tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047900042385397529.post9013043675188215478..comments2024-02-04T19:09:17.679-08:00Comments on BB: The Country We Live InBrightenedBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04140255969796496082noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047900042385397529.post-6160240963112941052013-01-22T12:17:11.088-08:002013-01-22T12:17:11.088-08:00Interesting...I live in a very conservative town. ...Interesting...I live in a very conservative town. I feel as if I've had to have a muzzle on since moving here almost 10 years ago. I have heard things said so many times that don't reflect my opinions and truly amaze and insult me. On rare occasions, I speak up...but, here...I can't make a difference with what I think...so one day in the not so distant future, I'll move. Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03190096917851087676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047900042385397529.post-78308039473539326262013-01-18T05:28:51.006-08:002013-01-18T05:28:51.006-08:00So hard to respond to this. Everything you say is ...So hard to respond to this. Everything you say is correct. From a country which responded whole heartedly to gun reform after the Port Arthur massacre and whose civil rights record, if not perfect, at least did not include bullets, it is so upsetting to read about this level of ignorance in our staunchest ally. We kind of know, (from TV) but the reality of reading it here....chilling.Arizaphalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11402602175460446158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047900042385397529.post-21192798848049246692013-01-17T20:35:38.214-08:002013-01-17T20:35:38.214-08:00I dated a boy from "the South" briefly i...I dated a boy from "the South" briefly in 1968. I was 16 and at a science seminar at Depauw University in Indiana. He wore lemon-colored jeans, had a smile like a pirate and said he wanted to marry a virgin although he was quite comfortable putting his hand down my pants. Whenever I asked a question, his response was, "Skuse me?" After awhile, I stopped repeating myself. And yet he answered my question. "What gives," I asked, "obviously you hear me, why do I need to repeat?" "Well," he drawled, "us Southern boys just don't talk slow, we think slow."dawn marie giegerichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13486153389982627434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047900042385397529.post-71719081785043216722013-01-17T20:16:02.042-08:002013-01-17T20:16:02.042-08:00It's one of the dangers of inflammatory rhetor...It's one of the dangers of inflammatory rhetoric. Some people say that Obama's trying to override the Constitution and take away our rights, and the conclusion is that he's got to be stopped — by an assassin's bullet, if necessary. The media folks who portray Obama as shredding the Constitution may or may not believe their own hyperbole, but others do. Demonizing the opposition is easy to do, no matter what side you're on. We all need to guard against it.naturgesetzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1047900042385397529.post-84720178474338883012013-01-17T19:51:08.975-08:002013-01-17T19:51:08.975-08:00But please remember...Obama won by over a million ...But please remember...Obama won by over a million votes.<br /><br />You cannot overcome ignorance, hypocrisy, and total stupidity, but you can outvote it. For people as you describe, there is no redemption...even when the American Gestapo doesn't come for their guns, or force them to marry another man, or do any other thing that they think Obama is trying to railroad this country into. <br /><br />And if he is, then over half our population must want him to. I have found that in Facebook, and real life, UNfriending and IGnoring can be a very good way to avoid confrontation! Which is fine with me.<br /><br />Peace <3<br />JayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com