Posted on 11/16/2008 4:03:22 PM PST by roadkillcafe
11/5/08 -- What a great day for America and the world! Congratulations to you all. Now I can become an American citizen, I guess.
It was a momentous relief for me to hear a President mention “Global Warming” with the gravitas it deserves, not a nebulous concept to be buried under platitudes. Over the course of my life, weather patterns in the country of my birth, NZ, have changed dramatically. Perhaps we are more sensitive being a long, skinny island nation. We also have Antarctica in our back yard, so we feel any threat to the ice caps as our own.
I am sorry for Prop 8. The laws of a nation should be about safety and fairness. They should not enforce second-class citizenry.
I have my own issues with “marriage.” I think it is a throwback to feudal times. It ought to be phased out. We should have agreements that get revised at ten-year periods. I can't think why gay people should necessarily want it, but if they want it with all its strictures and ownership over one another, then let 'em have it. What's the big deal? What the heck are we afraid of sharing? Our sacred heterosexual rite?
Being raised in a moderately religious home, I grew up being taught that marriage was a Sacrament -- Sacred. I was told, "No one must come between a husband and wife." Then I would look over at a relative with a black eye meted out by her husband in the privacy of their sacred matrimonial chamber, and the bruises on her child, and I knew that was bullshit. There was nothing holy there. Only love is sacred and heterosexuals don't own that.
I am thankful that the days of anti-intellectualism are over. The last 8 years were like a steady diet of Ho-Hos for the brain. Both Al Gore and John Kerry were torpedoed by this and the vicious assertions of a wicked propagandist, Karl Rove.
Ironically, it was Karl Rove's own predictions about the outcomes of each state that we were following last night. He's undoubtedly a genius, but something got twisted up inside him and he should go down in history as a creep and frankly, a traitor.
Who the hell forced Palin on John McCain anyway? Some pale imitation of Rove? "Let's put another slogan-totin' cowboy up there, only let's put him in a skirt and get the wimmin's vote!" What a horrible mistake. And yet, THANK YOU!
I must say that Rob and I stopped the tivo and got the boys in to watch John McCain's concession speech. We wanted them to see how a great man behaves in the face of defeat. I believe he is a good man and if he had won the Republican nomination 8 years ago, the world would look very different to us now. Still, this diet of hotdogs with Clinton and Ho-Hos with Bush are what has brought us to a new craving for something holistic and someone substantial who will walk beside us through the dark days ahead.
The next eight years will be undeniably hard, but with Obama, I don't think we will feel so alone. Up and at 'em! L
[I am thankful that the days of anti-intellectualism are over....]
Lol, funny! I had an interesting experience Wednesday night, when I went to my first Bunco Club get together since the election.
Since this is a “fun Club”, the twelve ladies are rated on ‘niceness’ rather than an I.Q. score.
Naturally...[heh]... the subject of the election was brought up. Naturally, I raised the subject of the Zogby poll that told that only 2% of Obama voters aced their “how well informed” questions.
Whoops, a couple of the women immediately told me they did not believe that. I said, “it’s all over the web”. They said they didn’t believe “those” websites.
I said, “well, go to Zogby’s website and it’s right there”.
A lull in the conversation ensued.....
The gays hate the straight people, those who have abortions hate those who abhor it.
Most of us who live clean decent lives don't try to push our views on others. We live it in peace and leave others alone. We do protest baby killers but don't riot and attack those who did.
Nobody stopped the gays from living their lives until they became disgusting exhibitionist and started pushing for things that aren't due them.
Look at Bill Maher, he hates children, family, marriage and religion. OK, that's his right but why does he have to constantly vent his hate in the most lewd ways? There is something badly wrong with these people. [I know, that goes without saying]
LOL, you wrote a sentence and I gave you a book!!
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She is below average in looks and her comments prove her brain is too
Truthfully, I picked out one of the worst pictures of her.
Huh, so another washed-up scumbag crawls out from under a rock looking for another “fifteen minutes”.
(yawn)
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I never thought she was attractive
She looks like a horse that overeats to me
Lucy is nothing more than a glorifed Lesbian icon now. She needs every bit of media attention in order to keep her somewhat relevant.
I’ve never watched her in anything at all! Besides, I’d rather watch the guys.
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I saw her only for a few seconds when changing channels when she first was on
That was enough for me to surf through channels faster
Bump dat!
Excellent post!
What a delicious awkward moment!
Good job, potlatch!
Hi DC!! As usual, I owe you a letter and am being slow. Glad to see you back.
Yeah, the Bunco thing was kinda fun, lol. I’ll bet they checked when they got on the computer the next day too!
Hey, you! Glad to be back!
I bet they did check Zogby’s site.
Wouldn’t you have loved to be a fly on the wall when they did? lol
Yeah, lol!
I've posted on my newspaper forum occasionally and talk about ‘rabid’! You cannot tell the Obama supporters anything, not even posting links.
They say it is all a lie and then post a bunch of lies about President Bush. It's a no win situation wasting your time there.
Right there is the proof of the Zogby poll...
You betcha!
I think they are in for a rude awakening...
Didn't mean to make them seem dumb........but, if they voted for Obama they just didn't know a million things about him.
I have no doubt that you weren’t trying to be rude.
That’s just not “you”. ;o)
If they voted for Obama, they are intellectually lazy.
That’s all..
Thank you DC. No, I don’t ‘try’ to hurt people’s feelings. I am thin skinned myself, so am mindful of it. AND, I am quick to apologize.
HA!
Dat be “Loose Lucy”, eh ????
hehe! :)
bump! bump! bump!
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