Things that annoy me
Being told repeatedly, that my gay male best friend will be ‘cured’ if I get him to ‘hit it’ once. There are a number of things that piss me off about this one.
Number one: THERE ISN’T ANYTHING WRONG WITH HIM THAT NEEDS CURING. There are a lot of people on this planet that happen to like penis’s what’s one more?
Number two: Just as I would knock a straight man for a loop for trying to ‘hit’ me I’d do the same to a gay man. “Hit it”? What Einstein came up with THAT expression?
Number three: What precisely is having sex with a woman supposed to cure; his desire to ever engage in sexual activities ever again with anybody? If you hate tomatoes and I force-feed you one then you will miraculously decide that you like tomatoes? How’s that work again?

The United States of America is in its eighth or ninth year of a war on terrorism in the Middle East. The dictionary defines terrorism thusly:
noun
1.
the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.
2.
the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.
3.
a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.

Apply all three of those to what is happening to gay people all over this country. We have a terrorism problem within the United States. When is the cavalry going to come riding over the hill to protect a human beings right to love whom, and where they will?

At this point so many things have come to light that I suppose I should feel vindicated. September 11th, 2001 I told my husband, 'Mark my words, it doesn't matter who did this, we're invading Iraq'. I also spent a fair amount of time preaching to the choir, as it were, about how insane and stupid and cruel and barbaric that would be. My poor husband must love it when I get laryngistis.

Since September 11th we have:
1)Invaded Afghanistan.
2)Invaded Iraq.
3)Tortured POW's.
4)Disdained the opinions of our international allies.
5)Embezzeled billions of taxpayer's dollars.
6)Murdered hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians.
7)Destroyed a secular culture and replaced it with a religious extremist one.
8)Called anyone that disagreed with these international crimes a 'traitor'.
9)Flaunted the Geneva Convention.
10)Disdained the United Nations.
11)Lost a major portion of our own civil rights and liberties.
12)Held corrupt elections in this, the bastion of Democracy.
13)Killed a minimum of three thousand of America's best and brightest.
14)Ignored North Korea so that they now have nuclear capabilities.
15)Allowed American citizens to die in Katrina because all our resources were overseas.
16)Took the embezzeled money away from public education, health care, elder care, and veterans care.
17)Been lied to by our own government to allow them to perpetrate their crimes.
18)Seen a frightening resurgence of religious extremism in our own country.
19)Actually argued about who can marry who when our own soldiers are dieing in an illegal war.


Did I miss anything major?