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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Green Day "Working Class Hero" Do Something For The People Of Darfur

There should be something done about the crap going on in Darfur. I wish someone could convince the Coca-Cola company to stop buying gum arabic from the Sudanese and get it somewhere else. Them and all the other companies who use products from there which contribute to their government having the money to continue the genocide against the people there.

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What Class Are You?

Ok. So the New York Times has a class calculator that you can choose options on in order to find out what class you fall into in 4 different categories. The categories are Occupation - Education - Income - Wealth. Check it out and let me know what class you are in my comments. I am Middle Class in Occupation falling into the 45th percentile of the country - Upper Middle Class in Education falling into the 69th percentile - Lower Middle Class in Income falling into the 38th percentile - Lower Middle Class in Wealth falling into the 37th percentile - My average is in the 47th percentile. I have to say one thing that I am disappointed in as it relates to this little calculator is that my education is Upper Middle Class and the rest of me is well below that. I suppose that shows you just how lazy I really am when it comes down to it. The other frustrating thing is that I am middle class in my occupation but I am getting paid a lower middle class income. What the hell is that about? I would venture to guess it is because I have a lower middle class attitude, a lower middle class confidence level and a bottom 5th class mouth. We'll see whether or not any of that changes now that I'm doing the work I'm doing as it relates to my Remediation of an Angry Fat Ass blog.

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Stop Sanctions Against The Sudanese Regime That Has Killed And Displaced Thousands In Darfur Or You Will Lose Coca-Cola Forever

Scary thought right? To have to choose between having a Coke and a smile or stopping genocide. Hmmmmm. I wonder what we will do? Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the Sudanese ambassador to Washington, held a press conference and threatened to take away Coca-Cola if we didn't stop the sanctions against his country which were imposed because over 400,000 people have been killed and others displaced and raped and more in a mass genocide against the people of Darfur. The Washington Post did an article highlighting some of the more idiotic things the ambassador said in defense of his country. Among the things the ambassador said was that the U.S. was the only country that said anything bad was happening in his country, that no one is dying in Darfur accept those who are fighting with their own people like cousins against cousins, that he and the other members of his government are the agents of peace, that the retaliation of his government would be to stop the trade of gum arabic to the U.S. which would prevent us from having Coca-Cola among other things, and that he would remove sugar from the people of Darfur which they greatly need in order to survive. There is more and eventually you have to realize that this guy is an idiot. He is the one they sent to represent his people in Washington and he isn't the brightest bulb so I am wondering what the rest of the people in his government must be like. With people like him running things it's no wonder they are killing off people in mass quantities. Dumb people are put into fear easily and fear makes dumb people do dumb things. Just look at our country.

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