keeping busy

Election Day is coming!

Well, tomorrow is election day here in the good ol' U S of A and I am hoping for sweeping changes in the House and Senate.

Another crazy Evangelical closet case has been outed and ousted and time marches on. It was nice to see Diane Sawyer ask a female evangelical leader on the air today, with all of these men living closeted, double lives, why not just accept gay men and women and let gays and lesbians serve as ministers. It's about time a recognizable face essentially said to one of these people, come on, get with the program.

The holidays are just around the corner and I can already feel the insanity with my family springing forth. "Oh there's no place like home for the holidays."

Well, I guess I am back to blogging. I don't know how regularly I will post.

On Hiatus

Is Anyone Listening?

I don't know if it is the fact that I am getting older or what, but I find myself growing increasingly appalled by people's behavior. I am on vacation right now in Miami and while sitting by the pool today I watched as young men and women chattered away on their cell phones as if they were brokering million dollar deals. Instead, they were merely gossiping with friends. I know this because they felt compelled to hold their conversations at a volume which ensured everyone within earshot would know how self-important they truly are.
I have also seen so many people walking together yet each one is talking away on their respective cell phone and not to each other. Something is seriously wrong with people.
We have become a society so disconnected from each other and so puffed up by our own over-weaning egos that we no longer seem to care about the people around us. In fact, last week as I walked through a store in the city I overheard a young woman laughingly say to her companion, "Oh, who cares about other people?" Though I think this woman thought she was being funny, she was actually articulating what I think is occurring in our communities on a daily basis. We are so wrapped up in our own little dramas that we have utter disregard for the impact our actions have on those around us.
My sister and I have had talked about this behavior within our own familiy. Perhaps this is why I have been struggling so much with the decision of whether I should attend the wedding of my niece next month at her Southern homophobic church. These are members of my immediate family who have so little to do with my everyday life I resent the sense of famlilial obligation which dictates the right thing to do would be to attend this wedding.
But why should I drag my partner, who does not wish to attend this ceremony, to attend something to which we are categorically denied and now watching legislation being drawn up to discriminate against us.
I am sure it has never even once crossed the mind of many of the members of my family how difficult and awkward I find this whole situation. I am sure we will go, put on a happy face, and endure the affair. But I think when it is all over, I am going to send my sister a letter and explain just how difficult it was for me to decide to attend. Not just because of the church, but because she and her children have so obviously made the choice to distance themselves from me as a result of my sexual orientation. And that I now believe their distancing should relieve me from any sense of duty to them.
SIGH! Family, the people we love to hate!

Because I wouldn't sleep if I didn't write this..........

It seems Paris Hilton has been the victim of another theft. This time someone supposedly sped "whizzed by" in a car and grab a $10,000 gift bag as a delivery person put it down for a secoond to ring the buzzer. The AP story say's Hilton spent 3-4 hours shopping to put this bag together. Then why the hell didn't she carry it home herself? And isn't the timing of the thieves convenient. Didn't she have her blackberry stolen last year? I think every time she has some bad press, for those of you unaware she goofed in a press conference releasing her own video game, there is some story spun like this by her press agency. Pity those poor souls. They are earning every penny. It seems we never seem to go a day without some Paris Hilton story. UGH! Just take your money and over weaning ego and return to the chateau!
And now we need the National Guard at the borders. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Why does no one do anything about the nonsense this administration is perpetrating????

check it out!

more smoke and mirrors

When all else fails, find something else to distract the people. Now all we hear about is illegal immigrants and their threat to the nation's economy and well-being. Can no one see this is just one more distraction from the realities of a war raged under false protests, the leaking of classified information, the knowledge of how devastating Katrina would be and still not preparing adequately, and the overall corruption and greed of this presidential administration? Honestly, what is the matter with the conscience of this nation? The similarities between this administration and the fascist regimes of history is becoming frighteningly real.