Woke up this morning, the sun was shining

[DFW]

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For the first time this year, we're eating breakfast outside, discussing all the good news coming out of the USA.

And I take a look at the DU home page. It must be contagious or something.

No ONE snide, hateful post about Bernie Sanders OR Hillary Clinton is on the home page's top listings.

Either y'all took Obama's eulogy speech seriously, or someone must have sprayed some emotional disinfectant on DU recently.

Whatever the reason, well done everyone!

(I'm not taking off my body armor, all the same, though--the symptoms may be dormant, but I'm not sure the infection has been eradicated)

[joshcryer]

1. Give it time.

[DFW]

11. Like maybe ten minutes on the outside?

I know, I know, but it was a breath of fresh air, no matter how brief.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. We have a new forum, just in case you hadn't noticed yet:

General Discussion: Primaries (Forum)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1251

[DFW]

3. Oh, I noticed, have no fear.

For now, I'll be avoiding it like I would any other toxic waste dump.

I remember GDP from 2008. It was an incredibly ugly board.

Maybe you also remember this from 2008: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3369762

[Rhiannon12866]

4. I do remember that post! In fact, I had bookmarked it! :)

I can't say I've missed GDP at all, but this certainly makes life easier for those who want to avoid the whole ugly insult war. I remember 2004, too, when the supporters of one particular candidate said they were voting for Bush* if their guy didn't get the nomination. I remember how shocked I was at the time. It always happens during the season. I just hope that that members can put these feelings aside when it comes to the general. There's not one Republican candidate that doesn't scare the hell out of me...

[Surya Gayatri]

5. "...someone must have sprayed some emotional disinfectant on DU recently"...LOL!

Beautiful morning here in the City of Light, as well.

Happy song:

Happiness is the Truth. Ergo, Truth is Happiness.

[CTyankee]

6. my daughter and family are traveling through Italy and has been following what is

going on here on her iPhone. They are all thrilled. I asked her what the locals were saying...hope to hear back with her next Facebook postings...

What are Parisians saying?

[Surya Gayatri]

7. Absolutely over-the-moon, non-stop coverage. They LOVE it when America lives up

to her original promise. After all, THEY were the mid-wives at her birth.

ETA:
Please DO post it when you get some news from Italy.

[CTyankee]

8. will do. She's in Venice and heading towards Florence today...

glad to hear the French are so happy. Do they credit Obama at all?

[Surya Gayatri]

9. Goes without saying. They've never stopped respecting him.

[CTyankee]

25. I'm considering a trip to France next May, through the Champagne route...

depending on several things of course...I figure a tour of where they make champagne wouldn't be so awful...

will be in southern Spain this fall and looking forward to it...

[Surya Gayatri]

26. Fall is the best time for Andalusia - too hot in summer (IMHO).

And, Champagne country is at its best in spring, when the vines are in bloom.

Reims is a beautiful old lady, too.



Great that you can travel so much!

[CTyankee]

27. Bingo! the trip I am considering for next spring is in early May!

But I'm not getting my hopes up too far...depends on my dtr getting a job she is in the running for and repaying me some money I gave her...and my health continuing to improve after a depressing battle with my hypertension, now under control with just the right meds!

my late fall Andalusia trip will be perfect weatherwise...I am a pretty savvy traveler...the fall trip will be my 13th to Europe over the last 10 years...

[Surya Gayatri]

28. You Europhile you! LOL! I'm officially Euro-American, dual national.

[CTyankee]

30. Euro-American, yes! Love that...

[DFW]

33. My daughters are, too

My wife is German, and we got them both passports at birth. We also spoke to them in our own languages from birth. Now completely bilingual, one works in Manhattan and the younger one, at age 30, is on her way to joining the 1% in a year or two because she possesses some unique qualifications that a law firm in Frankfurt was desperately looking for (including: 100% bilingual, an EU passport, and a New York State bar exam).

[Surya Gayatri]

34. Bilingual bi-nationals are too cool! Above average in every way.

[CTyankee]

35. excellent. I have a grandson who bears an Italian name because of one side of hisfamily

(not mine) and speaks Italian fluently, altho he never has set foot out of the U.S. He has been in an Italian language immersion program since kindergarten -- every course taught in Italian except for one in English. It's at a public school in southern CA that also offers ones in French, German and Spanish. He's the cutest pale blonde blue eyed Roman kid you ever saw (his maestra is a native Italian speaker from Rome)!

[awoke_in_2003]

37. I hope I can make it over there on day. nt

[DFW]

32. Leave PLENTY of time for the moorish architecture of Grenada

The Alhambra and the Generalife are eye candy

[CTyankee]

36. Those are the reasons I chose this trip. Been on my bucket list for a while now...

[DFW]

10. Here in the Rheinland

We're less than 4 hours away from you by Thalys, 50 minutes by air.

We often have the same weather, alors bonjour Paris!

Tomorrow, I have to run down to Barcelona for the day. I'm expecting it to be a little warmer down there. Doncs demà, bon dia Catalunya!

[Surya Gayatri]

12. According to the 'Meteo', things are really gonna heat up all over Europe as of tomorrow.

Dress cool! et Bon Voyage!

[DFW]

14. Merci!

In Catalan, they say "bon viatge," by the way. Catalan is much closer to French than to Spanish, and is pretty much a direct descendant of the Medieval Langue d'Oc. "Spanish," or, more accurately, Castillian, had 8 centuries of Arab occupation to seep into the old Latin mishmosh that was spoken on the Iberian Peninsula, which accounts for much of the difference between the two. I learned to speak Catalan when I was living there as a teenager.

[Surya Gayatri]

16. Did you know that urban legend says you can walk from the tip of the Italian

boot all around the Mediterranean coast right down to the southern tip of Portugal, and never feel misunderstood (linguistically speaking, of course).

It's all one long language melting pot.

[DFW]

17. For me, that would stop when they start speaking Portuguese.

I can handle most dialects of the Italian west coast, and just about anything spoken in Mediterranean coastal areas of France and Spain. I can get about half what the Brazilians are saying, but continental Portuguese is pronounced with such a mishmosh accent, half the time, I don't even recognized it as a Latin language, and don't even get me started about the dialect they speak in Madeira.

[Surya Gayatri]

18. That "sshhh" sound at the end of Portugese words DOES make it much harder than Italian or Spanish.

All coastal areas worldwide have been subject to "creoleization" since before recorded history.

I can understand quite a bit of both Italian and Spanish. When I try to open my mouth, though, my limitations become immediately apparent.

[DFW]

21. I am descended from a long line of parrots

And musicians. I can often put on a convincing accent.

When I try out my twenty words of Portuguese in Portugal, it takes them about 5 seconds to say "brasileiro!"

I have been identified as being from Napoli by Italians, as being from Mallorca by Catalans, and as being Parisian in Provence. In Castillian, I can come across as Cuban, Mexican or from Spain (in Latin America). The locals always detect that I'm not local, but it often takes them a while to figure out that my native language is something different entirely. It's the local slang that always trips me up eventually. On my first trip to Russia, the people stared at me when I spoke. Since I had never been there to pick up Soviet-era slang, my spoken Russian reflected what I had learned in school. They said it was like I had fallen asleep while reading Dostoyevski--namely a pre-publication manuscript!

[Surya Gayatri]

22. Well, with my still Anglo-tinged accent in French, I've often

been mistaken for an Alsacienne!!! if you can believe it.

[DFW]

24. Now, there's a feat...... n/t

[pinboy3niner]

41. We'll always...

"We'll always have parrots."

[LiberalElite]

13. I thought this would be about gay marriage

P.S. currently raining in NYC.

[DFW]

15. It was raining here when the decision came down

It didn't seem to matter

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

29. ...and hetero marriages across the country were being destroyed, as the seas turned to blood!

Or maybe not.

Sunny, nice breezes, clear blue skies and chirping birds here.

Great day to get out, get the lawn mown, clear out the floricanes from the raspberry patch, and just generally enjoy a great day.

[malaise]

19. How lovely not to see any primary

posts in GD

[DCBob]

20. Indeed.

In fact there were many posts from folks who are typically Obama bashers ready to give him another chance after last week.

It is a new day here.. hope it lasts.

[MoonRiver]

23. I'm enjoying this reprieve too!

All kinds of positive energy here right now!

[Baitball Blogger]

31. I, on the other hand have seen an amazing array of rainbows in the last few weeks.

I am serious. There was one a couple weeks back that was a complete rainbow. You know how you usually see half a rainbow? Well, this one went as far in the horizon as it could go on one end as it did on the other--Florida being flat, that says a lot. It must have spanned more than a mile from end to end and we got to drive right through it. It never waned. Stayed strong and proud the whole time it was in view.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

38. GD-P ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1251

[DFW]

39. Naah, not while the weather is this nice.

It's now 10 A.M in beautiful downtown Barcelona (Catalunya/Spain), and I'm not going to spoil it with a dose of GD-P.

[pinboy3niner]

40. What a day for a daydream...

I saw Sebastian do this live a couple of times. Have a great day!

[DFW]

42. I never saw him live

I'm jealous!!