If a tree falls

"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" is a philosophical thought experiment that raises questions regarding observation and knowledge of reality.

Officer Garrett Swasey was murdered by a man who most likely got his news from Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity, must have absorbed himself with lots of Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck radio, became mesmerized by the lying hypocrites like, Carson, Trump or Fiorina and was sure his kind of Jesus could not tolerate abortions but loved him some cowardly murder. OR he is just an ugly American who has his share of demons and understands murder is the best way to rid himself of their evil, and loves himself some 2nd Amendment NRA rights! And once again a white guy of Christian persuasion with an AK 47 assault weapon shoots a few people and this a policeman and like that tree in the forest it seems some of the T-Bagging “blood on their hands” GOP presidential candidates heard nothing; raising the question of observation, knowledge and reality. 

It is still quiet on the OMG front for a few contenders to become a Fascist dictator, some have FINALLY come around to hear that tree fall, reluctant of course to say the words perhaps we incited this murderer. Others are acting like adolescent immature brats swearing it wasn’t them it was the liberals who caused this murderer to act upon the wishes and wants these GOP douchebags swore was the answer to Planned parenthood. I have to imagine if the murderer was a Black man, perhaps a Mexican or worse a Muslim I am sure FOX News and each and every candidate for Fascist dictator from the T-Bagging Twilight Zone would demand that President Obama call a state of emergency. But the guy was white, and if a white guy murders anyone he is either mentally ill, or just a fallen soldier of the Christian Crusade!

Dear Carly

Dear Carly,

You were able to describe in graphic detail a video that never, ever existed except in the deranged minds of your marketing team and your empty heart and less then honest brain. You were able to look straight at the camera not once but a few times and insist that voodoo, witchcraft, murder and trade were taking place at Planned Parenthood Clinics. Cocky as ever you dared those who questioned your honesty to take a look for themselves, EXCEPT Carly as the saying goes, THERE IS NO THERE, THERE!

Then Carly something very ugly, very real happened at a Planned Parenthood Clinic, witnessed on video on cable on all local newscasts, and somehow you remain silent. We all got at least 48 hours of viewing of a madman who decided to believe you (and the other liars running for president) that the imagined video you so proudly spoke of was actually true. Where is that “I gotcha” grin now Carly, that willowy smile to prove that you are the meanest gun slayer inside  T-Bag-ville? What a phony you are Carly, what a coward Carly. Something really happens and you decide not to see it, Carly! Clueless, souls and selfish I suppose perfect skill set for the bigoted base you so seek to have adore you!

Whose Boots

There is demand for more boots on the ground. Terror has found its footing once again in America. Fear knows very few boundaries and is very good in creating a kind of havoc inspiring hallucinations, heartache, and horrendous moments of kill or be killed. And so as is a natural defense, we beg to become on the offense. Facts become mingled with fiction, fiction triumphs as purpose, and purpose pleasures itself with frivolous and fearful statements promising to be fact. Now we as a collective nation begin to believe once again that the enemy can be controlled with more boots on the ground.

But lets ask one major question and that is WHOSE BOOTS will be hitting that ground? Will it be the gunslayers who proudly parade between the aisles in Walmart and Target stores, pretending that somehow they are a brave militia intimidating shoppers looking for a bargain? Will they be those White Supremacists who think they are some kind of Patriot as they open carry their assault weapons marching in Black neighborhoods or standing guard whenever the ‘Black Lives Matter’ members protest? Might they be the Christian Crusaders at the ready to carry a Glock intimidating the people who seek medical assistance at the Planned Parenthood clinics, the brave souls who are armed and ready to shoot the women so they can save the fetus? Perhaps the Minute Men, the guys pretending that the Constitution of the USA matters little when it disturbs their version of lawlessness? Or maybe the 20 somethings who think that by playing Mortal Combat, Call of Duty, Warfare 2, God of War they are combat ready?

It is so easy to insist we put more boots on the ground when in fact we usually know it is not our boots facing an imminent choice of life or death. If Americans feel this is the answer to the madness of terrorism then maybe we might have to consider the following. We want another war to end all wars then the Congress should reenact the Draft. If we truly believe boots on the ground is the answer for our fears then lets have ALL eligible Americans take on that responsibility. We should not permitted people in the past like Donald Trump, Dick Cheney, George W Bush to pay for their deferments. Lets have the men in women in Congress’s children be role models and be the first to be drafted. Lets see how many of the 1% of the wealthiest families stand proud and sign up for battle first. Terrorism knows no boundaries, so why should we as Americans fighting for freedom and democracy permit our own boundaries of who should or should not enlist. If war is inevitable then it SHOULD be fought by all of us.

Another Virus

THE VIRUS IN US Part Seven: When we were young in the 1950’s and 1960’s Pennsylvania had on its list of laws something called The Blue Laws. Blue laws originated to regulate industry, shopping and other behaviors on Sundays. The restrictions were supposed to be for the good of everyone's morals. Blue laws were supposed to force the citizenry to observe the Lord's day quietly, at home. In our state even if you were not a Christian you had the obligation to respect the one day of the week that Christians considered their Sabbath Day.  THE VIRUS IN US ALL loved to dance with delight on Sunday’s. You might not be of the Christian religion but by God as a pagan you needed to adhere to the values and show some respect for the more moral and correct part of society. If you tried to ignore the Blue Laws you might be arrested and most likely be known as very Un-American citizen.

Pastor Kevin Swanson standing on stage at the National Liberties Religious Conference declared that murdering Homosexuals who did not stop being Gay was a justified Christian duty, and found his own version of Scripture to prove that Jesus also hated the Gay. Joining him on that same stage were Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee. Neither man declared that Pastor Swanson went a little too far in redefining American values and instead talked about their Christian point of view and insisting that this IS a Christian nation. Franklin Graham son of the Evangelical leader Billy has gone ga-ga over Vladimir Putin regarding that nations anti-Gay Propaganda law. Homosexual marriages, adoptions are just another form of nails in the body of Christ. Putin, according to Graham got the Christian thing correct and Obama did not.Jail those damn homosexuals for wanting fair and equal. THE VIRUS IS IN ALL OF US and it can’t wait demonstrate its rage

A religious test, now a new requirement for entrance to the United States. Ted Cruz is acting as the lead Crusader for Christianity, and in a time of trouble and tension his brand of new Americanism his test of true nationality has resonated with the very fearful forces of the minions who have never read the Constitution nor believe in its validity when in direct dispute with their own inadequacies. The ever ready fear monger,(remember the Ebola quarantine in New Jersey,) Chris Christie is taking his mighty Bible in hand and swearing that 5 year olds of the Muslim faith will bode ill for the future.  THE VIRUS IS IN ALL OF US, and has seeped into the rows and pews of churches, onto the Bibles, passages and hymnals read and sung, by Evangelicals and is coursing through the blood of people who think that this is only a Christian nation. Joining Senator Cruz and Chris Christie of course are Christian Crusaders of Ben Carson and Jeb Bush insisting that Christians do not commit acts of terrorism. And to prove their feed the frenzy of the fearful, anyone now who wishes to find safety in the US must first pass a religious test filled with the values of Christianity. No need to look at the men hiding behind their white robes, nor the Brothers of the Aryan Nation, or the hero’s who bomb Planned Parenthood Clinics because they are really not the same kind of terrorists as those with brown and olive skin. THE VIRUS IS IN ALL OF US  and loves to hide behind hypocrisy and hyperbole. 

Nostalgia

Facebook fans love themselves some Throw Back Thursdays and Way Back Fridays, I think a portion of this nation is also fond of Flashback Fascism! As Sophia Petrillo, the matriarch from ‘The Golden Girls’ used to say, “Picture this…”

…A narcissistic man cunning enough to work the democratic process, too stupid for facts but savvy enough to imply that fiction and fictitious facts prove a truth, steps into the limelight and mesmerizes crowds of people. He knows that EVERYBODY needs an enemy and he has his victims lined up and ready to scapegoat. He invents a problem, works on the fear factor, and proves that there is a definite difference between THEM and US. Afraid to be found out a fraud he immediately with the face and grace of a snake oil salesmen criticizes the state press. He knows that perhaps some of the press is part of THEM, and warns his lemmings that listening to THEM is dangerous to the sovereignty of the Homeland. He implies that some facts are just hyperbole or perhaps subjective. He reminds his followers that THEY understand a flimflam when it is happening to US, as he picks their pockets and then banishes their brain cells. This man is a marketing maven, a guy who understands the selfishness of others and who can pretend to care as he carelessly sets traps for anyone who might demand the truth…

…This self-serving man loves to scream fire as he of course exits the theater. He knows how dangerous stupid can be and tempts the angry with promises of if THEY ( of course the enemy) are gone HE can make life better. All he needs to do is prose poetic by saying “I know how to, trust me, I can hire the best, don’t be fooled by fringe on the left”, and it works because nothing feels better then empty promises. He must have his secrets and those who just need a bad guy to blame in their lives ask for nothing more. First you must find the fear, then you must harvest the hate, then you create the chaos all ingredients for a recipe of fire wielding townsfolk. Never get your hands dirty, no need for your fingerprints, but at the same time NEVER discourage those among your group who you insist are “just thinking for themselves’”…

…This above the law guy (after all the law is only in place to protect THEM), pretends that he cares about democracy, but incites enough babble and bias to have his followers become a gang of goons, and with all due respect to decency has them beat up any bastard who dares to decent. These gang colors change with the mood of the insecure, sometimes they wear brown shirts, sometimes suits from Macy’s made in China, sometimes tri-cornered hats and sometimes a white robe underneath their camouflage hunting jackets. There has to be safety in numbers so just to be sure, henchmen adorn his dais and just in case someone might carouse past the guards, enough open carry, assault weapon wearing Patriots of the Homeland at the doorway to pounce when necessary…

…Flashback Fascism how sweet. But then that Fascist stuff just happened in Germany and we all know THOSE people were not as bright as US Americans. This leader of the pack guy loves to shout out lots of Nazi misinformation, but he is wise enough to know that for some (sadly not all) Hitler is still some kind of bad guy. However copies of Mein Kampf are stashed away in his gold plated library just in case the lies, fabrications, accusations don’t work as well as planned. Flashback Fascism in America, and if you for one minute do not believe it, and lets say you happen to be of color, living in poverty, not an Evangelical Christian, a female who expects personal freedoms, a homosexual, a Jew or an atheist, you might as well dig a deeper ditch so the rest of your body is in the same sand trap as your head!

The Virus of Hoods

A group of men have been spotted driving around in pick up trucks waving a flag not of this nation but one that signifies that of an enemy state, perhaps a caliphate. These men are hard to describe as they all have their heads covered with a hood like mask. They carry, alongside their assault weapons, of course their holy book and as they pass by local towns and villages they shout that they are the messengers from God. Intimidation works for these men because they believe by hiding behind a mask of sorts and usually outnumbering the individuals, people will form fear and flee; if they don’t flee they of course may be hung or have their homes burned down. Sometimes these people actually attack the same kind of religious institutions they pretend at which they pray, but these masked men believe the God they pray to hates this particular sect of HIS religion. The religious institutions which these men like to call their own houses of worship have religious leaders who praise these men as doing Gods job. The God these men and their religious leaders worship considered violence against a self perceived enemy to be a commandment. Unlike the hooded men in the Middle East driving around in the back of pick up trucks, waving their black flags and wearing their black masks and hoods the T-Bagging GOP politicians in our country have little concern. The evil ones are never your constituents or those who flock to your racist oriented rallies, nope they look and smell and demonstrate bigotry like you so they are cool. These men wear white hoods, they carry a flag symbolizing slavery, white supremacy, showcasing a distaste for freedom for all equality for everyone. This group of men don’t use the letters ISIS to identify with, nope, they like to keep it simpler they prefer the KKK.

THE VIRUS INSIDE ALL OF US, loves itself some hypocrisy. If you wear a black hood you are evil and worshiping a maligning and malicious God, if your hood is white, pure white then of course your God is filled with goodness and glad tidings. Read a Bible and you are interpreting the will of God who loves to smite and smote, read a “so called” satin inspired book in Arabic of all useless languages, and all you are is being manipulated by some fool who pretends he is God. Burn down churches, bomb women’s clinics, vandalize synagogues and swear that Jesus loved himself a good gun fight at the OK Corral and Gods grace is all you need for that violence. Murder, maim, mutilate people because you pretend your God is actually a God then you are nothing but a criminal and of course will rot in Christian Hell.THE VIRUS IS INSIDE ALL OF US and be clear every single deranged man and woman who thinks God speaks to them telling them that HE wants you to kill is dangerous. Perhaps there are a few people in this country who need to be monitored, who actually speak English!

The Virus inside all of us Part 7

THE VIRUS IS IN ALL OF US: Part Seven. A lot of the T-Party crowd, you know (Jesus helped write the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution group of “open carry guys and gals), want to kick ISIS’S ass and are pissed that President Obama has not placed more boots on the ground in SyriaLand to rid the world of those terrorists once and for all. They might have a point and to prove that point if we are yet to start another war without a conceivable ending why not just then open up the Draft again. A Draft for EVERYONE, would permit those guys and gals who love to parade down the aisles of Walmart or Target stores with AK’s or Glocks or Sniper Rifles hanging from their camouflage vests and torn Confederate flag T-shirts to fight that war that the Kenyan president is afraid to fight.

Now those white guys who love to parade in predominately black neighborhoods with the butt of their rifles hanging out of the butt of their backend, love to play the bully. They are pissed off that the Socialist Obama ain’t doin’ enough to Pro-tect this Christian homeland. With an Open Draft as law these guys can patrol the streets of other dark skinned people’s neighborhoods and show them A-Rabs just how brave Bible tottin’ Christians can be. Why these Jesus was the first member of the NRA group of folks can use the skills they learned from playing all the war videos of Play Station. Sitting in your living room with a bunch of beers moving that toggle switch is more then enough skill in linking the enemy.

Why, with an Open Draft those good Christian soldiers, the ones who love to burn down black churches, bomb or set fire to Planned Parenthood Clinics, or call them selves The Minute Men making sure none of those cantaloupe calf sized,Mexican rapists cross over into this country, can exchange their faux military garb for real US Armed Service fatigues. As a special incentive the NRA can provide each of them with a lifetime membership. Joining those soldiers for Christ with an Open Draft we should expect either the GOP Congress members to enlist and if they are too old of course to do the American thing they will escort their children or grand children to the Federal Building. But then of course I am kidding, none of those God Bless America self described cowards will step forward and fight, because if in fact they really were brave patriots ALL of them would have been on a Tour of Duty already! THE VIRUS IS IN ALL OF US and loves to incite a riot from a distance.

THE VIRUS IN US ALL Part Six

THE VIRUS INSIDE ALL OF US Part Six: I am certain there is inside all of a virus, one that can lie dormant even until death, but one so virulent that at any time its contagion can spread with the speed of a category 5 hurricane. I am certain this virus is the crux of any and all virus’s many authors of fiction refer to as the Zombie virus. In the TV series the “Walking Dead”, we discovered that the good souls, the people who tried to take the apocalyptic environment in which they found themselves trying to survive and make the best of humanity as they could contained the virus. But no matter how hard they tried to make a difference if they died of natural causes they to turned into zombies. When actions committed seem to have no conscionable purpose, when only it is necessary to dismember another, when one is guided by a lust to deprive anyone from decency they have an active case of THE VIRUS INSIDE ALL OF US.

I believe Donald Trump has suffered from this virus since he first ate soup from his golden spoon. But the virus flowing through the veins of Donald has taken on the form of something even more frightening; as he cares less how his actions harm others but is deeply smart enough to realize how saying he will harm others actually gives him more power. Donald is an empty vessel in the soul department, but a genius in understanding that THE VIRUS INSIDE ALL OF US lurks luxuriously in the most insecure and fearful among us. Donald Trump like most Zombies can smell the infected, unlike the “Walking Dead” zombies, who pay little attention to those already ill, Donald knows how to generate THE VIRUS IN ALL OF US, by simply pretending that he too is as irate, pissed off, exasperated as the common man. Donald shares nothing in common with the common man of course but he speaks their language of fear and blame. And with each sentence sounding like Fascism, racism, and bigotry the lemmings flock to him as if he was tooting the flute of the Pied Piper. The base of the Republican Party, the men and women who pretend to understand American democracy and true religion, smell blood when Donald entices them with ID badges, walls on our borders, and that even the poorest in this nation are earning to high a wage. Self victimizing is key for the success of THE VIRUS INSIDE ALL OF US, and Mr Trump can recognize those self inflicted wounds and he can see the poison of the virus flowing freely from them.

Now as before, (we Americans hate to learn from history, and even in the nation state of Texas their Board of Education has little problem in using an eraser for the parts they don’t like) we find ourselves in an election year where the best defense is to offend as many people as we can, implying that they really don’t count or should not be considered. Not to be left out in courting and cajoling the base voters of a deranged Republican base Chris Christie stands boldly upon his faux soap box and like his critically wrong decision regarding the EBOLA virus, knows that this virus IS contagious and he too spews the kind of hate only the lonely and biased love. Ted Cruz is filled with THE VIRUS INSIDE ALL OF US. His form of the virus has manifested into conceit and personal gain. His father told him Jesus has anointed his son Ted as an apostle, and Ted without any regard to Jesus, wants not only to be that apostle but a king of kings in his kingdom of America. Ted knows the venom of the stupid, pretending that he shares those same demented values. Good ole’ Marco Rubio now filled with the millions of his newest puppet master, is wise enough to try and gain ground on his co-snake oil salesmen, so he demands a harsher hate for the Muslims. He believes you can be an immigrant but maybe from Cuba or at least those other very white parts of the globe.

THE VIRUS IS INSIDE ALL OF US, and if we don’t watch out, with the continuing soundbytes and lack of resolution to really contain ISIS just like the population that believed President Dick Cheney and his ventriloquist dummy George W , could keep us safe we might vote once again for a charlatan a conceited clown. In times of fear many Americans think because we are exceptional we can drop bombs, put other kids boots on the ground, listen to FOX News distort the truth and win because of course we ARE a Christian nation and everyone else isn’t! And once again has our history has demonstrated, we will end up consumed by THE VIRUS INSIDE ALL OF US. Be careful what you wish for because THE VIRUS INSIDE ALL OF US, all over again! (THE VIRUS INSIDE ALL OF US PART Seven to follow)

THE VIRUS INSIDE ALL OF US Part Six

THE VIRUS INSIDE ALL OF US Part Five: Growing up in Pittsbrugh in the 1950’s I presumed that there were only Jewish doctors and dentists. It was quite an honorable profession for a nice Jewish boy and for some Jewish mothers the SON who became a doctor was like receiving a gold medal for motherhood. Our family physician was Dr. Goldfield, a gentle man who as part of his schedule made house calls. If he refereed to another specialist HE was also Jewish. And as my Grandma Braff would quietly say,“God forbid you must go into the hospital (she would then spit a little out of the side of her mouth and say pooh-pooh) only place to go is a Jewish hospital. In fact in Pittsburgh in the 50’s there was one Jewish Hospital called Montefiore (named after Moses Montefiore and Italian Jewish philanthropist who emigrated to London). As I grew older living in Pittsburgh I only used Jewish doctors because I was sure non-Jews did not know how to practice medicine. As I become more aware of the life around me I also learned a very hard lesson of history about Jews in the US. It seemed that doctors were not welcome to practice in most hospitals, so in order to provide competent Jewish doctors a place to provide service many larger Jewish communities built Jewish hospitals. It seems many in the Christian community did not believe that Jewish hands should touch or operate on their chosen bodies (THE VIRUS IS INSIDE ALL OF US, and even if the Virus was going to demolish your body you still had to avoid the Jews.I think I was living in Newport Beach when the JCC I worked with changed its health care plan and I used and HMO, it was then that I actually discovered that good doctors had nothing to with religion, and my doctor was not only a non-Jew, but a black man. Oy!

It was 7th Grade of Linden School, my elementary school, I was in Miss MacAteer’s Social

Studies Class. (I loved social studies, I could name every state and its capital and I was able to list the presidents of this nation in order). It was a day in May, one of those Pittsbrugh days that started out muggy and hazy and could only get hotter and more uncomfortable. Our classroom was on the second floor of the school and the only way to create any kind of circulation of air was to open a window. In those days the windows opened from above so the teachers had to employ about an 8’ long pole with a little grip on top to find the latch and pull down the window. Most teachers preferred not to open the windows because it was a tedious task. This day was our presentation of our projects in which we compared the three branches of government, so every one had to bring in their notebooks. Miss MacAteer knew she had to relieve the heat and informed the class that “as we know she starts her class on time but today she must play weatherman, so if we want we have a few extra minutes to prepare our notebooks. There were five windows to open and our teacher started at the back moving to the front of the classroom. Opening the windows created a perfect little wind storm and with the first gust of wind one of my classmates who had just undone his notebook laying his papers on the desk was shocked to find the wind had blown his papers on the floor. He, I suppose out of frustration shouted “God Damn it!” We all froze, we were in 7th grade and many of us learned swear words, BUT NEVER would WE EVER say them in school and in front of our teacher. Miss MacAteer was at the third window, turned to face the student then did a little two step and marched with her 8’ft pole to the front of the class. Silence ensued, as we watched Miss MacAteer write on the black board, “This is a Christian nation we NEVER use the Lords name in vein”. Miss MacAteer knew the VIRUS IS INSIDE ALL OF US, it existed but she was certain that in this Christian nation in her classroom it would not be permitted to find footing.

On Thursday in Iowa the land where the some of the worst of the core of the Republican Party dwell, a man who has no interest in the welfare of anyone but himself, Donald Trump, decided he needed to indulge the bottom of the barrel of the Tea-Bagging community and inferred if he were to become president , perhaps a monitoring system would be needed fro identify which American citizens were not as equal as others and perhaps we should make a law that Muslims wear identity badges. Donald Trump knows too well that THE VIRUS IS INSIDE ALL OF US, he knows he suffers its consequences and he knows that those who claim the New Testament trumps any other law suffer from THE VIRUS INSIDE ALL OF US.Trump is a very contagious man, he spews venom and could cafe less who he infects next. (THE VIRUS IS INSIDE ALL OF US Part Six follows)

THE VIRUS IN ALL OF US:Part Four

THE VIRUS IN ALL OF US: Part Four, It was the mid 50’s in Pittsburgh, living in a predominately Jewish neighborhood we knew it was Christmas time because of the myriad of Christmas programs on television, the neighborhood merchants decorated banners with stars, mistletoe, and Santa’s sleigh on the light poles and across the street car wires, but the ability to see real hard core Christmas decorations on homes was just not found in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood in which we lived. So every year during the week before Christmas some of the parents would drive our neighborhood kids to the suburbs of Pittsburgh, for us in particular it was the communities of Mt Lebanon and Upper Saint Claire. I remember as we entered these neighborhoods one or two of the adults would whisper okay, we are Jewish and driving into streets where Jews, Catholics Colored People are not permitted to live. We were young and this sounded both quite shocking and very scary. Would someone actually stop our car and ask “Are you Jewish” and then arrest us? It was true in the early 1950’s there were deed restrictions to some communities where if you were Jewish, Catholic, of Color and at times Irish you could not purchase a home. THE VIRUS IS IN ALL OF US, and in Pittsburgh in those days the virus would appear as a legal document stating you if not of the appropriate Christian sect should not darken our fabulous door steps.

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, assisted in the voyages of Christopher Columbus, thinking they were headed to the Indies, Columbus and his conquerers landed on the Isle of Hispaniola and eventually on the terra forma of North America. Upon his arrival Columbus met a native population, and indigenous group of people of a differing skin color and with no belief in the “Original Sin”. The Gods of these people was never crucified on a cross and no orange chapels were erected depicting HIS glory. Being a good Catholic, coming from a nation where the Inquisition assisted you in either converting to Catholicism or dying, Mr Columbus felt it his obligation to spread the Catholic religion.The indigenous tribes had a choice like the Jews and Muslims of Spain convert or die. The Puritan men of New England believed that their God had a special place in his heart for the male members of the species. Women were indeed chattel and were forever bound to the whims, fancies, and prejudices of their husbands, fathers or brothers. The Puritans believed that women should be seen but never heard. The Puritans became disoriented when a few women actually spoke up, spoke out about what they thought, about their treatment and in doing so pissed off the male elders of this religious cult.The women were called witches and burned. THE VIRUS IS IN ALL OF US and the Christians of early America became quite ill from it.

The state of South Carolina wanted to succeed from the Union because they believed it was the right of any good Christian household to partake in slavery, they were not happy that Abraham Lincoln was democratically elected president so on December 20, 1860 they succeeded. Church elders in most of the other Southern states at that time also agreed that a good Christian was actually called upon by God to own slaves. These preachers and ministers read passage and verse from their Holy Book in which they decided God made the White race to be leaders and created the black skinned folk to be slaves. George Wallace a good Christian Governor of Alabama had no time to waste on integrating his state colleges. The Negro was never meant to sit next to the white person and learn. If his water fountains, were segregated, if the Negro was to sit in the back of the bus, then by God’s will his universities would never be integrated. George Wallace has his Christian clergy back him up because they knew Jesus was also a religious bigot. Dawning white robes, most likely because they were cowards and afraid to show case their hatred a group men decided this was a White Christian nation and using religion as their guide and glory decided that God preferred the Colored to be hung, have their houses burned and of course treated as dirt. The KKK believed then as it does now that the Christian religion takes prescient in the democracy of this nation. THE VIRUS IS IN ALL OF US and it permeates from the gutless souls of men so terrified of truth. THE VIRUS IN US:Part Five follows

THE VIRUS IN ALL OF US: Part Three

THE VIRUS IN ALL OF US Part Three: My father was a “beat cop”, he would walk the streets of the Homewood neighborhood with his “beat partner” mostly the 7am to 11pm shift. Homewood in the days of the mid 1950’s was a black neighborhood in Pittsburgh. My dad and his “beat partner” were white but in the mid 1950’s about 95% of the Pittsburgh Police Department was white, so this was really no big deal. My dad had grown up in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh in the early 1900’s and he was perhaps the 1% of the Jewish population of that section of town. He was subjected to ethnic name calling but being a big kid, and one who was very experienced in boxing ably took care of the bully’s who wanted to berate him because he was Jewish.So my father took with him, along with his billy club, holstered gun, and badge a sense of understanding how people often times prefer to see the differences in others rather what they might share commonly. He knew first hand after being called words like “kike”, “sheeny”, or “Jew boy” that the VIRUS IS IN ALL OF US, but maybe its potential to hurt could be at least modified. As he performed his policeman tasks patrolling the streets, stopping in the stores on the business avenues, and taking time to talk with the residents my dad knew that if he allowed differences to MAKE A DIFFERENCE, most likely he would not be very good at his job. Many neighborhood residents liked my dad, and my father knew a great percentage of the citizens of Homewood by name.However we don’t live in a perfect world crime happens, and some people would try to incite or create violence and as a policeman my father had to act accordingly. Mostly my dad would remain quiet about his “beat” but sometimes events of the Homewood neighborhood found their way to the local news stations or even in the Pittsburgh Press. Often times the stories were told as black versus white, good versus bad. When we asked about any occurrence my fathers response was, “Somehow people feel safer if they can place the blame of their fears on others.” I didn’t realize it then but my dad was well aware of the fact that THE VIRUS IS IN ALL OF US.

We never traveled on vacation much, I suppose a policeman’s salary back in the 1950’s did not provide a family of four kids and two parents the opportunity to go anywhere but the local swimming pools. My dad had become a delegate for the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) and a few times when his fare was paid for by the FOP my family got to go along. It was Norfolk Virginia, our first opportunity to travel, my little sister Francie and I were there and the day included a visit to the Shipyards followed by a picnic. We were the only Jewish kids in attendance and for some families it was as if we were in an exhibition at the zoo. My sister and I were paper thin active as the wind and were fast runners. My dad signed us up for a few races and of course we won our separate divisions. The response from a few of the families was a bit of shock as they said loud enough for us to hear it, “Jews can run?”, guess they got it from the time they killed Jesus. Having grown up in a predominately Jewish neighborhood in Pittsburgh this was the first time I had ever been on the receiving end of anything anti-Jewish. My father came over to us and said, some people need to sound stupid because they know they are not smart. You both won and they didn’t, so all they can offer is hate. Once again my father knew that THE VIRUS IS IN ALL OF US, but hoped it hadn’t infected his two kids, yet

Mayhem has smothered our globe, yet again. A few people in power have been able to manipulate segments of a population filling the willing and the needy with poison, bile, and lack of conscience. As we have seen time and time again the very innocent, the people with NO power nor prestige have become non-persons only wanting to take refuge from the madness. Yet THEY have suddenly been the benefactors of mistrust, loathing fear and hate by people who believe difference is bad, enemies lie in wait, and you are not like me. THE VIRUS IS IN ALL OF US, and has now crept into the bodies and souls of this great nation of ours. Forgetting their ancestors who desperately sought refuge from tyranny and tyrants, THE VIRUS IN ALL OF US has taken memories and turned them into a form of dementia, denial and perhaps death. IS THE VIRUS IN ALL OF US?:(Part four to follow)

THE VIRUS IN US: Part Two

VIRUS INSIDE ALL OF US- Part Two: My father would pick me up from elementary school and take me for my haircut. We went to Jerry’s and Son in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh. My dad knew Jerry from way back and my dad was one to support his friends whenever and wherever possible. Jerry’s and Son was a three seater barber shop, Jerry would say he had a second son who he knew one day would give up his career as an electrical engineer and become a barber thus the third chair. Jerry’s and Son also had a TV hanging from the wall precisely in a corner where anyone sitting on the barber chair could get a clear picture. There was a sign under the TV that read, no news is good news so yinz’ (Pittsburgh-ese for you) ain’t gonna watch it here. But this day, October 22, 1962 when we walked into the shop my father and I immediately noticed and heard Walter Cronkite speaking to us in a very somber and guarded tone. Instead of the usual Hi’Ya greeting from Jerry we heard upon entering, “this is serious stuff Benny”.(My father’s nick name was Benny). Walter Cronkite was reporting that President John F. Kennedy had imposed a blockade around Cuba to prevent further nuclear missiles being delivered by the Soviet Union. There was one other customer actually standing in the shop and pacing side to side, he looked grim, and as we entered he also told my dad, this might be the beginning of the end. I was in 7th grade and became quite nervous, the beginning of the end, a serious Walter Cronkite on TV and the news on the screen in Jerry’s and Son Barber Shop. Little did I know that the VIRUS IS IN ALL OF US, and today it was about to announce itself.

We had something called a Retention Drill, at Linden School. We would listen to a very severe siren blurt out a high pitched noise, our teacher would place her index finger to her pursed lips as if to silence us because the enemy might hear our voices and with her free hand usually her right hand would wave it side to side then take the index finger on that hand point it downward and that was our cue to immediately tuck our selves under the desk. Our teacher knew the VIRUS IS IN ALL OF US but didn’t want any of her students to catch it because this virus also might contain radiation. The kids in the older grades of had to practice duck and cover while in the hallways, because the government had instructed us in case of a nuclear bomb that getting into a fetal position and then covering our heads would keep us safe from the VIRUS INSIDE ALL OF US  actually killing us.

I had no idea it was the VIRUS INSIDE ALL OF US, but as I approached my adult years living in this nation I learned about a term called domestic terrorism and how easy the VIRUS INSIDE ALL OF US could permit someone to blow up a building in Oklahoma City, shoot up a school in Columbine, or Sandy Hook. I saw how someone could stand atop a bridge in Washington DC and randomly shoot motorists. And then I became part of something so unknown to me, foreign terrorism as the Twin Towers collapsed upon themselves, the Pentagon receiving a Kamikaze type attack, and a highjacked plane plowing into the fields in Pennsylvania. I didn’t know what to call all this madness, when simply the answer was there is a VIRUS INSIDE ALL OF US. And now I know there are infected people with the virus and we must await and wonder when their disease will manifest itself again. We are warned that sanity has no place in  society any longer. IS THE VIRUS IN ALL OF US?-(Part Three to follow)

The Virus In Us: Part One

Part One: I am a fan of The Walking Dead, I have been an avid viewer of anything monster since I was a kid back in the day living in Pittsburgh and watching Chiller Theater which aired all kinds of scary monster movies beginning at 11:30 pm on Saturdays. As scary as those monster movies were I knew that if I could at least make it through the night (that meant shutting the lights off in the living room then closing my eyes as tightly as possible and running up at least 15 steps to make it safely in my room and under the sheets), that the monsters from the television screen or the movie screen would be gone and done. I could be scared to death as the saying goes, but honestly I knew I would wake up the next day because after much ado it was ONLY make-believe.

I am a fan of The Walking Dead mesmerized by the creativity of zombies, and the imagination of what this world might look or feel like in some kind of apocalypse; honestly for me it is both fiction and horror done with great zeal and gusto. At first the viewer had to guess how and why did this zombie virus happen, I liked that, my imagination loves a good challenge…BUT then the writers gave away some information that made such a sudden stop in my mind that I almost had an emotional whiplash when it was revealed that the Zombie virus IS IN ALL OF US. The characters could try and live a good life, but when they died unless someone killed their brain they were, no matter how swell of a person, going to turn in to a Zombie.

Imagine if there was a virus inside of us something at the ready to turn a living human into nothing more than the walking dead. It is so weirdly impossible to consider. Then on Friday November 13, 2015 in Paris it seemed as if the virus, the one hidden crept forward turning people into Zombies. Carnage, cowardliness, mayhem, murder feigned as religious indignation, pre-emptive political patronage, became full blown and manifested into mindless madness. I had to wonder IS THE VIRUS IN ALL OF US ? (Part Two to follow)

Hon, A Bun...in the Oven

Hey lady, you’ve got a bun in your oven, you are gonna’ be a Mama and it don’t matter if the Daddy of your baby is your Daddy or some dirty scumbag from down the street; cause even if you were tricked you now gotta’ enjoy the treat! Now Mama you gotta’ make room in your womb for the Theocratic Christian Conservative Fascist Militia, cause they know EVEN if you ain’t a Christian, Jesus still loves you and HE has plans for your bundle of joy. Had you not looked so gosh darn good for your Daddy or Brother or Uncle, wearing those cool cropped tops or that down right dirty denim perhaps your family member would have never invested in incest; but lady you incited quite a riot in HIS pants! And as for that loser loner the strange stranger waiting in the shadows well Hell, had you not perfumed your panties or blossomed in your bra HE would have never lusted and then lunged after you!

If you are gonna’ blame all this Rape stuff on anyone, blame it on Eve. If she only had been satisfied being Adam’s extra rib and not solicited that serpent and eaten that apple you mightn’t have had to make all those men so darn tootin’ horny. It’s a man’s world Hon, and you can’t do a disservice toward the will of God. Get ready lady cause the Christian Crusaders are gonna hunker down and lay claim to your vagina. Lady you gotta’ God given gift in your groin and you ain’t got any say so in exchanging that gift. No Sir-ee, lady, Soldiers for Christ will stand guard and unwrap it for you. Why that gift is good for 9 months and is gonna stay inside your lady parts with or without your permission. 

But Hon don’t you worry that pretty little head of yours, once the 9 month retention date is up and the gift is unwrapped its ALL yours. Its All yours to feed, to comfort,to house, to educate, to raise, to prepare for war, to choke on the environment. According to the Theocratic Christian Conservative Fascist Militants once that gift from God is born God has nothing at all to do with you or it at ALL!  Why Hon you gotta’a bun in the oven, how great indeed. Do I hear an AMEN?

DAMN YOU STARBUCKS

Damn you Starbucks! I hate you with your red plastic coffee cups filled with over priced coffee. Now it is you who are the baddest ass in the paranoid world of insecure sick Christians. Now it is you Starbucks who has taken Christ out of Christmas by blatantly going Red (are you now or have you ever been a Communist).

It used to be ME Starbucks me GAYMAN! I once had the power to cause flooding in Texas, hurricanes in New Jersey and Tornados in Kansas just by kissing another man. I once had the power to make the Institution of Marriage crumble and fall apart by just saying I do to another man. Damn you Starbucks and your red plastic anti-Christmas cups. I was SUPER GAY GUY able to cause divorce by just holding my husbands hand, why I could even make the heterosexuals refuse to get married because my love for another man dripped them dry of love and eliminated any spark of romance between he and she. There was a time before you and those damn red cups Starbuck where I had Jesus running from me just because I was a homosexual. Why my powers of Gay made Jesus so pissed off he was actually contemplating the End of Days earlier than usual, just ask Michelle Bachmann or Daddy Raphael Cruz. Jesus was so mad he told Pat Robertson and Mike Huckabee that he wasn’t even going to wait until all the Jews forcibly converted to Christianity or had them all shipped off to Israel, it was because of ME Starbucks and then you had to showcase that damn red cup!

Damn you to Hell Starbucks you have now relegated MY GAY POWERS to second string surpassing me as the Devil! I was once a Player in the demise of Christianity, now I am on the B League and can only vizierate the souls who still purchase your Latte, Espresso, and Cappuccino. Damn you Starbucks YOU are the Glory and the Kingdom claiming the deep dark roasted souls of every single coffee drinker. Damn you Starbucks! Oh the humanity!

What Once was is Back

The way it was JUST isn’t anymore.  Remember when the only time you saw blacks in the movies was when they were tap dancing, handing a mink stole for the white ingénue to wear, or had a broom in their hands saying yes’m or no sir. When the Jewish character was either a greedy attorney ready to evict you or some nebbishy character ugly and always assumed to be a serial killer kind of person, or of course a sinister personality at the ready to steal your hard earned income. Remember when girls were either clad in the briefest of bikini’s enticing a man to leave his un bikini clad wife, or when wives ONLY stayed home wearing pearls and a stylish outfit as they cleaned the house, made dinner and poured her MAN a drink, or were threatened to be slapped if they pissed off their man. Remember when homosexuals were always drug addicts, deviants out to claim the souls of children or so feeble in character as to only feel pathetic and sorry for, or always the first character to assume had committed a crime or was the murderer.

The way it was JUST isn’t anymore. Remember when playing cowboys and Indians you had a choice of being the good guys in a while hat or the bad guys in a head dress. When you turned on television and some evangelical Christian snake oil salesmen pretending to be a Bishop or Minister would insist that it has been the Jews who killed Christ. When the plot of a television show focused on a good man being drawn to drink because his wife was really a bitch or never satisfied him. When anyone with a disability was referred to as retarded. When only white men were the hero’s of any movie. When white men placed yellow make-up on their faces to play Asian characters, and Asian’s were referred to as Orientals.When black face was considered art and the only black people even given a consideration for a role in a movie had to look as white as possible. Remember when some neighborhoods would display signs Jews, Catholics, Negro’s and dogs not welcome.

JUST because that was the way it WAS never had any truth or fact behind it, it JUST contained an accepted bias and bigotry which at the time was just as American as apple pie, motherhood the flag and baseball. Now it seems the way it WAS is romanced by the Republican Party. Some T-Bagging school board's want to explain away slavery as good for capitalism…Republican dominated state legislatures once again insist that voting does not automatically come with American citizenship. Women are whores, inviting rapists to impregnate them and none of this would happen if they brought back Jesus into their lives. Food stamps pre-school education, health care are gifts from the Devil. All lives matter but not so much if those lives are black. JUST because it once was and we believed that was coo suddenly has returned and if you listen closely enough to the brigade of baboons running for president especially from the T-Bagging Fascist Theocracy Party, you can hear the theme song from ‘All in the Family’, “Those Were the Days.”

Seeing Red

On November 1, 2015 the day after Halloween America was greeted with Christmas Lay-A-Way commercials, shop early advertisements because Christmas is sooner than you think and an immediate listing of Christmas themed movies on Lifetime, Bravo, TLC and any other cable channel used to producing anything but entertainment. Somewhere around November 3rd or 4th Starbucks presented their seasonal plastic cups with shades of red and somehow a real war on Christmas ensued. On November 1, 2015 most retail stores removed any and all Halloween products or relegated them to the area of the store where cobwebs and derelict workers hang out, provided a few shelves for Thanksgiving and began to parade their arsenal of Christmas season stuff. Some radio stations in the Los Angeles metro area have begun to mix a few Christmas themed music into their line up and advertisements for all kinds of The Nutcracker Ballet are now on billboards. Somewhere on November 3rd or 4th Starbucks decided that fading shades of red; red being the color of the American Christmas season, was a great gesture to evoke some kind of “peace on Earth”, good will to men” theme and like other Capitalistic companies jumped the Christmas bandwagon way before Thanksgiving. And now it seems as is usual around this time of year but perhaps even a bit early for the Christian Crusaders, a RED line in the sand has been drawn, and those who believe Jesus died on the cross with a charge card in his hand, singing Christmas songs to himself, and who shouted Merry Christmas to the Romans a never ending War on Christmas has begun again! For many who pretend to read the Bible and only abridged versions of a FOX NEWS printed Constitution, Satan has begun his march on the minds and bodies of true believers and this Christian nation will rot and go to ruin because among the many horrible actions taken against Americans is to go to Starbucks and ONLY receive a red themed coffee plastic cup!

The poor will remain poor on Christmas Day, Many elderly without family will remain alone on Christmas Day. Food Banks pop up on Christmas Day but must turn away the hungry before and after. Women who need health care may have to ride hundred of miles on Christmas Day just to stay healthy. The homeless if not lucky enough to find a warm room will shelter under borrowed blankets or cardboard boxes on Christmas Day and maybe even be arrested for luxuriating on the property of a Corporations private property. The have’s will celebrate big on Christmas Day, the have nots will try to smile. The red cup of $5 coffee will be had by many but then many will be lucky to drink what ever is left over as it is tossed in a waste can. Somehow for those who pretend they know God, who insist Jesus is their personal Savior, they will argue that somehow a child born in a manger is nothing but pissed because Starbucks had the audacity to take Christ out of Christmas by dying their damn too expensive winter version plastic  coffee cup just RED! How pathetic, psychotic, and sick of a nation we have become.

THOU SHALT

The theme for the T-Bagging Republican Party presidential campaign for 2016 is simple, THOU SHALT . It is combination of current marketing trends blended with some of that “gimme’ that old time religion bias”. Talk to the people who bleed ignorance, who boarder on paranoia, who refuse to reflect on their past their own bias and bigotry, and present a sermon as if Jesus has personally begged you to become his most reverent spokesperson. THOU SHALT NOT, say it without moving your lips, say it as you squint your eyes, say it pointing your index finger at first raising it to the heavens as if Jesus just touched you then lower your arm with your hand open wide, find that quivering older white lady next to the man draped in the flag and then point it at them and stare deeply into their blinded with bogus eyes provide them a wink and preach brother preach! Tell them because I know Jesus all I say MUST be true.

THOU SHALT NOT…question a word I say , if when I speak I use my particular Lord and Savior as the context of my speech…if I fabricate, lie, or fictionalize my tale of woe but insist that why I did what I did is because I was Born Again, renounced Satin, or did so because only a good Christian would embellish and imagine his or her life to prove that in fact he or she IS a good Christian. THOU SHALL assail any sinners who doubt my word because my word is not from my tongue but the mouth of MY LORD who speaks to me because HE knows I am GOOD…THOU SHALT shame my enemies who only hate what I say, even if not true, because they know I speak for Jesus and they are the bad guys. THOU SHALT create hordes of bad people to provide cover for my own indiscretions, inadequacies, appropriate behavior, always keep the blame away from thine own self.

THOU SHALT proclaim bias abounds from anyone who raises facts and questions my commentary….THOU SHALT protest the audacity to question my tales, because my tales are as pure as the Disciples of Christ I am just a simple man who quotes select passages from my Bible, a Bible mightier than a Constitution as the Constitution was the work of men and my book of laws is by the author who made everything. THOU SHALT NOT confuse science with the real magic of my Lord, nor SHALT THOU criticize  me only bringing the word of my God to those too stupid to think on their own, too scared to find reason, and too angry to find compromise.

THOUR SHALT be afraid not of the shepherd, but the flock who will follow a monster just because that monster promises to smite the questioner, slaughter those who seek facts, and destroy any ray of democracy based on a division of church and state. We have reached a stage in the politics of this nation where religious Fascist Theocracy is finding footing and where he minions are going to inherit our government.

EVER!

The organizer of the “National Religious Liberties Conference” in Des Moines, Iowa, announced today that Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee and Bobby Jindal have committed to speaking at the summit, which will take place next month. One speaker at the conference, Iowa radio host Steve Deace, has said that Ben Carson has also RSVP’d for the event, although Carson’s name was not included in today’s press release. Kevin Swanson, the conference’s chief organizer, is a far-right pastor and host of the “Generations Radio” program, on which he has frequently claimed that the government should put gay people to death, warned that the Girl Scouts and the movie “Frozen” turn girls into lesbians and blamed natural disasters on gay people and women who wear pants. (Right Wing Watch)

If perhaps this was a skit on SNL it might garner a whole lot of laughs some of the SNL comedians walking around with kill the Gay arm bands similar to the Nazi swaztika; but this is real life, no satire and this a conference with real people who actually are running for the office of president. THIS IS NOT FUNNY and THIS IS SCARY! I among the many attributes of my existence happen to be Gay. My agenda in life has always been to survive. I had to live the early years of my life in a lie for fear that no one would understand my sexuality, I had to withhold telling the entire truth about myself even to close friends and family for fear that I would be considered a bad person, and I fought so very hard in the early years of my life to make this Gay thing go away. I FINALLY was brave enough to love who I am and ended a stupid fear of being among other things Gay. I CAN NOT and WILL NOT permit ANYONE to infer, infringe, and interrupt my life because THEY are fearful perhaps of their own lousy life or terrified that they might be found out to be something they don’t understand or refuse to recognize about themselves.

You want to vote Republican, you even for one minute think Republican ideals are good for America, then you apparently don’t know anyone who is an LGBT, any female who desires to own her own body, any senior who barely lives on the current amount of social security, or child who goes hungry, any minority who fears walking, driving or living while of color. It is utter bull shit to support any Republican candidate who insists that he or she is only doing God’s work and his or her God’s work is what is good for America. I WILL NEVER permit anyone from denying me my freedom and equality again. EVER!

Four eyes

Back in the day I had the opportunity to student teach at the Point Park College Lab School. It was 1970 and there were a slew of trends in education which many colleges wanted to research. Point Park College Lab School was an environment which housed 1st-thru 3rd grade students in one classroom. My lead teacher and I would plan the curriculum but the intent of this classroom was for the older students to mentor their younger classmates and for the younger classmates to perhaps provide even more innocence for their 3rd grade partners. Subject matter was taught not at grade level but at a level of comfort where students could find their abilities challenged but never overburdened. It was a challenge for me because I now had three different age and skill groups all learning at the same time.One of the areas in which the entire student body was considered a classroom was problem solving. Once a week for about an hour an a half my lead teach and I would present a problem to the students, one which had arisen in the classroom from a previous occasion. It might have been solved by an adult originally, but the goal of this course was to see how the same issue might be resolved by the children who had experienced the situation in the first place. Our students were children of some faculty and an outreach of kids from a near Northside neighborhood which at the time many resident were living in poverty or below the poverty line. We had an interesting demographic from which to observe and learn.

One problem that arose was the amount of Dr Seuss books provided in our in-class library. We had most of his books and for some we had two or three copies. Our kids liked to read and one of the problems was that the 3rd graders would hold on to three of the books at a time telling anyone who wanted one that A) they got there first, B) it will only take a few minutes because I read faster then you and C) you are too young to really enjoy this book. Our kids were not physical about NOT getting their book but lots of verbal accusations arose. We presented the problem to the kids citing the books (an issue everyone knew about) and asked the question if we have enough books for everyone how come everyone is not able to use them? The group came together the 3rd graders trying to be generous would say they are the oldest group so they should have first dibs and since they do read faster then everyone else let them read then share the books. A 1st grader then said how do you know I can’t read as fast as you? A second grader said just because you are older does not mean you should get more! The third graders became annoyed and as they looked at my lead teacher and me and said we are the ones who should get more because we will need this for next year. Then a young girl, actually the granddaughter of the Dean of Education spoke up and said, “why don’t we all get a chance at one book so everyone is equal, then whatever books are still on the shelf you can have after you return that book. A second student of the list grade agreed adding unless you have four eyes how can you read 2 books at one time? I remember at that moment the classroom giggled and shouted “four eyes”, then we asked for a solution and 90% of the students said we all get the same chance with one book and wait our turn for another, because no one has four eyes. Problem solved.

Our country is still debating the have’s and the have nots, and who deserves more should receive less, who is better just because, and who just doesn’t make that being better cut. We have become a nation fearful that our share is never quite enough and want to blame others for our misfortune, or worse set up a scenario for others to never receive at least the same. From health care, to salaries, to food and housing it seems some of us feel we deserve more while insisting others should not even have at least one. If only we knew how to solve problems like first graders!

It ain't me babe

Televangelist Pat Robertson recently repeated his prediction that LGBT rights will provoke God to destroy America’s financial markets, warning “The 700 Club” viewers that God’s wrath is on its way.“I personally believe that we must impose a rule on the gay population that would require them to wear specially-colored clothes, for example. I’m thinking we need to go through the Senate with this and we need to make it official. That way, regular people would know that the person wearing the said color is a deviant sodomite and that they need to stay away from them at all cost, as well as keep their children away from their reach,” Robertson opined.(religion.com) 

Right wingers in Texas say it is not global warming that is to blame for the massive flooding, It is witchcraft and sodomy! Yay!Bryan Fischer spoke about this theory the other day during his radio show with a guest who said that “the places that are underwater [are] are overrun with witchcraft and sodomy. If you go into those areas, you can just see it.”Houston, “has a whole area that is like Sodom and Gomorrah.” Houston even has a “sodomite mayor”! (politics USA)

If only we as the GAYS had the power to make God scared, turn stupid people into just mere mortals, readjust the homophobic and idiotic feelings the uneducated and uncultured crave into human like qualities. If only we the GAYS  could change not the peoples DNA but their bias and bigotry into caring and careful. To exhort power over the insecure would be great. But fear me not as a GAY unless you are afraid that I can love, I can work, I can be a part of a family, I can or cannot celebrate God and religion,I can tolerate, I can live. There has to be a boogie man it seems for those who pretend to preach the will of their GOD. It is not I a GAY who makes your God look weak, it is  not I who feeds your frenzy of fear, nope folks it IS you and your inability to be human.

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trickle, clog, stop

It seems the “trickle” feature of the “trickle down economy theory” has been clogged by the millions of dollars the billionaires do not have to pay in taxes via loopholes, offshore accounts and bribery of politicians. The drain supposedly pointing downward has turned into a dam by the extra dollars the 1% have earned by pretending they are guardians of the economy and has turned into a cesspool of business schemes, monopolies, PACS, and glorious salary manipulations providing CEO’s with parachutes and bonus’s even when they fail at their own jobs. Lots of rhetoric as to the notion that if the rich stay rich everyone else will benefit but if you look closely to the actions of the wealthy our economy remains a “tickle up” Ponzi Scheme. No raise in minimum wages, rents skyrocketing, home prices escalating, refusal to want to pay for benefits as if workers are greedy, and a continuation by the wealthy to buy politicians and presidential candidates just help to create a vast lake of trickle up money which has yet to reach the roots of this American economy!

And as for the “trickle down” money well it hasn’t found its way to the average American, and really can’t or won’t as long the Corporations who are people don’t act like a civilized human. These Corporations who the Supreme created as living beings don’t really have the lungs to breathe polluted air, don’t have the soul to help the homeless or those in poverty, don’t have the heart to willingly enrich the lives of those barely living on social security and certainly do not have the capacity to understand that the Earth may have reached its ability to provide a safe and healthy sanctuary for anything in need of oxygen and H2O.

The “trickle down” money however has created quite a flowing river for the politicians. Why there are millions of millions of dollars to rig a campaign, buy your favorite politician making he or she your puppet, dirty marketing advertisement and of course white mansplaining who is the enemy and who the hero should be. Infrastructure, pensions, pharmaceutical needs, Veterans needs, affordable housing are like deserts waiting and waiting for a spritz from the “trickle down” money. The Republicans love them some austerity believing that less is more, less will enable you, less will help provide you to become a true Patriot, and less is exactly why Jesus never really lashed out at the bankers, never feed the poor, and for God’s sake believed taxes for the wealthy was a curse of the Devil!

DO UNTO

DO unto OTHERS as YOU would NEVER have done unto YOURSELF. A very cunning and calculated commandment that you Paul Ryan and your T-Bagger Republican cronies chant over and over again. It seems that hypocrisy is a dangerous virus running through the veins of the members of a political party hell bent on legislating morals and values but never partaking in the same rigid laws THEY AND YOU have established for OTHERS. Banging your fist on Ayn Rands novels you insist that government is not the babysitter for its citizens. Earn your way and don’t make the government pay, a little motto you hum out loud while under your breath you sing a zippy tune with lyrics that say but I am different, perhaps even a little bit better. Almost as if you were shouting “Let them eat cake”, as you stand on some imagined lofty holier than thou platform you insist that Paid Family Leave Time is an insult to the taxpayers of this Christian Conservative nation. But when YOU Paul Ryan throw a hissy fit that TIME with your family is most important, somehow family leave has a whole different meaning because to be honest Paul it suits YOUR purposes and needs.

No more Entitlement Programs you sinisterly say pretending that on one hand life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness matters while on your other grubby gimme, gimme hand you demand that YOUR entitlement to family time is different. Hey Mr Speaker of the House, guess who pays YOUR salary? You got it Dude, we do, the American tax payer. You see Paul Ryan when you indulge in weekends off to spend so called time with your family, WE still pay your non-working hours salary. In case you didn’t read the Constitution Bud, you are now the Numero Tres man in the US government; meaning that you pull a lot of weight. As I see it Bro, you should be on call on duty and at work 24/7. Your predecessor John the Orange only had time for Repealing Obama Care, Shutting down the Government, raising campaign dollars off of Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi and of course trying to stop Same-sex marriages. So Paul my man, you should be busily at work ALL the time doing the real job of the people instead of the job for the people the Supreme Court gave birth to the Corporations.

I am amazed that you can actually look at yourself in the mirror at the gym when you workout,or how your wife can look you in the eye or how you can kiss your kids goodnight as you demand others in this country deserve no Family Time but you should be guaranteed it. Do you consider yourself a member of the Royal Family, (you know the British government permits them to live lavishly and very comfortably), is that your expectation? Numero Tres Paul, baby, number three in a very dysfunctional government mainly caused by a bunch of gerrymandered Voter restricted idiots who believe Jesus was a gun tottin’ NRA first president of the USA. The government is paying for your Family Leave time Paul Ryan, so either work the job or leave it. You preach austerity for others a take it or leave attitude…well bud take it (no government tax payer dollars for you) or leave…the American voters did not elect you for the Speakership. DO unto Others you love yourself some that, but NEVER, EVER Do unto YOU!

Afraid, Scared, TERRIFIED!

I am afraid of Donald Trump because he so EMPTY of conscience, void of apathy and missing empathy for anyone but himself. He is the kind of bully who will trip you while you are walking down the hall and if you happen to fall against him he most certainly would sue you. I am afraid of Donald because all he has is EGO and when that is shattered there is no default personality trait to go to, instead he will use rage, and ruination as his comeback. I am afraid of Donald because he has no ideas but promises what ever he does WILL be ideal. He is the kind of person who believes as long as you never pause while you are speaking, throw in a good measure of the best, better, amazing the listener will be too tired to question. I am afraid of Donald because the only thing that he is afraid of is just how shallow a person he is and how he will DO anything to anyone so he is never found out!

I am scared of Ben Carson because he reminds me of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in his split personality. Ben speaks out of both sides of his mouth and it seems his brain becomes useless in determining what he says. Ben, when he speaks almost does so without much affect. One might presume he is on a very long lasting mellow high. As he states he will not get into any hissy fit, declaring he is above all of that, he has stated policy quite the opposite. There is no love, flowers and peace when it comes to women’s rights, homosexual equality, the health and welfare for the average citizen. There is no kumbaya as he insists that he is a religious person, while using HIS God to discriminate against anyone he perceives the enemy. I am scared of Ben because he is always hiding behind a very insidious facade. Like a snake oil salesman he can look you in his very squinty eyes and tell you that your facts are not real and only being used to hurt him, while digging a very small knife in the meat of your belly. He jokes about how angry of a person he was in the past as if to lull you into believing he HAS changes. But his rhetoric in the present tells a very harmful and hurtful story. I am scared of Ben because he is very firm that his values count, and yours if not like his carry no weight at ALL.

I AM TERRIFIED of Ted Cruz! He is a calculating cunning self serving individual. He has taken himself to be very important and imposes his weapons on people he knows are soft targets. He plans and plots his next move loving to incite a mob with enough rhetoric to get them roaring but just enough room for him to leave before his finger prints are connected with the molotov cocktails he has provided to be used. He never accuses anyone of being the enemy but is smart enough to leave enough innuendo, poison, and parsing of words to let the dumbest of the stupid point fingers for him. I am TERRIFIED of Ted because he is so insincere in what he says, so demeaning in what he does and so deceitful in creating havoc. He will be the one who wants the best seat in the theater without paying for it, so as the first act starts he will light a cigarette in back of the house and yell FIRE; he will gleefully watch the madness around him stand back and then when the all  is clear can be found sitting in the front row. I am TERRIFIED of Ted because he suffers a delusional personality disorder where he believes he is smarter than most and usually proves his point as he watches the others follow his lead, for fear if they don’t they might be left out.

I am however more Afraid, Scared and TERRIFIED of the self victimized lemmings who believe any of these three men can, should or could become president. Donald, Ben, Ted are like Pied Pipers for the bigot, the insecure, the angry the people who think it is always someone else fault for their own mistakes. Donald, Ben and Ted understand that truth never needs to be told, but that lies said with just right sinister twist of the tongue is EXACTLY what shallow people desire. I am afraid, scared, TERRIFIED that this nation has de-evolved into a 1950’s landscape devoid of depth and full of doom!