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Hi everybody!

I know this is suppused to be a Christmas thread and a fun thread, later I'll have my top ten list posted and I warn you all, it is THE winner, so you all may as well give up!, LOL!!

But I do have a question that is really bothering me and anyone can answer this even if I haven't pinged them.

My question is, as you know I work for SSA were most of my coworkers are liberal democrats, That wouldn't bother me so much but there are some who sit near me and all they do is talk about how President Bush is really "screwing" them and how the Republicans are doing the same, and we "Pubbies" are misguided, one woman even told me she was praying real hard for my "conversion".

Now, I'm sitting at my desk trying to do my work or go on the internet or listen to my CD's but all this Bush bashing and telling each other how he's giong to be a one-term president is really getting on my nerves and it is all I can do to hold my tongue.

Why on earth can't they just shut up and let me be happy over uor feally terrific REPUBLICAN President?

I'm really desperate to know how to deal with these people.

Thanks for letting me rant!

"I'm really desperate to know how to deal with these people."

Remember, they're saying that 'cause they're sore losers and their guy isn't in. They wouldn't be trashing Bush if he weren't in the White House! Winning is the best revenge.

I think the best way to deal with that social reality is to get involved in good activist causes, as you do Pippin!, and then console yourself that all they do is talk, talk, whereas you are actually *changing* the world.

I think the worst thing you could do is ask them to stop. They're obviously inconsiderate and perhaps trying to get a rile out of you. So that might egg these liberal bullies on. I'd be cheerful about their comments -- as in laughing at how absurd they are to think such things.

2004. Winning is the best revenge!

The Top Ten Ways to Start a "Happening" Restaurant / Food-Joint

10. Give it a rustic look. Use cement flooring, preferably uneven. Give the walls an unfinished look, preferably leaving some bricks exposed. This also saves money.

9. Make the menu Italian or French or a combination of the two. Use exotic sounding dishes and use less common pastas such as penne, fettucine, etc. Make sure that the gravy is white, rich and thick.

8. Keep the menu small with as few dishes as possible. Saves money and adds to the eclectic ambience.

7. Get an exotic wine list; it doesn't matter if the diners have no idea about what to drink and when. Make sure the bar is well-stocked.

6. The promoters should include some of the high-fliers of the city. Those who regularly make the columns of page 3 Bombay Times.

5. Milk the newspapers for publicity and create a buzz. Invite the high-fliers regularly for "do's". Use the network to get companies to hold parties and dinners.

4. Make "hanging out" in the restaurants a "happening" thing, so that the diners can see another 100 people standing next to their table, drinking, smoking and doing nothing.

3. Overprice everything.

2. Make a big thing about prior booking, even if all the tables are not going full.

1. Give it a single word name such as Indigo or Olive or Athena or something similar.

TOP TEN THINGS PIPPIN SHOULD GET HER PUSHY LIBERAL WORK COLLEAGUES FOR CHRISTMAS

10. Lynne Cheney's "A Patriotic Primer"

9. Carlo3b's "The Clinton Legacy Cookbook"

8. A t-shirt from Sean Hannity's book tour saying "I've been HANNITIZED!"

7. Lodwick, completely naked except for a bow around the neck, standing on a soapbox delivering the Gettsyburg address. (Hey, we're all entitled to our fantasies, OK?!)

6. One very hungry golden retriever who loves to eat Christmas decorations.

5. "Sore/Loserman" Bumper stickers to cover up their now embarrassing "Gore 2000" bumber stickers.

4. A special Election 2004 "blindfold" to help ease their pain during the upcoming 2004 election season.

3. A red-and-green plaid muzzle with tasteful gold sequins.

2. A new brain.

...and the number one thing Pippin should get her liberal co-workers...

1. A neatly wrapped, framed calligraphic version of this list!

You could always try getting on the phone with a fellow conservative and expressing your own views, over and over, and refer frequently to how and why Rats are so misguided. Okay, so maybe it isn't the most diplomatic solution, but if nothing else, it might at least mirror to them how obnoxious they sound to you. Rats don't tend to get subtlety anyway.