formal apology to another DU writer

[sweetheart]

In this thread, i insinuated that "I" the writer who writes
sweetheart, also log in to DU as "papau". This is patently not
true, and i was wrong to insinuate it in any way. It is a form
of identity corruption in an anonymous system, and i am wrong
to have said it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2325715&mesg_id=2325805&page=

Please accept my apology papau.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. The poster who posted that thread owes Papau an apology

Papau is probably the most well versed DU'er on the Social Security system and the myths the right wing tells about it. No less than 100 times during my tenure at DU I have sent threads to him that required his level of expertise to rebut some of the more ignorant posts by so called "libertarians" that like to push CATO institute propaganda at DU and he has always addressed my requests with five to ten paragraph long posts that relate his wealth of wisdom and experience.

[papau]

4. Hugs .... and Thanks for the nice comment

:-)

[Worst Username Ever]

2. 75% of non-sequitors are posted by shylock1579

[papau]

3. No problem

:party:

:toast:

:-)

I believe DU should have the news of the day so I post such - and I only comment on items where I may be more of an expert than most (those dealing with Tax, finance, pensions, Soc Sec and Medicare where my background as an actuary and as a executive in many Fortune 50 Financial operations give me some insight - for 9 years I was close to the Reagan folks via working for Ike's Under Sec of Commerce Olmstead so I may post on those folks I know)

Others write much better than I - so my thoughts that are posted tend to be quite short - except in my little area of expertise!

:-)

[sweetheart]

5. cool

Thanks. I realized, that i had know idea who "papau" really was,
as the name has the esoteric abstraction of a "frisbee".

On the old british system, many users had several logins and used to
create arguments between different of their own logins. It became
very confusing sometimes with these multiple personality schemes,
and the ultimate insult, was to claim that someone who was an authentic
poster, was indeed rather a clone of an already known ghostwriter.

"You're just binary-boy or TonyBlairIsGOD"

It suddenly occurred to me the amalgum of all the possibile features
an unknown american person who i only know through writing, and
geez, i did not notice your position on gun control, or whether you
were a fighter pilot, or a nuclear weapons targeting engineer. ;-)

oh dear! And with how angry i've seen people get on jerry springer,
and run the whole thing to a local maxima, and i was momentarily
terrorized, of what anger i might have inadvertently unleashed,
that this person could really take this personally, and be a texas
revenge assassin for all i know.

In a time of war, such winds of fear blow in this world.

I LLLOOOVVVEEE writing and words. It is the ultimate programming
language, this english it is.

DU is a place to surf until november,
and then i can go back to a day job writing
for profit. I love the spontanaety that comes,
like with an actor(s) in impromptu theatre,
rather a writer impromptu, misspellings
egotism, arrogance and all. For the first
time in recorded human history is there this
live socratic chat, and bullshit floats off
leaving the pure gold. Historically earlier,
this chat at parties, and inside newspapers,
but here, without an editor's correction,
imperfect and human.

Sometimes, i just smoke a joint and say
"tell the truth" and start reading DU,
and clickity click clickity
somebody's typing away chatter
chatter. My hero is edgar allen poe,
and his work is that of an opiates.

And indeed, there is that "paranoia" in the
surface of my psychie that makes me sound really
whacky in "fear" writing sometimes. Perhaps
that is the drug or my memories of all those
dreams of nuclear wars. I was terrorized by
nuclear war makers from a young age, and it
has made me jumpy and wierd. They are the
telltale beating heart of our age.

prattle prattle... bubble bubble...

good vibes, thank you.