Someone just invited me here. But I've been a member

[MineralMan]

of the BOG for some time. I don't come here much. Why? Because I'm out in GD arguing with the "leftists." They aren't really leftists...at least not some of them. There are many here who are simply trying to put us off our game.

As I look down the list of posts in the BOG, I see a lot of names I don't see in GD threads. That can't be good.

Come and argue. Come and make your point, again and again and again. Please.

[quiet.american]

1. Good point. I hope you've seen my name "out there." :)

Sometimes I have to take a day-or-two break from reading the Greatest Page, because I'm sure to see something there that I'll have to get into, and then there goes my morning, afternoon or night taken up with the back-and-forth. And lately, it's gotten to feel like I'm engaging a "show-me-the-birth-certificate"-type mentality, so sometimes I wonder, is it even worth it anymore? (Yes.) :)

[MineralMan]

2. Not as often as I'd like to see it.

But, we may well be posting in different threads. I don't use the greatest page for anything. I just go to the Latest page and whang away on threads that catch my attention.

[quiet.american]

6. That explains it. :) nt

[Uzybone]

3. Speaking for myself; I'm tired of the lies, spin, rudeness and inflexibility

Not to mention to occasional racism. If not for BOG I certainly wouldn't be a donating member and I might have stopped coming to DU altogether.

[MineralMan]

4. OK. But doing nothing is still doing nothing.

There's a battle going on. I'm in it.

[BlueCaliDem]

16. There's also no arguing with a closed mind - liberal or not. Why bother? eom

[quiet.american]

24. Yeah, I hear you, BlueCaliDem. I just took a dip in that pool.

Every fact is spun into a rhetorical doomsday scenario or just not acknowledged.

We have our own that are just as willfully ignorant as those on the right.

But sometimes, I just can't let the nonsense stand.

[goclark]

20. Thank you for leading the battle ~ click this link

I am with you in the struggle, backing you up by hitting other keys on the keyboard when I find the discussion way over the top and thus it becomes almost a full time job when I'm not taking care of my sick Mom.

I just know that after just coming from that other world, if I responded to a post, I would have a Marker with some grass around it.

Even when I click into the BEST LINK that I am going to bookmark ~ my anger knows no bounds.

I can not , for any reason understand the rage that lives inside their hearts for our Party.

So I 'll just bookmark this link and quietly be there for you when I can take it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM360e3lCmc

:fistbump: for your leadership!

[Cha]

5. Well, thank you for what you do, MineralMan..

and for stopping in to say Hey.

So glad the BOG is here as a reprieve from the relentless cheap pot shots but there's plenty of interesting activism all over the board.

[KittyWampus]

7. BLOBFISH RULES! I don't argue much anymore. Especially since learning about another website

where a lot of these clowns assemble to trash talk about DU.

[MineralMan]

13. Please PM me with that info, OK?

[nevergiveup]

8. You are one of the brave good guys.

My hands start shaking when I go into GD so it makes it difficult to type unless I have a couple of drinks and if I drink I start typing obscenities. Maybe I need a new approach.

[Cha]

10. Probably.

:)

[MineralMan]

15. Thanks for that. My hands never shake. I've been doing this stuff

for years. Dances with wolves. Or maybe it's that four dogs thing. I can never remember.

[goclark]

21. Try this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM360e3lCmc

It's been helping me.

[nevergiveup]

23. LOL Thanks!

[TicketyBoo]

9. I see such hatred

in my real world community, which is why I found DU. I hoped it would be a sanctuary from the bigotry and small-mindedness in my town.

Well, you know very well that GD is no sanctuary. I don't venture out of the BOG very often. This is more what I was after. THAT … isn't.

[Cha]

11. I'm sorry you have to be in all that

real world community hatred..it's so weird how the World is like that.

GDP has a lot of good info and strong supporters of the Pres posting real facts about the admin.

[azmouse]

12. Agreed.

We have to be out there in GD defending each other.
Even a brief post to a fellow BOG member to assure them we have their back can be helpful.

[MineralMan]

14. And thank you for doing that so often!

[FrenchieCat]

17. Right-O!

fighting the good fight!

[Lindsey]

18. Very good point. I'm guilty of seeking refuge here and now you've

got me thinking. I think I'll venture "out there" more now. Thanks for putting things in perspective.

[FrenchieCat]

19. It's pretty tough still......

But it the loud repetitious normal suspects and their awesome fan club....
who don't care about measurable progress, just gripping how Eutopia was missed
all day yesterday. They want to get folks down; that's their agenda.....
that's what they enjoy.

[goclark]

22. MineralMan you have earned the BOWinner Award

Congratulations for your work.

We believe that what you are doing is the right thing to do.

[Cary]

25. I agree that you're one of the good guys Mineral Man.

That's why I invited you here.

And I have to agree that a lot of them aren't even leftists. I know one personally who is most definitely not a leftist, although I have no idea which one she might be.

I would fight back more but I am utterly disgusted that my threads get locked and my posts get deleted, even here in the BOG.

[HughMoran]

26. I have to be in the mood for GD

Generally Disappointing

[Hekate]

27. I'm out there more than in here, but the bile and viciousness have worn me out. ...

Nice to have you drop in here, though. :hi:

Hekate