Yesterday was such a bittersweet day for me. So, gays can now join the military, huh? That is a great thing - I guess. That's progress - I suppose. It's like when they finally allowed women to partake in combat a few years ago. I was thinking, Strike another one for Woman's Liberation!!!....I think.
To tell you the truth, the end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell - while a good thing - does not fill me with joy. In the autumn of 1945 with World War Two pretty-much over, a young Navy man named Leonard Alfred Schneider was bored by the comparative inactivity of the post war. He was able to have himself discharged from the service by pretending to be a homosexual. That option is gone forever.
By the way, two years after he left the Navy, Seaman Schieder changed his name to "Lenny Bruce". The rest is tragicomic history. Yaddah! Yaddah! Yaddah!
This is all about the underlying, hideous factor of the racism that is so deeply ingrained in the American character. The attempt to portray this president (Of all people!) as a socialistic, left wing extremist doesn't even pass the giggle test for people who have bothered to pay attention to their times and their history. Let's face it - Franklin D. Roosevelt, he ain't! They can't obstruct his agenda with a manufactured scandal regarding his personal life, as they did with Bill Clinton. eleven years ago. Their only hope is for enough of the American people to become really frightened by the Big, Bad Negro Commie. An ironic description when one takes into consideration how boringly moderate Obama really is.
Think about this: In the last presidential campaign only one of the nominees of the two major political parties was born in the United States - Barack Obama - John McCain was born in Panama. Do you find it as revealing as I do that it was the black guy had his citizenship called into question? How much more proof do we need of the overt racism that is inherent in that party - or in our own country for that matter? Honestly, this isn't rocket science, folks!
Joe Wilson and the nincompoops on the far right have opened a Pandora's Box that may very well prove difficult to close. What they are now doing - consciously or unconsciously - are prompting their brain-dead masses toward violence. and intimidation. Who can forget the knucklehead who showed up outside one of the president's Town Hall meetings in New Hampshire last month with a gun strapped to his leg? My biggest worry is that that little incident is merely a small illustration of worst things to come. If you are not seriously alarmed by what is now happening to our beloved country, you're not paying attention.
And now Glenn Beck is all set to become the Martin Loony King of the Far Right with his March on Washington today.
Obama signs ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ repeal
Yesterday was such a bittersweet day for me. So, gays can now join the military, huh? That is a great thing - I guess. That's progress - I suppose. It's like when they finally allowed women to partake in combat a few years ago. I was thinking, Strike another one for Woman's Liberation!!!....I think.
To tell you the truth, the end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell - while a good thing - does not fill me with joy. In the autumn of 1945 with World War Two pretty-much over, a young Navy man named Leonard Alfred Schneider was bored by the comparative inactivity of the post war. He was able to have himself discharged from the service by pretending to be a homosexual. That option is gone forever.
By the way, two years after he left the Navy, Seaman Schieder changed his name to "Lenny Bruce". The rest is tragicomic history. Yaddah! Yaddah! Yaddah!
Cheers and Happy Christmas, everybody!
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Tom Degan
Tea Party on the road to Washington event
This is all about the underlying, hideous factor of the racism that is so deeply ingrained in the American character. The attempt to portray this president (Of all people!) as a socialistic, left wing extremist doesn't even pass the giggle test for people who have bothered to pay attention to their times and their history. Let's face it - Franklin D. Roosevelt, he ain't! They can't obstruct his agenda with a manufactured scandal regarding his personal life, as they did with Bill Clinton. eleven years ago. Their only hope is for enough of the American people to become really frightened by the Big, Bad Negro Commie. An ironic description when one takes into consideration how boringly moderate Obama really is.
Think about this: In the last presidential campaign only one of the nominees of the two major political parties was born in the United States - Barack Obama - John McCain was born in Panama. Do you find it as revealing as I do that it was the black guy had his citizenship called into question? How much more proof do we need of the overt racism that is inherent in that party - or in our own country for that matter? Honestly, this isn't rocket science, folks!
Joe Wilson and the nincompoops on the far right have opened a Pandora's Box that may very well prove difficult to close. What they are now doing - consciously or unconsciously - are prompting their brain-dead masses toward violence. and intimidation. Who can forget the knucklehead who showed up outside one of the president's Town Hall meetings in New Hampshire last month with a gun strapped to his leg? My biggest worry is that that little incident is merely a small illustration of worst things to come. If you are not seriously alarmed by what is now happening to our beloved country, you're not paying attention.
And now Glenn Beck is all set to become the Martin Loony King of the Far Right with his March on Washington today.
Isn't life interesting?
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Tom Degan Goshen, NY