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Posted on 09/16/2005 7:33:26 PM PDT by When do we get liberated?

Just wanted to share with some of you something that happened early this month. This requires some background. I have no liscense (Not a drunk, I just drive like aan idiot) and I get a ride 35 miles each way to work and back, 75% of the time by a married couple who have been friends of mine for several years. We were friends before they morphed into Michael Moore's stepchildren. The husband is more muted, certainly with the same belief structure but not as radical. The wife thinks it was wrong to attack Iraq...AND Afghanistan. The falling debris from the world towers should have been transformed into a shower of taxpayer funded aid missions. When we wander into politics I have to bite my tongue and keep the temperature down in the car or I may lose my friend and my job. There is no public transportation outside Raleigh, unless you count $130 a day in cab fare. Driving home one night with the two of them she starts telling me about her ethics class where she learned "moral isolationism" which says that nobody from our culture can say that anything is right or wrong about any other culture, because what they do is right in their way. We have not lived in that culture so we cannot judge, by any means, others to be wrong in any way. I shut up and ignored it as I knew it would be a long, irritating drive home if I did anything else. We got to my house and I flipped ibn the T.V. it was the anniversary of the Beslan School Massacre. I left it on for nearly a full hour until it was over. In detail the takeover, rigging of bombs to women, random killings et al. All told by the schoolchildren. One child somewhat calmy described his father's head being blown apart by a machine gun round after the terrorists blew the gymnasium apart without provocation. He remembers hoping that the terminator would come and save them. 40 odd minutes of that in excrusiating detail was truely horrifying to and human with a sense of right and wrong. When the credits rolled, I changed the channel and said, very calmly and soothingly,"Not that they did anything wrong there. They were right in their own way." .................................................................................................................. SILENCE FROM A LIBERAL


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Ok, guys, I thought this was a very effective ending.

He listens to all this crap from his ride, he goes home and watches with them something about the massacre in the school, and parrots back to the people who were telling him there was no good or bad cultures, just what they had been telling him.

And they had no answer, because the evil was so clear.

Good first post. Some people just get antsy about things...especially when the person talking doesn't get into the discussion....makes you look like you're blog pimping (posting something you had written on your blog without any intention of talking about it. Considered something of bad manners here at FR).

Still, I liked it. Doesn't feel particularly trollish to me...you can have your own opinions.


101 posted on 09/16/2005 8:11:11 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: CAluvdubya

That the poster has not since replied is a bit odd, but I just don't know if this qualifies as a zot worthy thread. Awkward as the story is written, try to re-read it. The poster seems to have twisted his liberal friend's words against her.


102 posted on 09/16/2005 8:11:24 PM PDT by new cruelty
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To: When do we get liberated?

You should really learn to drive, if I can do it anyone can. My greatest driving feat to date, non-stop Boston to Bayonne, 5 hours flat with two teenage girls in the car chattering.

It can be done, just keep trying different teachers until you find the right one.


103 posted on 09/16/2005 8:11:27 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: ShadowDancer

"True friends encourage it."

LOL!


104 posted on 09/16/2005 8:12:29 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Jet Jaguar

Imagine my surprise. : )


105 posted on 09/16/2005 8:12:40 PM PDT by new cruelty
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To: When do we get liberated?

Don't let them get to you.


106 posted on 09/16/2005 8:16:49 PM PDT by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: Jet Jaguar; new cruelty

"Mole Cricket"

They dig, and have sharp little front legs.
And they are uglier than anything on the planet.
Larval cicadas are prettier..


107 posted on 09/16/2005 8:17:52 PM PDT by Darksheare (There is a Possum in the works.)
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To: ShadowDancer; Cagey
The zot thing is stupid. Honest to God, it really is.

I agree. It's truly stupid.

108 posted on 09/16/2005 8:18:11 PM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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To: new cruelty
I had no idea the ugly litter buggers bit


Well, I was trying to put it into my killing jar for my insect collection. And sorry about the nasal lactating problem :-)
109 posted on 09/16/2005 8:19:03 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 ( Heaven on Earth is where the nearest Starbucks is 60 miles away.)
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To: new cruelty
That the poster has not since replied is a bit odd, but I just don't know if this qualifies as a zot worthy thread. Awkward as the story is written, try to re-read it. The poster seems to have twisted his liberal friend's words against her.

It is odd that the poster has not replied. Could be s/he felt the post said it all and moved on.

I think I was expecting a different ending and that's why I didn't get. I wanted the poster to say this to the wacky woman.

110 posted on 09/16/2005 8:19:21 PM PDT by CAluvdubya (Free Republic.........On the cutting edge of news!)
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To: When do we get liberated?

(Sniffing possible ozone)

Some story-flow questions:
Why did the married couple accompany you into your house? Do you live with them or were they visiting? You didn't make it clear why they wandered into your home and stayed for an hour.

Why did they sit in your house silently for an entire broadcast of the Beslen massacre? You write as if they were like your furniture.

Did you offer your guests food or drinks? They are friends and they do make the effort to haul your rear-end to work everyday. A nice merlot would help the Mrs. as she stomachs the carnage.

Did you and do you offer to pay your fair share of gasoline money for all rides (3-5$ a day by my calculations)? And let's not forget wear on the car. They don't seem like bad people helping you like this.

Do you offer your friends gifts for their generosity, besides the gift of this post? You just posted their shame on the most popular website in the world. I think a crystal vase for the wife is in order.

What did you do to lose your license? You said you drive like an idiot and one infers from that statement you lost your license...by being an idiot. Apparently this point (being an idiot) weighs heavily on the minds of your friends as they lecture you.



It's my opinion that you either made up the story wholecloth to make points with us or you are not aware of the karma that your driving-idiocy has led to your punishment carpooling with Mr. and Mrs. Liberal.

If it is a true story, I hope for your sake that your benefactors aren't FReepers reading your first post. There are liberals that lurk on the FR.


111 posted on 09/16/2005 8:23:48 PM PDT by sully777 (The Religion Of Peace apparently kills!)
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To: Darksheare
behold... a Mole Cricket

and now... the Camel Cricket

The Mole Cricket is obviously the more macho cricket.

Larval Cicadas (This morning, I stepped on one by accident)

John Secada (never met the guy)

112 posted on 09/16/2005 8:30:00 PM PDT by new cruelty
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To: crazyhorse691

I've seen four in my basement, so far. I also squished one that was hanging out on my porch. I squished it by accident (seems to happen a lot with me). My wife is frightened by them, though I am not sure what she expects them to do. And my daughter delights in watching them hop like mad as I chase them around the basement.


113 posted on 09/16/2005 8:35:48 PM PDT by new cruelty
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To: new cruelty

LOL, John Secada..


114 posted on 09/16/2005 8:36:04 PM PDT by Darksheare (There is a Possum in the works.)
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To: When do we get liberated?

Good post


115 posted on 09/16/2005 8:36:25 PM PDT by SoDak
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To: jdontom

Proud graduate of the Hugo Chavez Cat Obedience School.


116 posted on 09/16/2005 8:36:39 PM PDT by monkfan (Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. - Proverbs 6:6)
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To: When do we get liberated?

Good post. Unfortunately it seems that only two or three other people here actually read it. The problem is that you put "first post" in the title. Very few people here actually read past your title.


117 posted on 09/16/2005 8:37:48 PM PDT by faq (Click on "faq" page to read "Things you may have forgotten about Iraq.")
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To: MotleyGirl70

I also agree.


118 posted on 09/16/2005 8:37:51 PM PDT by SoDak
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To: Jet Jaguar

lol - I'm too tired to care!


119 posted on 09/16/2005 8:48:28 PM PDT by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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To: When do we get liberated?
Your post is not "zot" material, and you are going through the typical initiation. Hold on tight and respond to the inquisition and you should be fine. If you have lurked here for any length of time, you should know the drill. If not... then it is best to respond to the comments before you do get zotted.
120 posted on 09/16/2005 8:54:57 PM PDT by DocRock (Osama said, "We love death, the U.S. loves life, that is the main difference between us.")
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