Uncle Art passes away

I just found out that my uncle Art died. That is sad. I didn't really know him though so it's not as sad as one might think. But still, flesh and blood has passed on over to the other side. I feel sad to that. He was my father's only brother and was older than my dad so he must have been at least 75 or so. My dad's sister, my aunt, is still alive and doing well as far as I know. My dad passed away when I was little and I really didn't have much contact with that side of the family. Actually, we moved out of Ohio when I was like 6 so I don't have much contact with any of my family, other than the occasional phone call with my brothers and my sister. It's really a drag, I love my family, I miss them. Whenever we get together (it's rare, due to the distance), I am in awe of them. After living almost my entire life without anyone really like me (I'm a pretty odd duck), other than my crazy ass mother, I get giddy spending time with my siblings. They crack me up. The laugh like me and have the same sense of humor. It's really weird. My brother and I are 7 years apart and we actually grew up in the same house so I know him better than my oldest brother and sister. He was a total asshole to me when I was growing up and I stop resenting him for that recently when he "found Jesus"... that's a total different post (see "conversations with crazy" from 2008 postings). I am glad that he finally sees me as someone with a bit of intelligence and a real idea of how life works. He must have finally accepted the fact that I'm smarter than him... bitter much? I'm working on it. Any way, my oldest brother and sister are the ones that I have spent the least amount of time with and considering they are 14 and 17 years older than I, they are more like parents than siblings. They are really cool people and when the four of us are in a room together, I am happier than I ever thought I could be. I really wish that we lived closer or that I could take a trip to see them every other year or so. I want to have my kids grow up around them and spend Thanksgiving and Christmas at their house and them at mine. I have a family where I live now, my wife and her parents, brother and sister in law... even her grandma is like family, but that doesn't stop me missing my own flesh and blood. So, even though Uncle Art wasn't in my address book or even knew where I live or who I am (he did know who I am I think), it's still a relative and a part of my family and he will be missed. I wish his immediate family well and I hope he died peacefully. I think when my dad was around him and their sister, he was really happy too. There truly is nothing like your brothers and sisters keeping you reminded of who you are and where you came from, (especially when you occasionally can't remember where you came from or how in the hell you got to where you are). So long Uncle Art... see ya on the other side... have Thanksgiving dinner ready for me would ya?

Keeping kids dumb and republican... just how we like 'em

Hello all!
Pathetic... that's what I will use to describe the Right at this moment. I use that a lot to characterize the Rights but this one has it pinned for them. Obama's speech tomorrow. It's directed toward school age children and it's intent is to motivate and stimulate children about education. To give children thoughts about how important it is to stay in school and how a good education can help them have a better future. I mean I probably shouldn't assume so much. Maybe he plans on hypnotizing American children and turning them into future socialists. He's probably got some subliminal messages he's planning to throw in there and splash millisecond photos of Sponge Bob Square Pants smoking crack on the street corner and then standing in line to get free health care to get himself off drugs. I mean it's ridiculous to think and hear that some parents are considering to not allow their children to go to school because the schools plan on playing the speech in class. My daughter's middle school called with a message tonight stating if we didn't want our child to listen to the speech, to send a note and she could sit in a room where the speech won't be on. I wonder how many kids will be in that room, more than we think I'm sure. That's really friggin horrible in my opinion. If Bush or Reagan gave a speech about how important school is I wouldn't deny my child the right to hear them out. If Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck gave a speech, I might question the content, but I still would allow them to listen, while I sat beside them and taught them how to heckle appropriately. It's wrong and silly and crazy. He's not a bad guy, he's not any sort of crazy speech giver. He's not a socialist either.
Rushy pants really started a little "war" when he said he wanted Obama to fail. I mean, I really feel like he started the ball rolling and no matter what Obama wants, the right will put every effort into fighting against it. And... ooh this really pisses me off... "we want our America back!"... that is truly pathetic. Obama, as far as I know, hasn't tried to change the constitution, hasn't tried to turn all of America against each other by stating: "your either with us or against us", he hasn't started a stupid war that we can't possibly win, he didn't try to run the country using Jesus as his main adviser and he hasn't taken the country away from Americans. The town hall meetings are more proof of how ignorant people are about this administration. I thought "tea-bagging" was nutty... these town hall meetings are insane. Whose the guy that said he was going to take his gun to Washington. Did anyone else hear about that? Isn't that like a threat and illegal or no? I mean come on! Then a few days ago I hear some clown say a handicapped person should not be allowed to speak before him. Am I just hearing bits and pieces? Am I being told only sound bytes from the media. Is this a "liberal media" doing it's job at only showing the crazy people or is this shit really happening?
Now, shouldn't we be happy about this health care thing? Especially the poor people right? I understand Glenn and Rush not wanting it, they probably have really good insurance for themselves and their family and could care less but some of these toothless people in the town hall meetings that are screaming out about how wrong this health care thing is just baffles me. It's a little confusing. It's not as if no other country has done this. It's not like we haven't seen universal health care actually work. I mean WTF? I guess we will have to see what happens.
I really hate to say this, and maybe I'm way off base but when I see some of these people who are so adamantly against Obama, I have to wonder if it's because he's black. I really hope that's not the case but so many people call him "our Kenyan President" and so many tweets read "show me the birth certificate". I even saw a bumper sticker here in my town asking for a birth certificate. It's sad and scary but I think that might be a lot of it. I mean, obviously I love Obama but I don't agree with everything. I mean I am concerned about some things going on in Washington, I don't think the man is perfect, but really, not letting your children hear his speech, wishing he would fail, questioning his citizenship and comparing him to Hitler. That's hateful. As much as a fuck up as I think George W. Bush was, I never compared him to Hitler (Dick Cheney to Satan but not Hitler), but maybe it's not a racist thing. Some racists think Hitler is a hero so, maybe I'm wrong. I don't know, I don't want to go there, too touchy just yet. In any event I am appalled that some parents are so ignorant they actually think that Obama is some crazy communist and plans on brainwashing our children to become black or Kenyan or socialists. If my kid wants to be black, more power to him...

Hello!!!
Where have I been you ask? Maybe you didn't. That's ok, I'm cool with that. I've been working and moving and working and moving and working, working, working. I have been so busy at my gay ass job (no, I don't do male-gay-porn) that I have been too friggin' tired to type or think. I didn't even go on Twitter during that time. I'm making tonight's entry short because it's midnight and I have to work some damn more tomorrow. No sleep for the manager.
Today my soccer team had a scrimmage and I'm proud but embarrassed to say we creemed 'em. I'm proud because my boys played really well and I'm embarrassed because I shouldn't have let the score get to 10 to 2. That's just wrong. It was a damn scrimmage, not a playoff game. I got side tracked and didn't get the key players out of the front soon enough. Then it sorta spiraled out of control and kids who I thought would never score were scoring. It was just crazy. Any way, looking forward to Saturday when we play our first game. I have tasted the blood and I want the kill. Last years win made me an animal and I want to have a championship team every year. That's not asking much right?
So, the new house... it's friggin' awesome. We love it. We have a garage and a nice backyard. My son has a basketball court in the backyard and my daughter has a boy next door that's her age and that she likes... wait, we're moving... bars on the windows. It's really nice here, not super duper hot like our old town. Grandma and Grandpa 2 doors down. I did have to do a little regulating with the neighbors already but that's a different post for a different day.
I have to go to sleep now but I promise, on Sunday, I will take a few minutes to write some more. If anyone actually reads this, thank you. I really appreciate you lonely reader. Leave a comment if you feel brave, if not, that's fine too. Just the fact that I have a reader is very exciting.

Here we go again... Yes on 8 a-holes!!!

I swear to green grass and gravy... those mother lovin' sons a bitches! So today, I'm driving along, on my way to work at about 7:30 this morning, happy and ready for a great day, when I get a total dick trying to ruin my morning. Here's how it went: driving along, feeling groovy, when this car pulls up next to me and he has his passenger side window down. It's early in the morning and still cold so I thought maybe he needed to tell me something. I thought maybe he was being a good citizen and informing me of something I needed to know about my vehicle, flat tire or my dress hanging out of the door, you know, something nice. (Oh, by the way, I'd rather drive naked in a convertible without doors than wear a dress... just recalling a lady with her dress hanging out the door once and decided to use that... I'm not a dress wearing kinda chick...). So, I glance over and see him with his window down and think what the heck is this guy doing. I go back to my driving and he drives a little past me, window still down. I start to slow, as I am about to turn into my work when that mother fucker holds a giant plastic "Yes on 8" sign to me. WTF!! I was shocked! How dare that son of a bitch try to ruin my day by showing me his stupid, God damn sign! He was like "Ha ha, I voted yes on 8 gay person". I mean, so fucking what, ya dumb ass. When would anyone ever go out of their way to slow down, reach in their backseat, roll down their window just to say "I'm an idiot and I want you to know"? The nerve of that a-hole. I was so mad and hurt. I rolled down my window and flipped him off and instead of turning at the first available turn like usual, I continued on with my finger out the window the whole time. He sped off and drove up the street. It was almost as if he followed me off the freeway just to do that. Can you even believe that shit? I was absolutely appalled. The only time I say anything to anyone is when they are standing on the corner in a group, protesting. Even then, I don't scream obscenities, I only say "boo" or "your wrong" or sometimes I say "Jesus is gonna be mad at you" (that really gets their goat I bet...). I have one little bumper sticker on my car that says: "defend marriage, vote no on 8", that's it, nothing extreme or radical. Just very simply put. I'm ready to change it and put one that says: "YOUR A DUMB ASS IF YOU THINK YOU CAN RUIN MY DAY BY DRIVING UP NEXT TO ME AND FLASHING YOUR 9 MONTH OLD SIGN THAT SHOWS WHAT A DICK YOU TRULY ARE!!!!"... too wordy?
The other thing that pisses me off is that the friggin' election was in November for Pete's sake! It's July! I mean hello? Are we really starting this fight right now? I guess so. Bring it bitches! I'm down. I'm not even kidding, I'm gonna fight this thing with my powerful bumper sticker abilities and heads will roll. Gay organizers had better start planning this thing because if this dick is holding that sign in his car to drive around town targeting us, what else is up their sleeves? I got involved a little bit this last election, but I'm getting way more involved this time. The organizers were not ready for the challenge that the Mormons brought to us, but they need to work together and get prepared. I had heard some rumours that they were not using very good teamwork to organize so, I may need to make some phone calls... (my Jesus is gonna be mad at you thing is very persuasive to the gay organizers... you can't use it though, it's already patented to me... sorry).
Anyway, that guy was an asshole and a wimp (I had a different choice of word but he's not worthy) because he had to drive off really fast. If I had thought about it, I would have got a license plate number, not to do anything to his car but just to recognize him if I saw him again so I could tell him how I feel and that it's not to late to be "saved". He's probably a closet homo. Wait, not probably, he is or he wouldn't be so mad about it. All I know is look the frick frack out mother lovin' "Yes on 8" bitches because: "I'm here! I'm queer! Get used to it!"... that should be a bumper sticker or at the very least a slogan that gay people can shout at protesters... oh, wait it already is. "Jesus is gonna be mad at you" then.