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I feel like a kamikazi pilot. The writing thing, whatever it is, still isn't really in me...but I'm running a temp of 102, and I hurt all over. So I might as well write, even though it will no doubt suck.
I don't know if it's the flu (although I had the shot) or a really nasty sinus infection. It could be either one, because those are the only two illnesses that hurt like this. Anything, everything that hurts at all, is now magnified ten times or more. My arms. My shoulders. The skin on my face and head (feels like a sunburn). My chest. My hip joints. My legs. My feet. Everything. Not constantly, but in a constantly changing pattern, so I can't get used to it.
Pick up a dish and twist my wrist slightly as I do it, and it feels as if I've broken a bone. Bump a toe gently against a footrest, and it feels like I need traction. And the pain is that "sick" feeling kind, the kind that throbs and feels all wrong.
Last night when I got into bed my teeth were literally chattering, violently. I was shaking uncontrollably, and it felt as if I were plunged into the Arctic Ocean. Half an hour later I was covered with sweat and half-unconscious from the heat. But when Sebastian woke up calling for me at 11:50 last night, I was freezing again. It took me half an hour to calm him down and get him back to sleep.
Advil helps a bit, fortunately, and I just took some this morning.
So there. Some whining. What an entry.
I can say one thing about the current political situation: If John Kerry gets the nomination, I can guarantee that he will LOSE, and lose big. Because he's already proven that he'll roll over for the GOP in what should by all rights have been the most important issue in the world for him: betraying American servicemen, just as he was betrayed, by sending them into an unjustified war of aggression. John Kerry has already become what he should hate most: a traitor to the American soldier.
And without self-respect or integrity, what chance does he have to beat Bush?
If he does get the nomination, and (as I predict) goes on to lose, I think that I will change my party registration to Republican. Not that I would ever VOTE for a Republican, but at least I would belong to a political party, as opposed to a bunch of pathetic straw men.
I don't know if it's the flu (although I had the shot) or a really nasty sinus infection. It could be either one, because those are the only two illnesses that hurt like this. Anything, everything that hurts at all, is now magnified ten times or more. My arms. My shoulders. The skin on my face and head (feels like a sunburn). My chest. My hip joints. My legs. My feet. Everything. Not constantly, but in a constantly changing pattern, so I can't get used to it.
Pick up a dish and twist my wrist slightly as I do it, and it feels as if I've broken a bone. Bump a toe gently against a footrest, and it feels like I need traction. And the pain is that "sick" feeling kind, the kind that throbs and feels all wrong.
Last night when I got into bed my teeth were literally chattering, violently. I was shaking uncontrollably, and it felt as if I were plunged into the Arctic Ocean. Half an hour later I was covered with sweat and half-unconscious from the heat. But when Sebastian woke up calling for me at 11:50 last night, I was freezing again. It took me half an hour to calm him down and get him back to sleep.
Advil helps a bit, fortunately, and I just took some this morning.
So there. Some whining. What an entry.
I can say one thing about the current political situation: If John Kerry gets the nomination, I can guarantee that he will LOSE, and lose big. Because he's already proven that he'll roll over for the GOP in what should by all rights have been the most important issue in the world for him: betraying American servicemen, just as he was betrayed, by sending them into an unjustified war of aggression. John Kerry has already become what he should hate most: a traitor to the American soldier.
And without self-respect or integrity, what chance does he have to beat Bush?
If he does get the nomination, and (as I predict) goes on to lose, I think that I will change my party registration to Republican. Not that I would ever VOTE for a Republican, but at least I would belong to a political party, as opposed to a bunch of pathetic straw men.
I hope that
Sorry, but I'd rather (and do) remain outside the parties officially. Staying independent means NEVER having to say you feel any responsibility for the actions, stupidities and con jobs of the professional leeches that run the parties.
I remain a Dean supporter, for what good it will do, because he is definitely NOT what the party leaders of the Dems want in power. I do feel he was stupid to change campaign managers, and that it will hurt him more than any minor support it might get him from Gore's old followers (which is all he got from grabbing at an ex-Gore aide to take the job).
But, I do feel that NONE of the available choices are good, just less evil than the man currently in the White House and his crew.
Get better, consider getting to a doctor - there are lots of nasty flu-like bugs out there that aren't the flu they gave shots out for this year and many of them can be fatal if you don't treat them right. Just because you're in the USA and not in a 3rd world country doesn't mean you can't die from the flu.
Get help. And don't make any important life changing decisions while suffering from a fever, you'll regret them later.
Joe
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I hope you feel better soon. I haven't been feeling well myself lately, but nothing like that.
Re: I hope that
The Democrats behavior has been so inexplicably suicidal that there are times when I find myself thinking that they MUST have been bought off by corporate money, as an article in the Nation persuasively argued several years ago.
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(Anonymous) 2004-02-05 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)However flawed Kerry is, he's surely not worse than Bush. The thing about
the Iraq resolution is that at that time everybody was being led to think
that Iraq had _something_ by cherry picked intelligence. Mr. Kay gives
Kerry some cover for this. The Demos are showing more agressiveness this
year, actually making an issue of Bush's service (at least the head of the
DNC is) and the Demos know that they can't play gettin' along games anymore.
So I think Kerry can win this unless he's got scandals we don't yet know
about. The big thing really is the South; I think Edwards is much more
likely to carry a few Southern states than a Liberal Catholic Yankee.
Hi Peter! About the republicans...
(Anonymous) 2004-02-07 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)My "party" (I was a republican intern in the eighties--then switched to independent once I showered off...) is stooping awfully low these days.
All images of gay gatherings at national sites, including the Millennium March on the Washington Mall have been ordered removed from videotapes that have been shown at the Lincoln Memorial since 1995 according to a civil service group.
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) says that the directive came from National Parks Service Deputy Director Donald Murphy. Murphy is said to have been concerned about pictures in the video that showed same-sex couples kissing and holding hands after conservative groups complained.
The Millennium March held in 2000 to bring attention to LGBT civil rights issues drew tens of thousands of gays and their supporters to the mall for one of the biggest demonstrations since the civil rights and anti-war marches of the 1960s.
Also ordered cut from the tape were scenes of abortion rights demonstrations at the memorial, and anti-Vietnam War demonstrations "because it implies that Lincoln would have supported homosexual and abortion rights as well as feminism."
In their place, the Park Service is inserting scenes of the Christian group Promise Keepers and pro-Gulf War demonstrators though these events did not take place at the Memorial in what Murphy calls a "more balanced" version.
"The Park Service leadership now caters exclusively to conservative Christian fundamentalist groups," stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch. "The Bush Administration appears to be sponsoring a program of Faith-Based Parks."
Last July, Murphy ordered the Grand Canyon National Park to return three bronze plaques bearing biblical verses to public viewing areas on the Canyon's South Rim. Murphy overruled the park superintendent who had directed the plaques' removal based on legal advice from the Interior Department that the religious displays violated the First Amendment.
This fall, the Park Service also approved a creationist text, "Grand Canyon: A Different View" for sale in park bookstores and museums. The book by Tom Vail, claims that the Grand Canyon is really only a few thousand years old, developing on a biblical rather than an evolutionary time scale. At the same time, Park Service leadership has blocked publication of guidance for park rangers and other interpretative staff that labeled creationism as lacking any scientific basis.
All under the "leadership" of ....yeah
So Peter, GET WELL! It's been too long since I checked in on you. I'm sorry you had a bad experience at the convention. I'll write again soon.
Wayde, esq. (A fair minded NRA life member from out WEST)
Hi Peter! About the republicans...
(Anonymous) 2004-02-07 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)My "party" (I was a republican intern in the eighties--then switched to independent once I showered off...) is stooping awfully low these days.
All images of gay gatherings at national sites, including the Millennium March on the Washington Mall have been ordered removed from videotapes that have been shown at the Lincoln Memorial since 1995 according to a civil service group.
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) says that the directive came from National Parks Service Deputy Director Donald Murphy. Murphy is said to have been concerned about pictures in the video that showed same-sex couples kissing and holding hands after conservative groups complained.
The Millennium March held in 2000 to bring attention to LGBT civil rights issues drew tens of thousands of gays and their supporters to the mall for one of the biggest demonstrations since the civil rights and anti-war marches of the 1960s.
Also ordered cut from the tape were scenes of abortion rights demonstrations at the memorial, and anti-Vietnam War demonstrations "because it implies that Lincoln would have supported homosexual and abortion rights as well as feminism."
In their place, the Park Service is inserting scenes of the Christian group Promise Keepers and pro-Gulf War demonstrators though these events did not take place at the Memorial in what Murphy calls a "more balanced" version.
"The Park Service leadership now caters exclusively to conservative Christian fundamentalist groups," stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch. "The Bush Administration appears to be sponsoring a program of Faith-Based Parks."
Last July, Murphy ordered the Grand Canyon National Park to return three bronze plaques bearing biblical verses to public viewing areas on the Canyon's South Rim. Murphy overruled the park superintendent who had directed the plaques' removal based on legal advice from the Interior Department that the religious displays violated the First Amendment.
This fall, the Park Service also approved a creationist text, "Grand Canyon: A Different View" for sale in park bookstores and museums. The book by Tom Vail, claims that the Grand Canyon is really only a few thousand years old, developing on a biblical rather than an evolutionary time scale. At the same time, Park Service leadership has blocked publication of guidance for park rangers and other interpretative staff that labeled creationism as lacking any scientific basis.
All under the "leadership" of ....yeah
So Peter, GET WELL! It's been too long since I checked in on you. I'm sorry you had a bad experience at the convention. I'll write again soon.
Wayde, esq. (A fair minded NRA life member from out WEST)