Mark the time: The main headline on the DU front page is a 9/11 'Loose Change' thread.

[WilliamPitt]

Bzzzt...cannot compute...Grovelbot must send thread to 9/11 forum...bzzzt...but on front page...melting...melting...what...a...world...what...a...world...

Dig it: http://www.democraticunderground.com/

No biggie, I just know there can be static when threads go downstairs, and I show up, and WHAM, there it is, hello, we're DU, come on in and have a seat, and tell me, what do you know about Bildebergers and chem trails and dolphins carrying nukes to create tsunamis? Nothing? Great...have you read my newsletter? Are you wearing a wire? What's the frequency, Kenneth?

:P

*fleeing*

I am only teasing. Please don't get angry. If we can't poke fun at ourselves, we're...well...pretty crappy boring people.

*fleeing again*

:):)

[libnnc]

1. I love you Will.

Not sure why sometimes...but there it is

....back to the kitchen for another Ketel One and olives....

[bleever]

8. You put olives in Ketel One?

The Republic is lost.

Unless they're lemon-flavored olives, or they taste like someone in the next room whispered "Vermouth" while walking away quickly.

[libnnc]

12. LOL I'm a philistine...I enjoy the amusing vodka martini

[WilliamPitt]

42. Emphasis on "amusing"

:P

Never got martinis, or especially gin. I was mid-20s and in full-bore bar hop mode in San Francisco all during the freakin swing music craze. Everyone had to have martinis like the guys from Swingers. Me? I thought the stuff was good only for cleaning carbureators. And any who drank it were just posin'. Scotch for me, or Jamesons, or Bushmills if the IRA isn't about.

Gin. Bleh. I was eventually convinced there are, in fact, people who like gin. All the ones knocking it back a decade ago? Wine coolers.

Gin = wheat from the chaff, it seems.

:hug:

[libnnc]

51. Oh gin is just expensive Pine-Sol...I'd de-grease my stove with it.

But I never drink the stuff.

I'm all about the Vodka baybee.

[LeftyMom]

2. What's a dolphi?

:shrug:

[WilliamPitt]

5. It's a baby dolphin that failed spelling in 3rd grade.

[NanceGreggs]

20. ..........

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I don't know why that tickled my funny-bone as much as it did - but IT DID!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. Bilderburgers?

I'll have two with cheese, a slice of bermuda onion and a side of fries, please.

And please: The first one who starts about Anunaki and the face on Mars gets death by noogies.

[Horse with no Name]

47. Is that like Build-a-Bears? My granddaughter loves them

She is working on Fascist Freddy as we speak...

[Truthiness Inspector]

4. So tell us about the Bildebergers

[Fridays Child]

6. You have a newsletter?

[LSK]

7. MIHIP MIHOP MIHOP

Just do it!

:hi:

[IChing]

9. Will, the ice caps are really melting

exposing the truth on what humans have wrought.

The truth of 911 is a rock that is covered but the icy, faulty lies of the 911 commission.

[Canuckistanian]

10. These 'Loose-Changers' are the ones who are really running the world

Wake up, America.

[LoZoccolo]

11. Maybe MIHWAP will be on the front page soon.

Or the twelve planes theory.

[JeffR]

13. Flamebait! What are you trying to do, Will, start a fight in GD????

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room."

"I saw the funniest threads of my generation destroyed by madness, or moved to the Lounge,
dragging themselves through the copycat threads at dawn looking for a rec,
angelheaded progressives burning for the ancient heavenly broadband connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the internets..."

[EFerrari]

15. We don't fight in GD. We pummel mercilessly and gloat prematurely.

:rofl:

[BlooInBloo]

17. Really? I hadn't noticed. (blink)(blink)

[EFerrari]

27. Don't bat those lashes at me. "I've been in your pocketbook

and I KNOW where you live." -- Whoopee Goldberg (actually, Fontaine)

[BlooInBloo]

30. Aw crap. If that don't work, I got nuthin.

[JeffR]

21. It's bad alright. It took three tries to put myself on ignore today.

I have to get Nance to read my posts now, since I can't see them...

[EFerrari]

28. You think she'd read mine, too?

lol

[JeffR]

29. She would, I'm sure

I'd ask her now but she's ignoring me.

[LSK]

16. theres no I-word in this thread

:D

[JeffR]

19. You're right!

IHOP. IHOP. IHOP. Damn, I'm getting hungry.

[Fridays Child]

25. ...

:spray:

[WilliamPitt]

45. Icarus!!!

Istanbul!!!

Idiosyncracies!!!

Idiom!!!

Ibid. <--- yeah, period there, boo yah.

Icarus!!!

Ick!!!!!

Icki Icki Icki Icki Ptang nawooowam wamma woo burble burble...



You must cut down the tallest tree in the forest...

WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITH....

A Herring!!!!



Ni.

[blondeatlast]

48. Give this man a DUzy... nt

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. By this flippant post, most people will not understand that a man has been arrested for

desertion after, according to him, received an honorable discharge 18 months ago. Someone who served in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Someone who dared to look outside of the box and challenge the official meme on 9/11. If he is being arrested for political reasons, this is nothing to joke about.

[LSK]

18. actually, more will

I went and checked out the homepage and read the story.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

22. I hope so. Sometimes people are lazy about clicking links. eom

[IChing]

32. Me bad

it should be a nominated thread. Already one calling him a traitor..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2931287&mesg_id=2931287

[WilliamPitt]

35. As did I.

[cynatnite]

23. You can get an honorable discharge from the military and...

still have a military obligation. The way it works is that when you sign up for so much time as active duty, you're still obligated for a certain amount of time even after discharge from active duty. The options for fulfilling an obligation can be reserves, guard or inactive reserve. It's possible that he either didn't realize he still had an obligation or ignored the remainder of his time.

[IChing]

26. reply to you in#24

[IChing]

24. I read that and it has not been posted on DU and should.

It was another attack just like Michael Moore.
I was trying to find his record on line but couldn't dispute what he said.

I think the army has a trump up charge.

[Kingshakabobo]

33. It looks like he was stop-lossed and didn't want to play along..

Apparently, he was put on the "radar screen" because he was stopped for taking pictures of an Air Force base.


http://www.thedailystar.com/news/stories/2007/07/26/jprowe07253.html

But a handful of Rowe’s close friends knew he had not been "totally released," the source said.


In the summer of 2005 and with just a short time before his four-year enlistment was to expire, Rowe was arrested in the town of Oneonta for driving while intoxicated, the source said.


A routine check revealed he was AWOL, and he was taken into custody by Fort Drum military police, the source added.


However, once he was in Fort Drum, Rowe was released on his own recognizance to appear at his duty base with the 101st Airborne in Fort Campbell, Ky., the source said.


Rowe returned to Fort Campbell where he was told he would be "immediately" sent back to Iraq, and after unsuccessfully trying to fight the stop-loss order and AWOL charge, he decided to desert, the source said.


"He had honestly felt he had done his time," the source said.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
more at link

[cynatnite]

34. I think he could have handled this better...

he wouldn't have been the first to go public and say he was refusing to deploy based on what he believed in regards to the war. Would probably have gotten a lot of support.

[WilliamPitt]

37. "I think he could have handled this better..."

A 9/11 Truther...might possibly handle something better???

Perish the thought.

:)

Maybe all of us could take that lesson.

Except me. Just here. In all other threads, I just suck. But here, we be cool.

Because this thread is supposed to be fun. And...brace yourself...that's OK.

Because if we can't tease each other, laugh at and with each other, if we're TOO HUGE IN OUR OPINIONS OF OUR BELIEFS AND WHO WE ARE to accept ribbing and smiling and well-meant fun between friends...

Then we're done. No impeachment, no 9/11 truth, no anything. Maybe that's why GD is always so brutal. Everyone is too bristled in defense.

I. Am. Teasing. 9/11. People. The sun will rise, and maybe some people will smile.

Be human. It's fun. :)

And feel free to mock my ass. I got called a drunk, enabler, liar, fraud, jealous of Cindy's media attention, Dem sycophant, Establishment whore, and that was over the last 48 hours...all because I wanted a plan beyond sloganeering...from people who want to see things get done...but have no tolerance for anyone trying to organize actual tactical plans.

If that ain't funny on it's face, well, you need to go to a water park or an arcade. Or read Vonnegut. Or H.S. Thompson. Or Leviticus, with an eye for satire...God: "Yea, thou shalt not fart audibly beside the boulder with the green moss on the Sabbath next to any who lie with sisters while wearing clothes of different thread after being near butter or fish or very small twigs in a nest filled with sin and flounder..."

Moses: "...wait...um...am I stoning someone, or just getting stoned...ah...help? Loud Scary Voice Guy? Shit. Guess I'll have to wing it."

Welcome to history. We get monotheism. Whee!

:hug:

All in the same lifeboat.

[cynatnite]

39. I admit to snickering...

and I rarely can think of anything remotely funny to say so I have a tendency to get all serious too much of the time.

Gonna go play minature golf with the kid tomorrow...well, later today if the rain stays away.

:hug:

Love lifeboats. :)

[WilliamPitt]

40. I did edits. Moses. God. Stones or stoned.

Feast.

It's pretty much what we have left, at bottom. They're last triumph might be convincing us of the futility of human contact. But every human everywhere smiles.

:hug:

You will take my smile when you pry it from my cold dead...um...gums. Yeah. Try it.

:)

[IChing]

38. Yes, I totally believe the military courts and justice these days

They must be right, let me ask the Tillman family........

[Kingshakabobo]

49. Um, the article quotes his "close friends." That's why I pasted it. n/t

[WilliamPitt]

36. Yeah, my fault.

Or, by this flippant post, I direct attention.

Know who the funniest comics are?

The ones who talk about suffering, injustice and state crime.

Can you think of a few?

I can.

Smile. You're alive, and able to stand and struggle, or roll and struggle, or sit and struggle, or lay and struggle...because the struggle is in the mind and heart.

So smile.

:)

:hug:

[IChing]

41. Gosh who do you think you are?

Michael Moore or someone else on their list?


LOL...........I'm going to the beach tomorrow where the water is free.

[WilliamPitt]

43. So's the sand and sun and company and air and shells

Have. So. Much. Fun.

Smile. Lots.

:)

[Blue-Jay]

31. Go to bed, Will.

[WilliamPitt]

44. Hm.

No. Party in my happy GD thread. There hasn't been a happy GD thread since November.

You go to bed. Toronto won't make the playoffs before you wake up.

Ooo.

He shoots.

He scores.

:)

:toast:

At least you're screen name isn't Baltimore-Oriole. $42 million on the bullpen, worst pitching in baseball. Quasar bad. Bad enough to have gravity, bad enough to bend light.

Toronto is over .500, 51-50.

Great. You're a crummy Hagar-era Van Halen album.

Eww.

:)

[WilliamPitt]

46. .

[deaniac21]

50. Well, we'll ALWAYS have May 12!!

[Big Pappa]

52. Kick

n/t