Messing in Texass

Despite the fact Texas has the third largest rate of HIV infection in the country, Texas House Republicans have voted to give funds targeted for HIV screening to abstinence only education. Texas State Rep. Stuart Spitzer,  made no secret of his intentions when he introduced a budget amendment that would take millions targeted for HIV and STD screening and give it to abstinence only (non)-education programs. He said it very plainly: "(My) goal is for everybody to be abstinent until they’re married." When forced to face the inconvenient fact that Texas has the third-highest number of HIV cases in the country, and the third highest rate of teen pregnancy, Rep.Spitzer admitted that Texas’ abstinence education program "may not be working well," but said the HIV/STD prevention program received a lot more money than the abstinence only program receives, so it could afford to give some of it up. After robbing from HIV and STD prevention programs to pay to keep Texas teens ignorant, the Texas House then went on to ban Planned Parenthood and other "abortion affiliates" from providing sex education materials in schools. (New Civil Rights Movement)

The slogan goes don’t mess with Texas, but there no shortage in messing with Texans. Texas prides itself in small government, yet indulges in creating government regulations to keep its population unhealthy, ill informed, Christianly Conservative, and abundantly stupid. Admitting that the current abstinence only programs DO NOT WORK, another Born Again boob, placing his own inadequate knowledge of sexuality above reality wants to Christianize the citizens of Texas and keep ‘dem ladies shackled at the heel, with an apron around their bodice and deny them any self sought pleasures they desire, ANYWAY! Not only does Rep Spitzer wish to act as ethics grand pooh bah for the little lassies, he is sure as brim fired up to see that the sinners who actually can be cured of  real diseases suffer. One has to wonder if Rep Spitzer will hire Bristol Palin as his role model spokesperson so she can bilk the abstinence only coffers of Texas as she did nationally. 

It seems in some prejudiced, and fearful realm where most Bible thumpers dwell, reality is a dubious annoyance, while here-say, self interpretation of God triumph disregarding any civil rights and civil well being. It seems that the more the misogynist, homophobe, become the majority, the rest of society will decay and disappear.  Rep Spitzer is no longer the symbolic tip of the iceberg, he is sadly the real deal floating deep in the underground waters of freedom restrictions at the ready to wreck anyone’s life boat. LITTLE men like Spitzer should be laughed at, ridiculed for their self interests and small minds, but in the state of Texas, he wields a whole lot BIG worry!

It Takes a Woman

GOP strategist Ana Navarro said she's had enough of Hillary Clinton doing that whole "woman thing."

You know the thing: where she gets on stage and talks about hugely important, fundamental family and women's issues as she campaigns to become the first female president of the United States.

Navarro claimed on CNN that Clinton's "woman thing" is "lacking subtlety" this time around.

"I don't need her to drown me in estrogen every time she opens her mouth," Navarro said Sunday. "Every time she opens her mouth it's about the granddaughter and Chelsea's wedding and the yoga routines ... She doesn't need to have a sign that says, 'I'm a woman, hear me roar!’" (Huff Post Politics)

Dear Ana Navarro, REALLY! I am curious why you decide to chastise Mrs Clinton when she discusses some of the positives of being a woman, while the entire batch of male potential T-Publicans running for the office of President eagerly chatter about limiting a woman's reproductive rights, denying women equal pay for equal work, insist that the rapist should have visitation rights for a child they believe is God’s gift to the victim? Too much estrogen from Hilary, HONESTLY Ana Navarro you sounded like a host of misogynists who want to pepper the little ladies of this nation with testosterone lifting one leg in the air to pee all over them to demonstrate ownership. OMG, Ana Navarro, to think that a candidate for president discusses fundamental family and women’s issues instead of acquiescing to some Old Testament tale of being a rib from a man, or virgin to a potential hubby, or to just lie back produce children and and remain subservient to the husband and protector.

Now I know Ana Navarro you make a living strategizing for the T-Pubs, the political party always voting against the rights of women, but I have to wonder how you manage to brush your teeth or comb your hair as you look in the mirror and not gag? How do you face yourself when what you do for a living is to make living as a female in this nation arduous, difficult, demeaning and dreary? How coy you were as you derided Hilary for being a woman, talking about women, thinking that as a woman you were insulted? OH Ana Navarro, shame on you, for fearing the truth and hoping that if you discredit reason with lies and fabrication the dumb women among you will vote against their own self interests.  But then again Ana Navarro all the T-Pubs do is rally against honest and equal.

Contagion

In the Christian nation state currently known as Louisiana a justice of the peace Keith Bardwell has decided that he has the power to decide just whom is fit to wed and who is not. "I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else.”Bardwell justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. One might shrug and sigh and wonder why but then again, Bardwell lives in Louisiana.

Piyush “Bobby” Jindal whose parents immigrated from India to America to find a more just and open community is the Governor of the nation state of Louisiana, and Gov. Jindal has made it clear that his definition of a legal marriage is one heterosexual man and one heterosexual woman. Gov Jindal believes that Jesus is the guide he needs to defy the Constitution and or the Supreme Court. Gov Jindal and Justice of the Peace Bardwell find no problem with Freedom of Religion matters and have decided that separation of church and state are a Communist plot and not worth considering.  One has to wonder what Justice of the Peace Bardwell would do or NOT do if Gov Jindal who is of color wanted to marry a caucasian Louisianan female? 

Look closely at Louisiana and the ignorance based on pretending that God is why I am a bigot, and imagine which demographic is next. What about inter-religious marriages, a nice Jewish girl wants to marry a nice Catholic man?Two Muslim’s wish to marry? A woman with Mediterranean olive skin wants to marry a man with the whitest Norse skin? Look even closer at the people working for the government who have found chapter and verse not from the Constitution but an abridged Bible who will say no you can’t marry. Be reminded that bigotry once permitted is a very contagious disease and spreads so easily!

wonder...

You have to wonder if Newt Gingrich, Bristol Plain and Tim Cook walked into a Christian pizzeria together in Indiana which one might be denied service, the adulterer, the unwed mother, or the homosexual? You have to wonder which one of the three would be chastised by the folks who give their social security checks to the 700 Club, asking Pat Robertson to use that cash to talk to Jesus and smite the real evil doer? You have to wonder which one of the three Raphael Cruz might determine was truly Un-American not worthy of living freely in America once his sonny boy Ted becomes the second Messiah and President? You have to wonder which one of the three according to Rick Santorum is the coming of the anti-Christ? You just have to wonder!

You have to wonder just who the sinner is in the eyes of self proclaimed Christians who pick and choose which sins they prefer and which sins they just don’t have the time of day for. You have to wonder how only certain proclamations from the Bible take precedent regarding the rules of marriage excluding the Gays from the gates of heaven while heterosexual adulterers not only have free reign but first in line VIP tickets. You just have to wonder!

Seems there is really nothing to wonder about at all once you look a bit closer and find that no matter how it is dressed up or qualified or bandied about, the real deal is hate. There is nothing to wonder about when fear is the formation of fact. There is nothing to wonder about when all you do is declare an enemy based on bias and bigotry. You can wonder however how long the ignorant will remain the champion? 

A Fools Paradise

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) said on Wednesday that gay-rights activists wouldn't be satisfied until there are no more churches or Christians in America.

“It won’t stop until there are no more churches, until there are no more people who are spreading the Gospel,” Huckabee said on a right-wing radio program while discussing the backlash against anti-gay religious-freedom legislation in Arkansas and Indiana.

"I’m talking now about the unabridged, unapologetic Gospel that is really God’s truth," he said. (TPM Livewire)

OY! now according to this snake oil salesman the Gays are mounting an army to take on the mere existence of churches and to become like the Romans and feed all of the Christians to the lions. The Gays, ever so powerful as to dispense with the Gospel and lay waste to the hypocrites who pretend that they even understand its messages and are a force to be reckoned with just because the Gays are seeking equality and freedom. OY! now the Gays are the villain at the ready to question why in a nation originally established on the theme of freedom from religious persecution, has suddenly found itself immersed in the bigotry, bias and bogus by those who want to use religion as an oppressive restrictive burden. OY! One more charlatan using fear mongering, ignorance baiting, to promote himself as a disciple of God.

Mike Huckabee is a dangerous man because he is not a stupid fellow. He understands that unintelligent people desire a Messiah, a person to tell them right from wrong, good from bad; a person who can create enemies. Mike Huckabee is a crafty character of a man writing and rewriting his role as just the innocent shepherd protecting the needs and wants of  his simple flock who only seek pastures of purity. Mike Huckabee is sadly the new face of hate in this nation, brave enough to discard his white robe and mask, bold enough to lie adding enough amen’s to each fabrication, brazen enough to spit in the eye of democracy insisting that if Jesus told him to so then that spit will surely turn into Christian wine. Mike Huckabee embraces the vanity, vile venomous schizophrenia of the religious who can only embrace a God through fear and loathing. 

Tommy, can you see me

Senator Tom Cotton (T-Pub) of Arkansas said, on Thursday April 2, 2015, while being interviewed on CNN, “I think it’s important we have a sense of perspective. In Iran they hang you for the crime of being gay.” 

Hey Tommy, May I call you Tommy, you sure as shootin’ know how to raise your third finger into the wind and give a pissed off shout out to democracy when in fact you are a bit pissed off that democracy might actually work for everyone in its purview. First you raised your third finger to the President completely disregarding the Logan Act which states that the US Federal Law forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments having a dispute which the United States originally passed in 1799 and amended in 1994. You waved that third finger with even more gusto when you were told to violate that law is a felony, insisting that as a senator you were just doing the people’s business. And you sure as sin are no one’s lackey except of course the Koch Brother’s, Sheldon Adelson and the white robed goons of the Heritage Foundation. Tommy boy, may I call you Tommy boy, you kicked some presidential ass gaining kudos from the self proclaimed Patriots who love carrying the Constitution in their back pocket but instead of reading it either use it for target practice or worse to wipe their Confederate white asses. You ain’t nobodies fool, except maybe the gerrymandered, Voter ID’ed restricted citizens of Arkansas!

And now Tommy ( we’re Bro’s by now) you have stretched out that third finger of yours to lengths even Ted Cruz has not yet managed to do and given a good what for, kick in those homosexual degenerate asses to the men and women people whom Pat Robertson and Mikey Huckabee love to hate and raise money off of (the Gays), and told us to just be glad we don’t just gather ya’ll up and kill you. George Bush coined the phrase ‘one heck of a job, Brownie’, but somehow Tommy you deserve that congratulatory pat on the back; cause just like Brownie you took an already fucked up situation and made it worse. (At least Tommy you didn’t fall back on the usual T-Publican talking points using some Nazi comparison.) Aww, the sweet life in America, Tommy Mc Tom-stein, live your life less than equal, cause its better then hanging from a tree. (But wait have you cleared that whole hanging from a tree thing with your white robed and hooded militia… I mean campaign team? 

‘Tommy can you hear me, can you feel me near you, Tommy can you see me?” (Peter Townsend) Umm, shucks, nope not at all I think NOT, not with your third finger of each hand placed in your ears hidden in the confines of some Evangelical bigoted enclave blinded by fiction you perceive to be fact. I salute you Tommy boy with both of my third fingers waving gently in the air!

Joe Scarborough, really!

“These are firmly held beliefs that people have had for thousands of years, and you can call it bigotry if you want to, but just because the attitude in the United States of America has changed over the past decade doesn't mean that we, on this set in Manhattan, should judge -- I'm sorry -- a florist in Little Rock, Arkansas, or in Indianapolis. I'm sure I'll get in trouble for this, but I'm sorry. Everybody is marching lockstep. I wouldn't do it, but at the same time if somebody believes that marriage should be between a man and a woman, I just wonder where [do] their rights stop? Can you no longer go into business as a florist in America if you believe that a man marrying a man or a woman marrying a woman is a sin? And I'm just asking a question.” MSNBC host Joe Scarborough

Dear Joe Scarborough, it doesn’t matter if firmly held beliefs are held fast for eons and ages or just incorporated into your life a minute ago because once those beliefs discriminate and defuse equality for others they are no longer beliefs but sinister superstitions infused to keep us separate and not equal. When those beliefs are used to propagate old wives tales told by angry grandparents, parasitic parables preached by miserable pastors, or uneducated goons at the ready to fornicate on the truth, all those old beliefs do is alienate, divide and keep insecure people paranoid and petty.  When we live in a supposedly democratic nation and those firmly held  beliefs deny others protection from fair and equal, promoting bigotry and bias prompting Racism, Misogyny,Anti-Semitism,Homophobia a civil nation must immediately stop those beliefs in their track and replace them with firmly held principles.  

Come on Joe Scarborough remember when those firmly held beliefs included women should remain as chattel not working out of the family home and always kowtowing to her husband, and never voting? When those firmly held beliefs permitted back of the bus only for the Negro or colored only accommodations and housing? When those firmly held beliefs insisted that God never intended for the White Race to have sexual encounters with the Black Race let alone interracial marriage? There is no room in a free society Joe Scarborough for firmly held beliefs which most often limit the rich lives its citizens strive for. So far Joe Scarborough this is America and if you want to hate no one restricts you from doing so in your home with your family, or in your tax exempt church with your fellow parishioners, or at a KKK or John Birch meeting, you are free to misconstrue your Good Book into something bad in all those divine places. But once you pretend  these ignorant void of human or civil rights are firmly held beliefs that seem  like holy water you just permit the ignorant to drink from the cool aid of oily, grainy alcohol of hate, bigotry, and ignorance. Joe Scarborough are you considering a run for the T-Publican party’s presidential nomination you certainly sound as stupid  as such.