DUmmie FUnnies 10-10-05 ("Whatever happened to the DU Activist Corps?????")

DUmmie FUnnies ^ | October 10, 2005 | DUmmies and PJ-Comix

[Charles Henrickson]

Thanks for the reminder. We really need to get back on the ball. After Katrina, we were totally swamped with just trying to keep the site online. Since then, we've pretty much dropped the ball. We've actually been discussing the possibility of asking a few DU members to take the lead on the activist corps, to help make sure that we have one or two actions each week. Because it's difficult for the admins to find time to focus on it. We are eager to get going again. Sorry about the delay.

Skinner, you're a ball of fire there. No wonder your . . . zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Choose Ye This Day]

I have to concur 100% on Ms. Ingraham's show. I'm tired of the subject-that-must-not-be-named. The horse is dead.

[Charles Henrickson]

Please consider folding into your new structure. . . .

Please consider folding.

[Charles Henrickson]

the floating activist framework

Kind of like a floating crap game. And you guys float a lot of crap.

[Charles Henrickson]

All bluster, no action.

The new DUACo motto.

[Charles Henrickson]

I have a hard time getting DUers to spend $4 at Kinkos and flyer to effect change.

Maybe you can get them to spend a few dollars at the Kinko's in Abilene, Texas, to fax phony memos to Mary Mapes.

[Choose Ye This Day]

After Katrina, we were totally swamped...

Poor choice of words. Of course, they are used to floating in crap, so maybe they were swamped.

[DJ MacWoW]

The poor poor things REALLY want to be Freepers, don't they. *eg*

[visualops]

"So if you look closely, you'll see that big event energy is being stored down in there."

[Flux Capacitor]

----I have a hard time getting DUers to spend $4 at Kinkos and flyer to effect change.----

For four bucks at Kinko's you can copy 25 forged documents about the military records of Republicans and fax them off to whomever is anchoring the CBS Evening News this week. Four freakin' bucks. Cheapskate DUmmies.

-Dan

[carlr]

Agreed,for the most part I ignore the treads.

[carlr]

OOPS,forgot to hit the spell check."threads" not treads

[GraceCoolidge]

Thanks for the reminder. We really need to get back on the ball. After Katrina, we were totally swamped with just trying to keep the site online.

I know less than zero about web site management (but in the best DU tradition, I will comment on it anyhow). Is it likely that Katrina really "swamped" them "just trying to keep the site online"? Unless their administrators all lived in areas struck by the hurricane, how would it affect them? I'm just curious as to how likely it is that the hurricane caused them technical damage. Sounds too much like a "dog ate my homework" excuse to me.

[Flux Capacitor]

Stop reading my mind! (Actually, PJ, I can't believe you didn't run with this one yourself.)

-Dan

[derlauerer]

I have to concur 100% on Ms. Ingraham's show. I'm tired of the subject-that-must-not-be-named. The horse is dead.

It's not dead....it's just pinin' for the fjords.

[NathanR]

Spell check would not have helped. (Tread is a word.)

[weegee]

DUAC is conducting their own witchhunt that would put Sen. McCarthy seem mild.

They sure got an appropriate name.

[skikvt]

Please consider folding into your new structure some ways to capture that energy specific to big events. When those crucial moments arrive and you are busy keeping the site up and running, the floating activist framework will function without extra attention.

I used to work with someone that talked like this and regularly suffered through the most painful weekly meetings with her. Fortunately my company sh*t-canned her before I was driven to violence. She was most likely covering up her incompetence by rambling on like that.

And now that I reflect on it, she probably was a Democrat.

[Ditter]

They could still be talking about Natalee Holliway. Count your blessings PJ.

[MoochPooch]

"I have openly wondered why there is no movement really organizing at the grassroots in the US to end absolute poverty ('world hunger') or why no sustained peace movement so that when wars come up, we don't have to turn to groups like ANSWER."


Like, hey man, the Sixties are over.