Kitchen Capitalista
Just heard on radio today that Martha has contributed well over $100,000 (in the past) to Democratic candidates and causes. Hm.
A bitchy convicted felon billionairess ... and a liberal/Democrat. Hm.
One of the reasons I "graduated" from leftie/rightie Demoblican/Reprocrat is I got tired of being lumped in with people who repreat (and invent) witty sound-bites of extremism aimed at The Other Side. My baby bro is a libDem and thinks Clinton was one of the best presidents EVER and that both Bush's and Reagan were evil idiots who did NOTHING right or good. My uncle is a consRep and feels the same way ... about both Bushes and Reagan being among the best ever (okay, maybe not Bush the First) and Clinton, etc., being evil idiots.
Ya know what? The most evil president in the last century was Nixon, and he was more pathetic than evil. And, like it or not, we have never had a really stupid, "idiotic" prez. Sorry.
It's comforting and exciting to listen to and read educated/famous people who agree withour world view, and then to repeat what they say (and even add original spin-off sayings of our own!) in argument against The Other Side. I did it when I was a libDem, and again after I flip-flopped to the consRep (read: "Dark") side. It's part of the juvenile "I wanna fit in and I enjoy being passionately for/against something" mindset almost EVERYONE has at one point in there lives. Sadly, People like Rush Limbaugh and Molly Ivins never outgrow it. And neither do their fan-base.
So, when I note that Martha Stewart is a less-than-compassionate personal capitalist liberal, I am not saying that "ALL libDems are greedy bitches." Okay? Just wanted to point out that the Two Sides are far, FAR more similar than most media-addicts (and their pushers/suppliers) realize.
I was snorting about how "fitting" it is that Al Sharpton is still running (or meandering, really) in the direction of a Democratic nomination ... then I recalled Buchanon on the Republican side some years ago.
As the world measures time, America is quite the youngster. For a while it's okay for young people to poop their drawz and drool. Sooner or later, though, people need to grow up and move on.
Left alone, American people are more inclined to work out problems, leave each other alone, and even lend a hand where it is needed. Too bad our politics and our politicians don't REALLY "represent" these admirable American features.
If you are a confirmed rightie or leftie ... please consider stepping back and checking out the forest as a whole, and see if you might be more helpful by not attacking The Other Side. Try, maybe, if you don't already, promoting the real world people around you and let the caricatures in Washington D.C. (and struggling to GET to Washington) die from lack of attention.
A bitchy convicted felon billionairess ... and a liberal/Democrat. Hm.
One of the reasons I "graduated" from leftie/rightie Demoblican/Reprocrat is I got tired of being lumped in with people who repreat (and invent) witty sound-bites of extremism aimed at The Other Side. My baby bro is a libDem and thinks Clinton was one of the best presidents EVER and that both Bush's and Reagan were evil idiots who did NOTHING right or good. My uncle is a consRep and feels the same way ... about both Bushes and Reagan being among the best ever (okay, maybe not Bush the First) and Clinton, etc., being evil idiots.
Ya know what? The most evil president in the last century was Nixon, and he was more pathetic than evil. And, like it or not, we have never had a really stupid, "idiotic" prez. Sorry.
It's comforting and exciting to listen to and read educated/famous people who agree withour world view, and then to repeat what they say (and even add original spin-off sayings of our own!) in argument against The Other Side. I did it when I was a libDem, and again after I flip-flopped to the consRep (read: "Dark") side. It's part of the juvenile "I wanna fit in and I enjoy being passionately for/against something" mindset almost EVERYONE has at one point in there lives. Sadly, People like Rush Limbaugh and Molly Ivins never outgrow it. And neither do their fan-base.
So, when I note that Martha Stewart is a less-than-compassionate personal capitalist liberal, I am not saying that "ALL libDems are greedy bitches." Okay? Just wanted to point out that the Two Sides are far, FAR more similar than most media-addicts (and their pushers/suppliers) realize.
I was snorting about how "fitting" it is that Al Sharpton is still running (or meandering, really) in the direction of a Democratic nomination ... then I recalled Buchanon on the Republican side some years ago.
As the world measures time, America is quite the youngster. For a while it's okay for young people to poop their drawz and drool. Sooner or later, though, people need to grow up and move on.
Left alone, American people are more inclined to work out problems, leave each other alone, and even lend a hand where it is needed. Too bad our politics and our politicians don't REALLY "represent" these admirable American features.
If you are a confirmed rightie or leftie ... please consider stepping back and checking out the forest as a whole, and see if you might be more helpful by not attacking The Other Side. Try, maybe, if you don't already, promoting the real world people around you and let the caricatures in Washington D.C. (and struggling to GET to Washington) die from lack of attention.
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