Reply #2: Was the deceased Russian? [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

:shrug:

or an old leftist?

The only time I ever got creeped out at a funeral was at the funeral of my great-aunt last February. Her husband (my grandmother's brother) was military all the way, and his sons grew up to be arch-conservatives. In fact, the younger son turned Catholic because he thought the Lutherans were soft on abortion.

Anyway, as the oldest son was giving his eulogy, he said something like, "Today she is rejoicing in heaven, reunited with our father and her parents, and rejoicing that millions of Iraqis have been liberated from tyranny."

WHAAAAAAT?

The dear lady was senile for the last five years of her life. I doubt she had any opinion on Iraq one way or the other.

It seriously creeped me out that he would use his mother's funeral as a platform for irrelevant political posturing about an issue that she was probably competely unaware of.