I am on a Droid phone at the moment since I'm at my hubby's mother's house. I tried, and the search people function at Open Salon is freezing up. I'll try when we get back to our hotel. To be truthful-I believe you, okay? I do. We got out on the wrong foot because your tone comes across as very condescending, even if you don't mean it to be, and I have a very big temper. The Irish half of me got that one. The Norwegian side of me is good at business. I don't believe I've ever gone into my political views in depth on here. My biggest problem is that while I don't agree with the President or Democrats 100%, for the most part, they do hold basic values with which I agree. I do think our democracy has become perverted by special interest. It's been bought, and when it goes crash and burn, I won't be sad. I guess what rankles me the most and makes me attack back (because I don't start conversations-really-I lurk, then respond) is being told what I am without anyone bothering to find out. Like a lot of people who post on Salon who call people "You liberals" as a blanket descriptor. It's not that simple. Does that make sense?

I'll make a deal with you-I'll tone down my temper if you will do the same, because you do have one, a big one. Don't get upset at that. Takes one to know one. I don't need to agree with you, but truth be told, I don't want to argue with you all the time, and yes, I can stop baiting you. There are the truly ugly people out there like georgeblack who only want harm to come to people they don't like.

I'll keep trying-hopefully it will work.

They don't have anyone who wants them around, and I guess it gets to them on holidays like today. The cure is not to hate more, but they don't get it.

Sad.

I hope you're surrounded by people who love you. I am, and I'm grateful for it.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Yes, even if we don't agree on things. :-)

:)

We just got done eating and J's mom wants me to eat more pie. Meh. It's time for a disco nap.

Here's your lunch:

:-O<===8

You have a happy thanksgiving even though you don't deserve it.

Yes he is well, thanks. We just got back from 3 weeks in Norway. Yeah, I know they are pointless, just old habits die hard. Anyway, cheers to you and yours today. :)

Happy (hanksgiving. Haven't seen you on much lately. All is well I hope. Don't mind the KKK rep-he's getting banned soon.

If you would get some disco stick every now and then, you wouldn't be such an evil creep. Quit repressing yourself and hiding in the closet. Come out and embrace your inner Lady GaGa.

BTW, if you had only called me a sodomite, I would have laughed at you. You know what you wrote. One day you're going to call someone an aids-riddled fag to the wrong person and they're going to beat your ass into the ground. There- you can go shriek to anyone who cares (no ome does) that you weren't threatened AGAIN.

And no one threatened you, wilting Petunia. You are a deeply closeted, repessed and self-hating gay man, you need help to understand that besides your foul attitude, there is nothing shameful about being gay. I may have some differences with Oda but I at least believe he's not a bad person. You-you're a pile of shit. Be careful about wishing death on people, Tulip. Karma is a bitch.

Ah, it now makes sense. Are we getting paid to care about this nonsense? I feel like sending him an invoice.

I used to fight rancorously with groundzero and now he's a friend. Eh, who knows. Vanity makes some people crazy.

Wow.....whose alternate identity are you? Chip on shoulder I see. Buddy, you can think what you want. Knock yourself out. Go get you "real" workout. Whatever that is. Me, while I do lift, I do a lot of endurance and high stress training, too. Like OTB, I like to challenge myself. Word of advice: like OTB, don't make too many assumptions about people. You will be proven wrong most of the time.

I have to tell you, I am reveling in all this sudden and very directed attention. Please-more! Although I have the suspicion that all these letters are really the product of one person, no matter if they come from different accounts. Whatever. Did I turn you down on manhunt or something like that? Bitter, party of one.

Teresa, hey. Yes we are in Philly and we're heading to his mother's house right now. Many hugs and best wishes to you and your this Thanksgiving day. By the way, these trolls don't do their research very well, do they? I own two training gyms and am a trainer myself, so yes, I am going to talk about fitness. Duh. I just think it's odd that all these personal attacks started after I posted the fact that I got married. Right after that, these sockpuppets whom I've never addressed started attacking me, and in ebonics no less-every letter has the same broken english. I find that very odd, don't you?

Anyway, I'll email you on FB this evening.

Oda-go get you "real" workout. Have fun at your "real" gym, 'kay?

Please go to Open Salon and look for Diable4. It will allow you to email me a message with attachments.

Be forewarned, I may not be what you think I am. Don't get all deflated when you find out your taunts are useless against me.

And Happy Thanksgiving to you, too. I mean that sincerely.