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PowerToThePeople

(9,610 posts)
Sun Jan 4, 2015, 02:09 PM Jan 2015

10 years a DUer. Thanks DU, and thanks Skinner!!!

With the holidays, I totally blew by my 10 years date that happened a couple weeks ago - Dec 23, 2004.

I had planned on writing a long op about all of the changes and permutations of DU over the years, but those that have been here that long are aware of how this place has changed.

In the dark days of Dean's campaign's demise, Air America and DU were the two shining lights that made me think things could turn around. Sadly, I am still waiting 10 years later.

I hope to be here to see the pendulum swing left again.

Thank you Skinner.

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10 years a DUer. Thanks DU, and thanks Skinner!!! (Original Post) PowerToThePeople Jan 2015 OP
I beat you by a little over a month Omaha Steve Jan 2015 #1
And to you. PowerToThePeople Jan 2015 #2
Beat you by two weeks malaise Jan 2015 #5
CONGRATS! Triana Jan 2015 #3
That's Around When i Got Here ProfessorGAC Jan 2015 #11
Congratulations! DU is terrifc and the best kept secret the Left has. If I hadn't got Thom appalachiablue Jan 2015 #4
Congrats! I missed mine too-- coffeenap Jan 2015 #6
I think a lot of people showed up in 2004, not surprisingly. Warren DeMontague Jan 2015 #7
I'll drink to that pintobean Jan 2015 #8
Twelve years... time flies. nt lumberjack_jeff Jan 2015 #9
You're welcome. Skinner Jan 2015 #10
This thread is worthless without pictures. L0oniX Jan 2015 #12
 

Triana

(22,666 posts)
3. CONGRATS!
Sun Jan 4, 2015, 04:54 PM
Jan 2015

I got here in 2001 after Duhbya's appointment as King.

So many of us have grown up and older on DU. And the DU admins - once free-wheeling whippersnappers, have gone on to get hitched and have little Democrats (of the two and four-legged furry variety).

Can't believe it's been that long!

Olde Tymer DUer hugs!

ProfessorGAC

(64,425 posts)
11. That's Around When i Got Here
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 12:12 PM
Jan 2015

Not sure the exact date because i haven't looked in a while, but i heard Skinner on Washington Journal on a Saturday or Sunday morning and figured i check the site out. Been here since.

appalachiablue

(41,053 posts)
4. Congratulations! DU is terrifc and the best kept secret the Left has. If I hadn't got Thom
Sun Jan 4, 2015, 07:25 PM
Jan 2015

Hartmann's day program on Dish TV three years ago I would have Never known about it. Don't see DU mentioned anywhere which is very strange. Wish I'd known around 2006-07, life would be different. But better late than never!

coffeenap

(3,172 posts)
6. Congrats! I missed mine too--
Sun Jan 4, 2015, 07:34 PM
Jan 2015

December 26. I remember it like yesterday. I was sitting on my living room floor with my 14 year old son who handed me his cell phone to talk to this guy he was working with on election fraud in Michigan. Andy Stephenson said to me, "...you're his mom? Are you on DU? Get your ass over there now!"

And so I did....


(And I miss my friend Andy still.)

 

pintobean

(18,101 posts)
8. I'll drink to that
Sun Jan 4, 2015, 07:40 PM
Jan 2015


This Saturday, it will be 11 years for me. We've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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