Do you drink water? Do you breathe the air? Do you eat? I wouldn't if I were you...

[PCIntern]

This is a dangerous time to be living in this world: we have reclaimed beef, poisoned water, unbreathable air loaded with toxins and particulate matter, insecticide-filled genetically-engineered produce and fruit, pharmaceutically and chemically-laden fish and bottom feeders (Yes, the likes of Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity are also poisonous), unsafe children's toys, cribs, and car seats, streets loaded with (Re)thugs who will kill you for the shoes on your feet, a slice of pizza, or if you voted the wrong way, dangerous computer screens and cell phones which give you radiation and brain tumors respectively, popular music which makes you deaf if you can even understand the so-called 'lyrics', ballot counting in Wisconsin replete with opened bags which were to remain sealed until official inspection, wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and a so-called 'Arab Spring' elsewhere.

Relax: this is simply the Entropy of the Civilization, decaying slowly but surely and invoking Darwin's Laws, no longer 'theories', and only the 'strong will survive'. What constitutes 'strong' has yet to be determined, but it sure will be an interesting mix. Just remember, May 21st is coming and something tells me that we'll all be here on the 22nd to discuss it. In the meantime, you might want to pick up some cheap real estate from those heading for the Rapture locations or maybe they want to sell their autographed Bruce Springsteen albums which they only played on the United audio turntable tracking at1/4th gram and are in perfect condition, or stuff like that-there. Maybe they'll want to buy them back at a premium on the 22nd or 23rd.

[Sonoman]

1. I recced this back to zero.

Man, some of these people must have had distemper as puppies.

Sonoman

[PCIntern]

2. Yeah, I get unrecced a lot...

many don't like my tone or sarcasm...even if they agree with me...it's OK with me, and whoever thinks that they can post that this post addresses the 'unrec' and that I should get a life or words to that effect, well, you can take it and stuff it AFAIC. We are headed off a cliff in this country and many want to sit around with 'politesse'. Not I.

thanks for the rec...

PC

[formercia]

6. I see you failed Charm School too.

Good man.

[Liberal_in_LA]

31. I'll give it a rec

[rbnyc]

3. Don't let it bring you down...

...it's only castles burning...

[PCIntern]

4. Love me that Annie Lennox...

[rbnyc]

10. and that Neil Young...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=F7letrMf_nE

[Warren DeMontague]

5. And GET OFF MY LAWN!

Sorry, but whatever point you're trying to make in this rant is derailed by the incoherent stuff about 'popular music makes you deaf'.


Plus, everybody knows the rapture crowd aren't Springsteen fans; more like Ted Nugent.

[PCIntern]

7. I guess 'stream of consciousness' doesn't work around here anymore either...

In fact, Springsteen is big among my rabid RWers...sorry to inform you of that fact...

[Warren DeMontague]

8. That's only because they've spent the last 30 years not listening to the words.

Bruce is great.

Shit, I know rabid right-wingers who are R.E.M. fans; and Ann Coulter claims to be a Deadhead, so go figure.

But I am wondering, specifically, what popular music 'makes you deaf'? :shrug:

[mountainlion55]

25. Ann Coulter

Two good hits of purple micro-dot. The dead playing in the background. Panama red wafting through the air. :smoke:

[robdogbucky]

13. That would be ironic for Bruce

and I'm pretty sure "Born in the USA," had the RWers thinking it was a patriotic tome. It really isn't, but you know that, I doubt they do:

Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Got in a little hometown jam so they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the yellow man
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said "son don't you understand now"
Had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there he's all gone
He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now
Down in the shadow of penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a long gone daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking daddy in the U.S.A.

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/born-in-the-u-s-a-lyrics-bruce-springsteen/47a8b2cf1b0f79b448256871000e5b23


Bruce:

No Nukes in the 70s w/Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, etc.: Stay, Running on Empty, duets, etc.

John Kerry campaign in 2004: No Surrender

2011: Shows new movie on making of Backstreets album from '70s, arranges to donate proceeds from opening nights to the art house theater association across America, helping to preserve them.


Right Wingers?

I know, they don't realize who he is, just the jingoistic reaction to one song (title).




Just my dos centavos


robdogbucky

[Bluenorthwest]

14. That's not true, Bruce is a vocal liberal and Democrat who

does benefits for Democratic candidates and the works. His lyrics and image are everything the right wing hates. Stream of consciousness is not the same as a muddy river of inaccurate kevetching.

[PCIntern]

33. First of all,

they're so damned dumb that they don't get him...Second of all, I really wasn't seeking your personal approval when I posted: "inaccurate"?? Really...? "Muddy river"...LOL.

[robdogbucky]

17. PC, it finally dawned on me, you're

living in that NJ, Phillie, NYC area, where Bruce and Jon Bon Jovi rule, no matter what your political leanings, eh?



rdb

[JanMichael]

9. Surprised at you post. Seriously, the meat industry in the US

is that disgusting, yet saying something elicits all these ugly responses on DU.

When did liberals and dems become defenders of the status quo? When did wanting to eat decent food make one an elitist?

I am surprised to see that you are part of that movement, and that makes me pretty sad. I rarely post on your threads, but always look forward to reading them.

[PCIntern]

11. Say what?

I wasn't praising the meat industry, I was saying that all those industries are killing us. all of them...and that's what's going on. sorry you took it the opposite of how I meant it...i shall review the "bidding of the hand" as we say in Bridge...

[JanMichael]

16. I am re-reading your post now

and am somewhat confused. I guess I got to the "relax" part.... Trying to get your point now....

Like I said, it seriously confused me.

[Edweird]

12. It's always a bad time to be alive - something is sure to kill you.

Look on the bright side: today is a
good day to die.

[Bluenorthwest]

15. My food is all organic and local, I do think dentists overcharge

and that is having a terrible effect on the health of this country, just to provide these craftsmen lives of luxury and ease. Too much of that all around. That one on one milking the neighbor for every possible centime.

[robdogbucky]

19. PC, I'll stick up for you and dentists on this one....

I don't think dentists over-charge compared to hospitals and specialists, etc.

I just had some expensive, long-term dental work done, which I had briefly discussed in one of PC's threads a while back on radiation and the risks of same. My dentist gave me a break on the price of the work, as I had informed HER of my being in rather dire economic straits, and that even though I needed the work done I was considering not doing it. On top of that, she recommended I use a Care Credit account that would run no interest for a year if I could hack some payments to stay current. I don't think she really knew who or what entity owned that finance company for dental offices. The only drawback to the whole deal was that Care Credit was owned and operated by GE Money. Yes, that GE. I paid it all off as quick as I could, as I knew GE would have no mercy in plundering my wallet if I gave them half a chance. This is just one of the ways that dental work can be financed by folks that need to have it on installments.

I had a conversation with a nurse (my sister) of 35+ years experience to complain about the costs of medical and dental care and she has seen it all. She asserts it was the insurers and the Big Pharma corps that ruined the quality of care in this country for the sake of profits, to the detriment of us all. She has personally witnessed it over these years. Most doctors and nurses are prisoners of the system the insurers and pharmaceuticals have created. This nation is well down on the list of countries that have reasonable medical costs as one of their priorities. Most docs I know lament the situation, but it is not really or entirely their fault. Many have left the profession because of this. It hurts us in that way too, driving good quality physicians and dentists out of the field. I read the follow up memoir by Mark Vonnegut (Kurt Vonnegut's son) to his Eden Express of 1975. He became a pediatrician in Boston after graduating from Harvard Medical School. He quit being a pediatrician after 25 years because of the same reasons I have listed above herein. I'm sure PC has tons of stories to illustrate this for us too.



Just my dos centavos

robdogbucky

[Odin2005]

18. I bet you want us youngins to get off your lawn, too?

:eyes:

[some guy]

20. Stream of consciousness?

More stream of inanity.

" I wouldn't if I were you..."

You wouldn't last twenty minutes if you were me, and followed your own words.
Hell, you wouldn't last twenty minutes if you were you and followed your own words.

[PCIntern]

22. Tough guy, eh?

:scared:

[some guy]

26. no

my point was - if you don't breathe, you don't last very long.

[Boxerfan]

21. There's a song from my childhood that rings a bell..Tom Lehrer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mvYec6AnCU

[RainDog]

23. LOL

it's the end of the world as we know it...

[Obamanaut]

24. Get 'milk in a box' and all will be cheery again. nt

[astral]

27. Just don't get up today. You'll be fine ; )

It's fairly easy for me to get clean water. It would be fairly easy for me to avoid eating hamburger (in case you didn't think so, I HAVE been eating it). The air where I live is almost always very clean.

Not so easy for a lot of us in various parts of the USA. Yes, it's a dangerous time we live in. This is either a very funny copycat thread title or you really don't think my post was worth posting. I'm afraid I can't save myself, I don't believe in the Rapture.

Wish I did, though!

The 'strong will survive' is something to consider: In modern society, "Strong" = "Adaptability." Those who can adapt to the changes will survive better / longer, but will it be the 'strong,' the sane, the healthy? Can you be a well-adjusted man in a sick society? Those who can't adjust will either perish or save the rest of us.

: ) might happen that way. Don't be afraid to listen outside the box. What we've been doing so far hasn't been working TOO WELL.

Yes, we can hang on to our A$$ and try to enjoy the ride, but who's steering? !!

as the Clan Dyken song goes: "Who's DRIVING this cattle cart anyway? And where's it bound? Long as the feed holds out no ones' asking."

___________________________________________
And what the heck is going to happen on May 21st?

[donheld]

28. Life is a fatal illness.

Something's gonna get us one way or another

[Codeine]

29. A sexually transmitted disease with a 100% fatality rate. nt

[DeschutesRiver]

30. Maybe I read it wrong, but it made me chuckle and think "too true"

Course, I'm irish-scot and have a strange bent to me.

Just last week, dh and I were saying how many strange things we saw in the grocery aisles that purported to be "food", and I actually said to him that while I was trying to limit exposure to wierd things in our diet as much as one can now days, that perhaps I was actually consigning us to being left out of the survival of the fittest race by doing so - that maybe everyone else is actually evolving and adapting to a new kind of sustenance and pretty soon the majority would be those who could exist on the new food fuel, not us. And that I wasn't sure what the new majority would be called, but nothing remotely human as I used to know it.

I've been watching the news lately, and really, you can't make up this shit this wierd. I certainly can't keep up with it anymore, so mostly I have retreated into a simpler time of my own making up here on the mountain top. I might not keep up with things as much, but I don't see that as a serious drawback given what I'm seeing in the news or in the local towns nearby.

[PCIntern]

32. Exactly and good for you!

would that I could retreat, I'd do it in a heartbeat...

Many people here have lost their sensayuma, and get their panties in a twist over the least-little thing.

Thanks for the :thumbsup:

[GeorgeGist]

34. I guess you won't have time to finish ...

your internship.

[jberryhill]

35. We must preserve the purity of our precious bodily fluids