Christmas @ the right-wing fundy in-laws'. Aristus needs some love.

[Aristus]

:grr::mad::eyes:

[jellybelly]

1. ooooh!

what happened?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. Someone set Aristus the bomb.

Move 'dem'. For great justice.

[Aristus]

4. Hey, CPD, could you translate that post for me?

:shrug:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. You must be one of the 17 people on Earth who don't know

"All Your Base Are Belong To Us"

http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/story.shtml

[Aristus]

3. Oh, just the usual stuff. One of my neices started a conversation

with my f-i-l about how "liberals hate Jesus", and it went downhill from there. I had to go upstairs and sit in a dark room for awhile to avoid starting an ugly confrontational shouting match.

[progressoid]

7. Eww, feel for you

I heard a couple of those "at least I can say Merry Christmas here!" It's even polluting some of my more sensible family members.

[Aristus]

9. Well, at least nobody covered THAT particular piece of radioactive

waste. If they had, I would have told them not to buy into Bill O'Reilly's perverted little persecution fantasies.

[progressoid]

5. Ah, such holiday joy.............

I avoided this years gathering of the right wing nut cases on (friends of my mother-in-law). Good thing too, because I might have snapped if someone said anything about how the year ended so well or how we'll be blessed with four more great years. GRRRRRRR. I've been very tolerant for the last 17 years but I doubt I can take anymore.

[Aristus]

6. At Thanksgiving, I offered the prayer before dinner just because

I didn't want to hear any of the family's right-wing hammerheads give thanks for "our glorious, divinely anointed leader, George W. Bush!"

:nuke:

[progressoid]

8. Ha, I love that one. "divinely annointed"

If anyone ever says something like that to me I'll simply ask, "so I gather that you also believe that God chose Bill Clinton too?"

[ConservativeDemocrat]

19. To that toast, I would have raised my glass high, and added:

"Blessed are the war-mongers, for they shall inheret the Earth".

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

[roguevalley]

11. LOVE!LOVE!LOVE! I hope that helped, honey.

[Aristus]

17. Immensely.

Thanks. :pals:

[yorkiemommie1]

12. i started looking for my purse

when the Jesus praise started. but actually a minute before that they had been predicting a draft and bemoaning the fact that their mid thirties friends were being called back. i was shocked to hear them say, 'there's gonna be a draft'. well, i said, looking at their two toddler boys, we're gonna be in the mideast for DECADES!

[Maat]

13. My deepest empathy for you.

I appreciate the patience and tact that you exhibited.

I, too, Sir, had to spend time with the Fundie pro-Bush (traditional to the max) in-laws. We met them in Laughlin, Nevada (neutral territory). We had polite dinners. No politics or religion spoken.

I had told my husband that if Papa uttered the word, 'towel head,' I was going to get up and walk away - with our daughter. I thought everything went well.

It wasn't until we were on our way home that my husband disclosed that he had said it when I wasn't looking or listening, and he was barely paying attention (he's far from positive about what he heard - so he let it go ... they had friends there too).

Oh, well! We've seen them for the year!

[yorkiemommie1]

14. ha! i said that to my husband too

the minute the fundie talk starts, i'm outta there. boy i miss my Dem. mother in law! How she managed to raise a freeper son i'll never know.

[Aristus]

18. 'Towel head, rag head, camel jockey, sand n****r', the demeaning

calculus of bigotry.

I can't even begin to understand such blind hatred.

:hurts:

[ashmanonar]

15. ugh...

i had a cousin tell me how they did "partial birth abortions", and for one, it was really really horrible, and i didn't quite believe it, although i was willing to hear what she had to say...then i asked "where did you hear this?" and she said "church" and i just kinda held my breath and walked away...

cuz damn...i can't believe the stupidity and ignorance of members of my family...

ugh

[MissBrooks]

16. You lived through it - be proud