What are you talking about? Chrisitians don't start wars.
Love isn't brains, children, it's blood, blood screaming inside you to work its will.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
brenda m - Sep 05, 2008 5:59:27 am PDT #7251 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Trudy Booth - Sep 05, 2008 6:02:42 am PDT #7252 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Look, I have a cousin who somehow thinks that Obama is a Muslim AND attends a racist church. These are not tough people to fool.
Barb - Sep 05, 2008 6:03:37 am PDT #7253 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”
But it's so.... dishonest. Or maybe ignorant, I don't know which.
I think both, with perhaps a slight leaning towards the dishonest end of the spectrum.
To a lot--not all, of course, but a lot-- of people in small-town, middle America, the profound differences between the various religious sects simply does not matter. What matters is they are not white, they are not Christian. These are the same God and Bible folks that Bev was talking about the McCain/Palin ticket appealing to. The "they're just like us" folks.
To want to know or understand the differences in that part of the world requires an intellectual curiosity that many people who work fourteen or fifteen hour days just to keep from losing their homes or food on the table, simply don't have time for. That's frivolous time, reserved for the "elitists" who, with their fancy Ivy-League educations, think they're better than "us."
Amazing how it all comes back to that.
sarameg - Sep 05, 2008 6:14:51 am PDT #7254 of 10003
I really want to go home.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 05, 2008 6:19:04 am PDT #7255 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
To want to know or understand the differences in that part of the world requires an intellectual curiosity that many people who work fourteen or fifteen hour days just to keep from losing their homes or food on the table, simply don't have time for. That's frivolous time, reserved for the "elitists" who, with their fancy Ivy-League educations, think they're better than "us."
The thing is, don't these things apply to the Republicans as well as the Democrats-- I mean, whoever runs for President is going to have at least gone to college! Or be fairly wealthy. I think it is really dishonest of the Republican candidates to imply that they are just like those people when McCain doesn't even know how many houses he owns!
Sean K - Sep 05, 2008 6:20:38 am PDT #7256 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
To want to know or understand the differences in that part of the world requires an intellectual curiosity that many people who work fourteen or fifteen hour days just to keep from losing their homes or food on the table, simply don't have time for. That's frivolous time, reserved for the "elitists" who, with their fancy Ivy-League educations, think they're better than "us."
I don't understand this at all. I think this is a bullshit excuse. I regularly work fourteen and fifteen hour days and I am plenty intellectually curious.
Nora Deirdre - Sep 05, 2008 6:21:51 am PDT #7257 of 10003
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I don't understand this at all.
I do. People suck! (not just the people that Barb was describing, all of 'em)
Sean K - Sep 05, 2008 6:22:21 am PDT #7258 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I think it is really dishonest of the Republican candidates to imply that they are just like those people when McCain doesn't even know how many houses he owns!
It doesn't matter if he IS "just like them," as long as they FEEL like he is "just like them."
Sean K - Sep 05, 2008 6:23:05 am PDT #7259 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
(not just the people that Barb was describing, all of 'em)
How many times have I said "I hate everybody"?
Sophia Brooks - Sep 05, 2008 6:26:30 am PDT #7260 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Oh, and I am a them, too-- work 14 -15 hour days (although in theatre, so you can argue that I am elitist just for that) and grew up poor, and am still fairly poor.