You'll go topless on the beach but you won't wear a thong?

[MichaelHarris]

Sorry, I had to get your attention. Seeing these right-wing, neocon, racist stories about what people are buying with those debit cards just pisses me off. When you get a gift, whether it's from a friend, a family member, and yes even the government, it should be without strings. I have no right to judge these people's purchases and neither does anyone else. If they decided a handbag helped them in their time of need then so be it, we have no comprehension of their pain and loss right now.

Did these same people filing these reports worry about how the Gub'ment cheese Reagan had to give out was being used? I can see the headline now, "Outrage over the use of Government Cheese, 2 slices per sandwich?". Face it, these stories are nothing more than a cover for a nation's racist tendencies, a nation where half of it's people don't really care if the poor people of New Orleans ever see a roof over their heads again.

This "outrage" over purchases is just another attempt by this new conservative media to put the face of evil on anyone's face EXCEPT George Bush. When farmers receive aid did a nation go count seed? Did the nation make sure farmers weren't buying "PlayPig" magazine subscriptions? When the airlines were rescued did we say anything about the multi-million dollar salaries the CEO's were making?

Face it so-called liberal media, this reporting, like the sniper and looting stories is just a veil for racially motivated reporting.

Michael Harris

[undergroundpanther]

1. Interesting

to use sexism to get attention to racism.. the two isms are the same Evil...bigotry..

[MichaelHarris]

6. you clicked it

[undergroundpanther]

12. Yep

Because I want to alert on sexism.Sexism is like racism it's WRONG.

[MichaelHarris]

14. well

if you saw sexism then by all means alert. And people wonder why the Democratic party is so divided, sheesh. You have a wonderful evening.

[undergroundpanther]

22. I didn't see sexism

I saw false advertizing..So I didn't alert, Happy?
The mike hunt comment was juvenile and stupid..and old.tho.

[MichaelHarris]

23. I don't even know who

Mike Hunt is.

[MichaelHarris]

25. oops

My wife just explained it to me, you're right that is pretty crummy.

[Hubert Flottz]

27. It is crummy!

The guy should have changed his name before he ran for sheriff. He must have been a Freeper Moran.

[MichaelHarris]

26. My wife explianed to me the Hunt deal

and yes I'm happy, happy that you killed a pretty good thread with some valid points in search of the earth's only true evil, sexism. Thanks for that, now let them eat cake AND Gucci purses.

[timber84]

2. have not watched tv news since thur. who's reporting this thought they

scrubbed the debit cards?

[MichaelHarris]

11. It's been on

some threads here, I get to pissed if I turn on the news.

[OKDem08]

3. I see it clearly as well

I hope they don't prevail w/this type of spin.

[undergroundpanther]

5. Spin works

on Du too apparently

Hmmm
However I am glad people are reading this,sad it uses sexism to do it..

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. It's a myth

A lie. Not true. Not happening.

Learn not to trust these assholes.

[Hubert Flottz]

7. You can't wear a Thong, cause you're gonna' get gonged!

I thought they outlawed thongs on DU years ago! If they outlaw thongs, only outlaws will have thongs! Or did you want to thing a thong? If that is the case, Thing us a Thong.

I'd like to talk more often about Mike Hunt, but they frown on that too!

[MichaelHarris]

the one true uniter

I feel is the thong. In a country with freedom of religion I choose to worship the thong.

[The Magistrate]

16. It Is True, Sir, Mr. Hunt Is Not One Of Our Favorite People....

[Hubert Flottz]

20. You're The Magistrate, Mike Hunt is the high Sheriff...

I'll admit that Mike Hunt is a tad on the nasty side! Sheriffs can get pretty nasty sometimes.

[pinto]

17. I checked our guidelines. Thongs are not things. Thanks.

There's other thinly disguised things that are thong-like, that we thwart, but the thong thing is a myth.

[MichaelHarris]

18. thongs, a myth?

I moved to a college town for nothing dammit.

[Hubert Flottz]

24. I'm home early for a Saturday night,or I wouldn't have known

there was a thong thread. I came home, because I got beat up at karaoke for changing the words around to the song, 'Coal Miner's Daughter' when I sang it the third time tonight! Dang...that lady was mean!

[MichaelHarris]

30. that Tommy Lee

he knew how to treat a woman

[Redneck Socialist]

8. I'm OK with topless Yaks, but...

Yaks in thongs is just too much.

[MichaelHarris]

9. that's what imma saying

when we bailed out the farmers we should have restricted their pig thong purchases. I can promise you, there was at least one farmer who bought a thong for a pig with gub'ment money.

[Divernan]

10. Where have all the DU yaks gone? They were great fun.

nt

[MichaelHarris]

13. endangered species

see, about 6 months ago "fun" was deemed unnecessary here on DU. Heck just looking through this thread I may have spotted a "fun" killer.

[Hubert Flottz]

29. I liked the Yaks too...

Some of those threads were rally funny.

[Hubert Flottz]

15. Mike Hunt really stands out in a thong.

So they say in the lounge!

[MichaelHarris]

19. I have no idea who

this Mike Hunt is but if he's wearing a thong in the lounge he must know Matcom.

[Hubert Flottz]

21. Mike Hunt is a repub Sheriff in South Carolina.

I can't understand what folks have against Mike Hunt or Thongs!

[MichaelHarris]

28. can you believe it,

my wife reading over my shoulder had to tell me who Mr. Hunt was, man I'm dense, my brain full thongs and the sexist evil known as college football. I'm a firm believer that cheerleadering should be full contact.

[Hubert Flottz]

32. Here is what I always keep in mind...

Sticks and stones may break my bones;
But chains and whips arouse me.

I think it was either Jerry Failwell or Pat at the club 700, that wrote that poem.

I have to laugh to keep from crying these days.

[Gold Metal Flake]

31. Proove it.

Purchases of $800 louis vuiton or however the fuck you spell it bags by people who "don't look like refugees" a thousand miles from the 'Dome?

Boooooll Sheeeet.

Bullshit, plain and simple.

Either it's fraud by insiders, or it's a goddamn lie.

Call bullshit. Make them prove it.

[Catherine Vincent]

33. Thanks for getting my attention, Michael.

Very good post!:thumbsup:

[MichaelHarris]

34. thank you :)

It went in a direction I didn't want it to go, I may have been a little irresponsible in that. The only thing I wanted DU'ers and Americans to know is we should give without strings, watching over these people's shoulders is a tad childish to me. As a nation we've never once asked any of the Airlines that we're bailed out why the CEO's made millions while the companies lost money. We owe these people the same courtesy, if we truly relish as a giving nation we should not care how the money is spent.

It's only the ones who haven't given who are complaining that these people are getting anything. These are the same people who are in line for the first free thing they can get their hands on. I've always looked at it this way, If you truly want to give then that is gift enough, if you truly are a Christian then you have no need to judge because in your heart of hearts you know judgment lies elsewhere. The complainers really have no faith because they don't truly believe that judgment exists.

Sorry for the rant, maybe you and I can get the discussion back on track.