That’s what I thought! I emailed the moderator and wondered why I could have been banned...got no answer. I may be assuming too much, but seems to me there are millions of democrats who believe there is a creator! Certainly the whacko liberals in my family all go to church. Where we disagree is usually on the issue dear to our hearts and their pocketbooks. They believe in big government solutions, because they worked in government.... We don’t. The federal bureaucracy is a huge and growing leviathan that only wants to keep working and growing. But I didn’t say anything like that over there at DU. I’m aware, and had already read you can’t even say you will abstain from voting, or say as a Clinton supporter you will go with McCain. That’s just SIN over there. There can be NO dissent on any issue. I wonder where they find all the words to keep agreeing with this stuff. But now that I understand that message count is so important, they must all be trying really hard to find some innane remark just to raise their count. They are irrational.
My fellow alum Skins usually does not answer e-mails from mausoleumed ones; if he did that, he would be doing nothing but writing e-mails all day long.
I haven't checked the latest numbers yet, but ostensibly Skins's island has circa 116,000 members, but of which only circa 5,000 are actually active. Probably more than half, maybe as much as two-thirds, of that 116,000 are mausoleumed, and that's a lot of e-mails to answer.
Concern for mausoleumed members is not a big issue with Skins, because it has nothing at all to do with the original purpose of Skins's island.
Skins's island was set up in late January 2001, financed by the Democrat Leadership Council.
Alphonse Capote Gore having recently failed to steal Florida, mainstream Democrats and liberals diagnosed that part of the problem (losing elections) was with the fringe elements shooting off their mouths, turning off decent and civilized people.
Skins's island was set up to identify, attract, and sequester those who make Democrats and liberals look bad, keeping them out of the public eye.
This is why my fellow alum Skins seems to mausoleumize rational people, and lets the irrational ones run amok. Rational people are supposed to be out spreading the message; the primitives are supposed to be kept in the attic, out of sight.
Imagine the damage (and there has been some damage) if Pedro Picasso or Doug's ex-wife or Ms. Ed or the TomInTib primitive, for examples, were running all over the internet, making Democrats and liberals look bad. Skins's island keeps them safely segregated, under control, and nearly invisible to decent and civilized people.
Skins's island is not meant to be a purposeful political-discussion web-site; it's meant to be a sort of segregated ward like what one finds in some hospitals, nothing more than that.
Many times, my fellow alum gets flak from this side for fleecing the primitives, but I beg to differ. The primitives are so intractable that Skins earns every cent he makes, and probably deserves to get ten times as much, from the primitives, for all the trouble and hassle they cause him.