I'm a bigot!

Because I believe in, and have, science and nature on my side, I'm a bigot.  Because I believe there is no room for political correctness in science, I'm a bigot.  When gay marriage was the issue of the day, I supported it.  Until, that is, the Miss Universe debacle with Perez Hilton.  This clown and the Miss California pageant officials went off on Carrie Prejean with baseless insults and lies that, to my ears, were just beyond comprehension, simply because she stuck to her faith.  But I wrote on that previously. 

I recently found out about the multiple awards that the former Bruce Jenner got as woman of the year from Glamour Magazine and the ESPY's among others.  If Glamour wanted to give out awards to strong women, why not Hillary for having the strength to run for president in a man's world.  Why not women in education for helping make our youth stronger.  Jenner is not the first to do this or the first to show how hard it is to say God got it wrong.  Jenner did it at a time when it was relatively safe to do so.  But, because we live in a politically correct society, it's now heroic to tell the world God got it wrong. 

When I started my research on the Glamour award, the first thing I came across was a web article about a cop who lost her life in the 9/11 tragedy.  She went into one of the towers to help and was in there when it collapsed.  She was posthumously given the award for her heroism that day.  The article was about her widower sending the award back to Glamour because giving an award to Jenner was an insult to his wife's memory.  I believe he was correct in his actions.  What is heroic about jumping on the band wagon at a time that is relatively safe to do so?  Jenner didn't come out as gay early on as so many others like Ellen DeGeneres did. 

Everybody on the gay support side is worried that they have all their rights.  Among those rights is the right to adopt.  Rosie O'Donnell was a big presence in that fight.  What about the rights of the children they want to adopt.  What does a gay marriage do to them.  Anytime there was a study suggested concerning children in gay households, or almost anything else to do with the gay community,  the gay community got militant in their efforts to shut down any thoughts on that.  We should accept them for what they are, normal.  If they were truly normal, they wouldn't need a sperm doner or adoption to have kids.  This is political correctness rearing its ugly head.  The American Psychology Association rewrote definitions and added new jargon, without any study's that I could find, to  normalize homosexuality.   Again, political correctness at work. 

This whole rant came about because of that Glamour award.  It is one more notch in the belt of worries I have about the world my children are inheriting.  When I wrote about the Miss Universe debacle, I ended with a quote form the mother of one of the contestants.  Now I'll end this with a quote from something I saw on the internet....I don't care how your son identifies, he's got no business being in the bathroom with my daughter.  This is just my opinion.

My appologies, but this is an overdue rant

I came home from work today and sat down to my computer. The first thing on Verizon's news page is an article stating that 4 out of 5 Americans don't trust the federal government. the very next thing was a blurb that SCOTUS denied the retrial of a man convicted in Texas by a prosecutor having an extramarital affiar with the judge in the case. Gee, am I the only one here who sees something wrong with this? There should have been no decision there. The case had the appearance of being fixed and that alone makes it questionable in an "industry" that depends on transparency. Both the judge and the prosecutor should be dis-barred. We have no justice in this country anymore.

Why should anybody trust the feds when they can turn their backs on this. The supreme court has effectivly said in one decision that its ok to rig trials and exercise pull with our court system, nothing less. The idea that this judge wasn't "pulling for her beau" is just insane. Without transparency, the people can't trust the justice system. Wwe need that trust and transparency. SCOTUS said "no we don't".

My brother likens todays society to Rome right before the fall of the empire. I suspect he is right. Free speech does not exist on college campuses anymore and it is slowly going by the wayside in free society. Political correctness has become a cancer deteriorating our society in ways I never thought would happen. Women can cry rape (falsely) and walk away without fear of discipline but the poor bastard she accuses is all over the front page of every Republican owned newspaper and tv station in this country. The Pottawatomie Iowa case pretty much shows that a prosecutor can get away with letterally framing an innocent man and not be punished for depriving that man of his rights or his life.

I see a revolution in our future. The common folks have been convinced that taxes are way too high. Truth is, the tax rates in this country are the lowest they've been in 50 years. At some point the people have to realize that the Washington criminals we call the elected officials are taking advantage of us for the sake of big business. When will it stop.

FEDEX UPS Follow-up

I received 2 responses from my previous entry on the FedEx UPS fiasco. Interestingly, a blogger using the name Cager & Maris (as it appears in my responses sections) states the following:

"FedEx predominatly does business using aircraft. UPS predominatly does business using trucks. That's the difference in why FedEx is under one set of laws and UPS is under another set of laws."

My original argument still stands. If FedEx just went away, would the shipping world cease to do business. The original intention of the RLA was because railroads were a lifeblood of this country. If the railroads stopped working, no automobiles would be delivered to dealerships anywhere. If the Air Traffic Controllers stopped working, ALL airports would shut down. FedEx and UPS both would be shut down. If FedEx Pilots stopped working, what would happen. The world would run to UPS, or the USPS or elsewhere. Cager & Maris did not convince me that simply because a majority of their business is done by plane, that they qualify for some seriously restrictive labor laws.

I'm further bothered by the "bailout" term they use. The've even gone so far as to register the websites UPSBAILOUT.COM and BROWNBAILOUT.COM. When I first heard of these sites, I thought UPS was in trouble and looking for the kind of help that the banks and auto companies were looking for. I was wrong. It was FedEx looking to make UPS look bad. UPS doesn't have a website called FedExMonopoly.com or some other silly name. If you want their side of it, you go to UPS.COM and then to their NEWSROOM page.

I'm no fan of the bailouts that the Feds handed out like door prizes, but this isn't, in my opinion, a bailout. This is an attempt to level the playing field. Again, the RLA was for companies and jobs that, if they went away by strike or mass walkout, would stop the flow of goods and services in the United States. With the exception of the ATC and the railroads, I don't see very many others who would qualify.

I encourage all to read the 2 responses in the previous UPS FedEx post

God Bless Us All

Its time for another rant I guess. I look around and see such chaos in the world. I fear for my wife and kids, I fear for my friends and their children. Political correctness has so permeated our society that we can not talk about anything for fear of offending somebody. The rules of popularity and money have taken over common sense and decency.

Gays: We must support equal rights for gays or risk being abused and attacked by the gay community in often vicious and callous ways (see Carrie Prejean). The one thing that nobody can bring up is that there is credible evidence that children raised in gay households suffer from not having both male and female influences to learn from. To bring up this scientific fact, draws the ire of the gay community in often vile and sometimes violent ways. Somebody on the net published a "report" that children of gay unions turn out better. No evidence was supplied nor was there a breakdown of who was surveyed etc. Some woman on Slate.com simply used heart strings to point out what a good job her sister was doing providing a loving home with her partner. It doesn't seem to matter that scientific evidence shows that children in homes without fathers do suffer. But the gays must have equal rights.

Government: Where do I start. The cliff notes version is simply this. Big business owns and runs this country as evidenced by such things as the bailout package for the banks and the bankruptcy laws that "W" signed. If you go into bankruptcy as an individual, you will need to pay off ALL outstanding balances. If you are a corporation, then that isn't necessary. The Republican propaganda machine is out of control. When Obama wanted to talk to school children about the need to stay in school, the Republicans were up in arms that he was pushing his political agenda on these young impressionable minds. Everybody is finding some way to blame Clinton for our current mess. Truth is, it doesn't take a genius to figure out it was Ronald Reagan. Reagan ran this country on the credit card and refused to pay the bill. Clinton balanced the budget and "W" came in and gave away the PROJECTED SURPLUS in his first year. Every deregulation law that Reagan signed along with Daddy and "W" Bush, took just a little bit more out of our pockets and gave it to business. That's what put our economy in the crapper, not Clinton. As for Congress, when Ken Starr couldn't get enough dirt on Clinton, he kept expanding the investigation.

The media: The news media no longer reports the news. They are nothing but propaganda machines for their respective owners. I've said it before and I'll say it again, there is more spin in Bill O'Reilly's no spin zone then in a bey blade stadium. When GE bought NBC, one of Jack Welch's first orders to the new found resource was that they couldn't report on anything that could adversely affect the stock price. Fox news has a daily memo of what to harp on today at their Fox New Channel. Watch it over the period of a day and you can't help but see it. CNN, MSNBC, The NY Times etc. are all the same way. Report the party line or get out.

Sports and Entertainment: I don't know who's cereal Michael Vick pissed in to warrant the wrath he had to endure, but when we give a sports figure that much money, what did you expect to find him doing when he gets board? Pete Rose was banned from baseball for life for betting, but Darryl Strawberry was given chance after chance to clean up. How many times have you seen this athlete or that entertainer pulled for drugs or DUI. TMZ has a picture of one rapper in a bar partying before he went to Va. to do community service. The drinking age nationwide is 21 and this guy is 20. Why wasn't that bar closed down. Paris (I'm a good role model) Hilton was photographed taking her younger brother into a bar for his birthday....His 19th or 20th birthday. Why wasn't that bar closed down.

In General: The number of celebrity women who are having babies without benefit of a wedding ring is atrocious. Lest they forget, they are the roll models for today's young girls. Why is marriage so yesterday. It shows children what commitment is. I guess I could go on and on but I believe I've made my point.



God Bless us all

An open letter to NBC and Donald Trump

An open letter to NBC and Donald Trump

I have been watching this fiasco unfold about Carrie Prejean. I can not believe the retaliation that this poor girl is made to suffer. A judge that called her answer "polarizing". Pageant directors who tried to humiliate her with news (true or false) of a breast enhancement that she denies. Statements from those same pageant directors about her opportunism. All this because she gave an honest answer to a question from a judge with an agenda.

What were the pageant officials thinking when they invited a militant homosexual with his own agenda to judge this disaster. Mario Lavendiera is a man on a mission. His biggest claim to fame is a website where he draws mustaches and cocaine on pictures of celebrities. This is a man who's command of the english language is so deep and so broad that the best insult he could come up with is to call her a f***ing b*tch. His assesment of poor Miley Cyrus is "sl*t" I'm less then impressed with who you chose to select the ultimate girl next door. That's what this competition is supposed to be about, the perfect girl next door who wants the American dream, home, family, career, isn't it.

Your own pageant directors are quoted on MSNBC as saying she forgot her commitment to the people of California. Lets look at that one shall we. Its the people of California who voted to ban gay marriage by saying yes to proposition 8. Tell me exactly how she would be representing the people of California by denying her religious beliefs and speaking out in favor of the minority. Shanna Moakler and Keith Lewis should be released from their duties ASAP because they have an agenda to humiliate her and make her suffer because she wouldn't speak the party line.

Moakler and Lewis state she has gone beyond her right to her opinion and shown her oportunistic agenda. It wasn't Prejean who started this whole thing, it was the Miss USA pageant officials and its owners for not thinking that a man like Lavendiera with a very known and public agenda wouldn't use time on national television to his own advantage and for that agenda. He openly said he took points from her not because she was inarticulate, but because she gave the wrong answer.

In the 40's when someone wouldn't speak the party line we called it the holocaust. In the 80 when it was the few telling the majority how live, we called it apartied. What do you want to call this? I call it discusting. Perhaps its time to fold the pageants. Since the owners and directors of the Miss USA pageant and its source (state) pageants have blurred the lines between current events and political activism, maybe we should be rethinking what we want from our young girls. Mr Trump, would you have wanted Ivanka to forsake the values you taught her for some silly prize? Why let your staff punish Prejean for not giving up on hers? And for the record I did support the concept of gay civil unions. I'm rethinking that now

Political correctness and beauty pageants

I guess its time for another rant. This time its Carrie Prejean.
What was The Donald thinking when he ok'd Perez Hilton as a judge for his Miss USA pagent? Hilton is a militant homosexual on a mission and to think he wouldn't use this platform for his agenda is silly. This is a guy who is famous for calling celebrities names and making life hell for them as well. His claim to fame is photoshopping photo's with imaginary cocaine and mustaches. I am told that after the show, in an interview, he called her answer polarizing. What kind of an answer did he expect to get from a polarizing question?

An AP story on CNN.com or MSNBC.com quotes him as saying she is supposed to represent ALL Americans. First off, how is she supposed to represent me? I'm a 51 year old married male. I've been married for 21 years. I lost interest in beauty pagents years ago. What she is supposed to represent is the perfect girl next door. She is supposed to be the good girl who studies and wants the American dream (husband, family, home etc). Exactly what does Mario know about women other then he wants to be one and wants everyone to accept him as one? He is not and even if he has a sex change, he still has that nasty Y chromasome. Sorry big guy. This is a man who rode Lance Bass and Reichen Lemkuhl so much that they finally broke up. His public comment after the break up was that now Reichen couldn't ride Lance's coattails. Um, I'm guessing that Paris Hilton must be thrilled that Mario is trying to ride hers.

The problem I have with the whole gay acceptance thing is not the lifestyle. Its that they want to legislate religion. The term marriage is a religious one. The gay community wants a law saying that a union between 2 homosexual partners should be called a marriage. The concept of a union between 2 same-sex partners bothers me because it goes against religous law, laws of nature and laws of science. In England, they have that law but to make it work, they don't call it a marriage, they call it a civil union and I'm ok with that.

Now I'm reading that Keith Lewis, co-director of the Miss California competition told FOXNews.com that he was "saddened" by Prejean's statement. Hey Donald, I'm thinking that Keith and Shanna Moakler should be looking for other work right now. Your folks who are openly stating that Prejean was wrong, (Lewis and Shanna Moakler) should be released from their duties. The idea that these 2 believe her answer was hurtful because she relied on her religious upbringing have no business working your competition.
A quote from the Fox article (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517215,00.html)
Charmaine Koonce, the mother of Miss New Mexico USA Bianca Matamoros-Koonce, argued back. "In the Bible it says marriage is between Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!"

God bless mothers. Its time to get political correctness out of America.

Palin, The Election and Justice

It's time for another rant. I don't trust anybody on either side of the aisle on Capitol Hill, however the Republican choice for this years presidential contest is just crazy to me. In her acceptance speech at the RNC, Sarah Palin says she has her share of troubles like everybody else. This may be true, but "everybody else" isn't trying to convince the American public that they are the best VP choice going.



I have never been accepting of the Hollywood stars that don't need a husband to have a baby. This is wrong. I understand that accidents happen, but in this day and age, the number should be very small. The idea we are sending a just-approaching-middle-age grandmother of an illigitimate kid to Washington just shuts me down. She wants the world to know that she is ready to look after our country when she can't even look after her kids properly. I'm sorry, but a mother in her situation put in place as the VP just sends the wrong message to the American public. Palin can't wait to tie Obama to this radical or that "terrorist" or whoever, but while she may not be a member of the Alaskan party her husband belonged to, sleeping with the enemy just doesn't send good messages either.



Enough on Palin



The bailout package that just recently passed is a big sore spot for me. I saw on the internet the other day, a picture of a man carrying a sign that read "pennies for the people, billions for the banks". I feel this is more truth then anybody on Capitol Hill will admit to. As for what caused the problems, this is where it really gets silly to me. Everytime something goes wrong the Republicans can find a way to blame Clinton. Somehow they look and don't see the deregulation that Regan started in 1980. Regan, GHW Bush, and their allies made life misserable for people like me. Every time a Republican cries tax cut, I'm spending more out of my pocket. It cost me $200 to put my kid in one semester of marching band in the 9th grade. I work with a woman who's teenage girl is a cheerleader. For her, that little treat cost her $600. I had $400 in savings 2 weeks ago. Its gone just paying the dentist and my kids tutor. Who do I turn to when my bills outlast the money that comes in for the month.



The Repbulican crowd in this country talks about how Gorlick and her Democrat friends ran Fanny or Freddy and caused all this. BULLSHIT. It wasn't the Democrats who said give out liar's loans. It wasn't the democrats that made mortgage money available to instutions that had no expertise in mortgage lending. The idea that you have a segment of society earning 8 to 9 figures a year from this mess and another (far far larger) segment struggling with the day to day expences of living is just criminal.

While Al Gore is a favorite to be made fun of, I believe he is correct about his call for civil disobedience. I'm not running out and starting a riot, but lets look at where we are today in this country as far as justice is concerned. Nifong got off with only a token day in jail for all the trouble he caused. We have the Durham PD rivialed by the Hillsborough County Sheriff''s Office (Baby Sabrina Aisenberg) for being able to manufacture evidence quickly. How many Crystal Mangums do we have to watch lie and profit before we start calling for justice. How many innocent men and women have to go to jail and be proven innocent 3,5,maybe even 20 years after the fact before we start investigating DA's. My brother is a lawyer. He is the first one to giggle when I talk about the DA's duty to the truth and not convictions. It was a nice dog and pony show to put Bernie Ebbers in jail and give him people to talk to like Kozlowski of TYCO or Skilling of ENRON. I believe there should have been more. Will there be an investigation into the WaMu's and other instutions that failed followed by prison for the people who ran our financial sector into the ground. I hope so but it will be at best, another dog and pony show.

More later

"Left Wing / Right Wing" Wingnuts All

I've been reading the Duke related blogs for several months now and I am absolutely astonished at the "left wing / right wing" crap that I've been reading. The news media (print and televised) aren't a bunch of left wing shills. Quite frankly after watching BOR, gotta love it, thats Bill O'Reilly to folks like you and me, he has become such a raving lunatic cheerleader for the current president, that I want to throw up.

Nobody seems to remember a word that we used "back in the day". The word is radical. It means to go overboard, go to extremes, go to the outer limits. The media isn't radical left, and I'm not sure its radical right. The media has become a source for making news, not reporting it. When your new article starts out that...The New York Times is reporting........ or The Washington Post is reporting.....or The LA Times has confirmed....etc, there is a problem in your news organization. Quite frankly, if I read that "TMZ has confirmed/is reporting..." whatever, I'm going to start going to the horses mouth directly, and not reading it 3rd hand from someone who told me they got it from, who got it from. I should thank men like Dr. William Anderson of lewrockwell.com or Dr. KC Johnson of Durham In Wonderland for helping me get back on track with my reading.

What I'm seeing is not media biased toward this side or that, I'm seeing media that can make a big enough spectacle that it will sell. Based on what I'm reading in the NY Times or on CNN or where ever, the mass media takes whatever track will get you aroused enough to click on the story and trip their counters so they can sell ad space. This is not leftist, this is not rightist, its amoral fertilizer.

I get so upset when people look at a group like the Dixie Chicks and say things like they represent the lowest 5% of the population that get their news in 5 minutes at the top of the hour. Why, because I don't agree with them, President Bush is a disaster in office. He has not been a friend to the working man. He has given Cheney's buddies at Haliburton and Assoc. 27 billion of our money in "no bid" contracts and now they are moving to the UAE. 6 or 7 million new people now qualify for overtime according to his new rules......11 million lost it and those 11 million are the ones at Wal Mart and K Mart and elsewhere who didn't have it to loose to begin with. The press has been cheering him like dutiful little girls at a football game. Fox is the worst. The name callers are the ones calling "leftist" or "leftist agenda's" or whatever.

Nancy Grace is not leftist. She is a wingnut who will walk past evidence to sell her show. She is on a crusade to make cash and to hell with anybody who gets in her way. Anybody includes the mother of that missing boy she prosecuted....I mean interviewed.

Lest this be perceived as a rant against Nancy, BSNBC and FOX both had the round table discussions about Nancy like they were above any such thing.

I truly am disturbed by the state of the media these days.