This is the most touching and loving diary I have ever read... I am still pretty emotional about it. I have read pretty much every comment...and the stories that have been told will all go down in history as one of the finest pieces of writing ever on the DKOS...
has long been my favorite commenter. His latest diary had me in tears. This man opened his entire life to everyone because Clinton's comments struck such a deep wound. I cannot recommend this diary enough. It was definitely one of the best diaries I have ever read.
Bless Dallasdoc for the courage and strength he had to summon to write this diary.
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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Wasn't aware that he was a Bay Area native like me -- we're also similar in age (I graduated from high school in 1977 as well). Wonder which SF suburb he was stuck in for his growing-up years.
Both his diary and Nightprowlkitty's repost were powerful -- and one of the reasons why I can separate the site from the proprietor. Writing like that needs to be on the Front Page there...but of course it never will be.
sounds like the first line of an Emily Dickinson poem.
I wish I had the chops to complete it.
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There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
I first heard of HIV/AIDS back before it had a definitive name, in a casual conversation with someone who was an RN from New York City. She was involved in research on "a disease that's killing young gay men". This was in the early '80's, probably no later than fall 1982. (How do I remember so precisely? Long and irrelevant story.)
That vicious piece of (I'd call him pond scum, but that's an insult to pond scum) occupying the White House allowed the disease to get so deeply entrenched that it cut huge swaths through society in general and devastated certain subsets - not just Hollywood, not just Broadway, and not just major-league sports. Science fiction lost one of its Three Magi to a tainted transfusion - (say his name!) Isaac Asimov. The US/Canadian figure skating field was ravaged to such an extent that only now is recovery beginning - a whole generation of talented performers and coaches lost, a thousand times worse than the infamous 1961 Sabena disaster.
I'll never know for sure, and I don't think I want to know, but I may have lost my own father to a bad transfusion. He'd had to have foot surgery, and went downhill alarmingly fast after that - liver cancer, they said. No one knew, then, what was going on, and perhaps nothing would have made a difference. But to let it go on and on and on, year after year, for the better part of a decade - no fires of Hell are hot enough.
And Mrs. Clinton wanted to cozy up to that??? Fuck her and the high horse she rode in on!!!
Discussing Hillary's Reagan Lie with a young woman and she recounted a memory from her childhood of her mother crying because a young man in their family had died of AIDS.
I've yet to meet anyone who has not lost a family member, a friend, or a co-worker to AIDS.
I. Will. Never. Vote. For. #HistoryByHillary.
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The diary was eloquent and beautiful and painful. Some of the comments were equally so, where others shared some part of their own personal experience. It was almost like a grief session, I only hope it helped for people to share their pain that way.
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. --Aesop
It moved me to make a bigger than usual donation to Bernie in memoriam for those lost while Reagan dawdled. Dallasdoc is a gem and strikingly clear. Could not have been easy to share what he had to say.
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Dallasdoc
has long been my favorite commenter. His latest diary had me in tears. This man opened his entire life to everyone because Clinton's comments struck such a deep wound. I cannot recommend this diary enough. It was definitely one of the best diaries I have ever read.
Bless Dallasdoc for the courage and strength he had to summon to write this diary.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
words just simply fail me when
trying to talk about this... I know he won't want to hear this, but I think he is a hero....
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Dallasdoc
is a beautiful human being. He is definitely a hero, my hero.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Mine too
Wasn't aware that he was a Bay Area native like me -- we're also similar in age (I graduated from high school in 1977 as well). Wonder which SF suburb he was stuck in for his growing-up years.
Both his diary and Nightprowlkitty's repost were powerful -- and one of the reasons why I can separate the site from the proprietor. Writing like that needs to be on the Front Page there...but of course it never will be.
While I was crying,
I flew into Pi Li because I figured DallasDoc would not engage. It is a wonder I didn't get banned.
It was epic.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
The wound has been reopened --
sounds like the first line of an Emily Dickinson poem.
I wish I had the chops to complete it.
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
An amazing diary.
Thank you, Martha, it is deeply moving and should be read
as widely as possible.
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I never read the comments there any more
They're usually not worth reading now.
I first heard of HIV/AIDS back before it had a definitive name, in a casual conversation with someone who was an RN from New York City. She was involved in research on "a disease that's killing young gay men". This was in the early '80's, probably no later than fall 1982. (How do I remember so precisely? Long and irrelevant story.)
That vicious piece of (I'd call him pond scum, but that's an insult to pond scum) occupying the White House allowed the disease to get so deeply entrenched that it cut huge swaths through society in general and devastated certain subsets - not just Hollywood, not just Broadway, and not just major-league sports. Science fiction lost one of its Three Magi to a tainted transfusion - (say his name!) Isaac Asimov. The US/Canadian figure skating field was ravaged to such an extent that only now is recovery beginning - a whole generation of talented performers and coaches lost, a thousand times worse than the infamous 1961 Sabena disaster.
I'll never know for sure, and I don't think I want to know, but I may have lost my own father to a bad transfusion. He'd had to have foot surgery, and went downhill alarmingly fast after that - liver cancer, they said. No one knew, then, what was going on, and perhaps nothing would have made a difference. But to let it go on and on and on, year after year, for the better part of a decade - no fires of Hell are hot enough.
And Mrs. Clinton wanted to cozy up to that??? Fuck her and the high horse she rode in on!!!
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
The devastation is remembered by some of the younger generation
also.
Discussing Hillary's Reagan Lie with a young woman and she recounted a memory from her childhood of her mother crying because a young man in their family had died of AIDS.
I've yet to meet anyone who has not lost a family member, a friend, or a co-worker to AIDS.
I. Will. Never. Vote. For. #HistoryByHillary.
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
I read all the comments, too
The diary was eloquent and beautiful and painful. Some of the comments were equally so, where others shared some part of their own personal experience. It was almost like a grief session, I only hope it helped for people to share their pain that way.
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. --Aesop
Agree
It moved me to make a bigger than usual donation to Bernie in memoriam for those lost while Reagan dawdled. Dallasdoc is a gem and strikingly clear. Could not have been easy to share what he had to say.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
Apologies for not coming in to read this story and comments
I was rather preoccupied that day and didn't stop by here. I very much appreciate the support and kind words from everyone.
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