imagination

Imagine if you were a female, working at a government job like teaching or firefighting having joined a union was raped by some man running down the street who was horny and a deviate, you happened to be a Muslim were born to parents who were illegal immigrants but was born in this country and have lived here for 20 years having graduated high school, and oh by the way also happened to be a Lesbian wanting to marry the woman you loved.

Imagine as a female that some state legislatures figure your work does not equal the same amount of pay as a male doing the same job. Imagine the legislators explaining to you that men are more capable have more responsibility to families, history has demonstrated that men just make more salary. And oh by the way the Bible tells us that women should lead the home and men should be the bread winner.

Imagine being a teacher, a firefighter working for a state or municipality and some state legislatures say that working in a government job is a cowards way to work. You as a teacher and firefighter are living off the dole of the state, county, city. Imagine legislators telling you that unions are the bane of America, that negotiating for fair salary and benefits is a Socialist plot to over throw Capitalism. Oh and then add when did God join a union.

Imagine being raped, taken sexually without any free will and being told that perhaps you really egged the perp on and had you been less seductive he would not have violated your body. Imagine if legislatures said that if you have a lemon you should make lemon aid, or stuff happens and we can learn from that stuff, or was it really rape. Imagine legislators proclaiming that most incidents of rape are just encouraging advances from women. Oh yeah, God would not let something bad like that happen so it was in his plan.

Imagine being a Muslim wanting build a new mosque a new shrine a new place to worship. Imagine city or country managers telling you that permits for such a building just are not that easy to come by. Imagine that legislatures want to pass no Mosque zones. Imagine that legislators assume if you are a Muslim that you will want to change American law into Sharia Law so no matter what nothing Muslim will be permitted to be built. And, yeah this is a Christian nation founded by God and thus who never said church state separation.

Imagine being born in this country, living here all 20 years of your life... in America. You want to become a citizen of this nation, the only nation you know. Imagine wanting to attend a state university, you know the university of the state in which you have spent the first 20 years of your life. Imagine legislatures saying no matter what the Constitution says about children born in this country, you must go back home to the land you know nothing about but the place your parents were born. Imagine legislators saying even if you were born in the US, we don't recognize your love for apple pie and mom, so you must leave. Uh, huh and being told God is white and traveled from Bethlehem with the Christian Founding Fathers.

Imagine if you are a Lesbian have been with your partner for 20 years, just met a woman you love and want to get marry because you ARE in love. Imagine being told that even if I am on my second or third spouse, beat my spouse, am derelict in my marriage, practice adultery, infidelity I have more right to marry then you. Imagine legislators voting in unison to save the Institution of Marriage from the demons of the LGBT community. Imagine legislators bemoaning that if Anna love Eve then Joe and Mary's marriage will fail and families will fall. And yep your wanting to marry will have God sending thunder bolts to America because love is not an important feature when marrying.

Imagine how all of the above is actually taking place in many state in the Unites States of America now, and imagine how awful and horrible it will be to imagine America in 2012 if more of the Republican/Baggers win jobs as legislators in state legislatures and how many more states will behave.

Imagine what happens if you stay home one more voting cycle because you think your vote does not count, or the Dems are bad, or the Republican/Baggers have your concerns in mind. Imagine if your sister, mother, aunt, daughter were raped, if your brother father, son wanted to earn a fair wage and join a union. Imagine if our child was born in this country, only knows life in America and must be deported. Imagine falling in love, or being in love with a person for 8, 10, 15, 25, 30 years but being told that your love is less then someone who beats their spouse, cheats on their spouse, and has taken a spouse two, three or four times over. Imagine being told that God hates you for no other reason then you happen to be a women, raped, in a union, Muslim, a child of an immigrant, of Gay.

It would be hard to imagine, except if you tune into any talk show, read any paper, browse any Internet service, talk to anyone you work with, or include in your family, then you need no imagination because fact is scarier then fiction.

Imagine once any of the horrendous attacks against people you think are not like you happens to you. imagine who is next!

states wrongs

April 12, 1861, the official date given as the start of the US Civil War. Certain states felt they had rights, States Rights as stated in the Constitution, to keep a population of people living in the United States brought to this country not on their own volition, then raised in this country from generations before them from being free citizens. It was felt by the southern states that they had the moral and ethical right to discriminate against Negro’s and keep them as slaves as per the Constitution. Not only were there State’s Rights involved in maintaining slavery the same folks who insisted the Constitution permitted them to hold slaves also quoted their preachers who shouted from the pulpit Negro’s were not equal and from the owners of plantations and businesses, freeing the slaves would be bad for business.

South Dakota politicians now feel that that even though Roe V. Wade is legal it is not so legal in their state. Women should not seek abortions, and to make sure they don’t abort, no matter what the case, the South Dakotans want to pass a law making it acceptable to kill doctors who provide reproductive terminations to women seeking abortions. South Dakota Republicans/Baggers want to chip away at women’s reproductive rights one woman at a time.

Wisconsin now wants to eliminate collective bargaining within its public employee unions. The same unions that want their workers to strive for and receive middle class living standards are being told that in the state of Wisconsin, it is not the accepted American way. If this law passes then what is next for unions? If this law passes then working conditions, safety regulations, salaries and benefits will be at the discretion of Republican/Baggers who love to keep the rich wealthy and the rest of the world poor.

Minnesota now proclaims via the Republican/Bagger elected officials that equal pay for women in their state is unnecessary and costly. They want to repeal their landmark 1948 ‘fair pay law”, that ensures systematic pay discrimination against women does not happen. Women apparently should not make as much as men in the state of Minnesota because if anything they are just women, a rib off the body from Adam.

Arizona Republican/Baggers want to pass a bill that would require hospitals to report illegal immigrants who show up for care and have the hospital staff act as immigration agents. To make sure those pesky illegal’s learn a lesson for being illegal in the state of Arizona they had better make a decision of either dying from an illness or going to the hospital to be deported. And if their kids are ill, well bring them to the hospital for care or just take the sick child with you as you cross the boarder to Mexico.

South Carolina is seeking a ban on Sharia Law in that state. For the Republican/Baggers there is a risk that the Islamic based law, Sharia will become the law of that state if the elected officials don’t place a line in the sand now. There is no trust in the state of South Carolina for most non Christian Evangelical religions, but the distaste for the Muslims is of great worry. Seems if in the country that prides itself of freedom of religion the state of South Carolina feels paranoid that too much freedom will lead to their God taking control and shoving his human type law on everyone. And Sharia law doe not exist in this country at all.

Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Utah, 10 states have amended their state Constitutions to permit marriage by one man and one woman only. They feel that by doing so they have protected the Institution of Marriage, the sanctity of religion, and have made inequality a States Rights provision. No mention ever of the divorce rate, the spousal abuse, the broken homes generated by heterosexuals who can marry but don’t marry for love, but lots of mention about God’s wrath when homosexuals who do love can not marry.

In 1861 states demanded that they be heard and that they knew what was good for them. They were the masters of their destiny and would rip this country apart if they did not get what they wanted and felt what they deserved. They used their interpretation of the Constitution, the Bible and the Bottom Lines of Businesses to make their point. They shouted Un-American epitaphs towards those who felt equality was just, they shouted Anti Christian eulogies at those who felt that God created man and woman of every race as equals. They shouted tyranny to those who denied businesses to continue to make a better profit using cheaper or free labor. They had their preachers and pastors, their white wealthy men, their fabricated facts to prove that States Rights were right even if they denied human and equal rights to the people of America.

Watch out America… those of you who stayed home last election cause the bums needed booted out… those of you who said it didn’t matter because they all are losers…those of you who thought about voting but didn’t bother…those of you who said you were Independent minded people and it was now the turn of the Republicans to take control again…those who swear by States Rights. Watch out cause taking away the rights from working women, women’s reproductive rights, health care for all, unions, Gays and Lesbians is just the beginning of a whole new America. An America where it won’t be so easy to travel from one state to another if you don’t look, sound or pray like those who don’t think for themselves but let biased and bigoted bullies think for them.

Ready for another Civil War?

scare tactics

'Scare Tactics' is a show whose premise is to pull a practical scary joke on a good friend and watch them sweat, swoon and shiver as possible ghosts, zombies, ax murderers, paranormal entities and space creatures invade their private space. The idea is to set up your friends in situations that scare the flesh off their skin, and then once they have peed in their pants, or thrown up their lunch, you come to their rescue, wrap a "I got you" arm around them and tell them it was all a good joke. The wonder of the show for me, is that one, I am not the person on the receiving end of the horrible joke understanding that the reaction demonstrated by the victims is probably how I would respond, and two that it was only a joke and a rather good one at that and no one got hurt.

As with most good scary shows, the viewer lives through the spooky stuff, the creatures calculating and crude, the monsters mayhem but know usually at the end of the spectacle, the horror and the violence, the awful and the ugly will end and after all...it was only a movie or TV show and nobody in real life died.

"Operation Iraqi Freedom began on 20 March 2003. President Bush declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq on 01 May 2003. The single worst day of Major Combat Operations was 23 March 2003, on which 30 American soldiers died. A total of 116 service members were killed in action during major combat operations, and another 25 died due to non-hostile causes such as accidents."

There’s no room for failure—when it comes to Weapons of Mass Destruction, even a single incident could be catastrophic.

In July 2006, the FBI created the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, or WMDD, to build a cohesive and coordinated approach to incidents involving nuclear, radiological, biological, or chemical weapons—with an overriding focus on prevention. (Wikipedia) But there were never any Weapons of Mass Destruction then and there were never any plans for any Weapons of Mass Destruction ever. It was a ploy to rile up, terrify, overwhelm Americans to fight a war based on lies. It was a Scare Tactic.

Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powell, Rumsfeld decided that it was time for them to play a game of 'Scare Tactics' on the citizens of the United States. They thought they would use the American Troops and the Iraqi citizens as the dupes on which the game would be played, and Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powell, and Rumsfeld watched as their choice of victims died, 4500 Troops, over 100,000 Iraqi's as their little game of liar, liar played out.

Unlike the TV show Scare Tactics, when the plot is unveiled as phony and a set up having the best friend come forward and admit it was all a set up, the boys and girls in the Bush Dictatorship, have remained silent in owning up to any shenanigans, or feigning ignorance to their scheme. Instead they are writing books earning lots of dollars in defending why this tactic was used and blaming anyone but themselves for putting it into place.

They said it was all red, white and blue what they were doing. After all they were Republicans and if anyone knew how to save this country from Communists, Socialists, Terrorists, the Boogie Men it was a band of apple pie, God Bless America Republicans. Saddam was a bad man who was going to blow up Peoria Kansas and unless we sent in our Troops to dismantle his cadre of mushroom cloud makers he would succeed. They said it was the American way.

Like many Republicans with irreparable reputations filled with falsehoods, fabrications, and lies, the Bush's, Cheney's Rice's, Powell's and Rumsfeld like to rewrite history and re-explain the facts. They love to dumb down America and double speak, deplete, or deny what history has proven to be true. So far George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld have written fiction books trying to cover the truths about their scare tactics. Both have received hundreds of thousands of dollars for their lack of honesty, almost as much money as people who have died or been injured in the Scare Tactic war they invented.

I have had no friends star in Scare Tactics on TV, and I thank God have had no friends die due to the Scare Tactics used by Bush and company. But I wonder how hard the families of the Troops and Iraqi's who have died or been injured are laughing watching the originators of a bad joke lie their way out of something immoral, unethical and so Un-American.

In the show 'Scare Tactics', the victims of the pranks usually warn their conspirator friends, just wait till it is your turn. Perhaps the victims of the horrible scare tactics, almost all Americans, used by Bush and Associates should find a way to make these jokers face the injustices they lied about. Wouldn't it be nice to see real American justice delivered.

valentine cards

As a student at the Linden Elementary School in Pittsburgh during the black and white everything fits into a pattern, change is scary, days of the 50’s, if you were in grades K to 6, Valentines Day it meant preparing a colorful Valentines Box to bring to homeroom, purchasing enough Valentines for your entire classroom and perhaps a special Valentines card for the teacher and in my circumstance some home made goodies fresh from my mothers kitchen. (No one baked like my mother)

It was a ritual at Linden Elementary School that all holidays, National, Christian, almost religious (Hanukah made the list, but there was no Kwanza), are celebrated and participation was required for all the students. It was the American way in the 50’s to be a part of the bigger picture even if your ethnicity, beliefs, religiosity, family values said I really don’t want to do this as it goes against everything I stand for stood in the way. The bulletin boards were decorated in red for the month of February and stayed that color until the green tissue paper for St. Patrick’s Day was unfurled and ready to hang.

We were told by our principal Miss Paterson, a very demon like character at about 6’2 and very much overweight with very wiggly triceps that waved like a flag in the wind when she threw a hissy fit, that we are family at Linden, and what is good for one is good for all and she would be the person who would define what it was that was GOOD.

However, once a student reached the big boy and girl grades of 7^th and 8^th (Linden was one of the few schools that had a K-8^th curriculum) to prepare us for the cold calloused world of teenage life, Valentines day was still observed but the mandatory cards for all were replaced with bring in cards for those you desire to send them to. This grownup feature created two definite actions. The first was it presented itself as to who was popular and who was not. Who during all those formative years were patronized with cards never really intended to convey real care, and in the case of the boys in the class who might really be QUEER (in the 50’s the LGBT community were not happy types, Gay, just strange so QUEER was the word) because in the 50’s boys DID NOT send a lot of boys Valentines cards if they even said I like you let alone I love you!

In the 50’s there was little opportunity to think outside of the box, to express your own insights to dance to a different tune. Oh, it was still America and the right to free speech was available but the consequences to do so were weighty, tenuous and very trying. If it was Valentines Day, damn it YOU WILL SEND VALENTINES CARDS.

In Maryland today, the politicians are deciding whether boys should be sending boys Valentine’s Day Cards and if girls should be sending them to girls. In the state of California, for a few sane weeks, just like the kids in K thru 6 at Linden School, everyone could send everyone, no matter their sex, same or opposite, Valentines (but like the kids in 7^th and 8^th grade) the voters who felt that equal does not mean for all took the away the privilege of same sex couples from sending Valentines. New York State is promising an equal trade of Valentine cards, and the bigoted self described Christians of Iowa who have Jesus confused with the Devil want to un-permit same gender Valentine cards from being exchanged again.

In the 50’s everything we were told had an order, a place a slot, a way of thinking. We were told that we won the Second World War and the Korean Conflict by following order, denying chaos, forgoing free thinking and that God would shine his smile on this country because sameness was like Godliness. We were able to grow up in teeny tiny spurts, like the kids in 7^th and 8^th grade, but there had to be a Principal to demonstrate what was and is good.

Then the 60’s happened upon us and suddenly growing up came fast and furious and we saw that voices of opposition, cries for change, concern for the individual were important;that we all had so much in common but the commonality was not forced rather shared.

And it seemed that this country grew and flourished gained and matured.

And now for Valentines Day 2011, it seems the freedoms to send a Valentines to anyone you desire is being restricted once again by people who fear the rights, the freedoms, the choices of individuals. It is trying to be denied to drown out personal fears, phobias and paranoia of some who are lost in life and don’t want anyone else to find their way.

The people who self victimize, who blame others for all that is wrong, who like lemmings, follow the lead of self serving cowards want boys to send girls Valentines, as long as it is the white boys sending it to white girls, Christian boys not sending it to Muslim girls, and wealthy boys ignoring sending anything to poor girls. But no matter what boys shall not send boys cards and girls will not send valentines to girls.

2011 has the smell, sound and rancor of the 50’s when authority was never questioned, love it or leave it the pursuit of happiness and the colors of red white and blue could be found and defined within the New Testament.

I never want the Valentine’s days of the 50’s to return to my life or the life of my kids or grandkids. I will send my Valentines to anyone of the opposite sex or same sex as I wish and want. I am out of Linden School.

Happy Valentines Day Joe, you are my lover and my partner, both of us have created one wonderful couple …so there Miss Patterson, so there!

seeing is not believing

At the ripe young age of 57, I had my supposedly mid life melt down, wanting to escape all I had planned for professionally and redefine myself transforming myself into someone new doing something I wanted to do because I loved it not because I had to.

So, after 25 years of Jewish communal work I ended my career and became certified as a personal trainer/nutritionist. I wanted to train people and become a fitness coach encouraging individuals to live a life that promoted positive mental, physical and nutritional health. And where else to create this new career but the sunny, funny, physical is God land of LA.

Now, I am happy with my appearance, I am not drop dead handsome, nor am I movie star material and perhaps with my shirt off I would not worry the likes of the "Situation" from Jersey Shore, but nonetheless no one turns to stone when sharing a glance my way.

However, I train clients at a gym where the average age of each trainer is 25, the average height 5'10, the average body fat 5%, and the average looks of said trainers is about 9.5 to 10 on a scale of 10. Many if not most are in between gigs as a soap opera, porn or reality show star. And many to most look almost perfect in their appearance.

For new clients shopping around, seeing is believing so they assume. And what they see they believe is what they want.

During the primaries for the 2010 elections, many candidates representing the supposed views of self identified Libertarians, Tea Baggers, Conservative Republicans, looked all red, white and blue, draped in the Bible and apple pie, and repeated rhetoric that made future voters perspire with joy as to how they would reintroduce personal freedoms and states rights claimed to be lacking from this country's recent history.

The new crop of politicians promised change, differently than the socialist, communist change the current Kenyan born President had pressed for, and real change so they hinted that honest to God Americans could and should believe in. The 'wanna be' politicians on the right lectured us that honest values, honest love for the individual, honest Christian morals would pounce upon this nation if they were elected demolishing the bogey man-devil like ruminations of the current anti Christ Progressives and Liberals running this country. For many a weary American, for many a frightened fellow, for many a bigoted bloke the new wave of Right Wing, Conservative Christian, Tea Bag loving candidates shouted seeing is believing. You see what you have and it is bad, now see us and believe us.

Because your trainer is 25, looks perfect in shorts and a tank top does not mean he/she actually knows the proper way to work out for anyone say 40 and older. The fountain of youth dripping from their bodies may not necessarily flood over and drown your 40 year old body with the same muscle, curves or less than 5% body fat. Seeing them does not mean that in fact they can do the job they have done on their body to your body. The promise of seeing them may not translate to the mechanics your body needs.

Because the Libertarian, Tea Bag Christian Conservative candidate quotes passages from the Bible in a country supposedly with a separation between church and state... swears he/she has read the Constitution and knows better then we what our Founding Fathers really meant when they wrote the Constitution... speaks of less interference of Big Government, but wants big government to decide your rights about reproduction,marriage, sex and drugs...hates the people openly you privately hate, does not mean they no shit or shineola about honest fair and equal politics and policy. Because they look good pledging allegiance to the flag, draped in the flag standing next to the cross, wearing teeny tiny flag lapel pins does not mean that what they do is being done for you or they are better, brighter American.

In this country, recently it has become more about the exterior of things then the interior. It has become a show and tell society and not a demonstrate and watch environment. It has become about the quick, the shiny, the slick and gloss and not the guts, the sweat the matter, the substance that counts

We can have minions follow the three line tweets of Sarah Palin to think she understands internal or external current events. We can have millions of people watching Bill O'Reilly who cuts short any answer his guests offer if what they offer sounds smarter then he. We can watch Glenn Beck draw mysterious lines, ornate circles, three word phrases calling everyone and his mother a Nazi, and we can assume without anything more than three-seconds of thought that what we see is true. If it looks good it must be good.

I love being a personal trainer and at first was intimidated that my biceps were not bold enough, my pecs not perky enough, my hair too balding and my close up would never be one Mr. DeMille demanded as compared to the perfect physiques at my gym. But knowing there was substance to my manner and reason to my mechanics I moved on knowing that the smarter client, the one who wanted more than the shell would find me.

I love being an American, but worry more so then ever that the lies loosely leveled by hypocrites, the promises pronounced by hooligans, the selfish self serving antics by people who say they are people like us are no more than smoke and mirrors, no more than fancy gift wrapping hiding a bag of garbage.

I do not believe what I see coming from the current rash of elected officials, and I wish others would follow suit sooner than later before our blindness denies any insight at all.

fat chance

I admit, I was hooked on the auditions for American Idol. I had to see the promising stars and starlets of the 2011 season and pull out my Kleenex as they rambled about their lives so sordid, sad and saturated with sorrow. I had to hear their pleas and promises of how they should be the next Idol. It will be a bumpy road ahead for the Idol viewer getting past the novella type stories and trying to figure out who is the one who REALLY has the talent, not the hype, marketing or hearsay…

And with the same hesitation to become involved with the lackluster talent of Idol, the back stories, the hyperbole and hype I watched the Republican/Baggers take the stage as the 2012 race for the White House begins its new season of slander, silly and surreal surprises. The slew of wannabe’s pretending to be the real thing is amazing.

The oldie but goodies filled with virulent religious hatred for those not praying to the God of their choice, the Christian God who fought with the colonists during the Revolutionary War, the God who only loves you if you are not Gay, or considering an abortion, or of a certain darker shade of color like Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum are lining up or is it piling up to consider a run for the Republican/Bagger ticket in the 2014 presidential race.

The holier than thou, lets pretend facts don’t count, if I said it and you misunderstood what I meant and heard what you want and misquoted me even if it was on tape cause you are the liar not me like Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Haley Barbour are gearing up or is it gyrating up for a run at the White House from the Republican/Bagger ticket.

The, I am a business man, free markets reign, just like the free markets during the Bush/Cheney dynasty, who needs regulations or rules because Capitalism runs regulation free, money can and does buy anything in this country, wealth is good poverty bad, and if have to I will fire you, even if you are a citizen Mitt Romney and Donald Trump are greasing the wrists, stuffing the pockets of the Republican/Baggers for a bid as the top executive of the US.

We hear from Governors Tim Pawlenty, Mitch Daniels that states rights are what matters so any issue from taxes to marriage, to abortion, to poverty and education must be settled by the states. States rights are the centerpiece of individual rights so if we want to use assault weapons, deny equal pay for women, slash the cost of living standards, deny unions any rights and stop this silly health care for all, we can do that, (just like the Southern states did during the Civil War) so give us the nod for the run for presidency from the Republican/Bagger ticket.

We hear more and more about denying rights, moving more to the edge than the center, exclusion as a Constitutional right. We witness comments and commentary derogatory and degrading and denials by these Republican/Bagger candidates when accused of stating them. We are told the bottom line of corporations is what makes America great and that once the rich are as wealthy as they need, the rest of the nation can bask in some success but to ask for their fair share prior to that happening makes you a Communist.

We see hero’s arise within the Republican/Bagger party like Glenn Beck with his apocalyptic ruminations of socialism, Nazism, Demonology…like Rush Limbaugh laughing at journalists beaten and hurt if they are not from FOX, stating that the most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down and beating his chest shouting, Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream…like Pat Robertson who blamed the blizzard in New York city on Gays who needed to be stopped who wanted to leave the city to spread their evil Gay ways…like Dick Cheney who had his staff “out” a CIA agent, pretended there were weapons of mass destruction leading to the murder of over 4000 Troops.

The CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) 2011 Conference, the Oscars of the Republican/Bagger political world is in session. It is the showcase of people crawling from under the rocks of bigotry, bias, bogus-try, using the American Flag, God and Apple Pie as permission to hate, harangue, and halt progress. It is the epicenter of those ideas, those ideals, those ideologies everything conservative. It is the first entrée to the American public of the new batch of conservative Christian culturally correct who want to make America in their mold. In making that mold this breed of CPAC darlings want to make sure difference is bad, consensus evil and lemming like response mandatory.

Like American Idol we get to see the talents and the talons of an aspiring class of performers hoping to win the number one spot. We get to hear snippets of how they will guide this nation to fame and fortune, as long as we provide them with fame and fortune. We hear their sob stories about how bad America is currently, (as if they had no part in making it that way), and how being new to the scene they will make it better. (Three fourths of this group have been around way too long.)

Listen closely all of us out there who stayed home during the 2010 elections, keep an ear to the tracks cause the next speeding train is coming soon and it might just run us down, like it did in the 2010 elections. Look to the light of redemption as explained by the CPAC crowd forgetting any history they made, any errors in judgment on their behalf, any foibles or falsehoods they presented and vote away change Obama promised and settle for fat- chance they propose.

becoming invisible

I remember hearing stories from survivors of the Holocaust, especially those living in Berlin during the rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi's, who as Jews said loudly and proudly, we are German's first Berliner's second and at the least Jews. The news of Hitler's attempt to reign in Jews from across Europe were whispered in family gatherings but Berliners who happened to be Jews had little to fear so they told themselves. Some of the upper class Jews were able to tune out the distortion of reality, thinking they were not like the other Jews of Europe, they were Berliner's.

The Jews of Berlin swore that the kind of Jews they were, the kind of German beliefs they had, their participation in German government would surely set them a part from any other Jews.

GOProud is a very conservative group of Gays and Lesbians. GOProud's mission is to represent gay conservatives and their allies, emphasizing conservative principles such as limited government, individual liberty, and national defense over what are usually considered bedrock issues of gay politics such as same-sex marriage, criminalizing targeted violence against gays and lesbians, and recognition of sexual orientation as a protected civil rights class.(wikipedia)

GOProud believes that they too are like the Conservatives in the Republican party. If they, GOProud, let smaller government, play out then by all means individual liberties will reign supreme and the mere fact that they as Gays practicing Conservative principles, then no one will notice they are Gays or Lesbians.

We are not different, say those who have been identified by the majority as being different. We are like you and to be like you we will, well, we will change our perceived identity so you like us. We can do with less rights or freedoms or choices for us because we want to be like you. Please like me, please accept me, please save me.

Lots of Orthodox Jews relate in principle to the evangelical Christians. They define marriage as a union solely owned by opposite sex couples, they consider homosexuality a scourge on Gods intentions, and they would rather kick their kids out of their own home if in fact they had the "balls" to come out. The Orthodox Jews like the Evangelical Christians think that punishing and hating their homo kids promotes a God like parenthood. The Orthodox Jews vote as the Evangelical on most issues of parenting and gay stuff.

Lots of Orthodox Jews appreciate the love for the state of Israel by their "goyem" brethren and know that when it comes to politics as long as the Evangelicals promote the existence of Israel life will be good in the U.S. The Christians believe in Jesus but they also believe in the Jewish homeland. They believe in the Jewish homeland so much that the Evangelicals want all the Jews in the world to move, to live, to become citizens of the State of Israel. And when all the Jews become citizens of the State of Israel then the Rapture can begin bringing the second coming of Christ, and once and for all finally we can rid the world of those Jesus denying Jews.

I happen to be Jewish, I happen to be Gay, I happen to have a great love for people who happen to be Jews and happen to be Gay. I want no more nor no less out of life then those who don't happen to be Jewish or Gay. I want freedoms, liberties and the pursuit of happiness the million of Americans are entitled to who happen not to be Jewish or Gay. I don't want special favors to win the favor of those who identify themselves differently then me. I don't want to pretend that there is a greater good then the good that should come my way in 2011 in America. And I don't want to see people like act in such self loathing manners.

When do we learn from history that appeasing others so they can pretend to like us makes little to no sense. Once we let others define our identity, ignore our identity we become invisible and then missing.