How many of us are just too pissed off to sleep?

[WatchWhatISay]

I'll be first.

[SeattleGirl]

1. That would be me

Not only pissed off, but heartbroken.

[Roxy66]

2. Me ...I am on a constant verge of crying...I am sick

[tedoll78]

7. I haven't cried this much in a long time.

I alternate between anger and sadness.

[Roxy66]

11. Me too...I just listened to Eminem's "Mosh" video

and I go from sad to furious

[Not_Giving_Up]

3. Me

I have to be up in less than three hours to get the kids off to school.

[Roxy66]

15. I do too...but I just cant lay down

knowing what these people are going through

[koopie57]

37. I have to bring my daughter to college tomorrow

and I'm so grateful to have something normal to do. Tonight, on a ride, I was overwhelmed to see that we had dry roads to drive on and were able to drink cold, clean water when we got home. I worked for emergency services and I can't imagine how things could have gone so wrong. FEMA at that time would not give us funding if our emergency plans were not up to date and workable. Our plans were such that we almost needed not be around cuz everyone from the chief of police to the bus driver to the little hardware store and snowmobile driver knew what to do. I guess what I'm getting at and trying to avoid thinking is that I think this administration is purposely allowing this to happen. I think they are. And why they would do it is too scary to even think about.

[titoresque]

27. my poor kids

........actually I feel bad even complainig about this but,(I mean we are eating!) they've been eating a gas station breakfast all week. We wake up late, rush around......head for the QT and pick up taquitos or sausage muffins.
Just trying to hold it together around the kids has been hard.

[Roxy66]

38. I dont want my kids to be nervous wrecks

and I dont want them to see this stuff too much on T.V, but I have to turn it on when I get home from work. I need to know whats happening....it's like I have to be connected to these people and all of the events since 9/11 or I feel guilty. I dont want to be oblivious to whats happening in our country like I was before. I tell the kids to go play outside or do their homework upstairs and watch a cartoon or something. I feel so guilty.

[Frederik]

4. Frederik raises hand

[wli]

5. Count me in. n/t

[ThoughtCriminal]

6. Been pissed for over 5 1/2 years

Needless to say - I don't sleep well.

[artemisia1]

8. Aye. nt

[titoresque]

9. 1:11 in Az.....Im up

too pissed to sleep! Have to drag my butt up at 6:30 a.m. to get kids up and off to school.

[saracat]

31. Me too! Also in Az. I keep watching the news.All repeats, nothing getting

better. I was crying over some of the footage. The man apologizing over and over for being stupid not to have had enough money to leave and endangering his dogs got to me.

[PowerToThePeople]

10. Had AAR in background. Heard Malloy say Shoot to kill.

Woke up, started listening. Now, searching out freshest info, streaming one of the NO CB broadcasts and wondering when we will all be shot..

[Qibing Zero]

12. Yep... that's been the past few days regimen for me.

=/

[RBHam]

13. Raising hand.

Wondering WHEN the American people will wake up to the truth.

Especially when its so easy to find...

http://globalresearch.ca/

[lildreamer316]

14. Yep.

Had a two hour nap and woke to babies on the TV screaming. I'm up.

[notadmblnd]

16. Here

:hi:

[janedoe]

17. Yes, here.

I'm tempted to get in my car and start driving... and go pick up some of the people myself! But, I'm afraid they wouldn't let me get close enough to load folks into my car. It seems that the authorities don't want to save those people!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

18. I am

[blue northern]

19. Count me in

and I'm in another country
I have to wonder what will it take for Americans to take to the streets and demand this abomination on humanity (aka The POTUSA) be removed from
office?
He's personally responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands worldwide.

What will it take?

[spuddonna]

20. Here...

I'm reading something I don't understand in another thread...

[OKDem08]

30. I can't sleep either

I am going to talk to my husband tomorrow about taking in some people who have been affected by this. We could afford it & have two empty rooms upstairs.

[Beam Me Up]

21. beyond pissed

I was up to 2 am last night. Will go to bed 'early' tonight.

heh

[Child_Of_Isis]

22. Four in the morning.

Too damn worried and upset to sleep. I knock out for a couple of hours here and there but I am back at it. Everything in me wants to load up and go to New Orleans and drag some people out of there.

[eleny]

23. me too

[bbgrunt]

24. count me in that count

[murielm99]

25. This thread must be in lieu of Nighthawks.

It it not the time for a lighthearted thread like Nighthawks.

I am too wound up to sleep.

I have a whole room full of houseplants. I did not start out wanting a room full of houseplants. They grew and took over after several years.

I was watering the plants earlier. It made me think about all the people in NO and Mississippi without water. Of course I don't want my plants to die, but I thought about it with each plant I watered. I have been thinking about it for hours.

[AtomicKitten]

26. Hadn't notice, but me too.

I am angry, upset, worried, furious - just knowing that this administration has the audacity to not give a shit about these people.

[Doremus]

28. Oh yeah. DH just said I shouldn't be doing this to myself.

All I can think about are those poor people.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

[Roxy66]

43. DH? n/t

[Doremus]

47. shorthand for 'dear husband' :)

[Prodemsouth]

29. It made me physically ill, my freeper brother was calling me last

night. It was his daughter's birthday- he was inviting me over, but I was really too ill to go. I plan to tell him why tommorrow when I take by her gift. My sister and Mom got in to a short spat on Tuesday- Mom said she was finally glad to see the Monkey (she calls him that now too) going back to Washington instead of riding his bicycle. Sister is devout pro monkey Mormon. She had a friend in Slidell and was looking for her family's number who still live in Brunswick/Saint Simons Georgia Area, where we all grew up. (I am sure they are ok, sister's friend is a Brit, Husband is smart and well to do)
This will divide families- like 2000 election. Thanksgiving will be divided into pro Monkey/anti Monkey camps.

[lildreamer316]

45. Best of luck with that.

I hope in light of this horrible tragedy and its resulting unspeakable mismanagement you will be able to help them to the light; or at least to some understanding.

[B Calm]

32. I just woke up. Not suppose to wake up until 5:30 am.. Going to

be a long damn day!

[Drewskie]

33. Ray Taliaferro!

If you are up listen to this...

[JackDragna]

34. Here. Probably for the next fifty years..

..or however long I have left to be on this Earth.

[spuddonna]

42. Yeah, I know the feeling...

I don't think my hubby 'got it' till tonight... Then he saw the pics of the bodies floating in the rivers, and heard some of the stories on TV...

He was tearing up when we were watching Ted Koppel... at least I think he doesn't think I've lost my mind! :)

Actually, I feel like I'm going to lose my lunch... My stomache is in a knot, and honest to God, the only other time I remember this feeling was when I was at a funeral for my cousin...

[JackDragna]

48. I will not sleep well..

..until everyone who had a hand in making this disaster as bad as it is is held accountable.

[jessicazi]

35. I have been up every night/morn until

5-6 am watching the news. bush will burn in hell for this.

[puddycat]

51. I do hope you'r right & there is a hell so Bush will burn forever in it NT

[intheflow]

36. Me, but am I too pissed off, or too heartbroken.

It's hard to tell, I'm so damn tired.

[puddycat]

39. Its 4:14 f'ing a.m. and I still can't go to sleep I'm so upset

I hate George Fucking Bush with every fiber of my being. I believe if he had not of gotten us into this war in Iraq then this situation would be under control in NO, and people not dying as much. The LA guard would have been home and available the first day to secure the city and assist people. Furthermore, if this monster would not of been president then he wouldn't have been able to decimate environmental laws and FEMA and decimate funding for public works projects, and then maybe the levees wouldn't have broken because the wetlands would have absorbed some of the surge.

The man is a hideous monster. I do hate him. I know that hate can gnaw at the person who hates, but its how I feel. I can't help hating a monster of such evil. In fact, I think the people who DON'T hate him are the ones with the problem. My utter contempt for him and his band of NeoCons are the driving force behind my wanting to help my country get back on its feet and recover from this radical right-wing sickness.

I just read about a grandma who was dead in her wheelchair in the convention center, just pushed to one side with a small blanket over her. I can't stop crying at the contemptible bastards who won't even help a poor dying grandma. There has to be a way to make these people pay for what they have done. There has GOT to be a way.

[hlthe2b]

40. Me..... I've barely slept since Sunday....

I'm working hard at not getting too cranky/weepy at work, but my eyes are so damned red from eyestrain/lack of sleep it is very telling.


Even I didn't believe Bush* would do so much damage in such a short amount of time, since he stole the first election in 2000. I am just devastated at what has become of our country. That we would allow old people, sick people, babies, poor people, and the rest of those so incredibly vulnerabhle to drown or die from thirst in front of our friggin eyes! I keep thinking of the little black man, Hardy, whose devastating story of having lost his grip on his wife when the roof broke open and the water came washing through. "You lost your wife? said the incredulous reporter: "where are you going now?" I'm lost. I have nothing was the reply.

This poor little man wasn't in New Orleans, but his video story that was repeatedly played on multiple networks, should have had the same wrenching effect on anyone with a heart. So how can it be that so many that surely saw this as I did, are adopting such callous attitudes, blaming the victims, turning away?

[Roxy66]

49. "Die from thirst"...gee that brings up a creepy moment in our history

He cut his vacation short to pass a bill that intruded into a families personal decision, but when thousands of poor people are dying of thirst he goes to a fundraising party

[JaySherman]

41. Me too.

Hardly slept last night. Probably won't sleep tonight. Unless I drink till I pass out, which is looking more and more like a valid option.

[Rainscents]

44. Me too!

Too many late nights since the Hurricane.

[jessicazi]

46. we have to keep telling people

how shruby's incompetence has led to the deaths of too many people. repeat it over and over. we cannot let people forget this. babies and the elderly dying. BABIES DYING while bush sits on his f$cking a$$.

[klebean]

50. livid...

increasing anger...thought failures of leadership and intelligence w/regardd to 9/11 made me angry, but this cock up in "homeland security"...i'm livid - the spinning is killing me...the truth telling is galvanizing me. We're at the tipping point and I guess I don't want to miss it....

[Justitia]

52. I'm too horrified to sleep. Although I am exhausted. -eom

[Duncan Grant]

53. This is just the latest gigantic fuck-up by this administration.

Most of us have probably had more sleepless nights than we care to remember these last 5 years.

The hubris, the greed, the incompetence, the lies, the spin, the corruption, where will it end?! I was holding out a little hope that these madmen still had a shred of humanity left in them - but they don't. If they would abandon their own, well - what does that tell you?

[ToolTex]

54. Yep, I'm up. Can't sleep.

I tried all day to call the Whitehouse. Comment line (202-456-1111) was always "Please wait," and the switchboard (202-456-1414) refused to take even a short message, routing me to the useless comment line.

With every failed call I got more pissed thinking about * drinking in the Whitehouse while people are dying in New Orleans for want of a swallow of water.

They say he is going to show his face in Louisiana later today. Well, all I can say is that they better screen his audience for supporters as usual, because I think there are a lot of citizens that would just as soon string him up like Mussolini, as listen to anything the bastard has to say.

[puddycat]

57. I tried also, but no success. n/t

[Roxy66]

59. I cant believe he would dare go there....very dangerous for him there

[earth mom]

55. Me too...but a roller coaster of emotions...

anger/rage :grr:

sadness/despair :cry:

anxiety/fear :scared:

[Hello_Kitty]

56. I'm at work right now

I'll be here until 6 but I won't be sleeping much during the day.

[1songbird]

58. Same here. I'm emotionally drained but I can't sleep. n/t

[Dem2theMax]

60. Here. Between being pissed and having nightmares about the poor

people stuck in NO and elsewhere, sleep is something that isn't happening.

Edited to add: And I eat and I feel guilty that I have food and they don't. I drink water and feel horrible that I can't give it to a thirsty baby. I have a roof over my head. They have no homes. My car is old, but it's not floating down a river somewhere. I know where my family is. Many of them don't know where their loved ones are, let alone if they are alive.

We are the richest country in the world and people are starving, dying from thirst, begging for help and no one is coming.

No, I don't think I'll sleep peacefully for a long time to come.

And the only thing that will truly give me peace now is seeing * in the Hague, along with his entire administration.
And once that is done, I pray they spend an eternity in hell.
Now I'm passed pissed and back to rage again.

[jessicazi]

61. I hate to say it, and I don't want to sound ungrateful

because I am so grateful for my life right now, for all of my blessings, but I don't know how much more I can take. I didn't think I would see these things in America. I cry everytime I see these poor people begging for help, dying, and these babies and elderly near death. I rage. I am angry. I am sad. I am completely destroyed. Bush is not doing anything. He was playing golf while people were dying. When will everyone wake up and see him for who he really is-THE DEVIL IN FLESH? I am scared those affected by this hurricane will never recover. I am scared this is the beginning of the end.

[az chela]

66. breaking point

I havent slept more than a couple of hrs a night for the last 5 days.I live in Az and knowing bush was here in phoenix at a b'day party for Mccain and then when to Coronado Island to one of the most famous hotels in the country and was doing photo ops with a guitar that someone gave him while people were hanging onto roof tops trying to live thru the night made me sick to my stomach.I have hated the bush family since he was governor of texas and his butch mother was
the queen of all cold hearted bitches.The repukes have had this planned for 20 yrs getting him into the white house.It started with The first bush and James baker and the oil guys in texas and then the carlye group got him on board along with his buddies the saudi's and then they got the christian coalition behind them and his plan was is place.He is pure evil and has to be stopped before him and his buddies destroy this planet.Wake up america before new orleans happens to you.Look on here about the camps that are in place to house the prisoners all over this country.

[pamela]

62. I'm furious.

Maybe we need to replace the Nighthawks thread with this for a while...

[Born_A_Truman]

63. I am!

I am fuming!

My oldest daughter called me tonight (she's leaving for an NA convention in Hawaii early tomorrow) to tell me she signed up on Moveon.org to offer a single mother a place to live to get on her feet. She lives in Los Angeles (the Valley) and told me, 'Mom, I'll even fly to Houston and bring her back here. I just can't take any more of this without doing something to help.' I am a proud mother right now.

ETA: Not fuming over my daughter's call. Fuming because of the way this incompetent POS and his greedy pals have handled (or NOT) this disaster.

[YellerdawgFlorida]

80. I signed on too! Great idea!

I just wonder who will help these folks get online!

[BlueIris]

64. Count me in as another angry insomniac.

My stomach hurts, that's how angry I am.

[fighttheevilempire]

65. Absolutely.

Even though I'm a low poster, I figured I'll start writing up an article for DU. I hope my meager writing skills are enough to make it look professional. lol.

[WatchWhatISay]

69. Go for it

Great writing skills are nice to have.

But great ideas are really appreciated here.

[fighttheevilempire]

73. thread link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4573361&mesg_id=4573907

very much in the spirit of OYE.

[Kurovski]

67. I'm not feeling pissed. I'm feeling similar to what I felt after 9/11

and that was a complicated mix.

But I can't sleep yet.

I have a house guest and have a lot of work to do tomorrow that should have been done over the past three days...

I'm going to have to stop the 16 hour news/internet vigils soon, but I can't stop imagining all the stories about people we don't hear or read that are being repeated many thousands of times over.

The drownings, the bruised and battered dying together. The sorrow of knowing someone is dead and the terrible, apprehensive fear that gnarls you up when you don't know if someone is dead or alive. The fear parents feel for their children when they don't know what's coming next. Watching a baby die.

I know these things have always happened in the world and will continue, but we had created this society to reduce so much of the sorrow that plagues mankind, so much so that people from all over the world came to start new lives here.

Now we have people who have taken charge and brutal control of our nation who welcome the sorrow, invite it in, see it as a useful tool and a source of wealth.

And they openly display their disregard for us. It has been revealed more with each passing month over the years, and in many hundreds of ways. The callous statements, the bizarre photos such as that of Bush strumming a new guitar as a killer approaches our nation's shore.

How could it be any more clear? The administrations contempt for us is final and complete.

[WatchWhatISay]

72. Beautifully put Kurovski

All of these last few days, I keep imagining people stuck in an attic, and with each passing moment how many become just too weakened to stay with us?

[Kurovski]

74. You've read my mind.

A lot of images make an appearance these days.

I imagine my own family, how would I feel? I imagine the people whose father's were in the hospital who lay dying when it happened, and did those people decide to stay? Were some of those people the people who have been shown contempt for remaining? was it that wretched Mr. Brown who scorned those who stayed behind?

And I think of those whose father's had died, had a funeral to attend on the next morning and instead found themselves trying to break through a roof to save their family.

[Kurovski]

76. By the way, WatchWhatISay, we've been around here for

awhile and I don't think I've ever told you how much I love your name.

I love it lots. It makes me smile :-) Even if it does conjure up Ari the prevaricator's nasty bald head!

[linazelle]

68. Up all night. At least I have company. nt

[SofaKingLiberal]

70. too pissed for words

[hunter]

71. Me.

George W. Bush is the Captain Joseph Hazelwood of American Presidents.

He's run the U.S.A aground.

[Binka]

77. Two Fucking Drunk Monkeys

Bush=Hazelwood And hey they have that OIL thing in common too!

[NYC]

75. Listen to the mayor of New Orleans while you are not sleeping.

http://rapidshare.de/

If that is not the exact location, look for a thread with the title "Mayor of New Orleans Cursing Bush" or "Government Has Left Us to Die" or something similar.

It is 12 or 13MB, and it is taking forever to download on dial up, but I'm told it is worth the wait.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4573721

That's the DU link that will lead you to the download.

[JackDragna]

78. It is INFINITELY worth the wait.

I listened to it live here in Louisiana. I love Ray Nagin.

[NYC]

84. I have heard it now. Well worth the wait.

I hope everyone gets to hear him. He is a desperate man who cares about his city.

[YellerdawgFlorida]

88. Personally, I think he would make a great president! n/t

[smurfygirl]

79. for 2 nights now. probably 6 hrs of sleep.

I should be a rescue worker

[WilliamPitt]

81. Yo

[lildreamer316]

82. Good to see you WarriorWill.

Just a shout out.

[ninkasi]

83. I slept off and on about 3 hours last night...

Tonight/tomorrow, now...promises to be even worse. I can not comprehend how this tragedy can be happening here, in what was once America. I have talked today...yesterday, now...to two friends who had kept their heads buried in the sand, not wanting to hear my political views, saying that they couldn't absorb it, they didn't want to, it was too hard, blah, blah, blah.

Today, they are apologizing. They are amazed...I was RIGHT! I was not being melodramatic, or overly emotional these past few years. Their eyes are opening, hallelujah, but after the past election/theft, it's too late. Wringing their hands, and saying "OhmyGod...I thought you were just overly political, but hey, you were RIGHT! What do we do now?"

Like most of my fellow DUers, this is an incredibly hard time for me. Playing the role of Cassandra is not fun. I am worn down, frazzled, and just plain disgusted. I will try to get some sleep now, tomorrow is another day, and another battle in this war. If this does not sweep the neocons out of power, nothing will.

[OneBlueSky]

85. best I can do is grab an hour here or there . . .

I've run out of words to describe what I feel . . . it's beyond despair, beyond disgust, beyond incomprehension . . . I can't stop thinking about all those people -- MY brothers and sisters and children -- at the Convention Center, in attics, at the SuperDome, and God knows where else . . . one the one hand, my heart is absolutely breaking . . . on the other, I've never been more furious . . .

[CanOfWhoopAss]

86. It's New Orleans today what happens tomorrow?

When California experiences the big one? California's refinery's go down in conjunction with the Gulf Coast? When the gulf coast gets hit again because hurricane season is not over. If this happens when we are still trying to clean up NOLA it is obvious that FEMA and curious chicken george can't walk and chew gum at the same time.

[Lilith Velkor]

87. I been sleepin like a baby.

Which is to say, I wake up screaming every two hours.

[Biased Liberal Media]

89. I tried

but it was on my mind. I didn't sleep at all and it's 4am here on the west coast. I guess it's an all-nighter for me.

[H2O Man]

90. I am.

This is unreal.

[kliljedahl]

91. Slept a little, but woke up pissed

George W. Bush, you are an uncaring, heartless bastard!!

[Libby2]

92. me