Okay, who do you gotta piss off...

to get some attention around here?

Just asking...

I notice that 'bashing' threads get the most action and I'm wondering...is that REALLY what we want to focus upon? Bash the Dems in Congress, bash religion (not that I'm a big fan of revealed religion, but...still...), bash the DLC, bash freepers, bash candidates (present and former), and, sometimes, even other DUers (bad juju). Is that all we want to do?

I write a lot of positive, uplifting stuff. Things that we can use to reach out to the other side and the disaffected. I've gotten many, many positive responses and I thank each and every one of you who've contributed them.

But I'd really like to see a little more effort to take a positive tone on stuff. It's not all doom and gloom, folks. There IS hope. Lots of hope.

That's really what we want to offer people, isn't it? Hope for the future? Without it, none of this is worth a damn.

So, if you haven't already, please go and read my latest essay. I'm not asking for kicks or nominations... I'll settle for a bit of discussion.

Anyway...Thanks for your time. I'll go away now.

:hi:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=672082&mesg_id=672082

Peace.


BTW- I love your posts!:toast:

Although I will bring along a bag of popcorn for the fight.

:popcorn:

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Hey, if nothing gets started, let's start our own fight!



"I heard Crazy Guggenheim is really a bushbot."

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do anymore is be bitter, angry, divisive, defeatist, extremist, and dem bashy washy.

I'm with ya though. This is one of the most important election years in our nation's history in my opinion. We should do more to encourage, motivate, strategize, organize and GOTV then the efforts to self destruct, name call, bash and be all sorts of miserable.

I'm with ya in the fight, friend.

:yourock:

they get a gazillion replies.

After enough time here one learns that incindiary posts get the most response(s).

All too often, the most thoughtful, insightful posts drop quickly off the charts.

I guess it calls for the use of stragety. :evilgrin:

:D

Eloquent and to the point.

I done seen your profile.

(Sigh)

But please, keep doing what you're doing. Don't give up. More people read than post, and if one person gets something out of it, then you've done a good thing. IMHO, just writing it was a good deed and a good thing.

That having been said, here are some things I've found during my 11000+ posts here at the very big tent we call DU:

1) People respond to bold letters and


2) There are many Drama Queens among us.
3) It's gonna get worse before it gets better.
4) We sometimes eat our own.
5) Never Give Up.

Great post(s). K&R!

I believe.


ed: sp.

:)

and those smile face things... Hate to admit it but I really don;t know! Is there a list of those hand waving pop corn eating moving all over the place green yellow head moving castle hiding sarcasm on and off thing'ees?

"HTML lookup table" and "Smilies lookup table"

Click on them and you should a separate window to get instuctions on how to do those effects.

Experiment.

:hi:

Oh my god it worked!!! :patriot:

You're on your way! :woohoo:
:hi:

Herb Paine, the Democratic candidate against John Shadegg of the "I'm less TAINTED" fame tonight.

if you're really feeling left out, throw him a few bucks www.paineforcongress.org

gives me enough money that I can throw some money into something political. As it stands now I'm pretty much stuck donating my writing skills to the cause.

:)

no $$$ so I gotta give my time


ain't it always the way huh? your $$ or your time :rofl:

just to guarantee that there will be a reading public I can flog things to next year on eBay!

Redstone

I appreciate it :D

:evilgrin:

:evilgrin:

:P

:P :D

drop like a stone in the middle of a methane eruption.
Nature of the beast. :shrug:

One of my positive posts got a total of 88 nominations. Quite a ride.

Thank you for giving a glimmer of hope to the despondent, disaffected, * loathers who may sometimes want to throw in the towel because the antichrist is in office. We need a little sunshine sometimes.

let the rough side drag.

that all in all the ones that were long essays, and that I was proud of, sank like stones.

I have been on the greatest pages several times, but nothing that's worth keeping. Smartass, bombastic, jokey stuff only. Mostly sarcasm. Or posting someone else's article.

So my journal is the stuff I wish people had read and liked, but didn't.

What can I say.

It seems like you have to have catchy subject lines to get the attention....

:eyes:

You do something you love, and that you're good at, you SHOULD pat yourself on the back.

Something wrong with that?

arrogance, self-absorption, narcissism and the like.

as long as it doesn't translate into these things you mention. I didn't wander into one of YOUR threads and cast aspersions, now did I?

:hi: :thumbsup:

Much appreciated... honestly.

the bright side of life. Right now deep down in my gut I have this feeling that it's already to late and that I will see the end of democracy in this country within my life time. (I'm 51)

But without hope it's already lost. So I will continue to cling to the vestiges of hope simply for the promise that the worst might not yet come to pass.