And this is an excellent response

Dear DNC,

I truly "support" Democrats being elected in 2010 and 2012. I am a "fierce advocate" of the Democratic Party after all. I know that I have promised you my support over the past few decades and have done my best to follow through.

Even now I am "working towards" a financial donation to the Party. I do have to ask for your "patience" though, because as a gay man, my family and I are still second class citizens and are having to funnel our resources towards causes that protect and honor our basic civil rights. "We have a lot on our plate."

We are "proceeding" towards lifting the denial of funds to the DNC and are "developing a strategy" that will get us there by the end of Obama's time at the White House. As a matter of fact, my family has planned several "meetings" to discuss these very important donations and will be sending out a press release shortly to announce our "cocktail party" celebrating Democracy.

Thanks for understanding. And hang in there!

Sincerely,
Liam

With thanks to the author, and Americablog.

OK... I get to hear three words I don't wanna hear.. Happy Pride, everybody...

And I do not want it, no way, no how.

And YES, I'm fucking grouchy and mean, and the Grinch.

There is a bunch of Bosnians or somewhere like that who partied across the court all night, woke me up at 3 am, and drove me nuts. For starters. I was young once, but every week is a bit much. Weird music, women going Oooh oh oh oh, oh oh, oh OH' half the night. W. slept though it and snored.

And woke up to find me pointing my finger to the noise and saying, 'Bang! Just... Bang!'

So he said, 'Who do you think you are, Charles Bronson?'

And I said, 'Fucking right!. Don't they ever go to bed and SLEEP?'

Whereupon we talked for a while.

Near daybreak, well after that, it comes very early right now, gets light at four a.m., He made a decision to go to his appartment, and get some things. I finally got some shut-eye.

Woke up thinking he wasn't back yet, but he was there, sofa critter, snoring on the cusions.

And it was really really late, so had to get to Peter's, and make his dinner.

W. woke up while I was being hectic. And then he said the three words I did not want to hear. 'I love you.'

Gaaawwwd! (whoever she is) That was not what I wanted to hear at all. Ever.

If I am confusing him, I am NOT doing what I intended. I mean, I have never even touched him, let alone look at him in a lascivious way. Have gone out of my way to give him his privacy, and never EVER thought of him in a sexual context. (Ok, I saw his hiney once when I thought he was elsewhere, and it was embarrassing, and commented on it at the time.) But I have never checked out what Steven Colbert calls his 'joy basket'. Never interested me.
He has always been just a nice friend.

Therefore the utter shock, I tell you, SHOCK, at that statement.

On the other hand, I do not want to know what it cost him to say that. But it fucking freaked me out.

Ok, nice to know. Someone 'lurves' you. Am left fucking spitless, how COULD anyone do that?

All I feel is old and useless.

I really, really do not need more complications in my life, you know?

And especially coming from him, who was always so negative, but I'm the exception to the rule? I don't want to go there.

I've just been trying to get him back on his feet and be self-sufficient.

I thought retirement was supposed to be your quiet time, to reflect on your life, what you thought you achieved, and to study and become even better.

No one ever told me it would just be 'another fine adventure'.

But it was very nice to hear someone tell you they love you on this day of all days, someone who is the same sex.

Confusing? Gawwd...

Forty Years.....

We often have a show on tee-vee called Zeitzeugen. Witnesses of a time. People who were at an event that was seminal in changing things. Steven Colbert interviewed Jim Fouratt who was at the Stonewall Inn forty years ago, which changed much in the world. Admirably, he was rather subdued. For Steven.... But it was a fascinating interview. For a young person in the 60's struggling to find a true identity at the time, I wish that there had been positive examples I would have wished to emulate, so progress was made. But it isn't over, and forty years is a very long time to want to not feel somehow inferior.

Back then, we didn't have role models. We thought we were somehow 'different' and non-functional. We got left out of a lot of things because people perceived us as 'not being right, somehow'. And there was no one to turn to. And you felt so alone, it was like being in the vast universe. You felt like some kind of freak of nature, and the Church only enhanced it, and you despaired. And thought of just ending your life, and I tried it when I was seventeen. But it didn't work. The car ran out of gas.

That is one horrible thing to feel. Useless...

At least that changed.... A lot of young people won't want to kill themselves, and there are enough who do.

So am not a person who can shout out 'happy pride'. But it is nice to see younger generations not having those problems, although it isn't something widespread in the world...


Now for a witness...

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Here is a good link

to sign a petition regarding single payer health care reform. I would highly reccomend it.
Go here. You'll be glad you did.

I have never commemorated this before...

But since this is the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York... Well, it is nice to think of the brave people who got out there into the police people's faces. Question to Obama... how much longer do you expect us to just 'wait' because you are uncomfortable with the subject entirely? When are you going to get over the idea that people of the same sex can also be romantic and make love?

And I have never been up to commenting on this before, but you know what? I never found a good clip, because the MSM WANTS to see us as the freaks, and the abnormal, or crazy people among them, like sleepers or something. So they concentrated on the flamboyant members in the community, and the others they just ignored. Or didn't show. That would be too frightening, of course....

Here's to fourty years of struggling for rights. Yes, progress has been made. But to be told to WAIT. For things that would be easy for him to 'fix' without losing face, till Congress and the Senate could fix it permanently... He or his advisors are really really, really uncomfortable and afraid of the subject.

Currently there are people who want to excorsise 'teh gay' out of teenagers, and it is all over the internets. I do not want to know how fucked up those people are going to be. Where is the difference between Iran and America, I can rightly ask. People are who they are. You have this Xtian taliban who want to impose their values on you and then do as they please in private, see Mark Sanford?

Well welcome to it... I don't understand it...

So here is a clip I can subscribe to. Forty years ago, and they all had BALLS.

Well, Colbert outdid himself....

40th Stonewall anniversary. I can not find a Youtube clip to embed. But he had me in hysterics for laughing. The satire was so biting, it was excruciatingly funny.

Freud examined the roots of humour. He came to the conclusion that people laugh because what is said actually hurts. And I have never heard anything since to refute that theory. Except that satire really aims for the bull's eye and is meant to be hurtful.

Colbert outdid himself in very few minutes summing up what is going on in the GLBT community the past week or so, and was brilliant.

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Rachel sums it up, all right....Watch

Have refrained from any comments the last six days

About the 'disappearance' of South Carolina governor Mark Sanford. Just another pecadillo by a hypocrite who ran off and had an affair.... Except... he was considered presidential candidate material, so nix that... and he was holier than thou on 'sanctity of marriage', as hypocrites always are... and he got out the scourging utensils when his mostly Republican colleagues 'strayed from the path'. We shall see if he holds himself to the rigid 'morality' he tried to impose on others, and resigns, but I doubt it. They never seem to have a sense of shame, when it comes to themselves.

Not to mention resposibility.

So yes, the Schadenfreude is really great, however sad his dilemma is.

It is always gratifying to see hypocrites shown up for what they are.

Ummm... what was that about casting the first stone? In that funny book that my grandfather used to keep locked and called 'The Book of Horrors'?

Whatever, question is whether he did it on taxpayer funding... and better to know now that he is irresposible.

My favorite comment came from Jon Stewart: His brain is conservative, but his penis is liberal.

Cracked me up.

Just another day in Hell A....

You go shopping, and then all hell breaks loose. Amis are so fucking crazy....



Fun sometimes, but crazy....

A Waltz by Leonard Cohen.... about Vienna...

I'd like to go to that concert. Our paths have crossed, but we never met.

Have been a bit silent the past few days, but there were reasons...

W. is back with a vengeance. He seemed to be doing so well, and then he went fully paranoid. Fully.

Imagine coming home, and finding someone telling you to shush, pointing to the measuring thing on the radiator, then at your turned off notebook, and whispering, 'They are listening, and hear everything.'

Uh-HUH!

I was NOT amused, believe me.

The past couple of days, he seems to be doing better. But I had to do a lot of talking and listening....

Mostly listening, come to think of it...

He is seeing a doctor, at least...

But some days am very very tired.

Am following the events in Iran, but do not wish to comment, other than to say that Obama is doing the right thing so far. And Graham, Gingrich, and their ilk are being incendiary and dangerous. Talk about trying to throw the administration under the bus that hasn't arrived yet! They should just stfu or I might be tempted to clamp the tips of their tongues with a pair of pliers.

You see? Sometimes people give you some bad ideas....

Huh.... some people are absolutely crazy

Looked at my Site Meter data, and it can be interesting, you see what people were looking for when they landed on your site. And that can be anything, really... but get few crazies, thank goodness. Today there was one who got there using the google search: 'crushing balls with pliers'.

Errrm.... I really really cannot remember using that term anywhere in a post, but who knows? Sometimes I spout off...

Creeped me out. Google isn't always your friend.

Just saying.

Oh my! Looks like I am going off on an excellent adventure...

In November, shortly before my sixtieth birthday. It doesn't seem real to me yet. Not really. The absolute WORST part of it is that I'm going to have to fly most of the way to where I am going.

I absolutely abhor flying. Absolutely. But then I get to take a train to an undisclosed location in a country I have never visited. And get the best birfday present I have ever gotten, something I have always wanted. And no, it isn't a tattoo...

I just thought... if I am going to become an official oldie in December, I'd better get a move on and do something I always wanted to do. I just got my flight confirmation in the mail. It was very inexpensive.

Am certain it will be unforgettable.

I'm glad I decided to get off my ass and stop moping, for once.

And no, it isn't anything serious. Just something I always wanted to do.

And am very happy that I have the chance to do it.

Yes, I know, cryptic. But that is all you need to know about it. Am optimistic and looking forward for a change....

Autotuning the news....

I just love these things.... was time for something amusing. The past days haven't been.

Ok, this says a lot... WUSS!

Seemingly Obama won't grant health benefits for partners of government employees, although he is supposed to be so supportive, and afraid of losing donations or something... Or it might be too expensive. Who the fuck knows at this point? (They can give billions to Wall Street and banks, but health care? No. What is wrong with this message?)

I have never seen anything so pathetic. If you don't want to commit to a cause, keep your bloody mouf shut! And show your predjudices for what they are!

Link HERE. The H word is beginning to be uppermost in my mind nowadays. And even the link to the NY Times in the article is interested. They don't seem too impressed either.

Bill Maher says some things I am currently thinking..

h/T to Joe

WTF? New rubric..... gay bashing isn't the order of the day here.

W. regressed into PTSD. I do not want to get into it. Waaay across town, and said can I take a taxi and bail him out, he couldn't pay his corfee bill, his wallet got stolen.

Swell. A thunderstorm was just ending to make it all 'fun'.

So I headed off to the taxi stand. Halfway there, he calls back, problem solved, I should go home.

So I did... Now, I had a REALLY bad morning, ok? And that didn't help my mood any. No, not at all...

And there was ths skin-head in front of me, about thirty, with his 'chum', dark-headed, pushing his bike. And this ASSHOLE, (the skin) was bragging about how he recognises all the foreigners out on the square, and going on about them. And since I was already irritated to the MAX... And got really, really angry.

So I accelerated, and got on his walking level. And said:

'You don't know fucking SHIT! And you don't know ME. And I was a foreigner, but am now an Austrian citizen, you dork!'

And he said 'Riiiight, where were you from?' And I said, 'USA'. Whereupon he replied, 'Right, and I'm from Jamaica.'

'Well, you look a little too pale for that, dork!'

Whereupon he replied, (we were at the point where I entered my door) 'Just go home, you faggot Bongo...'

And that remark caused hilarity inside of me, you know... so out of left field.... And I turned around, and said, 'Oh.... BINGO!!!.' And exited.

Now let's re-play this if it had been in my home town. True, a given, I was mad as hell, and it had background reasons. But!

If I had done something like that there... I would have ended up broken in a gutter, nearly dead, and then in hospital if I weren't.

That is the difference.

And no, am not going to take any SHIT any more. From anyone. I've lived my life, and will not let anyone denigrate it any more. But people here seem to be civil. Even if they can be stupid.

I saw a poster... Leonard Chohen is going to sing in Burgundy in Auguest....

So I looked over at You Tube and found this.



It brought back so many memories. W. loved the song but never knew what it meant. So I translated it for him, and was amazed about the text myself, because I never really paid attention to it in that way before.

Obama upholds DOMA. Follow the money.

Yup, it is always about the money, but the language is fucking awful. Link here.

This is how I am thinking and feeling as well at the moment...

The link is here.

What IS it with the police here??? Part two....

So am riding the bus to Peter's.... fairly in front... and some asshole local pulls out in front of it to zoom right up the Annenstrasse, and the driver nearly slammed into him. Which could have caused casualties.

Hadn't slept since the evening's 'wonderful' adventures... not. But I did see the idiot's license plate number. So at the next stop... you can't talk to the driver while he is driving... I went up to him and said, 'the license plate number is G16WEB.'

And he said, 'That is not going to help at ALL. The police won't do anything. Anything. But thank you.' And I don't want to know what that guy's pulse rate was at the moment for sure....

Well that is certainly a comfort. Cold comfort to be sure.

And noooo.... the recent full moon hasn't made me go vigilante, or super-nerd, or anything, but there are borders you do not cross. The police are ok here, as far as police go, and you never want to have anything much to do with them, true. But they aren't facists, or anything of the sort.

Good, I got put down by a few last night. Others told me I did the right thing. People are inexplicably afraid of 'the Hey', as the Viennese call them. (It is slang for PO-lice) I met good ones and bad ones in my line of work, and the bad ones were a minority... So what the FUCK?

What I am trying to get at is this: If something horrible had happened to my neighbor, I would have 'the Hey' on my neck, asking, Herr Nachbar (neighbor) didn't you HEAR anything? Which would have led to me being called up before court for not having done anything. There is a law here. It is about civic duty. (Remember the Kitty Genovese case in New York? Hundreds of placent witnesses would have been liable for not reacting here today. It is sort of about that. And the link to it is in the name, if you do not remember.)

So if G16WEB keeps going as HE drives, how is that bus driver gonna feel when that narcissistic, get-out-of-my-way driver runs over a child or anyone else, because he feels he is entitled to the right of way? Narcissistic, agressive to the max, and the wrong person to be behind the wheel.

But oh, no... bus drivers have a dangerous job, and carry up to 130 people per course. Are responsible for their safety, and do a good job. But to report blatant hindrances that endanger their work and their passenger's safety? Not so much.

And I am SO not ok with that....

Now THIS is macabre!

A woman who just missed the doomed Air France plane that crashed some days ago... died in a car crash in Austria a few days ago. Remind you of Final Destination films? Story here. Give you a shiver, or anything?

I don't know what it IS about the police here... full moon edition....

This past full moon was full of 'fun' and surprises for everyone. There was a big 10 year anniversary fete at Chaplins next door and it rocked the house. Literally. So loud. And then house parties that kept going till four a.m. In seven years, have never experienced such a racket in my little court.

Tonight it got 'better'. My neighbor's ex woke me up by yelling and screaming outside her door. As usual, I try not to listen to young people with raging hormones screaming. Until he literally kicked her door in, and there was this 'silence'. So I caught him leaving, and told him to get the fuck out of the house. As in, this is what I want to hear at one-thirty in the fucking morning, hey. He demolished the door. So I started yelling for my neighbor by name, and she didn't answer. Nothing. Dead quiet.

Which scared me. So I did what I never do. I called the police. They came in a matter of minutes. Five men, two women. She had hidden in the attic, and seemingly didn't hear me calling. She refused to file a complaint, and then they got mad at ME, a few of them did, although they were angry with her, actually. It really creeped me out.

A few of them said I had done the right thing. Small comfort there....

She said, 'I can't defend myself...' seemingly crushed.

But the ex came back, and she went nuclear. And kicked him in the balls, which he loudly complained about from out in the court, holding on to his 'joy basket', as Colbert recently termed it.... Good for her.

They should have stuck around, the police should have....

I don't understand how they evaluate these things. The door was splintered and the frame is a wreck. He'd torn her top.

My gawwd. Life is so short, there is really no room for that kind of violence, and you can apply that to the crazies who are making everyone miserable in the US this past week as well. WTF are they thinking, hey?

Stephen Colbert is in Iraq. And fucking Sarah Palin let it slip per Twitter, just before it happened. It was supposed to be a surprise.

He was good, but I guess just warming up. Getting a buzz cut from General Odielo was fairly ballsy...

But I liked the underlying message The MSM is so concentrated on financial news, they forget that they have 130.000 people still stationed in Iraq, and feel neglected.

As far as I know, Colbert is sort of left-leaning, but poses as right. And he did fine with it.

Actually, his Army buzz cut made him look five years younger, but that isn't the point.

He actually had the balls to go to Baghdad. He is one of my media heroes, because he puts his money where his mouf is.

As for Palin... the idiot twittered, and it went viral. So last week, everyone knew where he was going to go. He'd kept it a big 'sneakret'. It was fun to guess where.

I hope the FBI waterboards her, and gives her sleep deprivation for five weeks.

Disclosing state sneakrets like that. (smile)

Caribou Bear-Chair Barbie is really not ripe for any sort of job, seems like, and I want to see her disappear into a non-disclosed location, given a lobotomy till she doesn't know who she really is, and just smile, and rock, smile, and rock... hundreds of non-aborted babies she believes are hers. For starters.

The more I see of Plastic Woman, the more I want to throw up.

At least Barbie didn't have any PARTS, or nipples for that matter. And we do NOT want to begin about hemaphrodite KEN.

All plastic, no parts....

No wonder they never married...

Anyone want to talk about abstinence only 'education'? Can only come from people whose whoremones were so suppressed, they had no urges... It was a defect.

I can't find any other explanation for it.... sorry....

Update: the second one was great. He never shys away from controversial subjects. Please go here and check out the full episodes if you do not have it on your tee-vee system.

Had a bad day, but liked what I saw....

Nite for a while...

Am so waiting for Stephen Colbert in Iraq

His absolute genius is amazing.

And I know... some people do not get him. But the fact is, he is a 'construct', an artisitic figure, and the satire is sometimes so mean and angry, it is over the top for good.

But.... he is really involved in getting funds to children of US force troops for their school projects, and help the wounded coming home... He seems to do a lot.

But shh! Don't tell anyone....

Or the others might want to horn in on his gig. Although they should.

Genius. Pure and simple.

I could cite an Austrian that good, but he has long since left the realm of the living. And people wouldn't understand him anyway. Helmut Qualtinger. Legendary here. He too could hold up a mirror to society, and blow their minds without them turning against him.

And that, my friends, is art with a capital A.


Update. Hard audience, but they went with it. He has some cojones. But we've known that since he stood a couple of feet away from Bush at the Washngton Press dinner, and lambasted them. That was a high point in my opinion. Am waiting for him to soar. And yes, he plays nerd... but is anything but.

His finest moment so far....

Herrgottnochmalsakramentfixhallelujah...

Couch critter is back. Spent the entire afternoon at the police office, being interrogated. Supposedly he beat her up this past Thursday.

If there is ONE THING I KNOW... he is not violent, never wanted to have anything to do with his ex, and is the most pacific person I know. If you live in close quarters with someone for over three months, you KNOW whether they have a violent streak or not. And according to my criteria, he wouldn't hurt a fly.

Unfortunately, he helped Peter and I on Thursday morning, and I do not know what he did the rest of the day. So I can't go and be a witness to his not having beat her up.

But I DO know.... he was so over this person, he just wasn't interested in her at all, let alone hurt her. She damaged him for over one thousand Euros, which was why he was on my floor for over three months.

I am so fucking angry that he wouldn't have me over there and give some sort of witness. Except I wasn't there on Thursday evening, so have no alibi for him. But I KNOW he would never do something like that. I KNOW. I will not stand by and see him be punished for something he never did. Because if there was anybody who would be violent, he would have decked me several times over the past three months. He has never been other than courteous, friendly, and very good to both Peter and myself, and I just do not, DO NOT want to have this shit.

Did I say I was angry? Oh yes, I did....

Am beside myself with anger right now. Beside myself. If there is one thing I know, I know what makes W. tick. He has been in enough violence all his life, and believe me, being nasty to some woman isn't in his repertoire. He'd rather let them beat HIM up before he would do anything to one of them.

And now he wants to run away.

Fun. Not.

And I am still pissed off to the max, because he wouldn't let me help.

Summanabitch.... So he is on my floor, because if she gets beat up again tonight, I am the guy who knows he didn't do it. Weekends are violent sometimes in Austria.

Hokay, back to the Eighties... I think it was, and 'Freak OUT!' Thumpa thumpa thumpa, 'Freak OUT!'

Yup, am just one big ray of sunshine today.

huh, as if...

Just when you think.... I really love the Austrian playwright Nestroy. 'First it comes differently... and secondly, than you think.' He lived in the seventeen hundreds, and was very funny, by the way. And wrote the original play which later became 'The Matchmaker' by Thornton Wilder, and the... na ja, musical 'Hello Dolly'. We will not speak about the latter.

Whatever... just when you think you did someone a good turn, as with the couch critter, and he finally gets his own place... turns out you might have been wrong. Yes, I hear from him every day. And he was upbeat about taking our old kitchen and installing it in his one.... Which was fully ok with us....

And then I get 'the call'. He's at the police station. 'Freak out!' (thumpa thumpa thumpa,) Freak out!

And can he crash on my floor again, because he lost his apt.

'Freak OUT!', thumpa thumpa thumpa, Freak OUT!

I can NOT, not, for the life of me imagine what the fuck he did to get into that situation. It defies the reality of my imagination.

Ok... I can 'imagine' that he got his minister of the exterior into someone's ministress of the Interior. And really messed up. That I could understand. Fucking it up, you should pardon my French. But going out and doing something intentionally untoward?

If there is one thing I know about him... he would never intentionally hurt anyone whomsoever, whatsoever, in any case. In our sometimes heated debates... and they could be really caustic on both sides... I have never seen anyone more open to discussion, and willing to concede a point if I made a hit on being rational.

Never.

So this is more than upsetting.

I wish the fuck I knew what is going on.

And I do not know what the hell is going on right now. And I do not think he wants me to call him on his cell.

So all I can do is wait.

Fun. Not. Just when you think you got something good done, you get fucked over. Well isn't that a kick in the pants?

Thumpa, thumpa, thumpa, Freak OUT!' Sorry, couldn't get it out of my stupid head....

Did the President reference Gays today on his German trip?

or was I dreaming? He's gonna keep a promise? I don't think so any time soon. Will have to scour the nets... They didn't just kill Jewish people. They killed gays. They killed Communists. They killed everyone who wasn't with the 'programme', and were good at oppostition.

A lot of people do not know that.

Ok,,,, the President is in Germany... and he went and vistited what was left of Buchenwald

It is a geopolitical move, and he is smart.

It looked like archeologists moving over a site they dug up. Because they razed it.

In the Seventies, I got litterally FORCED to see Dachau. I didn't want to go... I knew what went on there.... It turned out to be a very good museum. And non-biased, and explained how it all happened. But the explantations were only in German.

I got half-way through the museum... and then there was a film theater, to really hammer it in. I have never seen anything so horrific in my life. So I ran out of the building to get some air, and there was this monument.... stacked skeletons.

And these Amis lined themselves up before it, and yelled, 'Smile'.... Click. They took pictures.

And I thought, 'Close this place down NOW! It isn't fucking Disneyland....'

If that kind of disrespect is common, there is no point in keeping them open.

The Documentation is really enough.

So just accept that it happened, and make sure it doesn't happen again....

And oh yes, you REALLY want to get trapped in the creamatorium in Dachau during a thunderstorm.

I really reccomend it for an 'experience'.

But he did good...

oh my...

my little neighbor Anna was out on the loose in the garden. She is three. I had gone out for snigarettes, and she came running at me yelling 'René!' I was taken aback, to tell the truth... And she wanted to show me everything in the garden that she had discovered, and pulled a berry and nearly put it in her mouth. It is poison.

I talked her out of it.

Wasn't easy.

A few months ago, she could hardly put two words together.

My goodness, people.... children are little miracles. Have always thought that.

I spoke with her mother. She is having a very hard time.

But to see that little child running toward me, and happy to see me... that is one of the nicest things that has happened to me in weeks.

And no... I had always wished that Peter and I could have been Madonna, and adopt a little child, and given it a home. I think I would have been a good parent... Sometimes that makes me very sad.

Yeah, I know... my life is full of drama. But I wouldn't have gone there if I had had that responsibility, you know?

Sometimes I could just barf.

Obama's speech in Cairo...

Well done. Eloquent. Pouring oil on the water, so to speak....

Watched it at Peter's house, it was noontime here.

And I know... someone is gonna say, 'he's gonna come up with 'but'....'

Yup.

Words are really cool, and eloquence is something so rare in the world these days, it becomes amazing when someone can express themselves in any way at all. And the master of eloquence is the POTUS.

But words aren't enough. You have to act on them, and show that you mean them.

I'm really not crazy about the actions so far. That he is having trouble closing Guantanamo is understandable. I don't want to know what is going on behind the scenes. I do NOT like him wanting to get war criminals let off scott free, and him keeping people prisoned without recourse to any sort of law.

And I do NOT like... not moving to repeal the vicious DADT programme that Clinton instated.

I call that shooting yourself in the fucking foot. Many of the fired were highly trained, and more than qaualified to do their jobs.

Now, if I, as a gay person, can have an überhetero in my house for three months who hated gays, but was between a rock and a hard place, and he becomes a friend... I never hit on him! He just became more tolerant, because he likes me as the person I am. And I would imagine that it would be like that in the Armed Forces. You watch out for one another, and sex has nothing to do with it, you know?

You're just friends. Like brothers, the good ones... not Cain and Abel...

Whatever, if Obama wants to pacify the world.... all the beautiful words aren't going to do shit. He will have to DO something to prove what he is saying, and let it be known.

And yes, I know that he hasn't been in office long, and has a lot on his plate.

But on these two issues, I find him lacking.

Okay, this one is for Terrible. Vt. 2+1/2, NH 1... My kidding and state rivalry...

Yeah, NH got a gay marriage equality act. After you did. If youse guys are gonna be so progressive, stubborn, insist on Constitutional rights and butt your heads against walls, (excuse the euphemism...) NH has a long way to go to even come close to what you all do for amazing. Hell, it took Iowa to get NH to see the light. Just sayin'....

I really really hate to admit this, Terrible. But I do not carry grudges, oh no... It is envy, I tell you, envy! I wish I had grown up there.... some days.

Hell, I should have known when Harold Dean came along, but didn't want to see the signs.

And for those who do not know what I am speaking of... Terrible is so straight, you could use him as a Dietrich to pick a lock, but has a very large heart.

Am so glad NH joined you all...

With regard to Dr. Tiller's assasination...

Am disgusted.

And have a story to tell. But first I have to say that no 'man' should ever be able to make a legal ruling on what women decide to do. If they decide to abort, am sure it isn't a simple decision on anyone's part.

Two decades ago, a young woman I knew was diagnosed with a disease that her unborn child would have. They found out way after the first trimester that the child had a congenital defect, and would surely die. Six years at the least, twelve at the most.

And the child would advance to the age of three, and then regress.

And she had the option of aborting right then. But decided against it, and carried the child to term.

And it was as the doctors said. That poor little child suffered for fifteen years, and died recently. As in several months ago.... His mother passed up EVERY chance to succeed in life, and I hate to think of what she gets now.... with no chance of going into the job market again. And not old enough to get a pension.

That last is not denigrating. That was HER choice. Fortunately there are doctors here who would have prevented all that. But she didn't want that.

And her life might have been fully different.

So as above, it is the woman's choice to decide. And men have no right to legislate what they decide to do. No right....

And yes, I have chosen an extreme example of what the right wing would have everyone do. Go on and suffer immensely.

GAWWD's gonna luv ya, oh yes...

So if someone like Dr. Tiller could have prevented all that, and she would have been good with it, she would have had a totally different life.

But in 'Murika, it isn't possible any more, and the people who want to help get assassinated.

Well ain't that swell... And it should always be the woman's decision. Gawd sort of gets in the way over there, doesn't he/she....

That killing was heinous.

Blogger can drive me crazy... Really. Just out of my mind... What's left of it...

It wouldn't let me in. Again. I know, I know, have said that under other circumstances, but it is just weird with the pc.

Was busy the past two days. Peter got hospital leave, till his next operation on or around the eightteenth of the month. Moved back in Monday. Werner helped, thank goodness. There was a lot to do....

In the interim, they have given him so many meds, I don't know how the fuck he is going to function.

He insisted on going out and eating Indian food today. So we did... But then he got distressed. Werner got him home in time to do the WC thing. But...

Now I know what everyone was talking about in the Eighties. People who had partners with Aids, and the bathroom stuff.

He started yelling I should come into the living-bed room because he was shitting himself. The meds. Without warning. He'd turned over on his side, because he didn't want it all over the fresh bed.

Good boy, hey....

So I improvised with a plastic container, and then had to wash his hiney. Nota bene.... I have NEVER washed his hiney before. It was something I wished I had never seen, and never hoped for. Make that: the LAST thing I would have hoped for....

And noooo... am not complaining. While it happened, all those people who documented all they went through flashed through my mind, and I thought, 'Ok, you were lucky... but now it's your turn.'

He felt so humiliated, it was heart-rending.

And me? I was very shocked for the moment. But got over it fast...

Tomorrow, I am going out and get him a bed pan, damn it! He's already GOT a thirty Euro bottle to pee in that won't back up, once he learned to get his minister of the exterior INTO it....

Ok, ok, am cranky, will admit.

All that keeps me going are the brave people who put up with so much more back then. And then I feel humbled.

Just sayin'