It's discrimination at best and hate at worst. That's what the voters in North Carolina and other states have done to women and minorities. It doesn't really matter if it womens' reproductive healthcare rights, marriage rights, minority rights based on religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or whatever else, it's just what it is.
And that is discrimination, but more so, it's one religious faction of our population pushing a narrow-focused and narrow-minded religious ideology and agenda for themselves, to remake the state in the image they think is right. But it's not right, it's not fair, and it's not what Jesus would do or what God has said.
They simply are using God to promote hate. Nothing less, just hate. And that's not what the Bible says, what Jesus would do, or what God would say.
We're seeing a significant size of population, about a quarter to a third, push a political agenda of hate against everyone else and they're selling it to get a majority of the people thinking it's right and fair, but it's everything but either of those. It's a sham and a shame selling hate as good disguised by marketing.
When they say, "pro marriage", they mean "anti anything other than the marriage they believe and want", and while it sounds good to get votes, it's not good when it comes to real lives, real people. These people have decided our history is irrelevant. They invent their own version of our history to believe it's what God wants.
But does God promote hate? Does God promote discrimination? Does God honor people selling hate? Does God love people promoting hate? We know the answer. If it were reversed they would call them out to say God doesn't hate. But they don't see they're promoting hate, something they would say God doesn't do.
We know, however, their God isn't God. Their God is just a God for them. That's not God. It's hate disguised as God, wrapped in the Bible they interpret to hate than understand, accept and love. They promote their views as love, but it's only love for them, everyone else isn't worth love in their view. To them, everyone else doesn't deserve love or God.
That's why they're wrong. But I don't hate them. I pity them. I don't have sympathy for them, I pray they will learn what God really is than their false God. I don't have empathy for them for I don't want to learn their hate, to practice their hate and to believe their hate.
I have hope for them that they will realize their hate but I'm not holding my breath either because I know people like them rarely change. They're fixed and fixated on their hate in the name of their false God and hateful view of all people. In the end, they're just hateful people and just hate itself, pure blind, blatant, revengeful hate.
Nothing more and certainly not God.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Reasons for and against
There are many reasons not to vote for President Obama, from his unkept or failed promises to his obsession over healthcare instead of jobs, to his outright caving to Repubicans causing the recession to linger longer than necessary, to his failure not to approve spending to get the economy back on track. And many more from women's issues, the environment, minority issues, and so on down the line.
And there are a few reasons to vote for President Obama, but far fewer than the number of reason not to vote for him. But there is one reason more than all the reason against him to vote for him. And that's Mitt Romney. Do you really want Mitt Romney to be President and run this country like he did Bain Capital?
Think about it. Think about his record. Think about all he has said in the past and during the campaign. He's never told the truth about his views. He's never told the truth about what he would do. He's never told the truth about himself. He's just never told the truth, because he only knows to lie.
And so the vote is between a somewhat failed and flawed President and a totally untrustworthy candidate. I'll give Obama his due and give him credit for his accomplishments which have worked, but nothing more. He hasn't won my vote and probably won't by election day, but will I vote for him to vote against Mitt Romney?
I don't know yet. I'm not convinced to support let alone vote for Obama. He hasn't earned my trust in him, but he has time to convince me a vote for the lesser of evils is better than nothing.
And there are a few reasons to vote for President Obama, but far fewer than the number of reason not to vote for him. But there is one reason more than all the reason against him to vote for him. And that's Mitt Romney. Do you really want Mitt Romney to be President and run this country like he did Bain Capital?
Think about it. Think about his record. Think about all he has said in the past and during the campaign. He's never told the truth about his views. He's never told the truth about what he would do. He's never told the truth about himself. He's just never told the truth, because he only knows to lie.
And so the vote is between a somewhat failed and flawed President and a totally untrustworthy candidate. I'll give Obama his due and give him credit for his accomplishments which have worked, but nothing more. He hasn't won my vote and probably won't by election day, but will I vote for him to vote against Mitt Romney?
I don't know yet. I'm not convinced to support let alone vote for Obama. He hasn't earned my trust in him, but he has time to convince me a vote for the lesser of evils is better than nothing.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
No Ed
To Ed Schulz and his show tonight (5/2/12) who asks, "What don't you like about President Obama?"
No, Ed, it's not about guns, I'm for gun regulation for public safety.
It's not about Obama accomplishments. It's not about taxes.
It's about his promise to have a public option and then jettisoned it quickly in the negotiations. Most of his 2008 promises never came into reality because he doesn't fight for them. He negotiates them away for a compromise which causes more problems.
It's about staying in Afghanistan for another 10 years after we start the withdrawal the combat troops in 2014.
It's about his freezing my annuity for 2 of the last 3 years with promise he'll freeze it another 2-3 years.
It's about BP and not holding them accountable. It's about opening the Arctic waters to exploratory drilling when it's not needed.
It's about caving to the energy companies on natural gas drilling and fracking to let them protect their proprietary chemicals and not disclose the chemicals until after the well is completed and the damage underground done.
It's about not fighting for repealing DOMA when he really supports it. He hasn't supported LGBT issues because he thinks it's right, but because it's political expedient for votes.
It's about my health insurance premium going up almost 50% in two years thanks to the Affordable Healthcare Act. That's what it's for, make me pay more for the same insurance?
It's about not fighting for women's reproductive healthcare, fighting against the states putting more restrictions and prohibitions on access to women's healthcare services. It's about not fighting for funding for planned parenthood and other service providers when states start cutting funding.
It's about his increase in the intelligence and surveillence of Americans for no reason violating our civil rights and privacy.
It's about the increase in TSA in airports which hasn't worked and doesn't work.
It's about his willingness to cave into the Republicans at almost every moment.
It's about all that and more. I won't argue he's the better choice as president but he's not the best from his record. On that he has been lucky and good but not good enough.
That's what it's about. What he could and should have done and didn't.
No, Ed, it's not about guns, I'm for gun regulation for public safety.
It's not about Obama accomplishments. It's not about taxes.
It's about his promise to have a public option and then jettisoned it quickly in the negotiations. Most of his 2008 promises never came into reality because he doesn't fight for them. He negotiates them away for a compromise which causes more problems.
It's about staying in Afghanistan for another 10 years after we start the withdrawal the combat troops in 2014.
It's about his freezing my annuity for 2 of the last 3 years with promise he'll freeze it another 2-3 years.
It's about BP and not holding them accountable. It's about opening the Arctic waters to exploratory drilling when it's not needed.
It's about caving to the energy companies on natural gas drilling and fracking to let them protect their proprietary chemicals and not disclose the chemicals until after the well is completed and the damage underground done.
It's about not fighting for repealing DOMA when he really supports it. He hasn't supported LGBT issues because he thinks it's right, but because it's political expedient for votes.
It's about my health insurance premium going up almost 50% in two years thanks to the Affordable Healthcare Act. That's what it's for, make me pay more for the same insurance?
It's about not fighting for women's reproductive healthcare, fighting against the states putting more restrictions and prohibitions on access to women's healthcare services. It's about not fighting for funding for planned parenthood and other service providers when states start cutting funding.
It's about his increase in the intelligence and surveillence of Americans for no reason violating our civil rights and privacy.
It's about the increase in TSA in airports which hasn't worked and doesn't work.
It's about his willingness to cave into the Republicans at almost every moment.
It's about all that and more. I won't argue he's the better choice as president but he's not the best from his record. On that he has been lucky and good but not good enough.
That's what it's about. What he could and should have done and didn't.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
No Mr President II
Well Mr. President, I listened and wasn't convinced. Why? Because we've won and we're done. We defeated Al Qeada in Afghanistan where the number of them is less than 100 and we killed Osama bin Laden. And that was the objective to the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.
That means, we're done. We're not into spending $2 Billion a week to build a nation. We're not in to building an army and a national police and security force. For what? To attack us? To sell more weapons and other military equipment? To give money that is stolen and redirected to private bank accounts?
No Mr. President, another 10 years will only be a waste of time and money. We know the government of Afghanistan, which we know is corrupt and only wants our money, will not fulfill their goals let alone our goals and in 10 years we'll have thrown money not down the toliet but into private hands for nothing.
No Mr. President, it's time to rebuild America and the American ecomony for Americans. It's time to spend that money at home. It's time to leave while we can and not endanger anymore soldiers on wishful thinking and false hopes and promises, ours and theirs. They won't succeed and we can't afford their failure.
As I said before, you've lost my vote now for good. Maybe, but right now I don't see the reasons or the need to support your decision to invest, or really waste, another 10 years in Afghanistan for nothing. Afghanistan in 2024 won't be very much different than it is now, only richer no thanks to the US treasury, the taxpayers' money.
No Mr. President. That's my answer to you. No.
That means, we're done. We're not into spending $2 Billion a week to build a nation. We're not in to building an army and a national police and security force. For what? To attack us? To sell more weapons and other military equipment? To give money that is stolen and redirected to private bank accounts?
No Mr. President, another 10 years will only be a waste of time and money. We know the government of Afghanistan, which we know is corrupt and only wants our money, will not fulfill their goals let alone our goals and in 10 years we'll have thrown money not down the toliet but into private hands for nothing.
No Mr. President, it's time to rebuild America and the American ecomony for Americans. It's time to spend that money at home. It's time to leave while we can and not endanger anymore soldiers on wishful thinking and false hopes and promises, ours and theirs. They won't succeed and we can't afford their failure.
As I said before, you've lost my vote now for good. Maybe, but right now I don't see the reasons or the need to support your decision to invest, or really waste, another 10 years in Afghanistan for nothing. Afghanistan in 2024 won't be very much different than it is now, only richer no thanks to the US treasury, the taxpayers' money.
No Mr. President. That's my answer to you. No.
Sorry Barnes & Noble
After reading the news Microsoft is investing in Barnes & Noble for their e-book, the NOOK, and e-book format, buying a 17.6% share and investing $300 Million in e-books, I can only say this to Barnes & Noble, sorry I won't buy anymore books from you and will gladly buy a DRM removal application for NOOK than buy another book.
I've bought 7 books from Barnes & Noble because all new books are proprietary formats now, so it's the lesser of evils between them, Amazon and Apple. The promise of a DRM-free e-pub format is long gone. But there is DRM Removal applications for specific formats for about the price of a book, and given that option, it's cheaper of by the app and convert the books I have away from Barnes & Noble's format.
And yes, the real reason is that I hate Microsoft. I'm not enamored with Apple of late, but they're still better and have better products and software. That may change over the next few years with their new OS-X 10.8 and later system and withdrawing support and new hardware for Mac Pro's. They'll simply become the lesser of evils in computer systems.
But I do have a choice of book formats, but then there is always the old-fashioned, traditional format of print. It's DRM free and reader friendly.
I've bought 7 books from Barnes & Noble because all new books are proprietary formats now, so it's the lesser of evils between them, Amazon and Apple. The promise of a DRM-free e-pub format is long gone. But there is DRM Removal applications for specific formats for about the price of a book, and given that option, it's cheaper of by the app and convert the books I have away from Barnes & Noble's format.
And yes, the real reason is that I hate Microsoft. I'm not enamored with Apple of late, but they're still better and have better products and software. That may change over the next few years with their new OS-X 10.8 and later system and withdrawing support and new hardware for Mac Pro's. They'll simply become the lesser of evils in computer systems.
But I do have a choice of book formats, but then there is always the old-fashioned, traditional format of print. It's DRM free and reader friendly.
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