FRIENDS ONLY

[leigh57]

I thought I should include an entry to indicate that most of the stuff in my journal is friends-locked and explain a little bit about that. Fic and some fannish stuff is the exception. A couple thoughts on why you may or may not want to friend me:

Things I love:
My kids. My family. My friends.
Insane liberals
Kiefer Sutherland and almost everything about 24 until the end of 8x17;)
BSG
Books, words, and ideas
Writing fanfic
Irony and sarcasm
Laughing at idiocy
Intelligent, respectful debate
Learning about anything and everything I'll never have the opportunity to experience myself
Profanity

Things I hate:
Actual embodied evil from below the lowest rung of hell, Donald Trump
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and everyone like them. No, seriously. If you fangirl Ann Coulter, we are probably not a good LJ matchup.
The NRA
Republicans who want to sink Obama's legislation just to watch him fail
Intolerance
Nationalism
Fundamentalism
Materialism

I may edit this as I think of others. If you want to friend me, comment on this entry and it's likely that I'll friend you back. I do like to know something about the people on my friends list, so give me a hint as to what you think we have in common:)

FO banner of excellence by dealan311. You ROCK, Kay:)

Comments

[marinw.livejournal.com]

Great list.

Two things I love are reason and science. I don't claim to be very good at either, but I love it when they triumph over religion and pettiness. Can we have more of that please?

I'm not a pacifist. A nation should be able to defend itself. But world peace would be really, really, good.

In what way do you hate Nationalism? I have a healthy amount of Patriotism for Canada,is that the same?

I TRY not to be materialistic, but I do like stuff.

The Republicans are so easy to mock. The Senate is voting on the health care bill today. I totally don;t get why anyone who isn't an insurance executive wouldn't want universal health care.

And yes, Obama is still my hero.

[leigh57.livejournal.com]

Well this certainly isn't an exhaustive list of things I love. It's just what made the top cut in the five minutes I was writing this entry. As I said, at some point I might expand it. We'll see. I love the results of science and reason, but I'm so spectacularly bad at both that it's sad.

I'm not a pacifist either, but my feelings on that subject are conflicted. As for the nationalism, I'm not sure I'm even answering the question you're asking, but I'll try. What I hate is people considering themselves superior because of their nationality. This is one of the reasons I wanted to hide so much during the Bush years. It was like, "We're America and we're the best, so fuck you!" Obama is truly refreshing in this regard. I don't know. I get scared by what people will do in defense of national pride. As far as I'm concerned everybody has the same worth. /rant.

You know? My lack of materialism isn't a virtue. I just don't like stuff.

Amusingly enough, Obama's not really my hero. I support him to the max, but I'm always going to be a Hillary girl at heart. What I want is for everybody in Washington to stop dicking around and do something that's good for the country, rather than what they think is good for their political parties. Wow I can get going, no?

[marinw.livejournal.com]

What I hate is people considering themselves superior because of their nationality.

I feel the same way about Religious people.

Hilary does seem to be doing well as Secretary of State. Afganistan is such a mess. Oy.

And on a unrelated topic, Don't forget to vote

[leigh57.livejournal.com]

I actually am religious, or at least I have a belief system, but I'm about as far as you can get from considering mine superior to anyone else's. The crap people do in the name of God. It's fucked.

KIEFER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*votes*