Hermit

ironically, the Dems have forgotten the value of the workers' vote.

I am one third sniped now
 
 

WIthout her hate for Pete to power her, she lost the will to run?
 
Ahem sorry.
 
Yeah, big boosts for Biden underway
 
 

I'm in. 
 
Author pick: Roald Dahl 
 

WIthout her hate for Pete to power her, she lost the will to run?
 
Ahem sorry.
 
Yeah, big boosts for Biden underway
 
 

He has a doctor's note to get out of those
 

I am getting sick of so many people, even within the Democratic Party, characterizing Bernie Sanders as a Socialist, even a radical. Sanders is definitely not a radical, and also isn't a Socialist. He's an old-school, New Deal Social Democrat. In any other developed democracy on the planet, he'd be considered a centrist. To the true Socialists in American society he's a compromise candidate. But if he has the most support within the party come the convention, and the DNC tries to shut him out or smear him further, those left-leaning Americans will decide compromise isn't possible in the USA today, and they'll become more radical. That's a formula for social polarization that may make what we're going through now look like a folk dance.

Character: castillar Lupe dy Cazaril, from L.M. Bujold's The Curse of Chalion.

Our leaders also have to listen to the people's voice. I would argue that the outcome of the last Presidential election was greatly contributed to by leaders believing they didn't need to listen to what the people want.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that any gollum not in possession of the precious must be in want of getting it back from sneaky little hobbitses. 

On the plus side, at least we only do this every 4 years.
 
We have to deal with Christmas every year.

Okay.
 
Moderator Warning in Effect
First, I apologize for not interjecting in this sooner. I'm so used to patrolling the NGD that I neglected this area.
Folks, I realize that sometimes we feel baited, provoked and more. But please, try not to take that bait. I've said it before, but it is better to just walk away if you can't ignore. For that matter ,if you finds someone particularly patronizing or condescending, I believe you can still set a poster to be ignored. I'll double check on that to be sure.
 
But while I feel like I slipped here not responding decisively or quickly enough before it escalated, I have to put my foot down now. Don't make me lock this thread. SImon and I are reviewing things and more action maybe taken against specific people, but this is general warning for the majority: Let's keep it cool.
 
Thank you for your time to read this. 
 

Okay.
 
Moderator Warning in Effect
First, I apologize for not interjecting in this sooner. I'm so used to patrolling the NGD that I neglected this area.
Folks, I realize that sometimes we feel baited, provoked and more. But please, try not to take that bait. I've said it before, but it is better to just walk away if you can't ignore. For that matter ,if you finds someone particularly patronizing or condescending, I believe you can still set a poster to be ignored. I'll double check on that to be sure.
 
But while I feel like I slipped here not responding decisively or quickly enough before it escalated, I have to put my foot down now. Don't make me lock this thread. SImon and I are reviewing things and more action maybe taken against specific people, but this is general warning for the majority: Let's keep it cool.
 
Thank you for your time to read this. 
 

Congrats to Old Man
and congrats to my cursed rivals with whom I must share the silver! *Shakes fist, then pom pom*
 

Okay, folks, we have our winner! Leading the vote total, despite perhaps the most extraordinary case of sniping ever witnessed in the history of the Superdraft, is....
 
 The Brick Fist Club by Old Man!
 
Our three runners up include:
 
The Breakfast Club by Bazza
The Union of the Snake in: The Tower Must Rise Again by Lucius
Whatever Happened to Captain Atlantis? by Hermit
 
Thank you one and all for playing!

My mind is trying to create the devil's menagerie this week.  2 dreams so far with monsters.
 
1) Evidently, I was leaving work one night.  Encountered a teenage girl and 2 young siblings running from something.  What was chasing them evidently some kind of living shadow got to me.  It apparently wasn't satisfied with invisibility to sight.  It has some kind of sonic attack it would use (got a sense it used partly from a sadistic nature) that would disorient its prey when near, so it couldn't know which direction was which or where the attack was coming from.  It then put me in some kind of trance just before right when it was going to attack ( I was seeing the Vger background from ST when the Klingons were attacking for whatever reason in the trance.) Anyway right before it attacked, I got grabbed by the teenager, and at least temporarily saved.  Luckily, while running for it, we encountered some gang.  And the monster decided to go after them first.  The first one was seemingly levitated, and then rapidly "shot" by "sonic bullets" until their bodies seemed somewhat pulverized by devoured in shadow.  (which would have been me, if I was saved a fraction of a second later).  By the time, it started on the 2nd one, we ran for it. Hid amongst some big rocks, where seemingly it couldn't find us with sonics until sunrise. In the dream, it was learned it was a demon summoned by a witch of some sort.
 
2) Went hunting with a dog,  encountered something glowing behind the remains of some brick building in the woods.  An 8-ft red gorilla, and it was radiating heat/fire  (think Balrog*, in the LOTR movie a few years ago).  It attacked, I got some burns on my chest, the dog was burned worse, but we escaped.   Evidently, in the next couple of days, the National Guard was called out. Although hunting had been forbidden until it was found.  I was p!ssed over the dog's injuries.  So, feeling well enough (maybe determined enough) I set out to track it down.  This put me at odds when encountering a squad of 6-7 of the Guard.  But, the thing attacked,  had a perfect shot through the scope at the skull.  But, it seemed to bounce off like the "char" it had created was some kind of suit of armor.  So, we all ran for it.  And everytime looking back, due to it being mad, it was setting everything afire within a radius.  (woke up)
 
So, Sonic Shadow Demon and the Hell-Gorilla.
 
*Maybe, I should have tried "you shall not pass"

"Amazing Grace and the theme song of Gilligan's Island are pretty much interchangeable lyrics and tune wise. Later, you will drop your guard and test this statement" 

Wow, Bloomberg really a lot of the audience on his side...
 
*Looks at $1750 dollar price tag on each ticket* 
Oh
 

RELEASE THE QUACKIN'!

Oh thank goodness it got a like, the needy cup of my ego was near empty!
 

So many great band names possible by taking words from this headline

Well, I knew sparrows wouldn't be signing up.

So many great band names possible by taking words from this headline