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Clyde's Side of the Story:

Everything I have learned in life is the product of the evolutionary process and the year 2004 was by far the furthest advancement I have ever been a part of. The idea for this website came during another heated discussion while we were playing Golden Tee Golf at the local watering hole. When I first met Dookie and Wally, the first thing that came to mind was, Magilla Gorilla meets the butler Riff Raff from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

A looming hulk of a man with a standard issue butch haircut, Dookie is the kind of friend that you can count on to back you up when you need it the most. Meanwhile, Wally is the kind of guy who always brings a sharp wit to any conversation and it is likely to result in passing a mouthful of Bud Light through your nose. It was only later that I found out that when they first met me, they actually thought I was retarded.

The one thing everyone could count on when we were together at the bar was that eventually the conversation was going to turn toward politics. And when we saw what was happening in our country because of the Cheney Administration, the words became more volatile. We would sit there sucking suds and bitching about Shrub and his shills while at the same time lambasting the pussy Democrats in our government. It finally drove us to the point where we decided that we had to do something and the result is this website.

At the beginning I thought that this would be nothing more than a passing fancy, but when we began to get emails from readers from all over the country, I began to think that we may have something that's worthwhile. Imagine our surprise when we got an email from a reader saying that he learned of our website from Howard Stern's. To have a national celebrity to like something you do enough to post a link on his website is definitely a boost to one's ego, but it was when Take Back the Media posted a link to a story we broke, we knew this was going to consume a lot more of our spare time than we had originally thought.

But the biggest accomplishment we strived for was that of a place where everyone who visited was able to get the truth in what was happening in our country. We wanted to make a website that people would be able to use as a resource for information that they would not normally receive from the liberal media. So far, I believe that we are now a credible source for information, but our mission is not complete.

We are building a website devoted to the reader, we want to provide a place where all opinions are welcome, even those who disagree. In 2006, we want our readers to become more involved with the site. If you have something that you need to get off your chest all you have to do is write on our "Rants" page. You can send us links to stories that you find informative or you can take part in our online polls. Send us ideas that you think would make dubyaD40.com better or write an op-ed piece. The sky is the limit and we thank you for your support.

~Clyde

Wally's Side of the Story:

So these three guys walk into a bar.....
Actually, it started as two guys walking into a bar after yet another glorious day in cubicle paradise, intent on washing the bad taste out of our mouths and minds and relaxing over a couple of tall frosties, as we'd done so many times before. We liked this particular bar because of the great service, the selection of beers, the friendly barmaids (i.e. good looking women that will actually talk to us), the location, and the fact that we hadn't been thrown out yet. Amazingly, we still haven't - it probably helps that we pretty much pay the electric bill there. Anyway, on this particular occasion, some impertinent and disrespectful cretins had taken OUR bar seats, forcing us down to the other end of the bar, down by "those guys" (Clyde and his ilk). Dookie and I, being the friendly guys that we are, not to mention thirsty, decided to risk it and see if Clyde truly was retarded, or just acted that way, and parked our asses down next to him. Thus began a long and storied friendship. Okay, not all that long - just a few years really, and the stories aren't all that interesting either, but the friendships are definitely there. By the end of the night, OUR seats had moved about 10 barstools to the right, and the political atmosphere of the bar had taken a decisive turn to the left. (As an ancillary benefit to all of this, it also turns out that the view of "Olympic Dishes" is much better down on that end of the bar anyway. )

Fast forward a couple of years....
So these three guys walk into a bar....
... and like always, start talking politics, each bringing his own views and his own opinions - each different, but all in firm agreement that bush and his band of assmonkeys was f***ing up the nation. Like always, we ended up debating the ramifications and implications of the news of the day, ragging on the talking heads hanging over the bar on the cable news stations, trying not to be stunned by the outrage du-jour being handed to us by or about our fearless leaders in the republican party. Finally, I suppose, we'd had enough. It all came to a head one beautiful April afternoon, over a game of video golf and under a CNN talking head. We decided that we'd done what we could to educate everyone that we knew that would listen to us. Sitting around bitching wasn't getting anything done except raising our blood pressure and the bar's profit margins. Something needed to be done. A week or so later, dubyaD40.com was launched. Today, we still sit around bitching, both blood pressure and profit margins at the bar are at an all time high (in this one small way, bush is, in fact, good for the economy) but at least we're getting the word out beyond the carrying distance of our voices.

Our initial goal was to educate friends and family, and spread the word - giving them a one-stop shopping spot for news, views and commentary from around the world on the state of things in our government. We all knew that the U.S. news media is less than useless when it comes to providing adequate, or even non-propagandized news coverage. We knew we had to reach far and wide to get close to the truth of what's really happening, corroborating news sources against each other, etc. We had each built long lists of bookmarked news and commentary sites from around the world that we'd troll through regularly looking for interesting information, which we'd then pass between us and among other friends. Now, instead of passing emails between a handful of people, we had a forum through which we could share them with the world. The original intention was to enlighten enough people to help get bush out in 2004, and secondarily to clear out as many republicans, on all levels of government as possible. That was our original "mission." Apparently, we need to increase our readership. Or the American public really IS that stupid. Or there is the obvious conclusion - again not reported in the U.S. media - that the election was stolen yet again. These are not mutually exclusive.

Meantime, these three meat-eating beer-swilling foul-mouthed opinionated stubborn unfair and unbalanced (but quite informed) Midwestern liberals are gonna keep at it the best way we know how. Keep sending in emails, rants, hate mail, love letters, links and stories, suggestions, comments, critiques, complaints, gifts, cash, pictures, small furry animals, we don't care! We love to hear from you, and we're working to make the page more interactive - let you, the reader, be part of it. Of course, that all depends on our day jobs and other events in our lives and how much time we can scrounge to develop these things, but in time.... Now to get these assholes out of office!
Hope you keep reading. After all, we apparently need to increase our readership if we're ever going to accomplish our mission.

Thanks,
Wally

p.s. We'll let you know if we ever manage to figure out whether Clyde is truly retarded or just acts that way.

Dookie's Side of the Story:

Many of our readers know that Clyde, Wally, and Dookie have full-time jobs outside of dubyaD40.com. You see, Wally and I actually work together 8 hours a day in a cubicle next to each other. Clyde, on the other hand, works for a different company up the road. One day, many years back, Wally and I got fed up at work and needed a beer in the worst way. We put our entire 7 brain cells together and decided to take a short drive to a bar we've never been before. It was there when the birth of a friendship with Clyde and dubyaD40.com began.

As Wally and I entered our local watering hole, we grabbed the first seats we saw at the end of the bar. We started talking about work, life, and other stuff that is heard at an establishment like that. The next thing you know, we hear a loud guy at the other end of the bar saying "I Love You" in the most weird tone to the bartender. Imagine Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or Ron Jeremy on pain killers with a side of alcohol. I turned to Wally after that and said "Is that guy retarded?" Wally said by the way he talks and the way he looked, then yes. Definitely.

A few months of this went on as Wally and I continued to frequent that same bar over and over because of the service. We kept going back because the bartender would see us walk in the door, begin pouring us beer, and have it on the bar by the time we sat down. Oh yeah, she had great breasts too! Anyway, one day I go to the bar without Wally. I sit down on my end of the bar and notice there's only one other guy at the bar too. You guessed it. Clyde the retard. Being the nice guy that I am, I headed down to his end and sat next to him. I strike up a conversation with him when I noticed the beer he drinks. He routinely orders a draft beer with two olives and a squeeze of lime in it. I asked him why and he mentioned it's a thing they do back home. So what do I do, order one for me. To this day, if I didn't do that, we'd never be friends and I wouldn't be writing this.

After introducing Wally to Clyde and vice-versa, it didn't take long for all of us to become best friends. No, brothers. We all came from different parts of the mid-west, backgrounds, ethnics, etc. One thing we did have in common was politics. Clyde was a hard-core liberal, Wally was the tree hugger, and I was pretty much in the middle. Then weeks became months and months became years of us meeting up at the bar and talking about the Bush Administration trashing everything in its path. We all three would get so involved that the bartenders would try to get us to stop talking about politics. We offered to change the subject to religion but they became perfectly happy with politics instead.

Many beers and conversations passed when we started to talk about taking a stand for our rights. We wanted a way to inform more people about the current issues that are corrupting our lives. We already knew everyone in the bar and people we worked with but that wasn't enough. It was time to go global. We needed a website. A powerful website. The only problem, we needed a name and a bunch of readers. So one day at work, Wally and I mulled over catchy names when one of us blurted out dubyaD40. For those who still don't understand the meaning, it's like the lubricant WD-40. As you can imagine, WD-40 is an oily product everyone knows. George W. Bush is an oily product everyone knows. Therefore, one "dubya" IS oil and the other LIKES oil. The birth of dubyaD40.com started.

We opened the site on the first anniversary of "Mission Accomplished Day," a.k.a. May 1st 2004. The only people aware of the site were us, family, and friends. We all started to contact the "friendly" sites to help send us some traffic. Sites like DU, BartCop, TakeBackTheMedia, WhiteRose Society etc...happily helped us out. We started to get large, fast. This was good news to our ears. Heck, we even ended up on Randi Rhodes! But it was when our site was featured on Howard Stern that we really took off. We started getting fan mail and everything when we really started to believe our work was paying off. People were even writing to us about liking our site so much they use it as a reference.

So here we are today, with many loyal readers and fans that makes this special. We started with 5,000 hits on our site to 1 million and growing. Our ultimate goal is to be the best on the net and spread the word to educate the people in this country. We'll be happy with either one. As for Clyde, Wally, and I, we're still having a damn good time. If only our readers could join us in the same bar one day and reminisce. If you're ever in the Kansas City area, let us know. I'm sure you'll hear the Clyde=Retarded story plus the bonus "Can you lick your back" story. Trust me, it's good. Now that I said that, Clyde will probably whoop my azz. Oh well, I'll buy him a beer to put down his throat-hole because my zipper is stuck.

Anyway, thank you for reading our stories of how a friendship came together and how dubyaD40.com started. Drop us an e-mail anytime because we love to hear from you!

~Dookie The Webmaster