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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Jumping through hoops
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i will not "jump" through their hoops. 1 NO medication; I need every brain cell I have left and my so-called "hypervigilence" from PTSD (in other words, knowing what can go wrong, where I'm vulnerable and how to work around that) is probabl...y the only thing that's kept me alive so long. 2 NO "faith" based "help." I am Queer; they discriminate. I can, and would not, change the fact i'm Queer if i could, any more than i can change my race or eye color and i will NOT hear condemnations about "sin" and "perversion" from superstitions hypocrites for a baloney sandwich and a dirty, old coat. 3 The assumption I need mental "health services," which no longer provide real psychotherapy, but only 12 step bumper sticker slogans, religious platitudes and DRUGS, required as clinics are funded more by grants from Big PhRMA lobbying groups, no longer provide healing services for us so-called "high functioning" people. 4 Every concession I've ever made to a corrupt, inept system has only exacerbated my vulnerability and eroded my civil rights. Example: Adult "Protective Services" can demand an illegal, warrentless search of a person's living space, based soley on an anonymous rumor of need, no matter that the "report" may have been made out of vengeance, attempts to control the individual reported, etc. My landlord recently "reported" the conditions of this house to APS and said I was not mentally competent to take care of myself, in order to try to get me thrown out, to break my lease and save him the $ of filing court fees for an eviction. i had to submit to an "inspection" of my home, or be taken away for a psychiatric examination, without a warrant, without probable cause. Fortunately, it is easy to distract them from the real issues of the property. APS left satisfied I am competent and not in danger. They made half a dozen promises of help, did not follow through and will not return my phone calls, seeking information about what they offered. Case closed. I nearly ended up in a mental hospital, my home vulnerable to robbery and my animals dead, because the land lord could gossip about me? THE SYSTEM KILLS PEOPLE and that is not hyperbole. That's why I'm trying to find a trailer or camper and rent some land to live on. I want to live the rest of my life out in peace. I'll be dead soon enough and I want no further abuse. i won't even go to a food pantry. I'd rather dumpster dive. I eat very well on my $3 a day. I don't NEED their junk food, sermons and hoops.
staying outside the system
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that housing coalition is the waiting list I'm on. and it is VERY corrupt and invasive. Also, I can't live around ppl w behavioral health challenges who act out, don't respect boundaries, intimidate, etc. and no animals. The animals are not... negotiable. They are my companions and I am responsible for them. They're the only family i have. They protect, balance, entertain, center, console, amuse and touch me. Humans threaten, insult, harass, abuse, spread gossip and behave toward me as predators and parasites. I need my animal companions as much as they need me. That's why I'm living in this filthy slum: to keep them safe in a place that's zoned for livestock.
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i get food stamps: over $100 for the first time ever, $3/day for food. I get SSDI $703/mo. I get medicare medicaid, but very rarely utilize it; it's just too problematic and I'm trying to stay out of the system as much as i can, since the system is dangerous, incompetent, corrupt, dysfunctional and invasive.
i get food stamps: over $100 for the first time ever, $3/day for food. I get SSDI $703/mo. I get medicare medicaid, but very rarely utilize it; it's just too problematic and I'm trying to stay out of the system as much as i can, since the system is dangerous, incompetent, corrupt, dysfunctional and invasive.
resources where I live
few. county totally broke & so is state. not homeless yet. living in ExTREMELY substandard housing. if authorities find out, it'll be condemned & I'll b evicted & animals will die. and neighbors will steal what's left of what didn't get sto...len last year. I've been on a waiting list for EMERGENCY, homelessness prevention housing for over a year now. and that housing has people with serious behavioral health issues, and i certainly can't keep my animals. no pub. transpo.; have to hitch hike, take train & buses 80 miles, round trip 1x/mo for provisions in Albuquerque.
fire wood
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The fire wood is another example. I applied for Low income Heating Assistance again this year. Last year. Dept. Human Services paid a bit toward electric and referred me to another agency for fire wood (the latter saved my life last winter). This year, I reapplied. Dept. Human Services did not know, however, or did not inform me, that the other agency had no funding for fire wood this year. I accepted help with electricity. THE DAY the electric co-operative got paid was the day i found out about the fire wood. What i had not been told was that Dept. Human Services COULD have paid for fire wood, but not both. So, I got $200 for electricity, which, if I'm very careful, MIGHT last 2 months; winter here lasts six months, frequent below-freezing temps. I saved as much wood as I could last year, but, if the weather stays this cold, it'll be gone in about 2 or 3 weeks. Since I'll have to move soon, I really can't afford to buy and abandon most of $200 worth of delivered fire wood. I'm screwed. i could literally die, and the agencies responsible don't care. I'm burning junk furniture I had to remove from this place when I moved in, bits of particle board and other toxic wood products to extend my fire wood. I also save up paper products to burn. And I use the ashes from the fires as cat litter. I fil out their damn forms; they make false promises and go home in warm cars to full refrigerators and warm houses? The state invested in junk bonds, bad mortgages and hedge funds and I get to freeze to death?
The fire wood is another example. I applied for Low income Heating Assistance again this year. Last year. Dept. Human Services paid a bit toward electric and referred me to another agency for fire wood (the latter saved my life last winter). This year, I reapplied. Dept. Human Services did not know, however, or did not inform me, that the other agency had no funding for fire wood this year. I accepted help with electricity. THE DAY the electric co-operative got paid was the day i found out about the fire wood. What i had not been told was that Dept. Human Services COULD have paid for fire wood, but not both. So, I got $200 for electricity, which, if I'm very careful, MIGHT last 2 months; winter here lasts six months, frequent below-freezing temps. I saved as much wood as I could last year, but, if the weather stays this cold, it'll be gone in about 2 or 3 weeks. Since I'll have to move soon, I really can't afford to buy and abandon most of $200 worth of delivered fire wood. I'm screwed. i could literally die, and the agencies responsible don't care. I'm burning junk furniture I had to remove from this place when I moved in, bits of particle board and other toxic wood products to extend my fire wood. I also save up paper products to burn. And I use the ashes from the fires as cat litter. I fil out their damn forms; they make false promises and go home in warm cars to full refrigerators and warm houses? The state invested in junk bonds, bad mortgages and hedge funds and I get to freeze to death?
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Pygmy Goat Happy Dance
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Wednesday, November 03, 2010
balloon fiasco
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The Dems squandered the good will & grassroots organizing the minute the doors to the White House opened. They lost momentum, trust, enthusiasm. I'd keep getting emails and all they wanted was five dollar donations from me, on food stamps! ...I thought, what the frick FOR?? They screwed the pooch, the queers, youth vote, inner city vote, etc. The Tea parody was organized quickly, thanks to Faux Noise. We should have had a proactive, positive message counter balance amongst progressives. Even at the Comedy Central rally, nobody asked anybody to vote, except Tony Bennett, bless his grizzled heart. The Dems puffed up a big, shiny balloon full of hot air, got us all up to 20,000ft so they could ascend the Golden Staircase, then left us up there with no more fuel or blankets for warmth. And it's been a terrifying trip back down. Don't blame the victims.
You know, I think CONSTRUCTiVE CRITICISM is not hate speech or negativity. I think some of us asked questions and were ignored because the party machine didn't want to bust a sweat The Dems had a great grassroots network going, but squandered it, lost momentum and trust and didn't build on it. This country could have had a positive, proactive movement to counteract the Tea Parody: going into inner cities, out to rural areas, onto reservations, building infrastructure, registering voters, EDUCATING voters, etc. Instead, all I got was emails asking me to donate five dollars! FOR WHAT?? business as usual??? I don't have heat, running water or sewage, but i tried to clean a park in the early days of this admin. and did a bunch of stuff during the campaign. in Ft. Sumner, New Mexico, where they called me a "n!gger lover" and said Obama was the antiChrist! I put my ass on the LINE for this President, and I'm not even a Democrat! I'm registered Green Party! Asking questions and wanting accountability is NOT HATE SPEECH!
You know, I think CONSTRUCTiVE CRITICISM is not hate speech or negativity. I think some of us asked questions and were ignored because the party machine didn't want to bust a sweat The Dems had a great grassroots network going, but squandered it, lost momentum and trust and didn't build on it. This country could have had a positive, proactive movement to counteract the Tea Parody: going into inner cities, out to rural areas, onto reservations, building infrastructure, registering voters, EDUCATING voters, etc. Instead, all I got was emails asking me to donate five dollars! FOR WHAT?? business as usual??? I don't have heat, running water or sewage, but i tried to clean a park in the early days of this admin. and did a bunch of stuff during the campaign. in Ft. Sumner, New Mexico, where they called me a "n!gger lover" and said Obama was the antiChrist! I put my ass on the LINE for this President, and I'm not even a Democrat! I'm registered Green Party! Asking questions and wanting accountability is NOT HATE SPEECH!
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Dem machine runs into ditch...again
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We can't blame the Tea Parody for what happened. Here's what i wrote about Susanna Martinez, winning Governor of New Mexico: You half assed, complacent NM Democrats getting the message NOW? Your “machine” has been broken for DECADES! And it’s us POOR folk who are now going to get to suffer! THANKS A LOT, you Starbucks swilling, Prius driving, platitude spouting, boutique foods eating SNOBS!
We can't blame the Tea Parody for what happened. Here's what i wrote about Susanna Martinez, winning Governor of New Mexico: You half assed, complacent NM Democrats getting the message NOW? Your “machine” has been broken for DECADES! And it’s us POOR folk who are now going to get to suffer! THANKS A LOT, you Starbucks swilling, Prius driving, platitude spouting, boutique foods eating SNOBS!
And whose fault is it? What did the Dems do to educate voters, register the poor, refute the talking points of, or, better yet, REVEAL the Karl Rove machine? A lot of hand wringing and finger pointing, but no real leadership. If we are fat,... it's because we're low income and there's only healthy food for the wealthy. If we are dumb, it is because the privileged keep information as power to themselves. If we are racist, it is because the power elites keep us poor folk fighting for crumbs with each other. Why didn't the Dems address any of that? The Green party does. So, screw your stereotypes about poor folks! THAT attitude COST you this election! WE ARE YOUR NEIGHBORS AND WE ARE SUFFERING!
You can NOT blame the poor if we have been given NO alternatives to reactionary ideologues! The Dems are too concerned with their own privilege and NEVER even TRIED to get in the trenches with us and really help us lift ourselves! And whenever one of us TRIES to work with "liberals," they look down their noses at us because we smoke or don't speak PC or don't know how to do things they take for granted. They ridicule us, mock us and try to shame us into silence. I know this because I LIVE THIS! WE are NOT welcome by the liberal, academic elite! YOU CANNOT BLAME THE VICTIM! That's like hearing a woman was raped and asking, "what was she wearing?" as though she deserved it! Liberals don't WANT us to participate, to vote, to learn; they want to keep the power in their own hands, just like the GOP. We are scared and desperate; the GOP saw that and exploited it, just like they always do! Sometimes, when you're really poor, ALL YOU HAVE is your bible and your gun! The dems did NOTHING to dispel our fear!
because they don't TELL US they're taking them away! THEY tell us they're cutting high fallutin pork, like people paying for psychics and marijuana in broke California with their welfare atm cards, or high speed rail or chipmunk counting research or.....AND they don't tell us about corporate welfare and and and.... AND GO EDUCATE YOURSELF ON POOR PEOPLE! I can barely stay alive; it's not my JOB to educate the elite! WHY must you learn on MY BACK! Jesus! The dink who writes the blog Duke City Fix aboout Albuquerque wrote recently about a poor neighborhood I pass through all the time, and I live 40 miles away and hitch, take the train and ride busses round trip up there for groceries every month. BUt THIS genius, who lives within 5 miles of it, had NEVER seen that neighborhood before, and Is A NATIVE! If so called progressives and liberals don't educate & register poor voters, WHO DO YOU THINK WILL!?!?
And where were the liberals and progressives? A few droll signs at the Jon Stewart rally, mostly mocking the tea parody? And, in his press conference, when asked, Stewart said it wasn't his job to ask people to vote? Only Tony Bennett, after his song, actually said, "vote!" The dems should INVESTIGATE Faux Noise and get it shut the fuck DOWN, but make sure there are REAL JOURNALISTS to fill the gap: not DEM journalists, REAL ones.
You can NOT blame the poor if we have been given NO alternatives to reactionary ideologues! The Dems are too concerned with their own privilege and NEVER even TRIED to get in the trenches with us and really help us lift ourselves! And whenever one of us TRIES to work with "liberals," they look down their noses at us because we smoke or don't speak PC or don't know how to do things they take for granted. They ridicule us, mock us and try to shame us into silence. I know this because I LIVE THIS! WE are NOT welcome by the liberal, academic elite! YOU CANNOT BLAME THE VICTIM! That's like hearing a woman was raped and asking, "what was she wearing?" as though she deserved it! Liberals don't WANT us to participate, to vote, to learn; they want to keep the power in their own hands, just like the GOP. We are scared and desperate; the GOP saw that and exploited it, just like they always do! Sometimes, when you're really poor, ALL YOU HAVE is your bible and your gun! The dems did NOTHING to dispel our fear!
because they don't TELL US they're taking them away! THEY tell us they're cutting high fallutin pork, like people paying for psychics and marijuana in broke California with their welfare atm cards, or high speed rail or chipmunk counting research or.....AND they don't tell us about corporate welfare and and and.... AND GO EDUCATE YOURSELF ON POOR PEOPLE! I can barely stay alive; it's not my JOB to educate the elite! WHY must you learn on MY BACK! Jesus! The dink who writes the blog Duke City Fix aboout Albuquerque wrote recently about a poor neighborhood I pass through all the time, and I live 40 miles away and hitch, take the train and ride busses round trip up there for groceries every month. BUt THIS genius, who lives within 5 miles of it, had NEVER seen that neighborhood before, and Is A NATIVE! If so called progressives and liberals don't educate & register poor voters, WHO DO YOU THINK WILL!?!?
And where were the liberals and progressives? A few droll signs at the Jon Stewart rally, mostly mocking the tea parody? And, in his press conference, when asked, Stewart said it wasn't his job to ask people to vote? Only Tony Bennett, after his song, actually said, "vote!" The dems should INVESTIGATE Faux Noise and get it shut the fuck DOWN, but make sure there are REAL JOURNALISTS to fill the gap: not DEM journalists, REAL ones.
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