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renie408

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14. I have lost both my brother and my sister for similar reasons.

Sun Feb 26, 2012, 01:58 AM

Feb 2012

We make nice for the sake of my 80 year old mother, but I haven't spoken to either of them privately in years. I see them at the minimum required holiday visits and that's it. My sister has steadily become more and more religious over the years until now she cannot have a conversation without praising God in every other sentence. She thinks Rick Santorum is a GREAT guy and that what this country needs to get straightened out is more religion. My brother is so conservative it is just ridiculous. He is a flat out Tea Bagger.

I just can't talk to them any more. It's sad.

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Probably just lost my brother-in-law... [View all] FLyellowdog Feb 2012 OP

I hate my sister in law with an passion for a different reason New Yawker Feb 2012 #1

This guy is my sister's second husband. FLyellowdog Feb 2012 #5

My sister's husband is a sanctimonious ass. Darth_Kitten Feb 2012 #26

if you think a child is not getting enough food, please do something grasswire Feb 2012 #10

We have. Even a friend of the mother contacted ACS New Yawker Feb 2012 #15

I truly understand. grasswire Feb 2012 #20

? EmeraldCityGrl Feb 2012 #41

I Keep Saying This Campaign Is A Civil War TheMastersNemesis Feb 2012 #2

I just can't wrap my head around all the hatred toward our president. FLyellowdog Feb 2012 #6

Ironic you should say that -- I have been calling it the Uncivil War Samantha Feb 2012 #11

Oh boy, would I love to chat some more with you!! BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2012 #32

Civil War Addendum TheMastersNemesis Feb 2012 #36

This makes me sad but at some point we all have to make choices. FLyellowdog Feb 2012 #43

Well, you sure told him. limpyhobbler Feb 2012 #3

I have NO idea why he sent this to me. FLyellowdog Feb 2012 #7

Not to put too fine a point on it.. Fumesucker Feb 2012 #23

I think that's a good call. Jackpine Radical Feb 2012 #31

yep...the aggressive authoritarian BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2012 #34

Hi Blanche. Another rec Jackpine Radical Feb 2012 #56

Had a "friend" who kept sending me similar e mails Zoigal Feb 2012 #4

Good on you!!! FLyellowdog Feb 2012 #9

The way I stopped my brother from sending them-- eridani Feb 2012 #12

Oh yeah. Webster Green Feb 2012 #16

Usually with the appropriate Snopes article in accompaniment. The Doctor. Feb 2012 #42

I rely on Snopes almost daily.nt FLyellowdog Feb 2012 #45

I have never used "reply all.".what does it do? dixiegrrrrl Feb 2012 #39

It sends your reply to the sender AND everyone else who received the original message pinboy3niner Feb 2012 #50

Hm..I now see the potential. dixiegrrrrl Feb 2012 #55

Your reply will go to everyone who got the original email. Webster Green Feb 2012 #51

A few years ago I used reply all for something FLyellowdog Feb 2012 #44

Someone probably objected and complained to AOL pinboy3niner Feb 2012 #54

Just tell them to take their complaints to the person who eridani Feb 2012 #57

Yeah.. pretty sad isn't it... Yooperman Feb 2012 #8

I thought the exact same thing...here it is on Youtube just 6 months after 9/11 pkdu Feb 2012 #19

why would little boots think much about him? newspeak Feb 2012 #28

He really makes me ill to my stomach. Yooperman Feb 2012 #33

i agree with you barbtries Feb 2012 #53

I have a NoPolitics list on Facebook for that reason. moriah Feb 2012 #13

I have lost both my brother and my sister for similar reasons. renie408 Feb 2012 #14

So sorry. FLyellowdog Feb 2012 #46

Send him this ... Bush was the biggest grandstander of all. Arugula Latte Feb 2012 #17

Nitwit brothers in law exist to be lost Warpy Feb 2012 #18

He was her college sweetheart, revisited so to speak. FLyellowdog Feb 2012 #48

that is interesting though hfojvt Feb 2012 #21

I would have taunted him endlessly with pictorial jokes about Republicans. Zalatix Feb 2012 #22

Good for you! He deserved no less for sending such bullshit! Duppers Feb 2012 #24

One of the signs that most people are accepting that Bush was a huge mistake, The Backlash Cometh Feb 2012 #25

Um...demented dogma, eh? gong bath water Feb 2012 #27

OH...I see gong's gone BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2012 #35

if you did, it's his choice- Bluerthanblue Feb 2012 #29

R#27 & K, for, sadly, it happens. In '04 I had to de-fang a web-ring of my Vietnam shipmates UTUSN Feb 2012 #30

An ocean of Obama hating spams out there. mick063 Feb 2012 #37

I Am In Process of Finding New Doctor - Same Shit otohara Feb 2012 #38

OMG...good luck with your new doc. You needed one!!!!! FLyellowdog Feb 2012 #49

You didn't "lose" him, the guy was already lost Mikeystyle Feb 2012 #40

No great loss. Ken Burch Feb 2012 #47

i don't know if you lost him. barbtries Feb 2012 #52