taliban

One of the reasons we felt it was necessary to go to war in Afghanistan was the inhuman treatment of women by the Taliban; a treatment grounded in the interpretation of their religion that women were not equal to men. The men of the Taliban espoused the teachings of their Bible and in parsing the phrases and chapters translated the word of the God they worshiped to state women were  unable to think for themselves. Women, the Taliban insisted needed guidance from men. There was a place and reason for a woman but none of that was to be their husbands/fathers/brothers equal. Americans were furious that such inequality could be conceived let alone enforced. Many members of this nation practicing Christianity were certain that had the Taliban not been Muslim worshipping a heathen for a God, the respect for women would be a whole lot better. The Quran we were told by these New Testament Christians was the at the root of evil for denying women their rightful place in the sun. Had those Muslims been practicing Christianity instead of Islam the US would have little reason to send our Troops to this God forsaken nation. But as is often the case hypocrisy of religion triumphs and the fact that my God is better than your God reigns and reason disappears. Women of America (for the Republicans claiming to be Christian before anything else) need direction and guidance from men. Women are created from Adam’s rib as is stated in Genesis and must be led like lemmings. Paul Ryan is a co-sponsor of the Personhood Amendment providing an embryo with 14th Amendment rights. Paul Ryan co-sponsored a bill with Todd Akin defining rape as anything but a criminal act dividing it into legitimate rape or just a means to get an abortion. Richard Mourdoch has spoken to God and God told him women who get raped should be content because God just gave them lemons and now they make their baby into lemonade. Mitt Romney will cut funding to Planned Parenthood and he still has to contemplate the Lilly Ledbetter Act requiring equal pay for equal work. All of these men are Christian, each of these men are fervent anti Taliban crusaders saying that state run religion is a dangerous thing, that is if that state run religion is Islam. How come when we have Taliban fighters in this nation who pray to Jesus their restrictions on women’s rights is not too worry about?  When these MEN are deciders of women’s rights and deniers of women’s equality and espouse the New Testament this nations core values are not harmed or hindered? So, you are a female, or a lover of women or a brother or a father or a husband or a son and still voting Romney/Ryan/Republican? 2012 could be the year of the Christian Taliban coming to America! 

demon seed

If we have learned anything from horror movies it is that when a demon enters your life it can manifest into a plethora of personalities. Many times it starts out as something similar, something sweet so we can trust it thinking nothing bad is happening here. Then when the demon has settled into our souls it begins to be more pushy, more in command. And before we know it the demon has manifested into something evil, something that no longer lets us recognize the bodies of the people it has possessed.

At last nights debate an entity calling himself Mitt Romney appeared it seemed similar to the Mitt we knew but then became unrecognizable. This demon was canny using the sweet mothers voice as in did in the movie the Exorcist you know the disembodied voice that said “Dami, Dami, I am you mother.” It lulled Damien the Priest to come closer to lean in to trust. And as the priest bought the malarkey splurging out from the demon Damien almost lost his life and his freedoms. We have seen in the most horrible of cinema how cunning, how tempting, how easily trust is achieved and how much quicker it is betrayed. Th victim is lied to, promised to then possessed and left without a choice of chance. Once again Mitt Romney showed up as someone else he  had once been before, before he felt it was not necessary to be that way in the first place. Wham bam out of the blue he changed positions on a myriad of issues and without a slight demonstration of conscience, morals or honor looked at America and said I have always been this way. Once again, Mitt Romney pandered and patronized not demonstrating backbone or strength but promoting self serving weakness. Mitt Romney cares less about this nation and most of the people living in it. He will say or do or promise or lie about any topic any time just to advance HIS agenda, his life his fame. Like a demon he has convinced the poor souls who think that their own life sucks and by inviting the demon in to their life that life will get better. Romney will cajole, connive, create conflict and chaos and fool the shit from the foolish. With Mr Romney what you see is not what you get, because like a demon you really never the creature until it has ruined your life and it is too late to reclaim it. 

my civil rights

Mitt Romney wants you to know that allowing same-sex couples to visit each other in the hospital is a benefit — not a civil right — and he will let states take away that “benefit” if they want to. Two years ago, President Obama mandated that all hospitals treat same-sex couples the same way they treat heterosexual couples, including visitation rights. (That’s also included, separately, in Obamacare.)(Huff Post). Loving your partner is a benefit if you are GAY. Caring for your partner is a benefit if you are GAY. A benefit one must earn or beg the state legislature to provide for you, according to Mitt Romney. This election is about MY civil rights it IS about a bevy of bogus bias based on nothing else but ignorance laced with religious bigotry. Who are you Mr Romney or your henchmen and women to consider my visitation, care, concern as benefits? If being a member of the Latter Day Saints has prejudiced your moral character then you have no right to be the president of this nation? If catering to the self victimizing lunatics who who only learned how to hate from their families or  churches has capsulized your opinion then you are as ignorant of the Constitution as the flunkies who use it to wipe their asses. Also on the table for Mitt, filed under “states rights” and not civil rights, is adoption of children by same-sex couples, and, presumably, single gay people.(Huff Post) Amazing, Mitt how you state your religious values guide you and how proud you are of your work in the church. What does your church say about the thousands of abandoned kids left in abuse, poverty, without love by heterosexual couples? What does your church say about the heterosexual parents who have little use for their offspring, who don’t want that awful burden of raising them? Does you church insist these kids live in foster care, that they rot on vine because they just didn’t ripen good enough. You are a callous man Mr. Romney to think that love is not shared by all adults and that love can also be abused by all adults. A man of honor would look at the qualities of the individual Mr. Romney, but then you have NOT demonstrated any honor from the day you announced you candidacy. You are an advocate of states rights Mitt, you brag about it. States rights instead of civil rights caused the states of the South to secede from the Union because some states thought slavery was cool. States rights instead of civil rights permitted some states to provide separate drinking fountains, segregated schools and riding in the back of the bus. States rights instead of civil rights allowed certain neighborhoods to post signs saying NO JEWS, CATHOLICS, NEGROS or DOGS. This election IS ABOUT my rights as a man who is constantly reminded by homophobes like Mitt Romney that being Gay is nit equal. That being Gay does not make you a real American. And if you support Romney/Ryan you must agree. It is a sad statement that MY Civil rights don’t count by Romney/Ryan and the anyone who casts a ballot for them.

war ann, war

Mitt Romney spent the Vietnam War driving about the French countryside and his sons won’t be serving in the wars he wants to start/continue because they are serving him, which is the same thing as serving our country according to Mitt Romney. Ann Romney thinks that sending her sons off to serve “their mission” is the same thing as sending your sons and daughters off to Iraq or Afghanistan. She sent them away as boys and they came back as men. War is sometimes necessary or sometimes a result looking for a cause. History has proven that the might of men can be justified but the mission of men without reason or rhyme results in endless chaos resolving very little but ego. I have never fought in a war. I don’t know the first hand accounts of doing so, but being 62 years old have either studied, viewed from the safety of television, or spoken to veterans about the affects of war. I am afraid of war, learned that during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the treatment of Viet Nam Vets. I see the ravishes of war from the faces of the Troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with physical, mental and emotional scars. I see the punishment of war on the empty faces of mothers/fathers/wives/husbands who are handed an American flag and a coffin. A nation, we are told must at times exert force on another group of people to keep humanity safe we are told. Left unchecked the evil of a few men and women may ruin the lives of many. I understand all of that and because of that understanding realize that as desirous fighting a war may be it is ten times as dangerous. Ann Romney was on the “View” Whoopi Goldberg: What I read about your husband, what I read, and maybe you can correct this, is that the reason that he didn’t serve in Vietnam was because it was against the religion. Ann Romney: He was serving his mission. (Explaining that none of her sons have served in the military) My five sons have also served (on) missions. We find different ways of serving… I sent them away boys and they came back men. Mr Romney and Ryan backed by a majority of Neo-Cons who had served in the Bush/Cheney administration have spoken about war as if it is a necessity not worthy of a debate or conversation. Both men bathe in the red, white, blue of the flag and pronounce that the greatness of America is our ability to wage war and win. Neither man has served in a war and neither men come from families where mother or dad has enlisted. Mr. Romney considers his sons going to battle for the (Romney’s) presidential aspirations similar to serving this country on the front line. Mrs Romney thinks sending her sons to Europe to proselytize is similar to  facing the Taliban or Al Qaida.  There is a major disconnect, a major one! There is also an arrogance and ignorance. It IS NOT just about the economy, it is abiut life and we all lives it healthy safely and equally!

record straight

Just to set the record straight...

God does not hate FAGS, he despises those who call them that.

Self proclaimed Religious and Capitalists sometimes worship a vengeful and false God.

When the President Obama acts more like an uppity black man he kicks your bigoted ass.

The President does care about Israel but would prefer to use all of his collateral in words first then the lives of Americans to prove it.

Patronizing and Pandering are par for the course of a man with weak character and a waning conscience.

Mr. Romney you are right people just don’t die in their apartments, they die in their homes, on the streets in back alleys because wherever they live they still don’t have adequate health insurance.

Just to set the record straight...

Who exactly will you be protecting when you decide to spend billions on Defense while deducting millions on the line items like food, shelter and health care?

Mr. Ryan, washing dishes after they have been cleaned and those who fed off of them have eaten only makes you a condescending cocky son of a bitch and not a caring Catholic.

Todd Akin is still the same religious bigot, anti feminist, ignorant fool he was when he stated there is such a thing as legitimate rape, so how come people like Karl Rove and the Koch Brothers are once again supporting him?

It is difficult to debate a liar because all he does is recite the same fiction and folly never once admitting he is anything but real.

Just to set the record straight...

It took 8 years for a Republican President and Congress to deepen the debt, widen the divide between the have and nots, ignore any restrictions for the Finance and banking Industry and four years for a Democrat President to begin to turn it around.

Backing a candidate but doing it anonymously is being a coward. Off shore accounts are a shady practice if you want to be the president of the United States. Using your religious practice to proselytize as an excuse for you not to fight a war you deemed as the right war to fight is bogus. Stating you are proud of your record but never letting anyone else ask you about it is arrogant.

Just for the record...

If you believe in your policies share them and with a backbone and clear conscience say so, don’t tell us we have to wait and see.

If you just discovered at the age of 57 when you were governor that there ae qualified women in the US, what the hell were you doing before that. And speaking of before that while at Bain you hadn’t discovered talented and educated women.

If you are a female and still consider Mitt the man I suppose you care less about your elf esteem then the hatred for the President.

If you are a member of the LGBT community and find Romney/Ryan resonate for you, then I suppose the equity in your savings account means a whole lot more then the equality of your life.

If you are a member of the Jewish Community and have bought into the Hussein part of Obama or that the president hates Israel then you have fallen into the propaganda of Evangelicals only care about the existence of the Jewish State so the damn Rapture can begin already.

If you watch FOX news then you have no idea that others don’t hate, scapegoat, bully, that the Constitution is not the same thing as the Bible, and that democracy IS about fair and equal.

Just to set the record...

There is a major choice between Obama/Biden and Romney/Ryan and if you don’t choose correctly we will revert to the years of Bush/Cheney tens time worse.

social what

Here we go, the Republicans say a word define it with their skewed dictionary of bias and bogus and suddenly the word is a BAD word. Socialism, socialists, so we are told are the ugly side of humanity. These two words create a world of evil; a place that denies freedoms and personal choice. Run, run fast when you see a socialist flee, flee far from a nation that promotes socialism. Our forefathers would be turning over in their graves if they had any indication that words like socialism and socialist were being muttered in this nation of ours.

But then, the Great Depression happened upon our shores and Americans were starving. homeless, destitute and the Government felt an obligation to take care of “its tired and its poor.” The government wanted to assist its citizens in finding their “pursuit of happiness.” So the government created jobs, opportunities for people to become employed earn a wage feed their families and find shelter. The government looked closely at its elderly those who worked so hard in their youth. Now they were slowing down and the government thought, these people helped make America great we must do something in return and give back that greatness. Social security was created a means by which getting old, getting sick did not lead to despair, dread or doom or death but instead provided the means to live a filler life. The government became a bit socialistic in its philosophy in response to the needs of its citizenry. And democracy did not die it thrived.

Like so many hypocrites those who want to pinpoint their own bigotry will highlight some of the words in the Bible and ignore the rest. Homosexuality is a sin according to Christians who base this phobia on Leviticus. But somehow all the other passages of sin stemming from Leviticus like only marrying a virgin to not getting tattoos eating shell fish are never mentioned. Socialism is bad we are told because the government wants to impose its own standard of morals and values. But then socialism is OKAY when these same zealots wish to have the government impose their standards relating to women’s reproductive rights, same-sex marriage. 

Until the Affordable Care Act became law little was done by the free market to assure a majority of Americans access to health care other then a rip to the Emergency Room or to make a priority as to paying for food, shelter or health. All Americans having the same opportunity to live a healthy life became a hue and cry for that terrible demon of destruction SOCIALISM. Suddenly death panels loomed large, bureaucrats bullying you into what kind of health care is best, elected officials sitting in your doctors office all of this would happen we were warned because SOCIALISTS are handling your health insurance. And as the free market ran rampant in handling our health insurance we had pre-conditions, high premiums, lack of coverage, too expensive to operate, and no health coverage whatsoever.

Like lemmings afraid of their own shadow, some will not take the initiative to investigate their road ahead. They will follow the fool in front of them afraid to read a map and perhaps not fall off the cliff a mile ahead. They will not question for fear that those who say they are closer to God or the Constitution, or Thomas Jefferson, George Washington will call upon those higher powers and deny the lemming  access to to prosperity. They will let others use the word socialism, socialist as BAD words and have no idea how pieces of both words will benefit all Americans.

The Republican leadership has done a good, good job on keeping the dumb dumber, the fearful more afraid and the ignorant unaware.

Such a shame that the road the lemming chooses is off a cliff when with one smart question, one smarter answer the road ahead leads to a rainbow.