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This is my 5000th post. I've lost track of how long I have been on DU - at least four years.
I am so thankful for DU. As someone in ruby red Arkansas, I sometimes think DU is my only link to sanity. I sincerely enjoy interacting with my fellow DUers (at least most of the time).
Thank you to the DU administrators and all my DU friends that I have never met. None of you know the good you have done for me. You have made me smile when I really needed it. More importantly, you have assured me that I am not alone.
Thank you all.
Tom Slick
rzemanfl
(29,576 posts)I must have been using my wife's account in 2016.
mercuryblues
(14,551 posts)print this out and frame it
Account status: Active
Member since: Mon May 15, 2017, 09:46 PM
Number of posts: 5,000
TomSlick
(11,118 posts)MLAA
(17,348 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,537 posts)How do you think the mandatory mask mandate will shake out tomorrow? I know a lot of people who think this has been blown out of proportion.
TomSlick
(11,118 posts)I was at Wally World this afternoon. I'd say about half of the customers had masks.
My BiL suggested yesterday that issuing a mask order four months into a pandemic is like giving condoms at a baby shower.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)To the baby shower
TomSlick
(11,118 posts)However, he is a public school teacher who is genuinely concerned about the potential effect of the pandemic on his profession.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)It lifts me up when I need it.
We are all in this together.
TomSlick
(11,118 posts)If we don't stick together, we will be well and truly stuck.
question everything
(47,551 posts)Glad you are here
TomSlick
(11,118 posts)Of course, Bill also came along before Arkansas became so ruby red. Arkansas turned so red with the election of President Obama. Too many here will be slow to forgive the Democratic party of putting an AA man in the White House.
question everything
(47,551 posts)Indiana - Birch Bayh
TomSlick
(11,118 posts)murielm99
(30,779 posts)We are in a time of cataclysmic change. The change won't be all bad.
I hope I live to see it.
Ohiogal
(32,126 posts)That we are not alone! I echo your sentiments.
Congratulations!
bucolic_frolic
(43,409 posts)Sanity, strength, and building principles and motivation. We got to you!
tiptonic
(765 posts)I started many years ago, using DU when i was transferred (for 5 years) to Texas. Like u said, they kept me from going insane. Rachel Maddow was on Air America radio, at the same time. Thanks to DU and Rachel..
Today Rachel Maddow and DU cant live without
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)at one time or another. I was directed to DU from another site shortly after the Gore/Bush fiasco. I went by another screen name back then, and was tombstoned (intentionally, on my own stupid part) in 2007 and took a "lurking hiatus". I begged the administrators to be allowed back in, they forgave me, and the rest is history. Back then, as it is now, DU is sometimes my only link to like-minded people. I'd go crazy without DU, there's no doubt in my mind.
Stay strong in Arkansas, TomSlick. We at DU are all in this together.
wendyb-NC
(3,342 posts)DU is my shelter in the storm. Glad you're here, along with all the wonderful DU members who post so many wonderful insight, for this current time, and the challenges we all face, as democrats. It's good to be among kindred spirits.
Karadeniz
(22,599 posts)Great to be able to come here and interact with like minded sane people , even for someone from California ( the beautiful).
backtoblue
(11,346 posts)TomSlick
(11,118 posts)We are not alone!
tblue37
(65,502 posts)TomSlick
(11,118 posts)She finally insisted I get my own account.
niyad
(113,685 posts)The nightmare of chimps. I treasure all of you.
TomSlick
(11,118 posts)I'm impressed.
niyad
(113,685 posts)Stuart G
(38,454 posts)TomSlick
(11,118 posts)I really appreciate my DU friends.