Any Newbies with Questions? Post 'em here.

[TayTay]

I think we need a sort of intro post every now and then for all the (wonderful, amazing, incredible) new people. I'll start, but I am only going to post a few things. Other 'regulars' can post more. (Cuz I'm verbose and normal people find that annoying, I think.)

Also, please feel free to post any questions about this group, the warm crazies who post here, and anything else Kerry related. (I don't know everything about Kerry. I actually consider myself rather light on knowledge compared to some others here. But I will give any answer a shot.)

Question One: What does LLL stand for?
Libidinous Liberal Lasses Love Looking Longingly at Lanky Leaders. (Yeah, I was feeling whimsical that day and just felt that what the group desperately needed at that point was alliteration. I have no idea why.) I chose the word Libidinous because I figured freepers wouldn't know what it meant. (LLL because LLLLLLLL is too much.)

LLL is life itself and fun. And because all wonk and no play, makes Kerrycrats grumpy and antsy. And because, well, look at the pics we post, LLL is inevitable.

Anybody else with intro posts? Anybody with questions?

[WildEyedLiberal]

1. Since I only post here erratically now because of school....

... I'd just like to extend a big hearty welcome to all our new forum members! I've seen so many new faces recently and haven't been able to welcome you personally, so here: :grouphug: from me.

I'm one of the resident Kerry fangirls on this board. Some people even call me Mrs. Kerry (a title I would DEARLY LOVE to have). Mostly, I'm a crazy, wacky, irreverent college student, an old school Democrat, and a devotee of John Kerry and his honor, integrity, and his vision for America (and his hot body, but that's another thread....)

Oh, and I'm from Illinois (DOWNSTATE Illinois - yes, it exists), not from Wisconsin (as some around here have alleged.) And it is very flat where I live. Flat and dull (but blue!). So a big howdy to ya, enjoy your stay in our Oasis.

[TayTay]

2. WEL is special.

She is also the Keeper of the Kerry Gates and Mistress of the Mores of the Dutifully Devoted. (Ahm, it's a long story. Just remember, she is Mrs. Kerry and the rest of us are wannabees. This is fine with me, cuz I learned my lesson and don't want to be banned from The Presence or the Comfy Chair any time soon for being insufficiently devoted. Can I go back to keeping the fires burning in the Ancestral Home now? That last banishment was just hell.)

I am from Massachusetts but not Boston, actually closer to Lowell. (See Kerry: History of Elections, Vol. 1). (Alas and alack.) I used to be a Duchess of MA, but I have fallen from grace lately, due to some loosening up on my part. (Which is due to prolonged exposure to Mrs. Kerry and Vektor and some of the others here. They corrupted me. I barely qualify as reserved, aloof and closed off emotionally anymore. Life in MA will become harder as I will be the only one with, eeeooooweeey, emotions in public. Sigh!) I have no idea what separates Wisconsin from Illinois, as both are West of Worcester (Ma) and I suspect the real answer is: cheese. Mea Culpa, I have no sense of geography. (And we in Boston are not snobs. We are just naturally all intellectually curious, morally righteous and culturally tasteful. I have no idea why some people interpret this as smarmy and stuck-up, as it is mostly to somewhat true.)

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

Edit: I love these people. They kept me sane (such as it is) after the Nov 3rd Day of Horrors. I owe them, especially Mrs. Kerry. (It's amazing what a well-placed LLL thread will do for someone suffering through a NE winter. That plus I never, ever, never heard anyone admit that some pols are hot. This is simply not done in Boston. I kind of like it now.)

[WildEyedLiberal]

3. Well, Wisconsin is prettier and has cheese and cows

We have soybeans and corn. And Abe Lincoln. And a better college basketball team (nyah). And Dick Durbin and Barack Obama, two hotties (but not as hot as Big John). Oh, AND you don't pronounce the 's' at the end of Illinois (those damn French and their damned French words, cheese eatin' surrender monkeys grumble grumble bitch).

[TayTay]

6. You could pronouce the 'S' if it was possessive, right

Then it would be, "IllinoiS' charming and erudite Junior Senator," right?

Illini rules. I wish them well. I hope they sweep March Madness and defend against all comers. Just for you.

I know that Illinois, downstate, is flat and produces smelly soybeans. (Near Des Moines, which is in Iowa which is out west somewhere. I intend to find Iowa again when it gets closer to Jan. 2008, promise.) I was paying attention. We in MA don't produce much of anything, except Universities, Colleges, Hospitals and Presidential Candidates. And we are not flat at all, but rather hilly. (And somewhat sullen, but that has mitigated a bit since the Red Sox and Patriots have been winning. This has messed me up as I am unaccustomed to rooting for entities that win.)

I am sorry about not remembering the growing of corn. I will endeavor to do better. Thank goodness IL is blue, or there might have to be some sort of bowing and scrapping on my part in a vain attempt to apologize. (I love IL. They voted strongly for my esteemed Junior Senator for Pres. I am eternally grateful.) Okay?

[WildEyedLiberal]

7. The house I grew up in is actually surrounded by cornfields

And my part of Illinois is in the middle of the state, but if you went due west, you'd run into Missouri, not Iowa. Really, Chicago is the reason Illinois is blue, but downstate people aren't bad, and there are plenty of blue counties down here too (including Champaign Co. yay, rah.) And thanks for the well-wishes for my Fighting Illini. You should watch them tomorrow dismantle Northwestern on ESPN. I will likely be there. GO ILLINOIS! WOOOOOOO! </cheering mode, at least until tomorrow night>

[ginnyinWI]

14. well, up here in Wisconsin,

we've got better roads, higher taxes and Russ Feingold. So there. :)

We talk differently than the Illinois people, believe it or not. We really flatten out our vowels something terrible. Ask my daughter, the ESL teacher/linguistics major--she's disgusted.

Wisconsin is prettier by far! Can't deny it. :) But I still long for the mountains, and want to move West someday.


Oh yeah, I'm a middle-aged female just two weeks younger than whometense. :hi: Loyal Kerrycrat, campaign 2004 veteran, like to write, love politics.

[WildEyedLiberal]

15. Awwwwww

LLL love for you any old time, TayTay! :hug:

[seito]

4. I've been gone so long I guess I'm a newbie again

Hi all Kerrycrats.

I still believe, and I have missed our late night chats :evilgrin:

Send me a PM if you all decide to have a weekend chat.

I offer a hearty welcome to all the new people that have joined this group. :grouphug:

BTW, what is the WMD :evilgrin:

[WildEyedLiberal]

5. The WMD is rather easy to find

Honestly, Bush must've been looking in ALL the wrong places.

[seito]

8. Surely he must have noticed it during the debates

I have really missed those WILD nights. I hope we can pull off this meet-up this summer/fall

[WildEyedLiberal]

9. Well, summer for me because of school

OH BTW EVERYBODY: I may actually be in Boston this summer! My boyfriend is spending the summer as an intern in Boston (a non-political one, sadly) and I may venture off to see him, so Boston is suddenly more doable for me. Eh, whereever we have it, WE MUST SEE JOHN. THAT IS ALL I CARE ABOUT. That, and that we have it before school starts.

[TayTay]

12. Really! You are venturing to the Ancestral Home?

I shall arrange for a welcome. You will like Boston. It is hot, sticky, messy and crowded in the summer. (Unless there is a political convention, in which case everyone native leaves due to fear of Democrats. Which is irrational as we are a very blue state. I couldn't figure it out either.)

Well, we simply must send out a message to the Kerry people and ask them if we might meet with the esteemed Junior Senator from MA. (He tends to go windsurfing in the summer so bring a bathing suit. We can take the ferry to Nantucket see if we can find him somewhere.) I will be seeing some of the Kerry people at the State Convention in May. I will ask for an audience.

[TayTay]

10. Not only was it noticed,

it caused the Boy King to come apart at the seems. This is why His Idiocy fared so poorly at the debates. (WMD envy.) His Hellacious Majesty, the Boy King thought the WMD could be bought or faked with socks or a prosthetic device and was royally cheesed off to find out that one either has 'it' or doesn't. Faking is just that, faking.

:evilgrin: WMD thoughts. :evilgrin: possible late night chats.

[seito]

11. OK, you have made my day

Thanks

[elshiva]

13. I am not a newbie, but

May I please, please get in on the AIM talks sometime please?

All newbies must know that WildeyedLiberal IS Mrs. Kerry. There is Teresa Heinz, but there is only one Mrs. Kerry and that's our WEL.

[WildEyedLiberal]

16. We're usually on at night

Like, late, after midnight-ish. Same AIM sn. AIM me and say you want in, though lately we haven't been chatting since Kleeb is out of commission. When Kleeb gets back online we'll probably start chatting again, so we'll let you know.

[elshiva]

18. Thank you, Mrs. Kerry. I miss Kleeb, too.

[Blue_In_AK]

17. I'm glad you cleared up that LLL thing...

...because I was really scratching my head. :wtf: A little about me because I'm sort of new and don't know you all yet. I'm a 58-year-old grandma in Alaska. My oldest daughter lives next door with my two little grandsons, my middle girl is a lawyer in LA, and my youngest daughter is a student at University of Alaska, all good little Democrats. I was a legal secretary/paralegal for 25 years, but for the last five years I've been working at home typing court transcripts of criminal cases, which is fun and interesting ... like Court TV for the ears. I've lived in Ohio, Colorado, Texas and California, but I've been up here since 1975. I'm married to my high school sweetheart, who I reunited with in 2000 -- we both had to get divorces, but our prior marriages sucked, so it's okay. We got married in 2003 and are really happy. He's a retired marine engineer, also a good Democrat. I was so glad to find that out about him ... we never talked politics when we were kids in high school (too busy groping each other), and if he had turned out to be a Republican -- well ...... it never would have worked out, that's for sure. I was a "first-wave" hippie, have done more psychedelics than I can remember, but still have some brain cells left, the last time I checked. I'm glad I live in Alaska where we have liberal marijuana laws, and where, despite this being a red state, people are still pretty independent-minded.

My life has been pretty exciting, and I've got great stories. Someday I might write a book.

I'm so glad to have found DU and especially the JK group. You guys are great.

[elshiva]

19. Thank You, Blue_In_AK for your inspiring story.

Alaska is a wonderful place. Alaskan Repubs are sort of like Maine Repubs, a little more open-minded and independent, not usually Bushie, which is refreshing.
You are great Blue_In_AK because your experiences are vital to conversations on DU. How many Alaskan hippie grandmas are there?

[Blue_In_AK]

20. LOL. Probably more than you would guess...

[elshiva]

21. Yeah, right on, grandma, baby. Don't bogart that joint, granny!

[TayTay]

22. My pleasure on clearing up LLL

It was one of those organically grown forum things. It just kind of happened. Not without reason, of course, but just one of those things.

BTW, I knew a lot of Massholes who went out to AK in the '70's to work on the pipeline. (there was one family of 8 that had 6 of the kids move to AK to work.)

BTW, the rest of my bio is:
Married 22 years, I am 46 years old.
2 kids, one a freshman in college, the other a junior in High School.
One dog
2 cats
One house in the exurbs just below the New Hampshire line in MA.
Lots of stories and I am (despite my best efforts) still verbose. (Sigh!)
Ahm, lifelong Dem. And lifelong keeper of MA Dem stories. (Hehehehe!)

[hobgoblin]

23. Brief Bio

Such an interesting and diverse group we have here. I'm a 62-yr. old WI grandmother. Two grown daughters. Oldest and I share a new duplex (and the light of my life almost l8-yr. old grandson). I'm not supposed to live alone due to stroke residuals. Am a feisty, Irish, bleeding hearts lib who learned Dem politics at my favorite uncle's knee. Born and raised in red North Dakota; however, my family were staunch Dems and favorite uncle was a state official. Campaigned for John F. Kennedy. Have a gold PT boat with Kennedy's name on it. Wanted to give it to JK when he came to WI, but couldn't locate it! Remember stuffing campaign envelopes and singing the "Stevenson, Stevenson, all the way with Stevenson" song! Uncle was going to let me accompany he and wife to JFK's inaugural ball; but then they decided not to attend.
Pre-stroke, I was the office manager for the 2nd largest advertising agency in WI; lots of big clients. High stress...maybe why I had a stroke. LOL!
Hope JK visits WI again soon to promote his new child healthcare agenda. Seeing and hearing him helps me hang onto hope that somehow our republic won't go down in flames.
Am resembling Ramblin' Rose here, so I'll quit while I'm ahead!:grouphug:

[TayTay]

24. Again, welcome, welcome

You're not a 'rambling rose' at all. I love hearing from people in different parts of the country and how they became who they are. (And, if you will permit me, how they came to like Kerry. I mean, my perspective is warped, I've known of the guy for decades as a state pol. Listening to others fills in the blanks and refreshes the picture, if you kow what I mean.)

My father lived in Cambridge, MA before he moved waaaay out (okay 16 miles but that is waaaay out around here) to the suburbs. I used to go with my parents back to Somerville, MA and listen to my uncles and aunts tell stories about JFK (the original.) He was of their generation and originally ran for Congress from their district in Cambridge. I heard a lot of stories about him, his Dad and how he campaigned and his meteoric rise through the ranks in MA politics. I have seen the original campaign literature from all his races and heard about him and how special he was. The most heartbreaking stories were about how awful it was when he was murdered. That hit everyone in the country hard, I know. But, again, if you will permit me, it hit real hard around here. There were so many people who knew him and had been with him as fellow WWII vets and as members of that generation and it was just awful. I don't think my uncle ever quite got over it. What might have been and all that. So sad.

I hope that the rehab from the stroke is going well. I have had relatives who have gone through it and I know it's damn hard to come back. I'll be praying for you. Right now, I've reached that longing for Spring stage of winter and I wonder if that has hit you in Wisconsin yet. (I got about six more weeks to go, sigh!)

[Firespirit]

26. Hi hobgoblin!

7 posts and a star already! :yourock: It took me a couple hundred to decide to get one.

Don't worry about rambling. We're all a bit verbose at times. I think it goes with the territory.

No wait, I missed the punch line. It's Kerry's fault. He is verbose and has trained all of us to be so. :evilgrin:

And look at this, I can answer a potential question. This is an ongoing gag here. There are certain individuals on this board and certain elements of the Party that are determined to blame John Kerry for anything, no matter what loopy and contrived steps they must take. We make fun of it now.

:hi:

[ginnyinWI]

25. well I've been taking notes, actually

:)
Here is a little list of our Kerrycrats, the ones I've noted down anyway. Apologies in advance if I left anyone out (and please post)!

In no particular order:

seito, MD, 35
TayTay, MA, 46
angrydemocrat, TN, 35
vinessa4freedom, NY, 36
Der Blaue Engel, CA, 38
sandnsea, OR, 47
LittleClarkie, WI, 41
CB Hagman, MD, 46
whometense, MA, 52
Pirate Smile, IA,
Withywindle, IL,
karynnj, NJ, 54
saracat, AZ,
Blue_in_AK, AK, 58
ForeverFree, CA, 18
John Kleeb, VA, 17
GRLMGC,CA, 19
WildEyedLiberal,IL,20
J17, CA, 26
Faye (our founder!), NJ, 26
elshiva, ,23
hobgoblin, WI, 62
ginnyinWI (me!), WI, 52
Vektor,
politicasista
blm
paulk
Hans Delbrook
muse
Fire Spirit
merh
djmaddox1