SON OF A B***H!

Two tall trees, a birch and a beech, are growing in the woods. A small tree begins to grow between them, and the beech says to the birch, 'Is that a son of a beech or a son of a birch?'

The birch says he cannot tell, but just then a woodpecker lands on the sapling.

The birch says, 'Woodpecker, you are a tree expert. Can you tell if that is a son of a beech or a son of a birch?'

The woodpecker takes a taste of the small tree and replies, 'It is neither a son of a beech nor a son of a birch. It is, however, the best piece of ash I have ever poked my pecker into.'

***

Wise Latina Woman

"Grandchildren

 from my daughters I know are mine."

  

Grandchildren

from my sons I can never be so sure."

-Panamanian friend quoting his grandmother-

*******

A pious soul who dies, goes to heaven, and gains an audience with the Virgin Mary. The visitor asks Mary why, for all her blessings, she always appears in paintings as a bit sad, a bit wistful: Is everything O.K.?

Mary reassures her visitor: “Oh, everything’s great. No problems. It’s just ... it’s just that we had always wanted a daughter.”

 ****

HIP HOP MARY

Always joking that one day I will write a Christmas Song;

a rap song titled....."HELL MARY!"

The chorus goes like this......

(chorus)
"hell Mary!,
wa'cho gettin knocked up fo?"

So far, that's as far as I've gotten.


But seriously,
 have a question needing to ask;
a hypothetical one.

If they were to find Jesus's bones in a crypt
(proven beyond a reasonable doubt)
and
manage to extract enough DNA to do a paternity test.....

The results showing that
 Jesus did indeed have a father; not necessarily Joseph.
 That Mary was not a virgin; at least not any more.

Would you stop being a Christian?
We still have his words of wisdom to live by.

That's the most important part....right?

Or have you been too busy silencing people considered offensive?

****

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction… Fiction has to make sense.

~ Mark Twain
Most people would rather die than think. In fact, they do.

~Bertrand Russell

A "Countdown to Zero" Exclusive

Oppenheimer:

The Man Behind the Bomb

Severed Afghan Trees Tell a Nation’s Story - NYTimes.com

Severed Afghan Trees Tell a Nation’s Story

"“People don’t understand how difficult it is to plant a tree, to make it grow and produce fruit. All they know is how to cut it down in five minutes and burn it for warmth.”"

"NO REALLY! I'M A PERVERT! I READ LIPS!"

CONSERVATIVE

MEDIA

"soft corn."

LIBERAL MEDIA

"POPcORN!"

INTERNET

"CORN!"
"CORN! CORN!"

1/3 what I hear, 1/3 what I lip read, 1/3 what I fill in by context

When someone first showed me this video at work, the only words I could make out was, "CORN, CORN, CORN."

It wasn't until I saw one with the lyrics included, did I even know it was about sex.  Nothing in the video clued me to sex, nor corn either either now that I think about it.  

That's not the point!

The point is "CORN" edged out "PORN". 

If I asked everyone to repeat everything I didn't hear, we wouldn't get anywhere at all.....

or even bother trying.

Orrin Hatch's 'no' on Elena Kagan a template for GOP opposition - CSMonitor.com

"“Liberty requires limits on government,” Hatch said Monday. “That includes limits on judges.”"

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R) of Utah on Monday offered a detailed explanation for his announced “no” vote for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, saying she harbored an “activist judicial philosophy.”

Orrin Hatch's 'no' on Elena Kagan a template for GOP opposition - CSMonitor.com:


MAJORITY RULES / MINORITY RIGHTS?

The purpose of the supreme court is to correct where popular vote fails. 

Without "activist judges", why even bother having a Supreme Court?
Why even bother having judges at all?
Or even voting?

Although not perfect, it's still a vote.


At least an educated one.

***

Be Fun to See

Conservatives 

Appoint a

to the

Supreme Court.

The Log Cabin stresses its loyalty to the Republican Party: "We are loyal Republicans," its website says. "We believe in low taxes, limited government, strong defense, free markets, personal responsibility, and individual liberty. Log Cabin represents an important part of the American family—taxpaying, hard working people who proudly believe in this nation's greatness." They take no position on abortion. 

But Log Cabin dissents from socially conservative Republican views on matters relating to gay and lesbian rights. "We also believe all Americans have the right to liberty, freedom, and equality," it says. "Log Cabin stands up against those who preach hatred and intolerance. We stand up for the idea that all Americans deserve to be treated equally—regardless of their sexual orientation."

Never questioned Thomas right to be one of the Supreme Court judges.  Can't help but notice how bitter he is about affirmative action undermining his qualification to be on The Supreme Court. 

It's all about him!

See Log Cabin Republicans the same way.

Their platform sounds good......

but you won't find one living in a bad neighborhood. 

Mark Twain’s Unexpurgated Autobiography - NYTimes.com

“I can see the farm yet, with perfect clearness,” he writes. “I can see all its belongings, all its details.” Of slavery, he notes that “color and condition interposed a subtle line” between him and his black playmates, but confesses: “In my schoolboy days, I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it.”"

Mark Twain’s Unexpurgated Autobiography:

"In popular culture today, Twain is “Colonel Sanders without the chicken, the avuncular man who told stories,” Ron Powers, the author of “Mark Twain: A Life,” said in a phone interview. “He’s been scrubbed and sanitized, and his passion has been kind of forgotten in all these long decades. But here he is talking to us, without any filtering at all, and what comes through that we have lost is precisely this fierce, unceasing passion.”"

“Paine was a Victorian editor,” said Robert Hirst, curator and general editor of the Mark Twain Papers and Project at the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, where Twain’s papers are housed. “He has an exaggerated sense of how dangerous some of Twain’s statements are going to be, which can extend to anything: politics, sexuality, the Bible, anything that’s just a little too radical. This goes on for a good long time, a protective attitude that is very harmful.”

YELLOW BASKET?: JESUS EGG with BLUE EYES & THE RABBIT DYED BLUE

"THE JESUS EGG!"

HOW TO DRAW A JESUS FACE

WITH PRETTY BLUE EYES

(also comes in brown/not shown)

E.T. PHONES HOME

"Don't it make my brown eyes blue."

-line from a song mother would sing-

Both needing a break, having dropped the bomb,  remembered this wedding picture of mother as we ended our phone conversation.

"JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!"
Our conversation having strayed off course,  just before the nose dive. 

"Now... YOU ....  are making ME angry,"  mother shot back!

"It's not even what I called to talk about!" 
 Was excited;  wanting to talk about the  man who rang my doorbell asking if I owned a gray cat.  The commotion that followed.  Was supposed to have been a fun call. WAS in a good mood.

"Jim Ed! Do you realize, coming up soon, I will be eighty."

"At least YOU got there!"

Followed not long by, "I'm tired. I need to get off the phone," with me agreeing.

Then,
"ALL'S QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT,"
as I sat there analysing what just transpired.


Riddle:
Once you say my name, you hear me no more?

 "Or should I have said,'getting there'?"

 Jolted awake!

 The curse of a riddle undone by an intruder.

"What do you think, Mr. Ed?" 

Having already jumped in my lap as I turned my attention to him

"Do you ever talk to yourself," mother once asked?

"I talk to my cats...?"



 




S-H-I-T
SHIT!
Guess it would depends on which topic WE' were on!

How can I not be a GOD DAMN atheist without a visible disclaimer!  It's... WHAT WE DO!

"JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!"

It's not up to me to get her there, yet she makes it sound as if I've already have.  Well mother should have thought about that before she dropped the

"JIM ED!"

EGG!

Just don't get it!

AS A FACT!

hint #1

One of us here does have blue eyes.

hint #2

And there is nothing I can say or do about it.

 
DON'T EVEN LIKE THIS SONG!

"RALPHY BOY!"

Self-Reliance

An essay written by American Transcendentalist philosopher and essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's repeating themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas.

It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotes.

However, "Self-Reliance" is not anti-society or anti-community. Instead, Emerson advocates self-reliance as a starting point, not as a goal.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson- 

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."

*****

Hypocorism :

hy·poc·o·rism   [hahy-pok-uh-riz-uhm, hi-]

–noun
1. a pet name.
2. the practice of using a pet name.
3. the use of forms of speech imitative of baby talk, esp. by an adult.

If adults imitate baby talk and childrens look up to adults........

 when does anybody grow up?

Op-Ed Columnist - The Medium Is the Medium - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist - The Medium Is the Medium - NYTimes.com

A person enters this world as a novice, and slowly studies the works of great writers and scholars. Readers immerse themselves in deep, alternative worlds and hope to gain some lasting wisdom. Respect is paid to the writers who transmit that wisdom.




A citizen of the Internet has a very different experience. The Internet smashes hierarchy and is not marked by deference. Maybe it would be different if it had been invented in Victorian England, but Internet culture is set in contemporary America. Internet culture is egalitarian. The young are more accomplished than the old. The new media is supposedly savvier than the old media. The dominant activity is free-wheeling, disrespectful, antiauthority disputation.

INDUSTRIOUS TORTOISES AND THE CAPITALIST HARES

"The story comes to mind of an engineer who was to be executed by guillotine. The guillotine was stuck, and custom required that if the blade didn't drop, the condemned man was set free. Before this could happen, the engineer pointed with excitement to a rusty pulley, and told the executioner to apply some oil there. Off went his head."

Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs - BusinessWeek:

This article makes sense to me.

Can see how we are losing the race

by

the hair of our nose.

SHOW ME THE MONEY!

THE SMELL OF MONEY!

Tortoises or land turtles are land-dwelling reptiles of the family of Testudinidae, order Testudines. Like their marine cousins, the sea turtles, tortoises are shielded from predators by a shell. The top part of the shell is the carapace, the underside is the plastron, and the two are connected by the bridge. The tortoise has both an endoskeleton and an exoskeleton. Tortoises can vary in size from a few centimeters to two meters. Tortoises tend to be diurnal animals with tendencies to be crepuscular depending on the ambient temperatures. They are generally reclusive animals.

******

Moral Majority

What you get when you

Worshipers of

$$$ PROFITS $$$

with 

 THE PARTY

of

  !!!!Gold (god) Plated !!! 

Always debating politics with family members and people at work; trapped actually, whomsoever perspective's  you choose to take.  Over time begin to notice, not the difference, but the similarity of many, if not most Democrats...... to Republicans.

 

Always thought of the Republicans as THE PARTY OF "I" before "YOU", or "US" against "THEM"; as opposed to the Democrats being....the THE PARTY OF "WE".

 

But as jobs become scarce and unemployment rises, as the party that got thrown in gets caught up in the.......

  

"THROW THE BUMS OUT!"

(Like that Chick.... Betty White)

beginning to truly understand what it means to be a

 

"DON'T TELL ME YOU'RE A LIBERAL!"

 

as opposed to all the rest.

"A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of complete stranger equally as he would a close friend.  Then again, a truly virtuous man would have no friends."

 

It's not which party you vote with,

 

 it's who you are rooting for!

 

everyone

 

or

 

just

YOURSELF

????

 "'We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.'

-George Bernard Shaw"

GAME: EXTREME GARDENING

Extreme Gardening












Pretty simple game.


          Kinda fun?


Total waste of time.


           Even fun?

"(Y) / (?) = 1!" vs. HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD

Algebra

"Who cares what "Y" equals,"  

mother quoted my sister as having said a long time ago.  That was a new one for me; the quote at least anyway.

Donna does bring up a time dad got so angry with her.  "That 'D' in math,"  she  would laugh as she remembers that day!  And along with her, everytime, we all also laughed.

I'm not sure what happened that day.  Not even sure both quotes refer to the same incident.  Doesn't matter.  Pretty obvious dad thought differently; you can't cancel out a question with a question.   Made sure it was a lesson she never forgot. 

Can't help but believe she must have said this to him. That the topic of this conversation was brought up by dad himself.

"CHARLES....!" 

Growing up with one brother and one sister,  me being the youngest by five and seven years respectively;  mother would call dad by his first name when one of us misbehaved.  Don't recall dad ever needing to complete those sentences.

Dad could be counted on being at one of two places, either working hard or hardly working.  Hearing his name only meant one of two things; home in his Lazy Boy, either watching T.V. or listening to it as he snores.

I believed him!  Would always wake up and say, "I was listening,"  when someone tries changing the only television in the house.
    

"Charles....! CHARLES....!CHARLES.....!  

When mother decides she has to do it, would always said your name three times first.  Although no spanking involved, don't recall dad finishing those sentences, either.

If a=b and b=c, then a=c!

Positively Transitive Property (yes)!  As we had a pretty good warning system in place, Donna had to have talked back to dad.  Don't blame dad one bit.

Although I do remember hearing David, the middle of three, as dad tore into him, still can't picture dad as the spanking kind; not when compared to the fathers of some of the kids I grew up with.

Althought he would never admit doubt about his actions after the fact, even if learning he did nothing wrong, believe dad would agree, that was a day even he wished never happened.

As David could not be faulted for what happened, I can see dad's predicament. Powerless that he failed to prevent David from harm.  The certainty that he was doing something even if it was chosing to do nothing at all.  The helplessness as head of household, the burden of everyones expectations falling on him.  No one agreeing as to where the compassion should end, and/or whether it's comes before or after the punishment begins.

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." -Mark Twain

Impossible for one to believe, know for sure, a punishment dealt was appropriate, when the best hoped for is causing the least amount of pain for all; the future never being anything more than a dream.



As a day never looked back on with laughter; doesn't matter who's right, who's wrong. It's possible no one was wrong. Believe the details of that day belongs on a page of it's own.

Physics

But it's still math, and equation that has to balance out.  Whether we like it or not, an equation that's outside our control as we are the unkown variables.

Physics teaches us, for every action there is an equal and opposite action. Doesn't matter who pushed first or didn't.  All that matters is that someone or something did, and can never be certain when, where, or what form it takes  pushing back (and forth?).

You simply have to have been place in it's way.  Then, you are forever part of it till the day you die.

The equation E = mc2 indicates that energy always exhibits mass in whatever form the energy takes. Mass–energy equivalence also means that mass conservation becomes a restatement, or requirement, of the law of energy conservation, which is the first law of thermodynamics. Mass–energy equivalence does not imply that mass may be “converted” to energy, and indeed implies the opposite. Modern theory holds that neither mass nor energy may be destroyed, but only moved from one location to another.

Everything about us and surrounding us involves math in some way. Nothing can truly be understood or explain without it. No doubt about it......

math

is important!

Bernadette Peters: Socialist , Capitalist, or 'Just a Pretty Little Thing'?

Remember once, as I stood surrounded, straining to listen, mostly left with  observing, all things men; how I wanted to know Bernadette Peters.

Today, looking back,  feel as if I've used her by knowing her in a way another man didn't; so ashamed for selfishly dragging the name of such a beautiful woman into that horrible ugly scene.

Sampson and Delilah's

"If there ever was a time when I might have considered having sex with a woman, that woman would have to have been Bernadette Peters."  I interjected during a chat between sets at the gym one day.

Couldn't believe what happened next!  The piece of good luck that landed in my lap.

"Who's that," asked my roommate, fuck buddy, perfectionist, boy genius, naturally handsome, chemically enhanced, shadow casting, cock blocking, best friend, the Mr. Omnipotent Troy himself?

"Oh please!  Turn in your gay card," said the guy we were both wanting to know.

Stereotypical was the last thing I ever wanted to be thought as.  But the fact's, Troy got dealt all the good cards; the popular ones.  The one's that gets you invited to parties, etc., etc., etc,!  Gay card or not, I was holding one in my hand of Bernadette Peters and  I wasn't about to "GO FISH" without pairing  those two precious "gay" cards! 

If you've never been in a gay gym, chat, or any word for activities that involves (s)talking, is code for: catching up with friends (being nosy), gossiping (vindictive), kissing and telling (lucky dogs beefing up or twinkling down their resumes), just being polite (cautious which bridges to burn), cornered (nice guys who smiled back), networking (usually broke), jonesing (needy something), motivationally charming (hottie being offered a spotting), complementary complimenting (mirror wasn't enough), constructive criticism (sour grapes). 

Never an uncalculated word spoken at a business that caters to egoistic competitions.

Sex by Proximity

Oh my!

Darkened room with the lights just on her!


How that song would tap into the fantasies of men!




Who wouldn't want to hear her sing?

Or,

mind paying just to get closer to her?

prox·im·i·ty

(prŏk-sĭm'ĭ-tē)

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language

n.

The state, quality, sense, or fact of being near or next; closeness:

*****

Girrrrrrrl!
Don't she know how to work it!

cap·i·tal·ist

[kap-i-tl-ist]

 Random House Dictionary

–noun

1. a person who has capital, esp. extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.

2. an advocate of capitalism.

3. a very wealthy person.

Can't fault her.






Was for a good cause!

AND
THAT'S
AFTER

TAXES!

Very Sweet Person!

The other side of Marilyn Monroe

Eclipse of a Shining Star

At first, I wanted to compare Marilyn Monroe to the moon; from her perspective.  As a cold rock drifting closer and closer to the sun, seeking the warmth it offered; but never enough.  Blinded
always a full moon.  Being lost when she came to trust only the warmth of the light as it landed on her face to guide her.  Only by casting a shadow onto earth as she disappears into the warmth of the light, did we realize too late,  even stars have a dark side.

But earth too is just another cold rock that depends on the sun for the light that gives us life and keeps us warm; with a dark side no different than the moon.  Marilyn was more like a star with a dark side expected always to light up the lives of those who dreamed along with her as the earth turned on and off to the sun.

Like any star without a dark side, our sun too will burn out and go dark one day.   And along with the light that gave the moon it's dark side, disappears on earth the pain without the light needed to live.

"PEASE SAY IT AIN'T SO...JOE!"

"I SMELL A RAT!"
an·os·mi·a   
[an-oz-mee-uh, -os-]
–noun Pathology .
absence or loss of the sense of smell.



 "YOU LIE!"

(Joe Wilson)

a·no·sog·no·si·a
(ə-nō'sŏg-nō'zē-ə, -zhə)
anosognosia

n.

Real or feigned ignorance of the presence of disease, especially of paralysis.

a·no'sog·no'sic (-nō'zĭk) adj.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary

BACK AT YA, JOE!

Couldn't help but notice how Obama kept his composure and went on with his speech.  Just because he didn't react viscerally to the interruption, doesn't mean he didn't recognize the disease that paralyzes him as well as the nation. 

Oh he's aware; as well as every minority of any color, any victim of sexual and/or gender discrimination,  anyone handicapped by physical disabilities,  etc., etc., etc.!

But what can we do?   We just have to put on the best face we can and keep going as if nothing happened, nothing is wrong; our fate "dependent on the kindness of strangers" not blinded by loyalty or self interests when witness to injustice committed by their own people.

****

"A truly virtuous man 
would come to the aid of a complete stranger 
equally 
as he would a close friend.
Then again,
a truly virtuous man would have no friends."

(I'm beginning to see how we can get a wealthy man into heaven without killing a camel;  coming to the aid of no one in need and having a will leaving the whole camel to the wife.


******

Uncle Tom

From Wikipedia

This article is about the racial term. For the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, see Uncle Tom's Cabin.

A 1901 stage adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin containing mixed elements of Harriet Beecher Stowe's original Christian martyr and the stock minstrel character of later adaptations Uncle Tom is a pejorative term for a black person who is perceived by others as behaving in a subservient manner to white authority figures, or as seeking ingratiation with them by way of unnecessary accommodation. The term comes from the title character of American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Critical and popular views of both the character and the novel have shifted over time, leading to the shift in the term's use.

In the novel the Uncle Tom character is a black Christian martyr, morally superior to his white owners in an antebellum fiction whose subtext was an argument that the institution of slavery was immoral. Numerous adaptations altered the depiction substantially, often rendering him feeble, servile, or a race traitor. These adaptations, along with critical distaste for the original character's passivity, contributed to the strongly negative connotations of the name in modern popular use

****



Anosognosic’s Dilemma

A bit hard to follow, a difficult read, but very enlightening as to how our brain's handle conflicting data,  tricks us into believing our own lies, seeing a world different from reality, cluelessly leading to what should have been an obviously inappropriate behavior  .   How an act of self-deception can concurrently be beneficial, destructive, and necessary for survival;  all below the level of our consciousness.

Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is. Part 1

Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is. Part 2

"FATHERHOO.....!": OBAMA'S FATHER'S DAY RITUAL

Last year, more than 24 million children did not live with their biological fathers, census figures show. Among low-income children, the figure is two out of three.

"IN THE HOOD!"

Betcha CONSERVATIVES  didn't let him finish.

In what is becoming a Father's Day ritual for the Obama administration, the president on Monday will bring together children, famous dads and nonprofit groups that promote fatherhood to highlight the importance of fathers.

Twice as Loud

DOUBLE NEGATIVES

Two Be Expected

"IN THE HOOD!" "IN THE HOOD!"

Obama steps up fatherhood advocacy with new mentoring initiative

Obama will also ask Congress to move on his $500 million budget request for a Fatherhood, Marriage and Families Innovation Fund, which would give grants to nonprofits that support fathers and families, including job training programs and economic incentives for dads. The tightened focus on fathers and parental responsibility marks a steady shift from the George W. Bush administration's concentration on traditional marriage, said Chuck Donovan, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation and a former executive vice president at the Family Research Council.

Obama's special interest in fatherhood has been a boon for groups that support fathers and have been working for years without much attention. "His leadership and using the bully pulpit has been important," said Roland Warren, president of the National Fatherhood Initiative, which was founded in 1994 and recently contracted with the federal government to produce public service announcements promoting fatherhood.

WOULD YOU WANT THIS GUY TO BE YOUR BUS DRIVER?

Glen Beck starts out the gate with, "false charges of racism against Joe Wilson", before going into:

"Where's your evidence........?"

"Where's your evidence.....?."

"I don't see any evidence!"

"Where is the evidence........?"


I have a question:


WHERE IS HIS  
PROOF 
the
'CHARGE OF RACISM' 
is

FALSE?

As was common in the late 19th century South, Florida had imposed legal racial segregation under Jim Crow laws, requiring separate black and white public facilities and transportation. Blacks and whites created their own community centers: in 1920, the residents of Rosewood were mostly self-sufficient. They had three churches, a school, a large Masonic Hall, a turpentine mill, a sugarcane mill, a baseball team named the Rosewood Stars, and two general stores, one of which was white-owned. The village had about a dozen two-story wooden plank homes, other small two-room houses, and several small unoccupied plank farm and storage structures. Some families owned pianos, organs, and other symbols of middle-class prosperity. Survivors of Rosewood remember it as a happy place. In 1995 survivor Robie Mortin recalled at age 79, "Rosewood was a town where everyone's house was painted. There were roses everywhere you walked. Lovely."

THE ROOF!  THE ROOF!
THE ROOF IS ONFIRE!



WE DON'T NEED NO WATER
LET THE MOTHER FUCKER BURN!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre

The Rosewood massacre was a violent, racially motivated conflict that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida, United States. At least six blacks and two whites were killed, and the town of Rosewood was abandoned and destroyed during what was characterized as a race riot. Racial disturbances were common during the early 20th century in the United States, reflecting the nation's rapid social changes. Florida had an especially high number of lynchings in the years before the massacre, including a well-publicized incident in December 1922.

Rosewood was a quiet, primarily black, self-sufficient whistle stop on the Seaboard Air Line Railway. Spurred by unsupported accusations that a white woman in nearby Sumner had been beaten and possibly raped by a black drifter, white men from nearby towns lynched a Rosewood resident. When black citizens defended themselves against further attack, several hundred whites combed the countryside hunting for black people, and burned almost every structure in Rosewood. Survivors hid for several days in nearby swamps and were evacuated by train and car to larger towns. Although state and local authorities were aware of the violence, they made no arrests for the activities in Rosewood. The town was abandoned by black residents during the attacks. None ever returned.

Although the rioting was widely reported around the country, few official records documented the event. Survivors, their descendants, and the perpetrators remained silent about Rosewood for decades. Sixty years after the rioting, the story of Rosewood was revived in major media when several journalists covered it in the early 1980s. Survivors and their descendants organized to sue the state for having failed to protect them. In 1993, the Florida Legislature commissioned a report on the events. As a result of the findings, Florida became the first U.S. state to compensate survivors and their descendants for damages incurred because of racial violence. The massacre was the subject of a 1997 film directed by John Singleton. In 2004, the state designated the site of Rosewood as a Florida Heritage Landmark.

****

Haven't we enough proof of rascism, without insisting on evidence against Joe Wilson?

(Blew their chance with Bill Clinton, our first black president, I recall; not only am I not straight, not even black; amazing what republicans say when  think they be alone!)
In other words, when it's too late! 


It's the same story line as that of
Joran Van der Sloot.

wikipedia: FOR MORE ON ROSEWOD MASSACRE

PROPOSITION 8 WITH .....

Orange Marmalade

"Oh look!  We're going to have a wedding!"

I couldn't believe the look Tom gave me, thought it terrible that I added, "Or a commitment ceremony!" She never once acknowledge the fact that he was walking a few steps behind us every where we went that day. He even gave her a jar of his homemade orange marmalade! Can't help but wonder what Mom did with it?

"There is someone I want you to meet."

We had just entered the rose garden section at Atlanta's Botanical Garden when my mom got excited at the sight of people setting up chairs and decorating the gazebo. Funny coincidence, as it was kinda the reason I waited until Mom's plane landed; why so anxious about this visit.  

Charlie Anderson: “Do you like her?”

Lt. Sam: “Well, I just said I…”

Charlie Anderson: “No, no. You just said you loved her. There’s some difference between lovin’ and likin’. When I married Jennie’s mother, I-I didn’t love her – I liked her… I liked her a lot. I liked Martha for at least three years after we were married and then one day it just dawned on me I loved her. I still do… still do. You see, Sam, when you love a woman without likin’ her, the night can be long and cold, and contempt comes up with the sun.”

 

At 37, finally had someone to call my own. 

Don't think anyone, Tom included, understood the significant of this moment.  It was the first and only time I have ever wanted to introduce anyone to my family.  My two parallel worlds were on a collision course.  The only unknown variable was the angle of impact.  The uncertainty of the outcome; either one of the them!

Habits are hard to break!

Tom's view on relationships was about as traditional (conservative) as a gay man's could get.  Was always picking a fight with me, about me; making me out to be the bad guy.  Would rant and rave; with his friends taking his side, as well as some of mine.

Didn't let it faze me. Made it quite clear on our second date: I don't follow conventional rules.  Being the non-traditional one, felt it only fair to be patient with him, give him time to come around to a different way of thinking, some room to fuss without me getting angry.... adding to the problem.  I could see he was trying. 

Although he had been out of the closet longer than me, I was the one who had never been in a relationship.  Let's be realistic, even married straight men can't keep their dicks in their pants.  He once told a mutual acquaintance, "never met someone as sexually uninhibited!"  It's not something I asked to be; just worked out that way over time.  Then along came Tom.

Take it or leave it.

What was so frustrating; was always the same argument, monogamy!  I knew better.  If men are pigs, then what we got here, a relationship between two men, gonna be a pig farm.  Even Tom admitted he could only be ninety percent monogamous.  As I've compromised enough;  I stood my ground at eighty percent less.  The difference was his problem.

"I hope you fuck each other and give each other A.I.D.S.!" 

 

That one was easy to fix;  just introduced the two of them.

Jesus Fucking Christ.....all over ten percent less pork!

He knew what he was getting into.  I broke no promises.  Made it possible for him not to break a promise he never would of kept.

To make a long story shorter, Tom's history.  "Although the best three years of my life, had I a crystal ball, would not have wanted them had I known it wasn't to last."  Said this to Tom couple of years later, our paths having crossed. Guess the point trying to make; not until after you experience the intimacy, will you truly understand the difference between being alone and being lonely.

Could never be in a relationship with someone I wasn't attracted to.  That point aside, sex is over rated.  More hormonal for men, instrument of survival with women; with attention definitely being addictive.

Anyway, whoever he's with in New York, I wish him well.  Never had reasons to believe he lied to me.  At least he did fight....... proof enough to believe genuine.

"You gotta know how to fight and you gotta know how to fuck," Tom once said. 

Fighting wasn't so bad after all.



***

"God created Adam and Eve! Not Adam and Steve!"

Someone did!

"DIDN'T HAVE A CHOICE.....YET!"


"Woman! You're out of order!"
 " ADAM,"


(bitched slapped)!
"...then Eve."


Ever wonder why? 
Maybe God wasn't a "real" man!



I can't help but laugh when I hear that homosexuality is a choice.  Certainly sounds like straights are having a tough time getting along with their correct choices.  They certainly spend more time with friends instead of their spouses.

Proposition 8 closing arguments to begin in San Francisco - latimes.com

Jeff Zarrillo, who came to court with his partner, Paul Katami, said: "All we're asking the court to do is make sure we're protected under our Constitution like everyone is supposed to be."

But attorneys for the Alliance Defense Fund, which supports Proposition 8's ban on same-sex marriage, argued in front of the courthouse that allowing same-sex marriage would be an "extreme interpretation of the Constitution."

"The focus for it is whether we still live in a democracy," said Austin R. Nimocks, senior legal counsel for the group, "whether a single judge is going to trump the voices of over 7 million Californians who heard both sides of the debate and cast their votes accordingly."

The paragraph in red....

then what's the point of having a body of government that is not elected and gets to serve for life?

And this comes from the same party that thinks we've strayed from The Constitution. 

JesusFUCKINGChrist! 

Compassionate conservatism

is what killed him!

And that was democracy....in it's 100% pure form.....briefly!