What upset you today?

^ It may only make her a martyr and the whole thing a major issue.

^True. Sometimes these atrocities put things back into perspective, unfortunately.

This toddler that washed up on a beach in Turkey. I believe he was a refugee fleeing to Greece.

Edited by SteveG - September 03 2015 at 12:26

Padraic wrote: The story of the Syrian toddler.

Yep, a terrible state of affairs, and this entire situation is showing our political leaders for the callow, cowardly, and ineffective bunch they really are.

Nothing today yet but the day is still young.

I get crap thrown at me.  If were to get upset I wouldn't last too long...

DMV

That I awoke and realized that I still live in a country filled with rednecks. But I soon realized that some were actually ok, as one poster noted, and felt better.

Edited by SteveG - August 27 2015 at 10:59

Toaster Mantis wrote: Dayvenkirq wrote: ^ Hm ... Google has the definition of the word "redneck" as ... : <span style="color: rgb34, 34, 34; font-family: arial, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 15.6000003814697px;">a working-class white person, especially a politically reactionary one from a rural area</span><span style="line-height: 1.4;"> </span> <span style="line-height: 1.4;"> </span> <span style="line-height: 1.4;">... which (and I gotta be man enough to admit it) is different from how I understood the word many years ago.</span> It's the "politically reactionary" part that's worth criticizing though, not being rural white working class. I'm pretty annoyed with how many left-wing arguments boil down to some variation of "look at how low-status our opponents are!" because how obviously hypocritical they are, yet I see them coming from even otherwise intelligent people.

The left and right both claim a moral high ground in everything they proclaim, but in truth bigotry and hypocrisy spans the political spectrum.

It's a newsflash to some that a socialist can be a sh*thead, but believe me they can. They really can. They can also be racist, self obsessed and mean.

As for rednecks, I don't know enough about that rather generalised demographic, but it appears that some people tend to band together KKK members and someone who owns a farm and just wants to feed their family together under that redneck banner, along with anyone who thinks free speech is under threat. The overall perception is of a toothless simpleton who screws his sister, drinks Mountain Dew and takes selfies with the confederate flag flapping around in the background.

Yardwork can be extremely difficult, sweaty, painful work--  I never go near it without thick gloves, some good music and a tall pitcher of lemonade on hand (with some scotch nearby for later).

What upset me today? Putting my back out trying to rip some tree roots out of the ground while gardening before work, going into work anyway and taking some painkillers, and now my head's swimming in such a thick fog I can barely remember my own name!