"For the want of a Nail, the shoe was lost...for the Want of a Democratic

[opihimoimoi]

Party Training Ground, 101 through 375, the Nation was Los..........

Come, we find ways to get them so called leaders of ours to get their ACT TOGETHER and UNITE in an IMPROVEMENT ZONE/SYSTEM/Symposium/
Conference/Retreat/Seminar/School. Unite to Fight, Together we WIN...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Ever hear of Wellstone Action?

That's exactly what they do -- it's a training program, seminars, etc. for progressives.

http://www.wellstone.org/camp/index.aspx

[opihimoimoi]

2. I wanna know who among our leading candidates and wannabes

went, what they studied, and what grades they got...lol I mean, with a lotta smiles, it could pertain to any kind of a positive shift in winning more and higher elections for a LONG TIME...enough time to fix the ongoing probs caused by W Bush....and his dad too, I might add.

[madfloridian]

3. DFA has training all over the country.

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/training.php

They are very good, a lot packed into a short time.

[SharonAnn]

4. We just had an excellent one yesterday, in Knoxville, TN.

There have been 3 or 4 around Tennessee and we have lots of Democrats gearing up to run in all kinds of local and state offices.

Some say it's upsetting the old guard, who've been busy losing elections for years or maintaining the status quo. Some say it's upsetting the arrangements that the "old guard Democrats" have made with the Republicans.

I say, it's time for some changes!

DFT has been doing a great job here! If they had more money, they could do even more.

[MissMarple]

5. Thanks, they will be in Colorado in June.

Camp Wellstone will be here the first weekend in May. :woohoo:

[opihimoimoi]

6. I do not see the Level 3 In HOW TO OBTAIN AND KEEP GOOD GOVT

By electing candidates with good gov't in mind/spirit, and body....

What are our Goals?

Or GOAL?

What do we Dems want? and are willing to fight for?

A Better Future?

A Better Present?

Melding the above 2...?

And How do we plan that?

By training our peeps to have higher visions, to be true Liberals...to have open minds to new and hopefully, better ideas, notions, concepts.....so that in the end, we have enough firepower/strength to over come ignorance.

We Dems had better come up with some very good answers in that area soon, dats for sure. There should be an open war on IGNORANCE.

Where are the DEMs on Ignorance....? Is it that we must revert to IG 101 The Basics?.... we should be looking at IG 278 through
IG 399

Both Bushes to date have piled up a collective $10,000,000,000.00 in National Debt....Bill Clinton, on the other hand, took a 5Billion Debt and reduced it to ZERO....WE WERE OUTTA DEBT...until W walked in....

The Interest alone costs us 300 BILLION PLUS and rising... per year...

Our Defense Costs somewhere around 12% of our GNP

We gatta find the ways to portray the true figues which bear out the truth: Bush is NOT a CONSERVATIVE when it comes to ECONOMICS.

And Hell, while we at it...He shows a History of NOT LISTENING...he even IGNORES WARNINGS...WARNING(S) that is a plural....MANY.

He don hunt, he don listen, he don learn, he don know shit.

BUSH is revealing the general weakness of the Pub Party....They know how to win but don't know what the hell to do for the Peeps. MOST High Pubs are a SELFCENTERED LOT.

[xchrom]

7. i seem to be fishing with you, opihi.

[opihimoimoi]

8. Fishing is one of mankinds great recreational activities....

Come, we go Fish, LOL

[xchrom]

9. lead the way! woo hoo!

no worries and no shoes!

[opihimoimoi]

10. From tiny guppies to giant tuna/ Marlins...what are your faves??

[xchrom]

11. tuna, red snapper and grouper.

but do you have grouper in hawai'i?

can we party where we fish?

[opihimoimoi]

12. To Party on the High Seas is not a good idea...lol. too much sea sickn ess

danger...

We got Yellow Fin here....some Big Eye, and rarely, blue fin...

Grouper family here but deep.

Snapper is still here but in smaller numbers due to Human Squandering...

[xchrom]

13. yeah -- but when we get back to solid sand

i'm a good cook!

open fire or any place else.

we won't think about the snapper -- catch and eat what we can that's good and plentiful.

at least for a small time -- lead by example!

no shoes -- no worries -- good fish and good company!

i'll party where you tell me.

and fish where you say it's good.

[opihimoimoi]

14. I really don't have a boat...so we do shore line fishing...Trevelly

etc....that way, no sea sickness.

What State you in?

[xchrom]

15. california.

we have to leave the shore line to get good fish.

but we have some fine weather and some finer wine and some of the fines people to share it with.

still, it's not hawai'i -- glorious, glorious hawai'i.

[opihimoimoi]

16. If you ever make it here, I take you fishing...we have mucho fun...

just PM me