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Reader Comments (213)Sexuality is inate (you’re born with it). Environment plays no role whatsoever in “attractions”. A gay person can’t become straight, nor can a stright person become gay. My example to the identical twins (always sharing the ame sexuality, gay or stright) is an undisputed scientific and biological fact. THAT is what I meant as “not open for interpretation” because there is no grey area with a 100% never-different finding. It’s like the sun rising in the east, it’s a fact, not an opinion.
I grew up in Germany, where being gay or belonging to any other minority is no big deal at all. Contrary to common belief (of uneducated Americans), there is very little discrimination in Germany. For about 2 years now, Germany has recognized legal gay marriages. Berlin has an openly gay mayor, one of only a handful of large cities in the world. We’e nowhere near that kind of “acceptance” here in deep, dark and puritanical America. Canada is a bright light to the North, but it’ll be a while longer until we see it here in Jesusland.
As far as totlerance goes, I have no peers. Like Ms. Madrigal (Tale Of A City) used to say “I don’t object to anything”. I do frown on smokers, though. They’ve had enough time (since the 60s?) to clean up their act. Anyone under the age of 50 who is still puffing around has no excuse, and they get no sympathy from me. Keep your smoke and your 2 ton blocks with the 10 Commandments at home, and we’ll be great friends!
Life’s a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death. (Auntie Mame says LIVE!)
Posted by Michael on Nov 8, 2004 at 6:51 AM Why is it anybody’s business whom another person is attracted to? Why do people keep making judgements about other people’s choices and behaviors? Why can’t we put our OWN houses in order instead of pointing fingers at others?
The admonition against 2 men being together is from the Old Testament. So is the ban on eating pork, anything with a cloven hoof, or seafood without a spine. A menstruating woman was shunned.
These O.T. laws were put in place thousands of years ago out of ignorance. Are we to be bound by them? And if one law,why not ALL?Jesus said, forget “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth”. He said “Love thine enemy”—not tolerate…but LOVE! The O.T. says “Spare the rod and spoil the child” Jesus said,“Suffer the little children to come unto me”. He didn’t add “and I’ll give ‘em a whippin’.
The Christ message is directly opposite from that being pushed by the Jesus-people. And Oh Boy,are they pushing it!!
The important thing is to be true to your own concience and your own code of ethics.
In a few hundred years we’re going to look back on all this earthly silliness and just La-a-ugh
like crazy. :)
Posted by Beverly Cummins/Spangler on Nov 8, 2004 at 4:17 PM Do any of these people actually READ the word of Jesus? I mean REALLY read it. I mean really try to UNDERSTAND what his message was?
I am a Catholic. I’m not born again, whatever that means.
I was raised by my Catholic family, educated by the Ursuline nuns, the Marist Brothers and the Jesuits.
I’ve tried all my life to follow the basic tenets not just of my “religion”, but of what Jesus’s words and being.
Love, truth, inclusion, mercy, justice, understanding.
Those are the things he preached, and they are the things I’ve tried (not always successfully) to adhere to.
But he understood that too. He understand that as men and women we are ultimately fallible. He understood that because he TOO was a MAN.
And that leads to hhis most important lesson. That men/women make mistakes, that as long as we make honest effort to live well, even though we may stumble and fall, that there is also FORGIVENESS.
We need to practice ALL those lessons. Not just the lessons of retribution and damnation.
Posted by Liberal but Proud on Nov 8, 2004 at 10:00 PM Boy- with thinking like miz Cho’s I am glad the red states rule. What a friggin wack broad. No wonder with thinking like this you liberal dickheads LOST. All you can think about if life in terms of reproductive organs and all that thinking has replaced your drug and sex addled brains with excretory organs…another words what a bunch of hypocritical, delusional shitheads you are. No wonder America had the good sense to send you out of power. Maybe you all need to move to san Francisco and seperate yourself from the real world of decent people. What a bunch of wackos patting each other on the back for your stupidity and utter lack of sense. I just wish Bush could run again and beat your asses again. I just can’t believe you people believe what you say..It’s like the liars club telling so many lies you actally start to believe the outrageous crap that utters from your overpampered underfed brains. four more years you dirtbags-four more years!!
Posted by whitey on Nov 9, 2004 at 2:19 AM Like most others here, I voted on November 2. I was convinced that Kerry would win, and needless to say, I was absolutely stunned when Bush took the cake again (this time for real!). Sometimes I wonder about Bush. Is he in the White House just out of spite? He just seems lost in there, dumb as he is (and even Republcans don’t deny the lack of intellect).
Like all bad things, this second term, too, will pass. It is a small consolatio to me that we, the Democrats and other liberal minded Americans, are not alone in the assured suffering. The forgive-them-Lord-they-know-not-what-they-are-doing ditto heads who voted for this double-digit IQ war-monger to “lead” the USA, are in this mess with us. We’re all going to look and see how badly this son of a Bush can screw everything up.
An estimated 21% of GLBT voters cast their ballot for Bush. THAT is the real irony. And we wonder how the Democratic Party can’t keep it together, when we, the oppressed, can’t agree on the right guy to make a better future for everyone.
One thing I do know: Margaret Cho MUST GO ON! The message, the inspiration, the assurance that change will come, and we all must be a part of it, gives hope and promise to us all. I’m 42 years old, Margaret has even more miles left, so don’t let a bunch of uneducated bozos who chose ignorance over reason continue running our country into the ground without kicken a few butts as they parade through town with their hate messages. We’re here, we’re queer, we have the better looking men (with better equipment), and we have the stronger women - so look out bigots, we’re not as “easy” as you may think. The dark days of legalized discrimination are coming to an end.
Posted by Michael on Nov 9, 2004 at 6:52 AM Oh Whitey’
What a charmingly erudite post you have put on display. I’ll bet it took you a long time with your dlctionary and thesaurus to select the precise words to express your carefully thought out sentiments. You must be so proud. Obviously you are a person of culture and breeding. Why,I’ll bet you can trace your noble lineage all the way back to Attila. BCS
Posted by Beverly Cummins/Spangler on Nov 9, 2004 at 10:00 AM and miz Cummins (ahem) hyphen spangler I am glad YOU took time out from your meeting from Lesbians for socialist America and teaching you class in vaginal politics to write back. I am flattered that person of your caliber and convictions would take the time out of your busy day of saving the world for gay abortionists for gun control to write some poor dumb red-stater such as myself. Boy maybe I’ll even learn something if I listen real close to your lesson on how to stop the religious right . Sorry about your menstrual problem tho.
Posted by whitey on Nov 9, 2004 at 1:26 PM Hello Whitey,
FYI I am a 76 yr.old mother of three and happily hetero. I speak and act from the organs of mind and heart.
My family on both side goes back to early Scotland when the serfs revolted against the ruling lords and declared themselves free men. My mother’s maiden name was FREEMAN. The family motto is “A Freeman wears no man’s collar”.Since ours is a very long-lived family, I expect to continue our mission to protect Human Rights, the Earth and the Animal Kingdom as God directed us to do. I believe all of God’s creatures deserve respect including you and Patriot. Please forgive me for my somewhat sarcastic response to your earier posting. I am NOT a perfect person although I would LIKE to be. :)
As America’s Thanksgiving Day approaches let us all be truiy grateful for the blessings which our Creator has bestowed upon us.
“Love ye one another”BCS
Posted by Beverly Cummins/Spangler on Nov 9, 2004 at 9:55 PM Oh and let me guess you live in a blue state right Miz Spangler? Boy you have some pedigree there. My grandfather came to this country from Italy is 1907. He died with the gold pieces that was the money you had to have along with a sponsor to get in this country. I obviously do not have the (ahem) good breeding you do and I do not even own a thesaurus! If you really want to help& do good like you say haw about joining republicans in making this country the land of opportunity and freedom ? Democrats benefit from people failing with welfare etc. While the heart may be in the right place the mind is not.
I speak from my mind and heart too. Ya know if your so much the “Freeman” how come you are for gun control. Your history should tell you and unarmed man(or woman) is a subject only and an armed person is truly free. How about protecting ALL human rights. Protest the American Holocaust- abortion. Sorry if I offended your good breeding Miz Spangler
Posted by whitey on Nov 9, 2004 at 11:06 PM You dont have to post if you dont like it… NO one here has offered constructive critiscm yet… Oh and Buch got realected. OOPs my bad! Jah… and guess what, canadians are people too, and in this time in the us im glad to bea ble to say “i was born here, i wasnt raised here, and im leaving as soon as i can”
also, if my memory is correct clinton was never actually impeached, they just tried to impeach him
And i think the point my fellow canadians are trying to make is that it is important to stay in good standing w/ others in the world. Were not alone here, there are going to be consequences if keep going down this road… *cough* nuclear winter *cough*
you should all watch the end of the world video on albino blacksheep.com, because that is where we are headed.
Posted by chandra on Nov 10, 2004 at 2:50 AM Our current administration gives a rat’s tusch about “uniting” America. It is the very fact that we ARE so divided that benefits those psychopathic morons in Washington. Any opposition is instantly extinguished. That’s how the Nazis grabbed power back in the 1930s. They, too believed “God” was on their side, and to Hell with anyone else.
If someone walzed into the USA like Americans are doing in Iraq, there would be no end to the screaming. But because it’s happening in an “inferior” country (that’s good only for their oil), God must be all for it, right? Are we really THAT naiive to believe those lines of thought rather than use our own brains? Lord knows, Dubya doesn’t have much going on in his little peanut-shell-noggen.
Like all bad things, the coming 4 years will pass. If anything good comes from it all, it will be far shy of the bad that has already befallen us all due to the idiot in the White House. Anyone who can “testify” under the condition NOT be under oath is asking for a carte blanche to lie without reprecussions. I can’t wait to see the list of Presidential pardons once Bush’s term runs out. It will make Clinton’s list look rediculous.
That’s all for now. Don’t worry, everything is going to turn out ok. Things could always be better than they are, but things are already pretty damn good (rally!).
Posted by Michael on Nov 10, 2004 at 3:07 AM why don’t they give this forum a rest already? ITT keeps mixing up the other articles and topics, but margaret keeps floating back to the surface, and they’re sticking her down our throats whether we want this or not. please read my commentary above, as i’m not going to reiterate. cho is a mediocre comic but she’s fashionable because she’s in your face and she’s a lez. big deal. let’s get onto more intelligent writers and themes. ITT webmaster: get this article out of here already!
Posted by mb on Nov 10, 2004 at 5:28 PM HO-ho miz cho
you is nothin but an ignorant ho
Hey Hey you can’t fib
you is nothing but a whitey hatin lib
ya ya please miz cho
shut the hell up and please go
Posted by whitey on Nov 10, 2004 at 8:44 PM whitey is living proof that American Education is headed for the toilet. Ignorance, combined with illiteracy creates the perfect mentality for totalitarian leadership (with intellectually bancrupt ya ya’s as their faithful followers). Time for a REAL Education President (the current one couldn’t even get through school without Daddy’s notes to the principal). What a sad state of reality. We’ve nedured a lot these last 4 years, now we have 4 more of the same. Those Bush Babies must be gluttens for punishment (they are getting the same as everyone else!) 4 more wars!
Posted by Michael on Nov 10, 2004 at 8:57 PM you worship at the feet of someone who looks talks and acts like some $2 bar girl reject from a Thai go-go bar. You fawn over her every ignorant word and agree with her yet you call ME ignorant and uneducated. You all need a good mirror to look into! Hypocrisy and your “pack” mentality has really shown your true selves to be so wacked out that you don’t even know reality when it slaps you upside your silly little heads.
Posted by redstate on Nov 12, 2004 at 2:16 PM Reality according to redstate: Bush is good, Bush is great, Bush does nothing wrong.
The rest of the world has long seen the Emperor’s New Clothes. History books in the United States will take a lot longer to agreee that this current administration has made far more mistakes and has set the country back by decades, than any other in US History. We are NOT better off since Bush took office. Only the Linbough ditto heads (including whitey and redstate) would disagree.
Of course Margaret Cho and the millions who cheer her, are thorns in the sides of faithful “Christian” warriors. The Spanish Inquisition didn’t go about without some kind of blind support of the people. Neither did the flourishing slave trade on American soil right up to the middle of the 19th century.
We’re leaving the dark ages behind us and are moving foreward. There are many who prefer the “good ol’ days”, in which an ignorant person from the right side of the tracks always defeated an opponant (regardless of how logical and brilliant) who was born on the wrong side. Margaret is a people person. She is congenial, brilliantly talented, and she has a vision. Margaret is a uniter, but this administration has no use for someone like that, because they prefer talking the talk and then walking in a totally differen direction (while whitey and red state walk right along with the 95 IQ idiot who reads someone else’s notes right into the microphone). Margaret is a megaphone for a voice of truth the world much prefers over the twisted nonsense spoken by Bush and his faithful followers.
Posted by Michael on Nov 12, 2004 at 4:14 PM I never said Mr. Bush does nothing wrong. I disagree with some of his positions. Your equating conservatives with the inquisition and the slave trade is pathetic and downright stupid. It displays your utter ignorance and brainwashing by the left. Margaret is a uniter? Ever heard of preaching to the quoir?? The only people this wacko unites is the ones that were already so far left they lean when they walk. Yeah she is in the same ballpark as Ferret face Franken and whale shit Moore. The only folks that believe their drivel is the folks who don’t have enough sense to know any better. You may be book smart from whatever artsy fartsy liberal college you went to but I doubt you have any common sense to recognize the truth if it fell in your lap.
Posted by redstate on Nov 12, 2004 at 11:27 PM My Alma Mater is the same as that of Dubya and his 2004 challenger. The only difference is that one of us is unable to formulate a cohesive spoken or written thought, samples of which have already filled countless humor publications. Something went amiss with his “artsy fartsy” liberal college education, but to redstate, this incompetante is still a hero.
Had a Democrat in office said and done the exact same things, 100% the same, every single day, he would have long been impeached and run out of Washington. We’ve had double standards when it comes to accountability for as far back as we can roll the tapes. A Democrat can face a firing squad for a stain on a “blue dress”, while a Republican can reverse the progress of the entire world, killing tens of thousands of innocent people for the assurance of personal profits, and all is well in Red-State-USA.
The world press has few kind words for our current dictator, nor will history books. We are told to “trust and obey”, or whatever scripture is currently facionable to quote. The ditto heads (who agree with anything yelled from the fasr right corner) are alert, with their guns ready to follow the leader’s cry to attack. It’s the war between the states all over again. Only this time there is no need or cause to fight. It’s for Jesus or for liberty or for freedom, or just for the sake of kicking someone’s ass.
Have we learned anything from history? The “compassionate conservative” side seems to prefer permanent ignorance to any alternatives. The bad news is, there is no way in hell that poop-brown uniforms will ever be in style again, so those who wish otherwise will better get some dancing shoes, beacuse you’ll have to be the ones who are running (in order not to get their butts kicked!). The backward, backwoods, red-necks with the 700 Club smiles will lose big time in their efforts to claim America (and its rulership) for Jesus (Jesus meaning THEMSELVES).
Forget the Alamo - REMEMBER STONEWALL!
Posted by Michael on Nov 13, 2004 at 1:10 AM you libs are a sorry snotty little lot you hypocrites bitch about Cheney/Halliburton but think it’s entirely OK for some rich socialist wacko like Soros to try and buy the presidency. I DO thank God Kerry lost.
I think this country should hold all income taxes for one year and use the money to “relocate” all you socialist, progressive, liberal, degenerate , wackos to some other country. America will not stand for you scum ruining this great country. Take your crap elsewhere…
Posted by redstate on Nov 13, 2004 at 8:34 PM PS just remember this - it was reactionary backwoods redneck religious fanatics with guns that threw the faggy british off our soil…it can happen again…
Posted by redstate on Nov 13, 2004 at 8:38 PM redstate - What God forsaken, time-forgotten Holler did you grow up in? Do they teach the values of rational debate at your schools? You give paragraph after paragraph of hateful profanity with absolutely no rhyme or reason. What exactly is your message?
You deny that the evils of past times (slavery, degregation, disenfranchisement) show any similarities to the current administration. You deny that this administration caters to the rich, while abandoning human rights, conserving of our planet and its species, and generally not caring at all about the plite of the poor, about education or even being fiscally responsible with out-of-control spendings coupled with chronic talks of more “tax refunds”.
All of what I say is just “stupid”, while you offer very little defense, only a few 4th grade swear words. When we look to our “leader”, we can see where the glorification of illiteracy and stubborn idolitry originates. A moron is a moron is a moron. A fat bank account and a top position (hoever ill-gotten) won’t change that. Have a good look at Putin’s face whenever he meets with Bush. We know what he must be thinking (the same as 95% of the world population: “What an absolute idiot these Americans have as their President”.) But he can’t SAY it, for fer that the redstates and other Bubbahs will hunt him down. Every fool has his day. Bush (sadly) may have 2,922. We’ll all get over it, and then have the job to clean up the Brat Baby’s big fat mess. We’re in this jam together, so get some old overalls ready, because you’ll weare’m out!
Talk is cheap. We need ACTION! The GOP was always one to do things on the cheap…and letting others pay (i.e. do the fighting). The difference between Hitler and Bush? One of them created almost 100% employment and the Autobahn! The other watched millions of jobs dwindel away. As long as it’s people of “other” countries, Bush doesn’t mind a few hundred thousand casualties (mostly women and children). Hitler had the Christian Churches’ backing too, didyou know that? The Pope even kissed his hand! Now the guy is up for some kind of sainthood medal or something. Nice work, huh?
All of the above, of course, isn’t true. The truth comes only from Bush (who refuses to “testify” under oath). And it’s the Democrats who should be ashamed, while Republicans should be proud? WHAT God do you pray to, and how do you manage to sleep at night?
Posted by Michael on Nov 13, 2004 at 10:28 PM Michael -what school of hypocrisy did you get your doctorate from?? You complain about my “hateful profanity” and then go on to do the same thing to me. That is why I detest you liberals so much- hypocrisy. But I guess it’s OK when you are trying to educate a dumb hick like me right? Waht’s your solution Kerry- Dean -Sharpton?? why do you hate the idea of people being able to keep their own money instead of it being stolen by the government. Youreally piss me off with your typical liberal mantra of Bush/ Hitler. Is that what Michael Moore told you to say or was it Streisand or Rather. Where do you get this stuff? Why won’t Kerry release his military records? You folks sound as stupid as the tin foil hat idiots and Hillary with the vast right wing conspiracy.
When it comes down to it you socialist libs are Stalinistic in your insane pursiut of “social justice”.
I don’t hear you bitch about Koffi Annon and his son in the little UN food for Oil debacle or France supplying Iraq with arms or Soros the socialist wonder boy try to buy the whit house for Kerry.
Posted by redstate on Nov 14, 2004 at 12:05 AM Denial, denial and more denial. No response to my post, only babbled “you’re stupid! you’re stupid! you liberals are all stupid!”. Where is the argument, where is the defense? A debate can’t be won by repeting unintelligable drivel. Oh, that’s what Bush did (and lost 3 to ZIP).
Kerry’s military records hardly reach the controversial BUSH RECODS. Not only did he wiggle out of Nam, he couldn’t even finish his Country Club Air Force tour of duty without going AWOL. How about some REPORT CARDS from school and college? Those are classified, right? Bush is the only US President who ever kept his school records SECRET. The man is a liar and a swindler and a deceiver and a keeper of secrets. But he’s redneck’s hero?! Go figure! Did you know that Bush has no intention of doing anything for the little guys (YOU included)? Only the 100k+ crowd is really benefitting from any tax giveaway. You got 300 bucks (so did I). YOU feel that was a fair exchange for the HIGH PRICE we all had to pay right after we spent the bribe money? Here in Ohio we got a 1% Sales Tax hike. The 300 bucks candy money is LONG gone, because we pay much more now for everyting else. We also lost 37% off the nations jobs, because Bush paid companies bonuses for shipping the jobs overseas. Great, huh? Why don’t you RESPOND to some of this instead of circulating your top 10 swear words you learned in the sand lot? It’s small-minded, bigoted know-nothings who achieve things only by yelling (or so they think). You will never persuade anyone who matters with any logical arguments, and that’s how Bush wants his “little people”, dumb and obedient. You probably loved Nixon, too, and feel he was a gift from Heaven? Blind faith, that’s what a dictator requires of his people. He’s got a friend in redstate!
Sanity is with the rest of humanity. The far right is going so far they may fall off the Earth (because it’s FLAT, they say!). Wake up and smell the blood. Or walk right into the gas chamber after the wicket piper. Bush cares nothing for you, he only makes sure his own are taken care of. You and I don’t interest the son of a Bush one bit. Watch his eyes when he speaks, and the lie is clearly visible. The man is an idiot and a tool of evil. He is the gift to big business and the social elite. If you don’t recognize that, God help you. Clinton is bad? How so? Because he can get it up? Because he is popular? How does Bush pass any “muster” with his daily evil deed? Without Cheney to coach him much longer, the magic may wear off. I see Bush as the first US President behind bars. And well deserved it will be. Move over, Peterson, here comes Bush Junior!
Posted by Michael on Nov 14, 2004 at 2:21 AM Bush has nothing to do with jobs going overseas. Democrats have burdened most companies large and small with ridiculous taxes and regulation to the point they had to move to make a profit. Bush is not a dictator by any stretch of the imagination. Why do you even say such fanatical things. i think that you just hate him because he has the appearance of a good ol boy and not some snooty northeast liberal. You hate his values and his ideas. You just can’t deal with the fact that he is pro- second ammendment, against women murdering their unborn children, does not pander to the NAACP or NOW. He is a man of faith that has put his youthful indescretions behind him and has become a decent mam. You hate him because he will not cave in to the gay agenda.You hate ythe fact that he believes that people should be able to spend their money on what they want and not some ridiculous socialist program. All this other crap you bring up is just a smokescreen to hide the real reason you hate him. If Bush goess to jail( which he has no reason to) you will see a civil war in this country. He is wildly popular and loved in this country. Clinton your poster boy for integrity never ever got even 50% of the popular vote. Maybe where you live they hate him but where I come from we love him beacuse he stands up to you liberal-socialist nutjobs.
Posted by redstate on Nov 14, 2004 at 3:17 AM I yield to the snow-blower from the Red State, who with his questionable education and elusive logic speaks “for everyone everywhere anyhow”. Have you tried Jerry Springer yet? They always seek new “talent”.
Posted by Michael on Nov 14, 2004 at 4:02 AM Margaret, you lost weight! Sorry I don’t have a huge moral statement here.
Posted by Steve Savage on Nov 14, 2004 at 4:02 AM Michael- you little weasel. You folks are the ones promoting homosexual “marriage” and alternative lifestyles and all other sort of deviant behavoir and I am the one who needs to go on Springer?? boy you are messed up in the head. I live a very happy heterosexual monogamous marriage and lead a very normal life. But I guess to you wack jobs maybe I am a deviant.As to my education well ya got me there. I got accepted to Yale but I joined the service instead. I served my country and did not try to spread a festering cancer in it like the liberal-socialists did.
Posted by redstate on Nov 14, 2004 at 4:33 AM Yale? Without Daddy’s “influence”. Likely story. They only take flunkies WITH connections. If your communication skills are any indicator, no State College would accept you.
Serving your country is a good thing? Why then did Bush chicken out? Maybe he’s yella? Or maybe he just figures he’ll send YOU to take the heat, while he snorts coke and gets drunk, empregnating his girlfirend, then urging her to have an abortion. 20 years later he gets “born again” and all is forgiven. I was born just fine the first time.
Selfishness never served the general public. Minimum wage at a rediculous LOW (no buying power at 5 bucks an hour, even with all taxes returned) serve only those who pay them. Minimum wage means “if I COULD pay you less, I WOULD!”. In other words “screw the little guy” and pass me my gold clubs.
To see so many “little guys” support the fat-cat plan to “serving” the people is mindbogling. It’s like a slave requesting heavier chains. Democrats have done INFINITELY more to help the common people of America than Republicans ever did. If it was up to Republicans, we’d still have seperate schools, drinking fountains and movie theaters. Do you support those views? Bush Sr. did! ANSWER this time instead of babbling around the Bush (no pun intended).
Jimmy Carter is the most compassionate President we have ever had. He is a worthy recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Bush can dram of such honors, because of his war-monging, conflict-of-interest stricken “policies” that help no one more than himself. Money in our pockets? What did you do with your 300 bucks? While you think about that, think about the TENS OF THOUSANDS you will have to pay back (as we all will), due to the exploding National dept. Bush created the BIGGEST deficit EVER. Not even Reagan could touch that one. Hero? Money in your pockets? ARE YOU INSANE? Don’t accept candy from a grinning President (he’ll make YOU finance his Rolls Royce in return!).
Blessed are the blind, because they just don’t see what’s going down. The rest of us are cringing in disgust at the way a warped leader has magically turned half the country into zombies.
Posted by Michael on Nov 14, 2004 at 5:00 AM so what Bush sr. made mistakes one of your guys Sen Byrd from west Virginia ( I believe) was in the KKK . I don’t see you trashing him. Youthful indescretions are only bad if one does not learn from them and attone for past sins by becoming a better person in the future. Sorry my grammar does not meed your high standards but at least I don’t put on airs about who I am. And minimum wage is meant to be start not a destination. This country has more opportunities for people to get ahead than any other country in the world. If that is not true why is everyone trying to immigrate here? People can change and become good sane productive decent people. the democratic party does more to keep people in poverty because that is one of their biggest voting blocks. this is still a land of opportunity if one chooses to take advantage of all the help and education available. Not many people in this country are enslaved to the minimum wage if they don’t want to be.
Posted by redstate on Nov 14, 2004 at 5:13 AM I just had to mention that one of the lefts “heroes” Teddy Kennedy left some poor girl to drown in his car in Chappaquiddick and he is hailed as a “liberal lion” by the liberal press.
Carter was a great fly fisherman but not a good president. I distinctly remeber as a kid the gas prices going thru the roof when he was in office and he did nothing. Americans were held hostage for 444 days in iran and he did nothing, He was “leader” in the same vein that Kerry would have been a leader..a do nothing liberal who waits for a global test to dictate his action.
and I DID get accepted to Yale and it is of little importance to me if you believe me or not. Please do not flatter yourself by thinking I would lie to impress you!
Posted by redstate on Nov 14, 2004 at 5:22 AM Why denounce Bush for ANYTHING, when there are sooooo many Democrats (dead or alive) who can be dragged into the spot-light for the many bad, bad things they’ve done. You got the message, redstate, and you haven’t done much to win brownie points for the RIGHT side. Face the facts, a lie is a lie is a lie. Where are the Bush Jr. report cards? Where was he for the last months of his sissy military training? Where are the WMD’s? Why refuse to speak under oath? Why? Where? What?—we won’t find out from redstate, because he’s been properly programmed. Does that brainwash come with a rinse?
Posted by Michael on Nov 14, 2004 at 5:36 AM Michael, you have better things to do than waste precious time on people so close-minded
and thickheaded. This isn’t a discussion.Heed the words of the great Groucho,“I would engage you in a battle of wits,Sir,but I refuse to fight an unarmed man”
Let’s get the Hell outta here. I’M going to spend some time with George Carlin.
Posted by Beverly Cummins/Spangler on Nov 14, 2004 at 6:19 AM Margaret, you Rock!
Will your latest concert performance be aired
some time soon on, say showtime, one of the few
networks which like yourself Rock!
Posted by Judy on Nov 14, 2004 at 1:36 PM Beverly, thanks for the towel! Yes, George Carlin is the undisputed master of a dule with nothing but the English Language as a weapon. He’s coming to my hometown on December 10 (I’ve had my tickets from the morning they went on sale!). He is the ONE act I still MUST see before they pack it up for good. Last Year it was Lily Tomlin, then I saw Paula Poundstone twice (had wished I’d brought a change of underwear for that one), and I catch MARGARET CHO each and everytime she comes within 100 miles. Her “Revolution” Show is still in my mind and my heart. Commedians with a message don’t come any better than the above mentioned.
Laughter is the best medicine, and the kind laced with something to think about can cure more than a temporary touch of the blues. I always liked a little Lenny Bruce with my Howie Mandel, or a little Cho with my Diller. You can handle only so much of non-stop Lucy, you’ll need some Lily for balance. What a wonderful world, so much to chose from, so much that pleases (no matter what shape your stomach’s in).
Posted by Michael on Nov 14, 2004 at 3:51 PM miz hyphen -spangler I new you were out there! Still putting people down who are less (ahem) sophistcated than yourself I see. Poor Michael brainwashed by a losing team sniff- sniff. You talk like you are trying to be smart but your obvious disdain for the truth is just in keeping with the liberal-progressive-socialist viewpoint of dumbass . Just like Kerry and your very special Maggie Cho you are all losers in the battle over the truth and the heart of America. Hope you enjoy your date with Carlin wacko.
Posted by redstate on Nov 14, 2004 at 3:56 PM well kids i am gonna go- i know don’t be too upset but this little game is starting to bore me -at least on this post.
I will close by saying that America will never have a liberal president. America will NEVER have Gay marriage. You libs will NEVER take away our guns and within four years your “right” to kill unborn babies will be over.Get used to it Libs it’s the wave of the future and your time of screwing up this country is over.
Posted by redstate on Nov 14, 2004 at 4:18 PM ...and he grabs his hooded gown and walks away in a huff…
GOOD RIDDANCE!
Posted by Michael on Nov 14, 2004 at 4:21 PM I don’t have no hooded gown (whatever that is) you littlefaggot.
Posted by redstate on Nov 14, 2004 at 4:52 PM Someone here obviously hs never seen me in the showers (I’m NOT at all “little”). Anyone unfamiliar with the term “hooded cloak” is either ashamed of his convictions or even more ignorant than commonly believed. He probably never heard of “Mein Kampf” either, even if it could be his “Bible”.
Grammer wins over granades anytime, as does a clear head over a brainwash. The best way to escape public scruitiny, one must avoid the issues with a smoke sreen of insults and confusion. That can be done by anyone, even someone who flunked his GED exams. He can always give the sour grapes claim of “I didn’t want to go to college anyway, I preferred serving my country”.
Better go back to your church choir (spelled with “ch” not “qu”), they still enjoy a good lecture on “me me me” and “keep ‘em out!”. There should be more proud bigots instead of those who claim otherwise with a Bible as their shield. The hooded cloaks are perfect examples of “closeted bigotry”. I’m gay, and there’s nothing that will change that. I don’t wear a sign around my neck, and I don’t make my sexuality an issue. I do take offense at any suggestion that I should feel inferior, when in reality I am so much superior to anyone who ever “speaks” on the 700 Club or spews hate messages on anonymous forums. In the words of Margret Cho: “SAY IT TO MY FACE!”; and we’ll see who the little worm is, and who wins a fight with YOUR choice of weapons. I chose grammar!
Posted by Michael on Nov 14, 2004 at 5:46 PM For your edification, the “hooded gown” refers to the raimentof the KKK. I know you probably are not a member of this group because you’ve heard they are not approved of in today’s world.
Still there is a certain mentality that runs along the lines of “them guys is diffurnt
from us guys so let’s grab our guns and go kill the summa bitches”.In Jesus’ time I believe he and the apostles sometimes wore cloaks with hoods. Could Michael have likened you to one of them? Which apostle do you think you are most like or feel the most affinity to? John is my favorite. Jesus did not recognize differences between people. He saw us all as God’s creations equally deserving of love and respect.
We have much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving. “Let not your heart be troubled.”
Posted by Beverly Cummins/Spangler on Nov 14, 2004 at 6:20 PM I figured you for a homo you sound delusional enough in conversation. I know anybody that does not agree with your twisted views is a Nazi right. I don’t want to shoot anyone. I don’t do quoir and I don’t shower with homos especially ones who advertise the the size of their little pricks. I’ll say anything to your face if you can pull it out of another man’s pants long enough.
Nice try hyphen spangler but mother theresa you ain’t. i really wonder what Jesus would think of all you sickos claiming him for your own and using his ideas to spread deviancy and baby murder.
I think you and michael could use some serious time on a shrink’s couch trying to help you come back to normal and see that anybody that disagrees with you is in the KKK or Nazi party. You folks are the Nazi’s who do not tolerate ANY variation from your twisted gospel of “diversity”
Posted by redstate on Nov 14, 2004 at 7:13 PM All in all, we are living in the best times ever. Whether the gay marriage thing will come to be in the near future or not (it WILL come, just like all other human rights eventually do) isn’t the begin all and end all. There have always been little and bigger things that caused needless pain and suffering. It all shall pass, and things will get better yet. Life is good, let’s admit that. A lousy administration won’t end life as we know it. What’s 4 years out of 80?
The only real problem, which seems to be a constant, isn’t politics or injustices caused by other forces. It’s the people who are genuine, incurable malcontents. They are all around us, we all know one. They are the ones who will find fault with any good thing. They can call a sunny day bleak. They will grab their basketball and stop everyone else from playing. They smash a toy of their own, because they’d be damned if they let another kid have it. They refuse to chip in when someone is collecting at the office. They aren’t happy at home, rarely get along with a spouce. They hate their job. They know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. They prefer throwing something in the trash, rather than giving it to someone who could use it. They wake up with a sour face, and go to sleep the same way. They make life miserable for others, because they refuse to be happy. They make demands, but no concessions. They hand out no complimens, but plenty of insults. They are the stinkers of this world. They live in every neighborhood. We all are related to one, and there is nothing that can be done.
In ancient societies, such unpleasant memebers would be handed a day’s worth of food, and sent away, never to return. Sometimes mothers would smother them as small (or not so small) children, knowing the “signs” of chronic problems. Vigilanteism has its roots in the social nuicense caused by of such individuals. Fortunately for modern day “stinkers”, there are laws who protect them. We have to put up with them. Love won’t win them over, but it will keep their blood boiling. They find relief only in death, until then they will do their best to share their misery with everyone they encounter.
The lucky ones among us are not the rich, the beautiful or the powerful. The greatest gift with which anyone can be blessed, is to be born with a cheerful disposition. Nothing else can compensate for a genuine feeling of joy. Waking up happy, and going through one’s day with a cheer. You can live in a studio efficiency and be richer in what really counts than any grouch in a mansion with money in the bank. Life is just a bowl of cherries…so live and laugh at it all!
Posted by Michael on Nov 15, 2004 at 2:16 AM Hi Michael!
I have been a performer since age 11. That life puts one outside the mainstream and gives a different perspective on life, I am proud of my profession because we are able to bring people some understanding of themselves and others when they see situations and emotions portrayed on stage. It’s theraputic for both actor/singer and audience! I really envy comedians and writers their ability to “turn a phrase” or come up quickly with a bon mot. I’m more an interpreter of other people’s work but that too is creative.
One of my favorite numbers is an old song that deserves reviving:
Keep your sunny side up—Up!
Keep your sunny side up.
If you have 9 sons in a row
Baseball teams make money you know.Keep your sunny side up—Up!
Hide the side that gets blue—DO!
Stand up on your legs.
Be like two fried eggs.
Keep your sunny side up!I also like “Life is Just a Chair of Bowlies”! :) Bev
Posted by Beverly Cummins/Spangler on Nov 15, 2004 at 1:36 PM miz hyphen spangler I did not know you could still get Valiums in this country. Glad ya feel better.
Posted by redstate on Nov 16, 2004 at 2:22 PM This article from the UK Daily Mirror on the election results shows the depth of the world’s acrimony toward our elected leader and the people
who elected him. It sizzles with contempt for the United States of
America.
THEY say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today America has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the
world.This once-great country has pulled up its drawbridge for another four years and stuck a finger up to the billions of us forced to share the same air. And in doing so, it has shown itself to be a fearful, backward-looking and very small nation.
This should have been the day when Americans finally answered their critics by raising their eyes from their own sidewalks and looking
outward towards the rest of humanity.And for a few hours early yesterday, when the exit polls predicted a John Kerry victory, it seemed they had.
But then the horrible, inevitable truth hit home. They had somehow managed to re-elect the most devious, blinkered and reckless leader ever
put before them. The Yellow Rogue of Texas.A self-serving, dim-witted, draft-dodging, gung-ho little rich boy, whose idea of courage is to yell: “I feel good,” as he unleashes an awesome fury which slaughters 100,000 innocents for no other reason than greed and vanity.
A dangerous chameleon, his charming exterior provides cover for a power-crazed clique of Doctor Strangeloves whose goal is to increase
America’s grip on the world’s economies and natural resources.And in foolishly backing him, Americans have given the go-ahead for more unilateral pre-emptive strikes, more world instability and most
probably another 9/11. Why else do you think bin Laden was so happy to scare them to the polls,
then made no attempt to scupper the outcome?
There’s only one headline in town today, folks: “It Was Osama Wot Won It.” And soon he’ll expect pay-back. Well, he can’t allow Bush to have his folks whoopin’ and a-hollerin’ without his own getting a share of the fun, can he?
Heck, guys, I hope you’re feeling proud today.To the tens of millions who voted for John Kerry, my commiserations. To the overwhelming majority of you who didn’t, I simply ask: Have
you learnt nothing? Do you despise your own image that much? Do you care so little about the world beyond your shores? How could you do this to yourselves? How appalling must one man’s record at home and abroad be for you to
reject him?Kerry wasn’t the best presidential candidate the Democrats have ever fielded (and he did deserve a kicking for that “reporting for doo-dee”
moment), but at least he understood the complexity of the world outside America, and domestic disgraces like the 45 million of his fellow citizens without health cover. He would have done something to make that country fairer and re-connected it with the wider world.Instead America chose a man without morals or vision. An economic incompetent who inherited a $2billion surplus from Clinton, gave it in tax cuts to the rich and turned the US into the world’s largest debtor nation. A man who sneers at the rights of other nations. Who has withdrawn
from international treaties on the environment and chemical weapons. A man who flattens sovereign states then hands the rebuilding
contracts to his own billionaire party backers.
A man who promotes trade protectionism and backs an Israeli government which continually flouts UN resolutions.America has chosen a menacingly immature buffoon who likened the pursuit of the 9/11 terrorists to a Wild West, Wanted Dead or Alive man-hunt
and, during the Afghanistan war, kept a baseball scorecard in his drawer, notching up hits when news came through of enemy deaths.A RADICAL Christian fanatic who decided the world was made up of the forces of good and evil, who invented a war on terror, and thus as
author of it, believed he had the right to set the rules of engagement. Which translates to telling his troops to do what the hell they want
to the bad guys. As he has at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and countless towns
across Iraq.MAKES SENSE SO FAR? ..to be continued…
Posted by Michael on Nov 16, 2004 at 9:40 PM CONTINUED from earlier post….
You have to feel sorry for the millions of Yanks in the big cities like New York, Washington, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco
who voted to kick him out. These are the sophisticated side of the electorate who recognise a gibbon when they see one. As for the ones who put him in, across the Bible Belt and the South, us outsiders can only feel pity.
Were I a Kerry voter, though, I’d feel deep anger, not only at them returning Bush to power, but for allowing the outside world to lump us
all into the same category of moronic muppets.The self-righteous, gun-totin’, military lovin’, sister marryin’, abortion-hatin’, gay-loathin’, foreigner-despisin’, non-passport ownin’
red-necks, who believe God gave America the biggest dick in the world so it could urinate on the rest of us and make their land “free and
strong”. You probably won’t be surprised to learn of would-be Oklahoma Republican
Senator Tom Coburn who, on Tuesday, promised to ban abortion and execute any doctors who carried them out. He also told voters that lesbianism is so rampant in the state’s schools that girls were being sent to toilets on their own. Not that any principal could be found to back him up.
These are the people who hijack the word patriot and liken compassion to child-molesting. And they are unknowingly bin Laden’s chief recruiting
officers. Al-Qaeda’s existence is fuelled by the outpourings of America’s Christian right. Bush is its commander-in-chief. And he and bin Laden
need each other to survive. Both need to play Lex Luther to each others’ Superman with their own fanatical people. Maybe that’s why the mightiest military machine ever assembled has failed to catch the world’s most wanted man. Or is the reason simply that America is incompetent? That behind the bluff they are frightened and clueless, which is why they’ve stayed with the devil they know.VISITORS from another planet watching this election would surely not credit the amateurism.
The queues for hours to register a tick; the 17,000 lawyers needed to ensure there was no cheating; the $1.2bn wasted by parties trying to
discredit the enemy; the allegations of fraud, intimidation and dirty tricks; the exit polls which were so wildly inaccurate; an Electoral
College voting system that makes the Eurovision Song Contest look like a beacon of democracy and efficiency; and the delays and the legal
wrangles in announcing the victor. Yet America would have us believe theirs is the finest democracy in the world. Well, that fine democracy has got the man it deserved. George
W Bush.AND THERE IS STILL ONE MORE part to this article….coming up!
Posted by Michael on Nov 16, 2004 at 9:52 PM FINAL INSTALLMENT in the Trilogy about the Bush Problem:
But is America safer today without Kerry in charge? A man who overnight would have given back to the UN some credibility and authority. Who would have worked out the best way to undo the Iraq mess without fear of losing face.
Instead, the questions facing America today are -how many more thousands of their sons will die as Iraq descends into a new Vietnam? And how many more Vietnams are on the horizon now they have given Bush the mandate to go after Iran, Syria, North Korea or Cuba…? Today is a sad day for the world, but it’s even sadder for the millions of intelligent Americans embarrassed by a gung-ho leader and backed by a banal electorate, half of whom still believe Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11.Yanks had the chance to show the world a better way this week, instead they made a thuggish cowboy ride off into the sunset bathed in glory.
And in doing so it brought Armageddon that little bit closer and re-christened their beloved nation The Home Of The Knave and the Land
Of The Freak.God Help America!
SPOKEN from the heart of a European, and felt by millions of Americans, and billions around the world. We’ll have to “endure” this tyrant who passes out candy, then lures us into elephant traps. We may never be able to repay the debts this idiot is creating for us. We may never heal the wounds he ripped into our society, for the mere sake of dividing and keeping the lion’s share. We’ll endure, as this, too, shall pass.
Posted by Michael on Nov 16, 2004 at 10:00 PM Perhaps one of Dubya’s followers WITH some literacy and logic would like to rerspond to this 3-piece endightment? If all you have to add are insults, infantile swearing and denials without specifics, then just don’t bother. It’ll take more than a handful of fabricated chants to dispute the facts. We are being MIS-led by an incompetent, cross-vision fool. A lesser example of Chief Executive this country has never seen. Smile when you deny it!
Posted by Michael on Nov 16, 2004 at 10:04 PM Ok I’ll rebut the above indictments. Bullshit. You folks lost and you just can’t deal with it. you take the word of some psycopathic idiot like michael Moore and listen blindly to any found crumb of conspiracy. Get over yourselves already! America does not want your “vision” of reality. Kerry was a lousy candidate, his wife was a total wack job and his vice presidential pick was a real joke. No matter what you try to fabriicate in your delusional minds BUSH WON FAIR AND SQUARE. We put up with 8 years of your used car salesman Clinton now deal with 8 years of Bush.
Posted by redstate on Nov 18, 2004 at 2:06 AM I should have known better than to expect responses with educated arguments and varifiable facts. That’s the Bushies for ya, dumb but LOUD! Just the way Dubya wants’em. Mishun accomplished!
Posted by Michael on Nov 18, 2004 at 2:29 AM I just don’t get everybody calling the people who voted for bush dummies. I don’t understand the “progressive” ideology that usually rails against racist and sexist stereotypes using a broad brush of ignorance to label Bush voters. You would flip out at any statement like all blacks are dumb but it’s OK to flush your ideals of generalizations down the toilet when it’s people of faith. I still think that the left has more of a problem of hypocrisy than message. Bush voters are NOT stupid any more than people who voted for Kerry are communists. It is just adifference of opinion and lumping all conservative voters as ignorant, intolerant, bigots is hurting your cause more than you realize. People are smart enough to recognize blatant hypocrisy when they see it. Why not tone down the name calling and be a little more civil about our differences?
Posted by redstate on Nov 18, 2004 at 2:04 PM Srgeon Genrerals for decades now have agreed that human sexuality is NOT a choice. A person can not choose whether she or he is attracted to the members of the other sex or the same sex. The medical community of the world is unanomous in this. You are BORN the way you are, either sexually attracted to men or women.
In this, the 21st century, we still have a US President who fels that it’s everyone’s choice to “be sexually RIGHT with God” or to be devient and evil. President George W. Bush thus insists that Richard Simmons and Michael Jackson have simply made the wrong choice about their sexuality.
Wait a minute, isn’t Michael Jackson TRYING HARD to be heterosexual? At least he is doing all the things the right wing extremists ask: He got married, fathered children, what more can a man do to make the RIGHT CHOICE? What about all those sexuality-change-clubs? Where gay men and lesbians can “re-claim” their proper place among God’s childre by becoming heterosexuals again? Are these people now heterosexual because they are making a conscious choice to live a heterosexual lifestyle?
This should be confusing even to the most devoted Bush fan or hetero-only advocate. Richard Simmons as a family man—WOW! If you believe that THAT could happen, you truly believe that rocks grow. Ignorance must be a wonderful fairy-land. I prefer living in reality. I queer, I’m here, and I’m easily at the very top of any “list” of quality human beings. T
There is no sense in trying so hard to please the ignorant bigots of this world, when it’s doing absolutely nothing to improve anyone’s quality of life. You like caviar on a Ritz? Well, I prefer peanut butter and jelly. It’s tastes better and it’s a lot cheaper. I also prefer Disco Dancing to Golf, Hunting or Fishing. Call me crazy, but the nice things in life will not be dictated to me by anyone who feels they should make choices for me. Allow us, please to make our own decisions regarding what’s good for us. You keep your church pew warm, I’ll sleep in on Sunday mornings.
If there is a hell (and I’m not held hostage by a belief in such nonsense), I think a vast crowd of people will be “called” to go there before my number comes up. That includes large percentages of redstate bigots. I fear neither life nor death, and I refuse to accept the living hell some people feel I should endure here on Earth, just because they say so. Roll up your sleeves, you’re in for a good fight!
Posted by Michael on Nov 18, 2004 at 3:26 PM Sawasdee, krabp.
I am back.I just wanted to note the fanatacism with which some on the left have not only attempted to call into question the legitimacy of the election results, but also, to note that there is active talk of secession by some of the most hysteric revolutionaries. Those of you entertaining such concepts must face the reality regarding what you have become. And you ought to be wary. Once a certain line has been crossed, you may well find that you have entered a rather lawless quarter of existence. This is not a Left - Right issue, but one of whether or not one supports or seeks to undermine Western Civilization and its systems.
Do note, that in addition to those who cry from revolution from the Left, there are also a growing number of extremists on the Right, who did not vote for Bush and still hate him as much as ever.
Add to this the dangerous pan Sinic, pan Slavic, pan Latin and of course, pan Islamist movements, things previously only known in the old World but now, sadly, allowed, due to the loss of courage since the 1960s to insist on assimilation and patriotism, to fester here in the USA.
All of the elements for something very horrible are now in place. Again, I must remind people of color and homosexuals that if you cast your lot with lawless revolutionaries, you will only be happy so long as you are considered useful. Once whatever outcome would result from a revolution, it is quite doubtful you would find pots of gold at the end of the rainbow, if anything, there would be only a backstabbing betrayal. In all honesty, your own causes would be better served by the non extremist elements of the Right. But what do I know. I am only a non WASP, over educated reactionary, surrounded here by all of you in a “Blue” county in a the Bluish state of California.
Good day.
Posted by CA_Reactionary on Nov 18, 2004 at 8:36 PM CA_Reactionary…waht exactly is your POINT? You are rambling for several paragraphs with absolutley no message. Could you poerhaps take one or two SPECIFIC statements from others, then either agree or disagree, but further the discussion. You bring nothing to this party, a waste of reading time actually. On this page alone I have made several statements to which no one seems to have any response (other than some infantile generalizations or childish swera words). be a participant, not some ya-ya, please. We’re all intelligent adults here (or so I thought).
Posted by Michael on Nov 18, 2004 at 9:51 PM The most current Bush Joke:
Bush has a heart attack and dies. He goes to hell where the devil
is waiting for him.“I don’t know what to do here,” says the devil. “You’re on my list
but I have no room for you, but you definitely have to stay here, so
I’ll tell you what I’m going to do. I’ve got 3 people here who
weren’t quite as bad as you. I’ll let one of them go, but you have to take their place.
I’ll even let YOU decide who leaves.”George thought that sounded pretty good, so he agreed.
The devil opened the first room. In it was Richard Nixon and a large
pool of water; he kept diving in and surfacing empty handed over and
over and over. Such was his fate in hell.HELL No!” George said. “I don’t think so. I’m not a good swimmer and
don’t think I could do that all day long.”The devil led him to the next room. In it was Tony Blair with a
sledgehammer and a room full of rocks. All he did was swing that
hammer, time after time after time.“No! I’ve got this problem with my shoulder. I would be in constant
agony if all I could do was break rocks all day!” commented George.The devil opened a third door. In it, George saw Bill Clinton lying
on the floor with his arms staked over his head and his legs staked
in spread eagle pose. Bent over him was Monica Lewinsky,doing what
she does best.George Bush looked at this in disbelief for a while and finally
said,“Yeah, I can handle this.”The devil smiled and said…. “MONICA, you’re free to go!”
Posted by Michael on Nov 21, 2004 at 5:10 AM Wow…dudes, chill. But good job! this was funny and so true!!I am…of a…non-christian or satanist religion, and you could definatly say it makes things herd.
Posted by Wolf_Child on Nov 28, 2004 at 7:15 PM In my next life, I want to be Tom DeLay, the House majority
leader.Yes, I want to get almost the entire Republican side of the House of Representatives to bend its ethics rules just for me. I want to be able to twist the arms of House Republicans to repeal a rule that automatically requires party leaders to step down if they are indicted on a felony
charge - something a Texas prosecutor is considering doing to DeLay because of corruption allegations.But most of all, I want to have the gall to sully American democracy at a time when young American soldiers are fighting in Iraq so we can enjoy a law-based society here and, maybe, extend it to others. Yes, I want to be Tom
DeLay. I want to wear a little American flag on my lapel in solidarity with the troops, while I besmirch every value they are dying for.
Posted by Michael on Nov 28, 2004 at 11:47 PM If I can’t be Tom DeLay, then I want to be one of the gutless Republican House members who voted to twist the rules for DeLay out of fear that “the Hammer,” as they call him, might retaliate by taking away a coveted committee
position or maybe a parking space.Yes, I want to be a Republican House member. At a time when 180 of the 211 members of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit in Iraq who have been wounded in combat have insisted on returning to duty, I want to look my constituents and my
kids in the eye and tell them that I voted to empty the House ethics rules because I was afraid of Tom DeLay.
Posted by Michael on Nov 28, 2004 at 11:50 PM If I can’t be a Republican House member, I want to be Latrell Sprewell, the guard for the Minnesota Timberwolves. I want to say with a straight face that if my owner will only give me a three-year contract extension for a meager
$21 million, then he’s not worth working for, because “I’ve got my family to feed.”Yes, I want to be Latrell Sprewell. At a time when N.B.A. games are priced beyond the reach of most American families, when half the country can’t afford health care, when some reservists in Iraq are separated from their families for a year, including this Thanksgiving, I want to
be like Latrell. I want to make sure everyone knows that I’m looking out for my family - and no one else’s.
Posted by Michael on Nov 28, 2004 at 11:52 PM If I can’t be Latrell Sprewell, I want to be any American college or professional athlete. For a mere dunk of the basketball or first-down run, I want to be able to dance a jig, as if I’d just broken every record by Michael Jordan or Johnny Unitas. For the smallest, most routine bit of success in my sport, I want to be able to get in your face - I want to know who’s your daddy, I want to be able to high-five, low-five, thump my chest and dance on your grave. You talkin’ to me?
I want to be able to fight on the court, off the court, in the stands and on the sidelines. I want to respect no boundaries and no norms. And when I make your kids cry, I want to be able to tell you to just “chill” - that my coach says “stuff happens” and that my union rep is appealing my punishment in the name of the Bill of Rights and the Magna Carta. Yes, in my next life, I want to be The Man.
Posted by Michael on Nov 28, 2004 at 11:55 PM If I can’t be The Man, then I at least want to be the owner of a Hummer - with American flag decals all over the back bumper, because Hummer owners are, on average, a little more patriotic than you and me.
Yes, I want to drive the mother of all gas-guzzlers that gets so little mileage you have to drive from gas station to gas station. Yes, I want to drive my Hummer and never have to think that by consuming so much oil, I am making transfer payments to the worst Arab regimes that transfer money to Islamic charities that transfer money to madrassas that teach children intolerance, antipluralism and how to hate the infidels.
And when one day one of those madrassa graduates goes off and joins the jihad in Falluja and kills my neighbor’s son, who is in the U.S. Army Rangers, I want to drive to his
funeral in my Hummer. Yes, I want to curse his killers in front of his mother and wail aloud, “If there was only something I could do ...” And then I want to drive home in my Hummer, stopping at two gas stations along the way.If I can’t be any of these, then I want to be just a simple blue-state red-state American. I want to take time on this Thanksgiving to thank God I live in a country where, despite so much rampant selfishness, the public schools still manage to produce young men and women ready to
voluntarily risk their lives in places like Iraq and Afghanistan to spread the opportunity of freedom and to protect my own. And I want to thank them for doing this, even though on so many days in so many ways we really don’t
deserve them. Any discenting voices (other than the ususal hot air and hate slurs?)
Posted by Michael on Nov 29, 2004 at 12:00 AM The latest from a small town in the State of New York: Due to the mayor’s defyant stance to issue same sex couples marriage licenses, the Social Security Administration is now rejecting ALL LICENCES issued in that little town, gay or straight!
A heterosexual newlywed who wanted to change her social security information to reflect her new married name, sent the big red flag up. The SS Officials aren’t commenting. What could this come to?
I think it’s great that shoes get passed around, and now “the right kind of people” can see how they pinch. Suddenly the deal is unfair. Isn’t that what millions of Americans have been saying all along? Why can’t we be FAIR to everyone, why does ONE group (whoever they are) be given preference over others. NOW talk about fair, I’d like to hear from those who are outraged (either way).
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