AMERICA - The Right Way!! (Day 685) [Remember the Trade Center!!]

Various News Sources and FReepers | December 6, 2002 | All of Us

[Miss Marple]

You haven't been on these threads. I am not concerned with understanding why these people post this garbage; resentment of other groups has a long history in this country. Advocating violence, racial and ethnic slurs, and religious slurs are not normally considered acceptable discourse, and that is what I am trying to address. I cannot make people like Hispanics, and I wouldn't even make the attempt to do so.

However, I resent very much the posting of these over-the-top statements and then, when I object, I am called silly, unpatriotic, and uncaring about national security.

[Holding Our Breath]

You haven't been on these threads. I am not concerned with understanding why these people post this garbage; resentment of other groups has a long history in this country. Advocating violence, racial and ethnic slurs, and religious slurs are not normally considered acceptable discourse, and that is what I am trying to address. I cannot make people like Hispanics, and I wouldn't even make the attempt to do so. However, I resent very much the posting of these over-the-top statements and then, when I object, I am called silly, unpatriotic, and uncaring about national security.

Hi Janey, I haven't been "on" these threads either although I've read a few posts that made me very wary.

I agree with Mr Mulliner and what he is saying about understanding. But I also understand your concern and frustration. Being patriotic does not mean advocating the destruction of any one group of people's living in this great country. Nor does it mean favoring one group's needs over the other. And for years, in the name of political correctness, one group or another has been favored over another. So what is the solution, in your opinion?

I am sorry that you are being attacked.

[Redleg Duke]

I was staying at the Courtyard by Dulles Town Center the night of the "blizzard of '02" (LOFLMCO!). The next morning, I got in the car and drove into work at Reston via Rt 7 and the Reston Parkway. There was a guy with a Floriduh license plate driving 15 mph in the right lane with absolutely no one in sight ahead. I shifted lanes and passed him and then got back into the right lane. He goes sailing past me in the left lane, does a quick slide/skid and bango...back into the right lane...15 mph!

When I drove past him, he was holding onto the steering wheel so tight that I believe he left fingerprints through his gloves!

By the way, I just finished my last class of my last course in my MS in Systems Engineering! Three years but it is all done!

[Miss Marple]

Well, I don't know. It seems to me that posts that advocate violence shouldn't be allowed. It seems that there are so many anymore that the moderators only delete the worst.

I also think that stopping illegal immigration doesn't require hating Hispanics or other groups. And I don't think the answer to radical Islam is to nuke Mecca.

It is getting so bad over there that you can't have a rational discussion.

[Redleg Duke]

I have been guilty of muslim intolerance, but I am also getting sick and tired of the "Johnny-one-notes" bellyaching constantly about illegal immigration, blaming it all on Bush.

[Carolinamom]

Congratulations!!

[Molly Pitcher]

Okay Winona's finally gone from Fox News, and has been replaced by Hans Blix bloviating at the UN.

b4, thanks for the link....I don't listen to Hannity, only watch him on Fox....sometimes...

Dog.....

[Molly Pitcher]

That's great! Do you have some final exam or paper to produce???

[gulfcoast6]

Ole Hans, somehow I get the message that it is now the world against the USA, better watch it Hans, your 'army' will be caught with their pants down and you will not be able to continue to bash the USA.

[pollyshy]

Hi, Jane - it seems to me that everytime we get some national exposure, i.e., the Rush recognition, we get an influx of folk who confuse us with a different type of conservative or right-wing chat room. They bloviate for a while until we set them straight and then they leave, get banned or learn to express themselves more appropriately. I can think back to the early winter of 2000 we went through exactly the same thing. And THAT was pre-cheesehole days, LOL!

Hi, everyone! Very Christmassy up here - hasn't been above freezing for about 10 days, and we have holiday snow which means it's on the ground and trees, but not the streets!

Prayers for those who need them and especially for those who think they don't! Take care.

[gulfcoast6]

You doing OK today? Weather getting a little better for you?

[W.]

Hi, all! Got off work early and was permitted to go online, so here ah is! A few coworkers and myself are off to the beer dispensary after work so I have a couple hours here. Can o' pop, Rush on the headset radio and FR. Too bad I cannot smoke here...all's I need is an ashtray. Sigh. ElRushbo said of that 15000-page report Saddam is going to issue will have at least 13000 pages of goat kabob recipes, har!

[Miss Marple]

Ha! How would you like the job of translating that pile of junk? If they have NO weapons of mass destruction, why are they taking 13,000 pages to say so?

[Miss Marple]

I am not particularly tolerant, and look at all of them with a high degree of suspicion after 9/11.

However, I do understand that the President is trying to keep moderate Muslim nations on board and also trying to forestall vigilanteism in our country. I think people refuse to understand the PRACTICAL reasons for his statements...and also I am sick of the anti-immigration people who never have any responsible solutions.

Well, enough of my ranting. I have to go to the grocery and I am delaying it because it is so cold outside and I HATE going to the grocery. So, I am drinking a cup of de-caf coffee and trying to warm up before I leave.

[W.]

I reckon they are just trying to look busy or something. Drat, gotta go help someone. Be right back...

[Utah Girl]

Here is Utah Girl's advice for everyone today. Never buy a car in December. I did, and the car taxes and registration are due at the end of the month. And I have to replace the windshield, to the tune of $200. I guess I know where my Christmas bonus is going...:(

[Miss Marple]

Yikes! Perhaps this explains why car sales have fallen the last couple of months!

[Holding Our Breath]

Redleg, Shucks! You were staying about 5 miles from my house. I live "down the street" from the Reston Town Center.

[Molly Pitcher]

Hi you 2!

Yes, W., and the past 20 minutes or so, Limbaugh's been exposing the CFR fraud. Excellently laid out.

g6, the weather is better here today. Sunny with hust a few snow falkes every so often. Having the sun shine really perks me up! Thanks for asking.

Is this the night for your Christmas dinner at church?

[Holding Our Breath]

Understood. It never ceases to amaze me that people are so quick to fall "overboard" on an issue. Again, I am sorry thta you are being flamed or criticized.