ain't nothin' like hate

There ain’t nothin’ like hate until it is presented in a hostile,phony blanket of religion. Nothin’ says hate with more profound idiotic gyrations, then basing that particular hate on a self serving rhetoric pretending that it isn’t your word but your lips moving to the voice of God who of course has chosen only you. Nothin’ says hate better then holding a Bible in your hand, bowing your head and spewing any kind of conceivable bull shit presuming that it must be true because of course God told you so. Ain’t nothin’ like hate the way Mike Huckabee presents it pontificating as if his standards are nothin’ short of the Lord Almighty himself. Visiting Concentration Camps in Europe, with a bunch of Evangelical Baptist brothers good ole’ Mike (maybe I should be president of this Christian nation) Huckabee, has been reciting a fable about the end of civilization based first on females wanting reproductive rights and now of course due to same-sex marriage. It seems people with vagina’s, and men who love men/women who love women are powerful enough as to bring the death to civilization as Mr Huckabee imagines or knows it. 

Ain’t nothin’ like hate when it reeks of hypocrisy. It is a nauseating sweet smell that sickens your stomach, the kind of hate with pretense precluding no fact but lots of foible. Ain’t nothin' like creating two sets of standards based on nothin’ but your own homophobia and misconceived understanding of religion and God. In Mike Huckabee's hypocritical world, opposite sex marriages can be full of deceit, adultery, cheating, abuse but civilization will surely survive. But when those men seek men and ladies shack up with other ladies marriage is on its deathbed and certainly the last throws of civilization as we know it will crumble. Ain’t nothin’ like hate filled with hypocrisy to have the insecure swoon with fear, and the foolish to linger in the stupid!

Ain’t nothin’ like hate until it has whet the appetite of those who need an enemy in life to feel whole. Divide and conquer, separate and exclude words of wisdom by people whose only hope is by saying others are not worthy will shoo away the insecurity and enforce the false belief of superiority. Ain’t nothin’ like a snake oil salesmen to bottle up prejudice, animosity and malice stand on a soap box covered with gilded Bibles and abridged quotes from a select passage or chapter to rile up the attitudes of men and women who desperately don’t want to be on the bottom rung of life. Ain’t nothin’ like false idols in the vein of Mike Huckabee to use hate to discredit others while thriving on hate to credit his own insecurities, biases and bigotries. 

best, worst of times

We celebrated, congratulated ourselves when we elected to the office of president a man of color, a black man. America, many of us said had transcended our bias, our bigotry America looked beyond the color of skin and was able to find the color of intelligence, fairness, quality and smart. How proud we were! But almost as fast as our pride shone in the sun, a dark demonizing, dreadful persona appeared and suddenly for every step forward taken were driven back tenfold. 

Since the election of President Barack Obama we have witnessed a rival of Jim Crow laws, voting rights infringement, ignorance on immigration, disrespect for the office of president, a nostalgia for the Confederacy and an increase of intimidating, harassing and shooting people while living their life black. Open season on black people has been called and the call has grown louder with the successful democratic election of President Obama for his second term.

Guns, abridging the Bible, activist justices, a news station prone to insist that fear holds all the facts, conservative pundits and entertainment personalities all prone to incite riot before reason have led a cunning and calculated way forward to divide and deny to promote bigotry. Voices like Ingraham, Huckabee, Hannity, Limbaugh, Cruz, Palin have become the mainstay of decimating information, with all of them singling out anyone who is not deemed American enough, Christian enough, not worthy enough. And all of these self described Patriots have permitted the continual acceptance that white is right and black is bad.And from this we get another black youth shot and killed.

The quote “It was the best of times it was the worst of times”, by Charles Dickens, in ‘Tale of Two Cities’ has taken on horrific meaning for this nation. America has become a nation suddenly not seeking the middle but feigning fortune in holding onto two extremes. Our divide grows deeper and our need for enemies stronger.  One more death of a black man and instead of figuring out why, we would rather take sides, blame, corrupt, and single out villains. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”, but for America in 2014 time seems our time is running out.

that war on christmas

The day after Halloween was the first real IT IS CHRISTMAS commercial I had to endure while watching television. Prior to that I was entertained with Mariah Carey singing a disco version of some Christmas song while looking for men’s under ware at my local Target store, but due to a very disgruntled customer angry about some lay-a-way procedure did not get to fully enjoy this Christmas carol. (As loud as Mariah was singing about gifts and love this customer was angry that the sales associate knew nothing about lay-a-way). Some homes in my neighborhood already have the lights a blazing and at least three houses have the tree in the window decorated and looming large. I know it is the Christmas season but somehow until Bill O’Reilly, or Glenn Beck try and sell their newest book about the War on Christmas, or the very white Stepford Wives of FOX propaganda demand that this IS a Christian nation and we all should be shouting NOEL from our synagogues and mosques, the true spirit of capitalism, hate, bogus and buy, buy, buy just will not set in.

But then my worry that the Grinch had not arrived to confuse us all about what the origins of Christmas were all about I read two speeches from self proclaimed save the family/for the children/Jesus wrote the Constitution along with the leadership of Moses politicians; both T-Publican Governors of course. It seems good ole’ Koch Brothers puppet Scott Walker of Wisconsin believes that preventing Americans from obtaining life-saving insurance will help them live the American dream, much better. It seems just in time for Christmas , Governor Walker has decided that if you cannot earn the right to buy overpriced health insurance you do not deserve to either stay healthy and you do not deserve to call your self a real American. Pay for health care or die, you lazy Communist low life. Joining Gov. Walker in the battle to out scrooge his constituents to death, Gov. Mike Pence, I am a a good Christian soldier and Koch brothers marionette stated that he “wants to enoble Indiana state residents by cutting off food stamps. For Mike Pence, you either starve or find the money from some high paying job to really justify food on your table. You want to eat, then find the dough to do it. Nothing says enoble of Americana or Christmas season like skipping a few meals and being hungry all day long.

I know it might be a bit early for the soldiers en mass to proclaim the war on Christmas.  However,the self serving, selfish so called Christian crusaders will find a very high horse or an extra tall soap box with the New Testament Bible in hand carrying some invented amendment to the Constitution insisting that we say Merry Christmas, and permit Christian expressions of this holiday season to be established on Government property. These folk will lament the fact that since the Muslim became president,since the atheist Progressives have poisoned the minds of the intelligent, since disregard for Christian law in favor of Sharia law became the law that a war on Christmas by the non Christians must be fought and won. But since hypocrites are usually the last to notice their own folly and failures, this group of Christian Jihadists will never realize just how much of a war they have already declared on what I suppose is the true meaning of the Christmas season; fighting against faith, hope, charity and good will to all. 

this Amerika

Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn (R) warns there could be not only a political firestorm but acts of civil disobedience and even violence in reaction to President Obama's executive order on immigration Thursday.  President Obama’s looming executive action on immigration reform represents a Fort Sumter-type moment, according to conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly. where the opening shots of the Civil War were fired, representing the beginning of a ruinous conflict. T-Publicans always at the ready to invite fear and loathing, never too concerned in the facts but always hitting the nerves of the townsfolk looking to lynch the black man.

Imagine if a Democrat or Progressive spokesperson or elected politician mentioned civil war or civil disobedience toward a T-Republican president. Immediately the T-Publican conspiracy theorists would be waving the flag, carrying the Bible above their heads and digging up the grave of George Washington invoking some bizarre and brainless quote from Ronald Reagan ready to deport those damn bastards. Remember when the Dixie Chicks sang a song to George Bush Jr. telling them they have had and are not going to take it anymore and how FOX News, Limbaugh Express, and the right wing propagandists demanded that these women almost be tried for tyranny. Remember just how many presidential privileges Reagan and Bush implemented toward immigration and just how red, white and blue those were because after all Bush and Reagan exemplified true Amerika! Take the black man in office who is after all THE president currently and suddenly we have a monarchy, tyrant, a dictator because his name is barack Obama.

President Obama says words like immigration reform, Gay marriage, women’s’ reproductive rights, equal pay for equal work, fair hourly wages and immediately he is called a communist, and anti-Christ, a socialist, not the kind of guy who should be running a country that used to be based on fair and equal and freedom for all. For those Americans who still believe in rights, equality, the Constitution, not the one supposedly penned by Jesus Christ, we had better take heed. There are jihadists amongst us with names like Coburn, Schlafly, Cruz, Palin, Limbaugh, who want to terrorize this nation, who want to find the fearful and scare the living daylights out of them. We have T-Publicans and their minions of scared folk who believe immigration never happened in this nation before. We saw in the mid terms what fear can do, now we must stop it in its tracks before it becomes like Zombie Apocalypse in this Amerika.

dark,dark holes

We have always been told that the dark can be a scary place. Horror movies abound in which the dark room, the dark basement, the dark woods are always a haven for the most insidious of creatures. Be home before dark, don’t walk down dark alley ways, don’t trick or treat if the front of the house is dark. Most of the time we are warned if it is so dark, so very bleak and black it must hide something forbidden!

But it seems in the land of American power and politics dark is the new light. The average citizen hears about dark money paid to politicians and their campaigns, you know the kind of big funding that can not be traced easily.  Dark money from men and women and the third gender of humankind, corporations who want to buy the elections. We have to wonder however, if these people are so proud of supporting a politician, so eager to embrace his or her biased policies, why then spend all of your dark money to keep any kind of truth hidden? 

We also have corporations who like to modify the produce we eat, live stock feed, even the sprays and pesticides we use for our gardens. Suddenly not informing the public on all of the ingredients used in growing or preparing the food we eat is cool. Keeping the public in the dark somehow as to what it took to grow crops is more American then the right to know just how many lethal chemicals were used to make those apples so red, those corn stalks so high, those plump cows so fat. Keep the facts in the dark, but if the corporations are so proud of their final products why must it be such a mystery?

And now the state of Ohio wants to place a dark shadow over who provides the faulty chemicals for lethal injections of death row inmates and keep even darker the recipes used to make those chemicals so lethal. If death row inmates have been found guilty of a crime and the justice system demands death why must the public  be kept in the dark as to how the deed is done? If there is an honest effort to punish those who have committed heinous crimes and the law is served justly why shouldn’t the public get to know that the death sentence will be humane? Why create a law that states we are following the letter of the law by executing the murderers but by-passing the information on how we do it?

Recently we have been mesmerized by the scientists who have discovered black holes throughout our universe, reminding us that no one really knows the true power of these dark black holes but in fact they are powerful enough to swallow up anything in its way. Be cautious they tell us be afraid. Every day in America the average citizen runs up against his/her own black holes and dark matter that denies the truth, destroys the evidence and endangers our way of life. Politicians bought by dark money, foods altered by dark ingredients, and now people executed by dark chemicals. The dark is scary but being kept in the dark even scarier!

it is as if

As if it was a fluke, a fake, the 200 marriages in Michigan were renounced and ruined by a Governor who believes the institution of marriage is confined to one man one woman and defined by a Bible written by all men. As if the same-sex couples were playing a game of pretend, dress up, what if, the Governor of Michigan decided to delete and destroy the lives and loves of those who said I do only to have that replaced with no you don’t. It is as if America prefers a cast system a  segregation of and for rights. You fit into my my mold and you can enjoy freedom, I find you something of an other kind and you do not deserve the privileges and promise I have handed to me.

Limbaugh can marry four times, Gingrich can walk down the aisle three times, Stanford can hike on the Appalachian leaving his wife behind as he attempts adultery, Vitter can hire a hooker and Charles Manson can order the murders of half a dozen people, and marry a 25 year old woman,  but the Governor of Michigan and all of his pathetic hypocritical homophobic buddies won’t utter a word of dismay or disgust; after all God and George Washington know that opposite sex marriage can be all fucked up but as long as it is one man and one woman it is nobodies business.

It is no longer time sit back and let the insecure, self loathing, kiss the ass of the lowest common denominators politicians, haters of anything homosexual run roughshod on the lives of same-sex couples who want the to wed. It is time to insist that this nation, not just state by state, but the entire nation understand that love is love and for those who wish to consummate that emotion by legalizing it, then let it happen. It is time to stop pretending that same-sex couples are all too powerful as to end the relationships of opposite sex couples. It is time to call out the homophobes who linger in hate and fear. 200 couples in the state of Michigan were treated like non-citizens, like a blight on the land in need of eradication. It is as if the 200 couples in Michigan never ever existed. 

today, tomorrow

Today we celebrate the virtues of victors, men and women who have risked life, limb, spirit and soul to serve, protect and represent our nation. We fly flags, prepare parades, salute and signify the accomplishments of warriors who without a second doubt fought wars with honor and integrity. Today is Veterans Day and we recount the heroics of family, friends and even strangers who have demonstrated valor, dignity grit and determination to fight for freedom. Today we hold high the actions of those we have lost to battle, comfort those who have come home wounded and worn, and embrace those who have provided more then possibly ever expected. That is today!

Tomorrow we will try and remember the sacrifices of our current crop of Veterans. We will continue to find men in tattered uniforms on the streets some with signs asking for donations, some with signs of depression not able to ask for much if anything. We will glance at the commercials asking for contributions so those returning home from battles in locations hard to pronounce not quite whole can try to walk, talk, love again. We will read about the bureaucracy  hindered by greedy politicians, uncaring administrators which on paper seem to be the answer but in reality ask more questions. Tomorrow we will not see in plane sight the anguish, anger, frustration and fears of men and women who we love to call hero’s but loath to really help. Tomorrow we will debate the necessity for war, evaluate American exceptionalism, insisting that we send someone else’s kid to fight our battles. Tomorrow we will will as a nation forget how unique, special every man and woman who was drafted, enlisted or volunteered really is and just who they were and are.

I am never quite sure why what happens today is sometimes forgotten when tomorrow arrives. I am never quite sure why we provide parades today but prefer silence tomorrow. I am never quite sure how we hype the yesterday but try so hard to forget when tomorrow finally gets here. Today is Veterans Day and we all should recall, remember, recollect the men and women who have taken bravery to the extreme, but not just for now and not just because, but because tomorrow is just as important.