Because Hell, Hell is for Children

I think that we see the complete dumbing down of our congress. Now Blue won't go to the old chestnut about "Congress-Progress" but suffice to say that if one can say something stupid it will garner attention and about 200 trolls that will tell you how correct it is. UNLESS a child calls one on your bullshit then instead of pandering to the future voter (and trust me 'Candidate Bachmann' in two years this IS a voter you're pissing off) your minions come out and offer to to rape her and call her a whore.

I speak of Amy Myers. A 16 year old class president that noticed that it seems that Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) or as I call her "Bat-Boys" spawn, is playing fast and loose with the Constitution. Now for Blue and some of his more intelligent pals this is a no brainer but for the 16 year old to notice calls for a wake up to our country I would believe. Instead this group of 'Manchurian Candidates' and it's followers are turning to their standard argument go to move. Threats. Of course, Representative Bachmann is standing tall saying this is not what we want to do to prove our views are correct right? NO. She's notable for being silent for the only time in her worthless life.

Amy Myers has been called a "whore" and threatened with being raped and having her address put out for all to see. Why? Because she actually believes that she can be anything she wants because she has the American can do spirit? I get it Madame Representative, you're in the no win position. You debate her and IF you win you were supposed to and when you lose it's humiliating, I understand. But for you to stand silent  while your minions try to terrify a 16 year old adolescent speaks to what your character really is. You are one of the many reasons that this old liberal will stay that way and the thing is, you probably aided in solidifying  another young idealist to cement her views on the left wing...keep marching to the sea you will eventually get there...

Give Me Something to Believe In, Cause I Don't Believe In You Anymore, Anymore

Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand. So, if they say to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If they say, ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send out his angels witrh a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

—Matthew 24:23-31 

This should have told anyone who profess knowledge of the Word of God or who flaunt their "holiness" to all that Reverend (and I use that term loosely) Camping was a holy rolling nutbag. However, he used his "authority" and duped some poor saps while the vast majority of us took the "rapture'' as a joke. 

As some of my other poor misguided citizenry used the 'rapture' as God's clear anger at Obama, wouldn't it stand to reason his failure to not take any of us (except Maybe Randy Savage) would tell us that He thinks BHO is doing just fine. See the losers in this faux rapture are none other than followers of "Republican Jesus". This Jesus' patron saint is St. Ronnie of Eureka and they have not only looked forward to it but prayed for it so badly they have taken the Word of God and perverted it (which I believe is ALSO a sin) to the point where if I wasn't a Christian already (albeit fairly weak but a Christian nonetheless) I would pretty much be an atheist due to the wild inconsistencies trumpeted by these nutbags. The consistent Bearing of false witness, the coveting of other men's wives, the constant adultery, and the failure to hate the sin and love the sinner gives constant mixed messages in something that in actuality is stated pretty clearly. 

Let me remind my fellow Americans again of a few simple truths. One, When Jesus returns we won't know shit about shit about it. It's not like Gabriel or Peter will turn to us and say "Christ is coming, look busy!" and even if they did, the words would be in Aramaic so we wouldn't understand what they were saying. Another, JC will NOT look like Ted Nugent ca. 1975. If He looks like He would coming out of the region of the world He did, well frankly some of the more conservative folks would not feel comfortable riding on a plane with Him AND his gang of 12. In fact IF Christ returns to this place and time, and made his wild promises of turning water to wine and feeding 40 with a loaf of bread and a fish most would call Him a snake oil salesman. 

So, can we drop the pretense of the 'close, personal relationship' with your God. It's really tiring and frankly 2/3 of the citizenry really has not a clue about of which they talk

Spend each night in rapture...

Well, if the fundies are correct this is the last blog Blue will write. It's not that I'm about to be raptured but if the rapture as sponsored by the Koch Brothers happens well then I won't have much to say. See all of heaven will be laden with these reich wingers and then with any bad (read sane) republicans left down here, we can settle our differences over a trip to Starbucks. So color ole blue as someone who is looking forward to it. It's not that I believe what is being said I mean it says in the Bible (pp) that man will not know when Christ will return. It makes sense I mean if/when Christ comes and he lets His followers know "I'm coming, look busy" and if he gives the date how much you want to bet some will be bastards up to about three days before and change their song at the pivotal point. But, hey the fundies need to believe they control everything but you gotta figure that if/when Christ returns, He will have a say in the agenda.

As I say it's not that I don't believe like many of my fellow liberals, I DO believe. I choose to think though that my God is more compassionate than this nutty control freak that hates His creation, that created everyone different so they better act the same, I mean what truly separates Christianity, radical Islam and orthodox Judaism from a cult? Is God some pathetic, needy Marshall Applewhite that needs control so much that He creates something merely to destroy it? Shouldn't God be the one that comforts me when I have questions? When we hear that there is a down factor in our life, shouldn't God be our comfort as opposed to some giant parental figure in the sky wagging a finger saying "if you listened to Me this wouldn't happen here's My punishment".

As I stated last week I am a recovering alcoholic, I do not normally bring this up and I have twice in a week I apologize but it is germane to the blog at this point. I was at one of my first AA meetings and a person turned to me and asked if I had a relationship with God, I was struggling and I said something along the line of it doesn't matter I'm going to Hell anyway. He said that it wasn't going to help me if I didn't have a higher power. then he said these magic words to me "If your God isn't working for you, fire that motherfucker and get a new one". From that point on almost instantly I realized. at least my God, doesn't want me or my brethren to suffer. So if Heaven truly is a Reich wingers wet dream then please at the rapture, keep me here. I will forage for food or I will suffer for my liberal beliefs in Hell. If I'm lucky I meet FDR and Bob LaFollette.

to the left, to the left my politics will lean, to the left, to the left

In 1980 the Dukes of Hazard was the number one show in America. The United States Hockey Team defeated the dreaded Soviet Union Hockey Team 4-3 in one of the great 'sports as political statement' games, ranking up there with Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. It was also the time that a young adolescent felt a shift in political viewpoints. The proverbial pendulum took a hard right turn. Perhaps US hostages being held in Iran, a perceived weak president and a guy who promised America would be back was just what this country needed. I raised holy Hell as a young liberal. "He's only gonna lead us to WWIII and this time there will be no turning back!" St. Ronald of Eureka did not lead us to WWIII but his logical extension the Shrub sure did. But, as i love to do I digress, (and before anyone gets upset I know the war on terror is not technically World War III)

Twenty-eight years later we see that the 'conservative' agenda has run it's course. It has not shrunk government in fact, it has exacerbated it for the average person. It shrunk it for CEO's and banks making them less accountable but for ole Blue, Purple and even average Red, it has given folks like us more red tape, more red tape, more work to get our fingers into the ever shrinking American Pie. George Carlin (RIP) said that "It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." I am almost that cynical but due to the promises of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, I maintain a shred of hope that the citizenry of the country I love will do the proper thing.

November of '08 we did. We elected Barack Hussein Obama as President of the United States. It was momentous. It was groundbreaking, we went from a campaign of fear and in a direct slap in the face we stood and said NO let's go in this direction.

BHO has maintained that we would have to be the change we want to be and we has the people that elected him have done shockingly little to aid him. That being said I think that we have to remember BHO though doing an amazing job in a thankless time, is only the first step toward the US becoming the country she can be. Grand, sweeping changes will not occur during his presidency. He has done great things already including saving what used to be the symbol of America, GM. I being from Michigan was not fond of the move. but less than two years later, GM was paying off it's debt and going back and becoming in a tough time slowly profitable again. We knew that change wasn't going to come easy, there would be resistance and there would be some for whom, the change wasn't fast enough. People like me wax nostalgic over FDR, thinking if he waved his cigarette holder in the air, magic happened. Well it just wasn't so, No one had a bigger majority to work with than FDR this is why he could pass his legislation through and no Republican could stop him. I think that if we stop, take a breath and look around we on the left will realize, some of us old enough to realize it, the proverbial pendulum swung hard to the left in November, 2008. BHO is the start and a great start he is. I look forward to the next 14-22 years with excitement and hope for our nation

Rigorous honesty

I read today that Jeff Conaway who played Bobby Wheeler on 'Taxi' and Kenickie in 'Grease' had an overdose of pain pills and is in an Encino, California hospital in a coma. I know "so blue does this mean you're gonna rail about the Health care initiative?" No. It means that it gives me a pause to reflect. I have been in recovery for over 20 years. I used to drink like a fish for lack of a better term and i wouldn't stop until I passed out. The next morning waking up in pain and just continuing to move forward that was my pattern for my young adult life. I slipped my last time in 1993. I was angered about work, angered about a girl, in general an angry guy. So I pounded about 8 beers in a 30 minute time frame and kept it up. I kept up that pace of wake up, shower, work, drink, pass out, repeat for about 3 months until August 17, 1993. I realized that drinking at that pace I would not see 30 much less 46 as I am now. I stopped. AA was a great step to aid me then I realized that I had tools and I get words out to others and try to help out in my little ways. I am one of the lucky ones that it took with. Why? Because though I believe in God, I am not at all religious but rather spiritual (that handy 90's copout of an answer) and I believed in the tenet of AA that with rigorous honesty and taking of a continuing moral inventory and when we are wrong, admitting it, has saved my life and my sanity far more than it has hindered it. For 18 years i have continually taken this inventory and realized that while I was powerless over the alcohol, WE are not . It is up to me though, to not give into the temptation, to not be afraid to admit I may be wrong, to stand tall and say I am an alcoholic.

I'm a winner because I am one of the few that can look in the mirror and say I have been alcohol free for almost 18 years. I may very well have a drink tomorrow. I do not plan to. I have other coping mechanisms in my arsenal that i do not have to embrace substances (except caffeine) to get me through the day. As of now however, I have been sober for years and thank God that I was given this well of knowledge to learn and grow from. It is my prayer that Jeff Conaway, Charlie Sheen and all the others who names we do not know find that reserve that allows them to tap that rigorous honesty and that it is not to late

...and with Newt B. Gingrich as Alice...

An homage (which is French for stealing) to the Brady Bunch intro as I saw on one of the Facebook pages I follow showed all of the potential GOP candidates running for president but the middle was empty (much like these suits the GOP is parading but I digress) and the first thing that popped in Ole Blue's mind was the title of this piece. So shall we study Newt Gingrich and see what new and exciting things he has to offer The US of A if most of our brethren swallows amnesia pills and votes for this troll?

(you can imagine the 'Jeopardy' theme playing if you desire. Art Fleming OR Alex Trebek. Pays me no never mind)

Yeah, I got the same thing too fellow libbies. NOTHING! The Newtered one offers nothing new to political understanding, discourse or even tactics. I understand his fervent is to draw Rove off his ass or plunder the grave of Lee Atwater to burnish his out of control campaign. He tried the Catholic route and frankly that only worked for JFK and to paraphrase the late Lloyd Bentsen, "I read about Jack Kennedy, My parents voted for Jack Kennedy, you, Sir, are no Jack Kennedy". He tries to draw on his experience as Speaker of the House and that was a stepping stone to the White House for....James Knox Polk in 1845. His legacy is one of getting Bill Clinton impeached over an affair with an intern, whilst he was carrying on with another person to get rid of his wife who contracted MS. Then telling people that he was so patriotic he just HAD to cheat on his wife. Maybe Bill Clinton isn't as intelligent as we thought, I mean couldn't he have said that and clearly the republicans would have given him a free pass.

Two divorces from ill wives, impeaching a president for the same sex issue that he, in essence, was having. the fact his name is "Newt" like a wanna be salamander, the attempt to shut down the government...how did that work bud? I give you merely some of the legitimate (and face it one totally superficial) reasons to dismiss Newt Gingrich like that bad boy in elementary school. See dismissing Gingrich isn't to difficult in my book. The 'newt' is superficial, pandering, divisive and of course the worst choice our country could make after the disaster that was Bush and the hope that is PBHO. But as always Blue leaves you to your conscience and thought patterns. Have a wonderful day and see you again

This is it...

I stated on my facebook page that I would make this announcement, and it's sad that it has to be done in an announcement fashion. It used to be that someone would get their inevitable Warholian fifteen minutes, then disappear and be left with a feeling of 'didn't they use to...." Yet in this day and age of internet trolls and instant crap that passes for news, these people that we would leave behind like so much excreta and we would feel so relieved, are given a certain gravitas and we are forced to take their words as Gospel. Rush Limbaugh is the reich wing version of Aimee Semple MacPherson, Glenn Beck is Billy Sunday, and the failed list goes on. 

No I am actually helping to aid the republicans to help save themselves in this case and helping my fellow liberals get passed the sizzle and look at the steak. Why does any person with any shred of what we call ourselves as Americans give a lick about what is stated by one Sarah Louise Palin? She's nothing more than a vapid gaseous vacuum of hate. She offers nothing to political discourse, her husband belonged to a group in Alaska that wants to leave the union, she equated living 800 miles from Russia into seeing the kremlin from her back yard. She is ill prepared to talk to any news agency that is not lead by Roger Ailes. Explain how a secretive, lying, half term governor with no real history of governing deserves your praise or even your scorn? She is unlikable don't get me wrong, I wouldn't walk across the street to hear her give away free caribou jerky. That being said however, she is the political equivilant of nothing. There is nothing like Sarah Palin in my following of US history. John C. Calhoun who I have almost no historical respect for, at least in his way tried to do the best he could for his state. James Buchanan served honorably as Polk's secretary of state in the 1840's before he screwed up the presidency. James Garfield was a general in the civil war and was a senator from Ohio before he became president. Sarah Palin, on the other hand, tried to govern the US least populous state and only succeeded in showing us that Alaskans may be the singularly easiest people on earth to dupe. 

I suspect that the republicans see her as attractive and some democrats may harbor a secret feeling of "if i tilt my head this way, I can see how Tina Fey looks in 15 years" but there is more to governing than being pretty. it's amazing though that when I see her open her mouth, any attractiveness she may have, spews out in a volcanic magma of vile hatred detracting any physical attributes. So I implore anyone that follows me, supports me in my labor of love/ stroking of ego, to please, please, please, put Sarah Palin on your 'pay no mind' list. She's not Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito. She won't whack you. She will hopefully with a concentrated effort go back to her little hilla in Wasilla and remember how she had an opportunity to matter and either was unwilling or perhaps unable to.

Welcome to the "unoffcial first" Palin free zone starting...NOW!