Why should we feel sorry for these miners and their families?

[No Exit]

They signed up for it! They voluntarily took the dangerous mining jobs! Right?
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The above is the sort of thing I've been told by fuckhead right-wingnuts when I expressed deep sorrow and worry for our troops and their families. Except, the wingnuts were serious--not sarcastic.

[donheld]

1. I call it Compassionate Progressivism.

It's really quite nice to have.

[Marnieworld]

2. some more compassionate conservitism

Right after Katrina my boss said, "What were they thinking living in a flood plain anyway?" As if everyone just chooses where to be born?

[No Exit]

3. Yeah! A wingnut friend of mine said that, too! "They shouldn't have

lived there!"

Fuck her!! I retorted that she "shouldn't have drunk so much that it caused her health problems". (She's an alcoholic.) I know that was mean, but I'm SICK TO DEATH of the attitude of wingnuts!!!

Besides, the people I know, whose house in New Orleans had 10 feet of water sloshing around in it for 2 weeks, were my friends, too!

Incredibly, Madame Wingnut and I are still friends. I guess we're both nuts. But I'M the kind of "nut" who has repudiated the repuke party--and anything even remotely connected with it--forever.