Don't ask don't tell

Oh the joy.  Just watching the briefing from the generals on the repeal on Don't Ask Don't Tell on CSPAN 2.  They questioned hundreds of thousands of military people and their wives.  (why the wives I am not sure...unless some were questioning what their G.I. was placing his riffle.  Oh forgive me...I could not resist)

Turns out the +90% don't care.  Which means...there are 10% of very loud obnoxious people who have caused a huge deal out of something that few even think about.  For crying out loud...these people are fighting and dying...I don't think the subject of hey...are you single really comes up that much.  I could be wrong.

Then the questions from the press.  My favorite...will they have separate shower and housing facilities?  Answer...NO.  Can you imagine in this day and age.  Those that have been kicked out...can apply again.  Isn't that nice.  SO...an organization has fired you because of who you are, you can now rejoin since they treated you with such respect in the first place.  Lovely.

A three phase plan.  Assessment, implementation, then susstainment.  So..still no time frame.  Because the future is still pending.  (Brilliant observation).  Perhaps they meant...well...now that there are so many republicans in the houses of congress...this could take forever.

Don't get me wrong...I think all these people are committed to their assignment.  I just think the assignment is ridiculous.  I work with gay people...it has never made me feel uncomfortable.  In fact...I am gay....in my youth it made me uncomfortable because of the relentless messages received by the rest of society how I was different.

I also work for heterosexual people, bi-sexual, transsexuals, transgender, questioning...none of which have bothered me.  I have worked with Holy Rollers and Bigots...they bothered me.  However...I never felt the urge to assault them, kill them, or wish they no longer existed on this earth.  I just felt pity for them because in my view their lives were so closed off to what the world of humanity had to offer.  However...who am I to say.  Feel as you wish.

This entire argument seems to be silly to me.  I find it comical to watch very serious people speaking very eloquently about a topic that is such a non starter.

Jezabel

The houses are back in session

First,

Senator Fraken arguing for approving the signing of the SALT treaty.  Basically a treaty to modernize and protect "lose nukes" with Russia.  Huh...hardly important, I mean...what can be more important then the destruction of the entire planet.  Screw that.

Then the Congress.  Listening to the democratics arguing for funding of court cases that have already been ruled in favor of the American Idians water rights and African American farmers for violation of their land rights.  Hard to come down on the other side of that argument.

Leave it the the (R) in congress.  Although framing the argument with lies and nice big words to make them sound like they are not biggots.  In short all the words meant were...we can't give money to those people of color!  Why there will be people who were not a part of that class...so there will be people getting money by lying.  Becaues we all know they are liars.  Why should we give those colored people any money...that money is obviously for us white folks.  Especially those of us from the south.  I just don't understand why people just don't remember their place and get back to working the land, providing food, and serving us fat lazy white people who are not even worthy of walking among the rest of American Society.

Have I said how much I hate these people?

Jezabel

A Thanksgiving Poem

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours
A holiday I have learned to applore
Yes, this is a tale of woes
 but only after decades of dealing with schmoes

If you work in retail you will relate, if not you may not even know what goes on behind the gate
For me I am working today at noon. 
With an injured back, wrist, and a bruise on my hip, a kidney sized shape
This however is the life I choose
In the older days I would do so for you to buy a toaster and pantyhose

Now I have changed to be sure you can buy your supplies to make home made gifts with stuff from China
Yes all those home made projects you adore only got here on big containers that arrived from off our shores
They used to be things made in the USA
However now they are made by folks making a few dollars a day

All this so you can honor white folks conquering the brown
with groceries, recipes, and food made for folks fit for a crown

Those of us working and missing this family day, we only ask you not to treat us as slaves
You see, we too have family and friends, but we never see them on these important days
For we are working, stocking, signing...dripping with sweat
all so you can come in a get a cheap drawing set

So after your meal and time with your friends, keep in mind you are dealing with clerks, managers and employees alike who have given up much to give your tradition some life
With that in your head, if everything does not meet up to your expectation of nice
remember many have given up their time with the kids, friends, husband or wife

As retailers open earlier by hours or days
remember there are many who have given up time, and if you asked, they would say I would love to be with the ones I love and be able to stay

Instead I have chosen to be here in the store to help you select what you need
so please be patient as our companies believe, we should be like Santa and meet every ones needs
Most times we can, However there are things out of our control, like payroll, amount of product and what is advertised as "limited quanities" to get you in the door

So be kind even if you have to wait, or you see a salefloor person at one time all at once, helping eight
Try not to be short of patience or mad, for all that does is make people sad

If a salesperson is needlessly rude, by all means calmly let them know they may need a break
or perhaps some food
You see, for us we don't get any holidays off, we don't get to spend time with the ones that we love
Instead we choose to help you bring joy to those that you like or love

So if you are the type that does not like kaos and lines, perhaps stay home this weekend in time
Or take some valium before you get in line

Jezabel

A week in review

OK...here is what I remember about this week's events.  First there was the handing of the gavel from the Botox lady to the Orange man.  Then the Republicans demanding that we give 7 trillion dollars in extended tax cuts to the top 1% and if not...nobody gets any....none for those damn middle class.  Social Security reform....remember Al Gore and his Lock Box...not so funny anymore is it.  Extend the retirement age...that way more people will die before they reach retirement so they won't be sucking at the national teet.

Alan Greyson (D-Florida) was defeated.  You know...the one who said the republicans plan for health care was to "not get sick, if you do get sick, die quickly".  Oh how the right wing was so outraged.  However...what is on their agenda...repealing health care reform.  Oh how we punish the truth tellers in this twisted country.

Next onto Obama.  Can we all just agree that he is not the man to send into a negotiation of any kind.  The folks in the far east where he was seeking trade treaties laughed at him.  He was ranked the 2nd most powerful man in the world under China's premiere.  (for whatever that's worth)  China pretty much owns the USA anyway...so...seems fairly accurate and non news worthy to me.  I don't see the point of sending a man into a negotiation that already tells the other side what he will settle for?  I thought the idea was to ask for much more then you want, then negotiate down to the point where you get what you actually want?  Is that too complicated for a constitutional professor to understand?

Finally...this reaching across the aisle crap.  Even a 2 year old learns that if they touch the hot stove and get burned...stop reaching over and touching the hot stove!  Not Obama...after two years of the "friends on the other side" giving nothing, agreeing on nothing, blocking everything, making virtual grid lock of the government and making the achievements that were made look insignificant....Obama still says he looks forward to working with his "friends on the other side".  News flash...you have no friends on the other side.  They hate you.  They hate everything you stand for, everything you are, everything you are trying to do, they are just one big ole' bunch of hate.  If it were up to them, they would stop playing, take the ball and go home.  Damn the consequences.  I mean...why not, they have not suffered any for their deplorable actions to this point, why would they be worried about that now.

I guess I have one more thing.  Did you see the ground breaking of the Bush Library.  Just the title alone makes me laugh, I mean...has he ever really read a book?  I know he is on a book tour right now...(can you say ghost writer and plagiarism, many of the passages of Bush's book have been lifted from Bob Woodward's book).  Chenney hobbled his way out to his chair on stage...only thing missing was the black long coat with the hood and a cycle.    That's all I could take...the war criminal supporting the other war criminal on his book tour of a book he did not write, breaking ground on a library that is sure to revise the entire debacle known as the criminal enterprise "The Bush administration".

That's enough for now...stock up on canned goods.

Jezabel

Gretten Facestretchin' and Carl Rove Talk crow about 2012?

So it's Saturday and I just got up from a nap.  Yeah...I am getting to that age.  Anyway...after 15 minutes of lockup raw...I flipped one channel down to see Carl Rove with Gretta Facestretchin?  They were seemingly having an adult conversation about the 2012 Republican Candidate for President.  Really...Rove...The architect of what was the worst presidency in my lifetime...possibly our history?  Being listened too by a woman's who face was stretched so tight she can not close her mouth? 

They each seemed to think they were making sense...it all seemed very "out of reality" programming to me.  She asked him if he thought the media would play a role in painting the image of either candidate?  His response...No...I don't think the press will be that much of an influence?!  WTF?  Then I thought for a second...oh...yeah...maybe he is correct.  That will be two years after the republicans have had their fare share of time to destroy anything that remains of the media in America today.

So..Paliln and Romney...that's the best they could come up with...WOW...whoever said "may you live in interesting times" was surely not a very nice person.

Matt

Lead with a boner

So today was the ceremonial handing of the gavel to the new speaker of the house. It warms my heart to think of all the little chain smoking, alcoholic, orange kids now have a role model...something to aspire to.

I wonder how many times boner will cry on the floor of the house? I think it is currently three.

The new priority? Earmarks. FYI earmarks are less then one percent of federal spending. Nothing like starting with the heavy lifting! Forget the economy, illegal wars, war criminals on book tours, unemployment, the national debt. Let's start with something that will not matter to a bug on a rug.

I wonder what they will be working on behind the curtain as they divert Americas attention to something so insignificant.

Something tells me it will be more redistribution of wealth to the top 1% of wage earners.

Fasten your seatbelt it's going to be a bumpy couple of years.

Matt

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