Posted on 05/13/2005 7:36:25 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
It looks like William Rivers (Pied Piper) Pitt is doing a lot of worrying that the scam perpetrated by Andy Stephenson is going to explode in his face. Pity Poor Pathetic Pied Piper Pitt (had to get in at least one allitertation) for he hasn’t slept since April as you can see in this Pitt authored DUmmie THREAD titled, “I could use a little help here.” Yeah, Pitt, you could actually use a LOT of help WHEN the AndyScam blows up in such a way that even the incredibly gullible DUmmies realize that Andy Stephenson has been scamming them just as cold-bloodedly as his former mentor, Bev Harris. A constant theme right now in DUmmieland is that they just KNOW that Andy is on the up and up BECAUSE Pied Piper Pitt told them so. I hate to tell you this DUmmies but Pied Piper Pitt has ALSO been having doubts about the DUmmies as have been documented in the Free Republic discussion forum of the previous DUFU edition titled, “’About the Andy Stephenson situation’---Skinner.” Oh, and speaking of Skinner, haven’t the DUmmies noticed that he has been MIA since issuing his doubts about Stephenson a few days ago? Skinner is less than an hour from Baltimore but he has yet to make the short trip over there to verify Andy’s fraudulent story. It is “The Silence of the Scams.” So let us now join Pied Piper Pitt in his state of complete sleeplessness. Somehow I think Pitt will be greeting the sun for many, many mornings to come. As usual the insomniac rantings of Pitt and his DUmmie followers are in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, who enjoyed a refreshing night of deep sleep, is in the [brackets]:
I could use a little help here
[You sure do, Pied Piper Pitt, especially after the DUmmies form a lynch mob to go after you when even those dopes realize FOR SURE that they have been scammed by Andy Stephenson, thanks in large part to you vouching for Andy’s honesty.]
I haven't been able to sleep for about two weeks. I start to drop off, and maybe actually sleep for about 20 minutes, before popping awake. Last night, for about the fifteenth day in a row, I saw the sun come up against my will. This has started to affect my stomach, which makes sleeping harder. I have tried exercise to wear myself out, and have managed to badly strain a muscle in my back.
[Your back will hurt even more after the DUmmies start angrily beating on it while cursing you for enabling the AndyScam.]
So, to recap: No sleep since April, rotten stomach, torn up back. I've reached that insomnia point where I am psyching myself out; I got no sleep the night before last, spent yesterday writing a PDA action alert and a 30-minute speech transcript, drove two hours to do the speech, gave the speech, did a three-hour Q&A, talked to people for another hour, drove two more hours to get home, and by the time I got back here I was literally quivering with exhaustion.
[So, to recap: You are worried sick about what will happen to you after Andy Stephenson is proven to be a complete FRAUD even to the satisfaction of the incredibly gullible DUmmie suckers.]
But I laid awake until 6:37am (I remember looking at the clock), popped awake an 8, 9, 10 before finally giving up and getting up at 11. I can barely see straight right now, my stomach feels like it has snakes in it, my back is killing me so I can't exercise...and I know for a stone fact that I won't be able to sleep again. Tried a nap an hour or so ago. Came thiiiiiiiis close to dropping of and then popped awake.
[3:11 AM: “Worried sick about the backlash when Andy’s scam is finally proven.”
3:12 AM: “Will they toss me out of Dummieland?”
3:13 AM: “Will my speaking engagements be cancelled?”
3:14 AM: “Maybe I could change my identity.”
3:15 AM: “DAMN YOU TO HELL, Andy, for suckering me into being your lousy cheerleader!!!”
3:16 AM: “Is it 3:17 AM yet?”]
Any ideas? I've already heard about taking mela-whatever, but that stuff gave my mother splitting headaches when she tried it. I have drastically cut back on caffiene. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. I've reached that violently, violently, violently frustrated stage of insomnia where sleep is a guaranteed impossibility, and if a routine like yesterday's (while on no sleep) can't get it done, I am at a total loss.
[Confession is good for the soul. And now let us read the hilarious advice on insomnia cures from your fellow DUmmies, Pitt.]
scotch. start about 3pm. you'll be out by 9
[Thunderbird. Start about 3 PM. You’ll be homeless by 9.]
Tried it. I managed to make myself unconscious, but that isn't sleep. Woke up worse off the next day. Tried it again a few days later, and all that happened was I was drunk and wide awake.
[Pied Piper Pitt---The wide awake drunk. That’s what happens when you fall such obvious scams that Andy perpetrates.]
sex?
[Unfortunately Andy can no longer be located.]
Move the clock...for one thing. Looking at that thing with the blinking : all night can be horrifying.
[If Pitt moves his clock all it will mean is that he will have to keep walking over to it every 5 minutes to check to see if he got at least a half hour of sleep.]
yes, sex works remember, only in fundie land is a monogamous partner of the opposite gender who desires to become pregnant is a requirement for "sex."
[Only in DUmmieland does it not matter what gender or species your sex partner is.]
Will: see a doctor. Insomnia is a bitch, although I only get it maybe once or twice a month.
[Pitt needs to see a shrink doctor. See Pitt lying on the shrink’s couch? Let us see what the shrink is writing on his note pad: “Just plain NUTS!!!”]
This sounds like a case for sleeping pills though I ordinarily wouldn't recommend them.
[NOT a good idea. Pitt would be tempted to swallow the whole bottle after the AndyScam blows up in DUmmieland.]
Benadryl. But don't take it every night, as you can become addicted (as per my physician husband).
[Methinks Pitt would become addicted the first night after desperately popping pill after pill of those Benny’s.]
Eat lots of turkey! Turkey has natural sleep inducers in it.
[And if that doesn’t work, have someone take a frozen turkey and slam it on Pitt’s head to knock him out.]
My problem is that I have bad physical reactions to anti-histamine stuff. I had raging bad allergies as a kid, and was always loaded up on the stuff. After a few years it just messed me up, and still does whenever I touch it.
[I can sympathize, Pitt. I’m allergic to wool so I’ve had to cross sheep off my date list. Such are the sacrifices I’ve had to make.]
Tonight I will do turkey, warm milk and the tub
[You’re going to do turkey in a tub filled with warm milk, Pitt? You really ARE kinky!]
Yes - I like Tylenol PM myself.
[I once tried to commit suicide by taking a cyanide pill. Unfortunately some sick bastard tampered with the cyanide pill bottle and I took a Tylenol that he inserted instead. I’m suing!!!]
empty your mind, grasshopper...
[…be just like your fellow DUmmies, cricket…]
I don't really know any tricks to get to sleep but one thing I discovered is that it makes no sense to just lay there willing yourself to do it - the more you try, the less likely it is that it will happen. So when I couldn't sleep, I'd get up. I'd tidy the house, I'd do laundry, I'd go for a walk, I'd read, I'd write, I'd work. Eventually, I'd get very, very tired and I'd lay down again. If I didn't get to sleep within a reasonable time, I'd get up again.
[Good idea… Hey Pitt! My pad needs cleaning and after that you can do my laundry.]
stop doing crystal meth that's what I had to do.
[speed_addiction…is that you?]
The back thing is my own fault. I've been beating the shit out of myself on my weight bench, way overdoing it to try and get sleepy. A muscle in my shoulderblade area finally got tired of it and told me to f*ck myself.
[And after the AndyScam scandal explodes, Pitt, your fellow DUmmies will be telling you the same thing as your shoulderblade muscle told you.]
Definitely see a doctor...there might be a physiological reason you're having trouble sleeping.
[Pitt’s problem is ALL mental.]
Will, I'm not a doctor, but I am going to go ahead and give you medical advice anyway. Your body is telling you to take a break.
[Yes, good advice. Take a break, Pitt, on a Costa Rica getaway with Andy Stephenson. Don’t worry about expenses. Andy has $50,000 to blow.]
Otherwise, until you see an internist, a bit of turkey, milk and a warm bath. Then find something boring, yet educational, to read.
[Maybe not educational but Pitt’s own writings should do the trick.]
A friend of mine who went through a divorce said she would drop her jaw down as you would right before you fall asleep and then force herself to COUNT SHEEP. It actually worked for her.
[It won’t work for me. I told you before that I’m allergic to wool.]
One word solution... PAMPER!
[One word solution… PAMPERS!]
White noise (I have a CD of very, very faint/distand thunderstorms and rain, and it's coma-inducing).
[White noise (I have a CD of very, very faint Pitt speeches, and it’s coma-inducing).]
Breathe thru your eyes ... Bull Durham
[Breath thru your butt … Andy Stephenson.]
Watch some mindless TV.
[Keith Olbermann.]
Ambien is habit forming and every person is different. So telling someone to ignore legitimate and documented side effects and product warnings is not particularly sound advice, wouldn't you agree?
[WARNING: Side effects of Ambien may inlude nausea, diarrhea attacks, dizziness, urges to support left wing loony causes, and the total loss of any ability to discern obvious scams.]
dude...seriously...smoke up. If I need to be asleep, pot is my friend to a nice, happy, and deep sleep.
[“Puff the magic dragon down by the sea!”]
First of all, sleep is over-rated.
[Sleep? Who needs it!]
You need to start "shutting down" very gradually.
[After the DUmmies finally wake up to the AndyScam, they will be “shutting down” Pitt very rapidly.]
Try to figure out what caused this abnormal sleep cycle to begin in the first place and address that issue.
[I don’t believe that Pitt thinking about how he has become Andy Stephenson’s lead cheerleader in Dummieland is going to help him get any sleep.]
Go To An Acupuncturist ASAP.
[Perhaps the acupuncturist can anesthetize those brain cells containing all memories about Andy.]
want something natural? try acupuncture- & I know where to get it cheap in the south end
[I don’t know about Pitt but Andy certainly would love to be acupunctured in the south end.]
You really should go to a doctor for a sleep evaluation. This may include keeping a diary for a week or so…
[May 13: “WHAT? WHAT? WHAT will I do when the DUmmies rise up against me when the AndyScam breaks?
May 15: “Need to leave the country. PRONTO!”
May 16: “Quick flight down to Costa Rica.”
May 20: “Slight gender preference modification but the honeymoon with Andy is just dreamy!”]
Cancel your appointments. Don't listen to TV or radio. Turn off your cell phone. Rent some funny movies.
[Flim Flam Man. The Sting.]
Thus is the world changed, one little DUmmie at a time.
Yes, depending on your standing with the bank. If he is a "known customer", he would be given a lot of leeway. He could fax in a signed request for a check to be mailed. Or have overnighted a notarized document of the same. It's all a judgement call by the manager. Or, who is to say there isn't someone in Seattle that sent the checks? No one knows who purchased the checks. Could be anyone. But, that is information that the bank DOES collect, but would be quite unlikely to release when you call to verify funds.
The problem being, the felonious Andy is a "known customer," but not in the good sense.
That $5,000 check to Johns Hopkins that he bounced, wasn't the first one he's ever rubbered.
Not by far.
That's also why this is so much fun! It's like a scavenger hunt for all the missing pieces to the puzzle! A real-time drama-mystery one could say.
& franksolich, it doesn't necessarily have to of been Undie who purchased those checks. If someone else in on this is in good standing with the credit union, THEY could have purchased those.
Okay, movie is on now, see you guys tomorrow!
Glad to have you here!
Well, again, it "depends". This could be his "clean" bank. The bank that he keeps on the up & up while he defrauds others-- there is a reporting mechanism (chexsystems) but there could be lag time in the banks he kites checks to reporting him and his opening of the "clean" bank's account. Besides, anyone could have purchased the checks. My best tin-foil hat guess right now is that one of his pals here in Seattle came through with some money to purchase the checks, with a promise to get that back with "interest" after the scam is finished.
However, it is also possible that he truly is sick/ had a fundraiser for cancer (even though he was diagnosed with something "pre-cancerous"), etc... Again, I think there is SO MUCH wrong with this andyscam, starting with the fact that the DUmp allows the mental cripples who frequent their site to be preyed upon by a con artist-- or ANYONE AT ALL who fund-raises on the site (of seriously mentally ill people). And seriously, it sets them up for a nice lawsuit if the scam was in any way endorsed by DU.
This - - means it is your problem. You are the captain, and right now it doesn't feel like anyone is at the helm here.
I guess Pied Piper Pitt lost his copy of How To Win Friends and Influence People.
As Rush said, feminism is a way for ugly women to get revenge. Liberalism is a way for powerless, doormat nerds to get revenge and feel the power they were "denied" as adolescents.
Wow. You know all this for a fact? Or is some of it conjecture and filling in the gaps?
Thanks! And I like your home page. But, what's a "chupe of mate"? A cup of... what?
By the way, I totally understand the suspicion of some. There are lots of lurkers and trolls. At this point, I'm convinced I lurk at DU more than PJ or Frank or the others. But that's because I can't get out of the house to do "regular" things-- I'm STUCK to the internet.
You have a pic of sfexpat2000? I'd love to have a copy.
Yerba Mate is an herbal tea popular (VERY popular) in Argentina, Paraguay and parts of Brazil. It's a nasty, bitter, green drink that smells suspiciously like you're drinking hot alfalfa water. Of course, I love it.
A "chupe" of mate is a bit of Spanglish. "Chupar" means "to suck." You have to suck the hot water through a metal straw with a filter on the end of it (so you only get the flavored water, not the flecks of leaves), as the gaucho is doing on that photo. I just made a noun out of it: chupe. A good suck of mate. Here's more info than you eveer wanted to know about mate (mah-tay):
Yerba Mate is a tea, and can be used like any other tea. Its most popular form comes in 500 gram (17.6 oz.) bags of loose-leaf tea that is dried and ground. In some places it is available in tea bags, called Mate Cocido, but these do not provide the strength and full benefit of the more traditional methods for drinking it.
Yerba Mate (literally, the "Mate Herb") gets its name from the traditional cup (called Mate as well) used to drink it. This cup, originally a dried and decorated gourd, can be made out of almost anything these days. In South America, where Maté was introduced to the world, Maté is still sipped from the Maté cup using a metal or wood decorative straw & filter called a bombilla.
The modern Maté drinker can choose any number of ways to extract the beneficial tea from the herb. It can be brewed like normal loose-leaf tea and filtered before pouring into a cup. It can be use in a coffee press, where the herb is infused with hot water, and then the herb is pressed out of the way of the tea. It can be made into a flavorful iced tea to drink on a hot summer day. It can be made like coffee, in a standard automatic coffee maker (make sure you use a large amount of the herb). And, if you have a Maté cup and a bombilla, you can follow in the foot steps of the ancients by sipping Maté the traditional way.
How to prepare a traditional Maté infusion
To prepare the Maté infusion, the dried minced leaves of the Yerba Maté are placed inside the Maté cup and hot water (approx. 70 C) is added (this is called "cebar el Maté"). The infusion is sucked through a metal pipe called "bombilla," which has a strainer at its lower end to prevent the minced leaves from reaching the mouth. There are as many different techniques to prepare Maté as Maté drinkers, here is a fairly traditional method:
Fill the Maté cup with Yerba Maté up to 3/4 of its capacity. A variation that will give you more tea per infusion and a less potent taste is to fill the Maté cup only half way, or even a little less than that.
Pour some hot water in until it nearly fills the cup. Don't worry if some of the leaves remain dry, floating on the top. They will eventually absorb water in subsequent infusions.
Let it stand a few seconds and replenish with hot water when the previous one is absorbed by the dry Maté leaves.
When the water is not absorbed anymore, close the bombilla's "mouthpiece" with your thumb and insert it firmly into the Maté.
Some people add sugar and/or some herbs (like mint, for example). Some replace the water with milk, specially for the children. You drink and replenish the Maté with hot water many times till the liquid comes out with almost no taste. The repetitive extraction with hot water seems to be an efficient way of extracting the beneficial properties of the herb.
Enjoy! Although the first taste will be an unusual flavor for newcomers, it is a haunting taste that beckons you back time and time again. It's almost as if the body knows how good Maté is for you and calls out for you to take in more.
http://www.noborders.net/mate/how.html
You're stuck to the net because you stay at home with the youngsters, I take it? How many, what ages, etc.?
For the record: My wife and I have three: 12, 10 and 5. Our 12-year-old son is autistic and doesn't speak, but his sisters more than make up for his silence.
Again, I think there is SO MUCH wrong with this andyscam, starting with the fact that the DUmp allows the mental cripples who frequent their site to be preyed upon by a con artist-- or ANYONE AT ALL who fund-raises on the site (of seriously mentally ill people).
LOL! A site founded by mental cripples can't protect mental cripples.
I remember reading someplace that hobos had a secret code they would leave near the houses of people it was easy to scam. Someone left a huge mark on the front door of the Dummie Underground.
I only post when I get into a story. Or when I have pretty solid info on a topic.
I am not a marathon poster by any means. You have been here 10 months and whether or not you post heavily should not matter.
While I like Halieus'posts about the Undie Saga, and know his/hers intentions are probably good, but having only been around a month, he/she should not be calling you out, or any other posters.
Halieus, not trying to start trouble with you, you have had good info on the Undiegate saga. But being new here yourself, just be careful who you accuse of things. People might start thinking you are a troll ;)
Move Over Coffee, Yerba Mate Has Arrived
To hear Carolina Tyler tell it, yerba mate is a veritable fountain of youth.
"I drink it in the morning, during work breaks, during lunch and supper, and I just feel like a kid afterwards," said the 33-year-old Houston-area housecleaner.
Known to South Americans as the "Drink of the Gods," yerba mate is a hot beverage made from the dried leaves of the Ilex Paraguariense bush indigenous to Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. And thanks to its caffeine content, the drink is a natural stimulant.
Traditionally steeped and served in a hollowed-out gourd and sipped through a metal straw designed to filter out stems and leaf bits, yerba mate was first consumed by the Guarani Indians centuries ago.
It is the national drink of Argentina, where drinkers of yerba mate (pronounced yair-ba mah-tay) are even more ubiquitous than coffee drinkers in the United States. It is not uncommon to see Argentines walking down the street sipping out of a mate gourd.
In recent years, its popularity has spread to the United States, where countless online vendors and teahouses, coffee shops and restaurants from Boston to Los Angeles are catering to an adapting palate. Those who drink it, like Tyler, say they have turned to the beverage as an alternative pick-me-up with less caffeine and acidity than coffee and a host of supposed health benefits. Sales of yerba mate in the last decade have grown from a negligible amount into a $250 million a year business, by some estimates, or about 5 percent of the tea market.
"I’ve been amazed with the speed of its growth and popularity," said Mark Blumenthal, executive director of the American Botanical Council, a market research foundation. "I think it has the potential to rival tea in popularity in America."
Restaurateurs certainly hope so. Atlanta’s R Thomas Deluxe Grill, a 24-hour vegetarian restaurant, serves 14 different varieties of yerba mate drinks, with names like Cranberry Ginger Groove and Cinnamon Nirvana. The traditional yerba mate drink costs a whopping $6. At Tempo, a continental restaurant in Boston, customers are gulping down 20-30 of the $3.50 yerba mate drinks each month, said Scott Apone, a bar manager. "People like the social aspect--it’s a very relaxing way to enjoy a drink," he said. "One drink can last about an hour, people just pass it around."
More bitter than English or Indian teas, yerba mate is by all accounts an acquired taste. "Most Americans wouldn’t like it the way Argentinians drink it, it’s too earthy and grassy tasting," said David Karr, founder of the online herb vendor Guayaki. For that reason, many sellers are blending yerba mate with mint, vanilla, orange or other flavorings.
"People are seeking out alternatives to coffee for getting a lift, and yerba mate is mild and not as acidic," said Karr. "People are burning out on coffee."
Others extol yerba mate’s health benefits. Web vendors claim the beverage, which contains a mix of vitamins and amino acids, can "boost immunity, restore youthful hair color, retard aging, combat fatigue, control the appetite and eliminate insomnia," to name a few.
"I like the fact that it’s healthier than coffee or soda and it doesn’t upset my stomach," said Kenneth Bridge, 29, a Denver-area sanitation worker who drinks about two to three cups of brewed yerba mate each day.
Some, like Dr. Bradley Bennett, a researcher with the Center for Ethnobiology and Natural Products at Florida International University, say yerba mate’s supposed medicinal qualities are not proven. "A lot of people think it’s healthy, and there’s just no evidence for that," Bennett said, plus, "it has about the same amount of caffeine as a cup of tea, which is a fair amount."
Indeed, yerba mate contains about 30 milligrams of caffeine in an eight ounce cup, according to a recent Health Canada report, compared with 47 milligrams in a cup of tea and 100 milligrams in a cup of coffee. "However you get your caffeine--whether it’s two cups of yerba mate or one cup of coffee--it may be addictive and cause some side effects," like restlessness and anxiety," Bennett said.
Tyler said she was pretty sure her yerba mate affinity had turned into an addiction. "I can’t really start my day without it. It takes the edge off and it gives me a lot of energy," said Tyler, who sometimes drinks her yerba mate brewed from a French press and with an added sweetener and always from a coffee mug.
Her way of drinking the beverage made Jorge Rios cringe. "Mate in a mug, with sugar, with no [straw]. That’s just disgusting, it’s sacrilege," said Rios, 45, a Queens, N.Y., resident originally from Argentina who has his family send him a few pounds of loose leaf yerba mate every couple of months from Buenos Aires.
"There is only one way to drink mate," he said.
Actually I am supposed to be shampooing my carpets but I HAD to check in and see how things are progressing.
I'd REALLY like to know who Principle is over at CU. That guy is waist-deep in the dreck of this whole mess. He's like Baghdad Bob with all the spin. Nutty.
To be fair, I think that particular article (judging from the URL) may have been 10 years old. But darn it, I can't find the link.
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