Have you gone grocery shopping for your family more than once in the past year? No? Red flag.

2. Have you recently received a shut-off notice from your utility company, looking for the overdue balance, and then had to do Rob-Peter-To-Pay-Paul budgeting to avoid having to live without lights or heat? No? Another red flag.

8. Do you worry that if you lose your job, you really won’t be able to find another one, except maybe for a low-paying, won’t-make-the-ends-meet gig in fast-food or retail? No? Red flag alert!

Not a bad place to start, I mean, from a member of the media and all 😉 Maybe there are a few meager signs of hope, after all.

A writer named Sean Gonsalves for the Cape Cod Times in Massachusetts came up with this nifty list of http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101007/NEWS/10070329&emailAFriend=1“>questions to ask a political candidate to see if s/he is really a “regular person” or just someone pretending to understand what “regular” Americans go through:

No? Red flag alert!

so it may not be a godless whores/ ‘good christians’ contest, but it
does strike me that we’re in the middle of election season getting
spammed by the gatekeepers of the kleptocracy for cash. and i write a
damn fine bitchy email. so from now till november, or whenever i have
enough cash to get a compy and internet, everyone who donates gets a
ranty email sent to the failing political thing of their choice. the
email will most likely conclude with the line ‘haha suckers – i got
your cash instead’.
so who do you all want me to bitch at?

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

thanks to a couple of godless whoring blogreaders, i am now about
halfway to the 500 bucks or so that i need to buy a cheap ass netbook
and bribe comcast into turning the internet spicket back on. my
readership my be small, but you peeps are the best hairy legged,
abortion having, slutty heathens on the planet.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

by all the fucking typos i can’t see or edit when posting from my
phone. i’d run a donation campaign (but i do that every day) to fix it
but…
too bad the forced pregnancy fuckers aren’t sticking me on another
stalk and pray list. i could run another godless whores vs good
christians contest.
that’s all for the whinging self pity. we now return to our regular bitchcast.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning