Complaining To Your English Teacher For Failing Math

I have been very political lately, and it has been quite by accident. Originally, I never intended to show my true feelings on some of these subjects. I have done a lot to keep things happy, pretty, and nice. I am quite opinionated, but I didn't really mean to show that to the whole world. I can have the opinions without expressing them. But lately... I can barely help myself. The issues have been so close to home, and so heated, I could not resist telling others to sit down, shut up and look at things from another perspective. Mine, of course!

I actually have wonderful close friends. We all have the freedom to speak, we are all willing to hear and express differing ideas, and still be friends even if we don't agree. My Wednesday night Bible Study class is doing the same thing, with people who aren't so much "friends" but my "church family"... which is more distant and yet closer. Yeah, I am confused, too. It all boils down to me being so blessed by the people I choose to have around me. If you are reading this, that blessing includes you.

Now for the dazzling intellectual, and still political, discussion of the moment.
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I am confused. When one protests, shouldn't it be near the people who did something that you didn't like, and who can do something different about it now? If one wants to oppose the passing of Prop 8 in California, shouldn't one BE IN California? I saw on the news on November 14 that a man and his friends were going to spend a cold and windy Saturday (Don't tell me God doesn't have a sense of humor!) protesting California's Prop 8 at our own State Capitol Building. In case you missed it, I live in Oklahoma.

I guess I am not an activist. I am certainly not a lobbyist, or a protester. I have handed out pamphlets, but that was to promote education about entertainment. The movie "The Day After Tomorrow" was pure fiction, and not very good fiction at that. We just wanted people to understand that they had just seen a propaganda film. The Theater Management was concerned that we were telling people not to come to their shows. Quite the contrary, we WANTED people to see the move, but to understand it. We were handing out fliers as people were exiting the show. I have decided not to do that again. What good did it really do? I would have just been annoyed with the person on the flip side of that situation.

I am all for self-expression. I am all for Civil Rights. I am even all for gay Americans to have a legal union if they want one. That probably surprises some of you. I cannot justify legislating my moral values on a world that denies God. I can influence gays one at a time, or not at all if I choose. If they want to stay in their lifestyle, God lets them, so I cannot stop them, by making their actions illegal or by telling them they are lost. I should not try to force the happy heathens of the world to abide by my values. Christ told us to abide by the laws of the land, so long as those laws do not prevent us from doing the work of God. So... if people in Connecticut want to allow gay couples to wed, I don't get to do much about it. (Doesn't stop me from SAYING whatever I wish...)

I think the issue in California, and all over the country, isn't that the "bigots" are out in force trying to clean up everyone's bedroom behavior. I think the grass-roots conservative voters are offended that gays want to call it "marriage". Call it a civil union. Call it whatever, except for marriage. I believe that "marriage" was designed by God. God calls a gay relationship a sin, but it still happens every day all over the world. The Gay/Lesbian/Transgender crowd already twisted the meaning of a simple rainbow (Christians will tell you that is also a gift from God), and now they want to twist marriage, too. Not fair!

Come up with a new word, all your own; be creative! Call it "egairram". (marriage, spelled backwards) Call it "Gommorage". Call it "Sodomage". It is a perversion of the union of one man and one woman that was created by God as a gift to mankind. Don't use the name God gave it, as you are denying the Will of God.

That is all, for now. I will make the next post something happier. Something with pictures. Something light. Something soon.

So Much For Staying Quiet

So much for keeping politics off the blog.

I watched the VP Debate. I don't want to tell you whom to vote for. I don't want to question YOUR intelligence. The politicians, however, I seriously want to question.

I wanted Sarah Palin to be a lot more forceful against Joe Biden's lies. And they were outright lies, make no mistake. He is wrong on so many issues, and he flipped and flopped all over himself to accept the nomination. It is seriously disgusting. He said he thought that John McCain would make a better President than Barak Obama. Out loud and on tape.

Joe Biden was misquoting someone, and added his own thoughts... and in the process contradicted himself. I wonder how many people caught it? Glenn Beck didn't even write it in his own notes on the debate. First he said the surge didn't work, and then said we needed more troops in the very next sentence. I don't think there was a breath in there. Jerk. The surge DID work, even some Democrats will say so.

Joe Biden acted for a while like he was talking down to everyone. But I noticed that Sarah Palin gained confidence as the debate wore on. She asked him right up front "can I call you Joe?" and then used that against him, "say it ain't so, Joe!". She appeals to the realness of middle America. She is a working mom with all the same issues every other mom in America has... double over some. She kept her composure, didn't mispronounce words (except repeatedly saying "nucyoular" instead of "nuclear", but that is an area dialect issue and made me want to hit mute...), and didn't mince words. I just wish she had used some force.

I don't like that Sarah didn't answer some of the questions in the direct manner that was desired by the moderator (and Joe Biden), but I believe that she proved that she would be careful and would be totally prepared to take over should the worst possible end happen to John McCain. I don't think he is in danger of death in the next four years, any more than I think Dick Cheney is going to keel over tomorrow. The "good old boys" are not in that bad a state of health.

I wrote down a thought, but I can't remember who said what sparked the thought. One of them said we were not perfect... and I thought, no, we can't be perfect. But the Founding Fathers knew that, and made a point of saying that we were trying to form a "more perfect union". We (They) were trying to create the best option on Earth. I thnk they succeeded, and following generations have improved upon the basic start. I don't want to say that we are perfect, because that is too high a standard. We are, however, and will continue to be THE single greatest Nation on planet Earth.

I believe that Obama wants to manipulate that Nation to his own benefit. I don't want him leading my Country. I will, however, stand with him if he wins the election. I will, in the words of Hillary Clinton, express my Patriotic feelings by dissenting every stinking step of the long abusive four years. I hope that my vote, your vote and every vote that comes in prevents Obama/Biden from living in the White House. You can, and should, vote your opinion, heart, and issues. These are just mine.

Cindy McCain may want to redecorate, as many women before her.

But what if Michelle Obama paints the house black?