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Not so amusing musings for a Friday!

Walking down very long and dark stairs leading to the basement is real fear, because without a hint of light or the amount of steps I must climb down, I could fall. Walking down those same narrow, dark, foreboding stairs because waiting for me at the bottom of those steps is either a ghost, zombie, or serial killer is perceived fear for me. I can prove that without light or knowledge of where the steps lead I may fall, it is my mind I must convince that once in the basement, no monster exists ready to devour me.

Telling the citizens of the United States that once a same sex couple says “I do” the entire Institution of Marriage will collapse dragging down every single heterosexual marriage is perceived fear. That once anyone is married and they discover they married for anything but love, no longer love the person with whom they said “I do”, or just can’t commit to a monogamous marriage is real fear. Shouting from the highest church pulpit or bully pulpit, or political rally that same sex marriage is something to be afraid of is just a cowards way of avoiding saying, I don’t like Gays, and that is something to be fearful of.

There has been a popular trend in “saying I am sorry” which sadly has been on the rise in the past few years. This trend permits people to say, “if what I said hurt you then I am sorry.” The non apology apology has now evolved into “if you had not insisted on your nasty behavior which motivated me to respond in such a manner as for you to be insulted, then “I am sorry”.

In the past few days a hurricane called Rush Limbaugh had blown exceptionally hard and instead of tearing down the intended targets, females who want the rights to their own reproductive rights and their own bodies the eye of the hurricane fell on the House of Limbaugh instead. This man who usually wields the power of the Conservative Christian God and those who worship a God bent on the denial of rights of anyone deemed the Devil usually never has to pay the consequences of his vile and venom by saying I am sorry. But since Rush’s financial bottom line was beginning to be tampered with and his cash flow becoming less than fluid Mr. Limbaugh tried his begrudgingly best and kind of sort of said I am sorry. His sorry only extended to the two inflammatory words he shouted but excluded the message of chauvinistic, anti-female rhetoric.

And now, those who dictate, create identify the talking points for the Republican/Tea Party candidates and politicians have taken the trend of not saying I am sorry to new immoral heights. Now, as heard on FOX News, the conservative radio, and those pandering to the people who just love to hate for hate’s sake the Linbaugh I am sorry has turned into, “well the Democrats. Progressives, and Liberals do the same thing so unless they are sorry neither are we. Even if what Limbaugh said is conjured up as demeaning, derogatory, disgusting it’s only fair he said it because the other side does the same thing. “I am sorry” has turned into “I am sorry” because I was caught and you made me do it.

If your goals, philosophy, standards are true, and you believe that your platform on civil rights, the economy, jobs, social services is true and strong, then as a political party you should be proud of your accomplishments. If you have God behind your actions, and you know that the way forward is within your own political party, then there should be no doubt in your mind to be open and honest and permit the political system of the United Stated to take shape. If you are right in your vision, then nothing should be in your way.

Then why are the states with a majority of Republican/Tea Party Governors and Legislatures so hell bent on stifling all of its citizens from voting. Why, do these majority of Republican/Tea Party politicians in state after state feel it is necessary to suddenly insist on voter ID’s and knowingly single out the African-American, Latin, Senior, and College Student voters from participating in the Constitutional right of one person one vote? Knowing that history has proven those minorities have a track record of voting Democrat, how come the voter ID laws are being passed in states run by a majority of Republican/Tea Party elected officials?

If what you say you are, you are... what you believe in is the real McCoy...if your politics are the real red, white and blue...if your ideals are above refute... why Republican/Tea Party do you insist on keeping everyone from voting?

And finally, Sister Sarah Palin, one to never quite leave any party but linger in the shadows until the sun goes down, has come forward on FOX News and said, she is proud of the men in the Republican/Tea Party for duking it out in the primaries because that is a true sense of vetting. Sister Sarah, never one not to lend a low blow to the President, then went on to add, that had the Democrats done their vetting of Obama in 08 perhaps America would not be the horrible mess it is currently finds itself.

As is the case with Sister Sarah, history and fact have no place in her reality. Make up your own truth, shout loudly about it and those who also care less about honest and sincere will cheer you on. Sister Sarah forgot that when she was selected as the Vice Presidential candidate to run with John McCain, his handlers spent 5 minutes in the vetting process in choosing her. One wonders how much healthier the political discourse and landscape would have been if maybe they even spent 6 minutes in vetting Sarah Palin.