I think I know why some people spend so much time in GDP

[FlyingSquirrel]

Check out the greatest page - but first change your options so that GDP doesn't show up on it.

There are just SO MANY things wrong with the world today - who can possibly deal? All you have to do is spend about 20 minutes reading about it and you feel so overwhelmed and depressed....

That's why people spend so much time here. For one thing, they can just focus on one thing and have some kind of hope that it might actually happen (their candidate winning). For another thing, they can just imagine that once their candidate wins, that candidate will magically change the world and fix all the other problems.

Of course that won't happen.

But hey...

Go team!

[blue sky at night]

1. victim...

of bushworld. my sympathies.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. train wrecks or car crashes

[Aloha Spirit]

3. I totally appreciate this comment. "Noose Allegedly found at Secret Service Training Center"

This is our world:

"Noose Allegedly found at Secret Service Training Center"
"Chemicals in plastics may hinder child brain development"
"WE Are Experiencing a Collective Descent Into Madness" lol
"4 US soldiers killed; militants shell Green Zone"
"Oil Prices Hit New High, OPEC Chief Says $200 a Barrel Possible"
"Number of vacant U.S. homes hits record 18.6 million"
"White House undermines EPA on cancer risks"
"31 out of 53 teen girls from FLDS ranch are pregnant or are underage mothers"
" Scalia: Torture is not *punishment* so doesn't violate cruel and unusual provision of Const. "
"Buffett says recession may be worse than feared"
"Wall Street Grain Hoarding Brings Farmers, Consumers Near Ruin"
"TV Military ‘Analysts’ Are Part of What Ike Warned Against"
"Bush involved in torture plot"

This is our world.

[ruby slippers]

4. Geesh, thanks. I am sending this list out in my emails next......

to all my friends and family who think we need to vote McCain into the White House......

[Aloha Spirit]

5. Ha. And that is just a little nibble from this week. Yoink! Please save us, sumbody.

[Aloha Spirit]

6. What? We won't be saved by tax cuts? Oh nooooo

[crankychatter]

7. I'm an issues guy usually... the rest of DU is a gold mine for me being new

... can't wait for this OJ Simpson trial like obsession that grips me every four years to pass...

it's like Vulcan mating season or something...

I'm hopeless

thanks for pulling my covers on being in full flight from reality...

now if you don't mind, I'll go back to the medicine bottle.

[Aloha Spirit]

8. ha... I just realized that The Daily Show/Colbert Report are my stiff drink at the end of the night.

[FlyingSquirrel]

9. 42 mins to my stiff drink on the west coast

:thumbsup:

[Eurobabe]

10. I know of at least 2 people this week that are leaving the US permanently

heading for safer, more normal shores.

[Aloha Spirit]

11. Not Austria, then?

[Eurobabe]

13. Er, that was an anomaly

Most Austrians are really nice, friendly people. There are plenty of freaks everywhere.

[cliffordu]

12. If things continue in the US like they have been,

you'll find me in another country, real soon.

Fuck this.