Tired, freaked out and welcome a change to laugh?

[uppityperson]

Habeas Corpus is gone. I can be held in an undisclosed place for an undetermined amount of time tortured however the dictator president says without ever being charged. They want to build a fence along the southern border of my country. They can spy on me, legally. I have less right to privacy, to a fair trial, to any rights than ever before in my life or my parent's lives or my grandparent's lives.

A republican has experienced extreme embarassment at the outing of his sexual predation of 16 yr olds. Others knew, for 5 yrs, that he had a problem and covered it up.

Let me laugh and feel vindictive. They have taken so much from us, let me laugh at his embarassment and their potential legal troubles. Petty? Perhaps. But still. ha ha ha.

[zulchzulu]

1. You can beat up Bush with a couple of pretzels

http://www.awolcowboy.com/pretzel/

Note to NSA: It's only a game.

[waiting for hope]

2. That was fun.....

Here's one that's not as rough...

http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/georgerag.swf

[uppityperson]

3. oh my, thank you for that.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

4. One of the republicans I work with said, and I quote...

"The habeas corpus will still apply to American Citizens, just not to foreigners. Stop freaking out."
So I asked her if she had actually read the law. If she hadn't she needed to, because she was dead wrong. She's such an idiot. Of course, she grew up a military brat, so it's really not her fault, really. She's never been taught to think. And now she's married into the same bullshit. I try to be a good influence, but she's stubborn. She doesn't even trust me when I'm trying to train her on our job.
Duckie

[calimary]

5. What's that called - schadenfreude? Hope I spelled it correctly.

Ah, yes, went and looked it up, she said, with a wicked grin...

schadenfreude \SHOD-n-froy-duh\, noun:
A malicious satisfaction obtained from the misfortunes of others.

That the report of Sebastian Imhof's grave illness might also have been tinged with Schadenfreude appears not to have crossed Lucas's mind.
-- Steven Ozment, Flesh and Spirit

He died three years after me -- cancer too -- and at that time I was still naive enough to imagine that what the afterlife chiefly provided were unrivalled opportunities for unbeatable gloating, unbelievable schadenfreude.
-- Will Self, How The Dead Live

(snip)

The historian Peter Gay -- who felt Schadenfreude as a Jewish child in Nazi-era Berlin, watching the Germans lose coveted gold medals in the 1936 Olympics -- has said that it "can be one of the great joys of life."
-- Edward Rothstein, "Missing the Fun of a Minor Sin", New York Times, February 5, 2000

Schadenfreude comes from the German, from Schaden, "damage" + Freude, "joy." It is often capitalized, as it is in German.

http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2000/05/10.html

[uppityperson]

6. Good word. I think of it as having been beaten, kicked, stomped, cut

stabbed and hit with a large baseball bat, the person assaulting me struts away to trip over a rock. Laugh? Don't laugh? laugh.

[yardwork]

8. ok, that made me laugh!

[niyad]

7. for all who need a good laugh in these sad political times, I

highly recommend Swami Beyondananda, the political guru alter ego of one Steve Bhaerman. check out his website www.wakeuplaughing.com. guaranteed to chase the blues away!!