I say we do a DU vacation in Aruba!! It'll be US Fundie Free

[LynneSin]

:bounce: :bounce:

I'm the type of traveller that I hate going to vacation sites that are overrun with the obnoxious american tourists. The ones that expect to travel overseas and find things exactly as they are at home.

Now that the governor of Alabama and a bunch of fundies are calling a boycott on Aruba, I feel that Aruba might just be the best place to host a DU Convention

Who's with me?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/08/aruba.boycott.ap/index.html

Mamma Halloway - admit it! You're little girl went to Aruba, got shit-faced and hooked up with some really bad types. If you were a decent mother (like mine was) you would have talked about this stuff before she went there for a class trip. Trust me, I did a class trip to Mexico City when I was 16 and my mom talked about watching out for trouble and all that stuff. Even more so, my mother had an open and honest relationship with me about drugs & alcohol. She wasn't preachy about it and she never shoved that fundie attitude down my throat. And thanks to my mom and the great relationship we had, this then-16 year old cute blonde-hair blue-eye gal came home from Mexico and had a blast. And yes, we even had one night of enjoying the fine liquors of Mexico!

[trof]

1. Sorry, I'm not allowed.

I live in Alabama and must obey my governor.
;-)

[LynneSin]

2. There will be plenty of drinking and nakedness

:D

[trof]

3. Oh. In that case...do I need a passport?

:-)

[LynneSin]

7. A passport to Lust

:D

[trof]

11. I'm only gonna look.

[LynneSin]

12. What happens in Aruba, stays in Aruba

:P

[nashbridges]

4. With all due respect

I hardly think that going to Aruba and getting shit-faced warrants a death sentence, which is probably what happened to her. And everything I've read about the case so far doesn't indicate that the government was doing a very good job of investigating the case.

Regardless of who is boycotting Aruba, it's hardly an occasion to cheer the likely death of a teenager.

[LynneSin]

8. How many children have gone missing in Alabama since this girl disappeared

Where is Gov. Bob Riley demanding that we do everything in our power to find them. In fact this post here has a list of those kids who are now missing since the Halloway incident

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5297564

Whatever happened to Natalie she didn't deserve. But there are thousands of children missing in this country and our government does absolutely nothing to help find them. I think the only thing this boycott serves is devoiding a beautiful island of fundie idiots. That alone makes visiting Aruba even more appealling!

[nashbridges]

10. Well, I did always want to visit Aruba

amd a missing child is a missing child, no matter race/nationality/location of disappearance.

It still breaks my heart when I see her mother on tv. Yes, it's unfair people are paying more attention to her than the parents of other missing teens, but it doesn't make it any less tragic.

I'm in for the trip. I'll even buy the first round of drinks.

[Initech]

5. I'm there!

How much is a flight from LA?

[jmm]

6. I don't wanna see Nancy Grace and Greta Van Susteren

on my vacation. Although now that I think about it I am dark enough that they wounld ignore me.

[redqueen]

9. I wanna go!

I really do need a vacation in the worst way. And Aruba would be perfect!

[Pool Hall Ace]

13. One thing I didn't understand about the boycott

I was channel-surfing and only half paying attention, but Dan Abrams was talking about the boycott being ridiculous, in the U.S. they blow investigations all the time, and you didn't see a call to boycott California after the O.J. Simpson verdict. Whoever was talking to him said something along the lines of, "this is different, because it's a foreign government."

I don't get it; why does boycotting Aruba make sense?

[LynneSin]

15. Poor Natalie hasn't been in the news for the past couple of months...

...and Gov. Riley hasn't been polling well (faces a tough re-election mainly because of Katrina).

So what better way to get Natalie back at the top of the hour (hell I'm watchint MSNBC for election returns and it's all Natalie) than to call for a useless boycott of Aruba.

It's the stupidest idea out there and without a doubt no one will bother with this boycott except the fundies. Which to me makes Aruba even more appealling.

Aruba is a very safe place to visit. Here's the facts. All across this country high school student groups plan trips overseas to countries not only have drinking age of 18 but even if you aren't 18 you can pretty much buy booze pretty easily. So for many of these kids its the first time they're able to have unlimited booze. I've been to Carlos & Charlie (it's a chain restaurant found throughout the Caribean & Mexico) and this place does it's best to get you pretty damn smashed. Also, with the drinking age being 18 it was easy enough for us to buy booze when I went to Mexico City at age 16. So here are these American kids, probably living sheltered, overprotectived lives suddenly in a country where not only they can booze it. Natalie didn't deserve her fate but neither does Aruba. That country did nothing wrong!

[Pool Hall Ace]

16. Then let's go to Aruba and boycott Alabama.

Seriously, I do feel bad for what her family is going through. I haven't been following this case closely, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if Natalee were responsible for her own death (alcohol poisoning) and whoever had accompanied her panicked and disposed of her body.

It's seems Mama Holloway-Twitty's priority is having Natalee in the news every night, but that is not going to solve the crime.

[El Fuego]

14. Sign me up!

:bounce: I'm ready to par-TA.

[Walt Starr]

17. I'm down with that!

Aruba sounds like a nice place to me.

Certainly better than the trip I did to Alabama a few years ago.

[KitchenWitch]

18. Sounds like fun

Make it during the cold season here (November through March).

[NewJeffCT]

19. Since my wife & I were planning on going to Aruba anyhow... I'm in

We were supposed to go for our 4th anniversary later this month, but that is on hold

(my mother-in-law was going to come from overseas to live with us for a while to help us out with our daughter... but, her Visa was denied!)

I love Aruba - went 7 years ago & stayed at the Marriott.

[Ramsey]

20. Best idea ever!!

I am there!

[momster]

21. Aruba

We were there a couple of years ago. We loved it. Most relaxing place I've ever been. Sun, surf and sandcastles with a little snorkling thrown in. We've been planning a return trip -- once the finances settle down -- and feel no qualms whatsoever about going back. After all, if I didn't boycott NYC when the Republicans were there....

[NMMNG]

22. If I had the money I'd be there in a heartbeat

Sun, surf and no fundies--what a combination!