Heterophobia?

                Obviously, there are homosexuals who can’t 'control' their behavior. Can’t will themselves to be something they are not. Destined by mother nature to be the way they are, how very tragic it would be to even try to change them. Indeed they should be championed. Only a fanatical, right-wing,  homophobic bigot could think otherwise.

                Of this I have no doubt. They should celebrate their ‘queerness.’

                Yet, if this is accepted, and why not, then by logical extension, equality of application, definition…there are certainly those males born- also through no fault of their own- on the other end of the spectrum…who simply can’t help but drop the odd sexist comment. No way they can stop ogling/fondling their secretaries breasts or butts. Or teasing the occasional gay guy.

                Yet this too, then, should be celebrated, not reviled, in a progressive, tolerant, equal, liberated, diverse, non-repressed society! The poor, oppressed hyper-male has no choice. Born this way, you see. Only the biased, bigoted, western Christian society could blame him, the real victim, for his actions. (Again, this is not a critique of gays. It is a plea for logic and honesty. And equilibrium).

               There are so many gender assignations/classifications now, it's impossible to keep track of them. So, I say, what about the male lesbian? Hmmmmmm? What possible chance does he have in our repressed, intolerant society?  Celebrate the He’sbians!

                “We’re fierce, we’re He’sbians, and we’re in your face!”

                Deal with it.

Evolution Revelation?

                 A scientist and author-  University of Georgia geneticist-  Eugene M. McCarthy has apparently proposed a hypothesis that humans evolved from a female chimpanzee and male pig mating. (This  has prompted some Twitter vegetarians to compare the eating of pigs to cannibalism). To me this sounds like it’s a bit, a gag, a put-on. Apparently it isn’t.

                So, it wasn’t just the ‘Big Bang’ that brought us here. There was the all-important ‘Pig Bang’ as well. Still…pig+chimp=human? Call me a skeptic (and many have), but I’m a little fuzzy on that ‘math’. Convenient for feminists and the ‘p.c.’ crowd that McCarthy’s somehow determined that the male is the ‘pig’! But then why would the female chimp let the male pig get away with this? I mean she’s got the bigger brain and opposable thumbs, can run on two or four feet/hands, and can use tools, right? Did she have a snout fetish? Like little curly tails?  Can science answer these important questions? It behooves us to figure out how they got to monkeying around in the first place and why she let that swine  pork her. Talk about ‘bringing home the bacon’!

             Forget about Adam and Eve, apparently we’re all indebted to ‘Wilbur’.

                I

P.E.T.A. Fundraiser for a New Abortion Clinic

                “Welcome all, and we’re so glad to have you here this evening! It’s going to be a special night, I’m sure. First off, I have wonderful news. We are making inroads into banning hunting in this country. Once that’s done, fishing will be next. And our ‘adopt a pet’ program had its most successful year ever last year…over a half-million pets were adopted around the country, pets who otherwise would have faced the possibility of being ‘put down.’ I ‘ve always hated that euphemism…let’s call it what it is! (applause). Yes, I know…thank you caring people! It’s thanks to you! If you’ll look up at the screen now, you’ll see a picture of adorable little ‘BoBo,’ the Scottish Terrier who was abandoned and had no advocate, no champion…excuse me, I…(breaks down)…can you imagine? But…but then someone came forward…to say, ‘I’ll take and love little BoBo as my own!’  (Wild applause).

                “Yes, right, a beautiful story and a happy ending. And Terry and BoBo are here in the audience with us tonight! Stand up, guys!” (Deafening applause and cheering, many in tears).

                “Thank you, Terry, thank you, audience. Hello BoBo. It’s going to be a magical night!

                “Well, now let’s talk about why we’ve all gathered here this evening. We want to help our Planned Parenthood friends in their fight against  the Republican War on Women! (Crazed applause and shouts of, 'Death to the Tea Baggers!').

                “Yes, the war against women’s reproductive rights. The brutal attack on a woman’s right to choose! The bold and insane attempt to brainwash folks into believing that there is no inherent right, granted by Mother Nature Herself,  to have other people pay for our birth-control!

                “Now, we all know that Republicans often try to stick up for the non-viable tissue masses. They go really crazy when we talk about late-term or ‘after-birth’ abortion. Yada, yada. Whatever. Really, I think they have a fetus fetish. But we know that they hate women.  We also know that intolerance, mean-spiritedness, insensitivity and illogic are their hallmarks. So please give all you can tonight to this great and good cause…the new Ground Zero Abortion Clinic!

             “Thank you… and enjoy the wonderful vegetarian meal and the ‘Vagina Monologues’ performance to follow!

                "And remember…’meat is murder’!"

               

               

               

             

               

Coming Soon To A Park Near You: New Historical Sites!

            Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced recently that the National Park Service will begin installing markers at places of importance to the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans to mark their contributions to state and U.S. history.  I am curious to see what these historical markers will look like. What icons will be used? We’ve never done this for heterosexuals. (I’m pretty sure the Interior Department doesn’t have my bedroom on its list of historic sites. And, I must say, I’m not particularly offended).

                Are they going to use those brown metal roadside signs to direct us to these sites? “Historical Marker 1.2 mi. on left.” Perhaps we’ll get there and see an angled marble or granite slab depicting a blanket on the ground, a boombox and a picnic basket and stating, “At this site on May 26, 1979, Pat and Pat courageously advanced the struggle by making  out to light jazz music in full view of anyone who cared to look.”

                Jewell went on to state that the nation is ‘on a journey’ to expand civil rights to underrepresented groups. Like, say, conservatives?

                Remember:  this nations original journey, its founding journey, was to delineate and protect  individual rights. It seems the more the government strives to enhance the rights of certain groups, the more it distances itself from protecting the rights of the individual.

                And that is bad for all of us.

Britain Does the Right Thing, But We Don't Know Why It Had To

      

                ‘Britain to prosecute genital mutilation’ read the heading of the  article buried in the ‘world notes’ section of my local paper the other day. Well, that’s super, but in an age where one can be prosecuted for saying ‘hurtful’ things, and a privately owned professional sports franchise can be forced to change its team name  because someone could be offended, I would hope cutting off your daughter’s clitoris would be frowned upon.

     LONDON- ‘Parents in Britain who subject their daughters to genital mutilation will be prosecuted, Prime minister David Cameron announced Tuesday, a day after new research showed that the number of victims of the practice here is about twice as high as previously believed.’

                …”Genital mutilation has been illegal in Britain since 1985, but the first prosecutions took place only this year.”

                This, basically, was the extent of this ‘article’.

                Typical  modern day  mainstream media. No root cause given. No probing. No questions.  (Unless a controversy surrounds someone who doesn’t hold their views and is not a protected minority. Then, they go in for the kill).  At least they didn’t blame the Church of England. Say, why didn’t they need a law banning this practice until 1985? Hmmm. There’s a particularly  obvious question. Were they just lopping ‘em off by the millions, but nobody really cared until then? Catholics and Protestants had  rather famously been around Britain for hundreds of years. This never seemed to be a problem until recently. What’s changed? Immigration of…Musli…? No, nope, never mind! Nothing to see here! How ‘bout that Manchester United squad?!

            You know if a Protestant or Catholic member of Parliament had this done to their daughter(s) it would have been so stated. (Would’ve led off the nightly news in fact). That ‘member’ would’ve been called a ‘monster’.

                As Martin Luther King, Jr. so eloquently said, “the day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.”

More Ammo For US, Less For You

      Many on the left  in the federal government would like to rescind the Second Amendment and repeal the people’s right to keep and bear arms. Now we know why. They want them all. According to various reports recently, many federal agencies are buying guns and massive quantities of ammunition. Including some agencies that one wouldn’t expect need to be heavily armed. A growing number of agents in a growing number of federal agencies are being authorized to carry weapons and make arrests.

                The Social Security Administration requested 174,000 rounds of hollow point bullets earlier this year.  According to Newsmax Magazine, The United States Postal Service posted a notice on its website requesting proposals for ‘small-arms ammunition’ purchases around the same time. And prior to that the United States Department of Agriculture asked for 320,000 rounds. This same article (in the August 2014 issue) stated that, “Even the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) found a need for 46,000 rounds.”

                The Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General has its own armed division. (Maybe they should post a few armed agents at some troubled schools  around the country.  The ones in the states with the strictest gun control). So does the Energy Department, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Commerce Department, and the Agency for International Development. Last month the USDA made a request to buy submachine guns.

                This Newsmax article also referenced a Government Accountability (there’s an oxymoron ) Study published this past January that found that there was one agency that was buying fewer munitions of late. Yes, ‘the Department of Homeland Security’s ammunition buys have been steadily waning since fiscal 2009’. The GAO also concluded that ‘the drop in ammo buys by Homeland Security was due primarily to budget constraints’.

                Good to know we’re prioritizing properly. Screw the Department of Defense and Homeland Security, they were taking sorely needed guns and ammo away from the Postal Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration!

                At minimum, this is an attempt by the federal government to suck up so much ammo that it is very difficult for lawful firearm- owning citizens to obtain, thereby rendering their firearms moot. But it’s more than that. It’s all about power. Inexorably, the founder’s vision is being pushed farther and farther away, as the federal government gets larger and more powerful day-by-day.

                The people, conversely, grow weaker and more docile. I shudder to think of the founder’s despair. Upon his death, John Adams cried out, “Jefferson Lives!” That was technically not true as Jefferson died about 5 hours before Adams. But I think what Adams meant was, Jefferson’s spirit, his Declaration of Independence and his country built on limited government and powers reserved for the people lived on. The last, best hope.

                Things have changed .

                Jefferson weeps.

 

ITAR-TASS Poll

     The results of the Russian News Agency's poll asking, "Who is responsible for shooting down Malaysian Airlines flight MH17" is as follows:

     The Ukrainian military- 28%
     The CIA- 18%
     The LGBT community- 20%
     The Koch Brothers- 11%
     George W. Bush- 9%
     'The same group that shot down that last Malaysian plane back in March'- 14%

A Bridge Too Far?

MSNBC Television  Studio

 

Host: Bob, I understand you’ve got Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey standing by for an exclusive interview, correct?

On-air reporter: That’s correct, Ted!

Host: All right, Bob, take her away!

On-air reporter: Thank you, Governor, for spending a little time with us tonight, I know you’re busy.

Governor Christie: No problem, Bob.

Reporter: First off, Governor, in light of some, uh, ‘issues’ you’ve had,  have you made a final decision to run for president in 2016?

Governor Christie: I haven’t made a final decision as yet. I still have a little time.

Reporter: So what you’re saying then, is that you’ll cross that bridge when you come to it?

Governor Christie: Something like that, Bob.

Reporter: If you were to run and win, sir, would you try to build a bridge across the aisle to your political opponents?

Governor Christie: I’ve always tried to put the interests of the people ahead of playing political games.

Reporter: Some say the Republicans are conducting a ‘war on women’. In any case, there is a gender gap to contend with. How will you, personally, try to bridge that gap?

Governor Christie: If you look at our policies, historically, and the real-world results of those policies, I’d say that women, as well as men, are better off under Republican leadership. Better economy with more and better jobs, safer streets with less crime, more choices for their children’s education, etc., etc. 'War on women' is patently absurd, Bob.

Reporter: Do you have a bridge in Brooklyn you want to sell me now, Governor? You sound a bit biased there! Do you really believe that? And, please, give us the abridged version. You were a little long-winded in your last answer.

Governor Christie: Yes, I believe it. It’s the truth.

Reporter: Have you thought about a potential running mate? Anybody in mind for vice-president? Maybe someone from the South to balance the ticket and bridge the old north-south divide?

Governor Christie: It’s possible, but I don’t have a clear candidate in mind…if I decide to throw my hat in the ring at all. Bob, I’ve gotta run now. It’s certainly been a pleasure. (Angrily strides away).

Reporter: Well, there he goes now. Probably off to Bridgeman’s for some ‘Rocky Road’ ice cream. Then  home to play a little bridge and relax. And so we’ll bring closure to this interview. Back to you, Ted.

Anchor: In the interest of fairness and our scrupulous adherence to accuracy at this network, it should be pointed out that there are no Bridgeman’s Restaurants/Ice Cream Shops here on the east coast. Bridgeman’s is found in only four states, all in the Midwest. Other than that, though, great work as always, Bob!

Reporter: Thanks, Ted!

 

Host: Well that's it for tonight folks. Tune in tomorrow night when we'll air an exclusive interview with Hillary Clinton. You'll want to see that. She spoke  from the heart about  how she and Bill were able to survive their dark days of debt and despair after they left the white House nearly poverty-stricken. Good night.

 

 

 

Border Control

     No great country is-or has been- unable to control its own borders.

Until now. Our government actually debates whether we should  even try  to control our own borders! After September 11^th yet! The first step to becoming an actual citizen of a country based on the rule of law can’t be to break the law of that country.

     Immigration itself isn’t necessarily bad. It’s how we got here. It can- and often has been- a good thing for America.

     But that was legal immigration to become-in every way- an American. Out of many…one. E Plurubus Unum.

     Now some politicians are questioning whether or not we have the capability to control our own border(s)!! Well, we’ve invented computers that can perform billions of calculations a second. We’ve sent what is essentially a hunk of metal, plastic, and glass-before computers really came of age- to the moon. Landed it, got out and walked around. Hit a golf ball into space. Planted a flag. Got back in and flew it home through our planet’s own dense atmosphere without burning up. Survived.

     Guessing we could probably build a damn wall along our border with Mexico. Historically walls have been very successful for these purposes. But, if we’ve truly been degraded and weakened so much by the ‘fundamental transformation’ of America that- after winning two world wars and the Cold War- we honestly don’t think we can build a fifteen foot high fence across our southern border, we have another obvious option.

     Have the Chinese build it for us. They built the ‘Great Wall of China’ starting in the 8^th century B.C.! To protect against incursions by various nomadic groups. They wanted to control immigration and emigration (we don’t have to worry about the latter…at least not yet). Most of the existing wall hails from the Ming Dynasty (14^th century). This part is 3,889 miles long. Averages 15-20 feet high and about 15 feet wide at the base. The entire wall with all its branches and natural barriers is 13,171 miles long!

     If we commissioned the Chinese to build it for us, it would be so symbolic of a waxing culture versus a waning one. Yet it would solve  many real problems. Our security would be dramatically enhanced. The Chinese could just oversee the job-site and hire thousands of local workers to build it, thus eliminating their need to come to the U.S. to find work. Our foreign relations might be enhanced. The U.N. may ‘like us' on facebook for  contracting with the Chinese and providing jobs for Chinese and Mexican workers. 

     If we think outside of the box we could even get the wall to pay for itself. There would be perpetual opportunities for tourism. And we could sell advertising on both sides of the wall. “This portion of the wall sponsored by…”. The ads could be in Chinese and English on our side of the wall and Chinese and Spanish on the Mexican side.

     “The Great Wall of China... Dos…brought to you by…”                                        

    

   

Village People?

     The dissolution of the family is without doubt the main cause of the decline and fall of the United States. Crime, drug and alcohol abuse, dependence on government, out-of-wedlock births, laziness, ignorance of history, ‘self-esteemism’, envy and hatred of the rich…all of this and much, much more have  roots in the collapsing family.  (And the government has a vested interest in making sure that families stay dysfunctional…and therefore dependent… on the government. Hey, it’s tough to get and keep a well-compensated full-time job now…let alone one with this much power over others. Unless you’re in government of course. Our policies are ‘two-fers’! We keep our jobs and expand our power by telling you that you can’t succeed…and by  making laws that make it much harder for you to succeed…without… us! “God, I love this country now that we’ve ‘fundamentally transformed’ it!).”

     In days of yore a relative called ‘dad’ would lay down the law for his kids. Which meant he was actually there for his kids. And participated in their lives. Indeed, loved them so much he didn’t take the easy ways out. Didn’t split. Didn’t become their ‘bestest buddy’. Taught them right from wrong and encouraged them to be their best, and even abide by the Golden-Rule and the Ten Commandments. Disciplined them at all times. This ‘Father-Knows-Best’ era is mocked and reviled now and has given way to the ‘Two Broke Girls’ era.

     Many people intuitively realize that the breakdown of the family is the root cause of many of our ills. If families are thriving, no need for government to ogle us and coddle us all our lives. Indeed if families were thriving, they’d tell the government where to go when the government tries to tell them what they can and can’t do, eat, think and say. This is, after all,  our birthright as Americans. (Think Boston Tea Party, etc.).

     What is not obvious to most Americans is the simple fact that what we have now, as opposed to what we had then, makes it so much harder for us to have functioning families. Our kids literally can not comprehend this. Let me explain. (And please explain this to your kids).

     In this country’s formative years, there were no smart phones…indeed no cell phones. No phones at all. (Relate this to your urchins and hear them gasp). There were no computers. No I-Pads or Pods. No c.d. players. There was no television, let alone 300 cable stations. No video games, no electric heat or air-conditioning. No radios. No cars. No electricity.

     Most people lived in the country, most of those on farms. Small farms, as there were no tractors or automated equipment to help with productivity. They just had lots of kids instead. They would do the work that had to be done.

     These families were together most of the time and worked as a team…no alternative. They ate not just dinner, but almost all meals together. Dad would tell them about their family’s history. And expectations. “Son, you know Johnson’s are…Smith’s don’t…Johnson’s take pride in…remember, Smith’s do the right thing…”

     Dad would pass down homilies or short history lessons as well. He’d talk about what made the country great. Let his offspring know that if they worked hard and kept their noses clean they’d be o.k. No limit to what they could achieve. Mom or dad would ask about their kids school day and friends. They knew their kids and their kid’s lives.

 

     Today, if there is a dad and an actual meal is eaten at a table in the home, someone may text the family member next to them to pass the ketchup. There are typically no prayers beforehand and the t.v. may well be on… to “Survivor” or “Real Housewives”. Ironic. No real conversation ensues.

     Immediately after dinner, mom goes to the upstairs television to watch ‘her shows’, dad goes  downstairs to watch sports on t.v. or into his office to watch porn on the computer because he can’t get mom to pay any attention to him anymore.  The son plays a video game in his room, and the young daughter goes to her room to blast Nicki Minaj ‘songs’ into her ears via  her I-Pod. 

     Recently, I visited the first ‘house’ Laura Ingalls Wilder’s family occupied outside of Walnut Grove, Minnesota. It had one room. Total.                                                                          

 

     Telling the truth is risky business these days, but I’ll chance it. It doesn’t take a village…to raise a child.  It takes a family.

     And it takes families to make a village.