Posted on 11/25/2004 5:58:11 AM PST by PJ-Comix
This is NOT me talking to you. 23. May I be excused?
Edited on Thu Nov-25-04 10:14 AM by Callous Taoboys
I am boycotting the family thanksgiving today. There have been too many words between us, nasty insinuations about my liberal beliefs have been left on my coffee table for me to read later after they have visited (e.g. we liberals are actually tittering with glee with each G.I. death in Iraq). Last time I visited with the folks it was painfully awkward because we really had nothing to say. Somehow we limped upon a discussion of news, they claiming that fox news is fair and balanced.
I, of course, politely disagreed and was soundly thrashed, and before I knew it my step-mother was spewing some nonsense about how gay marriage would produce a backlash of divorce amongst both gay and straight couples.
My time off is like gold to me, my family more like tarnished copper at this time. So I plan to fast and take a hike.
Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it. Ed Abbey
"How could you celebrate eating this crap anyhow?"
I can't. Tofu means soybeans, which means intensive agriculture. Wild Turkey and Venison (the traditional Thanksgiving meats) are low in fat, high in protein, and their production requires preserving the natural environment.
"This just keeps getting better. Goddess and God????"
Not so radical if you think of the Christian "Holy Spirit"- the intuitive, nurturing aspect of the Divine- as feminine.
(Yeah, I'm one of those nasty, evil people who thinks that God and Mother Nature not only know one another, but are married.)
But notice how many of the DUmmies bash ALL religion. Good ol' fashioned Marxism.
I decided a few years back that Conservatives were (slightly) more likely to preserve my religious freedoms. Nice to have that confirmed by the DUmmies.
You say 'Pagan' like it's a bad thing. :-)
The DUmmies hate, bile and violence are against my religious beliefs, too.
I try to live my life as a non-pagan.
The ACLU are truly frightening!!! They are the most intolerant nut-balls I have ever heard of! How can they possibly want "tolerance of all faiths" and in the same breath want to destroy Christianity? But, then, they are who they are! They must be stopped somehow!
OMG - I CAN NOT believe what I am reading from a thread on message board that is NOT DU............but has so much of the same mentality::::::::
~~~~~President Bush was visiting a primary school. One of the classes was in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meaning.
The teacher asked the president if he would like to lead the discussion on the word "tragedy."
So the Bush asked the class for an example of a tragedy.
Little Jimmy stood up and offered, "If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the field and a tractor runs him over and kills him, that would be a tragedy."
"No," said Bush, "that would be an accident."
Little Suzie raised her hand: "If a school bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy."
"I'm afraid not." explained Bush (who has a conviction for driving while drunk). "That's what we would call a great loss."
The room went silent.
No other children volunteered. Bush searched the room.
"Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of tragedy?"
Finally at the back of the room little Johnny raised his hand.
In a quiet voice he said: "If Air Force One carrying Mr. and Mrs. Bush was struck by a "friendly fire" missile and blown to smithereens, that would be a tragedy."
"Fantastic!" exclaimed Bush. "That's right. And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?"
"Well," says little Johnny, "it has to be a tragedy, because it certainly wouldn't be a great loss and it probably wouldn't be an accident either."~~~~~~~~~
This was posted on a message board about smoking (tobacco) by a woman in Canada.
Her comment was that tragedy is all in the perspective. She thought it extremely amusing........the fact she posted it on 11/09/04 and no one commented, tells me something. Her minions must be on vacation.
I didn't know much about Newsome until I read that New Yorker article right after the Thanksgiving dinner. I just got a kick out of how he couldn't figure out why Bush was so friendly with him after Newsome brought up an issue that was guaranteed to boomerang on Democrats.
Welcome aboard PINGee #350. I believe this PING list is now just ahead of one of mhking's PING lists and will soon catch up to his other one. If not mistaken, that would leave only a Florida Freeper PING List and a Texas PING List as the only ones larger but they should both be surpassed by this summer.
When it comes to PING Lists, SIZE does matter. Anyway, sorry for my brief lapse into Ping List Envy.
I watched one poster shamelessly keep promoting a store, even though they are listed as one of the top retail contributors to repugs. Some posters kept adding other dimensions to an excellent boycott plan, until it became so humongous that one would have to cease using electricity, stop buying the bare necessities of life, and never take a shower using soap.
'(My how time flies when you're exposing Democrats!)'
WOW, you may want to consider re-phrasing this.
Just Kidding.
Happy Thanksgiving to all...
The USA consists of corporatism and fascism? Those are two completely opposite things, sweetie...
Our liberal sister has been talking all week about how Karl Rove is controlling Bush, Condi is a robot, etc. So when she arrived at our house the night before Thanksgiving, my Republican brother presented her with the gift of her very own Tinfoil Hat. She didn't quite get the joke...
Really? You have leftover turkey you're willing to give away? That's unheard of in my family. What doesn't get eaten on Thanksgiving Day is in sandwiches for days afterwards. ;-)
Good as Gold!
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I won't be celebrating thanksgiving or any other holidays this year but instead will avoid any shopping except for necessities. I will be actively boycotting republican owned and supporting businesses. I will speak out when ever possible against the war and the theft of our democracy. This will be my gift to family and friends for this holiday season.
Bet everyone is really glad to see this he/she/it show up at the door during the holidays.
Holidays have never really been important to us. They are just pagan rituals..
Thanksgiving and Xmas are 'pagan' rituals? This statement is as dumb as the one where, in a previous post, a DUmmie thought that the Democrats could retain the congressional seats they held in Red states by taking the party further left.
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