silly conservatives. always shocked that liberals love their families too...
foxy
· 12 months ago
Amen.
Gridlock
· 12 months ago
What? You mean, you can be educated, have a great career, be accomplished, intelligent and still raise a bunch of kids and stay happily married?
But that flies in the face of everything conservatives say!
*puts on his shocked face*
duchessofbilgewater
· 12 months ago
But hang on a sec ... I though he was a secret Muslim?
Older_Wiser
· 12 months ago
"Why, some liberals even stay married their entire lives to the same person and raise children to do the same."
Patronizing much, Kathleen?
Steve_in_CNJ
· 12 months ago
she's mocking conservatives. she's good.
raine
· 12 months ago
It's about time someone from that side of the aisle use a little common sense.
Older_Wiser
· 12 months ago
OT, but fucking greedy, selfish bastards...MSNBC reports that a WalMart worker was trampled to death this morning on Long Island. And a woman miscarries...
The hell with xmas...
BY JOE GOULD DAILY NEWS WRITER
Friday, November 28th 2008, 9:27 AM
A worker died after being trampled and a woman miscarried when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island Wal-Mart Friday morning, witnesses said.
The unidentified worker, employed as an overnight stock clerk, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m.
Witnesses said the surging throngs of shoppers knocked the man down. He fell and was stepped on. As he gasped for air, shoppers ran over and around him.
"He was bum-rushed by 200 people," said Jimmy Overby, 43, a co-worker. "They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too...I literally had to fight people off my back."
Nassau County Police are still investigating and would not confirm the witness accounts. Police did say there were several injuries but weren't more specific.
Jessica Keyes was among the shoppers. She told the Daily News she saw a woman knocked down just a few feet from the dying worker.
"When the paramedics came, she said 'I'm pregnant,'" Keyes said.
Paramedics treated the woman inside the store and then, according to Keys, told the woman:
"There's nothing we can do. The baby is gone."
Before police shut down the store, eager shoppers streamed past emergency crews as they worked furiously to save the store clerk's life.
"They were working on him, but you could see he was dead, said Halcyon Alexander, 29. "People were still coming through."
Only a few stopped.
"They're savages," said shopper Kimberly Cribbs, 27. "It's sad. It's terrible."
Bush_Bites
· 12 months ago
What do you expect?
Walmart is the home to the Repub base.
They ARE savages.
cowboyneok
· 12 months ago
Disgusting. I hope the shoppers are proud of themselves.
vickif
· 12 months ago
As far as I can tell-McCain and Newt didn't like their first families very well. They divorced their first wives because they weren't perfect anymore.
cowboyneok
· 12 months ago
Yes, unfortunately, that is part of the Talibangelical Christian Republican way. Its all about apperances, and specifically what makes the "man of the family look or feel good."
RobertSanDimas
· 12 months ago
Hi All, My partner and I just returned from a month in the Mediterranean - Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt (one day to see the pyramids). We left here on election day after voting. Being very Anglo looking, I stand out in that part of the world. Many times people came up to us asking if we were Americans. For the first time in awhile, I readily admitted it. They'd say things like, "Obama! You like?" You know our answer. That started many short but exhiliarating conversations. This happened in Rome, Athens, Istanbul and in small villages and towns too. Even one of the obnoxious postcard hawkers at Giza shouted, "You from Obamaland!" A middleaged Greek man said, "America will have a better future now." We had a great time seeing sights we'd never seen but those encounters were what made our trip memorable. We returned to a happier country. (Thanks to CNN, we were able to watch it unfold).
naschkatzehussein
· 12 months ago
I love hearing things like this!
Chimpeach
· 12 months ago
I've been to Europe 5 times (all during the bush admin), heard things like 'we are afraid of your country, why don't you do something about it' (from a Frenchman in Ireland). I can't wait to go back now that Obama is going to be president, and be proud to be American, rather than ashamed of what our country has done.
RobertSanDimas
· 12 months ago
That's exactly how I felt this time. I even kept my passport out rather than hiding it in my pocket until I got to the customs officials. The change in people's attitude toward us was obvious, not subtle at all. Sooooooo damned good after all these years of BushShame.
Dave of the Jungle
· 12 months ago
Silly woman. Everybody knows that the Republican Party invented God.
Bush_Bites
· 12 months ago
"Wingnuts for Obama" seems to be a growing group..
At least among the Wingnuts who read books--and I mean REAL books, not screeds by Coulter or Hannity or Beck.
Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood)
· 12 months ago
It amazes me that conservatives really do believe Democrats and minorities live these bizarre and debauched lives. Then when one of us turns out to be "everyday normal" , it is viewed as some exception to the rule. Most family's lives (gay, straight, liberal, conservative, black...) are pretty much the same. We share a culture, our personal beliefs do not change our conformity to that culture. On the contrary it makes us fight to be included even more.
Bush_Bites
· 12 months ago
The divorce rate in Massachusetts is among the lowest in the country.
I don't know if they really believe liberals are debauched, or they just say it to scare the rubes in the Red States..
It's hypocritical anyway: The Great Conservative Dream this year was Fred Thompson, who's about as debauched as you can get.
Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood)
· 12 months ago
They buy into their own propaganda. Now they are trying to co-opt the Obamas, saying "see! They are one of us!" Fine with me if we get equal rights, universal healthcare, end the wars, and Free the Constitution.
HarpoSnarx
· 12 months ago
"Tonight on "I Claudius 2," the part of the Emperor Tiberius will be played by Fred Dalton Thompson." Typecasting.
As for Mistress Park-her, she's just punishing the Goopers for the e-mails - vengefulness is her value. Of course what said she is true but those words are her device. Even a broken clock is right . . .
Bet you start seeing her squiding around in our media as the "honest" conservative.
Don't buy it. She's ALWAYS wanted to be teevee's flat earth go-to gurl but Coultergeist and Laura-the-Unloved were in front of her. Definitely second tier.
Indigo
· 12 months ago
But wait . . . Obama's cool, he plays basketball!
cowboyneok
· 12 months ago
Well, Ms. Parker is getting my attention and has since before the election when she came down hard on Sarah Palin and McThesuleh. Some of us progressives are willing to give her another chance. I'm sure she is going to miss all her friends on the "dark side" but, really, what will she be missing besides a bunch of cocktail parties with cold, sniping, greedy, heartless people who don't have any positive ideas to help drive our nation out of the ditch we are in?
Indigo
· 12 months ago
Ms Parker, as you phrase it, will be rejecting petitions to join her country club set all weekend. Cocktails with "cold, sniping, greedy, heartless people who don't have any positive ideas" by invitation at 4 pm. Early dinner seating. Black tie.
cowboyneok
· 12 months ago
LOL
I got to the end of what she wrote about traditional marriage and bristled, of course. Once a conservative, always a conservative. Why can't she and other conservatives wrap their minds around the fact GOV'T needs to stay the hell out of "traditional marriage" and things like a "doctor-patient" relationship? They have steered our government into a ditch, and we simply can't afford to have government wasting resources to pass their religious agendas. If churches don't get back to their original mission of helping the poor, marginalized and destitute, I don't see why they continue to be tax free Political Action Committees. The rest of us, can't afford to keep up with their political activism while we are trying to right our nation's Ship of State. We KNOW churches have way too much resources at their disposal when so many people are losing their homes and all they can do is try to fund Bazillion dollar marriage initiatives and build bigger and better Talibangelical Jesus Super Centers like those in Colorado Springs headed by the likes of Ted Haggard. Religious extremists are going to be the death of our nation if we aren't careful, and I'm not just talking muslim religious extremists. I'm a progressive, moderate Christian and I see it plain as day. The church needs to get the HELL out of state and back to doing what Christ asked them to do...
Amanda
· 12 months ago
So feminists don't bake, apparently? Holy hat but wingers are nutballs, seriously.
Interesting how Barack Obama's feminism -- which often takes the form of stating how much he wants for his daughters to have opportunities & equality, and how proud he is of his wife's accomplishments, and his pride about his mother, grandmother and sister's accomplishments -- that all of that is glossed over by these wingers. Maybe he *sounds* "traditional" and like Papa Cleaver to them, but those ideas have not been put forth by very many Presidents in our history.
Interesting as well that the impact of the Obama family on and the image of Black women in our culture will I think be profound -- but that gets glossed over too.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 12 months ago
Neocon "family values" shit is merely bumper sticker length crap to bring out the voter with an IQ of 5 so they can rape and pillage that very voter through tax fraud, cheating, and whatever else they can get away with. Finally some Americans of moderate intelligence woke up on November 4th.
cole3244
· 12 months ago
liberals support family values, everyones definition of family, not just the rw cons idea of family, white, father, mother, 2 or 3 kids, dog and cat, booooring, the stereotype the gop has given to the supposed american family is so out of touch with whats going on in america today and the reality of the past.
everyones family has value, even if that family doesn't match another, at least thats what liberals believe and i'm proud to be one.
Aaron
· 12 months ago
CONSERVATIVE DOG WHISTLE ALERT: "Conservatives insist, ... that culture matters." as in '9/11 happened because we allow gay marriage'...??? as in 'Bush has been a good president because of his focus on cultural issues' as in 'Clinton was a terrible president because culture matters...' ???????????????
ymr049c
· 12 months ago
Dare we hope that sanity returns to the public discourse?
falloch
· 12 months ago
I think deep down that Parker is a cynical cow. Her tone is snarky and cynical - 'though we may perish of boredom' - no Repug has ever perished of boredom when they can go down in flames of apoplexy. she's just waiting for the first tiny 'misbehaviour': Michelle jogging without makeup, the girls not smiling at a White House reception, or smiling too much at a more sombre occasion, and it'll be back to 'libruls don't know how to control their children/wives/servants like we do' syndrome. When Parker is honest, and not just witty/snarky, then I'll believe her.
Pavane
· 12 months ago
Ironically, the republicans, having presented themselves all about 'family values' have no idea what to do when confronted with the real thing ... no idea, that is, except to call it boring. What hypocritical drivel.
I like Parker, but her choice of words could make any sane, truly famly-oriented person sigh.
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But that flies in the face of everything conservatives say!
*puts on his shocked face*
Patronizing much, Kathleen?
The hell with xmas...
BY JOE GOULD
DAILY NEWS WRITER
Friday, November 28th 2008, 9:27 AM
A worker died after being trampled and a woman miscarried when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island Wal-Mart Friday morning, witnesses said.
The unidentified worker, employed as an overnight stock clerk, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m.
Witnesses said the surging throngs of shoppers knocked the man down. He fell and was stepped on. As he gasped for air, shoppers ran over and around him.
"He was bum-rushed by 200 people," said Jimmy Overby, 43, a co-worker. "They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too...I literally had to fight people off my back."
Nassau County Police are still investigating and would not confirm the witness accounts. Police did say there were several injuries but weren't more specific.
Jessica Keyes was among the shoppers. She told the Daily News she saw a woman knocked down just a few feet from the dying worker.
"When the paramedics came, she said 'I'm pregnant,'" Keyes said.
Paramedics treated the woman inside the store and then, according to Keys, told the woman:
"There's nothing we can do. The baby is gone."
Before police shut down the store, eager shoppers streamed past emergency crews as they worked furiously to save the store clerk's life.
"They were working on him, but you could see he was dead, said Halcyon Alexander, 29. "People were still coming through."
Only a few stopped.
"They're savages," said shopper Kimberly Cribbs, 27. "It's sad. It's terrible."
Walmart is the home to the Repub base.
They ARE savages.
My partner and I just returned from a month in the Mediterranean - Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt (one day to see the pyramids). We left here on election day after voting. Being very Anglo looking, I stand out in that part of the world. Many times people came up to us asking if we were Americans. For the first time in awhile, I readily admitted it. They'd say things like, "Obama! You like?" You know our answer. That started many short but exhiliarating conversations. This happened in Rome, Athens, Istanbul and in small villages and towns too. Even one of the obnoxious postcard hawkers at Giza shouted, "You from Obamaland!" A middleaged Greek man said, "America will have a better future now." We had a great time seeing sights we'd never seen but those encounters were what made our trip memorable. We returned to a happier country. (Thanks to CNN, we were able to watch it unfold).
At least among the Wingnuts who read books--and I mean REAL books, not screeds by Coulter or Hannity or Beck.
I don't know if they really believe liberals are debauched, or they just say it to scare the rubes in the Red States..
It's hypocritical anyway: The Great Conservative Dream this year was Fred Thompson, who's about as debauched as you can get.
As for Mistress Park-her, she's just punishing the Goopers for the e-mails - vengefulness is her value. Of course what said she is true but those words are her device. Even a broken clock is right . . .
Bet you start seeing her squiding around in our media as the "honest" conservative.
Don't buy it. She's ALWAYS wanted to be teevee's flat earth go-to gurl but Coultergeist and Laura-the-Unloved were in front of her. Definitely second tier.
I got to the end of what she wrote about traditional marriage and bristled, of course. Once a conservative, always a conservative. Why can't she and other conservatives wrap their minds around the fact GOV'T needs to stay the hell out of "traditional marriage" and things like a "doctor-patient" relationship? They have steered our government into a ditch, and we simply can't afford to have government wasting resources to pass their religious agendas. If churches don't get back to their original mission of helping the poor, marginalized and destitute, I don't see why they continue to be tax free Political Action Committees. The rest of us, can't afford to keep up with their political activism while we are trying to right our nation's Ship of State. We KNOW churches have way too much resources at their disposal when so many people are losing their homes and all they can do is try to fund Bazillion dollar marriage initiatives and build bigger and better Talibangelical Jesus Super Centers like those in Colorado Springs headed by the likes of Ted Haggard. Religious extremists are going to be the death of our nation if we aren't careful, and I'm not just talking muslim religious extremists. I'm a progressive, moderate Christian and I see it plain as day. The church needs to get the HELL out of state and back to doing what Christ asked them to do...
Interesting how Barack Obama's feminism -- which often takes the form of stating how much he wants for his daughters to have opportunities & equality, and how proud he is of his wife's accomplishments, and his pride about his mother, grandmother and sister's accomplishments -- that all of that is glossed over by these wingers. Maybe he *sounds* "traditional" and like Papa Cleaver to them, but those ideas have not been put forth by very many Presidents in our history.
Interesting as well that the impact of the Obama family on and the image of Black women in our culture will I think be profound -- but that gets glossed over too.
everyones family has value, even if that family doesn't match another, at least thats what liberals believe and i'm proud to be one.
as in '9/11 happened because we allow gay marriage'...???
as in 'Bush has been a good president because of his focus on cultural issues'
as in 'Clinton was a terrible president because culture matters...'
???????????????
I like Parker, but her choice of words could make any sane, truly famly-oriented person sigh.