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This may be the only time when a DU post has an intrinsic value because of its number. Up to this point, every post has been counted. And hereafter, none will be. So I better use this window well.
DU has claimed a great amount of my time over the past few years. On some level, I feel like I need this place, along with the people who populate it. So I must say thank you to DU, and all of its members, for playing this important role.
It feels very weird to make such a claim. It isn't like this is a physical addiction, where I'll start trembling violently if the internet went away tomorrow. But it's still important, because this culture we are living in today values many things that I can't agree with. It almost seems like We the People are being lured to sleep, or being distracted away from issues that we should be very concerned about.
Take the Libby trial. Blowing Valerie Plame's cover seems to me like an act of treason. She served her country, and all of us, by learning all she could about weapons of mass distruction. Taking her out of the game was a big loss, and it was done solely to settle a political score. Anyone who knew her identity had a duty to her, and to all of us, to protect that secret so she could continue to do her very essential work. But has anyone in the media pointed this out? Of course not. Especially when Nicole Ritchie is driving drunk and K-Fed is turning down oodles of money from Britney. But DUers are on this story, in a way that more people should be but just aren't.
So thanks for being here, and validating my belief that the "far left" which Fox villifies so much are actually good people, who care very much about the important issues of our time, and who love their country far more than those who have been stealing it away since January of 2001.
One final thing: Thank you to Molly Ivins, Art Buchwald, Garrison Keillor, Seymour Hersh, Barack Obama, Paul Krugman, E.J. Dionne, Frank Rich, Al Gore, Greg Palast, John Dean, Keith Olbermann, Mark Crispin Miller, Thomas Paine, Langston Hughes, George Orwell, Rachel Carson, Russ Feingold, Jimmy Buffett, Bob Marley, Michael Moore, Abraham Lincoln, John Lennon, Frederick Douglass, Steve Martin, Bill Hicks, Bruce Springsteen, Hunter S. Thompson, Garry Trudeau, Martin Luther King, Benjamin Franklin, and everyone else who has ever inspired me with their words.
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