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Maybe? 
Though, I suspect come Nov. 5, 2014 and no doubt shortly thereafter, I will be similarly tempted ... with considerable more points. That might just be too much to avoid.
So quaint. I enjoy it ever so much.
By the end of the day the will let you know what to think and say. And will expect your thanks for straightening you out.
I'm kinda glad you didn't do it though. It's kinda fun actually knowing what somebody is talking about in GD. For once. 
Our president has had many successes, and it drives people nutz. Thank goodness Obamacare is working, some of us (not US) will need years of therapy to get over themselves. I hope they get well soon.
Sometimes I feel the need to log off DU and log in again, just to assure myself that I am in the right place.
I checked and their therapy will indeed be covered under Obamacare. Good news~
I am relieved about the therapy, it's a chronic condition that pops up whenever Obama smiles or does something good. Since that mostly what he does, they must be in psychological agony.
Medical experts have mapped the lifecycle of ODS, and while it'll resolve itself in about 3-4 years ... the disease will likely progress into "IRDSOS" ("I Really Did Support (President) Obama Syndrome"
Will ObamaCare cover that?
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not even sure what colbert is doing. damn sure i do not know what strong is talkin'. oh, and you, and brave. lol
but, i know i agree with the three of you cause i do not think i have ever not agreed with the three of you. lol
this one just made me laugh, though
However the second
It feels great to laugh~
LOL, thanks sea~
Those others are fine. It's different for them. I'm mad now, not fun no more. 
It is refreshing indeed.
1SBM did them one better, he didn't post a look at me thread. He posted a "LOOK AT US" thread! It is about all of us and damn it we look good! May not have been what he was thinking to say. This is not a bad start though.
Actually we look bolder and stronger and more cohesive. We know what we want and are not afraid to say it.
When we roar we soar~
See...
Number23.
Do it with style.
But I can gif the heck out of this mysterious topic.
My work here is done.
hell could they afford either that damn helo or the FUEL to go all over the Hawaiian islands in it?
Members Only jackets...Hawaiian shirts...Ferarris....large moustaches...and "grape smuggler" short-shorts!! Magnum PI, what a program!!!
I remember watching it on AFRTS (aka "a-farts", the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service) and we were lucky to have anything at all...there was no choice!
mansion where Magnum lived in the basement or guest house or whatever; and that martinet who used to crab at him all the time (and who was the voice of KIT in that Hasselhoff car show with the talking black car) was the butler, or something! Never could figure out why the guy let old Magnum drive the shit out of his car...!
Why can't I ever land a gig like that? I'm outta the military, I wouldn't mind living in some rich guy's house and driving his Ferrari!! I'd happily pal around with a guy with a helo who makes his money showing tourists the coastline, and who always manages to have plenty of fuel!
Damn the bad luck, I guess!
The owner of the estate was the mysterious "Robin Masters"--not Higgins. They tried, towards the end, to introduce a few twists that suggested Magnum thought Higgins owned the place but it did not marry up with previous plot expositions and they never took it further--it was a device that went nowhere. The premise:
With Magnum living a luxurious life on the Estate and operating as a P.I. on cases that suit him, the only thorn in the side of this seemingly perfect lifestyle on the Estate, is Jonathan Quayle Higgins III (played by Texas-born veteran actor John Hillerman), an ex-British Army Sergeant Major, a (on the surface) stern, "by-the-book" ex-soldier whose strict ways usually conflict with Magnum's much more easy-going methods. He patrols Robin's Nest with his two highly trained "lads", Doberman Pinschers, Zeus and Apollo. Often as a humorous aside during various episodes of the series, Magnum must bargain with Higgins for use of estate amenities other than the guest house and the Ferrari 308 GTS (e.g., tennis courts, wine cellar, expensive cameras). The relationship between Magnum and Higgins was initially that almost of a "friendly nemesis", but as the series progressed over the seasons, an unspoken respect and fondness of sorts grew between the pair, and as such, many episodes dedicated more screen time to this "odd couple" pairing after the relationship proved popular with fans.
A recurrent theme throughout the last two seasons (starting in the episode "Paper War"
involves Magnum's suspicion that Higgins is actually Robin Masters since he opens Robin's mail, calls Robin's Ferrari "his car", etc. This possibility is contradictory to numerous references throughout the series' earlier run (e.g. phone calls from abroad; the fact that Robin is recognised by famous people). Although the three of them have been together before, Magnum is convinced that Higgins hired an actor to play Robin Masters (a short rotund guy with an Orson Welles voice, as Magnum puts it).
Aside from Higgins, Magnum's two other main cohorts on the islands are Theodore "T.C." Calvin (Roger E. Mosley), who runs local helicopter charter service Island Hoppers - and so often finds himself persuaded by Magnum to fly him during various cases; and Rick Wright (Larry Manetti) (who refuses to use his birth name, Orville), who owns a local bar. In the Pilot, this was "Rick's Place" in town, inspired by Casablanca, with Rick appearing in suitable 1930s attire. However after completion of the Pilot, executives on the series felt that audiences would be unable to fully connect with this element, and instead Rick moved to running the plush beachside King Kamehameha Club - which has exclusive membership and Higgins on the board of directors, and yet Magnum often strolls around, using the facilities and running up an ever unpaid tab, further fueling the Magnum / Higgins feud. T.C. and Rick are both former Marines from VMO-2 with whom Magnum served in the Vietnam War.[2] The series was one of the first to deal with Vietnam veterans as "human beings" and not as shell-shocked killers, and was praised by many ex-servicemen groups for doing so. Magnum often dupes, tricks or bribes T.C. and Rick into aiding him in various ways on the cases he works on, much to their frustration, though the deep friendship between the group, including Higgins, proved to be one of the key elements of the series over its eight-season run.
Magnum seemingly lives a dream lifestyle: he comes and goes as he pleases, works only when he wants to, has the almost unlimited use of a Ferrari 308 GTS Quattrovalvole as well as many other of Robin Masters’ luxuries. He keeps a mini-fridge with a seemingly endless supply of beer ("Old Dusseldorf in a long neck"
, wears his father's treasured Rolex GMT Master wristwatch, is seemingly surrounded by countless beautiful women (who are often victims of crime, his clients or connected in various other ways to the cases he solves). Other characteristics specific to Magnum are his thick mustache, a Detroit Tigers baseball hat, and a variety of colorful Aloha shirts.
Nearly every episode is narrated, in voice-over, by Magnum at various points; and Magnum and Higgins often break the fourth wall by locking eyes with or, occasionally, directly addressing the audience; other characters also do this, though less frequently.
At the end of the seventh season, Magnum was to be killed off, which was intended to end the series. The final episode of the season, "Limbo", after seeing Magnum wander around as a ghost for nearly the entire run-time, closes with him seemingly walking off into heaven. However, following outcry from fans, who demanded a more satisfactory conclusion, an eighth, final season was produced, to bring Magnum "back to life", and to round the series off.[3] A number of other episodes also make reference to supernatural occurrences and the seeming existence of ghosts.
I'm surprised the synopsis didn't include the grape smuggler shorts that were popular in the era!
Because if there was even the slightest hint of mischief involved - after you posted this -
I would have turned right around and done what you were going to do for my own dang amusement! 
Color me
I love me some mischief!
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As I was spitting tea onto my desk!
Sorry about that!
When people are being silly asses! Look for controversial threads that shouldn't be!
Once one of us starts active gif'ing - the other can't resist!
Take a bow sir, you are just too awesome for the internets.
Is that what that was?
Don't worry about the angry ones. *I'm* having a ball!
Smiling. they are too fun.
hehehehehe~
But I'll gladly accept. 
I concede the title . . .
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I'll wait right here JAG~
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Well maybe a little bit...
You got me going in circles
oh round and round I go, I'm spun out over you.
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Maybe all is not lost after all. 
Maybe the Aussie internet is just "down under" the weather.
Yes it does!
--imm
but my feelings are hurt that I am not one of your trusted 10 DUers.
Not at all. I don't feel rejected, really.
But, not to be presumptuous, I knew how you would have voted on the question.
Hugs~
Yeah, you just posted you were glad you weren't one of the ten as a token of your esteem to 1SBM. Yeah, that's what it was.
comment.
"Glad I'm not one of those you asked..." is a very interesting expression, too.
I guess we'll never know...
There are a bunch of folks taking my not including them, way to personally.
This IS what they do!
It kind of makes me wish the decision had been to go through with whatever it was.
Thanks Squinch!
I'm just going to watch this thread and keep kicking it.
And if you don't show fealty to a lame idea, you're viewed as suspect.
It's nice, for a change, to get front-and-center orchestra seats to a show worth watching, that'll get you up outta your seat even if you're not of a mind to jump on up!
Hi MADem~
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just sayin'
That was the whole point of this thread. You might have picked that up from my writing:
I love DU ... it's populated with some really, really smart folks.
And the other part of that Seventh Grade journey was those that loudly proclaimed, "I don't care if they play with me at recess", while spending their entire recess, watching the group that they did not want to be a part of ... I guess the journey continues, huh?
the folks I intended to reach have seen it ... well, all but one has yet to appear in this thread.
Thank you for telling me what I could've/should've done ... I chose a different course. But thanks, anyway!
Or maybe, you could just get over this not being about you?
I don't understand half of what people are talking about sometimes. This time i'm in on it, and you want to take that from me.
No i don't feel used, not by him, since you wondered. Best op of the day i'm sure.
I guarantee you freshwest sees it. seabeyond sees it. hrmjustin sees it. Folks see it. 
Pssst - you do know I linked to that thread don'cha?
I wasn't.
You know it!
You know you do!
I wonder if the piece of shit op has been deleted yet. I refuse to check, but i am curious.
The same people who cheered that would cannibalize me if i said that about EW. Show up here just to say derp.
It is their playground, we should kick sand in their faces.
They cheer on that guy for his stuff, but 1 strong BLACK man is basically called childish and given a stern lecture by ' those who know things'. Like a kid. Like a Boy. Well he IS a BLACK man so it's okay to question his motivations and lecture him on his behavior even though he's super awesome and rarely has a nasty word to say. He should have just called the president a piece of shit. He'd have 50 recs by now, and a following of adoring fans congratulating and defending him.
All I can say to this is... WELCOME TO DU.
Than the person you are responding to.
Seems racism just keeps going strong, just cant seem to stop that pigeonholing thing on any side of the coin.
I'm glad we were able to do this.
you can play on my playground!
Bullsh!t!
Are you saying that you hold the bulk of opinions on DU, or anywhere else, as equally trust-worthy and counsel-worthy? Please ... Not rude; but rational.
Yes ... It was my intent to thank those that I invited to provide input into a question I posed. How is that "intentionally rude" unless you feel entitled to weigh in on all discussions posed to whomever.
No ... how do you arrive at that conclusion?
Wow ... First I DO NOT consider all duer equally smart; but I DO consider the 10, as able to give good counsel.
And if you had ... I would have responded with a plain and clear, "None of your business ... just because something is posted to a public message board doesn't mean I'm obligated to clue you in, nor are in entitled to know."
You are right, we need to ease them into it now, so the shock doesn't destroy them. I think i'm behaving myself pretty well.
this thread is not about getting your attention! It was communicating to the 10.
So do I! Again ... Mirror.
No ... I got 120+ people to respond to a "Lookit me, lookit me!" thread ... some posting multiple times lamenting that they were not a part of an inside joke in a public place.
Awwww Obama is such a kid too. A cool one at that~
Go President Obama!!!!1!!
Yet it was as funny as can be!
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I want~
Try that with some fried chicken and olive garden.
I had to log out to see many of your exchanges in this thread, because so many are with people I have on ignore.
They are beautiful to behold. I bow low to you.
It's him in a superman cape, my favorite!
We will soldier on then...
The poster didn't last very long, iirc. 
How could you?
You got some brass though, i'll give you that.
You're just boring.
Whatever you do, do NOT push the Bored Button. Absolutely not. I see your mouse hand hovering over it. I warn you, I will slap your hand. Maybe even use a ruler, like those nuns of my youth. I’m telling you this for your own good. If you click this button, you will never be able to return to life as you know it now.
(Ha, fooled you! The Bored Button to the left has been disconnected for your safety, but there is an active one at the bottom of this blog. Read these cautions before pressing the button.)
I was bored the other day. Really, really bored. I was so bored that I googled “bored” just for the heck of it. After all, you never know what you’ll find on Google.
I found the Bored Button.
Then I made the mistake of pressing the Bored Button. It was a true OMG moment. I was lost in an alternate reality. It was fun, even a little intoxicating. I found I needed to press it more and more often, like that button on the morphine pump they give to people in the hospital. Addicting. Mesmerizing.
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If that is so, why are you here.
BTW~ Thanks for kicking this thread!
I saw what you did there.
DRACARYS!!!!
You are on a roll today. Brava!
Tired of getting a snark beatdown!!
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another good flick right there
He's helping me make more.
I still sangs, song o' suffering.
At least im not living free on welfare.
Nobody ever comes to our games, and when they do its because nobody else is playing.
Whatever you were thinking of -- Don't Tuch The Butt.
Depends on how you look at it! I've got to go pick up my welfare check and get an abortion now! That crazy assed Bundy guy said that's what I do!
So true - and in all of this Bundy nonsense - folks aren't seeing he IS the right. He's not an "extremist". Maybe they will start to stop "acting new" and get with the game? A girl can hope! 1+1=3 around here. He just says out loud, what some don't even know they think.
You'll know its coming to an end when crime stats stop being spoken around here in terms of black and white.
I'm sure i'm a racist. I was told so on this thread.
I have too many rational opinions.
I bet it was a great idea!
He just quoted Riley Freeman. I'll be around November 5th and have your backs. . Because I think I know what 1Strong is onto here.
Somewhere in a basement far far away LoZo (or a sock thereof) is weeping tears of impotent envy.
Even better than Manny because I'm not 100% certain you aren't serious.
or down to 5.
But I don't know what you are talking about ... leveraging one subgroup over another.
I found the car salesman OP disgusting, myself. I come here to learn, not read obnoxious name calling by supposed authors. I often see your posts and appreciate your perspective. Thank you for responding.
And you've also got the group that thinks it's all about them insulting the OP with no repercussions while the folks who are telling them that this thread is not about them or their butthurt getting their posts hidden.
DU, ain't it grand?
1SBM's evil plan has come to fruition!
Or...
You're going pretty far out of your way to be "hurt" in what amounts to asking advice from your friends or, the guy who you wave at on the bus every morning.
I should have included the 
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the love you take is equal to the love you make~
well done! thank you!
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But I'll give you this:
In return
I stole a few while I was here too.
Share liberally, etc.....
Some people take themselves WAY too seriously.
Enjoyed the thread, nonetheless.
People of Color, on this site, have been trying to bring this fact to light, since ... well ... forever.
Visit the African-American Group (if you haven't been), pick any discussion on/of Racism and read through it. Focus on the vast majority of what the identifiably Black posters are saying. You will see white "liberals" (not all, but a significant number) attempting to define the terms and set the parameters of the discussion (in ways that conveniently exonerates themselves and absolves them from any action ... other than telling us how we should feel/what we should do to deal with racism); and the then look at the identifiably Black posters' consistent reply.
In a sense, PoC (and all "minorities" serve as the societal mirror, that America (particularly, "liberal" America) refuses to peer into.
My response to you, was not directed AT you, but the many, many others. FWIW, I DO count you among the "it-getters" (I like that term). Your post just allowed me to complete the circle. Thanks.
Just post an awesome anecdote or gif and you recieve instant membership.
The op is just letting the advisors that he's taking his own advice and postoning his other op. Nothing major.
This thread is all kinds of awesome.
Sid
or get the feeling I might be the subject of discussion, or someone who might think like me might be the subject of discussion, what am I to think? If y'all stop whispering when you see me, then get huffy about how you should have the right to have public conversations about secret plans that concern doing something divisive and get all defensive about it when all I did was read your post and comment on the tone which I clearly did not misread, I must conclude that the giggling and tittering I hear as I walk by is directed at me -- well yes -- then I do start feeling excluded. If you only brought 10 valentines to school when there were 12 girls and then announced the fact that only the "special" girls were deemed worthy of receiving them, wouldn't you expect the slighted ones to notice or feel singled out? You are the one who made a show of announcing you were bursting with a "secret" idea you decided not to share with us "nerds" after seeking the advice of the cool kids who all rec'ed your thread. Anyway, no big deal. My name "Generic Other" -- know what that means, right? The "other" box on all the forms that ask which group you belong to. Neither fish nor fowl. Outsider. Always.
Usually, I consider you to be one of DU's more thoughtful voices, so the slight junior high feel of your thread disappointed me, that's all.
I just hope we can still be friends when the jocks and cheerleaders aren't around.
This thread has been far more hilarious than anything else you might have done.
The best part is many of the same folks who would have hated your alternative, hate this as well ... and yet don't really get what THIS, is.
The animated GIF section alone should get a Life-Time Special Achievement DUZY award.
so I don't think I should get a pass if criticizing our president in strong words is going to be viewed as racism toward him. I am concerned that I don't come off that way. I do not want to dog whistle or code talk or any of that disingenuous crap because on a personal level I respect and admire him greatly, even feel some satisfaction that he has been able to win victories in spite of the hard wall of rightwing opposition. Everyone on DU fought for him and cheered when he won (well maybe not the so-called disappointed Hilary cougars) but everyone else will always see him as the one who saved us from McCain, Palin and Romney. But some of us are really very far to the left, and we have felt this inextricable pull to the right that nothing we try to do seems to stop. So we screech a bit too stridently perhaps because we don't know how to better deal with our frustrations about the things he has not been able to accomplish or even sometimes seems uninterested in accomplishing. I have walked a very thin tightrope on this. Mad some days. Rooting for him to win others. Is it possible that a lot of DUers who seem angry at Obama go through these same emotions? We pinned way too many hopes on him. Superhuman expectations. And some of us have been boorish about it. I can see that now, so I thank you for continuing to drive that point home.
I continually tell myself that the right is so obviously filled with racists dicks that it should be evident to even the blind. But not everyone else agrees. And sometimes I think people (myself included) get mad at the president when we should yell at the right more and call them on their crap toward him. I have thought that for the past 6 years, Obama's presidency has let us all be people of color in some small measure because we have had to endure the shameful treatment he has been accorded by the more extreme factions of the teabag party. Meanwhile we at DU do tend to kind of pick at each other rather than address this issue because it makes people uncomfortable to talk about. The real people we should be mad at don't post at DU. Clearly, sometimes our anger is misdirected.
I agree with those who warn us not to chart a new centrist path. I agree with those who want to scream in frustration at the influence corporations and the very wealthy exert in politics. Both sides yell -- perhaps a bit too loud and often. And I believe both sides are sincere in their opinions. I have fought side-by-side with many DUers. And in bare knuckle fights against some of them. I have come to accept that many of us are exactly as you see us. A cross section of the Democratic party. Only united by a few thin threads. DU is like a crazy family re-union. Someone spikes the punchbowl and all hell breaks loose. Someone's drunken uncle pees in the flowerbed. Someone covers the children's eyes. Someone else is laughing. Another person is cussing. Suddenly there's potato salad and jello flying in the air. And the police show up. Afterwards, no one quite knows what to say, but we all tsk tsk over it forever. Clearly if you do or say something stupid on the internet it will come back to haunt you forever!
Anyway, thanks for starting this thread. I believe you had valid reasons. And you left me with something to think about -- whether it was about me or not.
was originally going to post.
And probably every bit as illuminating. The haters could not have outed themselves more beautifully and highlighted more succinctly what the posters of color that still dwell here have to deal with.
Major props to 1SBM, Morpheus and especially Bravenak. Her posts shone like gold.
It was illuminating, they showed up in grand style. The cameo appearances of Manny and Pitt were priceless.
Then that one poster, that relentlessly told 1SBM to take it else where, put it in The Lounge or just send PM's to the ten. 1SBM rude? I don't think so! That reeks of White Authoritarian BS! Again and again he "told" 1SBM and bravenak what they meant, when said poster had no clue. It was said posters "opinion" and therefore fact. Again White Authoritarian!
Oh and I know that you caught the statement from said poster that we were being used and abused by 1SBM, for posting this. Really?
It burns the hell out of me, I can only imagine what it does to you.
I came home from work and saw bravenak's idiotic hide. Just goes to show this magnificent thread struck home. I will bet my bottom dollar on who sent that alert!
for this thread! Academy Award material!
I'm trusted...by my cat and the wildlife that lives where I live. If animals can trust me, I must be good.
If it was a suggestion, then I have been way to subtle.
Big rec!
This is badass. I bow to the master, you clever man
daaamnn
Big ups to Bravernak for the way she stated her piece so eloquently in the face of ignorance & denial time & time again throughout this thread.
Because:
Please. Du has been a bit dull lately, and it sounds like your thread would have livened up the place, if nothing else.
"You're not including me (Yep, that's right) ... I demand that you include me (Nope, not gonna happen) ... You still won't include me (That's right) ... This thread is stupid" posts.
Yep, gotta love the 'this OP sucks, it's beneath me' type of response, the thread being SO beneath them they need to repeat it multiple times in the thread that is SO beneath them, it is hilarious!
is just using this thread as an excuse to call me names!
Really just strikes me as:
that poster is just looking for an excuse to call me names.
Can't have that now, can we?
