LakeArenal
LakeArenal's JournalAs an atheist....
I think I have more soul, more heart, more "moral compass" than anyone in the Administration..
I think I even have more respect for Jesus than they do... Egads..
Charles Robert Jenkins, detained in NK 40 years.
....."In North Korea, I lived a dog's life," he said in a rare interview, as he drove his boxy Subaru through Sado Island's rice paddies and sleepy villages. "Ain't nobody live good in North Korea. Nothing to eat. No running water. No electricity. In the wintertime you freeze — in my bedroom, the walls were covered in ice."....
....In 1965, Jenkins was a U.S. Army sergeant posted to South Korea. But he was unhappy with his assignment and worried it could get worse. He feared his unit's nighttime patrols along the border were too provocative and would get them killed; he feared he'd be sent to die in Vietnam. He got depressed, began drinking heavily and made a decision that he'd regret for the rest of his life: to go AWOL.....
.....For eight years, the North Korean government held him in a spartan room with three other American defectors — Jerry Wayne Parrish, 19; Larry Abshier, 19; and James Dresnok, 21....
....In 1980, Jenkins acquired a wife: North Korean authorities moved into his home Hitomi Soga, a 21-year-old Japanese woman who had been abducted from Japan two years earlier.... (more)
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/meet-charles-robert-jenkins-an-american-detained-by-north-korea-for-40-years/ar-AAq8ffg?li=BBnb7Kz
"TRUMP DOESN'T HAVE A SOUL, HE HAS AN OPEN SORE"
I know it repeats the video posted. I just wanted to repeat and see it in big print.
Listening to Arnold pan Trump
I was wondering which Republicans might still have a soul...
Schwarzenegger, Kasich, Huntsman, Steve Schmidt, Michael Steele?
Anyone?
Rec. me...
I am wondering if I am missing some nuances in the recommendation of a thread.
I read a thread that grabs my interest. Folks are commenting.. Others are commenting on other's comments. A lot of generated interest for sure..
I see it has 700 views, it has 28 replies but only 4 recs.
Why so few recs. on an otherwise happening thread? 
Thanks for enlightening me! 
Why are they called Republicans
Why is the word "public" in their name?
They hate the public..
Maybe Reprivates. or Repirates .. would apply.
When discussion is slow on DU... Why
do we fall back to the divisive subjects of "Democratic purity" or whose fault it is we have dump...
Is it trolls, who know we will take sides over these topics? I have given up arguing these circular stand offs. Trouble with circles they don't end.
People have to vote their conscience. I realize some folks don't have one.
Samuel L Jackson sings
Just saw Samuel L. Jackson singing on a Capital One Commercial..
That man can really sing.. Does he sing regularly? An album or anything?
Okay, this is stupid but....
I wanted to say this all afternoon.
Scarramucci, Scarramucci, can he do the Fandango?
Sorry, Queen....
I am the Elitist?
I am a college educated white woman. My dad paid for my whole education, I never had to work for a thing.
All my schooling was public. Elementary, middle, high school and a well rated public university.
Elitist? (of a person or class of persons) considered superior by others or by themselves.
I am not quite sure of that. I had the same education millions of other people's kids had. Same text books and exams: same teachers that every student had regardless of income or faith; just the fortune of parents that could foot the bill.
What about these home-schoolers and voucher schools? Aren't they supported by folks that say their values are better than mine? They don't want their kids associating with that riff raff at public schools. They can give their kids a better education than those union propagandist teachers. They know better what subjects their children should study and disseminate information as they see it, not according to science or fact.
They seem the elitists to me.. But what do I know, I had one of those public educations.
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