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IrishAyes

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November 14, 2013

There used to be a website where you could list your name and get a personalized video

of a long Glenn Beck rant blaming you personally for every imaginary evil in the world. I lost mine when my old computer crashed. If anyone knows where that site is, if it still exists, I'd love to make another copy.

I sneaked on his website one time and wrote a pro-Obama post. Somehow it stayed up around an hour or so before discovery and deletion. But then I started to get vicious emails from him that didn't stop until I threatened legal action.

November 14, 2013

That's what men used to say about women a hundred years ago to escape charges of misogyny:

That they fairly worshipped us, put us on a pedestal, considered us the better sex even; but nobody could convince them we were fit to vote.

A hundred years ago and earlier, most of society considered it impossible for women to excel at more than one function. If she developed her intellect at all, her parenting and wifely skills were bound to suffer for it. That was society's excuse for keeping her subservient. Even some of the female leaders in women's and worker's rights were against female suffrage as "unnatural".

November 14, 2013

Sounds good to me!

Some people think that since my reproductive years are long past, I shouldn't be concerned about this issue, but it's the right thing to do and better for everyone all around, now and later. Hopefully the young girls of today will grow up in a much better and therefore more productive environment.

November 13, 2013

Well, the wingers like to call this a failure and that we'll never succeed;

If it were left up to them and their obstructionism, we wouldn't. But we beat them before to enact the law, and by all that's holy we'll get this up and running, too. Reports of our demise are way premature.

November 13, 2013

Perfect!

I used to tell people with the straightest face that I truly adore men but I'm just not quite sure they should be allowed to vote. Most people didn't know the historical background of that statement and were offended, but the ones who knew found it funny.

November 13, 2013

Sounds good. Did you have sawdust in the bottom, and if so how much?

And how did you prevent cold outside air from entering the vent pipe and freezing the user? If I can rig something like you did, it would save me a ton of $ I can't really afford. Recently I've been researching tiny house designs since my homeowner insurance would never begin to rebuild this house. I notice a lot of those people recommend sawdust toilets. Doesn't seem right for people in financial straits to have to go without.

November 13, 2013

I'm trying to make this as simple as possible so you and the others can understand;

If I say I have the red hair of many Irish, I'm not saying that no one else has red hair, especially not that they might even be bald.

In short, your reasoning is as full of holes as Swiss cheese. You're manufacturing error where none exists. But it's especially despicable when you feel free to make Nazi references. Well, that's what bullies do, isn't it? Telling.

Now I'm more than fed up with the vulture attitudes of so many on this thread, so I'm not answering any more of you. After all, as dear old dad loved to say, only a jackass answers every donkey that brays.

November 13, 2013

I believe callmecrazy was the one specifically claiming lack of American originality or uniqueness.

The rest of it that you and many of the others are projecting onto the OP is coming straight out of your warped brains.

November 13, 2013

Well, quite frankly, when I'm set upon by a swarm of bees, I start swatting!

As I advise others to do. You guys brought this fight to us, not the other way around, so you don't get to complain about having your knuckles rapped. You're whining, "Mama! She hit me back!"

BB tried to reason with you guys far more patiently than I would have - or did. But I have no patience with bullies, which is exactly what a lot of respondents turned out to be. Forgive me if I don't quail when you rail.

November 13, 2013

groannnnn....

You have no idea how much I love living alone in a big old house, even a 'fixer', with plenty of room between the neighbors. And it's not just for love of gardening either. Maybe I'm one of those cranks who loves humanity but can't stand people - at least not living elbow to elbow. I whine and complain about what I had to give up for this and what I have to endure for it - but it was a conscious, deliberate choice, not some weird fluke of circumstance. Maybe it's partly my current stage of life; when I was young, I lived in NY and LA and other megacities and loved it. Now I thrive on silence. The only reason I live in any kind of town at all is because the world's too dangerous a place now for me to be alone out in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes I get a wild urge to visit a real city again, but I go and lie down until it passes.

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About IrishAyes

Still an ardent Irish-American Catholic damnYankee Yellow Dog Democrat socialist after all these years. (cue Simon music) Army brat and wife for many years, now have been on the loose far longer than I was married. After my two red chows died, I took in a mini-beagle cross that I named Molly Maguire, thinking she might need a good Irish name like my original real one. Later she got a baby sister, a smooth-coat JRT I named Brigid after the greatest of the ancient Celtic goddesses. My great-grandfather and his son fought for Michael Collins and barely made it out of Ireland one step ahead of John Bull. They slipped over to Wales for new identities and then forward to the States for a fresh start. That makes me second generation of illegal but certainly justified immigrants. There are precious few people to whose defense I fly immediately, but the list includes Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama even when I disagree with him - it happens! - and living Irish patriots Gerry Adams and Martin \\\'Mind Your Kneecaps\\\' McGuiness. I pray earnestly for a united and free Ireland rescued from all official British occupation, with every square inch of alleged \\\'ancestral lands\\\' now held immorally and illegally by the invaders returned to the rightful owners. Irish-only rule for Ireland. No foreign masters anymore! I find it passing strange when Brits chide ME about \'interfering\' in Irish politics!
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