Saturday, January 31, 2009

Whoopity Dooopity Dooo Republicans Elect (African American) Michael Steele as G.O.P. Chair

On the surface I figure this can be taken two ways depending on whether or not your personality is one that would lean more toward your cup being half empty or your cup being half full. Direction#1 (Cup half Full) would be congrats the Republicans are finally coming around and getting with the program perhaps change REALLY is on the way - Good for them. Direction #2 (Cup half Empty) would be these dumb-butts think that we don't see that they are just trying to hop on the Goodship Lollipop with hidden weapons and without pitching in to row the boat.

Though I am currently on a "cup half full" kick after much spiritual seeking I am going to go with the "cup half empty" point of view. Before I did this I had to consider my spiritual points of view first to make sure that I wasn't just being negative due to conditioning from my past and here is what I have deduced: "The body politic does not yet have the container of love, compassion, health and sanity to "metabolize" ... political toxins that have accumulated over centuries. Those of us who can simultaneously hold "the awful truth" and the "awesome opportunity" are the leaders of this new spiritual evolution that will help heal the past and design the future." Basically, that means while you are holding your half full cup don't be in denial pretending the empty portion does not exist and is not a factor. Those of us who are willing to both hold the reality/truth of a situation while at the same time being positive and working to make the situation better are the ones who will really make a change.

So here is the situation - signaling a desire to put a new face on an embattled party Michael Steele, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland, was elected the chairman of the Republican National Committee. What those of us who have fought for true freedom through the constant victimization at the hands of Republicans across America are thinking is that this "face" is just a mask. You can dress up a wolf in sheep's clothing but the fact is he is still a wolf. Other than this what has the Republican party really changed? Consider those in various power positions within the party for a moment. Steele beat out Katon Dawson, the very well liked and respected South Carolina Republican Chairman who had to be prompted by concerns raised by other Republicans to withdraw from the ALL WHITE country club he belonged to. THIS IS 2009 PEOPLE!!!!!! Why in the hell should anything ALL WHITE exist in this country at all? Your Answer: Because the first thing that existed at the founding of our country that was truly ALL WHITE is the asinine concept of ALL WHITE in the first place. This guy was elected to Chair a committee whose devotees almost all believe that African Americans are the reason for most of this country's problems. How do I know this? Feel free to come with me in July to my family reunion and you will quickly figure it out.

What we have to wonder about is whether or not the Republicans will change much other than their face:

While on their left hand Republicans across America feign patriotism and tell Democrats who are against the war that freedom isn't free -they are simultaneously using their right hand to prevent freedom of choice for women who would choose abortion while fighting about the value of human life. Will this new face have them changing their views on abortion or war?

In the most recent campaign it is easy enough to go onto YouTube and watch Sarah Palin videos to see that in psychological terms Palin's campaign activated that part of the psyche in people that hides out of sight, countering our aspirations, virtue, and vision with qualities we are ashamed to face: anger, fear, revenge, violence, selfishness, and suspicion of “the other.” Will we see Republicans addressing truth and intelligence in the next election as opposed to stoking the embers of fear in order to win their race?

In the next major campaign who will the Republicans choose as their candidate? Someone like Palin who has a complete ignorance of world affairs repudiating the need to repair America's image abroad; who uses the term "family values" as a code for walling out anybody who makes a claim for social justice by dubbing them as outside the family and not needed; who has rigid stances on guns and abortion as a scornful repudiation that these issues can be negotiated with people who disagree; who uses patriotism as the standard Republican fall back to a failed war; who uses the word "reform" not as a term to define the cleaning out of corruption and excessive spending but instead as an excuse for throwing out anyone who doesn't fit her ideology ---- or will the Republicans finally remove themselves from the overall message of the reactionary right, which has been in play since 1980, that social justice is liberal-radical, that minorities and immigrants, being different from “us” pure American types, can be ignored, that progressivism takes too much effort and globalism is a foreign threat?

The list goes on and on with things like these small things and things much larger such as voting fraud and war crimes. I ask whoever is reading this to please not be in denial about what these guys are all about just because they changed their face and please don't distrust them and believe them to be incapable of change either. It is our jobs to recognize and face the truth about things and to in turn educate ourselves and others about the solutions in order to make positive change. It is time to quite whining about the negative when we aren't working for the positive.

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Sunday, January 11, 2009

I Like This Guy - OBAMA

You know - most of the time no matter who the President of the United States is things don't improve that much. Granted it is easy to follow the economic ups and downs and see that it is up during a Democratic Presidency and down during a Republican presidency. It is public knowledge in multiple government reports, but is it really that big of a deal that George Bush Sr. had nearly 16% of the population qualified as in poverty by the end of his stint as our president and Bill Clinton got it back down to 12% during his stint only for George Bush Jr. to in just 4 years put it just under where his dad had dragged it down to? Not really - it happens every time and hasn't really changed so what will be the difference this time? Is Obama just another Democratic President? Will he simply improve the economy a bit and get us all back to that special place of not having to worry about a job? Perhaps, but I think he will do more than that. This man is real. What I mean by that is not that he will change anything tangible in his Presidential stint but that he will change something deep within us all. This guy cares about freedom. He doesn't agree with many of the immoral things out there in the world but he understands that for us to be free some of those things have to exist. This guy has his own mind and his own ideas and once he makes a decision that is it - no need for protest or vigils against Rick Warren - it is done. I have to give him kudos for that and I have to give him kudos for his choice as well. Obama is going through the process picking people here and there and part of his method is to include people from "across the aisle" in his process. So what does he do? He chooses Rick Warren - not a guy that everyone loves because of his stance on homosexuals and so on the surface people get upset. They don't look below the surface at who Rick Warren really is and all the positive that he has done in his life despite this blemish on who he is. I have to admit that I believe Rick Warren to be the type of person who can change and who works at it and I believe that is the reason Obama picked him. Who else does one pick but someone who believes in positive change both for others and within himself and who has some level of integrity within himself to go deeper and rethink his points of view and then go to the masses and present his new point of view in just the way that people from the far right can understand? I think it so unfortunate that we as homosexuals (yes I am one) tend to get angry and protest against people who are not inclusive of us without considering who those people are on a deeper level. First of all it makes us all complete hypocrits where we on the one hand talk about diversity, inclusiveness and equality and yet on the other we preach against others as if they have nothing to offer. It makes me remember the story of the talents (Matthew 25:14-30) in the Christian Bible where the master gives his servants talents to have care over and then comes back to find that one of his servants has hidden the talent away out of fear and anger and not grown his talent like the others. The master takes away his talent and gives it to one of the servants who grew his talents. And the lesson is that if you cannot take care of and nurture what you have then why do you think God would give you more? hmmmm something to ponder. Why would God, the government, others who are against homosexual equality etc. take you seriously if you cannot even practice what you preach? This does not just apply to Rick Warren but think about it - we as homosexuals are all about hating Rick Warren and what he stands for and then totally ignoring the fact that Prince a man whom we have supported for over 30 years as our musical idol spoke against homosexuality and proposition 8 just a few months ago saying that homosexuals should not have equal rights. But will we be protesting him? I doubt it highly. And that is unfortunate because if all of the homosexuals in the world stopped supporting Prince because he wouldn't do the same for them then he would have about 3 fans left and maybe then he would see what homosexual equality has to offer with regards to his paycheck. So why are we as homosexuals having a problem with the Rick Warren choice or any other that Obama makes. Think about it people - this is the man who for the first time in American history made mention of gay people in his acceptance speech when he was voted in. You matter to this guy even if he is not able to do a damn thing about it. Even if he does nothing we have to know that this guy cares about all of us and that means something. George Bush only cares about himself, Dick Cheney even more about himself - these guys are hypocrits they pretend they are a part of a religion and break its teachings at every turn. Obama has promised that we all matter and then when he includes someone for just that reason those of us who haven't mattered up to this point cry and whine about it and try to pull him down like crabs in a bucket. We will look up one day and realize that we are all still in the same bucket if we don't stop pulling people around us back down. Let them move up and then hold them to the standard of "each one up bring one up". Perhaps if we have an open mind just like we've asked every Republican Conservative in America to do with us and our new President we will grow our talents and be given more. If freedom and equality is really what we as homosexuals care about for ourselves and this country then let us not prevent others from having it just because they are not interested in a Gay America. Because like Obama said... this is not a Black America, a White America, a Latino America this is the United States of America. And I say if you can't handle that then go to NY read the poem at the foot of the Statue of Liberty and if it doesn't touch your heart there is likely a boat there that you can take out of this place.

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Sarah Palin Takes on the Media (Lets Find the Hypocritical Statements)



Actually she has a few good points for those of you out there who would immediately assume she has nothing worthwhile to say. In the beginning of this video for instance she speaks about bloggers asking when they became the source for what people believed regarding the truth. She also makes a good point when speaking of how when Obama mentioned that family was off limits apparently his supporters didn't respect his point of view too much or they would have left hers alone. These are points I can definitely agree with her on.

On the other hand, when speaking of bloggers she talks about lies asking "what is it that drives someone to believe the worst and perpetuate the worst in terms of gossip/lies?" But wait... wasn't she one of the ones spreading those lies about her opponents during the campaign? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFeBvuzz7Bs This is the same woman who told everyone over and over again that she said "thanks but no thanks" to the bridge to nowhere which was a lie or for those of you defending her a twisted truth; she told us all about her plane that she sold on eBay when she only put it on eBay but didn't sell it; she lied about taking a voluntary paycut as mayor but her salary actually increased; She said she wasn't going to judge people who believe that gay people are born that way etc. etc. yet she is a member of a church with a "pray the gay away" program; She said that her state produced 20% of this country's domestic supply of energy and/or of oil and gas which is a lie; she said she increased funding for students with special needs but the truth is she reduced that funding by decreasing the Special Olympics budget; she says she championed earmark reform to stop Congress from wasting money but if that is true then there would be an extra 2 million dollars for her state after she denied the funding for a study on the mating habits of crabs which didn't happen; Let's not go into her twisting of the facts even after the findings relating to her attempted witch hunt firing of her ex brother in law. In addition to her own lies her campaign people told a few of their own like the one about her going to Iraq and she didn't; they talked about the teleprompter breaking at the Republican Convention when neutral witnesses said it didn't. The list goes on and on with her lies as they began to morph from just lies about herself into lies about Obama.

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