nycyn
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posted on April 18, 2002 08:13:14 PM new
>>If you break down and have crying /laughing fits and become inarticulate midshift it is real hard to ignore.<<
Happens at least once a week, a crying jag, when being sent back into the trenches comes up. 9Would they admit that? No. Sacrifice the rank-and-file. But it's so.) Happened today. I'm petrified of it, going back.
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Borillar
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posted on April 19, 2002 12:40:42 PM new
How many times I've wanted to just run away from it all and start over in a new life. Can't do that anymore - the wild west is gone and even Alaska asks questions nowadays. It's gotten so that a person can't start over again and that's the misery of it all.
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nycyn
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posted on April 19, 2002 03:32:16 PM new
>>What kind of disability insurance does your employer have? Mine had a very good one, and I got it for two years plus keeping all my benefits.<<
Sheesh. Pray tell who you worked for?
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nycyn
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posted on April 19, 2002 03:43:14 PM new
>>How many times I've wanted to just run away from it all and start over in a new life. Can't do that anymore - the wild west is gone and even Alaska asks questions nowadays. It's gotten so that a person can't start over again and that's the misery of it all.<<
I know what you mean. I think there is more hope if one leaves the country.
Right now I'm thinking West Virginia. Are there Nuke plants, radioactive or chemical dumps, military bases, yada yada there that any one knows of?
I'm surprised no one went of on a Red Cross tangent. They've a history that is not stellar.
But the thing that makes me nutsiest about the WTC, is that it was civilians running the show down there the first three days or so, and to my knowledge, not one (unless I've missed something) has been acknowledged. Maybe because we were practically smuggled in like contraband on bicycle rickshaws even. Afraid of liability?
Maybe it was a conspiracy after all. I don't care. I just want to get a dog, have my son see a frog somewhere outside a zoo, and stick my head in the sand.
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Helenjw
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posted on April 19, 2002 05:51:59 PM new
Well, this thread has been very informative.
Now, when I'm down and out in Washington, DC, I will know that I can rely on the Red Cross and the Salvation Army to come to my assistance. Nevermind all those other good people sleeping on the streets in cardboard boxes and sometimes freezing to death. I guess they just didn't qualify.
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plsmith
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posted on April 19, 2002 06:21:21 PM new
"Poo happens."
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rawbunzel
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posted on April 19, 2002 06:26:34 PM new
Ya know Helen, most of those organizations won't help drunks on the street as much as they used to. They do however still try to help women with children. Around here anyway they will put newcomers up for awhile in houseing or help pay a months rent or utilities.
Too bad you live in such a crappy part of this country where no one will help anyone else but then it is DC.
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nycyn
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posted on April 19, 2002 06:28:32 PM new
plsmith: yeah "pooh happens"; it happened to the 'nam Vets. That is one sick response, which is why, on my soapbox, I keep pointing out people kill themselves after disasters. You know, the support is so overwhelming...
The famous photo of the fireman from Oklahoma (sp) with the baby. He killed himself.
Can any one begin to see why?
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nycyn
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posted on April 19, 2002 06:32:28 PM new
>>the Salvation Army<<
I like the Salvation Army very much. They do a lot of good things. I give to them all the time. They are a truly selfless org from what I can see, and they are out there doind a lot of chitwork.
Need a deduction? The Salvation Army.
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plsmith
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posted on April 19, 2002 06:38:14 PM new
nycyn, "poo happens" was your very own response to another thread here. Continue collecting sympathy and agreement for your own "plight" if you must, but take a look at your own callousness sometime if you're still able to do so. I hereby wash my hands of not only you, but those who are so heavily medicated that it'd wipe out a family of five to endure their announced dosages, yet here they are, typing up a (somewhat) coherent storm.
Have fun, wackos!
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Helenjw
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posted on April 19, 2002 07:15:22 PM new
Rawbunzil
My part of the country is no more crappy than yours. Could you have a better Red Cross also?
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"Ya know Helen, most of those organizations won't help drunks on the street as much as they used to. They do however still try to help women with children. Around here anyway they will put newcomers up for awhile in houseing or help pay a months rent or utilities."
<quote>
I am not speaking of drunks on the street. I am speaking of homeless men, women and children on the streets of Washington DC. They are humans just like you and me.
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gravid
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posted on April 19, 2002 07:17:23 PM new
Notes to self.
Do not tell people you use meds or they will dismiss your opinions as drug induced.
Get refill before Asscroft decides you should just say no.
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gravid
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posted on April 19, 2002 07:25:52 PM new
TV reporter went to Salvation Army here last year and asked help with hidden camera - single male with no obvious drug use or tatoos or wierd dress. Just work clothing and kind of scruffy.
Guy at the desk look real distainfully at him and said "We don't deal with your sort of people much anymore."
Guy just real calmly asked what sort of people was that? and the guy said - "You know bums and winos." No respect at all.
Really did not look good on tape.
Guy needs some PR training.
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Helenjw
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posted on April 19, 2002 07:30:01 PM new
plsmith
What a low blow.
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nycyn
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posted on April 19, 2002 07:44:48 PM new
Helenjw--All I can figure is that maybe I've diverted some attention from her. From her enraged response, I reckon she needs it more than I do.
Gravid--LOL! (Got a brother?)
Sorry to hear that SA story. In NYC they are fantastic.
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plsmith
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posted on April 19, 2002 07:45:25 PM new
Helen, you're an idiot of the first water. Enjoy your fantasies and the occasional ramblings of those who *seem* to support them. Maybe you've got a good "Jew" joke to share?
Fool!
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nycyn
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posted on April 19, 2002 07:54:21 PM new
An anti-semite?
Gravid: Maybe she missed her dose today.
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Helenjw
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posted on April 19, 2002 07:54:43 PM new
plsmith
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"Helen, you're an idiot of the first water. Enjoy your fantasies and the occasional ramblings of those who *seem* to support them. Maybe you've got a good "Jew" joke to share?"
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I think that we should explain at this point that your reference to the "jew joke" is a dig at Nycyn who tried to lighten the atmosphere here with a jewish joke thread.
I did not post to that thread.
We all have started threads that were not poputar. Haven't we???
Why are you directing this remark to me. I had nothing to do with the joke thread.
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nycyn
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posted on April 19, 2002 08:02:46 PM new
Helen--Save your breath. I abandoned it because no one admitted to being Jewish or that they enjoyed them particularly. I did.
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