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IrishAyes

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November 9, 2014

I don't think we much care WHERE you go, so long as you go.

Backstabbing is a cowardly act best confined to GD. Call us blind all you please; but you SHALL NOT do so here with impunity and retain access, I assure you. Do you think we're children you can bandy words with and be assured of 'winning'? Don't bet on it. We don't try to stop you and your sort in your bloodletting elsewhere, but we have the perfect right to keep our own space sane. Get this much straight: President Barack Obama and his own ARE our heart-family, and anyone who'd allow disrespect of family in their own living room wouldn't be worth much.

November 9, 2014

Thanks for guarding what I left unattended so long.

I watched the presser live of course and was very proud as always of President Obama. Since then it looks a lot more like the GOP 'squealing' than us dirty ol' liberals. They're just having fits, aren't they? Just wait; they ain't seen nothin' yet.

November 5, 2014

Hope everyone gets to watch President Obama's press conference this afternoon.

Live is always best, but at least there's always the internet. I don't know the time exactly, but it's usually around 11-12 CST.

While I'm at it, good time to remind everyone we should take out actual pen and paper and write words of appreciation to him. Yesterday's debacle was NOT his fault in any way. But for him the GOP would have us at war and in bread lines continually. This was a hard blow to take, but they're running out of ammunition anyway. Demographics will get them sooner than later.

November 5, 2014

Absolutely.

When the Ignoratti bend over to kiss their true god, the Golden Calf of Wall Street, remember that it leaves their arse exposed to receive the mule kick they've got coming. Keep your steel-toed boots on, people. We've got work to do.

November 5, 2014

Unfortunately true - if only he'd had the sense to be born white.

When racists are removed from the equation, the approval rating of this most noble of men hovers in the high 80's.

The only thing proven yesterday is that the Ignoratti/Idiocracy had breath enough left for one loud dying scream.

My reply to a post elsewhere:

"...... the only people we have to 'thank' for yesterday's election result are those who bent over and kissed the Golden Calf of Wall Street, aka KochHeads and their sheeple. You can answer your own question about 'why all the anti-GOP talk' easily just by looking in the mirror. Enjoy your last rays of stolen sunshine while you can - the demographic clock is ticking away, and your time on the political stage shrinks by the minute."

I won't start a whole new thread, but I do want to remind everyone WE'RE NOT BEATEN UNLESS WE GIVE UP! Keep the long game forefront in your mind and heart at all times.

October 28, 2014

Some people say they stop going to see their parents with Alzheimer's when they no longer recognize

their own kids. I imagine the process scares the kids too. Thing is, the Alzheimer's sufferer still knows that somebody is caring for them even if they don't know who. That matters.

October 28, 2014

Maybe your governor could bunk with Christie

and the other GOP govs under investigation along with various senators, when they all get sent to the same prison.

I've always enjoyed voting in person, so I can march in in front of other people and get my voting sticker too. But I'm getting older now, and it never occurred to me that anything could happen to me before I could make it to the polls. Maybe I should rethink the matter.

October 28, 2014

Sorry I don't have a link to offer,

and I also know that polls are wickedly unreliable.

That said, however, some major outfit came out with a poll lately showing that if the haters' votes were disregarded, President Obama's approval rating shot up to the high 80's somewhere.

So he IS wildly popular and beloved by non-racists.

October 28, 2014

Pig Boy GIVES me gas.

October 28, 2014

Great OP. Only wish I could rec it & the comments x1M.

Love the costumes too. But I heard about one today that would be ideal for me. Just plain clothes, and when someone asks what I'm supposed to be, I can say "A psychopath. They're hard to spot."

Can't remember quite where I heard that, but I liked it! So I hope it ain't true.

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About IrishAyes

Still an ardent Irish-American Catholic damnYankee Yellow Dog Democrat socialist after all these years. (cue Simon music) Army brat and wife for many years, now have been on the loose far longer than I was married. After my two red chows died, I took in a mini-beagle cross that I named Molly Maguire, thinking she might need a good Irish name like my original real one. Later she got a baby sister, a smooth-coat JRT I named Brigid after the greatest of the ancient Celtic goddesses. My great-grandfather and his son fought for Michael Collins and barely made it out of Ireland one step ahead of John Bull. They slipped over to Wales for new identities and then forward to the States for a fresh start. That makes me second generation of illegal but certainly justified immigrants. There are precious few people to whose defense I fly immediately, but the list includes Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama even when I disagree with him - it happens! - and living Irish patriots Gerry Adams and Martin \\\'Mind Your Kneecaps\\\' McGuiness. I pray earnestly for a united and free Ireland rescued from all official British occupation, with every square inch of alleged \\\'ancestral lands\\\' now held immorally and illegally by the invaders returned to the rightful owners. Irish-only rule for Ireland. No foreign masters anymore! I find it passing strange when Brits chide ME about \'interfering\' in Irish politics!
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