On Tuesday our president will be innaugurated.. Conservative pundits are hailing him as a failure already.. and are calling the current recession “the Obama Recession”. I suspect that it’s important if you espoused an uncaring failed ideology to hope and indeed “pray” that our country fails because like it or not, if you want President Obama to fail it means you want US to fail. That means the disintegration of the republic.. the failure of “democracy” and the end of the “last superpower” . All cool with me but I doubt that it is with the wingnuts like Limbaugh who are dependent on the pre existing economic model for their livelihood.

Tuesday is us moving forward. If you want us to fail, I’d like some kind of logical justification. If you can’t justify it at least try and explain it.

Love

Me

Although of course RD is not a physicist…..

A new year is just around the corner..If your year was crappy, I hope that 2009 is a vast improvement. I am looking forward to it immensely. I’d like to challenge my Christian friends (of which I have a few)  to watch the video below and then consider what it says. My hope (albeit a vain one, I am sure) is that you will use the conclusion that you come to as a way forward in the new year.

Watch and enjoy

About a year ago… I started conversing with someone. Someone that initially I had (I thought)reason to either dislike or at least distrust. Naturally.. as with almost anything, I was wrong.

During the ensuing year, my new chum told me stuff like: “you are very judgemental”… “you are wrong”..” we can’t all be geniuses”. It’s stuff that most people wouldn’t say to me.

It’s not that I am fearsome or hard to talk to (I hope), It’s mostly  that not everyone can say that stuff without fear of offending.. I don’t mean just me but anyone. It’s the hardest thing to be honest enough to have an effect but not to worry that the effect you have will be a shut out.

Anyway , to conclude.. this chum has made me self edit..and I think that I am somewhat the better person for doing that..

er yeah.. thanks nameless internet chum.

I don’t have a vast coterie of friends. I’m not that great at making new ones and I tend to lean on the ones that I do have. Some of that leaning includes my own special brand of “intellect” which is really just me saying things I think are true in a loud angry voice.

Fortunately my friends are very tolerant. They put up with my yelling in their houses and on their blogs. They put up with my far from reasonable behaviour on the front steps of my house. They put up with me being much less civilized than I like to imagine I am.

I am always amazed that people continue to talk to me after any length of time. This is mostly because I am so intolerant and inflexible myself that I know that there is no way I’d cultivate my own friendship if I had just met me.

This is a testament to them.. To you. I cannot fully express how important you all are to me and how much I appreciate your friendship. Your love makes me a better person…..albeit verrrrry slowly. To all of you…The brave..the proud..the few and the tenacious, I send you my love and a good hard clasping to my manbosom.

Peace

/me blows nose loudly

oh and by the way… no  comments please..just shut the fuck up

Oh pleeeease o please oh pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze

Video by thunderfoot..

I want to say something on the subject of gay marriage: During our recent election, several states had propositions to ban same sex marriage. Most of these passed and effectively created a second class of US citizens in those states.

The chief objections to same sex marriage seem to be: Marriage is a religious institution, homosexuals are not deserving of the same rights as heterosexuals and the bible says that “gay is bad”.

Let me address these one by one from the top..

Marriage is as much a civil institution as is it is religious. You can be married civilly and you can file your taxes based on your marital status. Ipso facto marriage is about civil status.

Secondly: In the US the constitution guarantees equality for everyone, not just heterosexuals. EVERYONE. Read the constitution for clarification of this point.

Finally: The Bible is possibly the most bigoted poisonous document ever written. It was written by primitives who wanted to control other primitives. It is so vague and contradictory as to be completely discountable as a moral code and in fact advocates genocide, casual murder and the marginalization of anyone that disagrees with it’s frankly evil tenets.

If we truly believe in equality and freedom in the US we cannot by any standard discriminate. Preventing people from marrying because we dislike how they express themselves sexually is hypocritical and un-American. Would we prevent heterosexual couples who like sexual positions that some people see as deviant from being married? We would not.

At the foot of all this is Christianity. The home of Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild and also the home of the largest coterie of narrow minded bigots in the western hemisphere. A radical hate machine that would impose it’s will on everyone, believers and non believers. Just as radical Islam seeks to impose it’s barbarity on the planet, so does evangelical Christianity. The language may differ but the hatred is the same.

We can never hold this country up as a  beacon of freedom until we let everyone be free.

jeez I need to lighten the fuck up..