Conservative thread: We're still smiling!

DisneyMomOK · Jan 16, 2009

Tasmen said:
Ruh roh...hive mindset kicking into full gear!

Ruh roh is right! Here come some more bobble-head accusations!

Soarin08 · Jan 16, 2009

DisneyMomOK said:
I don't know if anyone mentioned this, but what if there was a salmonella outbreak or some other intestinal problem at some restaurant(s)? With that much food needing to be pre-ordered, I cannot imagine that it is all handled properly. Even if, say, a couple hundred people were hit with a bug, that could be awful. Also, how do they keep enough tp in those things? Some people are so trashy, I can imagine people taking the tp with them (to make sure they have it for later). I grew up w/ a mother that had to pretty much disinfect the gas station bathroom before she would let my sis or myself enter one when we went on trips; I would just not be a good "fit" at an event like this.

I don't even want to imagine that!!!!

MeghansMommy said:
I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU! I need to PM you so I can get a link to that blog. Will you be posting it on your facebook page? I know we are facebook friends.

Check your PMs. :goodvibes

Soarin08 · Jan 16, 2009

DisneyMomOK said:
Ruh roh is right! Here come some more bobble-head accusations!

I just had to do that....

Geoff_M · Jan 16, 2009

MeghansMommy said:
Sigh.

Geoff - do you get these articles emailed to you? How do you find them? You're providing us with some good stuff. Thanks!

I can't take credit for finding them on my own... www.instapundit.com is a great source of info.

But, I did find this one on my own when I was reading another story:The Awakening of a Dumb (Gay) American:

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I had actually had my first taste of radical Islam in 1989, while I was working at Book-of-the-Month Club. This was long before the US invasion of Iraq. BOMC was a stodgy, unprofitable, harmless little company that was constantly being sold and bought by bigger corporations. We were always on the lookout for books that would sell, since so few did. Then, in 1989, our Editor-in-Chief, a prim and proper British lady who idolized Jane Austen, decided to offer Salman Rushdie’s novel, The Satanic Verses. I had never heard of Salman Rushdie and the book sounded like a literary bore.

The next thing we knew, the FBI contacted our Editor-in-Chief. They told her that the Ayatollah Khomeini had declared a fatwa on BOMC because we had dared to print the book - which had the effrontery to fictionalize an incident in the (probably already fictional) life of the Prophet Mohammed. We could all be killed. None of us had ever heard of fatwa before. But the idea of shrouded, machete-wielding crazies coming up in the elevators to slaughter all the book editors was bizarre and more than a little terrifying. The company name was removed from the lobby directory, and an armed guard was hired to stand in reception, right next to the Oxford English Dictionary. Guns had come to BOMC – and not because we wanted them. Meanwhile, much to the surprise of ordinary citizens like me, the FBI was quietly taking these threats very seriously.

Today, everyone in America knows what a fatwa is – there’s one declared on all of us, still. And nearly twenty years later, the publishing industry is still being bullied – only now, editors in New York actually cancel publication dates to avoid the very real possibility of certain people (again, not us) acting on their violent feelings with arson… or worse.

I was still working at Book-of-the-Month Club in 1993, when the WTC got bombed the first time. Although the news was shocking, it didn’t seem that serious – even to those of us just a few miles uptown in the same city. (In fact, about 1000 people were injured, and a few died.) I’m not sure I even read a single newspaper article about it – I didn’t read the paper then. But I did watch TV news, the lazy way out, and I remember Bill Clinton, who I liked very much, getting on camera and saying something to the effect of “Let’s not overreact” – which stayed with me - and mentioning the crusades, which made me feel vaguely guilty as if, again, somehow we had brought this on ourselves. (Last time I checked, the United States did not exist in 1096.)

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MeghansMommy · Jan 16, 2009

Tasmen said:
Same. Also (*extracts claws*), I feel she needs a makeover. Lady gets a little insane with the eyeliner sometimes. Plus, that constant hair flipping just bugs me.

Geoff_M said:
I can't talk create for finding them on my own... www.instapundit.com is a great source of info.

But, I did find this one on my own when I was reading another story:The Awakening of a Dumb (Gay) American:

Thanks! Off to read the links you provided.

Tink & Goofy · Jan 16, 2009

Morning, DISCons. Whoa, okay, the smileys have been rearranged. pixiedust:

I think I'm going to list the diaper genie and extra bags that we have for it. We used it twice; too inconvenient. I'll ask DH if I can as normally he does that.

breezy1077 · Jan 16, 2009

Only 8ish more pages to go cons....do we have someone who's gonna step up to plate and start the new thread. Do we officially have the new title yet?

I'm a planner....

breezy1077 · Jan 16, 2009

Oops, gotta go make some party food....for the "opening" ceremony. Any requests?

Soarin08 · Jan 16, 2009

breezy1077 said:
Only 8ish more pages to go cons....do we have someone who's gonna step up to plate and start the new thread. Do we officially have the new title yet?

I'm a planner....

We've talked about some ideas.... and since no one's volunteered yet, I'll gladly be the new thread-starter. :goodvibes