Not all death is sad

I wish i could say that I am saddened by his passing, but I can't! In fact, I seem to be enjoying it.

I know, I know, Speaking ill of the dead. Why not? He spoke ill of the living, every single day of his life. In fact, he made a pretty decent livng off of it.

I hope God has all his "hate speech" on TIVO, and reminds him of all the INSANE, non-christian slurs. If you have forgotten, here are but a few.

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.

Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan in America.

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions

God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.

God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America.

I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.

If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible

It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda”

The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews”

It appears that America's anti-Biblical feminist movement is at last dying, thank God, and is possibly being replaced by a Christ-centered men's movement which may become the foundation for a desperately needed national spiritual awakening”

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being

really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way - all of them who have tried to secularize America - I point the finger in their face and say “you helped this happen.


Tinky-Winky - He is purple - the gay-pride colour; and his antenna is shaped like a triangle - the gay-pride symbol.”

Is this the kind of person that we should look to for spiritual guidance?
Mr. Falwell is a prime example, of why we need seperatation of church and state, can you imagine the kind of autrocities that would occur if they weren't seperated. We need only look back into our recent history. Do you remember the Salem Witch trials, Spanish Inquisitions.

The reason history is taught in our schools, is to prevent us from repeating it.

Article 18 says Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

While i believe in this right for every man woman and child, I also believe that your relationship with your god is personal. I believe you should keep it that way, I should have the freedom from religion, I shouldn't have to listen to how righteous you are, while condeming others.

These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that [are] on the earth. Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, [and] cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: [as] the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he [is] unclean unto you
And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he [is] unclean unto you.


Lev 11:6 And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he [is] unclean unto you.


Lev 11:7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he [is] unclean to you.


Lev 11:8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they [are] unclean to you.


Most of what Mr. Falwell preached was hatred of homosexuals, and often quoted Romans 20:13. Yet he failed to look at Leviticus 11
These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.

10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:

11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.

12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scale

I wonder if he ever ate Shrimp, Ham etc. for its an abomination.

May he get what he deserves.

You betta work BITCH

Okay, so I know, it has been like forever, since I posted anything. I wish I had an excuse..but I don't.... I haven't really been in the mood since Paula died.

But something happened to me that made me want to write this shit down.

Hold on to your underwear.. I got to meet Rupaul..who..who who you say I said RUPAUL.. I know shut up... no way but its true. I know...I could just pee.. and I did a little.

Is was the Rainbow Festival this weekend in Sacramento.. SO like a good fag, I didn't even get motivated till the last minute... I thought I had planned to go with some friends.. but due to whatever reason(insert favorite reason here) they flaked. No need to name names, you bitches know who you are (I mean that in the nicest way).

I decided to go at the last minute and didn't think that I wouldn't have a chance in hell of getting in. I had to park 3 blocks away.. Yes bitches I walked 3 blocks.

When I got to the door of FACES, there was already a freakeshly long line, all the way passed the alley. There were 2 lines, one for those with a weekend pass, and those who didn't. Needless, to say I had to get in the line without. As I took my place in line and waited and waited, the security guards were yelling that they wouldn't be letting anymore people in, that they had reached capacity. I could see through the new windows, and it didn't look that full to me, but I wasn't counting so, what do I know. As they were yelling people were getting out of line, allowing me to move up. At one point the owner of Faces, Terry, was walking by and stopped to talk to me. Terry and I used to build floats together in he back of the Mercantile, in the Nineties. Anywho, he stopped to talk to me saying that he wasn't sure whether I would get in, I was pretty close, but they were at 750 people, which is capacity, he thought they should allow 1000 people in.

There was more yelling, asking each individual if they had a pass, if not there was no need to stand here, cause they weren't letting anyone in. I decided to I would take my chances. More people decided to leave the line and I was then number 3 or 4, couldn't really tell since it wasn't a straight line, when Terry walked by and saw me still standing there, and made me his personal guest, and telling the security guards to let me in. I was ushered in and given a wristband, and pointed in the direction of the new bar.

I ordered a Corona, and made my way through the crowd, checking out all the new work. I finally ended up on the video room, which is where I usually am. I sat on the sidebar and watched the videos. I was approached by a 500/600 pound man and asked to dance. I thought about it and said why the hell not.

So he led me to the dance floor and as we were dancing his belly kept rubbing against me and he was telling how well I dance and how gorgeous I was and when he said this I actually looked him in his crossed eyes and laughed.. right about then they announced 5 minutes till Rupaul.

I told Alfonzo that I was here to see the show, and made my way to the tent.
It was crowded but by no means at capacity. When she finally made her entrance it was to screams and hollering.

The wig was workin, the outfits were beautiful and the beats were banging.
although the show was only about 10 songs, it was way cool. She did re-worked version of her hits and a couple of new songs and then announced that she would be selling her cd's and dvd's and signing them.

I got right in line and ended up being 8th in line. I tried to take pictures but was told no by her security and they were flashing their lights in to the cameras they saw. When it was my turn, I paid my money and stepped up. She was gracious and asked how to spell my name. Is it teddy with a Y, she asked. She signed my cd and I said thanks for the emails as well. She said Teddy... is your least name Kis, I said yes..she said I remember you and I stepped around the table we hugged. I said that it was really nice to meet you. Her security was ushering me out, I said thanks and left.

It was awesome.. She was so very nice and real (well as real as you can be while wearing full drag)

It is clearly a highlight in my life..


A Big Kiss to Rupaul

Paula Bowman

03/08/06


This is my good friend Paula..

unfortunately she had a heart attack and passed away today

I do not know how to even begin to process this, after 2 bottles of wine.. I still do not have the answer.

I have been flooded with emotions, and not just my own. I kinda took the 411 role and called everyone to let them know.

I loved Paula... Her infectious smile, her outrageous laughter, her spirit.
I will miss my Foody friend.. we were always on a search for the best hot link.
She was so courageous.. dinner she would tell the waiter to bring her what ever he liked, surprise her..

a couple weeks back we went to see brokeback mountain, and we basically share a seat, and popcorn and she almost fell asleep, we then had dinner at dos coyote..

the day after thanksgiving 2005, Paula dropped by to get a plate.. for some reason she loved my cooking... I fixed her a big plate..including Pie.. she had a second helping of my macaroni and cheese and Pie and we crawled in to my bed and watched movies all day until about 9pm.

I will miss her calls, wanting me to talk her out of a QVC/HSN purchase, or her return troubles. Paula may have been instrumental in stores changing their return policies.. She was the return queen.



I will miss her, she was the kinda person that I would call to talk about this..

my world is diminished....

Paula I love you.. May you find happiness and peace,, and a great piece of carrot cake.

War on Terror.. is it over.. ???

It would seem that the war on terror is over, do not get me wrong, we are still at war, and our troops can't come home.

Another blunder by this administration. The sale of British Port operator P&O to Dubai Ports World, of the United Arab Emirates, was approved by the Bush Administration.

This sale seems to make Michael Moore right? It would seem that Michael was absolutely correct in his statements that Georgie is in bed with the enemy.

Georgie announced the "war on terror". Yet approved a sale that would place Arab people in charge of our ports.

Let me state for the record, that I do not believe all Arabs are terrorists, but how do you tell the difference? Is that racist?, it might be, but they have tried to kill us.

We have seen how extremist they can be, strapping bombs to themselves, entering crowds of their own people, and committing suicide.

How can you tell? We had terrorist cells right here in our midst, and didn't know it.
They rented our apartments, used our Laundromats, bought our groceries, watched our TV programs, went to our flight schools and orchestrated 9/11 .

The sale should have violated homeland security policy. It will give them access to strengths and weaknesses of our ports.

Their religious convictions are very different than ours. They are not as obvious in their associations, as say our skinheads or the KKK are.

It will only take one person with association to Al QUEDA, Taliban, to pass on the port information. More than 400,000 cargo containers move among our ports everyday.

It has been reported that the UAE will not be in charge of security, but even we can not police more than 400,000 containers everyday. This seems way to easy.

We have heard tapes from Osama saying they are gearing up again for another attack, and we are allowing them to run our ports. Does the sale seem purposeful to anyone else!

Does anyone feel like this whole thing is nothing more than a Roadrunner and Wyle Coyote sketch, and we are the Coyote and this going to backfire in our face.

I thought we were fighting them over there, so we don't have to fight them here. If this is true, why are we sending them invitations?

How bad does Clinton's Blowjob seem now.. The blowjob was grounds for starting impeachment proceedings.

I wonder when we will get it......

Truth , Lies and Wire Tapping

There are arguments on both sides of this debate. So here is mine.

Do I want my Government to thwart terrorist attacks, saves lives.. I answer a resounding YEEESSS. Do I want them to do it at the cost of our civil liberties.. I scream NO...NO ... NO.....

Let us not forget the old adage " if you give them an inch , they will take a mile"
We only need look back at the early 1900's and the invention of the internal revenue service. A temporary agency to get us out of the depression, and yet here we are in 2006, paying more than ever.

If President Bush really believed that wire tapping is warranted, then why not go ahead and get the appropriate warrants. He has access to a special court, that issues only these warrants. There is no waiting in line, or making an appointment.

With all the other scandals he has been involved in, 9/11, Katrina, outing of a CIA agent, you would think if not him, then at least his people, would have warned him how stupid this decision was.

I can't trust this administration, they have lied and failed to act, too many times.

I guess I can feel thankful, this is his last term.

Brokeback Mountain - it ain't all that

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Brokeback Mountain is that rare thing, a big Hollywood weeper with a beautiful ache at its center. It's a modern-age Western that turns into a quietly revolutionary love story.

100Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Ang Lee's unmissable and unforgettable Brokeback Mountain hits you like a shot in the heart. It's a landmark film and a triumph for Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.

100The Hollywood Reporter Ray Bennett
Anne Proulx's 1997 short story in the New Yorker has been masterfully expanded by screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana to provide director Lee with his best movie since "Sense and Sensibility" in 1995.

100Premiere Glenn Kenny
Lee and company handle the particulars of the tale with the requisite meticulousness and exquisite taste that marks all the director's films.

100San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Carries a lot of emotional power.

100Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Brokeback Mountain is a tragedy because these men have found something that many people, of whatever sexual persuasion, never find - true love. And they can't do anything about it.

100The New York Times Stephen Holden
Mr. Ledger magically and mysteriously disappears beneath the skin of his lean, sinewy character. It is a great screen performance, as good as the best of Marlon Brando and Sean Penn.

100Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Confidently directed by Ang Lee and featuring sensitive and powerful performances by Jake Gyllenhaal and a breathtaking Heath Ledger, this film is determined to involve us in the naturalness and even inevitability of its epic, complicated love story.

100Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Brokeback Mountain aspires to an epic sweep and achieves it, though with singular intimacy and grace.
100USA Today Mike Clark
It's a heart-wrenching portrayal of unfulfilled Wyoming love, but this time, we don't mean Alan Ladd and Jean Arthur in "Shane."

100New York Daily News Jami Bernard
Gently unfolds into an epic, heartbreaking love story that's far greater than the sum of its parts.

100Newsweek David Ansen
There's neither coyness nor self-importance in Brokeback Mountain--just close, compassionate observation, deeply committed performances, a bone-deep feeling for hardscrabble Western lives. Few films have captured so acutely the desolation of frustrated, repressed passion.

100Empire Staff (Not credited)
The real revelation here is Heath Ledger as the bruised and sometimes brutal Ennis. His tortured secret is the tragedy and the ecstasy of this powerful and moving film, a smart study of relationships that could but can't and never will be.

100Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Brokeback Mountain has been described as "a gay cowboy movie," which is a cruel simplification. It is the story of a time and place where two men are forced to deny the only great passion either one will ever feel. Their tragedy is universal.

100Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
This poignant, wise and subtle picture -- which, yes, happens to be the best movie of the year -- should be approached with humble expectations. Lee's approach to this delicate material is suffused with melancholy, metaphors and small, telling touches that favor subtlety over exclamation points and rough-hewn simplicity over grandiloquence.

100Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
An experience as tender and troubling as any you're likely to get - or not likely, if this subject puts you off.

100The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann
So in all the tumult about this film, the eruption of its subject into wide attention and the consequent revelations about cowboys' lives in the past, let us--without forgetting the American sources of the screenplay--acknowledge the anomaly that the director is Chinese.


Dave gave it a10:
Incredible movie. The end hit me like a punch that knocks the wind out of you. I'm very open minded and have many gay friends, but was still a bit nervous about seeing this movie. If you love good film and are still haven't seen this movie, see it! The romantic scenes are very tastefully done and well acted. After a while you practically forget this movie is about two guys falling in love.

Fred J. gave it a9:
A really great movie.

Wanda M. gave it a10:
This was a amazing movie. I cried my heart out. I was hoping that they ended up together.

paul gave it a10:
This film still haunts me after seeing it for the second time. Beautiful and tragic, what an experience in film making and viewing. The best movie experience I have ever had.

Malcolm H. gave it a10:
Simultaneously epic and intimate. An almost perfectly realized film. But I must remind the naysayers - the aging in the film shouldn't be an issue, don't forget at the end of the movie Jack and Ennis are still only 39 to 40! Wrinkles, paunches and arthritis are not required at 40 years old. One of still fairly youthful.



Can any one movie live up to all the hype this movie is generating. This movie is being touted as the Messiah Movie.. the next coming.

Can one movie change the consciousness of the planet. If it can, is this the movie.

For the sake of argument, let us say this may be the one. Is the movie that will change the world really about 1950's cowboys? Are sweeping vistas, campfires, and sheep the catalysts for the change.

I can not say that I agree with any of the above praises. I do not believe this movie lives up to any of the hype. I believe the hype was inflated on purpose.. a marketing strategy to encourage us to see it.

It worked on me, I do not like westerns or cowboy movies, yet I was compelled to see what all the drama was about.

I was disappointed. I found most of the movie to be dull and boring. I found the dialogue lacking, and because of Heath Ledger's mumbling I was often sitting on the edge of my seat, leaning, straining to understand him. This was very annoying.

People were outraged at the sex in the movie. I also found this less than expected. There is more sex on soap opera's, than there was in this movie. There was kissing and you were led to believe that they had sex. No actual sex scenes were shown or even the imitation of sex.

I did find humor in spots. I do not think humor was intended, and I laughed all by myself. There is a scene the morning after the assumed sex, where Ennis says "I ain't no queer". Isn't this what all straight boys say right after they have fucked you in to unconsciousness. thisd statement is usually proceeded by I've never done this before. Typical, which for me is why it was a laughed out loud, streams of tears running down my face moment.

The second scene that was laugh out loud was the argument in the kitchen between Ennis and his x wife. The wife is confronting him, that she knows what he does because of a note on the fishing pole and calls Jack Twist by the name Jack Nasty.
Again, I was the sole laugher.

Is this a good stand alone movie.. Sure. Does it live up to the critics reviews. I think not. In urban venacular " it was good, but it wasn't all that".

Road to Paradise...Paved to heaven or hell

I just finished a Tivo'd program with Barbara Walters about heaven and hell and how do we get there. Very interesting, and often humorous.

Cardinal McCarrick says we are not made for this world we are made for heaven, we are made for the future, all these years on earth are to get to the next place.

so then why? If we are here only to get to the next place, and the next place is so fabulous, why are we not killing ourselves to get there?


Imam Raff, says that the next life is the real life, and how we live this life determines where we will end up. I guess reality is subjective.

Has the idea of heaven really been reduced to a pitch line for advertisers. If it is so sacred why is it used to sell cream cheese and chicken wings? Now, I know some people who would say that fried chicken with a good scald on it is heavenly. How do advertisers draw the conclusion that the taste of their chicken is equivalent to basking in the light of GOD.

In the 80's were the GOGO's right? Should we stop looking to a make believe land far far away and just make heaven a place on earth?

We are told that when we go to heaven we all will be reunited with our family and pets. That we can fish with Hemmingway, chat with Einstien, or play the piano with Mozart. Can angels play the piano? Angels have most commonly been referred to as beings of light. Do they have hands? Are they energy or corporeal?

Is heaven just a wish? A comforting wish, somewhere over the rainbow., that we use to explain the unexplainable.

The early Christians believed that we were not worthy to enter the kingdom of GOD as flesh and blood, all people will be transformed to spiritual beings filling heaven with angels. We were spirited off in a fiery chariot.

Cardinal McCarrick said he believes the body goes to heaven, their is a resurrection of the body. We cremate and bury hundreds of people everyday. Corpses are often exhumed for DNA. If we find the corpse in the coffin are we to assume this person went to hell. If you are cremated do the ashes go to heaven. If they are in an urn on a mantel, did that person go to hell?

When asked if we look the same in heaven Father McCarrick said he hopes to get his hair back. So is the Hair Club for Men just an outreach program from heaven?
He then said we will look like we want to look. I can't wait to be dripping in diamonds and furs.

Reverend Calvin Butts said that heaven is in another dimension. Can heaven then be explained by quantum physics. Is it 2 or 3 dimensional?

Fizal Raoof said that in heaven we will be in comfortable homes, reclining on silk couches and have servants, young servants to regale us, we will be given the delights of food, wine, and sex all positive with no negatives. If overindulgence in wine and food is a sin, and sex is a carnal sin and a sin of the flesh, can these really be allowed in heaven?

If Jesus died on the cross to wash us clean of all sins, why do we need to be reborn. What is the purpose of baptism. How can we be born with original sin, if it has been cleansed by Jesus.

Pastor Haggard describes heaven as a place somewhere, more specifically that this place we are in is first heaven, outerspace is the second heaven and then there is the place god is. He went on to say that there are treasures in heaven, there is reward in heaven. He believes that there are neighborhoods in heaven, because Jesus said he went to prepare mansions for us. Heaven is a place in heaven where you can eat all you want and never get heavy, there is all kinds of food and pastries in heaven except devil's food cake. Heaven is not an abstract idea, it is not a state of mind, it's a place.

After hearing this, I couldn't help remembering the openings of The Twilight Zone. Rod Sterling used to prepare us for the science fiction to follow. Imagine if you will a place......

I find it interesting that heaven is a physical place. Not the look in a newborn's eyes. Not the feeling one gets from feeding the hungry, tending to the sick.
What if heaven is but a moment in time. What if heaven is no more that a fleeting single moment, The way the wind blows over a field of wild flowers. What if it is no more that a single raindrop. What if heaven is caught in the kiss from your mother. What if heaven is the time you spend playing catch with your dog.

What if you were so caught up in religion that you couldn't see heaven. What if the miracles were right in front of you all the time. What if the only evil there is in the world was not seeing the miracles.

I would love to believe that heaven is a huge gay disco, where the music is relentless and the bar never closes and I looked good in spandex.

Reality check... Heaven is not a private country club, a secret society, noone has to apply for membership. Water dunking is not required. The promise that you will be guaranteed eternal life, if you follow... is so last millennium. First, it's a guarantee you can't cash in on, until its too late. Why can't we be good for goodness sake. Why must the proverbial carrot be dangled in front of you, in order for you to love they neighbor. Is religion nothing more than "let's make a deal" you follow us, give us your money, and we will let you have what is behind curtain number 2, but only after you die. What if there was no prize, no curtain number 2 ? What if religion was a hoax, nothing more than a multi level marketing scheme.
You buy this invisible product, and the payment is only 10% of your earnings, and in return you will win a all expense paid trip to heaven, the catch is you get the vacation after death. How old are we? Do we only go to the dentist only for the lollipop? Is this life really a giant box of Cracker Jacks?

No one would really buy this, or would they. Economic chief Cardinal Sergio Sebastiani presented the Vatican's 2002 annual financial statement, showing revenue of $173,525,000. Yes that is 173 million dollars... This is just one religion. 173 million and yet there are still hungry and poor people all over the planet.
I think we are being ripped off. Why are we struggling to make ends meat, pay for medical insurance, when the Vatican has 173 million? Will any of it be ear marked for poverty, famine, disease??

Do I know for certain that there is a god..NO I do not think that there a place called heaven or hell. I believe that we make our own heaven and hell right here. If you decide to follow the yellow brick road, like Dorothy, you will not find what paradise, but just a man pulling some strings.

for me the purpose of life is to live a decent life for it's own sake, not for the reward.

love thy neighbor, just because.... not because of what you will get!!!!

You find peace and love on your journey

40 Million - A Crime against California

40 million = Total Recall


Why is it that no one seems to be heading up the Total Recall of the Govenator. Why hasn't the District Attorney filled charges against him for crimes against the city and mis-management of funds.

Is the govenator right? Is the proverbial they a bunch of "Girly Men"

How much leeway should he be given because he is a bit famous. Do you excuse him because he is an actor? Is it like being a blonde? Do we look the other way because he is related to our Royal Family, the Kennedy's. Can he pull the wool over our eyes with the bravado? Do we get caught up in the allure of his schmoozy,macho,uber male charm?

When he landed in the Terminator, and the smoke cleared we saw his ass. Now that he is the Govenator and the smoke cleared all I see is an ass.

I want to say thank you to the Citizens of California for sending him a wake up call. But, was it enough? I say no... He feels that he can spend our money with no responsibility. I hope that in the next election, we show him that with great power, comes great responsibility.

2005 Racism is it dead or alive ?

When I woke up on Friday morning realizing that another month has passed me by, it seemed as if it was going to be like any other day. Now, that I was unemployed, my day would more than likely consist of scouring the online want-ads and only pay 1/2 attention to the monotonous drown of morning television in the background.

My attention was being pulled away from job hunting as the news caster was repeating words I thought went out of fashion in 1957. They were reporting the following

Mr Bennett, who held prominent posts in the administrations of former presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, told a caller to his syndicated radio talk show Wednesday: "If you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose -- you could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossibly ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down," he said.

I was immediately transported in time to the early 60's. Visions of poodle skirts, fresh baked cookies, moms homemade apple pie. Gas was 10 cents a gallon and cigarettes were 5 cents a pack. Schools were segregated and Rosa Parks was still moving to the back of the bus. Huh? What? Wait a minute, I shook my head, at once I was smacked in the face with the reality that it is 2005, and this man had just proved to me that we had still not moved very far up the evolutionary ladder.

How is it in 2005 A Neanderthal is walking around, and even more shocking he has his own radio show, where on a whim, he can proselytize hate speech.

I starting really thinking about his statement, giving it an honest once over, removing the sentence from the shock value. I realized that this man is wrong on so many levels. Lets look at a few.

1. His assumption that blacks commit more crime, that the rest of society, does have slight merit. What he fails to recognize is the root causes for a large majority of blacks committing crimes. Poverty is one of the leading factors. Who is poor? A large portion of the black community is poor, at or just above poverty.

2. Indifference. We often forget that a large portion of America has a whole is in poverty. We were recently reminded of this fact, during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. People were saying that why didn't they leave. If you are so poor you can't afford a car, and everyone around you is just a poor, how do you get out?

3. Drugs I think this factor speaks for itself. Although, it would seem that this is a subject for a whole nother blog. Specifically the conspiracy???

If Mr. Bennett really wanted to reduce crime, he should focus on reducing poverty.

Mr Bennett also fails to realize that Whites have cornered that market on serial killing, and pedophilia.

We have people who are homeless, starving, teen pregnancies, AIDS, etc, and Mr. Bennett finds time to be a racist.

IDIOTS ARE EVERYWHERE

Katrina a canadian observation

Re-post froma group I belong to

I am sure no disrespect for the victims of Katrina was intended by the person who put the Bush Vacation image together, who and wherever he or she is.

And no disrespect was intended when I posted it.

The image is in my opinion a brilliant, biting commentary on the ENORMOUS, mind-numbing disrespect paid by the White House to those very victims in the past days. As the storm passed and the water flooded in, Bush and Cheney kept on vacationing for days before cluing in that people were demanding their leadership; Condi went on a shopping spree in New York to buy shoes before being browbeaten by a citizen on the street for doing nothing as people suffered, whence she hightailed it back to Washington.

Since then, their priority has been political damage control - saving their own sorry hides and casting desperately for anyone else they can blame - before belatedly pulling together a response that has been a disaster in its own right.

Being that I am a ctizen of Canada, you may say this is none of my business: but when Washington coughs, the world catches cold. The supposed leader of the free world is responsible to all who believe in democracy. We don't hate Americans, but we so wish our friends in America would wake up to the perversion of democracy that is taking place under the banner of "freedom on the march".

New Orleans is a tragedy, and I couldn't agree more that it is not a laughing matter. Rock and Roll Boys posted a tribute with links to where you can help a week ago, with no comment on who is to blame.

The photo in question is a classic example of black humour, a joke intended to expose an absurd response by the established order to a deadly serious situation.

No Vince, no disrespect was intended to you, to your great country, or to the victims of this tragedy with this photo. Nothing like this has happpened to an American city since the Chicago fire of 1871 or the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

But I imagine that in seeing the image I posted, most citizens of New Orleans would see the image for what it is, and agree wholeheartedly on the sorry state of leadership today that it represents.

Katrina a disaster on so many levels

There is plenty of blame to go around.. But lets just place it where it belongs..

The affected cities had plenty of time to plan ahead. they should have done the following:

General warning on every local station, advising citizens to evacuate.
Made preperations for shelters, including being high enough not to flood, water and food and electricity.

Making plans for prearranged pick up locations, to bus out those citizens unable to leave on their own.

the local government should be held liable for not making plans in advance

Now, anyone who stayed of their own free choice, to bad..so sad
you should have gotten your ass out when you were warned.

If you were poor and had no means of getting out, it should have been provided..and law suits for lost loved ones should be filed.


The federal government should have also been prepared to have buses ready with food and water, to relocate everyone to a predetermined location(s), making it easier to stay together and to find family members including pets.

President Bush should be held liable for hiring a friend with no qualifications, who did not prepare and lost lives.

the media should be held responsible for the vial act of perpetuating racism.. how can a black boy be called a looter, right next to a white couple and they didnt loot they found the food..... as long as we are fighting amongst ourselves we are not paying attention to what the government is doing.

Please watch big brother, cause he is watching you

The Mornign Star truth or another lie

i am re-posting this as I found it very interesting


The word "Lucifer" in Isaiah 14:12 presents a minor problem to mainstream Christianity. It becomes a much larger problem to Bible literalists, and becomes a huge obstacle for the claims of Mormonism.

Lucifer makes his appearance in the fourteenth chapter of the Old Testament book of Isaiah, at the twelfth verse, and nowhere else: "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!"
The first problem is that Lucifer is a Latin name. So how did it find its way into a Hebrew manuscript, written before there was a Roman language? To find the answer, I consulted a scholar at the library of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. What Hebrew name, I asked, was Satan given in this chapter of Isaiah, which describes the angel who fell to become the ruler of hell?
The answer was a surprise. In the original Hebrew text, the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah is not about a fallen angel, but about a fallen Babylonian king, who during his lifetime had persecuted the children of Israel. It contains no mention of Satan, either by name or reference. The Hebrew scholar could only speculate that some early Christian scribes, writing in the Latin tongue used by the Church, had decided for themselves that they wanted the story to be about a fallen angel, a creature not even mentioned in the original Hebrew text, and to whom they gave the name "Lucifer."
Why Lucifer? In Roman astronomy, Lucifer was the name given to the morning star (the star we now know by another Roman name, Venus). The morning star appears in the heavens just before dawn, heralding the rising sun. The name derives from the Latin term lucem ferre, bringer, or bearer, of light." In the Hebrew text the expression used to describe the Babylonian king before his death is Helal, son of Shahar, which can best be translated as "Day star, son of the Dawn." The name evokes the golden glitter of a proud king's dress and court (much as his personal splendor earned for King Louis XIV of France the appellation, "The Sun King").
The scholars authorized by ... King James I to translate the Bible into current English did not use the original Hebrew texts, but used versions translated ... largely by St. Jerome in the fourth century. Jerome had mistranslated the Hebraic metaphor, "Day star, son of the Dawn," as "Lucifer," and over the centuries a metamorphosis took place. Lucifer the morning star became a disobedient angel, cast out of heaven to rule eternally in hell. Theologians, writers, and poets interwove the myth with the doctrine of the Fall, and in Christian tradition Lucifer is now the same as Satan, the Devil, and --- ironically --- the Prince of Darkness.
So "Lucifer" is nothing more than an ancient Latin name for the morning star, the bringer of light. That can be confusing for Christians who identify Christ himself as the morning star, a term used as a central theme in many Christian sermons. Jesus refers to himself as the morning star in Revelation 22:16: "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star."
And so there are those who do not read beyond the King James version of the Bible, who say 'Lucifer is Satan: so says the Word of God'...." Henry Neufeld (a Christian who comments on Biblical sticky issues) went on to say,
"this passage is often related to Satan, and a similar thought is expressed in Luke 10:18 by Jesus, that was not its first meaning. It's primary meaning is given in Isaiah 14:4 which says that when Israel is restored they will "take up this taunt against the king of Babylon . . ." Verse 12 is a part of this taunt song. This passage refers first to the fall of that earthly king...
How does the confusion in translating this verse arise? The Hebrew of this passage reads: "heleyl, ben shachar" which can be literally translated "shining one, son of dawn." This phrase means, again literally, the planet Venus when it appears as a morning star. In the Septuagint, a 3rd century BC translation of the Hebrew scriptures into Greek, it is translated as "heosphoros" which also means Venus as a morning star.
How did the translation "lucifer" arise? This word comes from Jerome's Latin Vulgate. Was Jerome in error? Not at all. In Latin at the time, "lucifer" actually meant Venus as a morning star. Isaiah is using this metaphor for a bright light, though not the greatest light to illustrate the apparent power of the Babylonian king which then faded." Therefore, Lucifer wasn't equated with Satan until after Jerome. Jerome wasn't in error. Later Christians (and Mormons) were in equating "Lucifer" with "Satan".
So why is this a problem to Christians? Christians now generally believe that Satan (or the Devil or Lucifer who they equate with Satan) is a being who has always existed (or who was created at or near the "beginning"). Therefore, they also think that the 'prophets' of the Old Testament believed in this creature. The Isaiah scripture is used as proof (and has been used as such for hundreds of years now). As Elaine Pagels explains though, the concept of Satan has evolved over the years and the early Bible writers didn't believe in or teach such a doctrine.
The irony for those who believe that "Lucifer" refers to Satan is that the same title ('morning star' or 'light-bearer') is used to refer to Jesus, in 2 Peter 1:19, where the Greek text has exactly the same term: 'phos-phoros' 'light-bearer.' This is also the term used for Jesus in Revelation 22:16.

So why is Lucifer a far bigger problem to Mormons? Mormons claim that an ancient record (the Book of Mormon) was written beginning in about 600 BC, and the author in 600 BC supposedly copied Isaiah in Isaiah's original words. When Joseph Smith pretended to translate the supposed 'ancient record', he included the Lucifer verse in the Book of Mormon. Obviously he wasn't copying what Isaiah actually wrote. He was copying the King James Version of the Bible. Another book of LDS scripture, the Doctrine & Covenants, furthers this problem in 76:26 when it affirms the false Christian doctrine that "Lucifer" means Satan. This incorrect doctrine also spread into a third set of Mormon scriptures, the Pearl of Great Price, which describes a war in heaven based, in part, on Joseph Smith's incorrect interpretation of the word "Lucifer" which only appears in Isaiah.

The author of The Polytheism Of The Bible And The Mystery Of Lucifer, F.T. DeAngelis, comments on this page as follows

"The actual name, "Lucifer," goes back to the Greeks, before the Romans. Socrates and Plato talk about this "god of light"; surprisingly, not in the context of Eos (god of Dawn), but -- as a morning star -- juxtaposed with the sun (Helios) and Hermes. This information can be found in Plato's Timaeus (38e) and in Edith Hamilton's Mythology."

Again, just a queer observation, bit it raises very puzzleing questions ?

SEX AND OBSCENITY IN THE BIBLE

SEX AND OBSCENITY IN THE BIBLE
GENESIS 17:9-14 Circumcision mandated
19:1-8 Rape virgins instead of male angels
19:30-38 Righteous man impregnates his 2 daughters while drunk
24:2-3, 9 Place your hand "under the thigh" (sexual organs) of someone swearing sacred oaths
25:1-6 Keeping mistresses is not adultery
32:25 God grabs Jacob's testicles
34:1-31 Brothers are riled when sister is defiled
35:2 Reuben sleeps with father's concubine
38:1-10 Onan's method of birth control not approved
38:12-30 Tamar plays the harlot to seduce father-in-law
39:1-20 Women tries to rape man
47:29 Joseph ordered to place his hand under father's thigh
EXODUS
20:26 God specifies building of altar to prevent exposure of nakedness
22:19 Death decreed for bestiality
33:17-23 God moons Moses
NUMBERS
31:1-18; 28-47 God commands genocide of Midianites, Moses orders that virgins be kept, other captives slain
5:11-31 God's fidelity test for women only
LEVITICUS
12:1-8 Bible calls childbirth a sin and bearing females a greater sin than bearing males
15:16-18 Sperm and intercourse are unclean 15:19-33 Menstruation unclean; elaborate rules
15:29-30 Women must make sin offering for menstrual periods
18:22 Homosexuality declared an abomination
18:23 More bestiality
19:1,20-22 Man gets forgiven, slave girl gets flogging
20:10 Adulterers shall be put to death
20:13 Death decreed for homosexuals
20:15-16 Death decreed for bestiality (& beast)
26:29 Curse: Eat your sons and daughters
DEUTERONOMY
3:1-7 Kill men, women, & children
21:10-14 God okays captured maidens as trial wives
22:5 Men's clothing not to be worn by women, & vice versa
22:13-21 A bride not a virgin must die
22:23-26 Virgin raped in city given no pity
23:12-14 Defecation: Carry paddle, dig hole, & cover up
25:5-10 Woman has cause to spit in man's face
25:11-12 A woman shall have her hand cut off for touching a penis
22:28-29 Paying father to have sex with daughter
23:1 Man "wounded in the stones" can't enter congregation
23:2 Children born out of wedlock condemned as bastards to 10th generation 23:10-11 Cleanliness called for in nocturnal emissions
24:1 Man can divorce wife through eviction
28:27 Hemorrhoids ("emerods") punishment for sin
28:30 Lord's curse: Another man shall lie with groom's bride first
28:53-57 Curse: Eat your own body & children
JUDGES
3:20-22 Dagger in fat king's gut gets "dirt" out
4:4-22 Hammer & nail murder by woman
8:30 Gideon had many wives, concubines
11:29-40 Jephtha's daughter: human sacrifice
19:1-30 Woman raped and ruined by homosexuals
21:6-25 Amidst carnage virgins captured for wives
RUTH
3:6-9 To "hook" him as husband, Ruth sleeps with Boaz
4:9-10 Boaz buys Ruth
I SAMUEL
5:9-12 Philistines "smitten with emerods" as punishment for stealing ark
6:1-5 To placate God, make golden emerods
15:3 God orders Saul to kill suckling babes
18:23-27 200 foreskins gain David a king's daughter
25:22,34 Any that pisseth against the wall II SAMUEL
3:7 More concubine hanky-panky
11:1-27 Uriah sent to lose his life so David can get his wife
12:7-12 Obscene performance to be viewed by all Israel
5:13 David had many wives, concubines Chapter 13 Amnon rapes his sister 16:20-23 Absalom copulates with father's concubines on rooftop
20:3 David imprisons concubines for above
I KINGS
1:1-4 Virgin as therapy for sick old man unsuccessful
11:1-10 Wise Solomon has wives and concubines galore
14:10 Him that pisseth against the wall
16:11 One that pisseth against a wall
21:21 Him that pisseth against the wall
II KINGS
6:24-33 "So we boiled my son, and did eat him"
9:8 Subject not mentioned in sermons
23:7 Male houses of prostitution destroyed
I CHRONICLES
1:32-33 Abraham's concubines have children
II CHRONICLES 11:21
King Rehoboam had 18 wives & 60 concubines
ESTHER
Chapters 1-2 Sexual contest to decide new queen
SONG OF SOLOMON (the whole thing!)
ISAIAH
3:16 "...and the Lord will discover their secret parts"
9:20 Every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm
14:21-22 Slaughter children for fathers' iniquity
16:11 Biblical boast: "My bowels shall sound like an harp"
36:12 Eating dung and drinking piss
JEREMIAH
16:4 Grievous, obscene deaths
LAMENTATIONS
2:19 Something to lament 4:10 Women boil children for food
EZEKIEL
4:12-15 God says: Eat bread defiled with dung
5:8-10 What's for dinner?
8:2 Lord's loins make guest appearance
16:15 Fornications pour out
16:36-37 Their "filthiness poured out..."
23:1-40 Sex organs and ejaculate of harlots' lovers compared to asses & horses 29:7-8 God performs bloody castration via a sword
HOSEA
1:2-11 God tells Hosea to take whore to wife
2:1-15 Complications ensue (lewdly described)
NAHUM
3:4-6 Lord: "I will discover thy skirts upon thy face"
MALACHI
2:1-4 An angry god will spread feces on your faces
MATTHEW
5:27-30 A man may lust but it's not considered just
5:31-32 Man can divorce wife for fornication only 19:3-9 Man who divorces and remarries is adulterer
19:12 Castrate yourself for Jesus
22:24 Law of Onan (you have to marry your dead brother's wife)
LUKE
2:21 Eight day old Jesus is circumcised ACTS
5:38 Eunuch baptized
15:24 Circumcision is not commandment
16:3 Paul circumcises adult
I CORINTHIANS 6:18-20 Abstain from sex
7:1-40 To be more holy, refrain from sex wholly
7:18-19 If you're not circumcised, stay that way
GALATIANS
5:1-4 Paul speaks against circumcision
REVELATION
17:1-6 A whore is stripped, eaten and burned

hell..... the devils domain

I was recently channel surfing and came across a program called "Hell.. the Devil's Domain" I would encourage everyone to see this program.. as it raises interesting questions.


Is organized religion, just that "organized", much like the teamsters, or the PTA.

It has been reported that the Roman Catholic Church is worth 20 Billion dollars. ( yes.... say it just like Dr EVIL).
What does Jesus need with 20 Billion Dollars?
The Catholic Church spent nine million dollars on the Pope's traveling. How many homeless, hungry or underprivledged could that money have helped

Matthew 21:12-17
And Jesus entered the temple of God and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple and He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, ‘It is written, "My House shall be called a house of prayer"

Luke 19 45:46
And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought; Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Luke 13 14-16
In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. He told those who were selling the doves, ‘Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!’

So, if Jesus found it vulgar to sell in the temple, how can TV preachers sell their books and potions. Why do book stores charge for the Bible??

Does the money collected for the bibles, the books etc, go in to the global Jesus bank account?


When Galileo discovered for the first time that it is not the sun that goes around the earth, but the earth that goes around the sun -- he was very old, seventy-five or eighty, almost on his deathbed -- he was dragged to the court of the pope. And the pope said, "Before you die, change that statement, because it goes against The Bible. And anything that goes against The Bible is automatically wrong, because The Bible is the word of God." The pope said, "We cannot allow even a single statement to go against The Bible for the simple reason that if one statement becomes false, God's infallibility disappears. And if God himself is fallible, what about Jesus Christ? And what about the pope? And if God can write one thing wrong, who knows? -- he may have written many things wrong. We cannot afford it."

The "organized religions" don't seem to be interested in saving humanity.
Their basic interest is how to covert more and more people in to their religion.

How many people have died in the name of god? What about the Holy Wars? How can both sides of a war be right? Both sides believe that GOD is on their side, and if they win.. well god loves them and has blessed them, but if they fail then god forsaked them.

Relgion is creating agitation in every country for homosexuality to be made a severe crime. And everybody in the world knows that Pope Paul the Sixth was a homosexual. Before he became the pope, he was the cardinal in Milan -- and that was the talk of the town. The whole of Milan was surprised that he was always seen with his boyfriend -- a young, beautiful man. Knowing this perfectly well...still he became the pope. And the moment he became pope, his boyfriend was called to the Vatican, and the boyfriend became the secretary. Ordinarily, the secretary becomes the girlfriend; here, it was just a little different...but the same story.
And it has never been denied by the Vatican; they could not deny it -- it was so factual. But if you say it, that means you are against the pope.

Okay ... well sorta setting the stage for the show i saw. That the devil as we know him today... has never existed.

If we use the bible as a reference:

Isaiah XIV
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.


Revelation XII
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

If we take this literally... The bible mentions only one place Lucifer was cast down to, "earth". Where is hell then? Now if he was cast to earth, and he is the ruler of hell, does that make earth hell.? Would that then change the meaning of Hell to more of a work furlow program.? Is it then like Driving school? A place where you can work of your sin, in order to make it back to the divine.

How many times can Satan change his duties?
In biblical literature Satan appears in later Old Testament writings as an angelic "son of God" within the heavenly court, as God's prosecuting attorney (Job 1-2; Zechariah 3:1-2; 1 Chronicles 21:1). In inter-testamental and New Testament literature Satan appears as the head of evil -- rebellious, defiant and in opposition to God. Lucifer's fall from heaven (Isaiah 14:14) is usually employed to explain this change in Satan's status. One Mennonite writer uses this text together with Ezekiel 28:12-16, 2 Peter 2:4, and Jude 6 to explain how Satan became the Devil (Hostetter, 15-20). Revelation 12:9 identifies Satan as the devil and "ancient serpent" (Genesis 3:1-5). It speaks also of war in heaven, the archangel Michael's victory over the dragon, and Satan's fall from heaven. The gospel news is that Christ destroys the works of the devil (1 John 3:8; Hebrews 2:14-15). Proclaiming the gospel dethrones Satan (Luke 10:18); Christ's death and resurrection disarms the powers (Colossians 2:15). Through new birth and freedom not to sin, God through Christ keeps the believer from Satan, while the world is under Satan's power (1 John 5:18-19). By wearing the full armor of God, the believer victoriously battles against the invisible evil forces which attack, deceive, and seduce believers personally and through structures (Ephesians 6:10-18).

When did the angel become evil. When did we start to see the Devil, and a devourer of flesh, and father of all lies. Lucifer had been created perfect, but through his own choice, allowed sin to enter into his thinking process. Through his suability he persuaded a third of God's holy angels to join him in his rebellion. He was overcome and cast down to the earth. Did the act of having been cast out change his essence? Did coming to earth cause him to be the "devil" we know today?

When did the change begin... Interesting question.. When we look at history, we find the Devil portrayed in a number of ways. At one time, it was thought that the Devil lived in a icy, frozen place, and he was depicted in literature and popular culture of the time as blue. The idea being that, if GOD was light, the devil was darkness and darkness is cold, so to not be in GODS light meant you were dark cold and frozen. He was also portrayed as the eater of flesh, that if you went to hell he ate you. It wasn't until Dante's Inferno that popular culture and literature, that the Devil was depicted as Red horns, a tail and lived in fire..

Does this seem odd to anyone else. That Religion followed suit, and depicted him based not on the bible, but a secular book. How can we believe anything organized religion tells us, if they have lied all this time. The bible says that Jesus had skin of bronze and hair of wool, why then is he depicted as a white man with straight hair. Jesus has been morphed to fit the patriarcle idea of white man
Remember, the time period, white man was superior, everyone else was lower in station or a slave.

I believe the devil is in everyone, in all the little white lies we tell, to cheating the cashier, stealing office supplies, driving in the carpool lane when you are the only one in the car,smog, not recycling, attitudes, etc

Good and Evil resides in us.. it's the choices we make that shape our universe, not Pat Robertson or Billy Graham, or how much money you send them.

If you need an example of this, just look at the Catholic Church scandal. The Catholic church is supposed to be the pillar of good, yet they made a choice to be evil, in not removing the priests that were molesting kids. all they did was to move them around and cover it up. Why.. because it was about money.

Money is the root of all evil... so why do churches want it.

anyway, watch the show and draw your own conclusions, as i offer this as just a queer observation.


Organized religion needs to pay tax

Truth, Lies, and Video Tape

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How it used to be.........

As you encounter your day ... how often do you complain about how things are? What do you take for granted in your daily existence?

Here is a look back at....... "how it used to be"


Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married. Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip off the roof. Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs." There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top, afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying "dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet , so they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they kept adding more thresh until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway. Hence the saying a "thresh hold."

(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, "Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old." Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat."

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leak onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper crust."

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a "wake."

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a "bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer."

Look around you now..... are there still so many things to complain about?... What part of the bread do you get?

Taken for granted

What do you take for granted? I was recently reminded that this is national GLBT month, and that several PRIDE activites will be commencing soon. Being reminded started me thinking about pride, and what pride means to me. Celebrating... is there anything to celebrate...

Is a pride parade the best way to celebrate, during yet another George W.Bush term. Was Dykes on Bikes, and THE GOLDS GYM GUYS, or a cornacopia of drag queens the best way to celebrate pride. Can wearing a "PRIDE FROCK" or singing I will Survive, make me feel prideful?

I don't really feel like celebrating .... I mean my job may be coming to an end, way above my head in debt with the IRS... being OVERWEIGHT. trying to make a 9 year relationship work, even though he is a flight attendant and almost never here.... Oh did i mention another birthday on June 21st . What exacly is there to celebrate, this doesn't sound anything like the Queer lifestyle I read about in the brochure before signing up.

I now realize that I have taken my PRIDE for granted. I had forgotten about all the sacrafice and hard work the people before me had to endure. I live in a free ( ok semi-free) country. I have been in a same sex relationship for 9 years, and noone is trying to knock down the door and arrest me. I am out at home, at work.. ok everywhere.. you can see my gay ass coming a mile away.. but I am out ... I am not discriminated against at work or in housing, and although i hear FAG hollered out of a passing car window every once in awhile, it's a good thing. I snaps me back to reality, awakens me from my "straightalized" existence. It also reminds me that as far as we have come, baby we got a ways to go.

I do have alot of things to celebrate, a husband, 2 dogs, a small group of real friends, and a job with BENEFITS... Participating in pride, even in the smallest way, well ensure that these things can't be taken away. To qoute "ACT UP" SILENCE = DEATH...... but i will go one further --- VISABILITY = ATTENTION.

It is now more that ever, that we need to march, to celebrate, even to get all FROCKED UP, and to fill your lungs with free air, and sing at the top of your voice I WILL SURVIVE , because if we slack even for a moment, the proverbial "THEY" are waiting to take away what you already have, and make sure you don't survive.

So the next time you see dykes on bikes, trannies, pan asain gay youth on the news, and you cringe, and ask yourself why is that the only section of our community they show on tv. STOP yourself miss thing... look around you....... look at your gay life, your gay lover, your gay house/apartment.. it is those pepole on the news that has afforded your gay ass, a gay life, a gay lover, a gay house........If you think that your community isnt being represented, then why are you sitting on your couch watching the parade on the news.. get out there and represent...

PS.. if this year will be your first parade....... it probaly isnt a good thing to do DRAG the first time ...

PSS I am trying this blog thing on a dare.. but its kinda theraputic???