I'm about to lose a Facebook friend over Kennedy.

It just infuriated me that someone asked if Mary Jo would be the first to meet him in heaven. I think I've lost it.
I,unfortunately, get upset when people I have been aquaintances with don't like me, but I need to get over this childish feeling.
Yetch.

They're not worth having as a friend.

I just don't tend to get really political on my facebook because of the wide range of friends that I have. I'm not normally a confrontational person. So I hope that when I take a stand on something,maybe it rings a bell in some friend's minds that I really feel strongly about it.
I will never, to the day I die, understand people who are mean just for the sake of it. It's completely foreign to my nature. Incomprehensible.

By that I mean that she doens't mean it in the way her belief system decrees, if she's a Christian. If so, her Bible tells her that all believers live in a state of grace and are thus forgiven for any and all sins. So tell her that since he was forgiven for all of his sins, she just might be the first to meet him in heaven, exchange one of his big 'ol bear hugs with him and let him know she forgives him, too.

It'll probably piss her off. :hi:

From Wiki:

Michael Dutton Douglas (November 16, 1945 – November 6, 1963) was the 17-year-old former boyfriend of Laura Welch (later First Lady Laura Bush)<1> who was killed when Welch, also 17, failed to stop at a stop sign while driving and broadsided his vehicle. Welch was not ticketed or charged in connection with the collision.

Douglas and Welch were students together at Robert E. Lee High School in Midland, Texas. Douglas has been described as an active athlete, physically attractive, and intelligent. He was nominated as the school's most popular male student while a junior, an honor typically awarded only to graduating high school seniors.

In May 2000, a two-page police report detailing the fatal crash was made public. The report revealed that on November 6, 1963, Welch was driving her Chevrolet Impala sedan with one passenger (Judy Dykes, also 17). It was a clear Wednesday night, shortly after 8 p.m., when Welch entered the intersection of State Highway 349 and Farm to Market Road 868 (now Loop 250) (at 32°02′37″N 102°05′07″W / 32.04362300°N 102.08530400°W / 32.04362300; -102.08530400).<2> Welch failed to observe the intersection's stop sign and collided into Douglas' Chevrolet Corvair sedan. Welch and Dykes sustained minor injuries; Douglas was pronounced dead on arrival at Midland Memorial Hospital. Welch was not charged with any offense.

The future First Lady made a brief remark in March 2000 about the crash, "I know this as an adult, and even more as a parent, it was crushing ... for the family involved and for me as well."<3>

A friend was mourning Sen. Kennedy's passing and some asswrench jumped in with something about Mary Jo Kopechne's family. I countered with the Douglas family, but noted that it'd be classless to invoke the name upon Laura Bush's passing.

When the asswrenches cry that Kennedy received "special treatment," remember that Bush wasn't charged with any infraction, not even for running the stop sign. Kennedy, at least, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury, pleaded guilty and received a suspended sentence. Also, his driver's license was suspended for nearly 18 months. Quite lenient, but far more punishment than Laura Bush received.

you'll feel better for it

Don't give some facebook "friend" the power to make you betray your character. I like you and admire you. Consider this a wash and graciously let that person go.

:hug: :loveya:

Those who condemn Senator Kennedy for his past don't think twice about supporting republican lawmakers who are partly responsible for the needless deaths of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands Iraqis.
Don't sweat it. We still like you. :hi:

and you never have the heartburn of hearing from them again.

thus is the FB fate of all my conservative friends and relatives.

fortunately I haven't seen any grave-dancing... :grr: