Name... One Of The Greatest Posts, And One Of The Greatest Posters, You've Ever Seen/Met Here !!!
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If I'm remembering correctly, back in the day, there was one poster who took our city and state info, and the incredible time... to work out a marvelous graphic map of DU... worldwide.
(Wish I still had that link.)
I remember Theresa Heinze's/John Kerry's son posting here during the 2004 Election.
I remember a surviving family member Re: the last flight of Paul Wellstone, Wife, staff...
Thanking us for our support, and our supporting their distraught friend who spoke from the heart on TV, but made Republicans "uncomfortable".
I remember one poster here got pissed at the threats of surveillance on people who were marching against the Iraq War... posting his address and phone number as a major FUCK YOU to those threats... and HUNDREDS of us doing the same.
I remember meet-ups and Protest Marches, Golden Gate Park, and the Fox and Goose here in Sac-Town.
I remember Khephra, Andy, and too too many more gone now.
And meeting, in the flesh, ProudPatriot, HellHathNoFury, Arcane1, Tinoire, WilliamPitt... and many others in toast and live discussion.
I remember when we cared enough to get along, to meet each other, work together, argue, YELL, laugh, and weep. And yes... VOTE.
Anybody else?
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I didn't get here till 2005.
But I too have good memories of posters who moved me, who made me think, and who made me so glad that I'm a Democrat, and a damned liberal one at that.
I have learned much about the processes of politics since I joined DU.
What a ride it has been!
I think the best writer I've met in person here is Will Pitt. His post on how he was bullied as a child was his very best post. It seared itself into my memory.
Wouldn't be DU... Without YOU!!!
Thank you for reminding me.
She's the reason I joined DU.
Here's her last post.
Really, really, good to see you.
I was posting off the top of my head...
And remembering all names/formats of names, has never been my strong suit.
We used to chat once in a while, she was very kind to me. She burned a CD of The Bronx Tale and mailed it to me of which I was so grateful. Whenever I hear that, I think of OLL. r.i.p. dear soul.
Say hi to your sister for me.
B) That's another awesome story.
Please... thank you for sharing.
"Had to be done..."
He did early Internet video work, right ???
Powerful work. Excellent choice, Junkdrawer. Thank you for the link. 
TYY
And welcome...
Organizing, pamphleteering, protesting, or...
going to a movie with someone you care about, smelling the roses...
IOW... If you start getting too much of this place... or any place... go enjoy nature, enjoy the cosmos/bliss..
And when you come back, you will be better for it.
Your arguments will be renewed on a better foundation.
It Just made me totally choke up...
And I thank you as well.
We would spend a week in Washington...
And blah, blah...
But one time, a student of mine, as we were visiting the Vietnam War Memorial...
Tugged my shirt sleeve, and ask me how "to do this"...
Turns out he was representing his family in D.C. to get an etching of another family member off the Memorial.
And as I was teaching how to use the paper/charcoal/chalk... he started tearing up... as did I
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...
Turns out his family pooled there money together for this young kid, a kid they loved and trusted, and yet a kid who was not alive when that war was happening...
But the honor in which he did it... the preparation he had in getting that back home for his family...
Still rocks my world view.
I miss him. 
for SwampRat!
Got tired of DU.. I hope...
His art work made a statement and painted the Bush Crime Family perfectly.
Link to his gallery: http://www.seedsofdoubt.com/swamprat/swamprat-01.htm
I am very, very, very proud of you for your recent accomplishment, my sweet! You go!
depending on interest (and just between you and me).
I was just thinking about that thread the other day, and regretted that I didn't have the link. Now I do.
Psst... this is the largest march in D.C.
But they'll never tell you that...
There were more than a couple people there...
Do you really want me to find that picture again ???
Not mad at y'all, but I'm FUCKING Tired of the default 'everyone's under suspicion' bullshit.
This post was actually intended to respect the past, acknowledge the present, and launch toward the future... 2014/2016/or a nice funeral plot with a good view.
It was also posted to see if anybody gave a shit about anybody else HERE anymore...
Which would be indicated by the majority of the damned post.
I really don't give a rats ass if some banned poster wiggled their way back in, they'll be gone soon enough...
I'm much more worried that the rest of us, the happy few left, will end up turing on each other (nobody being left) and this site will become the Black Hole of DU Ignore... with knitting.
to me it's sometimes the personalities that get in the way of the issues. It's a DU preference that you can hide avatars and signatures, which I do, I would also like to see this place run with usernames hidden. That way the words would stand on their own. I am relatively new around here, but I do get people have biases and cliques that go way back.
Peace and knit on.
Not sure to this day if Random was a real person or an app with software bugs designed to auto-post.
Either way it was always an "experience" running into his posts on DU.
Just sayin...
I send him a birthday wish over PM or he sends me one so I do know that he is around but I don't know where he is 
Tandalayo Scheiskopf is the name I have been trying to remember for the last couple of years so I could ask if anyone knew what happened to him. I miss him.
I always thought Funky Butt was a sock for someone who was banned but can't remember now. There have been too many and too many years have gone by.
**Sorry this did not really belong in the thread but I wanted to ask and answer what I could.
SWAMP RAT if you are out there please please please let someone know you are OK so we can all know you are OK. I really miss you.
BACK to the original intent of the thread.
was Skinner's response:
"Ok." 
Rec - and wish I could rec more than once 
My favorite post and reply of all time!
is tied for my favorite post. I'm not the biggest fan of President Obama in the "stadium", but the moment I knew that the devil Bush and his fascist demons would be gone, and a Democrat, and a Democratic administration would be taking their place, was one of the greatest moments of relief and joy of my life.
...............................This↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓This
Many of the early "Plamegate" and BBV posts were really awesome.
Another of my favorite posts is this one...
In this thread, post 163 ~ "Here goes"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=221x173419
Sapphocrat and Tinoire are two of my favorite posters, but neither posts here any more.
I enjoy all the posts of the longtime further left "FDR type" Dem critical/deductive thinkers/deductive who post here.
Well, not "funny" as such, but you know what I mean
He was obviously way too radical for DU, so he got the boot sometime around 2005.
His posts could be confounding, maddening, acerbic, offensive, and definitely went against the grain of the commonly accepted parameters of political discourse while he was here. Even so - or perhaps for these very reasons - I loved to read his posts. They were intelligent, challenging, subtle and fearless. He was completely upfront and honest about his views - no bullshit.
And regardless what anyone else on DU thought about him, I found him both wise and compassionate.
Before posting this, I decided to see what I could find on google about his post-DU presence on the internet. Sadly, it appears that he died sometime around 2010 - maybe 2009. He was already an old man when he posted on DU, and struggled with diabetes.
So, yes, I will proudly say that I miss him and that I appreciated him and have always been sorry to lose his presence on DU. And now I'm doubly sorry to find out that he's no longer among the living at all.
sigh...
Another great one.
And now gone.
Enemy Of The State (A Ductape Fatwa Tribute)
Ductape Fatwa Memorials
You Can't Reason With Americans
In memory of a wise man right here with you
There are more, but these are some of the most striking, imho. It always saddened me that he was so little appreciated here.
I'm so glad that you remember him, too.
I kept up with him for a bit elsewhere, but eventually lost track of him. I'm so sorry to hear about his passing.
Please also see the links I posted in my reply to WillyT, above.
I'm so very saddened to find out he's gone. I had hoped he was still out there, still being his radical, unbending self. Damn...
Thank you !!!
For whatever reason, I can't think of Armstead without also thinking of Ulysses - who's been gone a very long time, it seems. 
I smiled at each one of her posts. She made newbies feel at home.
Desertrose, who welcomed me to DU and the old Meeting Room, a place that kept me coming back no matter what was happening with politics and political discussions.
Nostamj, who I met in that Meeting Room and still miss.
Zombiewoof, who I catch sight of now and then somewhere else. I still miss the coffee. 
Nothingshocksmeanymore, who made DU a better place to be, and the hood of her car.
A young, idealistic aspie whose name I can't remember, but whose passion I do.
Tinoire.
There are more, but those are the first to pop into my head. Plus, of course, some already mentioned upthread.
And there are some still here, of course! I've only met one in person: villager, and I still enjoy connecting with him here. And Madfloridian, and you, and a whole bunch more.
Greatest posts? There have been too many over the years. Some that immediately jump into my mind are the primary polls posted by bobthedrummer the fall of '07, leading up to the '08 primaries.
Then no reason to respond, eh ?
I wanted everyone to realize, and contribute,
Desertrose, Eloriel and I felt like sisters in those days. We always talked about the three of us getting together some day - I'll always regret that it never happened.
After Eloriel got TS'd - I can't for the life of me remember why - Desertrose still hung on for awhile, but she eventually drifted away. And because of a major computer crash, I lost all my emails from those days, and lost contact once she stopped posting on DU.
Thanks for also remembering nothingshocksmeanymore and Tinoire - two other very special women.
I think I know who you mean, but I can't remember her name, either.
And nostamj - damn!
So many have flashed brightly over the years...
That's how I still manage to stay on DU when so many good people have fallen away - it just doesn't matter.
DU is entertainment, nothing more. It's something I do when I don't feel like doing housework or yardwork.
Lots of those folks aren't around here any longer.
And other assorted freeperisms.
Too tired to grab links, but these threads kept me rolling.
Nice thread, WillyT....thank you.
We got to be actual friends for a while when we met twice at Camp Casey. I met his wife too. DB and I collected camp trash when they were still in the ditch and hauled it to the dump in my truck together, a bonding experience if there ever was one The next time we did general clean up, shopping and I worked in the kitchen. I really miss his wit around here.
We sent email for a while, pictures of our houses since we were both working on one at the same time but I am afraid I simply let it go
He was very smart, he was certainly on a quest to learn, was kind and fun and got himself booted from here. I lost track soon after.
if I were to try and name names, the sad thing that too of the people no longer post on DU
But some still do ... thanks.
Sadly, I think the next primary season will be even worse.
