Hell, I am even -friends- with some people like that both here and in real life.

"they can't help it, they were born with a silver spoon in their mouth".

She later (or earlier) changed it to Him for GWB.

Ann Richards. "Poor George. He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth"

with a silver head up their posterior!

that died trying to save Germany from fascism?

I had always admired them, ever since I'd first heard of them in grade freshman HS history class (back when they used to teach to more than taking tests).

I am not savvy enough to do that.

produces this:




I imagine it would work the same in a sig line

Best to copy/paste the above code rather than try to reproduce it via typing because that thing between the links is not a lower case "l" as it appears to be but a special ascii code character "|" that is very different and the bb code above will not work without it.

Notice how it is slightly longer than it's near twin the lower case l| ?

I must have hit too close to home and struck a nerve.

I was simply trying to lay out reality, so that people could understand how important it is to be involved in the party and the type of candidates we should be voting for if we wish to do more than simply emulate Republican policies.

Censorship is the crutch of those to frightened to respond with a compelling opposing view. It no longer surprises me as there appear to be no actual opposing views , they as much a admitted my assessment was correct and no such response actually exists that could counter my assessment.

I think that you're spot-on with your view.

I am rather astonished myself.

I may simply drop out of the group. I was thinking of leaving DU anyway as it has become neo-liberal central, (and the pro war clearing house) of late anyway. Nothing like the DU I joined 12 years ago.

posted here. The bots then run giggling like little school girls back to their hiddy hole and brag how brave they were to hide another Bernie post.

Malicious trolls were banned.
(MIRT can only do that with posters under a 100 post count, after that it becomes the responsibility of the admins to ban posters above 100 posts, something they appear uninterested in doing)

One thing that is weird is until a couple of weeks ago, I was on 2-5 juries a day. I have not been on one in over 2 weeks and that is with 100% chance of serving.

Someone needs to write a good discussion system like this before November.

I have 1 hide.

Something is going on. I used to get notified 1-2 times every day.

hide on April 19. The last jury duty was on April 11. I'd get multiple jury notices a week till then, sometimes more than one in a day. Since I got the hide, I have an 80% chance of serving. Supposedly.

Bernie brought me into the fold, only to open my eyes and help me see that the establishment clearly isn't having any of our bullshit, and can totally pull the strings as much as it wants.

You just always look for the little changes and the little chances to improve things. You have had your eyes opened. 90% of the people just go through life thinking everything just A-OK and life is perfect. Nothing needs to change at all. Just don't give anything to that beggar on the street. He will just buy drugs or booze. (He sure couldn't be trying to feed a family, we don't have that in the U.S.)

What is wrong with some of these jurors? Was somebody offended at the notion of "limousine liberals," which are a real thing? I know plenty of them. I don't get what's going on here.