"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

That was pretty cool.  Just wish I had thought to change the channel off of CBS- Katie Couric kind of got on my nerves.  Basically "let me comment on how non-partisan this event is, then flog Andrew Card into talking smack about Bush and Cheney"

For anyone who hasn't been to DC, it is really far from the Capitol to the Wash Memorial, and it was full of people all the way back.  Even with the pictures, I have a hard time getting a grasp of how many people that was.

and kind of funny that such a great orator fumbled the oath!

@Nefud- semi-seriously, but have you thought about being a community organizer?  I live in developed but unicorporated part of my county.  We the shaft in terms of emergency response, because there's always something else going on in Richmond for the city responders to deal with, and the county sherriff is based in a town about a half-hour away.  a few years ago we started getting neighborhood watch groups together, and these sort of coalesced into a bigger group that actually got a ballot measure for a small property tax increase  to pay for a dedicated sherriff deputy.  Unfortunately with California's retarded 2/3 needed for tax increases it didn't pass (62%- so close!), but it was at least a start. Basically it started by getting neighbors in contact via email, and setting up phone trees to spread the word about meetings and events, etc.  You don't have to save the country, making your community better is plenty good!

 i'd be willing to knock on doors and talk to people, i'm just not sure what i could organize us to DO. "let's go burn down those two houses that are clearly warring drug dealers" sounds pretty sexy, but instigating a felony....hmmmm.....

seriously, i'm not sure what else we could do, aside from just making sure everyone is more comfy with each other

Obviously don't know your specific situation, but just getting the information out to people helps.  For example, figuring out what complaints you can make anonymously and which ones you have to leave a name for.  And get as many people to call for anything you can think of- dangerous dogs off-leash, noise violations, abandoned cars, trash/health violations, domestic abouse...  I'd imagine your police dept has some kind of community outreach liason who's job it is to come to you (or a community center) and tell you what you can do and how to do it. They might tell you what it would take to increase patrols in your area too...

 Are the druggies renting the houses?  You can usually find out who the owners are and start sending letters to them detailing all the bad stuff going on.  They may be liable in some cases if something bad goes down.  The renters next door to us apparently moved from somewhere it was ok to throw your bags of trash in the street and let your pit-bull run loose- we got some letters off to the owner and those problems mostly disappeared.

Maybe even something as easy as pestering the city to fix the street lights...

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

lolz obama supporters* don't work**, stay classy coolsprings! 

choking on your own bile yet or still just frothing at the mouth?

he hasn't even DONE anything yet, can't you wait for him to make one decision? he's a politician, he's going to fuck up, just wait for it. otherwise you come off as ridiculous.

*black people

**are lazy

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

 then please, do go ahead and explain what you meant

 edit: maybe it was the equally ignorant and prejudicial idea that all obama supporters are shiftless hippies?

QUOTE: QUOTE: QUOTE:LOT of assumptions there, buddy.  then please, do go ahead and explain what you meant  edit: maybe it was the equally ignorant and prejudicial idea that all obama supporters are shiftless hippies? Not shiftless hippies - sheeple.

to risk being repetitive, I was once among the Woodstock hippie-sheeple.  One lone dreamy gal among the crowd believing that "half a milliion strong" gathering had shifted the course of history.  But it is a pleasant memory. 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

nuart, a few questions

1. who was the nerd who stopped partying long enough to take pictures?

2. was the sound system any good, could you actually hear music?

3. were you lucky enough to see pete townshend boot abbie hoffman in the ass?

coolsprings, just keep not defending yourself, you're looking more and more reasonable by the hour