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  1. Eh maybe we are not arguing. But I don't think Trump is a target and I believe I said as much earlier, that he may very well be a lightning rod for shit that was already out there. He is not an anti-Semite per se or in the classical sense but the fact that he has a Jewish son in law and daughter does not negate the fact that he openly supports and embraces fascist white nationalist ideals, and that the actual, you know, fascists, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis have been emboldened because they can say and do shit out in the open and have politicians still rally around them rather than condemn them for the disgusting racist shitbirds that they are. Also the fact that Trump "supports Israel" just plays into the whole evangelical end of times thing that has to happen for the rapture as opposed to preserving Israel as someplace Jews can go when the anti-Semitism starts becoming a thing as it inevitably does. So OK I'm out, Shalom.
  2. Right. I addressed your question as to where the rise in anti-Semitism is coming from by saying both the far left and far right, post an article to that effect, and you agree with the article but not me. Oh, maybe you're right, if it's neo-Nazis this stuff should be happening in small Texas towns. Like San Marcos: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/11/04/jewish-hays-county-residents-face-antisemitism-follow-austin-discrimination/6285536001/ And you're right. The MAGAs and their embrace of the Trumpist/Facist/neo-Nazi/white nationalist ideology is long gone: https://www.azmirror.com/2021/09/23/gop-officials-will-appear-alongside-white-nationalists-nazi-apologists-at-rally-to-support-insurrectionists/ https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/04/politics/kfile-kari-lake-nazi-symapthizer-qanon-figure/index.html Anyway yeah, time to shut up about this. Can't argue with people whose minds are already made up.
  3. Long gone? Dude he's been out of office less than a year and he's still revered and kowtowed to by a whole fucking contingent of insane Congress-things waving his banner and he's still spewing his tribal bullshit. Absolutely a lot of the increase can be traced to the left. And a lot of it can be traced to the neo-fucking Nazis. Do you think for one fucking moment they've forgotten that the President of the United States referred to them as "good people"? Here's an article that at least touches on the issue, I'm not super excited about the whole "Jewish brand" thing but the fundamental concepts are at least addressed. https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/columnist/editors-note/338393/how-the-jewish-brand-is-getting-squeezed-from-two-sides/
  4. Yeah these guys are not home grown. They come to the "liberal havens" to make a point. There is definitely far right activity here right now. But, as I said, it's coming from both sides in general.
  5. It's not just Austin. It's all over the U.S. and the world actually. There are places in Europe (France and Germany in particular) where Jews are advised not to wear any accoutrements identifying themselves as such because of physical violence aimed at them. In Brooklyn, NY too. Polarization of the populace, the fact that the former President of the U.S. has made it cool to hate on others, the "very fine" neo-Nazis on the far right and the Palestinian sympathizers on the far left (and no I'm not saying that the Palestinians don't have some real grievances, let's not go there right now OK?), and just the fact that the shit just historically always comes back to the Jews. When all the Trump shit started happening I was saying at that time that if he got elected and people started glomming onto his Fascist nativist bullshit, we'd see a spike in anti-Semitism because Jews are the perpetual historical scapegoats. Sorry, don't mean to CR this shit but empirically it's exactly what is happening. I guess it could be argued that Trump was just the catalyst for something that was already there, and I do think there is some truth to that theory. I just hope it peaks and ebbs before things get really bad.
  6. That, and there are a lot of elderly people going out to their cars after dark, not to mention the fact that in addition to trying to burn our places of worship, attacking Jews and their property is back in vogue. See Pittsburgh, LA, Brooklyn, Charlottesville, et al. And take a look at this. I have to say, I knew things were getting pretty bad, but even I didn't know they had gotten this bad. https://www.adl.org/education-and-resources/resource-knowledge-base/adl-tracker-of-antisemitic-incidents?field_incident_location_state_target_id=All&gclid=CjwKCAjwiY6MBhBqEiwARFSCPmaB9OVglBKiNnWF94TNC24JtEA6lgBcYpN_MSw_z7aIDZee4424qxoCRZYQAvD_BwE&page=20
  7. I've been a member there for 30 years. Was married there. Fuck that guy.
  8. So, this is a story by my cousin. I never knew any of this. Just wow. https://forward.com/news/476361/my-abortion-story-because-its-true-and-we-should-not-be-afraid-to-talk/?fbclid=IwAR3_BxiRd_ulHCrqYmH8XtH-_CnEWLNaduL1VIj-XIelLVwkDVLn0rTqgSg
  9. Well, he mentions the name of my doctor so I'm not all that excited about releasing the actual VM, but here's the transcript if anyone wants it: Tom Schnorr, Austin Compounding Pharmacy, 9/7/2021, 9:30AM: "Hello ****, this is Tom, that was nice of you. Here...you are fired, and I'll notify Dr. **** that your prescriptions are no longer valid here. So we've cancelled everything in your system, have a good day, find somebody else that you can belittle and berate. And I'm not going to take your shit over Ivermectin. You will change your mind after you see people die for the lack of doing proper medical care. So just piss off." Lovely, huh. BTW I did file a grievance with the State Pharmaceutical Board. I'm not holding my breath that anything will happen from that.
  10. QFT (and search engine propagation) but suffice it to say I'm not with that doctor any more for a variety of reasons. And to be completely honest, I don't know if Tom Schnorr, the owner of Austin Compounding Pharmacy who left me an expletive-laden voicemail, knew I had cancer. The prescription was for something completely different. Not that it should matter. And I've never found compounding pharmacies to be all that different than any others. A lot of hormonal treatments and also orphan drugs need to be made from scratch as they aren't commercially available at the prescribed dosages, or at least that's been my experience.
  11. Yeah that's the first thing I did. The website specifically said they don't handle complaints about rudeness, but I think this went way beyond rudeness, and if he was stupid enough to leave me a VM which of course I kept a copy of, then he's got really poor judgement.
  12. Thanks I really appreciate this. But I'm A-OK now, and out and about with no trouble. I thought about ways to put his shit on blast. Honestly he probably shouldn't be handling controlled substances based on his behavior and, according to Ana, his past record, but couldn't come up with something that was worth the time and effort.
  13. I don't usually watch local news but glad to see KVUE is on to their shit as well. The profane voicemail was the most bizarre part of all this. Who the hell gets cussed out by their (former) pharmacist? When I initially told my doctor about the "forgotten" prescriptions early on, he said, and I quote, "Well, Tom's a good guy, but he may be sampling too many of his own products". Like I said, Tarrytown pharmacy has been very proactive in letting me know the status of my compound when I switched over to them. They let me know in advance about a delay involving the PA's garbled instructions when she switched the script and then a delay in receiving the materials (fuck you supply chain). One other thing about Austin Compounding Pharmacy, the last few times I was in everyone was maskless. I try not to be a mask Nazi, but going through cancer treatment and having a depressed immune system for a year has left me with a lot of rage issues against the assholes who won't mask up. And in a pharmacy where you are dealing with both ill and immunocompromised people it's just inexcusable.
  14. Debated where to put this and whether to post it at all - I've haven't been around much because, well, assholes gonna asshole, but this is too good not to share and chances are a few of you may know this guy. Austin Compounding Pharmacy has been preparing two controlled substance prescriptions for me on a monthly basis for about 18 months. During Covid I had them delivered because I was spending my lockdown in cancer treatment (BTH out of it, second time, FU cancer). So anyway three out of the first four months I had the prescriptions delivered they "forgot" to put one in the bag. This freaked me out because no way was the doctor going to replace the script. I always called and they would say "Oh, yeah, sorry, we forgot to put one of the prescriptions in the bag". We'll send it out tomorrow. Well, I figured the odds of that happening so regularly was pretty close to 0% so I figured someone was trying to steal the drugs. So I started picking them up. Then began a series of months where one of the scripts was randomly not ready when promised. Whenever that would happen I'd just pick up the one and have them delivery the other. They always waived the delivery fee. Not that it was a lot and I didn't want to be a Karen but my medical bills are high enough and I sure as hell wasn't interested in repeatedly paying for someone else's mistake. Fast forward to last month, I went to pick up my prescriptions, made the mistake of not checking, and of course when I got home 20 minutes later there was only one prescription in the bag. I called back and the same lady who had told me they were both ready tried to tell me some bullshit story about the needing to call the doctor about the second prescription and he didn't call back until I had already picked up the first, which was total crap because I had just left 20 minutes before. I asked her to please deliver the second prescription. Two days later I called back to check the status and got some kid who said he had one script ready for pickup. I said no, it needs to be delivered because it wasn't ready when promised. He snapped back that he was only reading what was on the screen and that he'd take care of it, then slammed the phone down in my ear. OK fine, whatever. The next day I got the prescription with a delivery charge. I called to get the fee removed and I get put on hold. Their hold advertising was pimping Ivermectin. And Zinc and Vitamin C to prevent Covid. And all sorts of other shit they said you should come get if you tested positive and didn't want to call your doctor. None of that sat well with me. Next thing I know the owner (who didn't identify himself, I just knew his voice) got on the phone and just started bitching. He was tired, he was overworked, he was stressed, and was I really calling to bother him about a delivery charge? Last straw. I told him to do whatever the hell he wanted with his delivery charge, that I was switching pharmacies and he should be ashamed at himself for shilling Ivermectin. Then I hung up. The owner called me back and left me a voicemail telling me I was fired (you can't fire me, I quit), that he wasn't going to take my shit about Ivermectin, and that I should just piss off. I'm now going to Tarrytown Pharmacy. They are much nicer, much more proactive, and I even got my third Covid shot when I was there this month. Anyway, don't got to Austin Compounding Pharmacy. TLDR: Austin Compounding Pharmacy may have been trying to steal my drugs Austin Compounding Pharmacy is totally incompetent Austin Compounding Pharmacy pushes Ivermectin Austin Compounding Pharmacy's owner is a psycho who called and left me an expletive-laden voicemail.
  15. Cool cool. PM me and let's get her done.
  16. Section 107 Row 6, PM with offer
  17. I mean, I've got a job that keeps me away from the computer and phone most of the day, and ain't nobody got time to hit refresh all day long or try to call a number 87,000 times. Then again, I went through cancer treatment last year (beat the fuck out of it, this was round two for me, reprise of 2008 but with a different flavor, thank you very much) and I'll be gotdammed if I went through all that just to get Covid now. So yeah, I'm jonesing for a vaccine and I'm legit 1B, so if anyone wants to PM any helpful shortcuts I'll be eternally grateful, cause I don't really have time right now to monitor this thread either. All I can offer you in return is rep until we all get vaccinated and can mingle once again. Then there could be booze & shit. And yeah I'm a chick and yeah there's pics of me on here somewhere, no noods, my husband would cutya. 'Preciate y'all, even the assholes.
  18. The irony of your calling me out for {gasp} adding a no CR at the end of a post instead of at the beginning, and then as an afterthought mentioning that "you guess" you'll say how sorry you are about my plight is not lost on me. And yes I was triggered. For someone who is so concerned about this thread being a "safe space", you sure took a lot of liberties with your insinuations. Anyway I don't need to be lectured by you about anything. But thank you for reminding me why I don't come around much any more. My apologies if I've derailed this thread or caused anyone any distress.
  19. Well I didn't. I'm sorry that the order of my thoughts didn't suit you when expressing myself about a sexual assault. Deal with it. And if by putting "candid" in quotes you are meaning to imply that I was not, when I was in actuality thanking someone else for his candor, then fuck you. Mods delete this if it's inappropriate. I'm way past caring at this point.
  20. Seriously. Thanks. For some reason it really does matter that you assholes are rooting to me. And yeah, I count Troph's friendship as one of the better things that has occurred via my association with Surly. Onward we go....
  21. Wow. Thank you for your candor. I can personally guarantee that the vast majority of women who accuse men of sexual misconduct are telling the truth, and that many more of them never bother to say anything at all because they expect to experience what I did. I can only take comfort in the fact that if my assaulter does pull a Kavanaugh* later in life, at least there will be records available. I can't imagine going public with something like that and then having to experience what Christine Ford did. I honestly don't think I'd survive it. By the way, my assaulter was 26 years old married with a kid and another on the way. He was a great nurse and I adored him. So yeah appearances can be deceiving. *No CR please, I mentioned this in the context of struggling to decide how far to take the matter and how it affected my mental health.
  22. Oh why the hell not. I angry-posted my return in CR last week. Now I'm (marginally) less angry. I had cancer 8 years ago. Hodgkin's Lymphoma. I beat it. I figured it was a one-off and just went on with my life. March 5 of this year I was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer with lymph node involvement. Seems the radiation treatment I received for the Hodgkin's left me extra-susceptible to breast cancer. Oops. So anyway I am on an estrogen-blocker that makes me feel 90 years old. I had a lumpectomy three weeks ago, now I'm facing a surgery to remove nerve stimulator implants for chronic migraines because they are in the radiation field. I'm scrambling to get that done around the hospital closures. Then I get 20 weeks of chemo. Then 4 weeks of radiation. Then ten years of this estrogen-blocker medicine. No that was not a typo. Ten years. I don't think I'm willing to do that. If I die 10 years earlier or even 20 years, so be it. I have no interest in feeling like this until I'm 100. I'd rather feel good and live to 70. My husband is freaked out about this, which makes things worse. I've dealt with depression all my adult life. After the cancer incident I was diagnosed with PTSD and anxiety. I didn't even know what anxiety was before then. I ate stress for breakfast. Apparently PTSD after cancer treatment is fairly common and affects about 1 in 4 survivors. When I told my oncologist about it at the time, he said, "Oh yeah, that can happen." How about saying something about it then? Anyhoo, I've been working very hard for the last eight years to get my life together. Now this. I mean, how do you get over PTSD when the Ts keep happening? I think I should just start calling it TSD. I'm on an anti-depressant, an anti-anxiety, receive weekly talk therapy, and I meditate and exercise and do yoga daily. I avoid sugar, I eat mostly clean. I do what I can. Did I mention I was sexually assaulted by a healthcare provider while I was sedated for a migraine therapy last year? I reported him to the nursing board. Nothing. No proof. I reported it to the doctor. Nothing. No proof. They nurse said I imagined it. Motherfucker still has his job. Anyway the next time you wonder why women don't always report these things, and then get so furious when we get victim-shamed, this is why. I went through a lot of time and hassle and humiliation just to see him get off with nothing but a note in his file. But I digress. I'm irrationally afraid of getting Covid. Technically I'm not at any more risk than anyone else, but it would play hell with my treatment plan and pretty soon I'm going to be immunocompromised which will make the odds worse. I am irrationally angry with the president, the governor, and those who won't wear mask. I can't concentrate at work, and I have a job which requires a high degree of accuracy and decision-making skills, both of which are impaired by the medication and my mood. I do work at home so that helps. I fantasize about being confronted about my mask so I can attempt to beat the shit out of someone. Yeah I'm a 57 year old woman but I'm a singer and a guitar player in a rock band, goddammit,so I can hold my own in a confrontation. I want to scream at everyone. I pick fight with friends of friends on Facebook because I swore to myself I wouldn't post political shit on my own page so I created my own loophole. I work in the financial services field so I need to be really careful about that in case someone doxes me. I mostly stick to telling Trump supporters they are idiots, but you can't be too careful these days. You know, I don't even like many of y'all. I go all the way back to the original Hornfans. Got hooked on the "USC Cheerleader Travels" thread, or whatever the hell it was. Since then I've aged and it seems the board hasn't, and I find most posters to be insufferably immature and misogynist. So I lurk on the football thread just to keep tabs on 'sup, and sometimes on Daily Texan because a lot of those threads seem to have the inside scoop on things, and sometimes, when I'm feeling masochistic, I check out the Cloak Room. I feel like every time I get close to happiness, something knocks me back. I have a pretty crazy history with both physical and mental trauma that I won't go into here but let's just say if I wrote a movie about my life I don't think anyone would believe it. Especially the timing. It seems like I'm always on the verge of something good when something catastrophic happens. The first time I got cancer it derailed my life. Recovered and went through a tough marital period that we seem to have conquered. Got over that, started getting better, then the assault. Tried to deal with that, made some headway. Started a great music project - connections in Austin, L.A., and Chicago. FIVE DAYS after I launched my new site and unveiled my schedule of gigs, I get the cancer diagnosis. The next week, shit starts shutting down. Musically I may be finished. I mean, I look pretty damn good for 57 if I do say so myself (no pics, asswipes) but I have a limited shelf life for doing what I love, which is singing live. At least in pretentious Austin. I might have a chance on the blues circuit in Chicago. But I don't live in Chicago and I can't move there. I'm not expecting y'all to magically solve all my problems, but I just need to get it all out. I did feel marginally better after I posted in CR so I thought I'd try it here where the audience is a little less, ahem, judgy. So thanks for listening, and I wish all of you health and peace.
  23. Yeah I'm still around. I quit posting for a number of reasons. But I feel compelled to share this: I survived Hodgkin's Lymphoma 8 years ago. Didn't look back. Many of you may remember my sharing my journey (I used to be McAllan12'sBetterHalf, and my husband, who is apparently a lot smarter than me in this regard, blew y'all off a long time ago.) On March 5 this year I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I had surgery three weeks ago and we are evaluating my options for further treatment. I will say to anyone who does not or will not wear a mask, and expects me to just sit at home on lockdown (which I can't do anyway because of doctor appointments) so you can go to Costco and get your fucking Pringles or to Chili's for your fucking wings or to get your goddam haircut without being bothered to cover your face for 15 minutes because "muh freedums!" I hope you get fucked in the ass with a hot poker and then get Covid and die the most horrible death possible. In that order. No, check that. I hope you get Covid, have a hellish six weeks on a ventilator, and then end up with COPD and all sorts of other horrible auto-immune and lung diseases that make your life miserable for then next 30 years and then die in a lingering and painful way. Harsh? Tough fucking shit. I am showing you the same regard and respect you're showing me. None. And there are too many ignorant pricks who seem to think that either you are old and die in 5 minutes if you get Covid, and those people should just be shut-ins until there is a vaccine, or that you are asymptomatic and will be fine. I'd love for you to experience first hand that there are other outcomes. So yeah, just brush aside the fact that mortality rates haven't risen with this last surge (yet) as evidence that you can act like a fucking toddler who doesn't want to do something just to show that you don't have to listen to mommy all of the time. I hope you suffer the consequences ten-fold. One last thing before someone chimes in with faux concern for my mental health. Yeah I know it ain't good. Yeah I"m angry. Furious, even. The President of the country I live in, and the Governor and Lt. Governor of the state I live in, want to kill me. If that's not grounds to want to throttle someone with my bare hands I don't know what is. And yes I have all the personal support I could need or want. It still doesn't do any good when I've got cancer in the middle of a fucking pandemic and a good percentage of the people around me have as much regard for my health and safety as they would a piece of trash on the street. OK I'm out for another two years or unless I croak first. At this rate given the way things are going it's debatable as to which I'd prefer.
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