How is your outrage meter?

There has been so much 'outrage' expressed on DU recently, makes me wonder what the outrage code of conduct is.

If you are outraged, do you get outraged at people who don't share your outrage?

Is there a scale of, say 1 to 10. I being slight annoyance, 10 being blind outrage that precludes all reason? If so, can you send me a link to the scale?

Is outrage more productive than calm discussion? :evilgrin:

If you use up all your outrage, how do you get more to keep you going for the rest of your life?

But, I have discovered a limitless supply of outrage for when mine runs low. I just turn on the television. Fills the tanks right up. :evilgrin:

a good torrent client, a few USB hard drives, and ya never need be outraged by TV again.

Sort of changing the topic; I often think about the generations of people who have ALWAYS had TV. We are the kids born in the 50s. I don't think TV execs have kept up with the fact that some people have just Seen it All Before.

When you think about it, boomers are the first gen. to have had TV available through all their lives. I'm not sure that, in the days of changing executives, the TV stations have taken this into consideration.

Now it's pegged!

Hope it didn't tip ya over the edge

going in the tank, the death of the start witness in Ohio and what looks to be the worst Christmas ever I am sitting @a 9.
If the goddamned democratic congress doesn't do anything, that may make me blow.

..and hunger growing.. I think most people have their anger meter pegged to the max.

I only hope that American workers will ban together (right and left) and direct their anger at the people who have brought this scurge on the country.

You gotta work up to these things.

All over the room..

I *hate* it when that happens, those suckers cost a pretty penny. :evilgrin:

and recycle it into glow in the dark peace symbols.

All that unobtainium..

Like BUSH. Too many times I hear the bullshit that Bush is too stoopit to know what he's done. No he is not. He is 100% responsible for the past 8 years--that being the war, the torture, the fucking The Constitution, and basically EVERYTHING. Bush does not come out unscathed in this.

If Obama is indeed a saint who is merely striving for unity, I still blame him for a misguided decision, but I blame that fuck Warren more. What a motherfucking hypocrite. Warren and his supporters did not vote for Obama. In fact, some of them are spreading the rumor that he is their long anticipated antiChrist. So how duplicitous is it of Warren to even accept the prayer engagement at the inauguration? This alone is proof that he is a scheister, a phoney, a fame-seeking opportunist.

And yes, outrage definitely has it's benefits.

but only when tempered by calm and measured reasctions.

I'm a pretty calm person.

I'm disappointed in the choice of Warren, but ultimately Obama is a politician and if I got outraged every time I disagreed with a politician I supported I'd have little time for anything else.

I believe in action, not anger. Anger only destroys the vessel in which it is stored.

More than anything, what will piss me off is when those who raged and brutalized any who didn't fully support Obama in the primaries start to suck pity for being betrayed. Those extremists who served as the self-appointed commissars of joy and light will be most galling if they drape the backs of their hands over their backward-drooping foreheads and moan for sympathy at their betrayal. It's an annoying habit of the "wronged" on this board, and even in moments where the person keening is actually mistreated by someone/something, it's still tiresome. When those who brooked no dissent moan about the corporatist drift back to post-modern feudalism and imperialism, hopefully the many people here who sounded the warning will rake 'em over the coals for their narcissism.

My motto has become a line from the film Copycat, starring Sigourney Weaver:

"I don't give a fuck. That's the upside to having a nervous breakdown."

CAVEAT: I do give a fuck - about many things. I just don't let my passions become obsessions anymore.

that is pulsating on the side of my forehead.. :rofl: