A decade-long THANK YOU to DU

[WilliamPitt]

I joined DU four months before 9/11. Been here ever since. Five elections, three wars, endless horrors and the occasional victory...I was informed, educated, comforted and motivated by this place and the people who make it what it is.

Thank you Skinner, Elad and EarlG.

Thank you Mods past and present.

Thank you, DUers.

Thank you, DU.

It has been a long, savage, grueling ten years.

I don't know what I would have done without you.

Nothing is over. We are still involved in three wars, and there's another election coming up. We have plenty of defeats and reversals to look forward to.

But we made it through the last ten years together. I see no reason not to keep it up.

:toast:

:hug:

[hlthe2b]

1. Ditto and I will absolutely extend that

:toast:

[leveymg]

2. I'll give you the 5th rec on that.

[calimary]

26. I'll give the 55th rec!

:toast:

And I'll throw in this Facebook post from a deejay friend of mine from his show earlier today:

"That was a fun request hour. People dedicated the following songs to Bin Laden - DEAD MAN'S CURVE, HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT, ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST, I HEAR YOU KNOCKIN, IT DON'T COME EASY and BEN(a song about a rat)."

[uppityperson]

31. 66th rec

[NNN0LHI]

3. You forgot something. This is the best website on the intertubes

I have looked around and checked and can independently confirm this.

Don

[Zorra]

4. Cheers!

:toast:

[trumad]

5. Celtics look old.

:P

[WilliamPitt]

7. They had a week off

Wait 'til the rust falls off.

:)

[rosesaylavee]

6. Agreed

Thank you Skinner and EarlG and Elad!

[mopinko]

8. it is an amazing place full of amazing people.

i get just plain twitchy when i can't be here for more than a few hours.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Appreciate your good writing, Will!!

:bounce:

[Generic Other]

10. It was nice to have your voice articulating what we all felt

Thank you.

[WilliamPitt]

11. Thank you.

Sorry about my snark the other day over the South. My bad.

[Generic Other]

27. I got an interesting reply from the reference librarian at the school

The expert on the history of the tree said he couldn't refute the accusation. So there you go, a definitive non-answer.

Me? I now know to stay out of football threads!

[WilliamPitt]

12. Kick

[lonestarnot]

13. Three great Americans right there!

:patriot:

[texpatriot2004]

14. Yes, thank you DU. I'm so glad I found DU that day in 2004...

it was the day after Kerry "lost" the election - a most dreadful day for me and for many. DU was a light in the dark for all those years when the evil BushCo thrived.

[blm]

15. It has been one extremely intense block of time.

Nods to all.

[DoBotherMe]

16. Thank YOU Will

for being here. Yes, it has been a hellish 10 years for America. Let's hope sanity will prevail! Dana ; )

[lpbk2713]

17. May I join you in extending many thanks.

This century has started off piss poor and will remain that way for some time to come and as
regards to those making it that way we should never let up on holding their feet to the fire.

[WilliamPitt]

18. Kick

[wndycty]

19. K&R and DU, I will never quit you!

:kick:

[in_cog_ni_to]

20. I'll never forget the day you joined and I saw your name.

:) Because I had read your essays and LOVED them.....I was SO excited to see "WilliamPITT" posting here. I'm glad you've stayed. You've also given us wonderful books to read (which I own) and those essays are to be treasured, for sure! :hug:

You should release a book of your essays. :)

:toast:

[Overseas]

21. K&R.

It has been a tough ten years.

Hoping hoping hoping.

[librechik]

22. What Will Pitt said!

:hi:

:grouphug:


:toast:

[Raffi Ella]

23. Hear, Hear!

I'll toast to that! :toast:


and to


The President of The United States of America!

Barack Hussein Obama~



Yes We Did. :patriot: :dem:

[opihimoimoi]

24. Theres MORE to Come...The Best of Plans for TONs of JOBS.....

Obama plays Stealth Chess...able to checkmate you while you going in for a "King or Queen"

Thank you Will for the long hard fight...

Come, we go Luau, eat, sing, laugh, drink....

:toast: to You and all the DU Family.....

[Hubert Flottz]

47. K&R

+1

[WilliamPitt]

25. Another kick

[derby378]

28. Rec #61 here!

:hug:

[On the Road]

29. And Thank You, Will

Only met you once, in Philly, but have followed your posts since then.

Cheers, and here's to a better and more progressive future!

:toast:

[DinahMoeHum]

30. Agreed. DU saved my sanity (and so did you, Will)

when I read your essay "Stand Your Ground" back in February 2002 after stumbling onto this site.

A thousand thank yous all around.


:hug:

[UpInArms]

32. I seventy-second that

[handmade34]

33. yes, thanks!

[Terra Alta]

34. DU keeps me from going insane

I live in a very red part of the South, and I come here to get away from the constant Repuke talking points I hear from family, friends, and co-workers. I love DU and hope it's around for a long, long time. :toast:

[Carni]

35. Back at you!

The DU community and their posts, has helped to hold me together and has let me vent since 2003!

It's been a God send of info and opinion -- even when I am in the mood to strangle other posters, the entire government body and myself!

It's a big tent (not sure how the mods and the founders keep all of us monkeys and elephants and acrobats in place lol)

[patrice]

36. Kick'n' for Mr. Pitt!

[bigwillq]

37. K and R

Long Live DU! :bounce:

[whatchamacallit]

38. Yeah thanks

for keeping me in your dungeon. ;)

[Gregorian]

39. We have differences. We figtht. Within it all there is a kernel of common truths and values.

There is a real sanity. A kind of human love for a better and perhaps even perfect world. And it makes this a very special group.

[Imajika]

40. Time flies, I have 10 years in myself...

Have been reading your posts from the very beginning. I remember debating you from time to time, posts you've made that caused firestorms, others that really pulled the community together - hell once I even bet you no one would contest the electoral votes in the 2004 election and lost (Boxer and Tubbs-Jones objected).

Wow, amazing how time flies. So much has happened over this 10 years, yet it feels like yesterday we were all keeping up on the 9-11 threads as it was happening. I remember your reaction to Bush's post 9-11 speech before Congress (it wasn't popular because as I recall you had positive things to say about it), and that thread I argued with you about the Philippines becoming another Vietnam (I was right about that one, it didn't), the thread you started opposing the Afghan war (I believe it was simply entitled "I oppose this war"), and so many more.

It's been a great 10 years for me and I hope for you as well. I've always valued your posts and commentary. I miss some of the members who aren't here anymore - even ones I disagreed with much of the time. I always look for posts by members who are consistent in their arguments and bring something insightful to the table, even when I don't always see eye to eye with them.

Anyway, I agree, DU has been a fantastic community and I don't know what I'd do without it. Here's hoping the next 10 years are more peaceful and bring more electoral triumphs our way.

[Senator]

41. Back at ya

I'll buy the beers at Bukowski (sadly, only virtually - this time).

===

[AsahinaKimi]

42. Pitt sama..

kochiro koso! (no... Thank you!!) こちろこそ!

[tkmorris]

43. I fucking stand

Rock on Will.

[Kurovski]

44. I saw you say something about your "long form" yesterday.

Ten years: yeah, that's a long one alright. ;)

Previously rec'd.

[underpants]

45. Yes indeed

:toast:

[tclambert]

46. "Five elections?" Locals don't count?

I vote in one or two a year.

But in regards to thanking DU for existing . . . "So say we all."

[NewJeffCT]

48. +1 - so say we all

[sce56]

49. And thanks for the comedy break too!

[Raffi Ella]

50. This place is my go to and always will be

Long Live D.U.

:dem:

[watercolors]

51. Will miss you, been here since early days also.

I find my self comming here less and less. Usually feeling very confused and angery after I have read a few posts. We have lost something along the way. Enjoyed all your many wonderful posts and agreed with you on most. Thank you for helping to educated some of us.Good bye!

[LynneSin]

52. In the immortal words of the Grateful Dead: What a long, strange trip it's been

:D