show me the money, again

Show me the money...yeah, yeah, yeah famous quote from the movie Jerry Maguire, nothing in return till the money is in hand. Talk, talk, talk about the injustices of this country, but talk is cheap until the money shows up then some kind of action is sure to follow. Tell the bigoted brigades of Tea Baggers that you are one of them, and you feel their pain, but you will only feel their pain if they hand over a few hundred thousands of Benjamin Franklin's; so says Sister Sarah Palin as she demands at least $100,000 to ward off the evil spirits from the less fortunate. Tell the fearful Fox followers that Communism and socialism are running rampant in this country and to find the cure for this communist conspiracy pay me the money, only $79.95, and I will give you the anti venom to fight the boggy man so shouts from any soapbox available Glenn Beck.

We'll show you the money, say the oil cartel CEO's, to the Republican politicians, as long as you misinform the public about the lack of rules and regulations of off shore drilling. We'll show you the money as long as you make us the priority and not the environment, or the welfare of people of the Gulf. We'll show you the money if you can lie, fabricate the truth and convince the dumbest of the dumb that anything right for their lives is an anti American plot.

We'll show you the money if you are Lebron James, Alex Rodriguez, Eli Manning, Harrison Ford, Larry Ellison. Playing basketball, baseball, football, acting or being a CEO is much more a priority than being a teacher or a social worker. We will cut teachers and increase classroom size, cut back any social services, and certainly stop unemployment payments because after all they just don't market well nor sell tickets. Its all for the children but saying it is much more affordable then living it. And after all the children can spend their money at a sporting event, movie theater or consuming something or other. School is such a drag.

Funny how money speaks in the nation. It speaks from the pulpits of mega churches as the ministers open their hands for more money for their edifices while closing their hands to the poor. Funny how money speaks as the Catholic Church closes parishes or claims innocence in pedophilia cases so as not to spend any of their own money to help uphold justice. Funny how the museums of the Vatican are never depleted or used to assist those in poverty or need. Funny how the Church of Latter Day Saints tithes their followers and uses the money to fight marriage equality. Funny how money speaks for religion but is usually a one way conversation with all the money going to the Church and not the people.

Show me the money and you buy your one way ticket to a cruise with the devil. And so many people are so willing to fork up, give away, hand over the money. And all they get is a deed to the Brooklyn Bridge or maybe some trinkets for the Island of Manhattan.

Show me the money, and one by one the lemmings line up to do so. God Bless America!

vote 'dem bums out

So you wanna vote 'dem bums out and vote in who now?????

Today on NPR, the radio journalist had an interview with both a Republican and Democratic Congressman from California. The purpose of the interview was to have each member of the House discuss issues relevant to the listeners of California and perhaps some of the constituents of each Representative.

The radio hostess said she would throw out the first question regarding unemployment. She asked if it was a form of grandstanding on behalf of the Republican elected officials in Washington, not pass a bill continuing unemployment benefits. She mentioned this at least the second time that the Republicans have not been extended these benefits. And while this was taking place what was happening was an increase in those unemployed.

The Republican Congressman, was first to speak, and in a matter of minutes made it very clear as to why there is delay in extending unemployment benefits now and perhaps ever. He said that unemployment benefits are negative motivators for those who receive these checks from the government to find work. He recited some made up survey saying that once you receive unemployment checks you find less and less reason to begin the process of seeking employment. In California the average check for unemployment is about $375. So according to this Congressman from California, defending the Republican political leaderships decision to fight extending benefits for the unemployed, the reason lies in lazy people lounging around with a $375 check.

When the radio hostess asked about the origins of this current unemployment she asked if any of the current problems (of unemployment) arose from some budgeting goals (tax cuts for the wealthy, less regulations in the Finance markets) of the Bush/Cheney 8 year administration and the control of both houses by the Republicans. The Republican Congressman dismissed that as Democratic excuses for Obama's/majority of Dems in Congress failures in leadership , and that harping on the past will get us no where fast.

When asked how to get jobs for the current unemployed, so they will not lazily linger in their living rooms with their $375 unemployment checks, the answer given was the no answer which was elect us and you will see the difference.

The unemployment problem is not the Republicans fault, nope years of tax cuts, less regulations, corporate greed, happened just like sh*t happens. Get off of your sofa's and FIND a job. Re-elect us and if you liked what we did to you for 8 years, we certainly will delight you with more.

Sharon Angle, the Tea Bag/Republican/Christian candidate for senator in Nevada held one of her, for the conservatives only interviews. She was asked by a call- in listener about how this government has bullied BP, and created a slush fund for all the democrats to spend more money, some on the clean up but most for special projects. The radio host asked Sharon Angle how she felt about the slush fund. In a matter of seconds Sharon Angle agreed that the slush fund was unfair to BP, that corporations are people too, that the President was playing petty politics with BP and that the slush fund was unfair to BP. Then Sharon Angle Tea Party delight and favorite of two timing Sarah Palin was asked about abortion. A caller has wondered on Sharon's opinion of the justification of an abortion in the case of incest or being raped by an intruder a criminal entering your bedroom. Ms, I speak for the Christian Jesus, said, being a Christian good has his plans for all of us, and God is always wanting us to make lemon aide out of lemons. And in God's plan no matter what the reason for a woman becoming pregnant she should keep the baby. A woman's rights no matter how unjust or unfair or inhumane the reason are restricted when she becomes pregnant, whether it be by her father, her brother, a rapist, a murderer.

Of course we still live in a real world (where not only those whose holy Bible is FOX News or Evangelical Christian Right wing radio) where others get a whiff of quotes and commentary of those running for office, and news of Sharon Angel's love affair with BP and men of incest was reported.

In true Republican nature, learned from the likes of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Mark Sanford, Michael Steele, Sharon Angle's handlers vehemently protested that Ms Angles words were taken out of context and misconstrued. Her exact words on tape were no longer fact They became here say when repeated by those other than crazy conservatives, and of course were taken out of context. Her handlers rewrote the definitions of her interview, and hoping as they always do, most of the lemmings would not believe the lies of the liberals.

Perhaps in the world of the Tea Bagger/Republican, real and factual mean little, and what is recorded can be interpreted as distorted even if what is recorded is both on audio and video. When speaking to the hard core, I care less for others and only want what is good for me Tea Bag Brigadiers, true bigoted and biased policy is shared and like manure is dug deep into the foundations of those who like to hate.

So all of you out there disappointed in the Democrats, all of you Independents who are tired of the perceived quagmire and quicksand, do you really want to vote in those who for 8 years dug our grave? Do you want to vote into office the same men and women so they can now throw the dirt on the graves they once dug?

You like Big Business, Corporations, a Christian nation, greed, gluttony, tax breaks for the upper class, the disbanding of unions, no fair wages, no abortions no matter the reason, wars declared because of oil, less regulations on the environment? Vote 'dem bum out and who the hell are you voting in?

try them again!!!!!!

"Try us again for the first time", a commercial for Kellogg's Corn Flakes, extolling the wonders of a childhood memory once had and when had again will seem like something new. "Don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain", a quote from the movie the Wizard of Oz as the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, Dorothy and the Tin Man discover strange activity as the great Wizard is lying about their future. "when the truth is found to be lies, an all the joy within you dies..." lyrics from the Jefferson Airplanes song "Somebody to Love" sung for hopeless people looking for one more chance.

All of the above, sadly the new wave of lies, deception, mis-truths, instilling of amnesia by the Republican/Tea Bag/ Aryan Nation/ Neo Con/Federalist political propaganda party.

Seems with the rewriting of history by the likes of Glenn Beck, Sister Sarah Palin, John McCain, Michael Steele, Orrin Hatch, Rush Limbaugh and the entire unprofessional jokers and jerks on FOX News, the past 8 years of the Bush/Cheney Dictatorship, the no regulations or rules for corporations of the Republican majority in Congress, the feed the rich caviar and champagne and let the poor eat cake, Family Values are for families like us, white rich and Christian the GOP is asking America to try them again for the first time.

Seems the Bush tax cuts for the rich which never trickled down but trickled up to the bank accounts of the rich, the declaration of war in Iraq even though the real enemies of 9/11 came from Afghanistan, the quiet yet special energy plan Cheney had CEO's of the oil cartel carve out, the outing of Valerie Plame, the late and useless assistance to the black folks in New Orleans during Katrina; seems all of that is to be fodder swept into the ground. Trying the Republicans once again, would make things taste better after all these past two years have grown sour, what with this democratic President trying to fix insurmountable situations left in his lap. Seems those who remember the short history of this country and dwell on that are just delusional dummies, and those who empty their brain of any and all atrocities brought upon this nation by selfish self serving hypocrites are the ones who count.

Don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain, has the Republican spin machine touting old stars of hate like Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, Karl Rove, Tom DeLay coming out of the crevices and wormwood of the woodwork to resell their bigoted and biased bull shit, based on fabrications of history, falsehoods of fact, and fear and loathing of some perceived enemy that does not look the color of YOUR skin, does not pray to the God YOU pray to and does not make love the way YOU do. Promises abound from the man behind the curtain, but don't ask him questions like how and why, and why didn't you do that when you had the chance.

When the truth is found to be lies, an all the joy within you dies... a perfect lullaby for those who self victimize, feeling jilted because of other peoples behaviors...an anthem of loathing at other peoples advancements at the cost of their own created failures... a chorus of venom sung as the we scapegoat anyone who is intelligent, compassionate, fair and just. It's a lyric that the Republican liars shout so loud inside the empty brains of those lemming like losers, that no truth will ever be found and the only joy resonating will be the joy of repeating history at the cost of those who know no better.

Sure we all want to vote those bums out. Sure both political party candidates are more full of self than service, BUT really, go back to the previous 8 years of Republican rule???!!! (Tea Baggers by any other name are Republicans).

Who are those people out there who think that the past never happened? Who are those Independent voters who forgot about the two wars, the recession, the cavalier corporate charades, the chipping away of the Constitution?

Try them again for the first time... YOU HAVE GOT BE KIDDING!.....NEVER AGAIN America...NEVER

another bigoted cop out

Once again, the human rights, the civil rights, the American rights of the LGBT community are being politicized and bandied about by elected officials as really nothing more than a sub culture of individuals wanting more than they deserve.

Waiting till the last day, to veto a bill that would allow the LGBT citizens in Hawaii to gain the status of civil unions and the same status as married couples have in that state, Republican Governor Linda Lingle, said the issue of stopping separate but equal is so BIG that the voters of the state of Hawaii should take it upon themselves in the voting booths to decide its merits.

The Governor expressed concern for the heterosexuals in her state saying this right is too BIG for just one person or one legislature to decide. Her voice fake with empathy and lacking any sympathy quivered she did not say why she waited till the last minute in denying equal rights to a minority of citizens in her state.

Hmmm dear (this is an issue for the majority to decide) Governor Linda Lingle if the Congress did not pass the Women's Suffrage Amendment, Amendment 19, wonder what the fate of womens rights in this country would look like? If your uncommon sense of the voters need to decide was decided by the male voters of this nation way back in 1919, all of whom were preached to by their religious leaders that the sooner women gain any rights the value and concept of family would never be the same), the then male dominated society, the majority of the voting population were sure it would be better to keep the women as chattel, pregnant and home bound. Where might you be?

Wonder if we let the voters decide on a national religion instead of the government in 1776. You are a Jewish woman wonder if the Evangelicals, the Baptists, the Protestants would vote that Jewish is the religion of America? Your family might be hiding in the back of a building praying to a God considered pagan.

Wonder what this nation would look like Governor Linda Lingle if the Civil Rights act did not become law? Would we still allow the lowly African blacks in our society the same rights as the superior European whites? Or based on the belief that slavery was the right of the majority of white voters in this country a two class society was right as rain. God's rain that is!

Wonder how many couples whose marriage is interracial would not be together had the Government not intervened in the guise of the Supreme Court in Loving V. Virginia when they declared Virginia's anti-miscegenation statute voted on by the white majority to be unconstitutional? When they (the Supreme Court decided the voters in Virginia who voted for the racial Integrity Act were selfishly denying a group of Americans justice.

Women's Suffrage, Civil Rights, Interracial Marriage, Division of Church and state were all laws put in place to protect a minority from the bigotry, ignorance, religious dogma of the majority. None of those laws would have passed all of the states and perhaps any of the states had the Government not taken a stand against intolerance, racism, sexism.

Is it politics Governor Linda Lingle? Are you playing by the Karl Rove Republican handbook of divide and conquer, we versus they, call upon the bias of religion to demonize the devil? Or are you just a homophobe afraid of a minority population based on nothing but your lack of education, lack of true morals and lack of ethics?

If you can sleep well, look at yourself in the mirror, then dear Governor Linda Lingle your parents raised you with no conscience, and as heterosexual parents they failed you miserably.

one man one woman

There seems to be a moral outrage, led by the self described evangelical, (take the Bible literally when it proves one of their misled bigoted lies) religious right that states a marriage is defined as one man and one woman. The Church of Latter Day Saints has quietly partitioned its membership (seems if they so vehemently hate same sex marriage they should not sneak about denying it) to add to the Institution of Marriage that the purpose of one man one woman is to make sure the human race procreates and lives on and on and on, OR until they die and find a celestial planet to call their own. The Catholic Church, when not ignoring priests who molest boys and girls or priests who steal from the coffers of the poor to support their lavish life style, add that the moral fiber of family would be the ethics and morals presented by one man and one woman. The ultra Orthodox Jews would rather exile their offspring who say they love someone of the same sex and want to marry them, and the hard core Muslims will just stone anyone of the same sex who wants to hold hands let alone marry.

Those who so soundly say they speak for God or state they are the inheritors of the correct translation and meaning of their particular Holy Books, seem to honor a God with quite the many negative human traits. Where as we are told we are created in God’s image by the Rabbi’s, Priests, Ministers, Imam’s, Church Elders, it seems that those ( who tell us from their Ivory Tower) they are following God’s laws seem to have juxtaposed the calculation and almost want us to believe God now appears in their image, speaking in their tongues.

And along with saving the Institution of Marriage for he and she, no matter he may be a criminal, she may have no parenting skills, or they may make babies but do make a home for the babies, those who speak from both sides of their mouth disguising homophobia for religious zeal, always add whatever they are doing, they are doing it for the children.

But somehow the act of saying it is for the children, to avoid saying we hate Gays, is usually done from the protection of soap boxes, pulpits, mosques, synagogues, churches and political rallies. The words reach a crescendo, those in attendance don’t have to call their bigotry hate and life of separate but equal can flourish in America. Those who spew hate in God’s name, who recite no fact but fancy foibles and fables pat themselves on the back and once the applause dies down, the children whom we are suppodedly doing it all for are once again done in by mere words and no actions.

Marriage between one man and one woman, uh huh… they marry, the father or mother is abusive… the parents commit adultery…they marry not out of love but out of duty towards their church and the expectations of their family…one man and one woman!

Kids are orphaned wanting to find a second chance in a new home made of loving parents. The churches scream keep the kids in foster homes rather than place them in the den of the Gay or Lesbian devil. Let them stay in a foster home which many times has little love but receives money to board the kids. Let them suffer because the loving adults may be two men or two women who want to care for and take care of the kids.

Marriage between one man and one woman, uh huh…has anyone looked at the home life of kids who grow up to be in gangs? Many come from the homes of one man one woman, and because of the lack of morals or values, poverty, un-involvement in their kids life, the kids of one man and one woman grow up to kill, sell drugs, prostitute their bodies. In the city of Los Angeles alone, gangs have wrecked havoc killing innocent kids, terrorizing communities. No one from the religious pompous self righteous really wants to delve into saving those kids.

And it’s for the kids, uh huh…the first budgets to be cut anytime good years and years of recession is the education budget. Public schools seem to be the target of the conservatives who seem to look the away from large classrooms, less nutrition programs, no extra curricular activities, less pay for teachers. The older the one man one woman couple gets, the less involved they want their taxes to fund the children of younger one man one woman couples.

Marriage between one man and one woman, uh huh…no hue and cry or public protest when divorce happens, no hue and cry when politicians are caught cheating while married, no pounding on the Bibles when politicians demonstrate infidelity as long as they also demonstrate their bias and bigotries for the LGBT community. Somehow the children of the adulterer, the people who practice infidelity, who never demonstrate love at home are okay because they are heterosexuals.

If only those who hate could be honest about why they hate and who they hate. If only those who think (because their voice is louder than most) they are closer to God and can interpret his/her words into human failings would have the guts to say they speak for no one but themselves. If only the hype of hate would be found out to be the hypocrisy it is… then perhaps we all could find a common denominator and try to solve the problem we as humans have created.

Isn’t it about time we begin to heal the sores that tear us apart? One man one woman uh huh!

soon the 4th

The US Constitution was ratified in 1788. The first 10 amendments to the Constitution were called the Bill of Rights. The Constitution was written for "...We The People.." All facts, all archived by historians all a part of the origins of the American experience.

The founding fathers wanted to create a nation based on Christian -Judeo ethics, but a nation which had no allegiance to any formalized governmental religion. And the bearers of our Constitution wanted freedom for those who were religious and freedom for those who were not followers of any religion at all. They wanted to create a nation which embraced God, but which also knew that some saw the Divine in nature, as natural and as nothing at all.

At the time of the creation of the United States of America, the founding fathers had no fondness for the rights of women. In fact women were chattel, property of men, and were necessary for bearing children, maintaining the home, while the man was fighting a war, fending off wild beasts, or farming the fields.

Slavery was a necessary cog in the economy of this new country and the Constitution had no favor for the Black man nor any fervor to abolish the owning of another human who just happened not to be white. It seemed natural to the founding fathers that slavery was not inhuman because after all it was only beast like people from a continent far away who were enslaved and indentured.

The need for a militia, the right to bare arms was, a matter of common sense to the early pioneers of this nation. There was always an enemy lurking in the brush, like the British, a wild beast, the Indian, and anyone brazen enough to try and take the homestead from the home owner. Skirmishes were abundant throughout the infancy of the building of America, and next to a Bible, the cedar chest, the logs for the cabin was a rifle. God created life and God created the rifle so any man could take a life not thought of as legit as one's own.

And marriage, well it was not identified as one between one man and one woman, nope it was a condition that morphed into the necessity of the day. For some it was the union of a 14 year old female and a 30 year old man. Move west and it was between one man and as many females as he needed to sooth his ego and strike his fancy. It was to attain dowry, material goods to build a dynasty.

Since the creation of the Bill of Rights and its 10 amendments, this nation has seen an addition of 17 more bringing the total of amendments to the US Constitution to 27. Since the creation of the Bill of Rights this nation has struggled with and realized that women were not the property of men; that the dignity of females was inherent in the democracy of this nation. Since the creation of the Bill of Rights, this nation finally came to its human senses and understood no matter the color of one's skin or the origin of ones birth place all men and women are and should be created equal. It took too much time but even minded, smart people realized that slavery was not a human right nor a civil right. Since the creation of the Bill of Rights, many people have realized that militias in a democracy are not necessary. Gun ownership comes with responsibility and respect and many of those Americans owning guns have little respect for the rights of others. Since the creation of the Bill of Rights, marriage has changed its definition and dowries and ownership of the wife are not relevant nor reasonable. And marriage is not a holy matrimony that lasts a life time and that one man and one woman do not remain one man and one woman wed for a life time.

But as this 4th of July approaches in the year 2010, there is a new revival of those who disguise their hate, their bigotry, their lack of education as patriotism and they insist that we have abandoned the 'real Constitution'. They insist on a revisionist view of history based not on facts, but on foibles and fables encouraged and enforced by a group of leaders who only love when the lemming follows and asks little question.

The Tea Baggers, the Federalists, the John Birchers, the Arayan Nationalists, the Neo-Cons all lavish and linger in an America that never existed in history but one that hysterically denies rights to those deemed unAmerican. These groups who seem to parade in red white and blue, who demand English only, white only, nothing for the poor, no big government, no taxes, no regulations or rules, no difference between church and state remember an America that never was but that should exist because they are fearful of truth and fairness, fearful of equality for all. For these groups America has strict definitions, and to create the America they want they will redefine the Constitution any way they can.

We will be celebrating the 4th of July in two days. For the time being we are still a democracy. Given the amnesia, the animosity, the egregious arrogance of those who call themselves Republican politicians who demand little truth and a whole lot of lies, will this be the last 4th we celebrate as "We The People..."? I wonder.

i want to know...

I want to know…

Where are the ever ready to eradicate evil, Evangelicals, or the Bible thumping blasphemous bashing Baptists, or the crusading Cardinals of the Catholic Church, or the mind someone else’s marriage Mormons when it comes to the rape of the ocean by BP? Where are the holier than thou crowd who speak in tongues saying they can interpret God’s plan for humans, while the birds, fish, dolphins, turtles and whales are inhaling gobs of goo and gunk gasping for breath, as the oil is spilling mercilessly in the Gulf?

Where is the Family values brigade while volumes of families in the Gulf go unemployed, become disillusioned, tread through the mire and mix of dead fish on the shores, dead income to pay the bills, dead desires drowning in front of their faces? Where is the hue and cry, ‘its for the children’ when the land and water the children know grow black with tar, grow poisoned by sludge, grow dead from too much self indulgence and gluttony of a society that seems to forget the children while they make profits?

Where is the quoting of scripture, so widely used to cast aspersions to Gays, Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, by self proclaimed good Christians, in calling the abuse, the disrespect, the RAPE of God’s creation, the land and the sea a sin, sinful and shameful? Where is chapter and verse from the New and Old Testament so widely used and abused to prove some human point based on some vengeful misunderstood God’s plan for the Earth, while the Gulf is tossing and turning in torment? Where is the OUTRAGE by the collection of Christian soldiers ready to interfere in loves, lives, births, deaths, morals and ethics of everyone deemed a devils disciple, while the real devil is doing his best to make the ocean die?

I want to know why those who seem to think they have God’s tongue are silent while this crisis in the Gulf continues. I want to know why those who seem to think they can speak for God and translate his will, will not shout, scream and say ENOUGH of this decimation in the Gulf. I want to know why those who are certain God hates Gays, or Muslims, or Blacks, or Agnostics, or Democrats, or Immigrants or Poor, or Unemployed don’t protest, place their Bibles to the heavens, rant and rave against unchecked pollution, unchecked energy policies, unchecked rules and regulations for corporations and say this is not God’s plan!

I just want to know!