Onward

Only…not.

 

Main Entry:

pa·tri·ot

Pronunciation:

\ˈpā-trē-ət, -ˌät, chiefly British ˈpa-trē-ət\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

Middle French patriote compatriot, from Late Latin patriota, from Greek patriōtēs, from patria lineage, from patr-, patēr father

Date:

1605

: one who loves his or her country and supports its authority and interests

You can’t go both ways on this one.  Either you’re for “liberty and justice for all” or you’re not.  Either you support the rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” or you don’t.

Gay marriage.  Don’t like it?  Don’t have one.  But let’s get the Land of the Free caught up with Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa (yes, SOUTH AFRICA is ahead of us on civil rights!!), and Spain, and allow all our citizens this basic human right.

If you really believe gays choose to be gay just for the fun of getting tied to fences and beaten to death–well, there’s no help for you.

If you think they are born that way but still shouldn’t have rights, you’re a bigot.  Get used to it.

No, really.  Here’s the definition.

Main Entry:

big·ot 

Pronunciation:

\ˈbi-gət\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

French, hypocrite, bigot

Date:

1660

: a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices ; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance

See?

Next question:  Are you ready to grow beyond that?

(definitions taken from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary)

But seriously.  How many times do you really want to hear about my car, my kid, my cold/flu/whatever the hell?

NaNo is still not here.  I continue to plan for it.  That involves a lot of reading, at this point, but my energy goes into pondering and not reviewing the books I read.

I will say if you want to research real world magic, John Michael Greer is an excellent author.  (Also, why is it easy for me to decide that the Bible Thumping Bastards are completely wrong on the subject of gays, but just researching magic [which, btw, if you’re gonna thump your Bible you’ll have to admit it’s real–God said so] is giving me the willies?  I’m not actually doing anything!  Though it doesn’t help that the subject is fascinating…)

Tired, sick, broke.  Car sounds funny, kid’s tooth maybe messed up, bills all piled up.

Pisses me off.  I’m not exactly living high on the hog, here.  (by which I mean–I don’t have a bad mortgage, don’t have a new car, and my weekend in the next state is the only getaway of the year.  Why am I so broke, if I’m doing exactly what the Republicans say will get me through?)

That such anger is there is a surprise to me. I’m fairly well-read, can’t really be dismissed as someone who sticks her head in the sand.

This needs to be addressed.

Will those who want to complain that the race problem isn’t really a big deal and Obama is just using it to get elected please watch this?

Because, believe me–hiding from it still doesn’t work.

I tried to watch the last debate.  Just as I tried to watch the others.

I came in (late) just as Obama finished answering a question I didn’t hear.  McCain wanted to rebutt, and the moderator gave him thirty seconds.

And he lied.  Again and again!  When has McCain ever opposed Bush’s conducting of the war in Iraq?  When even Bush was abandoning his failed strategies, McCain stood by them!  Did he fight the torture fight to the end?  Was he the first to bring the subject of climate change to the Senate floor?  (yes, he co-sponsored the first bill–that’s NOT what he said.)

If McCain had won the nomination in 2000, I would have voted for him.  I’m a registered Democrat, but only because I wanted to be able to vote in primaries–I’m probably farther left than the Democrats really encompass.  But I would have voted for him.  I thought I knew him, and I trusted him.

Now?  Either he’s sold his soul to win the White House, or he was never the man I thought he was.

I had to turn it off.

(and, btw–wtf?  How is “decent family man” a contradiction of “Arab?”  How about “no, ma’am, his father was Kenyan?”  Since that’s all that “Arab” addresses–ethnicity.  Not morals.  Not beliefs.)

God help us all.