Posted on 11/28/2005 10:31:15 AM PST by dukeman
LOL We have some screaming liberals in my family. I made a few Liberals mad enough to leave after I read a prayer I wrote myself. They didn't even have dinner.
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Dear Heavenly Father,
Today all of us, my family & friends want to give you thanks for all things.
First, I want to thank you for your love, and giving us the gift to love others.
New love, and old love-- we are thankful for both. It is through this that all is possible.
I thank you for my family, my friends, kindred spirits, and even the people around the world who annoy me.
I thank you for my health, and the health of my loved ones.
I thank you for our Troops and Allies past and present-- it is because of them that we can FREELY gather here today.
I thank you for our leaders who make decisions important for our nations security; specially Dick Cheney.
Please gracious Lord, Bless us all -- as we share our bounty today, and give us the will to continue to share our bounties with those in need all the days that follow.
I ask you these things in Jesus name.
Amen
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Everyone who had stayed past the prayer and eating my husband gave the rest of the liberals an exit by played "Bush Was Right". LOL
I was laughing so hard I almost peed my pants! I didn't even get to say goodbye to some of them.
I agree. The moonbat listener probably had a monster-sized chip on his shoulder (they usually do), so he probably heard the prayer the way he wanted to. On the other hand, prayer is no place to make cutey-pie remarks directed to some other individual in the room. Bad form.
I hear ya. DUmmie lie simply to have something to brag about.
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Remnded me of an observation regarding Archie Bunker.
Everyone belittled Archie for his lack of education and his views but everyone sure knew how to live off his paycheck, for their food, their shelter, their heat, their water, etc.
Most of the stuff posted over at DU is a: made up I want to validate my own irrationational point of view, make myself self feel good, self serving, let me if I can top the rest of the moonbat type rants...
What the moonbats say at DU is for their own self gratification.
Five uses of the F-word in these examples. Intellectuals possess a remarkably limited vocabulary. Thank goodness my lefty relatives all live in NY far, far away.
I always look forward to holiday gatherings with my family and my wife's family.
Only malaadjusted people with serious personal problems dread gathering with their own families.
What bothered them most, the mention of Dick Cheney or Jesus?
Yesh, and I didn't even include any material from DU's Loners Group or Mental Health Group!
Well I lost my dad recently although he lived a long life. On the scale of things that matter, all the family bickering doesn't amount to a hill of beans. If you have a grudge you are holding, make the first move, be the bigger person and grab that member of the family and tell them how much you love them even if they are misguided and weird. And even if they respond negatively, you have done your part and you will never regret not having done so when the opportunity has gone by, they are gone and it is too late. When push comes to shove, it is your family who will be there for you.
Sounds intriguing. Did they think someone who came from behind the former Iron Curtain would think like an American liberal?
Amen, maxter. Amen.
Three related points………………………….
One: I did get a chance to watch an interview conducted with the ID’er Behe on Monday’s morning edition of Washington Journal on C-SPAN1 that was rerun Monday night. I found his arguments unconvincing, and if anything, I would have flunked him out of his Thesis Defense for not showing the least understanding of the basis how the entire field of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry relates to the greater body of Western Scientific Knowledge including, but not limited to, Physics, Geology, and Chemistry. However, now that I’ve gotten to see the arguments directly from the horse’s-mouth, as it were, I cannot say he is a ‘boob’, ‘naïve’, or an ‘ignoramus’. Instead, I would use the word ‘devious’. In any event, I would have signed the document disavowing any intellectual support for this moonbat as his departmental colleagues did.
Second point: I also watched the lengthy American Enterprise Institute’s Symposia that was aired Wednesday in the afternoon on C-SPAN. Lots of good arguments against Creationism/ID were to be found here and I likewise found the supporters of ID unconvincing, to be polite, and downright arrogant in their pushing of this bogus theory in the face of reasoned argument and proof, to be more undiplomatic. One telling point I found interesting that was brought out by one of the Pro-Science representatives was [paraphrase] ‘We can’t even teach the basics of Science properly anymore, as evidenced by the falling scores of US students in Science curricula-testing versus other countries, never-mind taking the time out of the limited Science curricula to either introduce or include a full exposition of ID which, in any event leads students away from accepted Scientific Truth, thus further distancing the future of America’s young technological minds from China, India and a dozen other countries, and condemning the US to Third World status economically’. Many more good points were made.
A Third, more personal, point (and related to the theme of this Thread): I had the chance to visit an old friend of 35 years Thursday night. He designs and writes computer routing-protocols in the telecommunications field at a tech-company in Mass. We had a few beers, discussed old times, new times and in-between times at his kitchen table. Living in Mass, I have to remind you, he’s a proud Mass-Liberal. One comment he made during the course of the evening was a fairly pointed- and sarcastic-remark about ID, ID’ers, and (lumping all of this in, of course, with Conservatives, Bush and the Republicans) how ignorant Republicans are for accepting this obvious claptrap. He then pointedly said, looking me straight in the eye, “Of course, I forgot, (with a smile, baiting me) you’re a Republican aren’t you”. I then had to intellectually explain my own position, with all the provisions and exceptions I take with the ID/Creationists, and why this STILL didn’t change or affect my political views and support of President Bush, and the Conservative Movement, blah, blah, blah………..all of which probably went over his head. I think all he’ll remember is how he made a made a good point (and made me physically and intellectually flinch) in this continuing argument.
As I’ve repeatedly said on the Threads, “The purpose of ID/Creationism is to destroy and discredit the Conservative Movement”. I stand by this self-devised sound-byte that I’ve repeatedly put up on the Threads. In addition, I only wish, as a Scientist, that there was someway, like the Departmental colleagues of Behe, I could distance myself from the moonbat ID/Creationists.
"What bothered them most, the mention of Dick Cheney or Jesus?"
LOL Good point! I saw them twitch as I read "Dick Cheney", but I thought they might throw up as I said Jesus.
Just a moment later one of them said to another in a loud whisper "I didn't realize we were here for a sermon".
I spoke up and said "Don't worry I know you're here just to eat our food, and I expect you to leave soon after".
What a great report! God bless you and the U.S. Marine Corps!
I try to explain how the Left was ALWAYS evil and anti-American, but they don't buy it. I tell them that FOX and the internet are responsible for showing media bias... but they still think that Dan Rather used to be trustworthy way back...
In a way, they "fell" for the New Media, not understanding that Hollywood, teachers unions, and Ted Kennedy were vile destructive forces long before Matt Drudge was ever born.
This bears repeating. You know, the older I get, the more I love my dad. On the other hand, he is drinking more and more from the Liberal Koolaide. He gets ornier and less happy by the day. I still love him more than ever.
I have a liberal moonbat sister-in-law. We don't usually talk about politics during visits (I think she's realized she isn't smart enough to win debates with me. ;-))
This Thanksgiving, however, when I visited, the issue of guns came up. My 12-year-old niece has developed an interest in guns and said she wanted to learn to shoot. I said I'd be happy to teach her, but her mother said no way she was letting that happen. That led to a long argument about gun control.
I don't know WHAT my brother was thinking when he married her.
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