Friday, May 15, 2009

Yes we can

But no we won't. Really nobody expected Barak Obama to bring about the Kingdom of God, or even a Democracy of justice. That his supporters did, is just another of the straw men ambling down the yellow brick road from GOP headquarters. What we really wanted is somebody not actively trying to destroy our country in every possible way, but from day one we've been giggled at because he hadn't done in 24 hours what Jesus Christ hasn't done, lo these 2000 years and largely because his followers are Christians.

One of the things I have been hoping for is for an end to the persecution of gays in the military. It's a small thing in the greater picture of our corrupt, superstitious and furious country, but had somebody done something to block the summary discharge of Lieutenant Daniel Choi from the US Army because he prefers men to women, it might have been reassuring, at least, to those who hope for something of a saner, more secular America. Alas he has chosen not to "interfere." He has chosen to allow the crusaders one more victory in taking over our military.

It's only one of many stories, but the sad lack of Arabic translators in our service has something to do with the fact that we place such great value on their private sexual thoughts that we are willing to risk the lives of our soldiers and perhaps our nation by firing them and negating their years of study and service and indeed their valuable expertise. Choi was the 54th translator to be discharged for unclean thoughts.

I'm waiting for our allegedly Liberal Press to say something and perhaps for the "traditional values" side to be hypocritical and call them hypocrites, but so far, It's only the bloggers and the ever vigilant Daily Show that are willing to point out that our Christian friends in God's Army are allowing their superstitions to weaken us in yet one more way.

Religious bigotry doesn't require a beard or any kind of headgear to be the enemy of freedom, or does stupidity for that matter. Take Kim Hendron, a member of the Arkansas State Senate, and currently a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate who told us recently that he believes in the traditional values of the Andy Griffith Show, not like "that Jew" Chuck Shumer. Now most of us remember that no, John Wayne never really was a soldier and Andy Griffith never really was a sheriff of that non-existent fantasy town that had no Jews or Catholics or Mexicans or folks of African descent, but Hendron isn't going to let any damned New York Jew tell him otherwise any more than the US Army of God is going to let any damned sodomite translate any damned Arabic messages even if we have to have New York blown up all over again. Of course, when his foot was extracted from his Arkanas blow hole, he had to admit that he did actually like maybe a couple of Jews like Jesus and Lieberman, neither of which it's likely he's ever listened to with much understanding.

So maybe if we want to get an idea of what's really going on here, we need to turn off our inner Arkansas and listen to some damned Jew like the one that told us to shut the hell up and be nice to each other a long time ago and the one on Comedy Central who seems brave enough to tell off the Army and Obama and our hate-based community that we've had enough of this. waterboarding may make them talk, said that Jew Jon Stewart, but it won't make them talk in English.

Shame on you Mr. President.

4 comments:

  1. I am strongly for getting rid of the idiotic DADT hypocrisy for our military. But do I understand correctly that it is Congress and not the president who has jurisdiction over changing this?

    I can't possibly keep up on everything, but I thought I heard that Obama couldn't change this--Congress has to?

    The younger generation is so much more enlightened and smarter about this.

    This bigotry will not survive.

    Our gay brothers and sisters will be rid of this assinine policy very soon.

    No one with a functioning brain can possibly agree with it.

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  2. You raise a good point. I had assumed that as CIC, Obama could change the policy, but I don't know for sure.

    Yes, obviously the world is changing, but much faster in countries not morally crippled by "belief systems."

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  3. President Obama cannot change or repeal DADT, it is up to the legislature. What President Obama CAN do is waive a dismissal or place a moratorium on DADT. As much as I abhor DADT (it's nothing less than discrimination in the work place), I would hate to create an environment that would pretty much ensure that DADT does not get addressed by having the President do what I stated above.

    We all know how congress works. If the President keeps waiving dismissals for anyone that feels he/she was wrongly dismissed DADT will stay in the books indefinitely. And as much as I sympathize with Lieutenant Choi and the thousands (to date) that have been fired simply because of their sexual preference, he should have known better. I mean, a lot of people on the Left have been criticizing "The Donald" for keeping Ms. Opposite Marriage around after she violated her contract numerous times. Well, a policy is a policy. This is what happens. It sucks. It's horrible. It needs to be changed ASAP. Let it happen the right way.

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  4. The dread of 'teh gay' is at the root of much stupidity.

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