Wow, you have been busy. I have not had as much time for street work since I had my fifth child in 2002. But I have stayed busy on the web.
Recently I was banned from a chat room that is mostly inhabited by liberal moms who are into a natural lifestyle. They just felt my posting style was too inflammatory.
What can I say, I love Mark Steyn and Ann Coulter is a personal hero of mine, I can't help it if I am a wannabee.
Here is a link to a thread I wrote just after Osama Bin Laden made his video where he quoted F 9-11. You can tell by the responses of the ladies how "tolerant" they were of my rightist views.
http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=211526
I still think it is pretty ironic that I was the one banned though. I never personally attacked anyone, just their ideology and world view. but they treated it like I was personally attacking them.
Anyway, I have missed participating on that Mothering board, we had a great group of conservative moms who regularly debated our leftist friends all through the election. It was one of the most fun things I have ever done, and I am sad to be permanently banned.
But what can you say? The champions of Free Speech only allow themselves that privledge and will shout down and stifle anyone who does not walk lock step to the party line.
I have some leftover UN toilet paper, I'll save it for the next rally. And I am sewing a really nice hemstitched hankie to pull out and blow my nose on every time I hear a leftist start spewing.
I love street theatre, it satisfys something deep in my heart!
Good chatting with you and say hello to your wonderful parents for me.
I was also gifted to have patriotic parents. They kept me grounded while I was being propogandized in Marx and the Communist Manifesto during my public school education in the 80's in Detroit. We studied socialism more than the constitution and Marx more than Jefferson, but my dad made sure we were well taught in the principles of Freedom.
Let Freedom Ring!
Jenny Hatch
A conservative moderator of an "open to all points of view" forum would not think of doing that to a liberal (unless they clearly violated some forum rule) because while we don't agree with them, we "defend to the death their right to say it".
But sadly, in my experience, most liberals do not see things the same way, especially the ones under 60. They just do not consider conservatism to be a valid political viewpoint. They really do honestly believe that Conservatism = "Extremist Political Viewpoint." They are shocked beyond belief about what happened on Nov. 2, 2004.
From birth, most of them are carefully protected from ever hearing a conservative point of view, except of course in carefully controlled circumstances where liberal producers/directors make all the decisions on how they're going to "show our viewers what conservatives are like".
Their public school teachers are either in lockstep with the teacher's unions and their leftist allies, or too worried about their jobs and their stress levels, or too tired of hitting their heads against brick walls, to buck the dominant PC thought in the faculty meetings.
They turn on the TV and as long as they avoid Fox, they will see only things that confirm the mindset that the elites have determined they should have at any given moment. This of course changes over time. And whenever the elites decree on the front pages of the NYT the latest shift in ideology, they will sooner rather than later give into the pressure and shift their thinking accordingly. Rather than recognize this for being the lemminglike behavior it is, they will instead congratulate themselves for being "open minded," as evidenced by the fact that they changed their minds to conform with this particular ideological shift!
And of course their AM radio buttons are only set to taxpayer-funded stations, where NPR will soothingly reassure them that they believe in "all the right things".
So when they go online and find themselves shockingly exposed to the hazards of Conservative Thought ("omigod! where'd I put my SPF 1000 ConservativeBlock?") they seek out protection from this corrosive antiPC thought. Any forum with a liberal moderator will make a safe port in the storm!
Seriously though, I've heard multiple times of liberals who go online for the first time and are shocked by what they see. Their reaction is, "GOOD GRIEF!! WHERE IN THE H*** DID ALL THESE CONSERVATIVES COME FROM?!?"