Wed Jul 31, 2013, 01:21 PM
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Author | Time | Post |
 My family and I had a WONDERFUL day yesterday because of, believe it or not, teabaggers! (Original post) |
MarianJack | Jul 2013 | OP |
| riverbendviewgal | Jul 2013 | #1 | |
| MarianJack | Jul 2013 | #3 | |
| HardTimes99 | Jul 2013 | #27 | |
| lost-in-nj | Jul 2013 | #33 | |
| cordelia | Jul 2013 | #40 | |
| riverbendviewgal | Jul 2013 | #51 | |
| pangaia | Aug 2013 | #88 | |
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| Name removed | Aug 2013 | #134 | |
| riverbendviewgal | Jul 2013 | #55 | |
| NoGOPZone | Jul 2013 | #77 | |
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| rhiannon55 | Jul 2013 | #2 | |
| MarianJack | Jul 2013 | #4 | |
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| ProudToBeBlueInRhody | Aug 2013 | #94 | |
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| ProudToBeBlueInRhody | Aug 2013 | #129 | |
| MarianJack | Aug 2013 | #128 | |
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| MarianJack | Aug 2013 | #136 | |
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| GoldenMezzoDiva | Jul 2013 | #10 | |
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| Auntie Bush | Jul 2013 | #53 | |
| The Wielding Truth | Jul 2013 | #66 | |
| dorkzilla | Aug 2013 | #100 | |
| eallen | Jul 2013 | #14 | |
| MarianJack | Jul 2013 | #21 | |
| DrewFlorida | Jul 2013 | #22 | |
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| tumtum | Jul 2013 | #24 | |
| MarianJack | Jul 2013 | #29 | |
| HangOnKids | Jul 2013 | #32 | |
| MarianJack | Jul 2013 | #38 | |
| StopTheNeoCons | Jul 2013 | #34 | |
| MarianJack | Jul 2013 | #39 | |
| Just Saying | Jul 2013 | #37 | |
| MarianJack | Jul 2013 | #41 | |
| BlancheSplanchnik | Jul 2013 | #67 | |
| MarianJack | Jul 2013 | #74 | |
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| niyad | Jul 2013 | #86 | |
| Grown2Hate | Aug 2013 | #87 | |
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| countmyvote4real | Aug 2013 | #90 | |
| IrishAyes | Aug 2013 | #91 | |
| Cha | Aug 2013 | #97 | |
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| farmbo | Aug 2013 | #108 | |
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| Jeff In Milwaukee | Aug 2013 | #109 | |
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| riverbendviewgal | Aug 2013 | #120 | |
| Purplehazed | Aug 2013 | #121 | |
| MarianJack | Aug 2013 | #126 | |
| HangOnKids | Aug 2013 | #130 | |
| Faux pas | Aug 2013 | #127 | |
| hrmjustin | Aug 2013 | #131 | |
| Unrepentant Fenian | Aug 2013 | #137 |
Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 01:30 PM
riverbendviewgal (4,143 posts)
1. Glad you enjoyed your meal.
Response to riverbendviewgal (Reply #1)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 01:32 PM
3. Come inland a bit to Kennebec county.
Response to riverbendviewgal (Reply #1)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:12 PM
27. In the words of Fred Armisen (playing NY Governor David Patterson on SNL):
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"New Jersey: Deliverance on Snow Mobiles"
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Response to riverbendviewgal (Reply #1)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:17 PM
33. not everyone from NJ
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is a "redneck racist" .... sorry you feel that most New Jerseyans are
lost |
Response to lost-in-nj (Reply #33)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:39 PM
40. I know some kind, lovely people from NJ.
Response to cordelia (Reply #40)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 03:02 PM
riverbendviewgal (4,143 posts)
51. I know everyone from NJ is not a racist
Response to riverbendviewgal (Reply #51)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 12:18 AM
88. I'm not a regressive, racist teabagger and neither is The Boss..
Response to dorkzilla (Reply #101)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 09:21 AM
107. I also live in NY upstate...
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I hear you.. haven't really been back since--- forever...
I was just very fortunate as a kid.. it certainly had a positive affect on my world view... A jazzer also...at one time..  |
Response to dorkzilla (Reply #110)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 09:39 AM
112. Well, you have me nailed.
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I've lived in NYC, NJ, Ithaca, Champaign, IL. Memphis, Cincinnati, Sante Fe and now near Rochester.. What's next. ?
Yes, you were lucky also. PS as a kid I spent many days at Yankee Stadium, 2x at Ebbets Field and 1x at the Polo Grounds. Back when a kid could afford it and take a bus across the bridge and a train to the Grand Concourse.  |
Response to pangaia (Reply #112)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 10:04 AM
114. Unfortunately by the time I could move about independently (late 70s/early 80s)...
Response to riverbendviewgal (Reply #1)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 09:18 PM
77. Well, if you brother is one, than the state must be full of them
Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 01:30 PM
rhiannon55 (2,631 posts)
2. LOVED your story!
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Your family sounds lovely. And I feel the same about the nasty teabaggers. They deserve to be offended.
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Response to MarianJack (Reply #4)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:01 PM
13. Nothing I enjoy more than pissing off teabaggers
Response to MarianJack (Reply #4)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:44 PM
44. If it was in my budget
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I would have also quietly paid for their meal. Nothing pisses them off so much as people treating other people decently.
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Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 01:39 PM
5. I was also enjoying a lobster dinner in ME last weekend too. Delicious!
Response to MarianJack (Reply #7)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:34 PM
36. We stayed in York and visited in Freeport. I didn't drive so didn't pay much attention to just
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where we were or the name of the restaurant. It was right next to a light house that was South of Portland.
 We did a lot of driving, eating and played miniature golf with that big waterfall. Where were you? |
Response to Auntie Bush (Reply #36)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:45 PM
avebury (10,817 posts)
45. Was it the Lobster Shack at Two Lights State Park?
Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 01:40 PM
6. I got flipped off for having an Obama bumper sticker on my car
Response to HangOnKids (Reply #28)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 04:16 PM
hatrack (57,249 posts)
64. Freaking cool, huh?!?!
Response to lawwolf (Reply #30)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:32 PM
35. Wow
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Mighty big shovel you brought with you today.
 Keep digging! |
Response to lawwolf (Reply #30)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 07:56 PM
73. Thank you for the benefit of your almost 7 posts a year wisdom!
Response to MarianJack (Reply #73)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 08:46 PM
75. Do you suppose that teabaggers get their stereotypes from just a few people,
Response to A Simple Game (Reply #75)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 09:56 PM
79. If you'd been paying attention to teabaggers over the last several years, than...
Response to MarianJack (Reply #79)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 10:31 PM
81. I was taught long ago that you respect people until they show that they
Response to HangOnKids (Reply #92)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 03:48 AM
95. Really? How about you telling me what the "baggers" did to deserve his disrespect?
Response to A Simple Game (Reply #95)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 12:55 PM
124. Once again, if you been paying atention for the past 4+ years,...
Response to ProudToBeBlueInRhody (Reply #94)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 04:00 AM
96. Seriously, I have no idea why you are comparing a large party
Response to A Simple Game (Reply #96)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 11:20 AM
117. ruining the dining experience of all the people around them
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How do you know they were "ruining" everyone else's dinner? Personally I'd rather dine with a family having a good time next to me than a family with a bunch of babies and toddlers. But I digress.... Eating out is a dangerous business! Alas, I rarely get the whole restaurant to myself, dammit!
And as far as Teabaggers getting respect... I suppose if they had been wearing KKK t-shirts they would get your respect and you would have just bowed your head and dined without a word just so they wouldn't be offended. Teabaggers didn't have their reputation thrust upon them...they earned it. Let's quote your own lines but change a label.... "Do you suppose that the KKK get their stereotypes from just a few people, just like you did? How many Klansmen have you actually met and talked to?" Their ideology has NOTHING to do with it....right? You are ridiculous. |
Response to A Simple Game (Reply #96)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 01:41 PM
129. I was talking about the guy not knowing the meaning behind the tshirt he was wearing
Response to lawwolf (Reply #82)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 12:52 PM
123. You couldn't upset me on the best day you ever had.
Response to MarianJack (Reply #123)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 02:01 PM
132. not sure why you would think upsetting you would be a sign of a good day
Response to lawwolf (Reply #132)
Fri Aug 2, 2013, 05:55 PM
133. Also not true.
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YOU pontifficated that my family was "boistrous" and criticized me for not respecting a teabagger.
I responded to your assumption that yoy had somehow upset me. You're a low post count person who has been asserting that I should respect teabaggers, whom have spent nearly 5 years earning nothing but contempt. My family (apparently wrongly in your version of "vision" was having an enjoyable meal on vacation. If we offended teabaggers, than they were doing that to themselves. This is something that teabaggers are very prone to do since their whole movement is fueled by rage.
I look forward to your next teabagger defense with as much anticipation as I do my next toothache. I respect it about as much, too. |
Response to lawwolf (Reply #135)
Sat Aug 3, 2013, 12:18 PM
136. AT LAST, I agree with you about something.
Response to lawwolf (Reply #11)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 03:37 PM
60. Defaulting towards the non-offensive motive is a privilege
Response to MarianJack (Reply #8)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:03 PM
15. The poster has been here almost 8 years but had to chime in with that!
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I wonder why he/she is so concerned about this? Your family sounds like a hoot and I am glad they upset the fucksticks.
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Response to HangOnKids (Reply #15)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:09 PM
bluedigger (16,874 posts)
20. It's funny the things that make people pull a fresh pair of socks out of the drawer.
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I guess sometimes they even notice the stench themselves.
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Response to lawwolf (Reply #6)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 01:53 PM
9. Then let us count our blessings
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Then let us count our blessings as the family in the OP was simply sitting down and eating rather than "shaving, sending a text message and weaving all over the road..." which in itself, sounds rather dangerous (and in many states, illegal).
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Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 01:57 PM
10. Teabagger types project their own self-hatred onto others
Response to GoldenMezzoDiva (Reply #10)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:00 PM
12. Well said and Hear, Hear!
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Welcome to DU!
PEACE!  |
Response to GoldenMezzoDiva (Reply #10)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 03:16 PM
53. Welcome to DU! Your first post is perfect.
Response to GoldenMezzoDiva (Reply #10)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 04:29 PM
The Wielding Truth (11,362 posts)
66. Welcome, GoldenMezzoDiva! Good post!
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Response to GoldenMezzoDiva (Reply #10)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 06:42 AM
100. Ugh...you poor thing...
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Having lived in Mahopac for a few years I can attest to the number of Baggers up there. Now that Roger Ailes (sp?) has moved to Garrison Putnam is a liberal no-man's land. So odd to have such ignorance so close to NYC.
Welcome to DU! |
Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:03 PM
14. Impossible. I've been assured by the right that racism has been eliminated.
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Response to eallen (Reply #14)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:10 PM
21. True. Also...
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...the right assures me that George W Turdhead is a genius and that there actuall WERE WMDs in Iraq!
Shame on us for not believing them! 
PEACE! |
Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:10 PM
22. Nice story, loved reading it, thank you!
Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:11 PM
24. Glad you enjoyed your meal and made theirs miserable.
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Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:28 PM
StopTheNeoCons (875 posts)
34. Love the post, love the sentiment, I share them with you!...nt
Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:34 PM
37. I'm happy you enjoyed your time with your family!
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My family is mostly white but we can be as loud as anyone!
 And my husband's is Italian so you can imagine.
Mmmm I bet your wife makes some yummy Puerto Rican food. I grew up in an area with a large Puerto Rican population and your story made me hungry for that over the lobster! I almost feel sorry for people like Teabaggers who go around angry all the time. But then I remember that they are doing it to themselves. Sucks to be them!  |
Response to Just Saying (Reply #37)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:40 PM
41. I do most of th cooking, but...
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...I suspect that my wife will be going to jail eventually because some of her food is so good that it can't possibly be legal!
While I totally agree that it sucks to be a teabagger and in their near perpetual state of rage, it also sucks to be around them! 
PEACE! |
Response to MarianJack (Reply #41)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 05:38 PM
BlancheSplanchnik (20,219 posts)
67. this post is useless
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without
RECIPES!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Loved your story! Pissypants teabaggies crack me up!!! |
Response to TRoN33 (Reply #47)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:59 PM
50. Since they haven't changed their basic playbook since God knows when,...
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...They'll continue to freak about just about anything!
PEACE! |
Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 03:19 PM
SCantiGOP (13,131 posts)
54. you're a bad person
Response to SCantiGOP (Reply #54)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 05:23 AM
eridani (51,907 posts)
99. The standard 60s response to that was--
Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 03:22 PM
56. Gee, thanks! Now you've made me hungry for lobster all over again!
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Maine is one of 4 states I have never been to. Going there and having fresh lobster is on my bucket list.
I'm glad your family had a good time. Pissing off teabaggers is just a bonus. If I had been there I would have been laughing along with you.  |
Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 03:30 PM
riverbendviewgal (4,143 posts)
57. From my NJ racist relatives. just received today...I never respond.
Response to riverbendviewgal (Reply #57)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 06:03 PM
JHB (36,288 posts)
69. The Lincoln "quote" wasn't from Lincoln
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http://www.snopes.com/quotes/lincoln/prosperity.asp
The Rev. William John Henry Boetcker was a Presbyterian minister and notable public speaker who served as director of the pro-employer Citizens' Industrial Alliance, a position he held when, in 1916, he produced a booklet of "nuggets" from his lectures, which included maxims such as "We cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong" and "We cannot help the poor by kicking the rich." Boetcker's collection of maxims eventually crystallized as the list of ten now-familiar entries (variously known as the "Industrial Decalogue," the "Ten Don'ts," the "Ten Cannots," "Ten Things You Cannot Do, "or the "American Charter" It certainly didn't sound like "labor is prior to capital" Lincoln. |
Response to riverbendviewgal (Reply #57)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 05:02 AM
98. Vile... the first part especially.
Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 03:44 PM
61. Your family sounds lovely, MarianJack
Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 03:55 PM
Javaman (60,975 posts)
62. Read my sig. :) Cheers! nt
Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 04:05 PM
63. Damn. I got to make it up there for lobster this summer.
Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 07:33 PM
71. Schadenfreude from teabagger distress. Love it! nt
Response to jimlup (Reply #76)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 11:35 PM
84. Um, no?
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Tea partiers, and by extension their 1% masters, ARE the enemy. There is NOTHING we have in common with those racists, red neck, war mongering, homophobic, sub-human pieces of detritus. I'd sooner drink my own vomit than find common cause with a filthy tea, hate filled tea bagger.
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Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 10:02 PM
Vinnie From Indy (10,805 posts)
80. LOL!
Response to cactusfractal (Reply #85)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 08:30 AM
105. a racist calling a racist a racist
Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 11:59 PM
niyad (98,981 posts)
86. good for you. any day I can piss off a teabagger is a good day.
Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 12:04 AM
Grown2Hate (1,917 posts)
87. GodDAMN, I wish I could Rec more than once.
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Well played! LOVE it.
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Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 01:18 AM
91. Thanks for the story, MarianJack.
Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 04:10 AM
Cha (283,952 posts)
97. I love Maine.. your vaca with Fam sounds so
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wonderful, MJ! It's inspiring you don't let haters get you down.
I'm watching "Haven"  ScyFi) episodes from netflix now.. based on the Stephen King book, "The Colorado Kid". We get treated to a fictitious Maine fishing village in Haven, Maine with all the characters, accents, and architecture of that locale.
It's sweet being reminded of it again since I'm living on Kaua'i now and will all most certainly not make it back to the East Coast of the Mainland again. |
Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 06:57 AM
102. You had fun. That's what's important.
Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 09:28 AM
farmbo (3,094 posts)
108. Great story... but you missed out on a great opportunity...
Response to farmbo (Reply #108)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 11:59 AM
riverbendviewgal (4,143 posts)
119. I love this movie so much!!!
Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 11:39 AM
118. There was around 4 family members
Response to eilen (Reply #118)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 12:01 PM
riverbendviewgal (4,143 posts)
120. You are the kind of nurse I want around me when I am sick
Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 01:31 PM
Faux pas (13,674 posts)
127. Great!
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Nothing better than instant karma, love it. My second biggest smile of the day.
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Response to MarianJack (Original post)
Sat Aug 3, 2013, 12:25 PM
137. "Mission Accomplished"! Great story, Thak you!
