I want to be in America

“I want to be in America, everything’s free in America, I want to be in America!”(America, West Side Story) The Dent County Commission of Missouri voters unanimously Monday to observe one year of “mourning” over the Supreme Court’s June 26 decision that Gay couples have the constitutional right to marry. The observance will in the lowering of the flags at the Dent County Courthouse and Judicial Building to half staff on the 26th day of the month from July 2015 to June 2016. the vote came after the Presiding Commissioner Darrel Skiles filed a letter into the public record protesting “the U.S. high court’s stamp of approval as what God speaks of as an abomination.” Daily Kos. There is a state flower, a state tree and now a state God of Missouri a God who of course can only be seen by the most homophobic, insecure, elected government officials who believe that Missouri is a Fascist/theocratic Christian nation state, which just happens to belong to the United States for convenience but in fact has nothing to do with the laws of that land. Jesus the guy with long blond hair and the fairest of white skin, who was the general of the Revolutionary War, the numero uno member of the NRA if not its founder, who believes corporations are people, is divine and because facts never mount to anything in the minds of the stupid, Jesus has spoken, and he hates the Gays!

“Oh beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain”(America)According to Mike Huckabee, we’re “criminalizing Christianity in this country by telling people who hold to an orthodox worldview of biblical marriage that if you still believe that … you will be guilty of discrimination, which could result in some kind of civil or criminal action against you.” Got that, Christians? You keep making noises about the Bible and the big government boogeymen will lock you up! (Salon) Never one to back down from the prophecy of a Bible which includes the selling of snake oil, cures for diabetes and the ever present evidence that the earth is only 6000 years old, a man on a mission to scam the most stupid of fearful folk is the lead general in declaring that because equality is a backbone of the United States his God is bit pissed. Not a bit pissed his Jesus, the real first president of the US of A might even descend from heaven one more time and just rid the world of the homosexual sinners. Mikey Huckabee ever at the ready to cater to the insecure, insane and inane among us loves the attention of making the dumb even dumber. Usually there is a war on Christianity around Christmas time you know the holiday where all offices are closed and government buildings erect a CHRISTMAS  tree, but now that the Gays actuality be treated like regular folk, Mikey has declared all hell is about to let lose!

“This land is your land this land is my land” (This Land is Your Land, Woody Guthrie) Except it isn’t, and won’t be until a majority of Americans re-read the US Constitution, decide that gerrymandered voting districts are a dictatorship, understand that there is a difference between Church and State, that the base of the T-Pub Party are people who believe reality TV is real and still believe that the Confederate War was Jesus’s choice, and of course are so fearful of their own sexuality as to hate anyone who is NOT! When justices of the peace still refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, while T-Pub potential candidates still rise in popularity because they can hate loud and proud, while FOX News still lies about fact and confuses fiction as truth, while billionaire puppet masters pull the stings on disingenuous shoddy politicians, and until people stop thinking that the stupid are so stupid they will just shrivel up and die, actually do something positive, this land will never be your land or my land, but a land that fades into the stupid.

Hiding in the Shadows

Who is the really dumb one, the T-Pub candidate that says immigrants from Mexico are rapists or the base of voters of the T-Pub party placing him in a very high ranking to become the nominee for the T-Pub party? Who is really the idiot, oblivious to the way the real world works, the candidate claiming working longer hours and longer into your life is a form of true job creation or the billionaire puppet masters promoting yet one more “let them eat cake” candidate? Who is really the idiot the candidate who insists that only Jesus’s law can prevail in permitting the marriage of same-sex couples or the hundred of thousands “don’t mess with Texas” voters allowing him free reign to practice religious fascism? Who are we to really fear, the monsters or the people who have created them?

We become so agog, aghast, amazed when men and women in office or running for office insist that even though they are not doctors they believe that a 20 week abortion ban is the correct medical advice for women. We become concerned when these same people insist they may not be scientists but one thing for certain is climate change is not happening at least not on the Earth Jesus’s dad created.We become irritated that even though they are not historians, there is simply no way these band of politicians think the Confederate Flag was ever used as a symbol of slavery let alone Racism. We ruminate as those seeking nomination for president from the T-Pub party laugh at the idea black lives might matter, the mere idea of separation between church and state, that this nation was really never founded by immigrants. But then who is THE fool, the guy or gal who get away with selling snake oil, or the consumer, ever ready to buy a gallon or two of it?

Look closely at the men and one woman who want to become president from the T-Pub party, listen how they always avoid words like inclusion, equality, fair and freedom. Watch as they pander to those who still believe dinosaurs were on Noah’s ark, nothing in the universe is older then 6000 years, women were created from a rib of Adam and thus are the property of men, the Constitution is not a substitute for the Bible, the NRA, billionaires and pollution were prophecies of Jesus. Are we to chastise a very smart group of wanna be presidential candidates savvy enough to market swarm and slime to the lowest denominator of ignorant and bigoted minds. OR should we really start worrying about the viewers of FOX, Limbaugh radio, the Mama Grizzlies, the Open Carry crusader and the white robed mobs of men and women who have been granted to hate openly? We think we should fear the monster we see and hear, but anyone who enjoys true horror movies knows the scariest things always hide in the shadows!

Cans of whoop ass

Open a can of whoop ass which has been simmering in the heat of hypocrisy for a decade or two and you either must be asking for trouble or enjoy a world where consequences will run wild. Open a can of whop ass, the one with the ingredients of dumb, dumber, insane, inane, insecurity and innuendo and you are certain to unleash an odor more foul that any bull shit offered by marketers of greed, gluttony, stupid and sinister. Open a can of whoop ass the can which is boiling over in lies, abridged truths, circumstantial evidence, and religious fascism and you will receive an explosion so wild and crazy that the big bang will seem like a whimper. Open that can of whoop ass and just wait for all hell to break lose.

The confederate flag a symbol of civil war, a shining emblem to those who thought America was better off with slaves, an icon of white supremacy, black inferiority all we ask is that a flag of treason and anarchy be taken down and the response we get is don’t you dare. Same-sex marriage is now considered American marriage and what do we hear, Jesus is more powerful then the activists on the Supreme Court, my religion my law, this is a Christian country. Question the police as to why black lives should matter, and gun tottin’ NRA crusaders insist that they don’t matter, and what’s the matter with you for being so un-American as to think they should matter. Find a path for immigrants to live a full life in a nation built by immigrants and get swallowed up by crass indignities insisting that only certain immigrants made America great, immigration is a socialist plot, or complete silence regarding all the derogatory demagoguery.  Let women decide their own reproductive rights and suddenly the apocalypse is coming, all females who dare decide for themselves are immoral and the government should be big enough to prevail over some stupid woman’s selfish need. Open a can of whoop ass, and the odor permeates an entire nation. Open up a can of whoop ass and watch the maggots living at the bottom of that decayed, rusted can emerge trying hard to suck out the fresh breath of freedom from the lungs of those believe in fair and just.

We have been harvesting that can of whop ass camouflaged in the rumination of reality show stars acting as if they were journalists, permitting politicians to act as puppets for the miserably minded millionaires and pretending that if the facts don’t fit your mood change them. We have been harvesting that can of whop ass ever since we believed that weapons of mass destruction existed, Brownie actually did do a great job, not vetting a vice presidential candidate was normal, that guns don’t kill people, that Jesus was the first general of the Revolutionary War and to this day is a charter member of the NRA. We have been harvesting that can of whop ass every time an elected official tells us his Bible trumps the Constitution, when government employees insist personal beliefs hold more weight then the US or state laws. Open a can of whoop ass and don’t be surprised just how poisonous the fumes of bias, bigotry and bogus will become. 

Intentionally Dumb

Intentionally acting dumb is dangerous, because no matter your intentions, the really honest to God dumb people think you have hit pay dirt permitting them to remain dimwits and stupid. When your common sense is based on superstitions, racist ancestry, a God who only is kind to you when you hate, or an abridged version of a reality show script for history, you are are as dumb as they come; and when someone wise enough to play dumb acting like the pied piper of stupid toots his horn, all kinds of stupid follow. Intentionally acting dumb is just the ticket for Donald Trump and he is basking in the shock and awe responses the not so dumb people are demonstrating. Donald Trump loves marketing dumb, he has become as nasty and gnarly as Ann Coulter reaching depths of dumb even really dumb Sarah Palin never mined. But in fact Donald Trump knows as did the snake oil salesmen of the old west, that misery loves company, dissatisfaction with your self breeds insurrection toward others, and that in order to imagine loving yourself, you must first fight an imaginary enemy. Intentionally acting dumb is a sophisticated vice like land mines planted on foreign soil, the good guys want to come to the rescue, but if they are not cautious they will never seek their goal of freedom and fair, instead be blown away!

If you are truly concerned about equality in America, if you have actually read history books relating the purpose of a land for and by all the people, or if you believe that a prospective presidential nominee should be concerned with the good for ALL Americans, then Donald Trump is nothing more then a brash, egocentric, 21st century character created by writers, bankers and capitalists who have little conscience unless it has a cash value related to it. Donald Trump seems laughable to you. But if you have very little in your life aside from the need to divide, deprive, segregate, single out, blame and bully the very laughable words of Donald Trump become reason for hysteria and his hyperbole find root in your ruinous life and you reach new heights of hypocrisy and hate. Donald Trump knows this and being a man with nothing but gold for his soul, inhales the phobias and bigotry of others and breathes the breath of fire, setting parts of ‘Merica’ ablaze with his bogus. Donald Trump loves to set fires, he never is the one with the matches in hand, nope, he leaves lighter fluid and lighters all around for the the mobs who just love to burn their own houses down thinking that by doing so others will perish. Donald Trump is like the drug dealer, give the insecure a reason to get high and reap the financial rewards without a care in the world for your actions.

Intentionally acting dumb is not easy there is a science behind it and those who practice this craft are savvy actors. They usually never understand their own words, but listen intently to the words of the lemming who desire others to lead them over the cliff. These actors gladly provide a map with specific hate filled directions and gleefully rake in the financial rewards for letting the stupid thrive. Pretending to speak the language of the average Joe, people like Trump would never, ever be in the company of the stupid, but like the man behind the curtain as long as there is mystique the mirage works out fine. Internationally acting dumb is dangerous, and the more those of us who think we are smart, let the dumb behave badly, the more we have to fear.

Third of July

It is the third of July, we are anticipating a celebration of a nation gaining its independence from tyranny, yet on this 239th year of freedom we watch as some who claim to be patriots, pure Americans in fact want to impose laws and language far from free and equal. They carry a flag of a nation determined to undermine the US Constitution, they wear assault weapons across their shoulders and waistbands insisting that upheaval is an American value, they define others as the enemy and unless the others identify with some preconceived American God, are of Caucasian skin color and of course at one time owned slaves they are the bad guys. On this July 3 in 2015 we watch as potential presidential contenders contend for who can hate the most, who can blame the foils and foibles of the stupid on anyone but themselves, who can pretend that America was never a land of immigrants. We are told that God blesses America but then exactly whose God is doing the blessing?

Black churches are burning, governors still insist that their state will participate in segregation based on homophobia, Supreme Court Justices have no idea in the difference between church and state, women are too stupid to understand their own reproductive rights, Mexican are rapists, and billionaires hire their puppet politicians hoping to own the city of Washington DC, all of this on the third of July! Jesus is the final word on law, not just any Jesus but the one who has a membership to the NRA, loves the bankers and hates the poor, all of this on the third of July! Fools run rampant, facts are fiction, the stupid are the considered the base by which Republicans must appeal to to become the T-Pub candidate, climate isn’t changing, and family values are always an issue except when the the valueless Christian conservatives are having babies out of wedlock, enjoying adulterous affairs, or stealing money from the coffers of tax payers all of this on the third of July!

It is the third of July and on the day that follows we will pledge allegiance to our flag, sing our national anthem, we will be proud Americans, but will we all be equal Americans? We will be a people who have seen the struggles of a revolutionary war, a civil war, women’s suffrage, desegregation, affirmative action, victory at land and sea, labor unions, a minimum wage and affordable health care…but somehow when the Fourth of July 2015 arrives will we remain just a bunch of stupid folk questioning was ALL of those gains really good? We will be debating the value of fair and equal, the necessity of one person one vote, is poverty the fault of the poor, do black lives matter? We will face the Fourth as if it was the first time we have discovered freedom. How does this happen, why did this happen, when did this happen? It is the third of July and we have so many important issues to address honestly for freedom to truly ring for all!

dumb seems to matter

Rainbows everywhere appearing on Facebook pages. Friends I know and people I have never met excited that when two people are in love it will now be called marriage. What a perfect moment in a world with too many imperfections. It seemed as if the government was paying attention to the Constitution inciting freedom instead of installing fear. But then the cracks seemed to rumble out of the satin sanguine and some decided that their America was not the home of the free;they instead culled up a cauldron of Christian victimization claiming that no matter how democratic this nation might seem, it was indeed a country of crusaders whose only allegiance is and was toward a particular Bible bestowed by a peculiar kind of God. The law of the land they pouted and pandered is NEVER as great as the virtues of a vengeful God! 

One might overlook the ignorant, the slime who slide carelessly across the rights and equality of others, but when one does overlook the stupid there is usually a whole lot of hell to pay. Candidates are running for the office of president pretending that those who have little contrivance for the Constitution actually care about the history of this nation. These men and one woman of the T-Publican party enjoy the comic relief of FOX Noise, allowing fiction to be decimated as fact, and rubbish to be used as reason, and they continue to chide any standard of decency. Court the dumb, keep them dumber, never admit the truth for fear that the really dumbest might revolt. These marionettes for the wealthy who only have a vision of their own well being lack conscience but come across as most con men/women as clear and concerned and of course Christian citizens. In a nation supposedly intended to have a demarcation between church and state it is scarily frightening how much of the church chimes loud and the state remains silent.

Marriage equality is the law of the land, but whose land, indeed? Threats of retaliation, intimidation and loathing, languish on the websites and radio stations of the Christian conservative media. Not in my country they boast as if the Confederacy won the war (and one has to wonder if it didn’t). There is no intent to embrace the mechanics of our democracy, (women’s reproductive rights a perfect example of ignoring the law),when the details involve inclusion. All of this could be stopped if the smart became as unified as the stupid and yelled as loud and proud as the dumb. But somehow we permit the T-Publican candidates to cater to cowards who use their God as scapegoat for hate calling these wanna be presidential candidates clowns in a clown car. We look the other way as wealthy millionaires cast a wayward spell on the rest of the minions, and the assumed clowns gain traction. I worry all the time just how powerful the most unintelligent become because the intelligent are too busy insisting the dumb are just too stupid to matter.

Bag Ladies

Sarah Palin is dumb. She is a dumb woman who strives to be smart, but ends up just being dumb. Sarah Palin considers herself a player, but throughout her dumb career she really has been played. Sarah Palin is the kind of dumb T-Bagging woman who believes she does walk on water but in fact is a nothing but a marionette manipulated by some smarter people who realize just how dumb Sarah Palin really is. The problem for most dumb people is they never consider how quickly 15 minutes of marketed fame can end. Sarah Palin is dumb enough think that any thoughts scripted for her were actually her own. Sarah Palin is dumb enough to think she is smart enough to make a positive difference but in fact will find herself should she learn to read in the history books as creature of a society based on reality shows which are anything but real.

Ann Coulter is smart, she is scary smart, so smart that she knows just how to pretend to be dumb. She looks at a situation and decides just how ugly of a response is needed for her 15 minutes of fame to never end. Ann Coulter is smart, she loves to insist the most biased, bigoted bloated bull shit, knowing that the really dumb people will latch on to it like a worm at the end of a fishing hook and that the most intelligent of people will chastise her for the same remarks. Ann Coulter will remain on the tip of tongues and cares nothing about a clear conscience, as long as she can sell books and snake oil. Ann Coulter is a T-bagging woman but prefers her desires to be at her beckon and call. Ann Coulter is smart, smart enough to manipulate conversation that only detract from any positive results. As long as Ann can divulge the most vile and venomous verbiage she is still the queen.

Nikki Haley is a dumb woman who desperately wants to be smart. Nikki Haley is a nasty dumb person trading politics for personality, and preferring poli-tricks as the breath she breathes. Nikki Haley is smart enough to say the right things, but dumb enough to not enact her own words. Nikki Haley is smart enough to read a speech writers words declaring that some people find the Confederate flag offensive(still demonstrating a pining for the descendants of anarchists as true Americans who love it), and calling for the removal of that flag. Nikki Haley could have been smarter had she listened to the voices in South Carolina who provided her with a loop hole to remove the flag temporarily, but she is still a dumb T-bagging woman thinking that a base of baseless white bigots rule her future. Nikki Haley is the kind of dumb person begging to be smart but too dumb to see that politics just makes you stupid.