Rollcall!

[xmas74]

Please check in with the city or county that you are from (MO and KS both). I see some newbies here and I would love to give them a shout-out!
Plus, we can all get to know each other better.


I went to school in Saline County, Missouri and now live in Johnson County, Missouri.

:hi:
:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

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[MuseRider]

1. Hello from Kansas.

I did not know you were in Missouri, I am in Topeka.

[xmas74]

2. Hey hon

Glad to see ya! Warrensburg here.
I hope that we can get more people over here to join us on the forum soon1

[TypicalGirl]

3. Mercer, Mo here

I'm in Mercer, Mo...north central Missouri.
I'm a California transplant. Been here about 6 years now.
Self employed artist and comp tech in an extremely rural community.
About 4000 in our county.

[xmas74]

7. Welcome!

:hi:

[newyawker99]

69. Hi TypicalGirl!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[HeeBGBz]

4. Taney county, Missouri

South central. Home of Branson, the Repuke/Fundie amusement park.

My family homesteaded here in the mid 1800's.

Welcome to DU, TypicalGirl

[xmas74]

8. I read you all the time!

[HeeBGBz]

25. Me? I thought I was on everybody's ignore list, lol.

[xmas74]

35. Not on mine!

No one from MO on this site is on ignore w/ me. But if that is what you want

[HeeBGBz]

46. Nooooooo

[xmas74]

51. Thought you'd enjoy that.

Wish I wasn't at work right now-I have better ones at home!

Ok, I'll be nice and think about putting you on my buddy list instead. Will that make it all better?

[HeeBGBz]

52. Ok, that works for me

[Desert Liberal]

43. Well, hello neighbor!

I am in Springfield, (Greene Co.) Missouri. And the amusement park of fundies doesn't stop in Branson, I'm tellin' you! Springfield is rife with redness...a condition I hope to change in 2006 with the election of more Dems.
I am the Organizer for Springfield's chapter of Democracy for America. We are looking to network Dems from all the areas nearby and have a real base for once. Wanna help? ;)

[xmas74]

45. Hey aundria!

[HeeBGBz]

49. Sure. I can be an available body

I'm not sure what else I could be. Let me know.

[missouri dem 2]

59. Carthage, Mo. here

Check out:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/swmo4progress/

Description Category: Missouri
Southwest Missouri for Progress is designed to maximize the organizing potential of individuals in Southwest Missouri dedicated to the cause of holding the Bush and Blunt Administrations accountable for their wrong doings and advancing progressive values in new and innovative ways.

Mutual Responsibility...National Security and Civil Rights...A Balanced Budget....Health Insurance for Every Child....A Clean and Safe Environment....Support and Independence for Persons with Disabilities....Patriotism that Includes Dissent....

[proud2BlibKansan]

60. Home of Precious Moments

you must be so proud. :)

[missouri dem 2]

62. UH, no.

But I am real proud of my little girl (6 years old) She was interviewed by the local tv station at the anti-war rally in Pittsburg Kansas today.

[xmas74]

66. Hello!

[catmandu57]

5. Savannh Mo

There's nothing spectaular here it's just a nice quiet little town, with a growing reptile problem. We've been getting redder every year, I need a case of repaway.

We're north of St. Joseph about ten miles or so, that should place us.

[xmas74]

9. Great pics from KC DU the other day!

[Darkhawk32]

6. Columbia, MO here! n/t

[xmas74]

10. You pothead, you!

Love Columbia-fight to keep the law!

Don't drink the

[Darkhawk32]

15. Amazing that this law passed EASILY, but yet the county went to Bush.

Republicans are dope fiends. :crazy:

[xmas74]

19. Yes they are!

:smoke:
Pill poppers too!


Here's some others to smile about:


And I take it they forgot to put this down before they voted for Bush:

[PresidentObama]

33. Springfield here

[xmas74]

36. Hello Springfield!

[Desert Liberal]

44. Kerry2008!!! Please tell me how to get in touch with the Schilling

campaign. I want to help out but have no idea where we are supposed to meet at?

[kweerwolf]

11. Kansas City, Mo., here ...

I've lived here for the past 18 years, and grew up in the southern part of the state near Truman Lake.

[xmas74]

16. How close to Truman Lake?

[kweerwolf]

28. In Warsaw n/t

[xmas74]

37. Used to work w/ someone who lived in Warsaw.

[RayOfHope]

12. Checking in from...

Vernon County :eyes: I'm a Columbia-area transplant, though

[xmas74]

17. Hello Vernon County!

Yay

[scratchtasia]

13. KCMO

I live in midtown Kansas City. I'm originally from Minnesota.

[xmas74]

18. Another Northerner!

Originally from Wisconsin myself.

Kisses for the North!




Love ya from being from the North but I gotta tell ya-Badgers rule!(LOL)

[scratchtasia]

21. You can have your Badgers

I'm not a sports fan, myself. I am, however, a fan of Paul Wellstone and Russ Feingold.

I spent my first 5 years in Wisconsin--that's where most of my relatives are.

[xmas74]

22. You have the legacy of Wellstone

and we have Feingold.
There is something about the Northern boys, isn't there?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

14. I'm in Co. Durham, England but my wife is in Jefferson City, Cole County

n/t

[xmas74]

20. How's she holding up?

BTW-just for joining us from Merry Old England:

[Anarcho-Socialist]

26. She is doing well

She moved up from Texas back in October and she's getting used to the weather. She's enjoying the clear air (compared to Dallas anyway).

Thanks for the welcome :)

Although I'm socialist and so monarchy is irrelevant to me. :)

[xmas74]

39. Everyone needs an ego boost sometimes!

I have read your posts before and the pic always kills me!

I don't know what's worse, being stuck in Bush's backyard or transferring to Ashcroft's sandbox!

[Anarcho-Socialist]

41. sandbox sounds better

Texas is more of a hell-hole politically. Dallas is pretty much a lawless place (a part of the reason why my wife moved).

She feels safer in Jefferson City. Although the Missouri governor is already pissing her off.

I'm glad you like my Buster picture though :hi:

[xmas74]

42. I love the pic!

MO used to have a much stronger Dem party but now...

[nickinSTL]

23. St. Louis County

Originally from Illinois (Quad Cities area)

Lived here for 6 1/2 years now.

[xmas74]

24. Shout out to St Louis!

Join our crowd!

[AllegroRondo]

27. Jeff county

just south of St Louis

[xmas74]

31. Hello!

[ccjlld]

29. Columbia, MO here

n/t

[xmas74]

32. Welcome!

[loudestchick]

30. KCMO--Brookside neighborhood to be specific.

:hi:

[xmas74]

34. Isn't this fun!

I think this is the chance for all of us to get to know each other!

[loudestchick]

38. Ok, I'll admit it...it's a little fun.

:smoke:

[xmas74]

40. Now I feel like I know where some of us are coming from

and maybe this will help us all out later on.

[proud2BlibKansan]

47. I am close to you

Northern Overland Park. I grew up in Prairie Village. My sisters live in Brookside.

[loudestchick]

54. We walked from our home down to Sharp's for breakfast this AM

I love my neighborhood! My husband graduated from SM East in the 80's.

[proud2BlibKansan]

55. My hubby went to SME too

so did my son.

I like your neighborhood too. But I miss the movie theater that used to be there. We used to go there all the time when I was in high school - back in the dark ages.

[proud2BlibKansan]

48. I live in Johnson County, KS

but I work in KCMO.

[xmas74]

50. JoCo Ks!

Wow-you have all angles of this to deal w/, don't you?

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
:hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi:

[Mary in KC]

53. I'm in Kanssa City North - Clay County

[xmas74]

56. Welcome!

Be sure to check out all the forums here-there are some good ones!

[newyawker99]

70. Hi Mary in KC!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[deadparrot]

57. South St. Louis County!

Hello! :)

[xmas74]

58. Whazzaup!

[usregimechange]

61. Joplin, Jasper MO

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/swmo4progress/

[xmas74]

64. Welcome!

Love the Robin pic! We really need more like here in Missouri!

[givemebackmycountry]

63. New York City Boy, trapped in Missouri and MAN, DO I WANT OUT!

But, I'm dealing with it.
I work in Overland Park for that big telecom conglomo.
18 years now, as a matter of fact.
If it wasn't for my job, I would be out of here in a NEW YORK MINUTE!

But, it's all good.

I'm tryin' and I'm hanging in there with my friends at DU helping me to cope.

I live HERE.



That's the City Market area, in downtown baby.

I'm a city guy, living in the Newark, New Jersey of the Midwest!

It's a struggle for me, living in a part of the country that thinks it's OK to ban same sex marriage, and tell me that the freaking' dinosaurs used to play with Adam and Eve's grandkids.

You have to play the cards you are dealt, and right now I got a full house, so I ain't complaining.

But hey, anytime Missouri is ready to join modern times, I'm here to hoist a shot of Chinaco Anejo with ya!

The BEST thing to come out of Missouri?

Pat Metheny, of Lee's Summit.

It's ALMOST enough for me to forgive all of this states transgressions!

:beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:
:hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi:

And by the way, if you were at the DU meet up at the RMB on Wednesday night?

:yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock:

And didn't I say that KU was going down?

[xmas74]

65. I'm a transplant too.

SE Wisconsin here-right on the WI/IL border. Right now, MO/KS needs more transplants to help change the way things are going around here!

I went door-to-door in ref to the gay marriage act-and had many slammed in my face. I was one of the 20-something percent who was adamantly against it. Now I have friends who are considered to have no more rights than a pre-Civil War slave (IMHO). And my daughter will learn about evolution-whether at home or at school. This is one child who will not be left behind.
Robin Carahan will be someone to keep an eye out for in the future. I think that she will help things in MO considerably.
I hope to get to some of the DU meet-ups this summer-child care is a big factor during the school year. I am also trying to get interest in one here in Warrensburg-I think that it could go over very well, especially when CMSU is in session.
And I did laugh about KU-not their biggest fan.

Here's your welcome:



And here is what a couple of KU fans are saying behind your back right now:

[Terran]

67. Me too, in Jefferson City

but I actually DO like Missouri, a lot. Been here 11 years, left San Francisco, and have no current plans to move back.

[xmas74]

72. Hi!

:toast:

[Benno]

68. St.Louis

Actually live in St.Charles for those who know the area and lived in Columbia for a few years while attending Mizzou. :hi:

:toast:

[xmas74]

71. Hello!

:hi:

[ikojo]

73. I grew up in Springfield ILLINOIS but now live in

the St Louis area. This is as far south as I ever want to live. I've lived in St Louis 17 1/2 years now. It's not perfect but it is an improvement over very Repugnican Springfield IL.

I just cannot believe the amount of racism in and around St Louis as well as the number of fundies around here. Oy vey! I still meet people in St Louis who have never known a Jew before they met me.

[nickinSTL]

74. Really?

I've met more Jewish people here in St. Louis than I ever have before.

[xmas74]

75. Hello!

:hi:

[Jamison]

76. Hi

I'm from west St. Louis county here.