My Thanks to the Clintons

[warrprayer]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027733156#post29

I will be losing my food stamps.

A woman friend of mine raised two kids as a single Mom.

She is now helping put one through college.

She is fighting to keep from losing her house.

She gets up every day at 3 a.m. to go to her job as a cook/baker.

She will also lose her food stamps.

She has reentered an abusive relationship after breaking free for several months, as she found it impossible to handle it alone, and now it will be worse.

I still have a few bucks on hand, so in way of thanks to this Clintons for passing this "hate the poor" act on Bills watch, I am sending Bernie $25.

I hope you will do the same.

After all, we wouldn't want to seem to be ungrateful moochers.

[LiberalElite]

1. and if

God or who/whatever forbid She gets the nomination we are supposed to let bygones be bygones and vote for teh lesser of two evils yet again? For someone who is one of the people who are directly responsible for the drastic drop in our living standards? We're supposed to continue to be, in effect, ENABLERS in our own destruction? I say fuck that shit.

[warrprayer]

2. we are not numbers in a budget

We are human beings with real lives.

[Baobab]

19. Is there any way you could improve your computer skills?

Linux is free, its a good thing to know about, because 99% of the apps on it are free too. Check out distrowatch.com - maybe you can find a distro you like, learn some cool stuff - pick up a side skill and make a bit of money?

[warrprayer]

20. thanks for the suggestion

I did go to electronics school in 97 at age 40. At the time it took overnight to download an image on the "web"

[Baobab]

21. Did you actually complete an electronics program of any kind?

Do you like electronics? there are a huge number of amazing electronics resources for people who want to use their computers to learn electronics.

Not for a job, so much, but just to learn and have fun, and entertain yourself without spending a lot of money.

[warrprayer]

24. shake and bake certificate

2 year associate degree electronic engineering course crammed into 1 year.

[840high]

4. Fuck that shit. She would

never get my voter.

[Dragonfli]

5. If you vote the lesser of two evils you might as well vote Cthulhu 2016

Evil cannot be extinguished by evil, only consumed eventually by the greater evil and since Hillary is the lesser evil, she will be consumed and make even greater the great evil that is the immortal Deity!



[font size="4"; color="red"][center]Cthulhu 2016 [/center][/font]

because no matter which lesser evil you choose (if you choose evil at all) the greater evil will only consume it and run things anyway! Lets cut out the ceremonial middle-man (or woman) and get on with the inevitable destruction and mayhem!

Vote Cthulhu which is the greatest evil if you like evil at all, why not, he will only consume all lesser evils and run things regardless.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. some states have different rules to be exempt

In Oregon, I take care of my dad in exchange for rent. Those hours are counted towards the 20 needed.

Your friend if she works more than 20 hours a week should be too, no matter what state.

[warrprayer]

6. not quite sure how it works

but things are not good for the working poor, and now they are going to get a lot worse.

[Donkees]

7. What time is it? $27

[warrprayer]

8. thanks Donkees

the people United will never be defeated!

[Donkees]

9. I'm glad you're back! We Fight On!!!!

[warrprayer]

10. I am fighting

with tears in my eyes.
When that happens

Look the fuck out.

[warrprayer]

11. I was a steelworker

in my younger days.
My h. s. girlfriend was a steelworkers daughter.
I married another steelworkers daughter in Pgh.
My daughter was born a steelworkers daughter.

All that went away with Reagan.

I met the woman I mentioned in the 90's, the lovely bohemian daughter of an Allentown steelworker.

I am fed up with seeing people I love get hurt by these self serving bastards.

[Donkees]

12. Allentown - Billy Joel - In Honor of Our American Steel-Workers!

[warrprayer]

13. you won't believe this

but as I was typing that, she messaged me.
We were talking since that last post.
Hadn't heard from her since Monday.

The fight goes on.

Billy Joel back at you.

We will all go down together.

[Donkees]

15. And We Will All Rise Together

[warrprayer]

25. ...

[Donkees]

32. Causal understanding of water displacement by a crow :>

[warrprayer]

40. that was awesome

thanks!
I love crows.

[Donkees]

41. Me too! I had about ten of them show up for breakfast today

[warrprayer]

51. I used to feed them too

they are fascinating birds

[Donkees]

52. They have me under surveillance, and Crow 'sing' when hungry <:

:> :> :> :> bread/peanut butter <: <: <: <:

[warrprayer]

53. hilarious

I bought a black sedan recently, named it "Raven"

[Donkees]

54. Raymond wants to go for a ride!

[warrprayer]

55. excellent!

Raymond is smart bird!

[warrprayer]

14. we will fight

[Donkees]

16. Chogyam was a bit untrustworthy too :)

[warrprayer]

17. to get the gold coins of a teachers wisdom

you have to put up with the stinking skin bag that holds them


http://www.strippingthegurus.com/stgsamplechapters/trungpa.html

[Donkees]

18. They can keep the change :)

"Students typically don’t imagine that a reincarnated Bodhisattva, Buddha or Precious One will want to get into their pants or bank account for personal pleasure or gain. Or that he will abuse, humiliate or endanger them because he’s sick or because he simply enjoys the prerogatives of power to harm, control and dominate.

When an idealized figure becomes a voice for spiritual teachings he can appear, to himself and others, to embody and source them."

[warrprayer]

22. my "spiritual teacher"

was an extreme right wing former spook.

That didn't stop what he taught me from allowing me to put my hands through 2 inch thick concrete.

[Donkees]

29. How about two inch thick steel?

[warrprayer]

35. how did you know

I did that?



seriously, breaking 2 inch thick concrete tiles is pretty much a parlor trick, and is frowned upon as ego tripping at least it was in my school. It does however require confidence out the ass to attempt.

[Donkees]

37. That's worth another $27 :)

[warrprayer]

23. Tantra

is not called "The Razors Edge" for nothing...

"Certain journalists, quoting teachers from other Buddhist sects, have implied that Trungpa did not teach real Buddhism but a watered-down version for American consumption, or that his teaching was corrupted by his libertine outlook. After doing Vajrayana practices, reading texts on them by Tibetan authorities, and visiting Buddhist centers in the United States and Europe, I was satisfied that this allegation is untrue. The practices taught in Vajradhatu are as genuinely Buddhist as anything in the Buddhist world....
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, after the Tendzin scandal, insisted to Vajradhatu students that Trungpa had given them authentic dharma, and they should continue in it exactly as he had prescribed (Butterfield, 1994; italics added).
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche—“Rinpoche” being a title meaning “Precious One”—was head of the oldest Nyingma or “Ancient Ones” School of Tibetan Buddhism from 1987 until his death in 1991.

Even with all that, Peter Marin (1995)—a non-Buddhist writer who taught for several months at Naropa in 1977—still validly observed that the activities at Naropa were relatively tame, compared to the oppression which could be found in other sects."

[Donkees]

30. The Buddha wasn't a Buddhist :)

[warrprayer]

36. nor was Christ

a Christian

[Donkees]

38. Only the Bernie is the Bernie!

[warrprayer]

39. in the Catholic church

on Ash Wednesday we have a priest put ashes on our forehead to remind us of our mortality.

It is intefesting to see similar ancient tradition..

"The form of the Buddhist khatvanga derived from the emblematic staff of the early Indian Shaivite yogins, known as kapalikas or 'skull-bearers'. The kapalikas were originally miscreants who had been sentenced to a twelve-year term of penance for the crime of inadvertently killing a Brahmin. The penitent was prescribed to dwell in a forest hut, at a desolate crossroads, in a charnel ground, or under a tree; to live by begging; to practice austerities; and to wear a loin-cloth of hemp, dog, or donkey-skin. They also had to carry the emblems of a human skull as an alms-bowl, and the skull of the Brahmin they had slain mounted upon a wooden staff as a banner.These Hindu kapalika ascetics soon evolved into an extreme outcaste sect of the 'left-hand' tantric path (Skt. vamamarg) of shakti or goddess worship. The early Buddhist tantric yogins and yoginis adopted the same goddess or dakini attributes of the kapalikas. These attributes consisted of; bone ornaments, an animal skin loincloth, marks of human ash, a skull-cup, damaru, flaying knife, thighbone trumpet, and the skull-topped tantric staff or khatvanga.[16]"
- Wikipedia

[Donkees]

42. There was a lot of cross-pollination of religions along the silk road, including shamanism

Eastern Orthodox monks were involved with translating Buddhist sutras, etc.

[warrprayer]

48. Saw a documentary

where a hidden Kingdom in Tibet was found by two Jesuit Priests. Today there are Tibetan and Catholic murals in the caves.

[Donkees]

49. Maybe you're familiar with the Jesus Sutras

The text then recounts the arrival of Christian missionaries at Xi’an, the eastern terminus of the Silk Road. The mission team was led by “a highly virtuous man named Alopen in the kingdom of Da Qin,” who “arrived in Xi’an in the ninth year of the period named Zhenguan” (A.D. 635). “The Emperor dispatched his Minister of State, Fang Xuanling, with an imperial guard, to the western suburb to meet the visitor and conduct him to the palace. The sutras were translated in the Imperial Library. [The Emperor] studied The Way in his own Forbidden apartments, and being deeply convinced of its correctness and truth, he gave special orders for its propagation.”

[warrprayer]

50. Thanks

That is quite interesting
I will have to look that up!

[warrprayer]

28. ...

[Donkees]

31. Not one, Not two

[grasswire]

26. I am so, so sorry.

I wish I could post your story on facebook.

[warrprayer]

27. a million people

will lose their food stamps.
if we can get those people and those like them to vote for Bernie
we will win.

[noiretextatique]

33. All the rosy stuff about Obama's performance

And job creation does not address the fact that millions of people are still struggling. If that isn't class warfare, I don't know what is. And THIS is the course are supposed to stay? No thanks. I cannot offer you any empty platitudes. I hope for a better outcome for you and your friend.

[warrprayer]

34. appreciated much

I worked as a volunteer for Obama in 2008 and voted for him again in '12.
I have been forced to conclude from his actions and saying things in support of this crap started by a rethug governor that he is in reality the President of Wall Street.

[noiretextatique]

43. Cannot disagree eom

[In_The_Wind]

44. Damn! That sucks!

[warrprayer]

45. nice to hear from you!

ysah she has all that troubls plus started change and has sleep and health issues on top of it all. : (

[In_The_Wind]

46. She is lucky to have a good friend like you.

[warrprayer]

47. Thanks

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We were just kids when we met.
Still wonder whsre the time went!