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.]
Well, I waded over there a little to see if there might be any rustling about Felonious Andy, and I gotta say, anyone having the slightest twinge of pity for them, DON'T.
I know this from experience, and this morning it was oh so confirmed. They are just wasting bandwidth, spewing hatred. They have no shame.
But what is even curiouser is that no positive Andy posts are showing up either.
I've found this on Pitt's blog (link below) hope it's not repeating anything.
Apr 29: William Rivers Pitt says Andy was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer 'several weeks ago' and 'to date Andy's friends have raised about$7,000'
There then follows the familiar pattern of the cheerleaders who 'have donated already'
Then:
Marilyn Conner says:
May 2nd, 2005 at 3:45 am
UPDATE FOR ANDY we Need $1759.37. to reach goal for this morning of $25,000.00 so Beth can work with John Hopkins for Andy Stephenson. It is 5:40 a.m. central time and we are almost at this mornings goal.
Later we will have to work out the other $25,000.00
but this must be done. Andy has to have this “Whipple” Surgery.
Will is so right we need Universal Health Care for all Americans . Thank you Will and PDA for all you do for our Democracy !
Keep hope alive !
hiley
So by May 2nd they seem to have raised $22,241
http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=22
Besides, the night before, he had asked me to call him back, because he was still confused about this "Andy character."
So we chatted a while, and he commented, "you know, that Andy character sure hung a lot of paper around here."
Then he added-- unnecessarily--"and I'm not talking wallpaper, either."
"That Andy character hung paper all over town."
Then he added--unnecessarily--"and this is a pretty big town, as you know."
Uh-huh.
I posted the exchange a bit earlier in this thread, I believe it was around the 800-850 range? It was a long night though, and I'm still tired so I could be way off!
And:
May 01, 2005
We Are Not Alone.
Andy Stephenson, an activist investigating voting machine fraud in Florida and Ohio, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Like a lot of folks on our side, he has no money and thus, of course, no health insurance. Someone from Democratic Underground managed to get him checked into John Hopkins (one of the few hospitals equipped to handle his case), but he needs $50,000 in cash to pay for his treatment. Not a good position to be in.
Send contributions to Andy Stephenson, P. O. Box 25624, Seattle, WA 98165-1124, or visit Paypal and contribute to email address Andy_Stephenson@comcast.net.
But certainly a whole lot better one than, say, just a few years back. Why? The power of the Internet to connect activists at the grassroots. Nothing could demonstrative the transformative nature of this better than the "campaign" to save Andy's life. In less than three full days, via a posting on D.U. and postings to email lists and blogs, his friends have managed to raise $20,000 to pay for his surgery.
That's right. $20,000. Most of it, as far as I could tell by scanning through the 1000 post thread on DU, in small donations. This is without any exposure in conventional media, and (as far as I can tell) without having many of the "big guns" in the blogosphere weigh in (this also shows the power of the blogosphere's long tail - your story doesn't have to be on the top line of the leading blogs to make an impact and reach a large audience).
We are not alone. Take heart, activists. There is hope - if life comes along and knocks you down, there's going to be someone there to pick you up. Probably a lot of someones.
... and the mainstream media still haven't picked up on this. Possibly one of the best "human interest" stories to come along in quite a while, one that ties into some of the hippest trends imaginable, and three days later... nothing. Hey, you there, mr. and ms. "journalist" person, want a scoop? Cover this story!
Posted by Thomas Leavitt at May 1, 2005 01:55 PM
Love how it progressed from the can of worms, to the dumpster, to the jail cell! It's so fitting! ;3
okay...new post on the REAL Andy Scandal thread by sfexpat2000...posted 45 min ago:
We got the cash deposit there, and JH was too busy to find it on their own Mail Room Supervisor's desk. And so, canceled the surgery. (It has been rescheduled for later this month but still, that's just unconscionable.)
I don't want to trash them or anything. I did my best to get Andy treatment there because their results are so much better than anywhere else. But, it was all about the money, no matter what face anyone tries to put on it.
I hope, hope, hope, that this doesn't get lost: We came together for a just cause and we were unstoppable. Despite the corporate mindset, despite the trolls and stupidity, we got it done.
Does anyone have an idea of how hard it is to get someone into JH AND to raise that kind of money that fast?
(There are notebooks with tallies ALL OVER MY LIVING ROOM. It looks like I had the world's biggest poker game here. )
Please notice that for ten solid days, DUers threw all their resources together and presented a united front to a -- uhm -- challenging world. And we were so successful, that the opposition was compelled to try to poison it. PLEASE NOTICE HOW WELL WE WORKED TOGETHER.
We have a lot of power collectively, if we don't allow ourselves to be frightened by that fact. If we take the risk, lookit what we can do.
You didn't like the previous one, labeled (not by me, but by the web-site) "prison dumpster"?
I can't quite figure out the difference between a "dumpster" and a "prison dumpster," though; all DUmpsters look alike to me.
Forgot this tidbit at the bottom of the post, somewhat interesting comment:
God or something help Big Pharma and the rest of the corporatists should we ever decide to take them on.
Well done, DUers. And, thank you.
Beth
Oh, I missed that! Must go back and check it out!
link?
Thanks for the input re the radiology report. A couple of things to consider:
1) 10:41 am is either the time of exam OR the time it was dictated
2) If it is time of dictation, that means the actual exam happened earlier in the day
3) Undie posted around 8 am that very morning
Wish I knew how to do the print screen!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3651521
And sfexpat2000's post is #64.
Actually, I'm just trying to get to post #1000!
Thank you for all of your info-gathering. Also, no big deal, but I am actually a "madam." :^)
The timeline has been a group effort, with lutz and others really helping out a lot.
Well, actually, better to mistakedly think of a woman as a man, than a man as a woman.
<<knows from experience.
Women have a better sense of humor about such things.
Anyway, madam, of course we all salute you, lutz, and all others trying to put the pieces together.
The plot thickens !!!
Undie scam ......
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