VA Politicians - You Are NOT Welcome In My Home!

First there was the apparently sexually repressed VA gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli, who wanted to invade my bedroom to see if my partner and I were driving each other to the heights of sexual ecstasy by indulging one another in oral and anal sex. And now along comes Mark Obenshain, who wants to invade that other bastion of privacy: the bathroom! Mr. Obenshain has declared that if a VA woman has a miscarriage, without a physician present, she must report it to the police within 24 hours or risk going to jail for a full year! This is fully as ludicrous as Cuccinelli's crazed concept of crouching expectantly at the bedside of couples throughout the Commonwealth, just waiting for them to get up to oral or anal high jinks - pray tell, how in the hell was he thinking to enforce such a law? And just how does Obenshain plan to come between a woman and her toilet? Follow every woman of copulating age around every time she goes to take a whiz on the off chance she might just "let one slip?" Before legislators waste their time, and our money, proposing such strange, worthless and socially deviant pieces of legislation, they might want to at least investigate the practical nature of whether or not there is any means available to enforce them should they ever, by some cruel twist of Fate, get enacted into law. VA legislators, I've already made it clear by my vote that you are not welcome in my body. Now you are not welcome in my home, either!

Republican Midas Complex

They stay far away from We The People they are supposed to be serving. Yes, because actually "touching" The People, the real, live people who vote for them would get them "dirty." They don't like to be amongst The People, they just like to lie to them and cheat them out of every last nickel and dime, enslaving them by feeding them propaganda about better days and better ways if only they will vote Republican. And some of The People buy into this because it all sounds good "on paper," but it is a house of cards that blows away with the slightest breeze, leaving The People with no shelter from an even harsher economic climate that they will have helped create by electing masters that will punish them with ever-increasing interest rates, soaring inflation, no healthcare and any other societal ills they can possibly think of while they, those greedy, self-absorbed master Rethuglicans sit atop their heaps of riches and laugh all the way to the bank at the destruction they have wrought. But here's a question or two for those that would bring our country to its knees: what will you do when America is decimated and ripe for takeover by another country? What will you do when everything is actually owned by other countries because you didn't invest in America, but sent your resources off shore? You can sit and count your gold all you want, Midas, but it will do you no good when you have lost what is truly treasure."

Party Line Dehumanizing Power

The power of the Party Line to change the moral and ethical values of the good, decent people they elect, effectively dehumanizing them, is something Republican voters need to be made aware of - in no uncertain terms. They are very likely making decisions at the polls, especially in lower level races, on the basis of word of mouth charisma or guy-next-door knowledge, not realizing the impact the Party Line has on these people. And when they run for Congress and get elected their idealism and loyalty to their constituents is soon ground to dust in the cogs of the GOP's dehumanizing machine, stripping them of the qualities they were elected to promulgate in their law-making duties in Congress. But the voters don't see that side of it. And they need to.

In The Beginning.....

It seems like an awesome responsibility, writing a blog. There are readers out there with expectations, after all. Maybe that is a good place to begin. The whole concept of expectation. We have become a society that is driven by expectation. We expect that certain things will happen to us at certain points in our lives. We will live in a family unit that treats us in a certain way. We will go to a school that has an entire set of expectations that we must fulfill to graduate. Then we get a job - more expectations. Find a life partner - expectations piled higher and deeper! STOP! Is there no end to this cycle? No wonder we are all feeling the impact of stress and seeking relief from the symptoms in drugs and alcohol. Expectation easily leads to disappointment. Is there a better way? Let's examine the difference between hope and expectation and the emotional investment you make in each of these. When you hope for something, you are cherishing a desire for something with anticipation of it happening - you don't know if it will or it won't. There is an element of uncertainty that you accept as part of the whole deal. You don't have your heart set on it happening, because you realize that there's a good chance that it won't. But when you expect something, you are regarding it as being likely to happen. So you do start investing your emotions in it, and this is where you set yourself up for disappointment, because the reality of the situation is this: things either will happen or they won't. You've got to prepare yourself, emotionally, for the fact that what you want to happen, may not. And that is why it is so much better to hope for things than to expect them. Hope leaves your options open and protects your fragile heart from life's rougher moments. So dear readers, I hope you will stop by and read my blogs from time to time. I will not stick to any one topic. You'll see everything from political rants to esoterica covered here. It just depends on what I feel like discussing at the time or what I have read on a given day that has stimulated my own thoughts that I'd like to share with you. So please don't expect anything in particular. I hope to generate discussion or at least make you think about how things are going in your own lives by sharing how things are going in mine. So until next time, be well & stay safe!