Conservative Thread: We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once

[honugirl]

So I guess there's a thread on the CB about a confirmed date to exit Iraq. Is that for us or for the other countries? I haven't seen the news yet today. Not excited about this at all. I think the bad guys are fully going to take advantage of it. Yup, lets tell our enemies when we're leaving. Smart idea... Why do some people think this is a good thing?

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

Don't I know it. I spend my holidays with two of them. My sister and my stepdad. He's an ordained minister which makes it even harder to swallow. Never understood why somebody who admits he dislikes so much about our religion made his living practicing it. Wish me luck next Thursday.

As a man of the cloth myself I don't often do this, but in your case I might recommend a good stiff drink or three to help make through the day. Short of that, I always say that it's good to not let the haters get you down.

 

[JB111107]

see you guys tomorrow....We're off to go deliver the kiddos to the babysitter then heading to see GLENN....and just to top it off my FUSION came in the mail today so I have something to sit and read while we wait for the show to start!!

 

[wonderlanne]

As a man of the cloth myself I don't often do this, but in your case I might recommend a good stiff drink or three to help make through the day. Short of that, I always say that it's good to not let the haters get you down.

i latinly agree: noli nothis permittere te terere

or faux lantinly, which is easier to remember: illegitimi non carborundum

 

[Decorated_Dust]

Are you in college? This semester for me has been entirely too quick....

Tell me about it! I'm graduating in May and I feel like my year is being sucked away in the vacuum. I'm clamoring to enjoy as much as I can before the real world (and grad school) creep up.

You have to admit, donald is a cutie. He's my fave character in Kingdom Hearts.

 

[Grog]

Sitting on top of the world-- by Garrison Keillor

Be happy, dear hearts, and allow yourselves a few more weeks of quiet exultation.

It isn't gloating, it's satisfaction at a job well done. He was a superb candidate, serious, professorial but with a flashing grin and a buoyancy that comes from working out in the gym every morning.

He spoke in a genuine voice, not senatorial at all. He relished campaigning. He accepted adulation gracefully. He brandished his sword against his opponents without mocking or belittling them. He was elegant, unaffected, utterly American, and now (Wow) suddenly America is cool.

We threw the dice and we won the jackpot and elected a black guy with a Harvard degree, the middle name Hussein and a sense of humor - he said, "I've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher."

The French junior minister for human rights said, "On this morning, we all want to be American so we can take a bite of this dream unfolding before our eyes." When was the last time you heard someone from France say they wanted to be American and take a bite of something of ours? Ponder that for a moment.

The world expects us to elect pompous yahoos and instead we have us a 47-year-old prince from the prairie who cheerfully ran the race, and when his opponents threw sand at him, he just smiled back.

He'll be the first president in history to look really good making a jump shot. He loves his classy wife and his sweet little daughters. He looks good in the kitchen. He can cook Indian or Chinese but for his girls he will do mac and cheese. At the same time, he knows pop music, American lit and constitutional law.

I just can't imagine anybody cooler. Look at a photo of the latest pooh-bah conference - the hausfrau Merkel, the big glum Scotsman, that goofball Berlusconi, Putin with his B-movie bad-boy scowl, and Sarkozy, who looks like a district manager for Avis - you put Barack in that bunch and he will shine.

It feels good to be cool and all of us can share in that, even sour old right-wingers and embittered blottoheads. Next time you fly to Heathrow and hand your passport to the man with the badge, he's going to see "United States of America" and look up and grin.

Even if you worship in the church of Fox, everyone you meet overseas is going to ask you about Obama and you may as well say you voted for him because, my friends, he is your line of credit over there.

No need anymore to try to look Canadian.

ok

 

[Amy&Dan]

As a man of the cloth myself I don't often do this, but in your case I might recommend a good stiff drink or three to help make through the day. Short of that, I always say that it's good to not let the haters get you down.

Zipp, the liquor store is always the last errand I run before my demented family comes over! This year will be very hard, its the first Christmas since my mom died and stepdad won't get that good hard kick under the table she always delivered when he started in!

My former minister (who was stepdad's associate) told me once, "Amy, its okay to drink wine at your family dinners!"

 

[Amy&Dan]

Okay, I am signing off. My dis day is complete. I have been fed lasagne by Breezy, told to drink a stiff drink by Zipp and a poll asking if you believe Mary was indeed a virgin overwhelming;y has people saying she was. I feel pretty good so I am quitting while I am ahead!

Good night conservative disers!!

 

[Tink & Goofy]

Just checking in.

Flight was uneventful yesterday morning, and we now have over half a foot of snow here.
It's cold, needless to say. DH is going to get his parents' Christmas tree out of the attic; DMIL is also talking about getting a real tree rather than dragging out the artificial one.
We still have to do Christmas shopping.

So I got a chance to get onto the net for a few minutes before dinner. Hope everyone is having a great day!

 

[MeghansMommy]

Hello everyone!

There's no way I'm going to catch up with all of you, so I'll just start fresh here. Did I miss anything good? Any visitors lately?

Gonna go check out the CB now. I'm almost done Christmas shopping and I'm under budget. YAY!

 

[SorcererDonald16]

ughh....I was wondering where you were...I do hope the glasses help those headaches. Do you still have snow up there in WA?

Welcome! We are a nice bunch, if a bit wacky, in a Donald sort of way...

Hey! I resemble that remark!

And Michelle, hope your headaches are cured by the glasses too. I need new glasses myself; haven't gotten my eyes checked since 1998.

My very favorite picture from my one and only WDW trip is a pic of my husband with Donald Duck. They share a name and certain key personality traits, so it was perfect to get a shot of the two together. They're both pretty cute fellas, even with the temper

That's a nice story.

Hopefully Thursday morning! It gets voted on at Wednesday night's board meeting. I got the official phone call, and the official letter, but even the letter says pending board approval. I can't wait! I need to be working! *remind me I said this in June!*

I hope everything went the right way at their meeting tonight!

I watch the weather so I know when I can go outside. I have asthma that's triggered by cold weather, so I have to wait until it warms up to go outside. I also want to know when I can safely drive my car again! Sigh.

Oh I'm sorry to hear that.

Weather has been batty here. It's in the 30s or 40s one day, and then in the 60s the next. This kind of weather is exactly what will give me a cold. Praying I don't get one, though.

Wow! You've done a lot!

Ours was built in 1888. Keep in mind, Washington didn't even become a state until 1890, so that's a really old house by Washington standards.

The one we live in now was built in 1996. No fixie uppie here!

In the old house we:

Ripped out baseboard heaters and replaced first with individual electric forced air units, then a year later ripped those out and had gas forced air put in.

Rewired the entire upstairs (still had tube and knob wiring )

Some rewiring/circuit adding downstairs.

Ripped out carpet and restored gorgeous hardwood in the living room.

Divided the 22 ft living room to make an office, and put in a window that could be opened (it had a 5" picture window). Also involved wiring and installing light fixtures and switches.

Recarpeted the family room.

Replaced lighting fixtures in several rooms, and got rid of nice fire hazard dimmer switches circa 1970-something.

Replaced the bathroom window.

Replaced the tub surround (ya know, backsplash thing) and took out nasty old glass doors.

Removed the old leaky water heater and replaced it with a gas one in a new location (old one was under a kitchen counter).

Replaced the old dishwasher (circa 1981) with a new quiet modern one.

Painted the entire house, inside and out (HIGH peaked two story house, shake siding...never again) and replaced broken shakes.

Re-roofed partially after a wind storm.

Took out a wall hiding the stair railing.

Tore out carpet on the stairs, restored all the wood.

Rebuilt the outer parts of the steps (had been sawed off to put the wall up).

Took an ugly piece of wood veneer off the door under the steps and discovered an old four-panel door in beautiful condition.

Partially recarpeted the upstairs (only because some lunkhead had covered wood slat flooring with absolutely HIDEOUS orange linoleum tiles that dynamite couldn't have removed).

Built floor-to-ceiling bookcase in the living room and trimmed it out to look like an old fashioned built-in. It was cool.

I really miss that house. I wish we could have taken it with us when we moved.

Here's some pictures of the stairwell project, just because I think the before and after are so amazing (and you guys will probably yawn...sorry )

That's amazing! I bet the white makes that area look a lot bigger, too. It looks that way from the pictures.

Hey everyone. I woke up feeling like a train wreck. My oldest has had a cold/cough, so I should have known that I would get it too. I wanted to see Glenn Beck tonight, too. I even rushed to finish his book yesterday. Oh well.

Feel better soon, and sorry you had to miss Glenn!

That always happened to me at the end of the semester. I think it was the stress of exams . Get some rest, drink lots of fluids!!!

I was the same way. I'd survive the semester finally, and then 2-3 days into my break I'd get sick and stay sick for most of my vacation. Figured.

I have been scratching my head trying to figure out where you get train whistles at WDW. DOH!

And I'm wondering where he got a train whistle in Myrtle Beach!

I have been doing that more and more lately. I just went over again (to the afore mentioned Cheney thread), and seeing people who never fail to show complete disdain for Christianity question how Christians can feel this way or that, it just makes me ill. Gee, if I do that to another religion, I am a racist, a hater. Once again proving beating up on Christians is just a wonderful hobby for many disers. A poster I used to respect may just need to go on my ignore list.

Time to find some more decent recipes, that's what I came on the CB for anyway!

These days it seems like bashing Christianity is seen by some "special" people as a cool thing to do, you know, they're better than everyone and they're the smart ones for not believing in it. Proving that point:

It's the "tolerance" that gets to you, isn't it? They're all so about Christianity.

Tolerance applies to all religions that aren't Judeo-Christian. Or at least, that's the conclusion I think some people have come to based on the hatred they spew for both Christianity and Judaism. It's sad.

What I find interesting is that some of the people who are anti-religion claim that it is the pious Christian attitude which turns them off, yet they are guilty of their own superior expression of a different set of views.

Don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but pls look at Chicago Sun Times article about Eric Holder. I would post link, but only have computer for a minute. Appears he forgot to mention his ties w/ Blago/Rezko in his AG application. Hmmm...

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/1334978,CST-NWS-holder17web.article

Thanks, I will read this in a bit.

Sitting on top of the world-- by Garrison Keillor

It feels good to be cool and all of us can share in that, even sour old right-wingers and embittered blottoheads. Next time you fly to Heathrow and hand your passport to the man with the badge, he's going to see "United States of America" and look up and grin.

Even if you worship in the church of Fox, everyone you meet overseas is going to ask you about Obama and you may as well say you voted for him because, my friends, he is your line of credit over there.
No need anymore to try to look Canadian.

Welcome to the thread. I love Wilderness Lodge myself. Must've been amazing to get married there!

In regards to the article you posted, I bolded the part I would like to respond to. The author is being incredibly obnoxious by making that statement. All in one sentence, he equates watching Fox to religious behavior and encourages lying, all the while acting as if those of us who voted against Obama/for McCain have something to be ashamed of.

I worship in the House of God, not the "church of Fox." Second, regardless of what someone else might think of me, I will never lie about who I voted for. Why? 1. I value honesty and will not lower myself to lie about who I voted for. 2. I disagree with almost all of his policies, and I will not put a stamp of approval on them in that way by lying and saying I voted for him. 3. I don't really care what Europeans or anyone else thinks of me. If you like me, great! If you don't, oh well, that's just the way life goes. No one has universal popularity. God's opinion is the only opinion that matters to me in the end.

Don't I know it. I spend my holidays with two of them. My sister and my stepdad. He's an ordained minister which makes it even harder to swallow. Never understood why somebody who admits he dislikes so much about our religion made his living practicing it. Wish me luck next Thursday.

That's bizarre, to say they least. Good luck!

We are so smart for a couple of idiot, demented, conservatives.

Okay, I am signing off. My dis day is complete. I have been fed lasagne by Breezy, told to drink a stiff drink by Zipp and a poll asking if you believe Mary was indeed a virgin overwhelming;y has people saying she was. I feel pretty good so I am quitting while I am ahead!
Good night conservative disers!!

Good advice.

Just checking in.

Flight was uneventful yesterday morning, and we now have over half a foot of snow here.
It's cold, needless to say. DH is going to get his parents' Christmas tree out of the attic; DMIL is also talking about getting a real tree rather than dragging out the artificial one.
We still have to do Christmas shopping.

So I got a chance to get onto the net for a few minutes before dinner. Hope everyone is having a great day!

Glad you arrived safely!

 

[blestmom]

In regards to the article you posted, I bolded the part I would like to respond to. The author is being incredibly obnoxious by making that statement. All in one sentence, he equates watching Fox to religious behavior and encourages lying, all the while acting as if those of us who voted against Obama/for McCain have something to be ashamed of.

I worship in the House of God, not the "church of Fox." Second, regardless of what someone else might think of me, I will never lie about who I voted for. Why? 1. I value honesty and will not lower myself to lie about who I voted for. 2. I disagree with almost all of his policies, and I will not put a stamp of approval on them in that way by lying and saying I voted for him. 3. I don't really care what Europeans or anyone else thinks of me. If you like me, great! If you don't, oh well, that's just the way life goes. No one has universal popularity. God's opinion is the only opinion that matters to me in the end.

 

[SorcererDonald16]

blestmom, here's a story you and others should appreciate:

Palin Rejects Proposed Salary Increase

"Gov. Sarah Palin says she would not accept a raise recommended by the State Officers Compensation Commission.

Palin spokesman Bill McAllister said Wednesday that if the Legislature submits legislation for a raise, Palin will not accept the money.

Instead, if the raise is approved, she will subtract the difference from her current salary and donate it to charity or find a way to redirect the funds for the benefit of others, McAllister said.

The comment comes in response to reports Tuesday that the State Officers Compensation Commission is recommending the governor's annual salary be increased from $125,000 to $150,000.

McAllister says Palin never asked for a raise and that the review of top salaries is mandated by a recently passed state law."

http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=9540766

Good for Sarah. She and Todd really seem like class acts.

 

[blestmom]

Good for Sarah. She and Todd really seem like class acts.

They are...

 

[mfd25wife]

Those redoing houses.. .how old? Ours was built in 1865ish, though I can tell you the fireplace is circa 1910 because the brick style wasn't made when the house was built! We had three different walls come apart when we redid a bathroom. That bathroom is ALMOST done. Its been.. oh, five years I think? The same time we fixed the walls we had to fix the ceiling in two areas in the living room.

Since we've lived here we've done
paved driveway
new roof
new windows
new siding
huge deck and pool
totally new kitchen *redid roofline for that one*
rehabbed family room
redid two of the bedrooms
changed french doors we put in the kitchen to a regular higher end slider just last weekend. No more snow blowing under the door!
Once we finish this bathroom we're tackling the other first floor bath with a mini redo. Just tub/floor/new fixtures It doesn't need new electrical or new plumbing. Then, we're FINALLY moving upstairs and redoing our room and the room next to it into a master suite. There is another small bathroom up here so that will be expanded and the bedoom next to ours will be half closet/half bathroom area. The last room - original trunk room or 12by 25 bowling alley as I like to call it, is just getting paint and carpet.

I swear I'd just like to move now.

**ETA took up all main floor carpeting, refinished wood floors for half of it, recarpeted other half
new furnace
most of house replumbed and rewired.

Wow! I'm impressed!!!

Michelle, that stairwell looks great!

Thank you for the well-wishes. Yeah, I think stress played a big part in me getting sick so easily. I'm going to try and get a nap in when my two-year-old takes her nap.

I hope you'll be feeling better soon.

We are so smart for a couple of idiot, demented, conservatives.

 

[wonderlanne]

you guys, this is hilarious!!!!

go to: http://elfyourself.jibjab.com

you can upload a photo to this little elfin thing, choose a dance, then watch the video you create. FUNNY!!!!! ronald reagan is a great disco dancer. you can send it to people on e-mail.

it's free. and funny!!!!!

 

[wonderlanne]

i was just reading that thread about the people who named their little boy adolph hitler campbell. tsk. i was skimming through pretty fast, but i noticed great restraint. as people were asking "what is that boy gonna do with a name like that?" not a single response did i see that said, "he's gonna run for president".

 

[Soarin08]

Well I am on my way home! Glenn was amazing! I shall give a full report ASAP!

 

[Michelle67]

Breezy, can you send a few sandwiches my way? I'm currently stuck in my house with no food because all week I've been frozen in so I can only get what groceries I can carry in my backpack when I actually have the energy to walk to the grocery store. Sigh. Annoying!

Psssst. Safeway delivers.

http://shop.safeway.com/superstore/default.asp?brandid=1&page=corphome

How's it going, guys? Looks like I'm getting on just as half or more of you are going to bed. Ahhhh, what else is new? I was a good girl and forced myself to do my Christmas cards this afternoon/evening. They are all done, and if I'm lucky I can get out to mail them tomorrow and they should all still get there before Christmas!

 

[Soarin08]

Psssst. Safeway delivers.

http://shop.safeway.com/superstore/default.asp?brandid=1&page=corphome

How's it going, guys? Looks like I'm getting on just as half or more of you are going to bed. Ahhhh, what else is new? I was a good girl and forced myself to do my Christmas cards this afternoon/evening. They are all done, and if I'm lucky I can get out to mail them tomorrow and they should all still get there before Christmas!

Well, I had a WONDERFUL time tonight!!! "The Christmas Sweater" was absolutely amazing..... I laughed, I cried, I was blown away!!!! I am so thankful that they put it in theatres so those of us who couldn't go to a show could at least see it. I'm going to go into more detail tomorrow (so Humphrey Bear better get on for sure to see it!) but I'm rather sleepy tonight.... we just got back.