Today is my day off, why am I compelled to check DU every

[yy4me]

half hour or so? I'll tell you. I do not believe anything I see on the regular newscasts, I am sick to death of babble like Wolphie et al. I feel like the only place I can find out what is going on is here. I am so frightened by world events that my mind will not let the image of this horror go away. I keep checking to see what the next horror is. Good grief, look what we have done as a nation. The idiots in power have ground our world standing into the dust of the middle east. Why are these war mongers still in office? This old granny has posted a sign on her car that reads, "IT IS BEYOND IMPEACHMENT. I wish a few others in my area would wear their feelings on their sleeves. All I see now are Kerry stickers and a few peace signs. We need more "on cars" signs. Like the freeway signs, only mobile. Get the word moving. Perhaps many more will voice their thoughts if they see that many other every day Americans have done so. Nothing fancy, just "off the printer" signs will do.

[AndyA]

1. DU is a great Equalizer.

Quite often, the latest headlines seem to appear here before anywhere else on the Internet! I'll read something here, go to CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, etc., (all except Faux News - I hardly ever venture there), and none of them have anything about it. Then, 5 minutes or more later, it will appear as a headline or breaking. DU is where you want to go for the very latest!

[MoseyWalker]

2. How can you possibly

go a full half hour without checking?

This place is always rockin', and to wait a half hour means to lose out on a lot of info!

[catmother]

3. i am an older woman who does not work. when i'm home i'm

compelled to constantly check the boards. i also have the news on.

all i can say is when my son was born in 1961 my grandmother (who was a devout catholic) said to me "child, don't have any more children, the world is not a nice place anymore". now i thought things were still pretty good in the 60s (okay we had vietnam, kennedy was assasinated), but i always wonder what would my grandma say now.

:cry:

on edit: my husband is always amazed that i know what's going on before he does. i tell him "i read it on DU".

[yy4me]

5. I'm also of your generation, I think. Born in 1942....

Thought I saw it all during Viet Nam. Good grief was I wrong. That was a horror but I'm sure this will be just as bad. I do feel that there was more integrity in the news during the Nam period. How I wish for Walter Cronkite now. Ditto on the hubby, mine wonders the same thing. He is now used to me prefacing things with "listen to this, I just read on DU..." Thank you all.

[catmother]

6. i was born october 1941 -- 2 months before pearl harbor. my dad

and most of my uncles served in WWII.

yes, vietnam was bad. wasn't there a time when Walter Cronkite was considered "the most trusted man in the country" or something like that?:scared:

[htuttle]

4. I check periodically just to see what's blown up in the last few hours