Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
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2:52 pm - How you can help to IMPEACH Bush
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Dear Friend,
We know George Bush has lied to us, spied on us, broken the law and sent Americans to fight an illegal war. The time for just debate and protest is over. We need real action to save our country and our Constitution – Congress must consider the impeachment of George W. Bush. Copy and paste this link into your browser: http://www.ccr-ny.org/impeachment
We outline the legal case for impeaching Bush in an important new book, Articles of Impeachment Again George W. Bush, published by Melville House this week. We want to share special information about the book with our supporters.
Legal experts from the Center for Constitutional Rights propose four articles of impeachment in the book, explaining the case clearly and precisely. This is essential reading for all Americans. The book is part of our campaign to demand Congress show the President he is not above the law – please join us in urging Congress consider impeachment today.
Why now? The President’s illegal domestic spying program has been exposed - CCR is currently fighting it in federal court – and a majority of Americans now say Bush lied about the war in Iraq and it is a mistake. A growing number of U.S. Representatives now support a resolution to investigate impeachment. Take a moment to act today and encourage even more representatives to join the fight.
Together, we can beat back Bush’s illegal actions through Congress and the courts.
Thank you for taking the time to act today, and please forward this email to your friends so we can spread the word.
Sincerely,
Bill Goodman
Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director
P.S. FOR NEW YORK SUPPORTERS:
CCR President Michael Ratner is speaking at public forum on impeachment presented by Harper’s Magazine this Thursday, March 2nd at 8pm at Town Hall, 123 West 43rd St. The panel includes Rep. John Conyers, Lewis H. Lapham, Elisabeth Holtzman and John Dean. Tickets are available for $10 by calling Ticketmaster at (212) 307-4100.
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
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3:51 am - Care Bear State
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Friday, October 7th, 2005
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9:57 pm - dizzypino
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Usually I go by the title Desipino besides Indipinoy, cos both are a merger of Filipino and Indian, which I am. But the next three weeks, I'm going to be a dizzypino!
This weekend I fly out around 7:30a to Montreal and fly back into NYC around 7:30a on 10/10.
Next weekend I fly out around 7:50a or so to Chicago and then fly back into NYC around 9:00a on 10/17.
The following weekend I fly out around 8p to Miami on the 21st and get back in on a Monday at some point.
whew.
Then I don't travel until the night of 11/8 when I go to Creating Change in Oakland.
I'm going to be nuts, esp. since I have to work late at night now doing 10 hour days or so just to keep up with work. yikes egad.
definately, definately going to be a DIZZYPINO.
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
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11:36 pm - If you want a job working in MY DEPARTMENT....
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Don't fuck with me and send me an insulting e-mails after I stay late at work and go out of my way to try to help you out so you can get a job with the President of my organization and give you enough time to complete the assignment we're asking all applicants to complete. Dumb Ass.
( The FUCKING E-mail )
current mood:  pissed off
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2005
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10:45 am - Stomach Olympics
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I wish this triathlon in my body would quit already. bleh.
current mood:  sick
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Monday, September 5th, 2005
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9:19 am - Katrina, Iraq, & Bush: How much worse can it get?
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Bush now wants to nominate Roberts to be Chief Justice? Gimme a break from this craziness already!!! I can't take it anymore! Bush's fascist ways have just exploded all over!
I'm really shocked with the aftermath of Katrina. Never have I ever seen discussions of race and class and poverty injected into the mainstream discourse and media in such a way as it has since the storm hit the South. I am amazed. My partner's aunt, who is very OTL (out to lunch) and a bible thumper lives in Houston and has been volunteering at the Astrodome. She does not get shit, but even she is calling for regime change at home and for bringing the troops home from Iraq. That's astonishing to me. If she can get this, and trust me she's a good person but dumb as rocks when it comes to her analysis of anything cos she can't see past her bible, then I wonder if the veil that has been covering so many American's eyes is also lifting. I can't see how it could not. What do folks think?
I am a bit concerned though that the tragedy known as Katrina will be used as an excuse to bring the troops home from Iraq. Don't get me wrong. I am not about the occupation at all and never supported the invasion or war. And I do think that having more troops here and using them efficiently could have helped spared some of the castrophe that has occured in the South post-hurricane. However, I think a complete withdrawl from Iraq would be devastating to the country and people there.
Why do I think this? Well, Iraq in some ways is just like the Philippines. After the Spanish American War, the U.S. engaged the Philippines in the Philippine-American war where the U.S. took over the country and occupied it as a territory in the early 1900s. The U.S. helped build up infrastructure in the PI and was set to give the PI it's own soverignty in the 1940s, but then WWII hit and the PI was invaded this time by the Japanese. After WWII was over, the U.S. should have stuck around with the PI to help rebuild after the Japanese decimated the country. However, the U.S. just up and left, and the PI never really recovered.
It took about 40 years to get the PI running after the U.S. occupied it in the early 1900s. After starting the war in 2003, I cannot see how the U.S. could just up and leave Iraq after two years when it took so long to get a war torn PI up and running. It's a mess there in Iraq. And not that the people there are incapable of taking care of themselves or handling their shit, but I don't see them as having enough of the resources to do it themselves. And if the U.S. were to completely withdrawl, I'm worried about how/if Iraq would collapse and how further devastating the conditions could get there. It's all just such a bloody mess--both in the South and Iraq. There needs to be real aid and capacity building in both places and not just the continued fuck ups that our government and administration are perpetuating.
current mood:  tired
current music: rj snoring some
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9:16 am - Going Crazy on Slanted Floors
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I'm back from my one week cruise to Bermuda. I'm having some kind of post-truamatic sea sickness kind of disorder. The floors in my apartment floor are slanted which makes me feel like I'm still on the cruise ship, because it brings me back to the feeling when the ship was rocking and tilted to port or starboard. I keep walking in my apartment and feel like I'm bouncing on the waves still. And the problem is only exasperated by the fact that I caught some kind of bug the last night and now have a mild fever. Regardless, it was all worth it. I had the vacation of a lifetime--this truly was the best vacation I have ever had, and it was mostly free!
current mood: sick
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Saturday, August 13th, 2005
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11:03 am - i need to breathe
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i have a guest staying with me and rj right now and things have taken a(n (un)expected(?)) turn for the worst. i can't wait till he leaves. i need to breathe freely. i'm ready to NOT be a parent for a while. i've inherited the Madriaga worry gene from my mother which comes from her mother before her and her mother before her. and i feel it tightening and constraining my stomach. i know i'm not ready for that kind of responsibility, to have to take care of someone else besides myself and rj, which is already a stretch. i'm counting down to tuesday, or sooner...
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Thursday, August 11th, 2005
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10:24 am - Egg on my face
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I just found out that my summer interns, who I adore, ran up a 1k+ bill doing research on Lexis-Nexus trying to find news articles that feature my organization. NOT GOOD. I had been EXPLICIT with them about not using any tools on there that have the $ sign which indicates that it will cost BIG MONEY to use those services. I feel mortified. I have gone on and on and on about how good they are, and then I found out this is going on. NOT GOOD. NOT GOOD AT ALL.
This is going to be a learning experience for me, because I have to talk to them about this and lay down the law. GRRR.
current mood: pissed off
current music: My Personal Moon--Madison Park
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Monday, July 25th, 2005
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10:01 pm - There are no good lawyers
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Law school is evil. The bar is horrible. And the laywers at my work have turned into hypocrites. I am annoyed.
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Thursday, June 30th, 2005
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11:34 pm - Weekend Work
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I'm ready to work that I need to do, and I'm planning to do it this weekend. I haven't spoken to my dad in months. He kept calling me in April and May and I was really busy, so I wouldn't return his calls. Then I felt like I was being harassed. When he finally called me, I felt like he was trying to control me. So I stopped trying to talk to him. But it's much more than that. I really don't want to have a relationship with him, in part because I don't like who he is as a person, because of the abuse that my brother and I suffered at his hands that he has not apologized for, because we do not share the same politics, and because I am not out to him (thus he does not know who I am and a LARGE part of my life). I'm ready to address all this. This has been on my mind for months, and I've been thinking about it a lot (at least a couple times a week) but the words could never come to my fingertips. This weekend, I plan to get it done. I'm ready. It's weird cos I look back and my first notes on this were written when I last december, and then started drafting something in the end of march that i have on LJ. It's time to finish this.
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Sunday, June 19th, 2005
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12:32 am - Homesick
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I just saw a picture of some kids sitting on the beach and it made me really homesick. August can't come soon enough. That's when I'm planning on going home, b/c my grandpa turns 80 then. My family will probably rent a beach house at Bodega Bay and will do the usual filipino thing of hunting and gathering sea food from the shore and then eating it the same day. And I can't wait for that. Now that I'll be coming up on a year at my work, I'll have three work weeks of vacation, but that doesn't seem enough for me. Most people at my work get to do some kind of work related travel, but I'm too junior. I'm hoping I'll be able to step it up some and do some regional fundraising in CA though...then I could go back and have someone else foot the bill.
current mood:  homesick
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
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11:44 pm - 3 years ago
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OK i haven't masturbated just yet. Anyways, I got a call from my friend Wes from college. We really haven't spent much time together since we graduated, but we still keep in touch. We've developed a pattern where we call each other from airports when we travel. It's a nice relationship. He's taveling from Portland to Oakland right now and then going back to Davis b/c his sister has her graduation this weekend. It's kind of weird for me, because I graduated from Davis 3 years ago, moved to the east coast 3 years ago, and met my partner three years ago (our anniversary is next wednesday). The Summer solstice rolls around next Tuesday, and that's when I usually mark my year and reflect on where I've been and where I'm going. I feel like I've covered a lot of ground the past three years and have lost some foresight at the same time.
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11:25 pm - Me in 5 Sentences
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So I haven't updated this in a while, and it's time to do so. There is no way to capture everything that's happened since I've last posted, so I'm challenging myself to write 5 sentences that can summarize what I've been up to.
1) Been working a lot and stressing over trying to finish my first FY at my work which is causing the carpy to flare up some.
2) RJ graduated and decided to take the NY Bar but is still applying for new jobs which means that I'm still uncertain if he's staying in NYC with me or not.
3) I've been drinking a lot and making out with boys at parties and have dated some of them.
4) Got into a fight with the dad because he kept harassing me to talk to him when i didn't want to and now I haven't spoken to him in weeks; I need to finish my coming out letter/accountability letter to him.
5) (I'm going to save that for later cos I don't know what to focus on)
I guess I have always sucked when it came to diaries and journals cos i'm the type of person who'd rather live life than spend time recording it, and I swear my life is much more interesting than these sentences. I think I'm going to go and masturbate now.
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2005
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4:17 pm - Schiavo and John Paul II
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It's too bad they both didn't die on April 1. It would have confused a lot of people. I wonder how the fundees are going to use their deaths in the coming months ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2005
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2:17 pm - April Fool
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Today is the day that RJ is supposed to decide where he takes the bar. So I'm awaiting that decision. It will have ramifications on my life and our relationship and should give me a good indicator of whether or not he'll stay in NYC with me. He is considering taking the GA bar, but staying here in NYC, which is why this is only an indicator. I'll see what happens in the coming months. I hope he flinches and decides to stay with me.
Regardless if he stays or not, I'm a New Yorker for now. Weird. Growing up, I would never have imagined that I would live here. And walah! Look where I am. I couldn't do it if I didn't love my job (regardless of all the tedious data entry) and my coworkers. It may sound sad, but in a way, they're my family. I mean I see them more than I do my actual family! Yes, the relationship is different cos it's more collegial. But my work place has been my source stability in NY since about October when RJ broke up with me that time. Well, work hasn't been the only source. But it's a major component as work takes up most of ones time. My work is my safe space, and if folks here really knew how much I appreciated this place and the people here, I wonder if they'd think I was weird.
Anyways, back to the grind...
current mood:  thankful
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
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8:12 pm - Sick & Tired
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I've had this cold that I can't shake for about two weeks now. I probably can't shake it because I haven't had time to rest. Right now my lil' cousin is visiting in town for spring break with his friend. At this moment he's down the street at some punk show. Luckily and conviently for me, my office is just down the street and there is a lot of stuff that he would be interested in around here, so I can just point them in a certain direction and their off for a while and I can take two. Anyways, I was supposed to go to the show with them, but my body is quitting on me. I'm on vacation right now, but this doesn't feel like a vacation. It's more like work figuring where to take them and then actually taking them around the city and having to plan everything. I'm not getting a break at all. I really want to sleep, but when do I have the time when I'm on the go with them and have to go to work on Thursday and Friday? Maybe I'll collapse and be hospitalized for a while. Now that sounds like a vacation to me.
I could really use some adult fun right now. *sigh*
current mood:  exhausted
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1:19 pm - Chismosa
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Thank god I'm half Filipino and half Indian. I'm genetically built to handle gossip. Chismiss in tagalog. Or as I like to call it, information trafficing, which it really is. I hate how people put a negative value on gossip. It's actually really useful tool if you can master it. I know it helped me in my student activism in college because I ended up playing intermidieary between student leaders and campus officials. And I was always in the know.
I find myself doing this at my current job. I figure that its good for folks to know what others are saying about them or what's being said. We have such a passive agressive culture that's going on right now, and it pisses me off. I want to go and confront certain folks, but I know that it wouldn't be good for the overall well being of the organization. So in the meantime, I just keep trafficing. And I do what I can help folks when I can by giving them information that I think might benefit them. But I don't reveal my sources. It's more fun that way. And confidentiality is key to the game.
current mood:  blah
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10:59 am - this is so me...
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Friday, March 25th, 2005
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11:38 am - Draft 1
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So I've wanted to write a letter to my dad for sometime where I not only confront him about the abuse both my brother and I endured at his hands, but where I also speak to the ramifications of it and where I also come out to him. That's my style: just throw a lot at a person all at one time, watch them reel with it, and see what happens. My dad is the final person in my life I need to come out to. It's time for me to come clean and get this burden off my chest--about my sexual idenity and about being a survivor of parental violence. I need to heal. I should be working right now but this is on my mind. So I'm gonna jot some of what's swirling in my head right now, and will revise and revise until it's the best it can be. ( Here Goes: )
current mood:  wounded
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