Writing as both a handbag-toting woman and as a no longer proud US Citizen:
Why anyone would be willing to pay more than $25 American dollars for a handbag is beyond me! All we need is something that is not unattractive, has a strap (for me, a shoulder strap), and several pockets or compartments in which to stow our various necessities. Personally, I fail to see any difference between a so-called "designer" bag and those that are sold in the Wal-mart or Target, or even from sidewalk pushcarts. I guess the thrill in a handbag or any other item (car, condo, what have you?)consists for some in going to their friends to brag about how much they paid for it. Each tries to outspend the other, insane though that may seem. By the way, I feel the same way about a Rollex watch as opposed to a $25 Timex. Call me crazy! Now, about Bush, and to a certain extent, his Democratic opponents who are running for the presidency in 2008: "A plague on (ALL) their houses!" I still contend at the old age of 66 years that it has never been my function as a woman to produce cannon fodder for some old men's wars, whether it be my children, my grandchildren, or my far-in-the-future descendants. As for that blasted BOMB, I was among the "cranks and Kooks" who marched to ban it as early as 1957, when I was only 16. At the time it was a highly unpopular cause -- those were the McCarthy years. Bush's obsession with WMD's got us into Iraq, and if he has his way it will get us into Iran, leaving the new President with a double mess. And just as an aside: where did the leaders of the United States get the idea that the only country that should be allowed to have WMD's is also the only country that ever dropped TWO of them - on a civilian population, at that? If the US needs these horrors for "defense" in a country that has not had a live war on its shores since the mid 1800's, then why not other countries whose enemies are on their borders? Just a thought....
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Date: 2007-10-27 03:56 pm (UTC)Why anyone would be willing to pay more than $25 American dollars for a handbag is beyond me! All we need is something that is not unattractive, has a strap (for me, a shoulder strap), and several pockets or compartments in which to stow our various necessities. Personally, I fail to see any difference between a so-called "designer" bag and those that are sold in the Wal-mart or Target, or even from sidewalk pushcarts. I guess the thrill in a handbag or any other item (car, condo, what have you?)consists for some in going to their friends to brag about how much they paid for it. Each tries to outspend the other, insane though that may seem.
By the way, I feel the same way about a Rollex watch as opposed to a $25 Timex. Call me crazy!
Now, about Bush, and to a certain extent, his Democratic opponents who are running for the presidency in 2008: "A plague on (ALL) their houses!" I still contend at the old age of 66 years that it has never been my function as a woman to produce cannon fodder for some old men's wars, whether it be my children, my grandchildren, or my far-in-the-future descendants. As for that blasted BOMB, I was among the "cranks and Kooks" who marched to ban it as early as 1957, when I was only 16. At the time it was a highly unpopular cause -- those were the McCarthy years.
Bush's obsession with WMD's got us into Iraq, and if he has his way it will get us into Iran, leaving the new President with a double mess.
And just as an aside: where did the leaders of the United States get the idea that the only country that should be allowed to have WMD's is also the only country that ever dropped TWO of them - on a civilian population, at that? If the US needs these horrors for "defense" in a country that has not had a live war on its shores since the mid 1800's, then why not other countries whose enemies are on their borders? Just a thought....