Okay, how many will tell about yesterday's political spats with inlaws?

[Cyrano]

Oh, come on. So many have fundie and freeper inlaws that after-dinner spats were inevitable. (Hopefully, they weren't before or during dinner.)

I'd relate mine, but I spent a very quiet day on a south Florida beach trying to cleanse the poison out of my system, and, for just a day, politics from my mind.

So come on and fess up. The Bushies are doing everything in their power to divide us all. And this means there are very few families who have not been divided. And no, this isn't our second Civil War, it's our third.

Our second was Vietnam and many in my family didn't speak for years.

It seems that for every step we take toward a sane, civilized world, we end up with Nixonites, Bushies, or other sick psychos who just won't let us live a life of peace on this planet.

P.S. I hope you had as nice a day yesterday as I had, family, religion, and politics aside.

Peace,

Cyrano

[saltpoint]

1. Two liberal cousins and I took our recalcitrant Republican uncles and

aunts out into the deep wilderness yesterday and left them there.

We were tired of the arguing.

[Cyrano]

3. Well, bears have to eat too.

[saltpoint]

4. That's right. LOL.

[Inland]

2. My M-in-Law cooked me dinner.

Turkey breast (thin gravy) and vesuvio potatoes, spinach pie, a nice colorful salad, asparagus. Two types of bread, some challah bread and a loaf from D'Amato's. Baklava for dessert. Fish for my wife. No politics.

[bbernardini]

5. We were driving back from my gig in Vermont. No relatives, just my wife.

The only arguing was about my driving. :)

[BlueGirlRedState]

6. The Repubs in my family were strangely quiet

In the past, I've had to endure arguments from my 77-year-old father, a retired postal worker union member who somehow thinks he's a Republican and my trailer trash brother as well as my well-to-do sister and BIL. Last year, my father and sister pointed at my "Impeach Bush" bumper sticker and openly laughed at me. Yesterday, not a word. I think they'd rather just not bring up the whole subject right now.

[newswolf56]

7. Welcome to DU! (n/t)

[Cyrano]

26. Welcome to DU BlueGirlRedState. Sounds like you had a good day.

[Bonhomme Richard]

8. My republican brother and nephew are very concerned now....

about bush and his minions. They even used the words dictator and fascist, which shocked me. My nephew, a real smart guy, has a company in DC that does business with the Gov. and he actually said that he was going to right something and actually thought for a moment that maybe he shouldn't right it because it might get him into some kind of trouble. He was shocked that the thought even entered his mind.
They are both worried now.

[TlalocW]

9. For the most part quiet

Although my fundy-and-not-too-bright niece told us that she rented Brokeback Mountain and didn't realize what it was about and went back to the video store in a righteous huff and tried to get her money back. Her excuse was she's seen nothing but the Disney channel for the past year (has a one-year-old). I made some joke about how I understand that she couldn't support that kind of lifestyle, and she started nodding her head, and then I said, "I'm talking about being a cowboy, not homosexual." I also suggested she not rent the Crying Game, but she had never heard of that either.

TlalocW

[alphafemale]

12. In Boondocks the grandpa and uncle went to see it and had no idea

It wasn't an ordinary cowboy movie.

heheh

:D

[Bigmack]

24. Does she vote? nt

nt

[marmar]

10. No Repugs at my Easter dinner...

Just a house full of Bush-haters.

:)

[Na Gael]

11. Mine

Where would I start? There were too many opportunities, but it would have done no good, and my blood pressure would have been needlessly elevated.

Many of the group we were visiting are the worst kind of voter: The single-minded, fundie Christian, I vote for Jesus type:

*The wife's uncle bragging about all the little abortion crosses he made for the Catholic church's front lawn?- I kept my mouth shut.

*My wife's cousin driving up with his truck slathered with "I stand beside the President," "W," and "Bush-Cheney" bumper stickers?

So I took a page from my wife's grandmothers playbook. I just acted senile, and tried to take a nap sitting up in a Shaker chair. She is the greatest. She is 104yrs old, a devout Catholic, pro-choice, and the widow of a WWI(yes, World War One) veteran-who wasn't even a citizen when he fought for the US.

To her George Bush is, "The worst president ever." She hadn't voted in 40years, yet she got herself to the polls twice to do her part to keep him out of office.

[Cyrano]

27. Welcome to DU Na Gael. Sounds like your wife's grandmother is

totally "with it" and probably a joy to be around. May she live another 104 years. Wisdom like hers is in short supply and badly needed.

[IDemo]

13. Not much of a spat, but

The folks are living in a motorhome in California, and I called yesterday. Mom talked about the high cost of gas and asked about the prices here (they're lower). She then said the prices would skyrocket if the crazy Iranians started lobbing missiles onto Israel and the US. I told her the Iranians have a ways to go before (and if) they possess nuclear weapons, and in any event, they do not have missiles anywhere near capable of hitting the US.

"Oh yes, they do, they're very, very close to having both."

And yes, she still believes * is doing a good job.

x(

[seabeyond]

14. my rightwing brother was wailing against walmart yesterday and

wanted me to come on htis board to get support of attacking walmart. i told him they would love to help your cause but not for your reason. i know he says, they want to go after walmart because they are the bad ole corp.... whatever. he feels the one line for tabacco is discriminative, and it is, i agree. one of the many reasons i dont use walmart and never give them money for my habit. yet he continues to use

he then mouthed off about the lobbyists and the media..... but never pinned the ownership on bush or repugs. he is disgrunted, and angry, just cant bring himself to hurl it onto the repugs. he doesnt challenge me at all about bush anymore after our last conversation. me asking in amazement if he truly felt bush was honest and a christian and truly was doing a good job, because all of us being business owners would have fired an incompetent like bush long ago. further with bush resume we wouldnt have even hired him in the first place

and my other repug brother, well..... he is just trying to survive raising two boys on his own with very little money and no help from govt while he borrows money from me to buy groceries to feed his boys.

[gratuitous]

16. If it wasn't for the harm it would do your nephews . . .

I'd suggest telling your other repug brother to just let the magic of the free market take its course and he could starve on the street for making bad choices. But since his sons would suffer as well, perhaps that's not the best solution. Though it might be too much to resist the temptation to mention it. :evilgrin:

[seabeyond]

21. absurdity of rw'er. his kids get a free breakfast and lunch

as he bitches about the dems giving to the welfare mothers, ignoring the single fathers. he yells about the gas price, low wages, and declares himself a true republican. there is not a single bit of repug in him..... only the manly man image bush portrays. this is why i will often say, dont take lightly this image of the manly man vs the girlie man the repugs have created and why i work so hard to embrace the girlie man and two girlie boys in my family with no shame. they are the true man...... not in physical appearance, pumped chests, dragging knuckles.... but in kind and respectful and responsible and loving.....integrity. that is my man.

imagine is the only thing a lot of these rightwing males have, no substance

[madokie]

15. Just a weekend with the immediate family, wife, two sons and girlfriends

nothing but smiles at the madokies
We are all democrats

[spinbaby]

17. My father in-law...

...is sorry he voted for Bush. But he still doesn't like Democrats. I suppose that's some kind of progress.

[TechBear_Seattle]

18. I spent the weekend at a sci-fi convention

There was much mention of * in conversation and workshops on science and how to write science fiction, fantasy and horror... and absolutely none of it favorable to the Current Regime.

[EST]

19. I sent everyone away for the day-I wasn't up to messing with

people-and slept most of the day. My wife came home upset with her mother, who us not only not in the real world but is now sliding into Alzheimer's and, though still fairly functional, is becoming more and more like she always has been. After the Sunday morning bush rehabilitation ceremonies, as little politics as possible, the rest of the day.

[jrw14125]

20. Spent the day with Sagan and Vonnegut - reading

"Cosmos" and "Fates Worse Than Death"

[noamnety]

22. I just have the one republican brother-in-law

who was hosting our dinner. I didn't bring up politics, but I brought photos from the vets gulf march and basically did a teach-in, disguised as sharing vacation photos.

My uncle always brings up politics, though - this time to mention that one of his hard core republican coworkers finally apologized this last week and said he was wrong to have voted for Bush.

[Javaman]

23. Folks, please check your grammar and spelling...

It's the one thing that sets this site apart from the freepers.

Thanks. :)

[seabeyond]

25. i can think of a lot of others things that set us apart from freepers

that are a hell of a lot more important than grammer and spelling. need i list them.

oops... i guess we cant figure out that is a question so put a ? at the end of that sentence. oh oh oh and better get the ' in in case we can not figure out cant

[femmedem]

28. I didn't spend the day with my Repub FIL . However,

although he voted for * in 2000, if you listened to him now you'd think *'s first name was "That asshole."

And last Christmas, he and his wife gave us a copy of The Bush Survival Bible after they'd finished reading it.

[Atman]

29. Did you see my poll on this subject last night?

These posts should be together! LOL! I didn't do easter with the family, because I don't "celebrate" it. But it did get me to thinking...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=954107&mesg_id=954107