If I hear "I remember 9/11" or "What about 9/11" again I'll scream!

[maveric]

Was just at 7-11 when the freeper-type lady was at the checkout dissing Cindy calling her a traitor and all that other shit. So, myself being a rude northeasterner who calls people on their bullshit, asked her why she thought we are in Iraq. "I remember 9/11" she said.

Me: What did Iraq have to do with 9/11.

Her: They did it. Arent you paying attention.

Me: Saddam did 9/11? What about Bin Laden?

Her: Its all the same thing and I'm done talking about this, thank you...

Me: You arent paying attention!

She goes out to her minivan and as I'm leaving a teenage girl in her van flips me off with the lady laughing.

Damn, I wish that Fox and the other RW media sources werent so damn effective.

[Midlodemocrat]

1. That happens to me a lot here.

I just tell people that are on that track to turn on something other than Fox news; that they actually might learn something.

[sabra]

2. see this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4497913&mesg_id=4497913

[shaniqua6392]

3. I know it is sooooo frustrating.

I wish there was a MSM outlet that could speak the truth. People just watch the lies on the MSM and believe everything. We need our own television network news, but we will never get it.

[YOY]

4. You said it correctly. She just doesn't want to listen.

Best response: "I remember 9-11 too. Apparently, I understand it far better than you do."

[Warren DeMontague]

5. "They" did it.

You know, because all terra-ists are swarthy brown people



and all swarthy brown people are terra-ists!

[maveric]

9. The clerk at 7-11 is an Ethiopian muslim and he didnt seem too amused...

by her bullshit. We made eye contact and he just rolled his eyes.

[Brightmore]

6. NEVER FORGET

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. LOL

"It's all the same thing and I'm done talking about this, thank you..." typical, no facts to back up their accusations, so run away. Oh and nice family values on display.. Well why not, just emulating their Dear Leader.

[sui generis]

8. gosh you were nice

I would have said "it's not all the same thing. I was paying attention - you were being ignorant for everyone to hear. If I were that stupid I'd be a little less loud about it so fewer people would hear.

[pepperbear]

10. I ACTUALLY WITNESSED AN URBAN MYTH!

Speaking of freepers with blinders on, I thought it was just a story, a legend, but as I was driving to work the other day, there it was in the lane next to me:

A BIG WHITE CHEVY SUBURBAN WITH NOT 1, BUT 2 "DUBYA" STICKERS ON THE BACK WINDSHIELD AND A "SUPPORT OUR TROOPS" MAGNET ON THE BACK HATCH!

I also heard "Mikee" of Life cereal fame died of "pop rock" poisoning. That one really WAS a myth.


SO REMEMBER KIDS: USE UP ALL OF OUR NATURAL RESOURCES! That's what God put them here for in the first place!

GOD BLESS AMERICA, AND NO PLACE ELSE!

[sabra]

11. Welcome to DU!

[getmeouttahere]

13. Hee hee, Pop Rocks!

Strawberry Fields Forever!

Welcome, pepperbear!

[Warren DeMontague]

21. Were they driving like an asshole?

Or bitching about gas prices at the pump?

Some urban "myths" are based on reality. There's a lot of idiots driving big, honkin' SUVs covered with pro-bush crap.

[maveric]

22. My boss's husband is buying a Hummer to "support the troops".

He thinks that buyinga Hummer is patriotic and is in some way supporting the troops.
Sad. Very sad.

[Warren DeMontague]

28. That's insane.

I guess if it's your boss's husband, you can't probe too deeply into the "logic", there.

Still, it's downright weird.

[maveric]

31. He's a drunken,bu$h worshiping wifebeater.

She would have to wear sunglasses at work, indoors, to cover the bruises.
Typical.

[mitchum]

33. and with an extremely small penis, apparently

he really does sound like a doltish brute

[getmeouttahere]

44. Man, that guy's whole life is a cliche...

from the 50's, no less!

[getmeouttahere]

36. Well, if you're idea of supporting the troops....

is keeping them in the middle east forever to fight for oil, then buying that "thing" will definitely do the trick!

[pepperbear]

45. UH...

Are they even made in the USA?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

41. I saw a cliche on wheels in Portland once:

an Ann Coulter lookalike driving a Suburban plastered with freeperish bumperstickers (there was no war on yet), dashing out of the parking lot across a lane of traffic, just missing a car, and zooming off at a speed too high for an urban street, and (of course), doing all this while yakking on a cell phone. :eyes:

[getmeouttahere]

43. And in Portland, too - that's a damn shame!

soiling lovely BLUE Portland with her wicked repuglican-nish behavior!

[getmeouttahere]

12. These are the times when I'm even more glad to be living...

in a blue state, and a very blue city. The only time I encounter anything remotely like this is when I'm with conservative relatives, and even then we're usually trying desperately to avoid the subject.

[maveric]

15. I live in a red area of a blue state. East San Diego county.

And it seems to be a 50/50 split on opinions here.
A while back a retired navy chief and I were talking and he said that bu$h is the traitor thats killing american serviceman and that he would not let his kid serve under W.

Ther is some hope here.

[getmeouttahere]

17. That's good news from conservative SD county!

50/50 is pretty good for that area. I was stationed at North Island during my time in the Navy and I can remember going to Padres games and listening to people talk about how much they admired a couple of the Padres players for being John Birchers! I had gone to the game specifically to root FOR the Giants and against the Padres BECAUSE of the John Birchers on the team. And this was in the mid to late 80's!!!

We just had a pizza party here at work and at one point we got into a discussion about Bush and there were at least 9 people in the room and not one of them was a supporter of BushCo! I feel very lucky indeed.

[tjwash]

20. I'm in east county also.

And the attitudes have shifted finally, slowly but surely.

Of course Santee and Lakeside are pretty much lost causes, but El Cajon and La Mesa are starting to get a little less red, day by day...

[maveric]

23. I've noticed that in El Cajon too. Like hell has frozen over.

EC used to be the most redneck area in SD county. It is shifting.
Klantee and Hateside are lost causes though.

[getmeouttahere]

34. Interesting, I always thought Lemon Grove...

was pretty red-necky, but I only lived there for 3 years. Wait, Imperial Beach has got to be pretty red, with all the squids and their Westpac Widows.

[maveric]

37. Lemon Grove is a "brown" city now.

Mostly Hispanic and African American. Truly blue!

[getmeouttahere]

38. Cool...remember, this is almost 20 years ago...

that I lived in SD, so things have changed drastically in many ways, I'm sure.

[jedicord]

14. Hell yes I remember!

I remember the fear that my son's school would be attacked, that my husband would get caught in some kind of attack himself. I remember envying my dog and cats that they didn't know what had happened that day. I remember looking up in fear at the first airplane that flew overhead afterward, the second airplane, the third, etc. Everything and everybody was suspect. I became, for a short while, something I never knew possible - a bigot.

Maybe she forgot it was Bin Laden, not Hussein. Maybe she forgot that they were "somehow" able to attack the Pentagon. Maybe she forgot her fab boy * sitting there reading a book for 20 minutes, then tucking tail and running.

[maveric]

16. Thats just it! These wingnuts confuse Saddam with Bin laden and

think that they are one the same. They're NOT!

[getmeouttahere]

19. Hey Maverick....

I know it's been a couple of seasons, but how do you like the new ballpark?

I was stationed on North Island (USS Ranger) from 1985-88. Attended many Padres games.

[maveric]

26. Petco is great! Bring extra money though.

The days of cheap family entertainment at Qualcomm is gone.
But overall its a far better venue to watch MLB.

BTW I was a contractor on the Ranger for years. I built the new brig there in 1989.

[getmeouttahere]

32. I haven't been downtown since they finished Petco...

where did they put it, exactly? I spent a LOT of time downtown back then, and out at Fashion Valley (Farrell's for ice cream after a movie).

Ah, the Ranger. Didn't they de-commission that puppy a few years ago?

[maveric]

35. By the 12th & Imperial trolley station (clock tower).

About two blocks from the convention center.

Rnager has been de-comm'd and is in Japan, mothballed.

[getmeouttahere]

39. Why Japan?

I was never the most "up to and touching" sailor, so I don't have a clue why these things happen.

[maveric]

40. They had room for it, I heard.

Or we are planning on selling it to another nation, like we have done in the past. It may just be in a holding pen.

[getmeouttahere]

46. San Diego is too beautiful to be red!

I've always hated that it was so conservative, althought that appears to be changing. The first sign was the surfer gal doing so well in the mayor race. Will she get in this time?

[maveric]

47. She has to beat a popular ex-police cheif. Jerry Sanders.

But the sentiment I get is that people actually like Donna Frye as opposed to the corrupt and inept elected officials we've had in the past.
There's a feeling of trust with Donna.

[tjwash]

27. It's not about confusing Saddam and Bin Laden.

You know the wingnuts are just happy as little fascist clams to lump anyone of middle eastern descent in with the terrorists.

[getmeouttahere]

42. Especially when their little Fundie buddies....

are running around telling people that all Muslims are evil...like my uncle!

[delete_bush]

18. in addition to checking to make sure we have our

wallet, our keys, the stove is turned off, all the things we do before leaving the house, we should all be packing a few enlistment forms for those "Kodak" moments.

[earthmama]

24. enlistment form ... have 10 in my purse

[The_Casual_Observer]

25. Would have never happened had we had a reasonable person

in charge in the wh. Just about all the nut head stuff that we have had to endure since then is for recompense so that we don't blame bush.

[proud patriot]

29. I remember bush using school children as shield

for his cowardly ass on 9/11/01 .

that's what I would have said to her .

[Gemini Cat]

30. A smug giggling simpleton.

Screaming "I remember 9-11."

9-11 was the best thing that ever happened to these morons.
There are days when I really hate them.

[ComerPerro]

48. LMAO. "They did it. Aren't you paying attention?"

[maveric]

49. If its a muslim nation then they did it.

I ask them if we should invade Indonesia, with the largest Muslim population on earth...

[OrlandoGator]

50. Actually, what you usually hear is, "we were attacked first."

Sometimes you even get a "historian" who reminds you that we also declared war on Germany even though Japan attacked us.

[maveric]

51. Actually Germany declared war on us.

FDR probably would have declared war on them but they beat us to the punch.

[ArkDem]

53. Your historic prowess is 'halfway' there

http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/germwar.html

[Imagevision]

52. Read too much about Bush arranging another 9-11 to attack Iran

way too much. (in Sept.)

http://downingstreetmemo.com/