I'm a real liberal now. Wanna know why?

[Bouncy Ball]

I just got my first edition of Mother Jones magazine!

I've got an ACLU card in my wallet, a Costco card, too.

A DU sticker on my car.

Hell, what more do I need?

(Please don't say start braiding things out of hemp, please don't say start braiding things out of hemp...)

[Dookus]

1. you also need a

Toyota Pious... er.. Prius.

[Bouncy Ball]

28. I'm on the waiting list, my friend.

But I'll probably end up with a Corolla.

LMAO

[KitchenWitch]

2. Hemp macrame (braided) jewelry

you need hemp braided jewelry :P

[LSparkle]

3. Yahoo! I felt that way when I got my first edition of The Nation

No bumpersticker though ... I live in a "red" community and worry about my car getting keyed. (Guess I'm a liberal WIMP.)

[Bouncy Ball]

10. You WIMP

I have a DU sticker, an HRC sticker (doesn't matter, no one knows what it stands for anyway), one that says "HATE is not a family value" and one that says "BUSH LIES, PEOPLE DIE, How many lies can YOU take?"

I love the looks.

Come on, go for it! I live in Dallas!

[LSparkle]

21. A friend of mine who lives in the same town ...

almost got run off the road during the campaign because she had a Kerry/Edwards sticker on her car and it kinda scared me off putting anything on my car. But I am beginning to feel like a big baby for not wearing my politics on my sleeve, er, bumper.

[Richardo]

24. Flexible magnets

Buy 'em at a craft store and affix your liberal bumper stickers to them. Then you can take them off when you park so's your car doesn't get vandalized.

That's what I do here in Houston. :thumbsup:

[LSparkle]

46. Like those yellow ribbons for the troops, right?

GREAT idea - thanks!

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Are you using recycled paper toilet paper?

Buying only organic produce?

Finally tear down your shrine to Zell Miller?

And you have to braid your clothing from hemp.

[retread]

13. How do you braid ashes?? n/t

[Bouncy Ball]

14. Dammit, I NEVER had a shrine to Zell Miller

I have shrines to Loretta Lynn and Bob Marley.

I do only buy organic produce, meat and dairy. That's true.

RECYCLED TOILET PAPER? Erm....

Dammit, I can't get my hands on any hemp, so that's too bad.

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. Sure, that's what you say. No shrine to Zell Miller. Uh huh.

No, really. I *do* believe you.



<snicker>


No, I do. Honest.





<snicker>




Sorry, I have the hiccups. <snicker - chortle - BWUHAHAHAHAH>

[texastoast]

29. LOL!

It's okay to buy recycled toilet paper. It isn't recycled from the sewer.

And you don't have to weave your own hemp products. Try the lip balm. Best there is.

http://www.hemp-sisters.com/

http://www.hempola.com/

http://www.ecomall.com/biz/hemp.htm

[Richardo]

5. C'mon! Get started....

:)

[Arugula Latte]

6. You need some patchouli and a hacky sack.

Also, grow as much facial hair as you can.

[Arugula Latte]

7. Oh yeah, and buy a used Volvo.

eom.

[Richardo]

9. A '68 VW van is an acceptable substitute...

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. Or an old yellow school bus that's been painted wild colors

[Bouncy Ball]

15. Ok WHAT IS patchouli???

I've asked and asked. Guess I need to google it.

[Arugula Latte]

19. It's that incense that hippies like to burn.

At least, that's what I've always thought. :shrug:

[Redstone]

37. Revolting

is what patchouli is. I never understood why anyone would want to make themselves smell like damp newspaper that had been rubbed up against a rutting deer's butt.

(Don't ANYONE ask how it is that I know what damp newspaper that has been rubbed up against a rutting deer's butt smells like in the first place.)

Redstone

[texastoast]

40. It's a pheromone thing

That's why all the old hippies wore it as an essential oil. VERY effective sexual attractant, but only when worn with subtlety (otherwise, the rutting deer is applicable). Useful during the days of free love and endless orgies that EVERYONE IN AMERICA participated in.

:evilgrin:

[Bouncy Ball]

32. I...don't....really have the capability to grow facial hair--

I'm a woman.

Maybe when I'm older???

[Mojambo]

8. Mother Jones and Dollars and Sense

Required reading for every progressive.

[matcom]

11. oh yeah? just HOW many abortions have YOU had?

need at LEAST a half dozen under your belt before you can be a REAL leftie!

how many "notches" on YOUR bedpost?

</sarcasm> sorry. HATING GD today

[Bouncy Ball]

18. Are abortions the same thing as notches?

Well I have had 11 miscarriages while trying to have a second child, but I didn't do that, mother nature did. Does that count? One fundie told me it does, and that I was a horrible person for "allowing" all those miscarriages to happen. She also told me she'd pray for my "baby angels in heaven."

So I feel I still qualify on this point, though I've never had an abortion.

[Arugula Latte]

23. Wow.

That is simply unbelievable that someone said that to you.

I'm sorry you had to go through so many miscarriages; how heartbreaking.

Of course, we all know that realy Christians never have miscarriages and never have gay children ... oh, wait ... uh, nevermind. :eyes:

[Bouncy Ball]

26. Yeah I actually thought she had to be engaging in some kind

of dark humor at first. I mean no one blames the woman for a MISCARRIAGE, right? I did nothing to make them happen. Hell, we were TRYING to have a kid.

[cally]

27. I know this is a humorous thread

but I'm so sorry you've suffered so much. I can't make a joke of this. Losing a child is horrible and I want to acknowledge your loss and pain. I don't want to joke about it.

[Bouncy Ball]

30. Thanks.

It's ok, really. It was years ago and I'm quite accepting of it now. We have one child, we are very very happy and extremely lucky! It's not something I think about, but that woman just threw me for a loop. I never thought anyone could think like that, not even the most hardcore fundie.

[cally]

35. Well, then I'll laugh and celebrate with you.

Some folks are just evil. They hide with religious propaganda but they are evil. Ignore them.

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. And you can't shave your legs or armpits any more,

but you CAN shave your head.

[Bouncy Ball]

22. Ok I did do an experiment with the armpit thing once

and, the long and the short of it (LOL) is that the experiment was over pretty quickly.

Couldn't stand it. Can't overcome all those years of cultural conditioning to have clean-shaven pits, I just can't. I caved. I shaved.

As for my legs, hardly any hair grows on my legs anyway (Indian blood). When I say hardly any, I mean almost NONE.

My head? No thanks!

[Radical Activist]

16. How many books by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn do you own?

Also, if you live in the South or Midwest you need and AMERICAN, UNION MADE car.
Are you shopping at the local food co-op or Whole Foods store yet?

[Bouncy Ball]

25. HUH? I thought it was supposed to be a Japanese car????

Fuckity fuck fuck. And here I am with a Japanese car.

Hey! Husband has an American made vehicle! Yay!

Yes, I spend five gazillion dollars per week at Whole Foods. No food co-ops around, I don't live in Austin.

No books by Chomsky or Zinn, sorry. Does Franken and Moore count?

[Radical Activist]

31. Japanese cars are for east and west coast liberals

and others who don't "get" unions and the whole American made thing. Those are the types of elitist liberals that Republicans like to make fun of.

Michael Moore is good, but Al Franken is still a conventional mainstream Democrat. If you want to be a real leftie you should go buy a People's History of the United States or Profit over People.
It sounds like you're doing a good job at being a leftie though.

[Bouncy Ball]

36. Hey I have books called "The Radical Reader"

and "The I Hate Republicans Reader." I've read a lot about socialism and I'm fairly well brushed up on world history, especially governmental systems (though I wasn't a political science major).

I've been meaning to buy some Chomsky just to see what all the buzz is about.

And Jack Kerouak.

[DU GrovelBot]

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[Richardo]

34. Of course! The mark of a true liberal!

Why didn't I see that before? :dunce:

[gizmo1979]

38. Are you broke?

That's a true liberal.

[Bouncy Ball]

41. Nope!

And I think that's a rather insulting stereotype.
The lunchlady at my daughter's school told a table full of kids that Democrats never work, they are lazy, and they just ask for handouts from the government.

She was "transferred" shortly after that.

[loudestchick]

39. I assume that you nursed your child for the entire 3 yrs? *sarcasm*

[Bouncy Ball]

42. Um....um.....no I didn't.

I was an udder failure at that. I lasted a few months. Ten lashes with a wet hemp rope for me, eh?

[loudestchick]

44. And you call yourself a liberal? How can you be a liberal w/o a toddler

hanging off your tit? *sarcasm*

I stopped nursing my first at 5mo...I was a pariah amongst my liberal friends.

[Bouncy Ball]

48. Back when my baby was a baby, I wasn't very political

(well, I was inside, but not in my outer life yet) and I was very isolated when I had her, too (no family or friends nearby).

So no pressure either way. Just me losing my mind from sleep deprivation.

But hey, those were the fantastic days of the Clinton era. Sigh....

[TheCentepedeShoes]

43. You need a hemp

hanging plant holder. And some orange shag carpet, an avocado green refrigerator, and a copy of Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book." I'd lend you mine but someone stole it. And a lava lamp.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

45. A latte and a limousine

[WilliamPitt]

47. start braiding things out of hemp

:P

[Bouncy Ball]

49. Ppppppppttttttttttttttt.

I already tie-dye stuff, does that count?