slow things down. please.

[Syrinx]

This and the coming week seem sad.

[Wonk]

1. Waves wand. Apparently it's not magic after all. Asks for rebate. No dice.

Sorry :(

[Syrinx]

2. Is this "IT"

I don't mean to be melodramatic. But...

:(

[Rhiannon12866]

3. I agree, my friend. Summer passed by way too quickly.

And I dread the cold weather to come.x(

Time seems to be moving way too fast, these days. Why aren't we still in 7th grade, anyway?!:shrug:

Rhiannon:pals:

[Syrinx]

4. hello my friend

The fascism is increasing really fast the last couple of days and I'm actually getting scared.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. Hell, I've been scared for a long time, scared witless since 2001,

actually. That was when I became political, for the first time in my life. I don't know if I ever told you my story. I had a dentist appt on 9/11 2001. As you know, I'm not an early riser, LOL, and all I knew was that something really bad had happened, but didn't see what it was all about until I was held hostage in my dentist's chair, with the TV on CNN, overhead, watching that second plane hitting the WTC, over and over and over. I was barely able to walk outside, after seeing that. I was sure that the world was about to end. And that was the day that I became political. I was determined to find out what was going on in this country and the world that caused this to happen. So I read a lot and I started paying attention, and I found DU. And I may not have much liked the answers that I found, but at least I know now, so am unlikely to ever be blindsided again...;(

And I agree with you, since I follow each and every news day. Things are getting worse, no question. The worse things look for this administration, the more brazen that they become. We have reason to fear them. That's the reason that we have to elect new representation this fall, and in 2008. We can't afford to sit back and hope. We have to be a part of the process. I'm in... What's it look like in your neck of the woods? Here, I believe that my Freeper congressman is on the run...:-)

[Syrinx]

16. sorry, I must have dozed off

The status quo seems to be holding here. No senator up this year. We have a Republican governor that appears to be headed for easy re-election. As for congressmen, we have 5 Republicans and 2 Democrats. All appear to be headed for another term. Four of the five Repug districst are locks, and in the fifth, we haven't fielded a very strong candidate apparently. Of our 2 democratic seats, one is a blue dog, ie. Dino. And in the district in which I live we have a young African-American congressman that I had very high hopes for... until he voted for the "Bankruptcy Reform Act," and most recently for the War Criminals Protection And Citizen Disappearance Act of 2006. Sigh, hand me another beer and another cigarette.

Hi Rhiannon! :loveya:

[Johnny Noshoes]

5. Ahh 7th grade

1966 - seems like another lifetime and another America. My country is gone :cry:

[CarbonDate]

6. 7th grade....

1991... still seems like another lifetime ago.

Our country is not gone. We just need to be ready to hold onto it. If that means taking to the streets, then that's a small price to pay for liberty.

Somebody please just show some leadership. We'll follow. I'm on Guam, but I'll follow. Just somebody, please, lead.

[Rhiannon12866]

9. I was in 7th grade a few years before you were, LOL, but I take your point

We do suffer from a lack of leadership. There are some great minds out there, Ted Kennedy, John Conyers, Dennis Kucinich, Russ Feingold, Barbara Boxer, Al Gore, John Edwards, Howard Dean, Wes Clark, and John Kerry has really been stepping up to the plate... But we need real and consistent leadership. We can't settle for anything less. I'll follow, too...:-)

And why are you on Guam? That's very far away...:shrug:

Rhiannon:hi:

[Johnny Noshoes]

10. Okay maybe NOT gone

that was a bit over the top. Taking to the streets by MILLIONS before this war and we were a "focus group". I just don't know anymore what will work but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try each in our own way to change the course of our country. The Buddhists have the idea of acting with right intention and doing what you have to do because its the right thing to do and acting with no expectation of reward or even results. I guess that's what each of us have to keep in mind in the fight ahead to bring our country back to its senses and onto to the right road to the future.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. Syrinx and I have a thing about 7th grade, but we're all of an age.

I guess that the world was much simpler then. And the political process wasn't so corrupted, and the lies were more easily exposed. I'm not one to dwell on the past, but those really were better times. Hell, the '90s were much better times. In his book, "The Greatest Sedition Is Silence," Will Pitt said that it may be already too late. And when was that published...2002? We have reason to fear, unless we take back this country in November...:scared:

[Johnny Noshoes]

11. When you're a kid

and 11 or 12 years old it does seem simpler becasue you really have no idea of what's going on - oh you might get a feeling about things true but you don't have the life experience to put it together and have it make sense. Hell man sometimes it still doesn't make sense even now and that's the scary part. Yes this election we have to begin the very long job of taking our country back from the edge of the cliff.

[Rhiannon12866]

12. I know that I had no idea what was going on, at that age.

I remember a test in school where we had to name our senators. Kids now are much different, at least the ones on DU, and there are quite a few. They are very plugged in, know more than I do, LOL, and I've learned a few things from them.:-)

But back when I was in junior high, I trusted that all would be right with the world. But not anymore. You're absolutely right. We have to take this country back now or fall over the cliff. This is our absolute last chance...:-(

[Bluerthanblue]

13. on the flip side, if you are a kid

who has learned that the only person who you can count on is yourself, and you look forward to being an adult where you have a 'chance' to hold others accountable- and make choices that can help the world be different for victims of the powerful, ..... and this present world is what you live in.....its hard to keep believing.

It's hard to keep hope alive. It's hard not to want to stop having your efforts ground into the dirt.

And to realize we ARE the 'grown-ups'.


I'm glad you have the optimisim you do- and the energy to fight the good fight. As long as there are believers all is not lost. Guard your hope wisely. And nurture it as much as you can. It'll keep you going when nothing else will.

[Johnny Noshoes]

14. I don't know

if its optimism or just plain "crazy". There are times when I think that there's nothing we can do to stop this madness. Then I think about my nephews and my great nephew and great niece and figure that whatever we can do however small it might seem is better than doing nothing.

"G'Quan wrote, "There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way." The war we fight is not against powers or principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain."

[Subdivisions]

15. I so long for seventh grade! That was Perkins Middle School for

me in Perkins, Oklahoma. Little did I know then that in the future the company my Dad worked for at the time, Brown & Root, would become such a tool for evil.

I remember doing class projects about Paul Revere and Poe's The Raven.

What a pleasant memory that seems oh so long ago.

[htuttle]

17. Old Charlie stole the handle and...

The train, it won't stop going --
No way to slow down.