MoseyWalker
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Wed Feb-28-07 03:03 AM
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Why, in your mind, Does DU exist? |
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Edited on Wed Feb-28-07 03:05 AM by MoseyWalker
It, at times, causes me to become dangerously close to insane, but other times causes me to understand the reasons why I used to think I was able to withstand the world.
So?
edited for a friggin comma
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Wed Feb-28-07 03:07 AM
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1. I live in f***ing north Texas |
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Edited on Wed Feb-28-07 03:07 AM by Skittles
I'd go insane without the sanctuary of the DU
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Wed Feb-28-07 01:47 PM
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Thu Mar-01-07 03:07 AM
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25. YOU KNOW IT, helderheid |
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I don't like it when we all get stereotyped as backwards bush-lovers but, well, we surely do know a few! :hi:
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Wed Feb-28-07 03:09 AM
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2. Because of what happened in Florida in 2000. |
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Wed Feb-28-07 06:22 AM
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8. Precisely. It saved my sanity, that's for sure. NT |
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Wed Feb-28-07 03:13 AM
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3. To make us aware of the importance of |
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Wed Feb-28-07 03:19 AM
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4. ding dang wiggly biggly |
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you could be right.
perhaps not, but possibly
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Wed Feb-28-07 03:30 AM
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5. To keep the Lounge people off the streets. |
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Wed Feb-28-07 03:59 AM
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6. In part, so people as myself can visit a more sane America. |
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Edited on Wed Feb-28-07 04:00 AM by wake.up.america
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Fri Mar-02-07 12:40 AM
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32. Maybe it's to keep all of us off the streets from protesting... |
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in place of spewing out our anger behind our keyboards.
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Wed Feb-28-07 04:07 AM
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7. To talk, discuss, and inform, with people who share... |
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...a common interest. It's a community of like minded - well sometimes - individuals.
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Wed Feb-28-07 06:29 AM
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9. for my emotional health and sanity . . . n/t |
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Wed Feb-28-07 06:40 AM
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10. It's a contrast to the "Librul media." |
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Where liberal issues actually get some air and discussion without the pile-driver noise of the freepers disrupting.
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Wed Feb-28-07 07:39 AM
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11. To get out of freeperland. Most political sites back in |
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2004 were overrun by manic freepers who called anyone with a slight liberal bent names and constantly shouted. You could not have a decent discussion about any political issue without some idiotic freeper calling names and gloating. DU allowed for real political discussion that was all but banned on other sites.
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Wed Feb-28-07 07:47 AM
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12. To right a terrible wrong |
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is why DU exists. To give us hope. To remind us there is a better way. To end the despair of helplessness. To remind us that we can be agents of change. To give us a common voice. To restore the rightful President of The United States-Al Gore.
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Wed Feb-28-07 10:51 AM
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13. It's one of the few places where I feel safe to voice an opinion. Most of my coworkers and |
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neighbors are kool-aid drinkers and Southern Baptists.
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Wed Feb-28-07 10:58 AM
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16. I was raised around a bunch of kool-aid drinking southern Baptist myself |
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so I can definitely un'nerstand where you're coming from
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Wed Feb-28-07 10:52 AM
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14. It's the rest of the world that is insane; that is bound to make us crazy some days |
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Wed Feb-28-07 10:56 AM
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15. all to keep me from going nuts |
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hmmmm, too late i'm already nutter'en a fruitcake
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Wed Feb-28-07 01:46 PM
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23. Hey! Let's not imply that's a Bad Thing™, OK? |
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Wed Feb-28-07 11:01 AM
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17. IMO, it is a place where we speak as CITIZENS searching for truth from our government |
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To fight against corruption and FOR open government and where we can support the Democratic heroes who work to lead those battles.
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Wed Feb-28-07 11:04 AM
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18. It started for one big reason and remains for countless of others. |
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It has a life of its own because of this fact.
It exists and for that I'm happy.
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Wed Feb-28-07 11:06 AM
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19. To Re-elect Al Gore!!! n/t |
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Wed Feb-28-07 11:06 AM
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20. Because Skinner wants it to |
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And because somehow I keep ending up here? Bryant Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com
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Thu Mar-01-07 03:17 AM
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26. And Skinner ROCKS..... |
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And he's pretty damn hot at that... YOWzwer!!
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Wed Feb-28-07 11:09 AM
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21. It's a sole propretorship fueled by anger over the elections of 2000 and 2004 |
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And I hope Skinner is making a decent living off of it.
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Wed Feb-28-07 11:30 AM
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22. It began as a place to get a "sanity check" in a country seemingly gone insane. |
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Edited on Wed Feb-28-07 11:32 AM by TahitiNut
It was, at the beginning, a place where politically-aware liberals could exchange perspectives and gain some assurance that we weren't hallucinating - that the nation was in thrall to an orchestrated and well-funded disinformation campaign from the extreme right.
It has since become something else, either in addition to or supplanting the above. For some of us, either too cowardly or too indolent to engage in real world struggles and confront bigotry and greed in our communities, it's a place to engage in 'flight deck' vigilantism, attacking those childhood monsters under our comfortable beds, in the persons of safer targets - targets that aren't as scarey as the real thing. For some of us, unable or unwilling to take personal responsibility for our own governance by directly participating in that governance and risking our comforts, safety, and our very lives, it's a place to attack those who do step forward - candidates for office and military personnel, current or former - shifting the blame for our own decades-long indolence and cowardice to handy scapegoats: those who've done more and risked the most.
I'd like to look forward to a time when we're all ready, willing, and even eager to put our own asses on the line - risking life, limb, and liberty to stand up for our own governance instead of "letting George do it." I'd really like to - but I'm not that optimistic.
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Fri Mar-02-07 12:19 AM
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27. It's the "sane" asylum!! |
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Fri Mar-02-07 12:20 AM
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28. Because they stole the fucking elections....... |
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Edited on Fri Mar-02-07 12:21 AM by FrenchieCat
gave us a corrupt biased media, and told us to STFU! that's why!
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Fri Mar-02-07 12:24 AM
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29. Sanctuary of Sanity. n/t |
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Fri Mar-02-07 12:37 AM
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30. What is life? What does it all mean? |
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Blond 18 year old girls, twins, if possible?
BTW that "comma" made all the difference in the world as far as impact for me.
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Fri Mar-02-07 12:40 AM
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31. The meaning of life is |
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learning the difference between angels and angles.
Well, maybe one meaning.
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Fri Mar-02-07 12:41 AM
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33. To raise by blood pressure via an odd combination of homophobes and people I find too liberal. |
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