Not too long ago...

[FourScore]

Last edited Thu Jul 10, 2014, 12:59 AM - Edit history (1)

This has probably been posted here at DU before (and I'm sorry if it's a repeat), but with the latest shootings, it seems like a good time to post it.

[NanceGreggs]

1. Excellent comparison. n/t

[FourScore]

8. Wait...What?! You're back???

WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!

[NanceGreggs]

12. I have had a very long ...

... hard, miserable day. And your post has warmed my heart more than I can say.

No, I am not really back. For a long time, I have been a 'non-participating observer" - but given my penchant for opening my big mouth, welcome or not, I have lapsed into participating of late more often than appropriate - and I really should know better.

I miss the old days - when, despite our inside-the-family spats, we Democrats were united against the GOP and its agenda. We had a common enemy then - and now the 'enemy' is those within our own ranks who aren't "pure" enough to suit some, who aren't 100% on-board with the perpetually pissed-off.

I miss the days when a joke was taken as a joke - and wasn't alerted on by the holier-than-thou on the basis that it might potentially offend someone, somewhere in the universe.

I miss the days when the likes of Palin and Santorum were the objects of scorn, instead of fellow Democrats. I miss the days when statements from McCain and McConnell were the punchline to every joke, instead of statements by Reid and Pelosi.

I miss the days when calling someone like Ann Coulter a bitch was applauded, instead of being alerted on by over-zealous self-appointed "feminists" - who, back in the day, were more concerned with issues like equal-pay-for-equal-work than they were with who shaved their armpits.

I miss the days when DU represented those willing to stand united against the "other side", rather than those insistent that "both sides are the same".

I miss the old days - and yes, despite all posts to the contrary, those days once really existed. My place was in those days, and those days are long gone.

I no longer belong here - but I truly appreciate being remembered as someone who once did.

[FourScore]

14. I completely understand. n/t

[longship]

11. Help us, Nance, you're our only hope.

We need you here.

[Electric Monk]

2. By "latest shooting", do you mean in Houston or Chicago, or perhaps somewhere else?

[FourScore]

6. I meant Houston.

I didn't know about Chicago. But I did read about this family incident in North Carolina. I'll just change the word "shooting" in the OP to "shootings".

[sheshe2]

3. Thank you FourScore.

That says it all.

[JI7]

4. same for cars and just about every other thing, look at the debate we have about hot cars

and child seats. less kids die that way than other ways but reasonable people would not object to discussing ways to prevent it.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, FourScore.

[FourScore]

9. Anytime, Uncle Joe!

[Uncle Joe]

10. Peace to you, FourScore.

[Politicalboi]

13. So it's best to

Be armed in a refrigerator so you can shoot air holes in it.