Liberals in Real Life 2

I didn't expect to write another of these so soon, but I had an incredibly funny, and sad, conversation today in line at the grocery store today. I feel compelled to write this before the memory fades and details are lost. Again, as in the last post, I have to say that I am not making this story up, and I am not exaggerating anything. It's ridiculous, I know. In fact, it's almost unbelievable. But it really did happen.

I was with my girlfriend, waiting in line with our food, and there's that ridiculous Time magazine issue completely dedicated to Al Gore's big swindle. You know, the one with the polar bear standing on some ice that's in a big patch of broken ice floating in the arctic somewhere, looking all hungry and skinny (because he just came out of hibernation.) Personally, I look through magazines like this and make fun of what's inside: you know, the obsolete science that has been disproved, the wonders of wind power (even though environmentalists hate it too because it kills birds), just to pass the time until I get to the front of the line. The lady in front of me though, well, she was definitely either a liberal or under their mind control. Probably both, but more of the latter.

She casually comments to us how it's just so sad about the polar bears, saying how she thinks about the poor things drowning all the time. Naturally, I have to let her know that there is, in fact, no evidence of such drownings- at all- as only four polar bears have ever been found drowned. She counters by asking how anyone could find drowned polar bears if they're under water. Well, people can go under water too, you know. They're called scuba divers. (I didn't say that.) That's how they found the incredibly few they did. (By the way, polar bears have always drowned from time to time. It happens. Animals in nature die.) She acted as if I hadn't said anything, thought, completely ignoring it, when I pointed out my fact and the logic behind it. Her emotions didn't care.

Okay, so I'm dealing with a complete brainwashed ignoramus, (that word is defined as "an extremely ignorant person" before you accuse me of name-calling), so I go in to comedy mode. I say, well hey, maybe the polar bears are having a rough time, but at least all the walruses are okay. I mean, think about it, if there are less polar bears because of drownings, the walruses won't get killed and eaten so much. So it's good for them, at least. No one ever thinks of the walruses. A valid point, I think, and it's at least a little funny, right? Nothing. Not even a crack of a courtesy smile. No sense of humor in this lady whatsoever. She wasn't offended, per say, but she did feel she still knew what she was talking about as she rambled on about polar bears some more. This lady was in to this stuff. To her credit, she wasn't the angry type of liberal. She never got all mean faced and snotty or sassy or anything like that. I suppose that counts for something. Anyway, I just kind of drifted off with my talking saying it's all a lie, shaking my head.

At this point I had exited the conversation, because, well, some people just can't be helped. (See post "Useful Idiots and Political Correctness" and read about the useful idiots... because she was a big one.) However, she kept talking with my girlfriend, and she revealed just how disturbed she was- not just about the polar bears, but flat out disturbed in general. I'm talking about the level that would earn her a spot in a commercial for Al Gore's presidential run next to poor ol' Cindy Sheehan. It turns out that she felt so distraught about the poor polar bears drowning, (we're talking just the polar bears here, if you haven't noticed, not the rest of the world's alleged doomsday or anything), that she said she couldn't sleep at night and had to go on antidepressants. Yes, you read that right. Antidepressants. Al Gore's movie and the nightly news with pictures of polar bears and Time magazine and whatever else have all been so disturbing to her, despite all the evidence to the contrary of this ridiculous theory, which I'm sure she ignores because it's not presented emotionally, that she started popping happy pills.

...

Well there you go.