To my friend oleblueraider,

I know it has been a long time since I’ve made an appearance. For this I must apologize but the conditions were beyond my control. I have solved the problem thought. I found a new Doctor.

Blue I wish I could in someway help you in your search for employment. But in this endeavor I find I am helpless. I find I’m just a fool with high hopes. I know the unemployment rate Bush is so proud of is nothing more that a lie. It does not take into account those whose benefits are not included and the one’s who have simply quiet looking after years of failures are now in a group the Government considers as non-existent.

The jobs requiring high degrees of intelligent competence, logical thought and sound work ethics have been sent overseas for cheap labor. So we are reduced to highly educated individuals working as door greeters at Wal-Mart or collecting payment at a drive-thru window, but still unable to make change if the computer is broken and can’t tell them how much change is due.

Bush, the poisonous shrub, has said we are not in a recession. Of course his family, close friends and big donors don’t fell the pain as the rest of do. But then he is as he has always been, in blind, ignorant denial of the facts.

We are, all of Bush’s rosy lies aside, in a recession and a deep one. To be honest we are in a dead out race toward a depression. Much like the thirties bread lines are not far away.

I know your love for the great state of Tennessee and your every effort to relocate. Sadly it sometimes becomes necessary but only as a last resort. And to be honest, thinks are not that better elsewhere. I think of your plight often and you and your family remain in my thoughts.

But I am not here now to only make you feel worse. I want you to recall all your blessings. We are some of the few who lived through a man made hell in a distant land and still proudly walk freely in this land. You have a wife that has stood by you in both good and hard times and continues to do so. You are right when you refer to her as an Angel. But what makes her so is the deep, undying love she feels for you regardless of the life you now share. You have a loving devoted son striving to improve the conditions in which you live.

Yet where you have taken your duty as a man far beyond that of most can be seen in your Grandson. The love you have given him is of the highest level. You have shown him the beauty of the world but also instructed him in the deception and total lack of fair play that is in the world created and ruled by men of evil intent. You have prepared him to go forth and know what is waiting.

But the one thing you have given and you never really understood completely is that you never give up. You fight for the little you get and you are proud of it and your efforts. You always try to better your family’s life and your Grandson and all who love you never overlook your inner drive to succeed.

You are deeply loved Blue, by your inner family and those here. We all pull for your better days and will help in anyway we can. If we can…simply let us know. I wish you the best of luck.

A long time since an appearance? Excuse me for asking, but are you Josh or Mad Donkey? If soooo WE NEED YOU GUYS! :!:

Your right Papa it has been a while since an appearance. You could say it was disillusionment at not see Gore on the ballot, the doctors and a finicky computer. My apologizes.

No I'm not Josh or Mad Donkey.

I will do my best to post more but be assued I have never stopped reading.

I didn't think you were because you have been on when josh and donkey were on at the same time...but the letter threw me...I am taking the letter is from you...but you make appearances here daily...so the message is kinda cryptic?

Not to worry, I have been mistaken as others as well because at ONE point in time almost 3 years ago, I had to have multiple identities because of 'trolls'...that is why I am the Paraclete here instead of Rev Papabear...but I shouldn't assume everybody needs to do that! :dripple:

I KNOW it is a personal message, but unless I am Rod, then I can't make heads or tales of it...My bad! LOL!

But Al001 if you or anybody DOES see Josh or Donkey in the future then let them KNOW I am searching for them! :Y:

The Paraclete, forgive me for calling you Papabear but that is how I knew you for so long at AGO. Old habits of old man...well you know.

I assure you I am not a troll. The comtempt I feel for Bush and his a** kisser's goes beyond my deepest level of comtempt.

I did post almost daily for a considerable amount of time but I never abused Al Gore and sought only to educate those that would listen. I have had to back off my posting time a great deal in the last few months. Not by choice I must say. The letter was my first post in months other than these few replies.

Yea the letter was from me but I had no intention of being cryptic in anyway. I only meant to say that as hard as times were in the job market, Blue had many outstanding qualities and friends who would be pleased to help in any way they could.

My apologizes if offense was taken and for not being more clear.

Best to you.- Don't remember Josh but I do recall Donkey.

Al001, thanks for your kind words of encouragement good buddy!

They do help! :good:

I give some of the wisdom of Prof Gore that he wrote about us in the book we were in:

From Page 132---"He (me) told us that he would be happy if his efforts and his example of scrimping to get through school would make life "even one inch better" for the generations that follow. As Rodney and Missy demonstrate, the burden of poverty can be crushing,"

I never realized that Prof Gore knew all along the real wall we were up against to climb just one rung out of poverty by any efforts at all. He has seen countless thousands attempt to do the same thing in his career. He knew the reality of the chances, but he also knew the only possible way out is education!

I was naive about what a degree could do for you in a know someone world?

A recent PhD told me it was no guarantee, but merely an ante to get into the game. That makes sense to me now!

It just upsets me, to see that I will not succeed and that my grandson appears to be heading down the same path of being "smarter than the average bear" but coming from the wrong side of the tracks.

Recent forecasts say that all of our children will not have the quality of life that we did? The comptroller of the USA and of Tennessee agree that we are in decline in quality of life from here on out. It will take two incomes just to eat, and get to a lousy job? Success is now defined as treading water from one generation to the next? I may never taste lobster again in my life ( I know a trivial thing but an example) and if I do the cost of the meal will have me railing that I will never pay that much again.

Soylent Green isn't far away with $100.00 strawberrys is it?

I have driven my entire life up and down the highways wondering---what would it be like to own that house or that one or that one? What is it like to be average in the USA? They tell you to educate and I did but too late, my bad but---I tell this child to graduate school on time, is it really going to matter or do I should I tell him to use his youthful sexy body to get ahead?

His dream is to own a brick home some day? The standard American dream! We have had insurance on us since 1980 when my brother-in-law was killed and I learned what happens to a family then. If I don't get work soon, we must return to the worst of neighborhoods into a three room apartment we got out of OR lose those insurances! WE WILL NOT LOSE THOSE INSURANCES! Some of you can imagine the pressure? I love these people! They love me! I make their lives better, I have seen Jimmy Stewart, but do you have any idea what a paid for home means to the ability of a child to survive and get through college much less for a wife to grow old in safely! It is pressure that grows each day, yet I remain only a job away from releasing that pressure!

I feel like, I pray that I might be like Mr Roberts wanting off that tub and into action during WWII. Perhaps soon after I get a job, I will pass and at least go out a success? I pray every day, every day that I will see that they will live in the promised land of a roof paid for over their head. I offer in the deal some of us make with the universe to not wish to dwell in the promised land with them, but that I will continue to behave, not to inflict damage upon the world like I used to if only I can die knowing they will make it to that promised land! I pray the Gods heed my prayers in that regard!

Regardless, it is folks like the diversity of all of you that must remain vigilent, that are the only firewall against more innocent children becoming lost through no fault of their own other than birth! We can reclaim the American dream, the American spirit of fair play and real social justice, but it takes a diverse group of people like ALL of you to remind folks that it is indeed true that many who honestly try can not reach that bootstrap without an assist!

My time is not up, the hourglass is still running, I am just a worrier!

But remember again, I have a lot going for me! I have support, I have brains, I have a graduate degree recently and I still can't budge out of poverty! Imagine how hard, how much of a wall it is for an Indian Girl or boy in Montana. for a black child in foster care, etc. Prof Gore NEVER NOT ONCE let anyone get away with dissing them in the public arena becuase he knows full well that poverty is a crushing thing! Follow his example around the water cooler and speak up for those folks who are ran down by snobs!

I've had to beat my head against that wall many time in my life.

Your more qualified, know the job inside and out, have seniority and in walks some up start because he went to school with the boss's son.

It seems all education today does is to train us to be as Pink Floyd said..."All and all..we're just another brick in the wall."

Just remember, as there are downs in life. There are also ups, the ups just seem to take there sweet time getting there.

Feel free to call me Papabear...as you can see by my current signature that I am NOT hiding that fact!...I want to go back to AGO as well, but my time is absorbed by a 'bad' job...I NEED a good laptop computer with a video editing package...and a DVCam...so I can complete my plans to do documentary work for Current TV...I am working on THAT...but I am also helping my cousin with her 3-year-old daughter! So I am juggling many balls right now!...I am spinning MANY plates! To get more UP then I need to change my present situation! Al001 it is GOOD that you keep chugging along! I am in the same boat as you...I have a hard time devoting time for posting while handling my daily platefull of problems! ;)

Papabear, again old habits, I have made many of very good people I consider friends over the years I've been active on AGO and Al Gore Support. I also have problems with AGO. The time you were reprimanded needlessly was one.

I consider earthmother, Ole Blueraider, James, Wayne, Al Gore is my life, Wally, Texas for Gore and so many others including you as friends.

I don't know how much I can help you acheive your goals but I am willing to do what I can.

Two years ago I gave away a laptop with video editing because it cost more to repair than to buy a new one. I wish I had know you needed it when you were stuck in Florida. Just let me know and I'll do what I can to help get you going... but I must see the show, fair enough? By the way my die hard Repug Aunt lives in Tulsa. We have very regular disagreements. She is very elderly and a horror at spreading lies and false rumors.

My best to you ole friend.
Al
bode31415@Gmail.com

Thank you al001, glad to see you back and posting. Don't forget to visit WWHB. :D

http://z6.invisionfree.com/WWHB_Gathering/index.php?

http://whywehatebush.proboards50.com/index.cgi?

I consider earthmother, Ole Blueraider, James, Wayne, Al Gore is my life, Wally, Texas for Gore and so many others including you as friends.


That's nice. :) You are always thoughtful and thinking of others. I hope you are doing okay. Glad to see you on the board. I don't always post either but I have to come here everyday to get my "Gore fix" and see how everyone is doing.

Reprimanded? :?:

I have to ask this....

WHICH TIME? ;)

I had been reprimanded sooooo many times since late 2001 when I started that I can't remember exactly which one! :wacko:

This was the one where I came back on and ended up here...so I used another alias...The Paraclete...which stuck...but I am still Papabear when you get down to it! No use in hiding THAT fact! :dripple:

Everybody KNOWS that!

But I have been friends and squared off with ALL of ya at some point in time...LOL! And even after EVERYTHING we have been through since The Robbery of 2000...We still have enough FIGHT left in us to be here TODAY! :Y:

It had to do with a troll posting pictures of Israel children painting signs on bombs. She posted the pictures and a few lines later you quoted her which showed the pictures and mentioned that this was not what you wanted your grandchildren too see.

You were warned and she lied about posting the photo's first and is probably still lying about it, but she was the first to post.

I think I'll like these site. Another you might take a look at is http://z7.invisionfree.com/E_Pluribus_Unum/index.php?act=idx

Membership is by invitation only but if you like it I'll see what I can do for you.

Texan for Gore you have always been a kind, stand up person. It is a pleasure to know you and it's good to be back.