Reply #65: I somehow don't identify DU with the cowardly Dems in Washington...

[Triana]

...I donated because I visit DU EVERY DAY and I get a LOT out of it - no matter what pantywaist Do-Do-bird Dems in DC do. If they're being stupid and spineless (again) then I know I have a place to can come to and GRIPE about it! Heck, that's worth a few bucks at least right there! I'm not even registered as a Dem anymore - consider myself Indy/Progressive or whatever. I STILL donate to the DU fund drives when I can.

As far as server / website issues I can sympathize. I do that sort of thing for a living and I know what it's like to try to keep things running with duct tape and some string (and when things get really bad, maybe a thumb full of bubblegum). Disk space issues, bad disk issues, caching issues, memory and CPU usage issues, connection and I/O issues, database issues, hosting provider issues, and on and on and on.

I donated this time BECAUSE of the server issues and BECAUSE of the damn idiots in Washington. I figure we need this community and this website now more than (or at least as much as) ever.

DAMN the website issues and the idiot, dopey Dems in Washington - FULL SPEED AHEAD, DU!