Posted on 02/27/2011 8:41:59 AM PST by sickoflibs
Re: “Its even easier. I just hide all posts from friends whos posts annoy me. I only hide since virtually all my friends are members of my extended family and I dont want the confrontation. Even my sons ex girlfriend. I dont want to give her the satisfaction of knowing Im cutting her off. Does that make sense?”
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It makes perfect sense, except that it’s not my being annoyed by ‘them’ that is the problem. I have no choice but to unfriend/block because a couple of them refuse to do it first == refuse to stop looking at that which bothers them on my FB pages. In other words, they want to stalk my posts, see my comments and ‘Likes’ and then whine about them and demand I retract my statements.
One former ‘friend’ would, until recently, click ‘Like’ on virtually everything else I ‘Liked’ on FB, seemingly within minutes — kind of creepy if you ask me. She complained when she thought I had unfriended her (I had not, she just didn’t look for me closely enough) or made some posts invisible to her. She would e-mail claiming: “I can’t see your ‘Wall.’ OK, so I changed it back since she sounded like she could handle it.
What it boils down to is that a few ‘friends/family members’ want me to totally STOP posting on and viewing or clicking ‘Like’ or commenting on any politically oriented FB posts by others.
These ‘friends/relatives’ foolishly think I will change and see things their way, though I’ve explained how LONG I’ve been politically active/interested and on the ‘right’ side (since childhood - 1960).
I am tired of trying to explain my positions and defending tea partiers and their goals to these nitwits. One of them, in an incoherent rant, sent an e-mail ‘dumping’ me from FB ‘friends.’ Fine — there will be no response from me this time. I’m tired of the tit-for-tat nonsense. It’s the equivalent of a child telling a friend that if she befriends someone the first child doesn’t like, that first child will not speak to the one who insists on being allowed to befriend anyone she wishes. Does that make sense?
Catholic schools are in no way, shape, or form superior to any similar school. Any school that is allowed to discriminate as to the type of student they get to take, or keep, can post great numbers. What they cant do is teach all students, which is sad, but not surprising.
Unions do not defend a teacher arrested for child molestation, unless there is substantial evidence to suggest innocence. Even then if an arrest happens the teacher is fired as soon as the school board meets and fires them. Which is usually before they can post bail. Any failure of a school district to do this is the fault of the administration and has nothing to do with the union.
If you believe this country is a center right country, and the majority of people attend public school, then I think we produce our fair share of conservatives.
The Catholic Church produces a lot of its own wealth redistribution, open boarders types as well.
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