new year's eve

It has been a year of prose, pretend, unpredictability and thank goodness promise. For some, who wished for equal rights, the road was bumpy, bruising, and finally big enough to fit both a heterosexual and homosexual in the same unit, foxhole, and dormitory of the military. Still a bit shy from over at least DADT is closer to a finish line than ever before.

2010 had demonstrated loud and clear that what you say has much more weight than on what you do. And if what you say is never based on fact, but relies on fiction you have a better chance in relating to those who need no truth, but feast on lots of fear, foibles and disenfranchisement.

The past year has created a bit of religious fervor, filled with frenzied rantings and ravings that Jesus is disappointed in America because of all things, America has become less Christian. Even though we have a President who wants health care for all, children of immigrants to access citizenship, equal pay for both genders, payment for the unemployed, better schools for the children, it seems those who think they know Jesus feel while the President helps the helpless there is a war on Christianity.

Many people have stepped forward to provide leadership to a flock of lemmings who feel lost and need no compass but the bile, bigotry and bias of those who would rather divide to conquer, dismiss to define, and censure than find consensus. Popular personalities have risen from the depths of denial, the recess of non-reason, the inner sanctums of ignorance. Lunatic luminaries like Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck need no truth but their Tweets or chalkboards to make A equal B equal C equal hate. Senile sophomoric morons like John McCain can hold up entire good intentions because his intention is to spite the public that voted for Obama. And the good ole’ Conservative activist judges on the Supreme Court had decided that Corporations are people too and as people have the same rights to buy politicians and elections.

It has been a year where reason has left the room replaced by insanity, and ignorance. It has been a year when NO was said more often and Yes we can feel upon deaf ears. It has been a year where values were based lies, morals swept under the carpet, and democracy cried out in pain. A scary year for me indeed as it relates to the politics and government of this country.

On this eve of the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011, I too, like many friends and family am making a list for the next 365 days. I am hoping and praying, wishing and wanting good to gain ground. I am seeking prosperity and peace, promise and provision for all. But most of all, as it relates to this country, I am imagining a sudden realization that silence is not golden, that sitting idly by is a waste, and that the shrieks of others we hear is just deafening, saying very little and making even less sense. I am hoping that the voice of reason prevail, and the words “...of the people and by the people...” gain ground and America becomes a nation where all of us can be proud and accepted participants.

Happy and healthy 2011, please make sure it leads us into a country that does not deny, divide and destroy all who live here. Please make sure it is a year of inclusion instead of exclusion, and please make it a year in which we all can and do make a difference.

no more POO

Just looking at it from the periphery, it seems like silly stuff, the stuff that one could say much ado about nothing. But then again when you look a bit closer, all this ado about nothing stuff seems to add up to one large pile of foul smelling POO. It seems double standards, loose standards, no standards have become the mantra for 2010, and I believe if left alone will become the anthem for 2011 and beyond.

Easy breezy reading and you can find dozens of stories about Kelsey Grammar running down the path toward his fourth marriage. Still legally wed to bride number three he has fallen head over heals for bride number four and as soon as the state of California says okey doe key, Kelsey will marry…again! The state of California is in the throws of a very important debate about the sanctity of marriage and how when two people who do love each other that happen to be of the same gender wed, the future of the Institution of Marriage will collapse and the end of civilization as we know it will cease. There is great angst shared by hetero’s who think homo’s know nothing about Gods way for marriage, but the same hetero’s have little to no comment on the lack of love and sincerity of a straight marriage. Cheat, lie, participate in adultery, but still get married cause that’s what heterosexual men and women can do in God’s plan. Permit Gays to even attempt to marry and the Devil have found his way, leading to the end of days! I wish Kelsey Grammar good luck on his fourth attempt, but would like to wish my same sex friends better luck on their first attempt.

Following in the foot steps of other reality star females, like Snookie and Sarah Palin, Amber Portwood newly crowned femme fatale of the MTV series Teen Mom, was recently released from jail Tuesday, after spending 24 hours behind bars on domestic violence charges stemming from an on camera brawl with her daughter Leah’s father Gary Shirley that unfolded in front of Leah. She is facing three felony charges--two counts of domestic battery and one count of neglect of a dependent, along with one misdemeanor charge of domestic battery.

I don’t watch Teen Mom. (But in reading the news or listening to the newscast, it seems that Amber Portwood is mentioned in the first 5 minutes) I know when my son and daughter were both teens, I as a caring Dad who happened to be a Gay man also, made sure that I instilled values, morals, ethics and standards in my children’s lives. I know that their mother and I made sure that we spoke about love, sex and responsibility. We knew that opportunities both positive and negative would smack our kids in the face and both my ex wife and I made sure to explain the consequences of the good , the bad and the ugly.

But talk to the Family Values folk the ones who want to deny the LGBT community any rights in having kids, raising kids, adopting kids, you hear lots of hubbub about Gods disgust with Gay moms and dads. You hear how hell will take over the Earth when two of the same gender raises kids. You never hear about the value of love in a home and you never hear how wrong it is to have straight people raise kids who have very little love or respect for them.

I hope Amber Portwood enjoyed her 15 minutes of fame, but I worry about the 15 years or more of emotional baggage her daughter Leah will carry with her from these disastrous formative years.

There are tons and tons of double standards bandied about in this nation by people who disguise their racism, homophobia, sexism as tenants from God as they claim they are messengers of God’s will and way.

The Roman Catholic Church has hidden records of abusive, molesting Priests, and when found with a smoking gun in their parishes blame someone else for placing the gun in their hands. Dozens of evangelical ministers proclaim the evil of the Gay, the ruining of the Races as they practice adultery, embezzlement, and blasphemy. Conservative Christians recite verse and chapter from their Testament, but refuse to help the poor, provide health care, give the unemployed money to live. Orthodox Rabbi’s in New York are ready to support a man for Governor who cheats on his wife, owns a large sex business, threatens his political opponents physically but once he says something nice about Gays, wants to part the Red Sea in front of his house.

This all could be perceived as silly stuff. The question could be asked why bother. You might even say it is what it is. But none of this stuff happens in a vacuum, and none of this stuff is isolated. And all of this stuff can, does and will affect all of us.

So often we in America act so bewildered as to how difficult, dire circumstances find their way into our lives, we seem amazed that something bad has happened. We run then find we ran on empty. We feed then find we are weighed down with the food in our belly. We hoard and find that there is no room to move. We look ahead and pause to even consider the here and now.

I am so tired of double, loose and no standards. It seems like silly stuff, small stuff, useless stuff at first, but somehow all of it accumulates and becomes big stuff, smothering stuff stuff that smells like a large pile of POO. I am so tired of stepping in POO others just drop off and take no responsibility in creating. No more POO. please!

the energizer bunny

As is appropriate for a not so Christian, Christian, someone who says he speaks for God, but never really listens to what God has said, Pat Robertson, famed self promoter false prophet, and successful capitalist, in the spirit of the Christmas season has blamed the Gays, yet for one more natural disaster.

Rev. Pat Robertson sparked controversy in yesterday’s broadcast of his 700 Club, when he claimed that God created the blizzard which kept the Eastern seaboard under 3 feet of snow “to punish Americans who were planning to drive to do something gay.”

Mister closer to God than thou have had his share of blaming Gays for everything possible. In a favorite passage from his Bible of the Absurd he said about Gay Days at Disneyworld:

I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you, This is not a message of hate -- this is a message of redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor."

This man would be laughable in a society that actually thought and gave serious consideration to the loose loonies as being just that loose and loony, but in America 2010, soon to be 2011, the lunatics are the people who attract more attention.

Considering the majority of people who watch the 700 Club are of the same ilk and ignorance of those who watch Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly on Fox Pac News, (those who need no more than fiction for facts, who eagerly await a scapegoat for their self imposed problems who think someone who Tweets national policy can be President), it becomes quite scary realizing that Pat Robertson’s words are received with baited breath and believed.

The Gays seem to have some supernatural evil power according to Robertson, and they are always challenging the good will of Jesus. But it is not only the Gays who wield power to sway the human race according to one of Jesus’ henchmen it also includes Liberals and women.

"(T)he feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."

Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history."

The 700 Club is a popular television joke like ‘Jersey Shore’, ‘Bridalplasty’, and ‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’. It promotes the promise, that if you pay enough money to those who for some unquestioned reason say they have Gods ear, no matter their morals or ethics, you too will garner a place in Heaven. It loves to ridicule and lecture on what is right and what is wrong in America and the world. It loves to scapegoat and blame others for your misfortune. And it loves to rid the world, no matter how cruel or painful of those not created in the image of God the way Pat Robertson sees that image.

And all of those other Pastors, Priest Rabbis, Elders, Imam’s who say they speak for a loving God, are all silent in unison when it comes to correcting the lies and traps Pat Robertson sets. It seems that no one wants to go public and chastise this sac-religious maniac for his anti God rhetoric. Are Gays so damn powerful that they need to be silenced? Are women that intimidating that they need to be once again placed as chattel? Are the liberals that scary that they need an atomic bomb to stop them? Is Pat Robertson really that close to God that those men and women of the cloth are afraid to shout him down?

Pat Robertson’s remarks are moronic, mindless, and minimize anyone they attack. But he continues to hate aloud and it seems no one wants to stop him. It isn’t funny, or humorous just fearful and horrendous and like the Energizer Bunny it keeps going and going and going. Time to change those batteries.

merry christmas

For all my friends who celebrate this day as Holy, who just like singing carols, who just say season's greetings and those who shout out loud Merry Christmas, my wishes for you:

Miracles, so we are told, are a magical part of life. They are sudden in arrival but lying in wait for the exact moment to appear. Miracles so we are told are figments of an imagination. They are incarnations of wishes and wants that happen because consciously or unconsciously we manifest the actions we desire. Miracles so we are told are scattered and haphazard. They follow no pattern, follow no route but arrive just in the nick of time.

Is it us? Is it a greater power? Is it just the way of life that we receive or do not receive miracles? Are we so excited about the unexpected that when the good news arrives we are so overwhelmed we celebrate with wonder and awe, never questioning how but thankful for how come? Are we so relieved with the chance to move ahead, the choices to move forward, the consequences of not getting our wishes diminished that we shout out loud, jump for joy, and scream a mighty amen. Are we forever in amazement that the second chance has dismantled the failure of the first chance?

For many the winter season brings with it the traditions of Christmas and great miracles of light, might and insight as to the greater good. It showcases the power of determination, will and fortitude no matter how harsh the moment. For many it is one more reason to persevere, to believe to hope.

We find ourselves with an abundant amount of miracles or a dire and dreadful famine of bad luck. We find ourselves with a cup half full or emptied by disillusionment and disappointment. We find ourselves helpless or hopeful. But we find ourselves craving the next flicker of magic, the next monumental moment, and the next miracle…self made or heaven sent.

I wish for you, your own miracle made especially by and for you.

Merry Christmas,

GB/10

A MOTHER hood

We are lectured to, preached at, warned that in this great nation of ours a dark demon like haze is gathering strength and if left unchecked will destroy the fabric and fortitude of our families. Whenever we discuss the deficit, and have to cut social programs we are told it is for our children and our grandchildren. When the poor are given less, and the wealthy given more, we are told by the self serving, self righteous politicians we are doing this all for the children. (Mostly their children I suppose). We are lectured at as to who should and could be a parent. Disingenuous Scripture is used as propaganda to prove a weak point, and no one ever looks towards themselves as poor role models but love pointing fingers away at someone else’s poor parenting.

Sarah Palin, who represents herself as a Mama Grizzly, a Mama Pit Bull, is in fact a real MOTHER. She focuses on her family for every photo opt possible holding her down syndrome baby at arms length, and doting on her kids, (proud that she named them all with the letter B based on some city in which she and her ex First Dude either had sex , lived, or ruined). She says she is Mother Knows Best, but somehow along the way her oldest daughter with a B name did not remain abstinent. And Mother Knows Best, did not provide her sexually active daughter with any advice as how to not get pregnant. And her other B daughter likes to call anyone she disagrees with Gay. And the silence from Mama and First Dude, in using that adolescent outrage as a lesson in how to stop hate was deafening.

Now the Mama of all MOTHERS is trying to communicate to the morons who adore her every fictional word that they should pay no attention to the First Lady Michelle Obama’s warning about obesity in this nation. All that Mrs. Obama is trying to do says Sister Sarah, is produce Socialist kids, and how and what they eat is of no consequence. But having fat Capitalistic kids is much better then thin Socialist kids.

On Sarah Palin’s (Sarah Palin’s Alaska---thank you Discovery Chanel) reality show (and we all know that there is nothing real about any of those shows) Sarah said the following:

"This is in honor of Michelle Obama, who said the other day we should not have dessert," Palin said mockingly as she rummaged through her kitchen for ingredients to make s'mores. (Seems the MOTHER of the year cares little about truth, calories, or fat and a whole lot more about stuffing her mouth with BS). Sarah knows little about true, but is a queen of snide and sinister.

Coming to the assistance of Michelle Obama was another Conservative reality show star, Mike Huckabee who surprisingly said, “With all due respect to my colleague and friend Sarah Palin, I think she's misunderstood what Michelle Obama is trying to do," "Michelle Obama's not trying to tell people what to eat or not trying to force the government's desires on people," While the First Lady's "Let's Move Campaign" doesn't urge parents to avoid giving their kids dessert, it suggests cutting back on sugar. Obama's message was "on target." "She's stating the obvious, that we do have an obesity problem in this country,"

(Amazing but true, someone from the FOX News PAC calling Sister Sarah out for just one of her much fact-less facts).

And so lest we forget our past run in with Motherly advice from the nation’s number one MOTHER, the voice of non-reason resonates once again urging us to not take the responsibility of parenting as important. And we huff and puff, giggle and gawk, write blogs and laugh, but Mama Palin continues with no impunity to preach parenting both poorly and pathetically.

Some things never go away but just get refurbished, reinvented and renewed. Sister Sarah, Mama Sarah, MOTHER Sarah, is one of those useless things that just lasts and lasts and lasts. She is an antithesis of motherhood, but somehow will be one of the first busts to be built on the Mt. Rushmore of Motherhood.

I just have to imagine there are moms and dads out there in America who will finally say, that Sarah’s parenting advice is as useless as she was when she ran the state of Alaska and became the Mavericks’ running mate. One can just hope that this hood of a mother just dries up like prune.

three days before christmas

Three days before Christmas:

There is some celebrating by citizens of this nation because the people we elected to serve the people, actually took a bit of time from helping themselves and passed some laws which prove America is a great country.

For some, who seem to be blinded by bigotry, bias or bogus fact checking, the passage of these bills make us weaker, less religious, less self sufficient, and less like the intentions our founding fathers intended. For that group (who primarily receive their fiction from FOX PAC, or listen to hateful sermons from preachers closer to the devil than God) all this catering to Gays, First Responders, Unemployed, Poor is not the American way.

This group of self serving zealots, embrace the Tweets of Sarah Palin, the chalkboard of Glenn Beck, the burps and farts of Rush Limbaugh, the double speak of Newt Gingrich, the flip flops of John McCain, and the lies of every single Tea Bag Low Life they voted for in 2010.

We are told by the smarmier folks who identify as Republicans/Tea Baggers Senators like McConnell of Kentucky, Kyl of Arizona, and DeMint of South Carolina, that the Progressives will not even recognize the Washington of 2010, when they the Legion of Doom, return with more power in 2011. These champions of injustice, the boys who belong to big business, the chow hounds of big corporations, swear on some stack of sacrilegious New Testament Bibles that health care will be watered down, the Dream Act was just a pipe dream, and that anything with the word Gay attached to it will go to the bottom of the alphabet. We are told by this harem of hooligans that the deficit is the magic word, and even as they cut a break for the wealthy they will be destroying social security, medicare, unemployment benefits and any other 'gimme program' the folks at FOX rant and rave about.

Its three days before Christmas, and poor souls like Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, so tired having to use his brain to both spew hate and fend off truth, can finally celebrate the season. He and his fellow group of deny-ers can fly to their mansions, provide dozens of gifts to their families (maybe Senator Graham's significant other), and indulge in the creature comforts Capitalism provides for those who get elected by the people, but paid by the Lobbyists.

It's three days before Christmas and the President smiled before the camera telling America that compromise worked, and the American people won. The curmudgeons carolled in the background, some Blue Dog Dems, and most cold blooded Republicans, wait till after hoo, hoo hoo is over, we will bring you bags of bah hum bug.

A gift for all of those good Americans who really believe in the Constitution, the Christian way, the sanctity of life, peace, joy equality and Christmas, would be to fight back. Fight back loud and proud all of the injustices those who think through their asses or those who serve for self serving reasons will try to place on the agenda. Fight back the foibles, fables fiction and fabrications those who own no truth will spout and sputter. Fight back the lies which are founded from fear, ignorance, and hate.

Three days before Christmas we as a nation of good people did receive some fine gifts, but I wonder how soon we may have to return them when the majority of Republican/Tea Baggers come to Washington.

care less

Senator Tom Coburn (R) from Oklahoma, Dr. Senator Tom Coburn (R) from Oklahoma, Evangelical Christian Tom Coburn (R) from Oklahoma, Counselor to the adulterer Jon Ensign of Nevada who told Mr. Ensign to pay off his mistress,(R) from Oklahoma is now Tom Coburn the Senator from Oklahoma who has expressed his concerns for the First Responders but needs to delay any item in the budget that might provide further health care for the First Responders.

Senator Tom Coburn a self proclaimed Christian, a believer in Creationism, a hater of homosexuals, a man who swears he sweats red, white and blue, a man who is a firm believer in Family Values, Senator Tom Coburn who knows good from bad, right from wrong, Americans from Socialists, just can't understand why there is a hurry to pass the First Responders Bill before Christmas, or at least before the Party of No takes greater control of this government.

It is, according to his reasoning, the reasoning based on his views of the New Testament which when necessary trumps the Constitution, important to help these people, but it might cost too much money to do so. America, according to Senator Tom Coburn's reasoning, needs to spend less money on the poor and save those dollars by permitting businesses and the wealthy to get any tax break they deserve. We got to cut the deficit Senator Coburn preaches along with his Party of No and saving lives, quality of life, is not as important.

This is the Christmas season according to Senator Tom Coburn, and John Kyl, and Lindsey Graham, so providing any kind of Christian like policies is not appropriate, not until this season of giving is over at least. Doncha' know Christmas time is time to be home with your families, you know the families of employed senators, families covered by socialist health care, families who have a house to call home. Sick First Responders can wait.

Shame on anyone who can talk away the health and welfare of another American. Shame on anyone who thinks that the sick, the poor, the homeless can wait. And shame on anyone who voted for the people who could care less.

buyers remorse

"And I’ve had some time to think about START but not a lot and it's really wearing on the body. (salon)

Senator Lindsey Graham is tired. That damn Obama and his side kick Harry Reid have put too much pressure on the Senate, and that pressure includes doing the people’s business. Seems all the talk about tax breaks for the rich wore out the Senator, seems he was content doing the rich people’s business, but more than that is a stretch. Seems all the ranting and raving by his senile crony, John McCain regarding disregarding civil rights for Gays wore heavy for Lindsey and he just can’t think any harder.

Too much to do cries the Senator from South Carolina. What he didn’t mention was that he and his band of “just say no”, hooligans had a whole year to complete the people’s business. The delay tactics of the ‘Party of No’ almost played out, but then the Dems found both their balls and backbone and called the bluff of the bullies.

"It is impossible to do all of the things that the majority leader laid out without doing -- frankly, without disrespecting the institution and without disrespecting one of the two holiest of holidays for Christians and the families of all of the Senate, not just the senators themselves but all of the staff," Senator John Kyl of Arizona said. (Huffington Post)

Too impossible to do all of the people’s business especially when you have spent all of your valuable time trying to stop any and all work for the people during the last year. You and your ‘Party of No’ have spent every working hour disrespecting the people who elected you to do their work. You and your ‘Party of No’ have played politics with the welfare, wealth and wisdom of this nation disrespecting the Institution of the Senate.

I suppose Senator Kyl, living in an Ivory Tower does make it difficult to understand the needs of the common man.

Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) said he voted against the First Responders Bill because Republicans had threatened to vote against everything until tax cuts for the rich were extended and a measure to fund the government was passed. He needed to make sure the wealthy were fiscally healthy, and the first responder’s health could wait. (Huffington Post) (Hey what the heck they have been poisoned and ill since 2001)

The Senator from Nevada has his priorities and if the first responders can’t take time from their hospital visits to underwrite his political campaign the hell with them. True patriots are those who sacrifice their wallets. It’s the wealthy who keep America free, free from Senators like Ensign from having to do the real work for real people.

The ‘Party of No’ can not vote on more than one issue, nope they have their priorities and it does not include the health or welfare of most Americans. They are ready and willing to commit to their own careers, their own futures and their own lives.

It is near the end of session of Congress and the creatures that have lived under the rocks are rearing their ugly and selfish heads. They have been in hibernation for the past year and did not want to be woken from their slumber. It was a hard road for them as all they hauled was the word NO. Finally they have been shoved by voices that also remained quiet for the past year, and are cranky and irritable wondering why they need to defend their past behaviors. Too tired, too soon, too much is what they cry and carry on. And as a gift for their poor behavior the American public elected more of them for the coming year.

It is Christmas time in the city and when we open this crop of presents in January I am so sure there will be a horrendous bout of buyer’s remorse.

Do you hear what I hear?

And we are told as if God has spoken only to the tellers of the tale, the Republicans/Tea Baggers, that they and only they can do the will of the people, save the children and make America safe. We are preached to, by the Christian Conservatives, that only in their church, does God speak to them telling them how to govern this country and provide family values for the true Americans, the ones that aren’t of any minority and the ones who vote Republican/Tea Bag.

We are told that the Christian way was and is the way the Founding Fathers created this nation; and, although it was never spelled out in the Constitution the Republican/Tea Baggers, know from the New Testament that the intent was there.

YET, when the politicians who identify themselves as good Christian Senators or Congress People are asked to step up to the plate and practice what they preach, they somehow stop short of delivering God’s true message to the American public.

The Republican/ Tea Baggers dragged their feet on repealing DADT. They stopped the Dream Act, are pontificating as to the lack of merits for funding the health care of the First Responders from 9/11. They reluctantly permitted the unemployed from receiving any money at all to pay any kind of bill. And they are trying their best to stop universal health care in this nation.

We hear that all of this denial is to stop the deficit from hemorrhaging any further. But somehow it is okay for the hemorrhaging to happen if it helps the wealthy stay richer by lowering their taxes and permitting the inheritance tax to grow smaller and smaller.

We hear from the Republican/Tea Baggers that they are making the sacrifices now so our children and grandchildren will not have to pay for our misdeeds. Yet right now the children of the unemployed, the First Responders, the illegal’s, the poor are suffering and may not grow old enough to enjoy any kind of life.

All we hear is the hypocrisy of falsehoods, fear baiting, and foolishness. All we hear is that some are doing God’s work but doing so as only selfish humans know how. All we hear is why not and never why.

There are many lemmings living in denial in this great land. There are many who love placing blame on everyone else and never towards themselves. There are many who need others to think for them and many who just act as if they were zombies, walking, talking but never thinking. That group of people (with the help of the ignorant who did not vote or felt voting would not make a difference) elected enough Republican/Tea Baggers to stop anything Christian like let alone Democratic like, from happening in the United States.

I am so tired hearing about the Christian way forward by a group of self serving, self preserving heathens. I am so tired of the Republican/Tea Baggers claiming only they speak for God. I am so tired of the deafening silence from everyone else.

Come on people with real values, real conscience, real God like qualities make a stand, move up, take responsibility. Can’t you speak up louder than the screech of the haters? Don’t we deserve more than this? Do you hear what I hear?

food glorious food

Is it worth the waiting for?
If we live 'til eighty four
All we ever get is gru...el!
Ev'ry day we say our prayer --
Will they change the bill of fare?
Still we get the same old gru...el!
There is not a cust, not a crumb can we find,
Can we beg, can we borrow, or catch,
But there's nothing to stop us from getting a thrill
When we all close our eyes and imag...ine

Food, glorious food!
Hot sausage and mustard!
While we're in the mood --
Cold jelly and custard!
Peas, pudding and saveloys!
What next is the question?
Rich gentlemen have it, boys --
In-di-gestion! (by Lionel Bart)

This song is sung in the play "Oliver", by all of the misfortunate and lower class boys. It is sung as the boys imagine the world if they too had all of the goodies their rich keepers enjoyed. It is sung as a means for the boys to vent their frustration about a world in which they are less then and at the mercy of those in power. It is sung to say we deserve all that you have.

The Senate took on the people's business, for once, and some Senators where brave enough, bold enough, and big enough to have voted with a conscience in doing what was right for all of America.

Repealing DATD is what is right for all of America because it makes a statement that equal in this country is never correct when it is equal but separate. Repealing DATD is what is right for America because it now permits those who wish to be open and honest about themselves to speak their mind and heart. Repealing DADT is what is right for America because it states we won't tolerate you hating me, bullying me, denying me based on prejudice instead of truth.

Senator John McCain tried to stop the momentum of fair and just throughout the process of repeal. He sited passage and verse from books of hate, bias and homophobia. He tarnished his tenure as a member of the troops, and rusted his own valor and bravery when he was a POW. He forgot how he fought the tyranny and torture of a nation whose mission was to stop democracy and equal justice for all. He became a hateful man who needed to scapegoat others to keep his own ego alive. Those in this nation who will now ring their hands and wonder if the devil has taken over America will rally in support of his and the many other Republicans who voted no on equality and will be the sad shell of what truly being human is all about.

And now the accolades profusely pour from the mouths of the LGBT community, thanking those BRAVE members of the Senate for doing what...for doing the right thing! We now have made hero's of the Senators who voted for equal rights who voted for the meaning of the Constitution, who fought bigotry and bias. And now that they have given this one tidbit of correct conscience to right a wrong, I just wonder if these same hero's feel their duty of honor is over and will relapse into the dark world of denial.

Today they did not pass the Dream Act, they did not pass a bill to aid the First Responders, they reluctantly gave the unemployed a meager sum money to live while allowing the rich to drown in extra cash. And what about DOMA?

Food glorious food, something we all need to survive, something that seems so fair to share, something that makes us all equal because all of us want to survive. But as in the play "Oliver", food does not come too easy for those who happen to be in the minority, for those who for some reason or other were left out of the handling the controls. The Gays and Lesbians finally got their one morsel of food, and can sit at the table as equals. Yeah, but so what! It is not something we as Gays earned, it should have been something we as Gays received as equals to those so pious and pompous who denied it.

Food glorious food, I want to eat as much as anyone else and not wait my turn until they are done gorging. I as a Gay man, a Jew, a middle class American, a son or daughter of an illegal, a Muslim, a person of color.

As an American I expect nothing more then equal and will not tolerate separate but equal! Food glorious food the first course is served why not begin the real banquet!

friday evening

Friday evening a time to collect thoughts from the previous week. Friday evening and as I light the Shabbat candles thanking God for the week, I also must clear some demons from my head and wonder to God, what the hell is happening in this nation?

Once again we are urged to call our Senators, plead with their consciences, tell them how to do the American thing and repeal DADT. Once again something as simple as an American right, the right to free speech, the right to be equal, not separate but equal, the right to share all that America can offer is down to the wire.

Ahh, bless those talking heads who talk in circles about how now is not the time, how we are not ready, how this will impact those in the military who are biased and bigoted. How they pontificate that hate has to take priority over justice over fair. How those talking heads love finding out why not instead of why...

The Senators are all miffed and pissed that they might have to work through their holiday season. The grumpy old men and women have stalled and stalled signalling no potential to pass anything that might signal Obama as boss. They played politics and party lines and now want the public to become true Christians and help get those boys and girls home for a white Christmas celebration. For some reason keeping the crooks and hoodlums in their DC offices is like waging a war on Christmas. It is as if the Grinch has come to Washington and doused their stockings with polluting goo from the BP spill.

The American public is to ring their fingers, pull their hair because the bullies are now being asked to be accountable for their behavior.

Hey bullies how about the lumps of coal you have presented the thinking American public over this last year. How about the war on the poor, the middle class, the unemployed, the teachers, the unions, the Gays, the youth, the citizens who wanted fairness and truth? A war on Christmas, my ass, you guys were naughty and never nice. Your only actions were those that benefited your career, your wallet, and your prejudices...

Sparkling lights are up, carols are cascading on the boulevards, avenues and malls. Stores have transformed their lobbies into the North Pole, elves quarters, humongous trees with even more humongous boxes of toys tucked beneath, and Santas abound on every street corner. And on every street corner the Salvation Army greets you with a kettle and a solitary hand held bell.(Next time you donate a dollar to the kettle people ask them about their thoughts on Gays, they may actually tell you to take back your dollar).

Dinners are being served for the homeless and poor and on every local television channel we are told by overly wrought, furrow browed weather men and anchors that statistics tell us the numbers homeless and poor has risen. Merchants have their drop a toy for a tot boxes, and the very high priced stores have ornate trees under which you can leave that unwrapped gift.

We try so hard at CHRISTMAS time to do the right thing. Be you Jewish or Christian, Muslim or Agnostic, Catholic or Atheist, we are told that now is the time to take action.

Then Christmas is over, the after Christmas Sales are dropping on the television stations like the Blitzkrieg and suddenly doing the right thing is no longer cool. And like the wrappings the tinsel, the Yuletide carols it is placed in some dark dank attic hiding until Halloween is over to reappear.

The poor have to wait, the homeless had their goodnight Christmas bed, poverty still stinks, and the world goes on and on and on. The missions, the food pantry's do their best to accommodate the crowds, and the news anchors are all about the best Valentines love story or Easter egg hunt coming up.

Think of all the money Macy's spends on decorating their stores. Think about the millions of dollars Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy spend on their commercials. Think about the fact that no matter... Christmas happens every December 25. And with or without ALL of the expenses paid to promote it, WE all would still do our Christmas shopping, sing our carols, and light our trees. Think about how much money could go to the poor, the homeless, those who need medical care if everyone asked 'what would Jesus do' and spend even 10% less on the frills and decorations AND throughout the year give to those whose only connection to Christmas spirit is watching others.

We are told in a song "...Its the most wonderful time of the year... and maybe it is for some, but what about the rest of the year? Nothing wonderful about one meal a day, a cardboard box, no medications, being invisible.

My Sabbath candles are lit, I am now as a Jew, to think and relax, enjoy my moments with God. But recently there seems to be more to worry about then to be thankful for. Life is wonderful, but for many just one miserable existence. I want to know why if we sing about Peace on Earth Good Will toward men/women, the lyrics just don't seem to resonate as loud as they should.

As we say in our home Shabbat Shalom.

cry me a river

"Cry Me A River" (written by Arthur Hamilton-1953)

Now you say you're lonely
You cry the long night through
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you

Now you say you're sorry
For being so untrue
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you

Seems Republican/Tea Bag Senators Kyl (AZ) and DeMint (SC) are getting all hissy and weepy with Harry Reid cause they don’t want to stay in Washington for Christmas, or even be there the next 8 days doing the people’s business. Senator Reid has stated there are a whole bunch of bills that need some action so the American taxpayer, the American citizen, the Americans who employ these all the Senators can see some resolution to items which have been tossed around as unimportant for the past year. Seems the party of “NO” who has been stalling, filibustering, and playing gotcha politics thought they could run out the clock, continues to do nothing until the new Tea Bag Brigade of goons take power and completely destroy any form of Democracy.

Senator Reid said there are many Americans who have to work on Christmas because they need to get the job done, they are paid to complete a task, and they don’t have the luxury of taking a vacation before the job is completed. The Senators from the Republican/Tea Bag Brigade in typical form called Senator Reid Unchristian like. They don’t think he is Christian like because he wants to pas bills that include the welfare of people’s lives. I have to ask them, “What would Jesus do”?

An example of the wasting of time is Senator Kyl’s insistence that the entire bill regarding the START program be read. This is the same bill which has had over 15 committee hearings, been debated over and over again, and has been passed by a real bi-partisan group last year. But to waste valuable time and not entitle the Senate to get on with the people’s business the Senator from Arizona says NO one in the Senate is really informed. (Perhaps you, Senator Kyl should remove your head from a very dark orifice).

Senator Reid also reminded the gaggle of jerks who just want to play politics and care less about the people they were elected to serve that the current Congress has been elected to serve until January 4, 2011. Seems the Republican/Tea Bag Brigade of unpatriotic psychopaths forgot that teeny tiny bit of fine print in their contract.

Of course the minions of hate Obama/Pelosi/Reid who don’t pay attention to truth are in an up roar saying this is a War against Christmas, a socialist revolt, an Un-American rebellion. They state that it has always been the Republican way to understand with full meaning each and every bill passed. (Yeah, just like they did in the 8 years that Dictator Bush rushed through bills to fund his war in Iraq, Afghanistan, the lack of protection bills for the troops, the easing up bills on any checks and balances for the finance/banking/oil/health cartels) And with blank stares and no affect they say that the Senate not reading the 2000 page bill for funding the military or the START Treaty is like pulling the wool over the American public’s eyes. And of course good Christian men need to be home or is it on vacation or is it at their wealthy lobbyist’s house for Christmas. And to add insult to injury Mr. Kyl and Mr. DeMint accuse Mr. Reid (a Mormon) of not being a really true Christian.

Well ‘Do Nothing Senators’, who have done nothing but politic for the past two years you can cry me a deep muddy river. You can boo hoo all you want as I am so tired of all the crying you have caused me over your self serving ineffectual malicious manifestations. Just do the job you were elected to do.

Cry me a river, cause me and millions of true Americans have cried a river over you.

Really

First the War on Christmas was declared, now in addition to that the frenzied fabricators of fact-less fact at FOX-Pac News have now extended the battle field to include a War on Santa. Revving up the riotous rebels of the Conservative Christians (the ones who love telling other people how to live their lives), Unfair and Never Balanced Bill O, Televangelist Beck and Roger Ails are now proclaiming Satan is taking ho, ho, ho from Christmas and replacing it with a large lump of anti Christian coal.

Joining this trio of misfits is Bill Donohue the head of the Catholic League, an organization established to protect all things Catholic. Mr. Donohue is upset at the New York YMCA for taking Santa Claus out of Christmas. He is very upset at the fact that Santa Claus- who was not part of Christmas for a very long time- has been removed in favor of Frosty the Snowman. He wants heads to roll at the YMCA!

Somehow there is eagerness to declare a war on Christmas, (the holiday started the day after Halloween, this IS not a Christian nation by law, you can not walk anywhere without seeing Christmas lights or hear Christmas carols), and somehow declaring that this is an unjust war is way more important than the wars on the Unemployed, Gay Rights, Illegal’s, Tax Breaks for the Middle Class and Poor or Health Insurance for All. Somehow the fact that Christmas is off and running, healthy and thriving needs the attention from people who find the real events in our life to be less important and less relevant.

And by the way, Mr. Donohue finds little time to declare war on the pedophile priests and the head in the sand Vatican who deny that young boys and girls have been molested and harassed by the Catholics he so readily demands we protect. Really?!

Sarah Palin is a culture icon. She has demonstrated some of the worst qualities in America of 2010, be nothing, do nothing, say nothing---of substance and do nothing, be nothing, say nothing ENOUGH and you can become famous. She joins such luminaries as Paris Hilton all of the ‘Kardashian’s’, each every The Housewives Of whatever city, ‘Snookie’ and the Situation.

Yet the news media, wait with baited breath, hound her, seek her out and proclaim she is actually presidential candidate material. Sarah shoots moose for fun, explains (or her ghost writer) her plan for running the US government via Twitter and Facebook, never permits anyone except those who supply her with answers to question her and opens up wounds that this nation has tried to heal for decades.

Millions of Mama Grizzlies, religious bigots, unfamiliar citizens with the Constitution who are careless of the truth or fact follow her every word. And still, (even though she is a millionaire three times over), consider her to be that plain and simple Ms Wasilla who is just like them. There is a sucker born every minute so the saying goes and Sister Sarah, as dumb as they come, is smart enough to sucker them in.

And all the so called smart people do is ring their hands, laugh at her antics and swear in amazement that she is so popular. And these same smart people snidely snicker thinking she will never get elected as President. Really?!

The President has made an impassioned speech, once again as it relates to helping those in this country who so often are left without a voice. He has sworn his allegiance to the unemployed and stated that this bipartisan compromise was necessary to permit them to receive their unemployment checks. He said that passing this compromise on the Bush tax cuts will stimulate the economy. He mentions that the money generated from the tax cuts or unemployment benefits will keep millions Americans afloat and stimulate the economy. But the President says very little about how tax cuts for the wealthy 2%, and the inheritance tax cut will diminish revenues and increase the deficit. He tells us what is good about the compromise, but somehow ignores the rest.

The President had a majority in both the House and the Senate, had two years to state his agenda, reach his goals, two years to work with his party in power and show the American public, both skeptics and fans that his change was something we could believe in. Two years to accomplish changes for the people who voted him into office, who needed his bully pulpit to be heard, who trusted he was not just another politician worried about his reputation and his running for office again. And suddenly this President takes the last two months to try and get his promises into fruition.

Once again, I feel we are faced with the lesser of two evils. Give the rich a tax break so the middle class and poor can sustain some form of life. Tell us we all will have universal health care but pass the damn bill and take out the universal part. Tell the Republicans you will acquiesce to their demands because that is called compromise but you do all the compromising.

And tell the LGBT community that you are a believer in their equal rights but do absolutely nothing in your power to make it happen. Tell us you will have DADT repealed in the lame duck congress, but sit on your hands with a tape across your mouth. Tell us from your podium that next time tax breaks for the wealthy come up you will fight it. Tell us we should all be grateful for your promises and forget that most of them were more rhetoric than anything else.

Tell us that getting your priorities finished was more important than being elected for a second term as you proclaimed a few months ago, but now tell us that it will take a second term to get them realized. Tell us to believe you, just like we believe the used car salesman who says the car was only driven by an old lady who used it to go to church on Sundays. Tell us to vote for you again. Tell us you are change we can believe in. Really?!

Some time really is just not real enough. sometimes it just sucks and we all end up with the pucker mouth. Really!

sunday summations

Some Sunday summations:

Why is it that those who profess hate for others under the name of God are often times praised and worshiped as if they actually just had lunch with God? Why is it that their bigotry, bias and bogus berating seem to have more relevance then those who just love? Why is it that those who say they speak of God often times speak of God's hate, distrust, distress, for so many of his so called creations and they are praised as wise men and women?

Why is it that rich people in this country have little to no responsibility in helping to offset the deficit, while poor and middle class citizens always must make the sacrifice? Why is it that even though (with the Regan administration to the Bush administration when we have seen the failure of trickle down economics) it is still heralded as the wise way to continue Capitalism? Why is it that after 8 years of Bush economics where the rich have remained rich, the corporations bathing in black, the upper 2% wealthier than ever, the same bums who professed that approach to solving the recession are now going to run this country again? And why was it that those who have so very little voted them back into office?

Why is it that the Gays and Lesbians have to remain in the closet, and lie to serve this country? Why is it that they who are considered demons, deviants, undesirables chose to risk their life, while all the God fearing Jesus loving sons of bitches don't enlist, but cry about all the homosexuals in the military? And why don't the Joint Chiefs say to the bigots the homophobes, the religious misinformed zealots already in the armed services, you quit if you hate, you resign if you are insecure about your sexuality, you leave the services if you make fiction out of fact?

Why is it that you can quit your job as Governor, tweet foreign and domestic policy using only 140 words, never agree to be interviewed or questioned by anyone but perceived friends, shoot moose for fun and be considered a legitimate candidate for president?

Why is it that Snookie and the Situation make four times the amount of money a teacher, working with your kids earns? Why is it that it is always the teachers fault when it comes to poor education in the classroom? Why is it never the fact that some heterosexual parents have no idea as to how to raise their kids, (they can produce them but after that they seem so stymied), or the lack of funds in any Board of Education to motivate and stimulate education?

Why is it that the Congress has great health insurance, wonderful retirement plans, an annual income, but never seem able to provide the same perks to their continents?

If the world really revolved on truth, honor, love and compassion, why would I even ask some of these questions?

good or bad

Dear Good Jesus,

I am Jewish and for the record don't pray to you, but respect those who do. However, we are both 'luntzmen' (people of the same tribe), so through that association I thought I might write you this letter. I know how busy you must be especially this time of year. We are told that peace on earth, good tidings and miracles abound in the celebration of your birth, so I am asking for a divine intervention this time of year if possible.

It seems that there are a whole bunch of folk who identify themselves as Christians but I think they are worshipping a Bad Jesus. I would find it hard to imagine that anyone who believes in your glory, your power, your goodness could possibly be homophobes, racists, anti Semites, hate the poor and those of color. But somehow Jesus, they do. And not only do they, but they invoke your name when they hate. They quote from Scripture they say you inspired and they quickly play the 'that's what Jesus would want' card when anyone disputes them.

The self proclaimed Reverend Fred Phelps bangs your Bible on the graves of fallen soldiers, he shouts your name stating that those who died with valor and honor are hated by you, because they fought in an army that permits closeted Gays to serve. He says you hate just like humans do. He says you didn't create Gays but the Devil did. He speaks for you an awful lot and says you say a whole lot of negative things about people on Earth.

Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family says you only consider opposite sex partners the people who can marry and raise a family. He says that you pontificated that same sex couples don't really love one another, and all they want to do is raise little boys so they can sodomize them or raise little girls to use a double sided dildo. He discounts the opposite sex couples who take joy in infidelity and who find jubilation in adultery as slight failings. But he preaches that no matter what, two men or two women can NEVER find true love. He says you said so in Leviticus, or your ghost writer said so.

Sarah Palin, John McCain, Newt Gingrich and Glenn Beck all say they know you well. They quote you on topics ranging from gays serving openly in the military, to you making the USA the holiest place on Earth, that if it is a conservative idea it was yours, and that poor people are poor because they are lazy. They find passages in the New Testament and then add some of their own interpretations and swear on a stack of your Bibles that they know exactly what you meant even if you didn't say it.

Is there a Bad Jesus masquerading as you? Is there a Bad Jesus whose strength grows when humans hate, find dissension, blame, act as bigots demonstrate bias and as they do so in invoking your name? Is there a bad Jesus who permits those awful people to swear hate while they swear their allegiance to you?

I am a Jew, a Gay man, a Middle Class American, and I mean no disrespect Good Jesus, but I am tired of the Bad Jesus getting away with the kind violent, vehement venomous vitriolic via his followers...especially when they attack me being a Jew, Gay and Middle Class.

So, please let me know what is going on. And please tell me there is a Good Jesus who has the strength to fight those who worship a Bad Jesus. By the way the silence is deafening from those who call themselves Pastors, Preachers, Elders, Popes, Bishops and Priests.

Thank you,

Gerry

TLC

Sister Sarah picking off prey for the fun of it and having no guilty conscience in doing so. Whether it be Gays, the President, Health Care or Moose, Pistol Packin’ Palin likes to mow ‘em down for the sport of it. She bares no responsibility for her actions nor claims any consequences and when asked why just stares up to heaven (didn’t know the devil claimed it as his address), or her undeterred Grizzly Mama’s and says all I do comes from a higher power. I am an American and you are not.

TLC, has demonstrated little heart of its own, but smiles broadly about the ratings for Sarah’s Alaska cable show. They have remained silent about Sarah’s behavior and seem to think that moose are a dime a dozen and shootin’ them is well worth the ratings.

This is America and people like Sister Sarah have every right to make a million selling books, tweeting lies, fabricating fact, and hating loud and proud anyone who questions anything she says or does. This is America and I suppose until people like Sister Sarah and her Tea Bag Brigade/Republican newly elected politicians take office, we will be a free and just society. But there are foreshadows oozing goo quite quickly which seem to whisper a BIG change is coming our way.

When it comes to who is an American the evidence from the party of “No”, is quite convincing that not ALL people who claim citizenship or want to be citizens of this nation are or can be. Seems there are a few litmus tests that are being held for many a man and woman in this country. Seems the writing is on the wall, has been for a while but now with the power given to the Tea Bag/Republicans in Congress it is being written in bright neon colors of RED, WHITE and BLUE.

In the soon to be Republic of Texas a move is under way to rid that states leadership of Jewish interference. If y’all ain’t a Conservative Christian whose values are solid and sure, then you ain’t got the gumption or guts to run that Republic. There is a move underway to rid the position of leader of the state house from the Jew who is currently it’s leader to a nice Conservative Christian. No offense the Conservative Christians say to their fellow Republican House leader, as it is nothing about Jews, (after all they say their very best friend is Jewish, Jesus), but the only smart people to lead are those with Conservative Christian values.

The Dream Act This bill would provide certain illegal and deportable alien students who graduate from US high schools, who are of good moral character, arrived in the U.S. illegally as minors, and have been in the country continuously and illegally for at least five years prior to the bill's enactment, the opportunity to earn conditional permanent residency if they complete two years in the military or two years at a four year institution of higher learning, is all about dead. Seems the Tea Bag/Republican leadership just does not habla any espanol and if you don’t drop the endings of your words you ain’t never supposed to be an America, “doncha’ know.

Don’t Ask A Gay Man what he does when he sees Straight men naked cause he might tell you...absolutely nothing. But if you suppose because of your own straight hang up all he does is swoon and jerk off you can tell the world that being openly Gays in the military will be the downfall of the armed services. Claiming that Gays and Lesbians are only serving in the military cause they like uniforms, like taking showers, want to rape anything with tits or balls is a good way to move the point away from your own religious created homophobia and make it seem like fact. Say something hateful long enough and it sort of sounds like the truth. And the Tea Bag/Republican politicians afraid of their own sexuality want to keep details out but love the devil.

Glenn Beck writes upon his chalk board about conceived connections of Communists, bad Christians, and the downfall of America. He oozes in innuendo, slithers in schlock, woefully wails about inaccurate injustices and make millions upon millions scapegoating and separating. He is a Messiah to many and to some a false prophet. But no one within the Tea Bag/Republican political machine argues, or takes umbrage, rather they acquiesce and utter mottos of you are God.

Senator McCarthy had his list of “reds”, Nixon his enemies list, Palin her lame street press reporters, the rest of the same current day losers have their own list and it seems to be getting bigger and longer...Jews, Blacks, Muslims, Gays, Unions,Unemployed, Latin’s. Wonder when the bums we voted in because we didn’t trust the bums we voted out take office how much more expansive that list will grow.

Hey maybe on Sarah Palin’s Alaska on TLC we can get an idea of who is next on the list as they will be the ones she is hunting in the Tundra!

one more bit of hate

A key procedural vote on the bill containing a repeal of the military's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy failed Thursday, likely dealing a final blow to advocates who hoped to overturn the 17-year old ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military during this session of Congress. (First Read from NBC News)

Once again some Americans are being told it is just not time to make you as equal as anyone else. Once again, the Gays and the Lesbians are not true Americans when they wish to serve openly in the military, but can be secret soldiers all they want. Once again God has intervened into the lives of Americans and is being used as a scapegoat as to why being a Gay or Lesbian soldier is bad. Once again those elected politicians have decided that it is better to serve constituents who hate over Americans who risk their lives for those who hate all Americans. Once again the bigot is buoyant, the hater is heralded, the stupid supreme. God Bless America!

Maybe the majority of Republicans voting against the repeal doesn’t hate the homos all that much, but really want to place one more nail in the promise coffin of the President. You know, the President who said he will promise that the lame duck Congress will repeal DADT. Maybe the majority of Republicans voting against the repeal want to take hostage the Gays and Lesbians in the armed services and make the great hostage negotiator, the President acquiesce one more time to their demands. Maybe the majority of Republicans voting against the repeal are just plain and simple insecure about their own masculinity or their husbands masculinity and since most of them, except for the aging and senile John McCain, didn’t serve in the military can’t let Gays outshine them in bravery and fortitude.

I never had to serve this Nation and am grateful for those who want to risk their lives to protect us. But I wonder why our Gay and Lesbian Troops have not had enough of this political/religious hypocrisy bull shit and resigned or quit. Imagine if on the same day ALL of the liars in the armed services came forward and said I am Gay, I am a Lesbian. Imagine if they all said America you find me to be a second class citizen, so I quit. Imagine if they shouted in unison politicians ask your straight sons or daughters to enlist, take our place fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. If we have to stay in closet to protect America ask your darling children to take our places.

DADT… yep do the American thing but do it as you lie. Do the American thing but do it as a second class citizen. Do the American thing but know as you do it you are not the good American I am because I happen to be a heterosexual. Do the American thing and we as homophobes, racists, bigots, ignoramuses, selfish, self serving political wind bags only concerned about our careers will do our most Un-American thing and deny you equal rights.

This country was NOT based on Jesus and the New Testament. This country was NOT based on the many denying the few the same rights as they. This country was NOT based on ignorance, fear, loathing. This is MY country and I am so damned tired of having to save it from those who fear themselves so much and have no idea how rotten their lives have become so as to find scapegoats for the ill they refuse to own.

Just a suggestion: Why not go one step further, haters, why not continue this witch hunt and kick out ALL the Gays and Lesbians (you know even in the closet we can see you when you undress). Have ALL of your sons and daughters fight Al-Qaida the Taliban, Osama, and those self conceived anti Christian enemies. Make John McCain your General, and rid this Nation of all the demons (they plan on doing that in Uganda).

DADT, just a symptom of the sickness sweeping this country by permitting the ill to multiply and the non ill doing nothing at all to stop them.