Being a good American, I consume. I go to the grocery store. I have a computer and I shop online and check prices. I'm not a perfect American because I do cash, not credit. I have credit cards because for some things you have to have credit cards, like fly, [but I'm boycotting the airline racket]. I had a mortgage once, but not now. I've told my children in no uncertain terms they are not going into debt for college, ever. There's no guarantee you'll get a job and you don't know what you want to do anyway at this point.
I reuse, recycle and repurpose. I save stuff.
So where I spend my money is the issue.
Not at Chik-fil-A. They're overt with the God stuff and are closed on Sunday, just because.
Not at Domino's, they're overt forced birthers. So no pizza from them.
I shop for things on ebay. If you have a cutesy God themed template I hit the back button. I don't care how good your deal is. If there is even so much a "God Bless You", I'm out of your listing.
It's not so much as I am against God, but I figure if you really have the spiritual thing going on, you would realize that you don't have to plaster it everywhere, especially in regular commerce. It's a turn off.
If it's a not so subtle signal to other God users, then I wouldn't like that either. It smacks of some sort of sub rosa agreement of which I want no part. I realize it may be reflexive on your part, but to me it's grating. You have Sunday, according to Chik-fil-A, in order to go all out with the program with like minded people. Thankfully the blue laws don't prevent me from consumerism anymore.
Then there's all these politicians.
Now here's where it gets really icky: A bunch of [mostly] ugly white men, with accents that make me wretch, turning the usually boring subject of legislation toward sex and genitals and reproductive minutiae into every.day.discussion.
I don't discuss sex [mine] with anybody else but my husband. He affords me the same courtesy. And frankly we don't really discuss it that much. We have other things to talk about. We've had three children and everything sexual, reproductive, pre-natal and beyond has gone well in the communications department and he was quite good [and gracious] about changing diapers. He's intelligent and conversational. He likes to keep up with the news. I am not sure whether that was my influence or not. He didn't vote when we met, but I fixed that. He votes the way I tell him to after we discuss the issues and the candidates. He'd rather I do the research, but by the time he hits the voting booth he's informed and has a sample ballot cheat sheet.
His information is TV. Mine is internet and TV. We discuss the news. We were out in the boonies when the Clinton Impeachment was going on with satellite and were news junkies at that time.
Enter: A bunch of [mostly] ugly white men, with accents that make me wretch.
I mean really. Fellatio transcripts on the front page of the WaPo? Really?
Did we need that? I know I didn't.
A few years pass, post Newt&Livingstone Unlimited...the debate gets ever cruder. Torture. Bush listening to God. C Street. Add in some wide stances and dalliances in the cloak room and pages and the unfortunately named Weiner incident, a sprinkling of Vitter, Ensign, more C Street and we have ugly old white men colluding to cover up their ickiness by hiding behind religion.
Goldman Sachs' Blankfein: "Doing god's work". [I can't believe he said that.]
Then comes the Health Care Debate. Bart Stupak and Virginia Foxx and the rest of the assholes going crazy trying to add reiterative bills on top of already reiterative bills about no Federal funds for abortion. I know there are more, but they seemed obsessed and they are the ones that stick in my mind. The entire R side of the aisle and quite a few Democrats are on my shit list. I don't even want to discuss the Senate, that bastion of fork-ed tongue seat warmers.
And they just can't leave it alone. God forbid [yes that God, or whatever God, so sick of God] that sick people might have a shot at some sort of healthcare because you are so obsessed with abortion, we now have to be raked over the coals for your provincial sensitivities about birth control!?
Let's face it. You're not all practicing the Santorum method. Otherwise you'd have 10 kids apiece and there would be no female legislators in Congress.
Which brings me to your Presidential nominating process.......2 Mormons, at least 2 Catholics and a bunch of fringe-y weirdos?
Newt is against abortion, yet he's ok with serial marriage and other stuff which I don't even want to think about. He was a Baptist, now he's a Catholic because Callista is a Catholic and so he had to convert. Callista says: "Greek Islands, campaign sabbatical!!" Newt jumps. [Wonder why her name is Callista? Callisto is already the Greek feminine.]
Mitt is against abortion and BC now because he's Mitt. He's got 5 sons like stair steps so you know some sort of method was used there or else Anne would have had 5 more. But all that is sort of run of the mill compared to the religious thing popping up and you find out Anne's parents weren't allowed to their wedding ceremony. Really? Some God wants that? Stupid God that is.
Ron is against everything except honest rape, you know, hormone treatment mayyyyyybe. Down with the Fed! and bring on the survivalists!! BC cuts down an OB's bottom line you know. Forget about getting your eyes examined, that wasn't in the ACA, Rand doesn't have much of a chairside manner anyway. Break out your Foxfire manual and old Euell Gibbons books because we're gonna party like it's Cornucopia in Ethiopia according to the Paul Bloc. Live off the land......like patriotic 'murrikan rugged individualists.
Rick is against everything. Let's just say he thinks long and hard [ok, we have to agree that whatever word combination comes after Santorum is rife with possibilities, so go ahead and snicker, it can't be helped] about other people having sex. I don't know why, I assume he has had sex as many times as he has children but I don't want to think about it. But he thinks about it. ALL.THE.TIME. Personally, I think he has issues, is giving his kids issues, and the people voting for him an excuse for their issues, but I digress.
Which brings us back to Newt and then Mitt and Ron, because as Santorum pushes the God window farther right, the rest of them are following all the way to the edge [of the flat earth].
Enough!!! with the God and the female parts and female reproductive health care issues and your guillotines and the trampling your faith bit. I want to live in a polite society where children don't have to be afraid to watch the news or their parents don't have to be afraid for them and then have to explain that which might be NOT be appropriate until MUCH LATER!!!
I also don't want to have to explain again how it isn't polite for people to beat each other up over their teleological views in public, especially in the context of politics. And how some potential candidate is all het up about other people having sex, ALL.DAY.LONG.
I don't want to hear it either. I don't respect you for it. In fact it is just the opposite. I want to know how intelligent you are with respect to the things you might have to know to be able to like accomplish something. Well not really, I think you are all idiots. Rude ill-bred idiots. God wielding, hypocritical, impolite idiots with nothing to offer, except fake outrage.
All of your God wielding does not improve the economy or the environment. It creates no jobs. It threatens human existence because you are too cozy with world killing carbon super powers and their precious sunk costs. I don't buy into all that "Left Behind" crap, the rapture or some afterlife monarchy on another planet.
Total Turn off.
P.S. This goes triple for the contingent of old white men displayed on MSNBC who are supposed to be sorting things out in a rational 21st century manner.
P.P.S That means you: Tweety, Morning Joe, Politico Jerks, EJ Dionne, Peggy Noonan [gag me], Chucky Todd and your little friends whom you have on for your daily God fests.
P.P.P.S. Oh I forgot you Tim Kaine and Bob Casey and some other guy I've never heard of, another Democrat......way to be classy and muddy the waters. Speaking for myself, you are such jerks, birth control is probably not even an issue in your lives.