Doing the job father’s rejected … Sunday, Jun 16 2013

In my life I have had to rescue teen boys off the streets of New York, New Orleans, South Florida & Houston. They were thrown out of their houses, chased away, told “don’t come back” – by their own fathers. And so what was I to do with them? Why should I continue the hounding started by their own fathers? I gave them a place to stay, money, food, and got them jobs – and assured them they’ll be fine. I discovered these boys in the late 1970s through early 1990s, when it began to end. Now it doesn’t seem to happen much – but still happens, sadly enough.

Supposedly, according to NARTH, the Family Research Council, National Organization for Marriage and many others – the father made the son gay through some unexplained actions and non-actions. NARTH even wrote a book about it: “Preventing Homosexuality.” According to these groups, the Catholic Church, Baptists theologians, and many others – gay men have some unnatural, but unexplained, “predisposition.” Maybe it’s “environment” or “hormones” or some other wholly unexplained thing – as the Catholic Archbishop of the Armed Forces said: “it’s largely unexplained.” The vagueness is astounding.

And so, the father’s made the sons gay – then became enraged that they “broke” the boy – since these people all claim we are “broken.” And then blamed the boy for having been broken. Astounding to blame the “victim” and not the perpetrator of the alleged whatever … again, so vague as to defy rational thought. Of course, as the fall back position they accuse the kid of “choosing” to be gay. So, it’s the father’s acts/non-acts, the predisposition, and choice all rolled into one ball of mush – and it’s our fault.

And so I took those teens – some as young as 16 & 17 and made men of them. Gay men, to be sure – but self-supporting and productive.

Decades ago, most gay bars had holiday spreads because many guys weren’t allowed back home – they were unwelcome in the homes which made them – as every theory says they were made. This has greatly diminished. As is said “it’s getting better.” Fortunately, I was very welcome in my family exactly as I was – which greatly aided my ability to assist the guys who weren’t so fortunate.

Meanwhile, the verbal assault on gay men – all of us – continues in some quarters. And this is alleged to be perfectly OK because it’s “strongly held beliefs.” Yes, well, I have strongly held beliefs too. Quite at odds with the “no gays movement,” I assure you. I know these comments continue because I’ve been subject to them. For instance, I was invited to submit articles to a website, American Thinker – 700 comments were directed at me in a vitriolic nastiness that curls the hair. Being rock solid, I submitted further articles – it must be done. Now the editor of the site is accusing me of “harassment” for daring to submit further articles – which they asked for – defending gay men. Such is the “thought” about us that is still perfectly allowable. Apparently, if I trash myself and agree with them, that’s OK — but if I say I’m fine, and defend myself — then it’s harassing them! Amazing, yes?

 So, I played dad to the guys I found lonely, depressed and crying in the streets. Not because I wanted to – but had to. I didn’t “recruit” or “molest” the boys; I didn’t even have sex with them. They were gay from birth – the fathers, or mothers, and families “caused” it one way or the other. That’s what every theory says. I merely provided them with the wherewithal to get their lives on track.

 But I find it so very odd, disturbingly funny, even – that many people think they can say whatever the hell they want against gay men, or “homosexuality” as they insist on calling it, with the accent on the “sex” syllable. Up to and including death threats. And that we have no right to question it, no right to defend ourselves. It is almost as if these people – Tony Perkins, Ruben Diaz, Maggie Gallagher and a plethora of others, think we have this duty to listen silently to arrant mush. Such is not the case.

 And so, I shall wish myself a happy father’s day – for having done the job their biological fathers refused to do – abandoned even.

 Fortunately, I finally see an end to the nonsense. Perhaps just another 20 years and it’ll be over. I can’t wait.

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My Article Rejected by American Thinker Saturday, Jun 15 2013

32 Christians Burned to Death in America

 American Thinker has published numerous articles on “homosexuals” – I have no idea what you are even talking about. As a liberty minded, rational America, and yes, gay man, I’m appalled at the lack of thought and knowledge on the subject. It’s worse than arguing with an Obamanuat.

 Here’s something none of you seem to know about:

 “On June 24^th 1973, 32 men were burned to death in a church in New Orleans. It was in the middle of the French Quarter. On a quiet Sunday morning a raging conflagration required several fire companies and consumed a building, and threatened an entire block. No one gave a damn. Bodies were left lying around for days. Only 7 families bothered to claim their kin. The remaining were buried in a potter’s field. Not all their identities were established. The police investigation was all of a few questions to passerby. One suspect was questioned for a few minutes and never spoken to again. Only one news report of less than a minute was given on one of the nightly news shows, and no others. Only one preacher came to comfort the survivors; he was chastised by his bishop. These 32 men, seeking solace with their Creator, as is their inalienable right, were slaughtered because they were just queers. And no one gave a damn. Even today there’s only a tiny memorial plaque, from the 1990s. Only a few websites mention it. Not even the vaunted “LGBT Community” seems to know about it.”

 That’s the opening paragraph of my about to be released Kindle book “The Pink Sheep of the Ninth Circle.” It’s my memoir of 40 years in the “homosexual lifestyle” and time in a bar in New York’s Greenwich Village called the Ninth Circle. It’s also my polemic against what I call the mush about gay men. Never before have so many said so much nonsense about so few as in the past few years about “Homosexuals.” Go fight them, whoever they are – I don’t care. But now you have to deal with a thinking American who happens to be gay. I have no duty to listen quietly to such mush. I was such a frequent commentator on this site that I was asked to be a comment moderator – I’ve moderated many of your comments – until I left in utter disgust at your absurdities on “homosexuals.”

 Here’s the link to my article on the massacre at my blog, learn something:

 http://thedailymush.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/32-gay-men-burned-to-death-new-orleans-6241973/

 Here’s my take on the typical mush at American Thinker on the issue: one Robert Oscar Lopez’s article which sent me into anger one afternoon:

 http://thedailymush.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/the-lopez-lunacy-at-american-thinker/

 Let me explain this to you all: no one has the right to just make up stuff. No one has a clue as to how many gay men there are – any “facts” are spurious. The Census doesn’t count us, every phone poll comes up with margins of error and guess work. Some man named Gary Gates, a “gay demographer” at the UCLA Williams Institute, claims there’s exactly 2,491,034 of us – down to the 34^th? Really? And this is considered “fact”? It’s a joke. No one has a clue as to the taxes we pay, where we live or what we do. And yet, over and over again I see “facts” and “data” – from where does anyone get any of it? Beats me – it’s just made up. I see nonsense about the “homosexual agenda” – I marvel that what is said is supposedly what I want. Who is anyone to claim to speak for me? It’s infuriating and appalling.

 Meanwhile, Mr. Lifson, editor of this site, allowed two articles by me, I thank him for that – and the comments were so nasty that AT even published a “defense” of me – which I didn’t ask for – which elicited another several hundred nasty comments. There was barely a shred of decency in any of it. My family taught me to be decent – to treat others as you wish to be treated. And my family taught me to come up with facts – not nonsense and ad hominen attacks.

 It seems as if people are attacking some fictitious “homosexuality” and “homosexuals” who are doing God knows what – and yet, nothing is truly known – but merely fabricated out of whole cloth.

 Meanwhile, no one seems to know that 32 American Christian men were slaughtered in this nation’s largest unsolved massacre. Not even the vaunted “LGBT community.” In 40 years I don’t know any Lesbians, Bisexuals or Transgendered people. It’s amazing what no one knows.

 Meanwhile, every time I hear “homosexuals” are anti-family I’m enraged. How dare anyone say I’m against my own family? A few weeks ago I was at my niece’s wedding. My father, brother, sister, aunts, uncles, cousins and family friends all got together – me right there with them. Not a one of them thinks I’m attacking or destroying anything.

 However, her father couldn’t be there, because he was one of the three Jewish fireman killed in the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center. My brother-in-law David M. Weiss was last heard from on the 31^st floor of Tower II. I was at my sister’s house that fateful day, I was the one who held my niece and nephew tight as my sister fielded the hundreds of phone calls. In fact, you’ve seen me and my family on TV – David is in all the documentaries. And I’m in the news clips of my family walking into the synagogue on Manhattan’s Eastside when his memorial was held. Not a funeral – not a molecule of the man was found. My Uncle Richard walked down 58 flights of stairs in 1993, from his job in Tower I. From 1978 to 1983 I worked between the 78^th and 105^th floors of Tower II – I know what it’s like up there. I can’t go to downtown Manhattan without seeing his memorial plaques. You all are tourists – I lived it – now you dare attack me?

 Want more family? I wrote a book with my father, Karl – his memoirs and real estate ideas – Houses Are Free. I wrote the book “A Hidden Impact: the Czechs & Slovaks of Louisiana from the 1720s to today” for my mother, Camille. I have honored my mother and my father – yes, very “anti-family,” ahem. You can get both books on Amazon. You are tilting at windmills, I did something.

 Meanwhile, my dear late mother left me the voluminous family history – destined for the National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library in Cedar Rapids, Iowa – because I’m the last one in America who can still speak Czech. I grew up in an immigrant family. My four grandparents are from what is now the Czech Republic. We never lost touch with our family there. I probably have an FBI file for having written to them there in Czech from the early 1970s. I smuggled rock’n'roll into Prague during the Communist era for my cousins Milos and Ondrej; they don’t even speak English.

 My Great-Uncle Otto served six years in a Nazi Concentration Camp – and lived to tell about it. As displaced persons he and his wife and two kids were sent to Australia after the war. When he died in 1963 we lost touch with them; I was a kid. Just a few months ago, through my political blogging they found me. So, I, this alleged “anti-family homosexual” has reunited the family in America, Europe and Australia; three continents in two languages – and I’m the lynchpin keeping everyone in touch. You call me anti-family? How insulting, how rude.

 We’re all so Tea Party Liberty minded you have no idea. I spend months at a time there researching my family. The Hlavac, Kaplan, Langr, Herel and Javurek families know more about fighting socialism – the National and International sort – than any of you combined. We lived it – we live it. And not a one of them is unaware of my “lifestyle” – which is so family centered that I’m frankly disgusted every time I’m talked about on these pages as some menace.

 Yes, as a gay man I have to read and listen constantly about how I’m anti-family, anti- this and that – who knows what I’m allegedly against as a fictitious homosexual – meanwhile, as Jim, the sissy in the family, I’m loved by all. Well, you don’t have the right to claim I’m against my own family.

 Nor does anyone have the right to question my liberty ideals. Nor tell me I can’t support Sarah Palin, even if I joke I’m the “president of Sissies for Sarah.” You have no right to question my relationship to God. My family are Hussites. We’ve been fighting the corruption of the Catholic Church since Jan Hus strode the boards at Charles University in the late 1300s. We were at the ramparts of Tabor when Jan Zizka was fighting the Holy Roman Empire in the early 1400s. No one can question this without my considerable anger at the audacity.

 And let me tell you – I know more gay men in more cities and countries than all you people combined – how dare anyone tell me and mine what we think – because you say so! Who are you to question my faith, my family, my history, my reality? You don’t know me or my friends – all equally in their families. You are arguing with your unicorns. You’re worse than liberals, frankly.

 You go fight “homosexuality” all you please, that is your right. It is my duty to disabuse you of your fantasies. And when you pay my taxes – of which I’ve been paying since I was 14 years old and had a paper route – you can begin to question me and mine.

 And let me tell you why you are losing on the gay thing – it’s precisely because I know my family and they know me. It’s precisely because all my friends are embedded in our families.

 You know, we have a nation to save – and you people are fighting sissies. How utterly silly. I’m rather saddened that you would spite your face and cut off your nose. Again, it’s your right – but it’s ridiculous, and absurd.

 Thank you, Jim Hlavac

 

 

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My Prism Profile … Wednesday, Jun 12 2013

Oh, this is too funny — I went to this link http://www.NSA-PRISM-ProfileServer.com

and found this:

 

And I’m thinking — hahaha! Boy, Do I have them confused.  My “sexual adjustment has presented occasional problems for subject.” Hahahaha! — It’s gigglicious.

So, the government, maybe, has made the above profile of me — right down to my “orientation”? You’ve got to be kidding, yes? Well, no, All I did was go to the link and the server or whatever it is, the site, the something, “scanned my computer” — and a few seconds later it came up with the above mush, as a Jpeg — and i think, it’s so vague, so bizarre — I can’t help but laugh. Doesn’t this fit everyone? Hmm.

I’m on two “watch lists”? Is this me? Something’s been redacted — maybe it’s me, maybe not — it fits anyone, yes? It’s so mush – who knows? 

Supposedly, it may be illegal to post this – too bad. Arrest me, or talk to me. I’d like a big strong NSA agent to come and talk to me — perhaps we shall have a date. Certainly I shall try. Maybe they can help me with my sexual adjustment. Yes.

So, 1/2 the nation thinks I’m a radical militant homosexual, and the other 1/2 thinks I’m a radical militant liberty minded fool. Oh, who cares. 

Is it illegal? Who cares? if everyone in the nation went and posted their mush to the web, then they’d have to arrest us all. 

Well, I’m at the family compound in one state, and I’m flying home to Arizona in a week — maybe I’ll be met at the airport – to or fro — I could be bothered. They can’t arrest us all, can they? Once something is one the internet — what could happen? I can’t worry. I’m tired of working, maybe my cellmate will be cute — I sure hope so. 

It’s comedic. I hope whoever is reading this gets as big a guffaw as I did. 

Hello, NSA, Good Morning Mr. Government busybody. Yeesh. What a pee-poor excuse of a profile. I had wanted something more dramatic.

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The President Proclaims Mush Month Monday, Jun 3 2013

I ran across this drivel of a proclamation at two sites – one lead to the other, both had the same text pretty much:

President Barack Obama officially proclaimed the month of June 2013 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride month.

http://patdollard.com/2013/06/obama-proclaims-june-gay-pride-month/

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/obama-proclaims-june-as-lgbt-pride-month

And here’s the text of the mush:

“This year, we celebrate LGBT Pride Month at a moment of great hope and progress, recognizing that more needs to be done. Support for LGBT equality is growing, led by a generation which understands that, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” In the past year, for the first time, voters in multiple States affirmed marriage equality for same-sex couples. State and local governments have taken important steps to provide much-needed protections for transgender Americans.

Obama nor Martin Luther King didn’t lift a finger for gay men. And Obama couldn’t find a gay man to quote but had to use MLK? That’s how leadership lacking we are – we don’t even have a leader. But the Democratic party stood athwart our efforts for decades – until 2003 easily, when the last states were told to get rid of their no-gay-sex laws. His party was vociferous against us as everyone else was!

More mush:

My Administration is a proud partner in the journey toward LGBT equality.

This lying hussy of mush head ran against gay marriage in 2008 and 2012 – who the hell is he kidding?

We extended hate crimes protections to include attacks based on sexual orientation or gender identity and repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

Log Cabin Republicans painted the man into a corner to repeal DADT – not the president – he was johnny come lately. As for “sexual orientation” – everyone has one – what, heterosexuals don’t? As for “gender identity” – how the hell does this refer to gay men? We’re the target of this stuff – I don’t see Westboro yelling “god hates “LGBT” – Bisexuals don’t get fag bashed. Leviticus isn’t thrown with the death threat into the faces of Lesbians. Meanwhile, a Muslim might pummel me for being a Christian – and the is administration wouldn’t say a damn word.

We lifted the HIV entry ban and ensured hospital visitation rights for LGBT patients. Together, we have investigated and addressed pervasive bullying faced by LGBT students, prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in Federal housing, and extended benefits for same-sex domestic partners. Earlier this year, I signed a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in the implementation of any VAWA-funded program. And because LGBT rights are human rights, my Administration is implementing the first-ever Federal strategy to advance equality for LGBT people around the world.

You use a heterosexual beating their wives and girlfriends laws to push “LGBT” equality? What the hell do we have to do with it? What do gay men in particular – who make up 75% of the LGBT community have to do with Violence against Women? Egad, you idiot. And we don’t need your damn federal strategy around the world – we’re winning world wide without you having ever lifted a finger – -why, there’s gay marriage in other nations while you ran against gay marriage – you annoy me, Mr. President, you do.

We have witnessed real and lasting change, but our work is not complete.

Who the hell is “our” – we did it – we gay men – and you and your Democrats fought at us at every step of the way. I’m appalled that you would think you’re on my side.

I continue to support a fully inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act, as well as the Respect for Marriage Act.

You fought against marriage for us – you campaigned against it – you enforce DOMA – you are a late comer and a poseur – you disgust me in this craven bid for votes – while you fought us tooth and nail.

My Administration continues to implement the Affordable Care Act, which beginning in 2014, prohibits insurers from denying coverage to consumers based on their sexual orientation or gender identity …

What the hell does your absurd ObamaCare have to do with gay men? And again – everyone has a sexual orientation – and once again – a sop to transgendered people. I don’t see Gay men in this whatsoever – and gay men with HIV are going to be among the first with a death panel visit.

… as well as the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, which addresses the disparate impact of the HIV epidemic among certain LGBT sub-communities.

What the hell is a “LGBT sub-communities”? Are we now in the submarines. Oh, I’ll tell you – and the rest of the nitwits in this parade – they are Lesbians – who don’t seem to get aids. Bisexuals who are lying hussies like your buddy Jason Collins. And Transgendered which are heterosexuals in the wrong body. And gay men – the ones with the balls. Not the ones changing, hiding, and needing proclamations.

We have a long way to go, but if we continue on this path together, I am confident that one day soon, from coast to coast, all of our young people will look to the future with the same sense of promise and possibility. I am confident because I have seen the talent, passion, and commitment of LGBT advocates and their allies, and I know that when voices are joined in common purpose, they cannot be stopped.”

You and your party stood in my way every step of the way – you creep. Now you issue a proclamation? You can’t stop me so you join me? Appalling. Just appalling. And the gay men who fall for this crap are just as bad.

I don’t want equality – I want liberty – you’re not part of that. Shush, and handle your scandals. I’ve been at this quest for 40 years — you haven’t done anything for me but get in my way. 

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Gay man on Family Values Vacation Thursday, May 30 2013

Once again I shall have to take a few weeks off from any posting. I’m going to the Northeast to be with my family. I shall have no time to push my radical militant homosexual anti-family agenda because I’m going to my niece’s wedding. Being favorite uncle I’m required to be there.

I shall be traveling – and looked at by my own government as a potential terrorist. I shall be groped and fondled in a legally required relationship with a man not of my choosing. Being a militant and radical, I suppose I should well be searched. Whether as Tea Partier or gay man, I’m a terror to the nation. Oh, what fun we can have with this all, yes?

However, I have many things to do prior to my departure. My trip is at least 3 weeks long. There are many people to see – friends from many years ago. Guys I’ve known since I was 18, 19, 20 – from a placed called the Ninth Circle. It was on West 10^th Street in Greenwich Village. Yes, I lived and comported in the gayborhood. Oh my, the homosexual lifestyle. Which oddly, includes my aunt and uncle picking me up at the house of one of the old friend’s houses, where I stay when I’m in the City, and they will whisk me off to the nuptials.

In New York I shall go downtown to see the new World Trade Center, and have lunch, as I always do, with another dear old friend of 40 years standing. I shall recall my time working on the 105^th floor – and wonder what I would have done if the events of 9/11 had happened while I was there. I shall go see the memorials to my brother-in-law which dot the area. He who died in the building on the fateful day.

I shall go look at Miss Liberty and wonder if gay men aren’t yet included in the huddle masses, or if we are still somehow on a raft at sea; even if now at least tied to the dock.

I shall go look at the places I worked – for many years I worked in divers buildings through the canyons of Wall Street as a specialty printer. What an odd profession for a gay man: printer. Well, my father was a printer, his father, and his father before him – we bleed black, I guess. Who knows how far into the past my family were printers. Maybe to Gutenberg. Still, it’s a family tradition.

I shall go to the old friends of mine at a place called Estebans. The founder now deceased – he hired me knowing I was gay – and let me put up pictures of good looking men in my work area as everyone else had girl pictures in theirs. The guys brought me a manikin once: “here, Hlavac, a boyfriend.” So I mounted him on the wall, and since he was naked I put a pair of sexy underwear on him. And since he was a eunuch, I cut down a mailing tube and endowed the man. The same guys I worked with 35 years ago are still working there. What fine remembering we all do when together once again.

I shall see cousins and aunts and uncles, and there will be great merriment. My father and brother are coming up from Florida. Oh, it’ll be a fine time with much humor and mirth. And well wishes for the bride and groom. My family will, as they’ve done more of late, joke about me getting married.

And I’ll be working on finishing up a book I wrote. I plan on putting it up on Kindle – seeing if I can’t get some sales. I’m still working on various titles, I’m not sure. I’ll be meeting with a young man with a coming out website – I shall ask him to choose, I think – for he is fresh, he doesn’t really know me – and he is emblematic of the new gay man in America. He would probably be the best to choose.

I’m working on: 

Heterophobia;

The Pink Sheep of the Ninth Circle

Or,

The Schrodinger Platypus:

Homosexuality, Homosexuals, Sissies, Queers, Fagots & Gay Men

Or maybe “Let my people go.”

Maybe some combo or rearranging. These things need consideration. Something with zing, to get your attention. I am, after all, trying to make a buck, and resolve a problem.

Oh, it’ll be a different sort of gay book. Why, it’ll be a Tea Party gay guy’s view of it all. It’s quite different, I assure you. Not for me this “equality” nonsense – it’s Liberty for me.

In any event, the scandals in Washington will twist around, and I shall not pay much attention.

All sorts of ridiculous things will be said – and I shall miss most of it. I’m sure the No Gays movement will be among the most ridiculous of all those on the hustings – for what they proclaim I refute by the very things I’ll be doing. Oh well, tough on them.

All sorts of things will happen that will not make much difference to we family gathered together – we’ll be busy with more important things. That does mean, of course, that I simply won’t have time to post anything. So, enjoy your June – and who knows, maybe something will so grab my attention I can squeeze in a post or two. See you in July.

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In honor the Boy Scouts; my grandpa Saturday, May 25 2013

Here’s my grandfather, Joe — he was a Boy Scout — I was a Boy Scout. 

I was a gay kid — and everyone pretty much knew it or figured it out. 

And it was the early 1970s. If someone had a problem, Grandpa would have a word or two with them. And then all would be fine — until the next one came along.

So let’s honor Grandpa Joe — and the Boy Scouts this day.

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Irrelevant he didn’t know(?) Monday, May 20 2013

So, the president spent the last week mired in scandals – one of which he has been trying to hide for months, and two fresh ones: Benghazi, AP spying, and IRS snooping. And then came many minions for the president saying that Obama didn’t know what anyone lower was doing, and that everything is “Irrelevant.” The President had the audacity to go on TV yesterday and say that he’s going to concentrate on jobs and that the scandals were all political and unimportant. There’s a line in a movie, “American President,” with Martin Sheen and Michael Douglas where the Sheen character looks at the Douglas character and says “The American people have a funny way to decide what is their business.” Yes, we do.

For a man who says he’s on top of everything so much that he can control the financial sector, healthcare, and world peace, how he now claims he knows nothing is beyond me. No matter how you look at it – a president sets a tone, he’s sets an agenda. There were plenty of calls for “crushing” the Republicans, wiping the Tea Party away, stopping the opposition – that’s the tone. Nancy Pelosi said it, Steny Hoyer said, and many other big wig Democrats said it – and the president said it – so they gave direction – however “indirect” – to the underlings. They’re not called Obamanauts for nothing.

Mr. Miller, ex-acting head of the IRS says first that no one knew but some folks in the Cincinnati office, then it turned out that other people knew – as long as a year ago. Turns out it was a few 501(c)3 or 4 applications – turns out it was hundreds. Turns out it was just in Ohio – but all over the nation. This week I’m sure will bring endless new places where such things were done. But to just say “We’re sorry” and “we won’t do it again, promise,” is not good enough. Someone ordered the underlings to do something – or were so poor in their management skills and attention that they allowed wrongful things to be done – and were clueless. So, who’s above the Cincinnati office? Who’s above them? Well, the president – and the IRS is surely one of the most visible federal agencies – surely a president should be very well ware of where he gets his money, yes?

Meanwhile, spying on the press is going to backfire on him. For it has been the press who has fawned over this man like some political savior, almost religious – “a tingle up my leg” eh? Well, yes, the press has given the president some wonderful stories – and have seemingly done his bidding almost. But when the government starts investigating the press – the press gets cranky. Right now it seems to be only AP – but the AP is sort of the ganglion at the center of the press – all the others feed off of AP – so in a sense they were all hacked and their emails spied on – since the AP talks to all the other press.

Meanwhile, turns out that many people in the press have brothers, uncles, cousins, sisters, wives and husbands in the administration – this is a sort of “non-scandal” scandal that is going to get explored too. For politics is politics, and the goal is to get into power – and the sharks have their chum – and the press and White House are too chummy. There’s no way that the relatives in the press and White House weren’t talking to each other – don’t they get together every so often?

With Benghazi – people died – the first ambassador killed in the line of duty in 30 years. We were told repeatedly that when the call came in at “3 AM” – why always middle of the night, I don’t know – that Obama would the man to take care of things. Well, did he get the call? Or didn’t anyone bother the Commander in Chief? Lord knows we’d hate to have him not well rested for the golf course and fundraising events. That the president is still fundraising is odd enough – I had thought the campaign was over. Or is he raising the money for other Democrats – in which case heaven’s knows which campaign finance laws are being broken.

Supposedly it was said that the cavalry couldn’t get there in time – well, who cares? You send them anyway. In what sort of disaster or dangerous situation do you size it up and say “ah, let ‘em die, not worth the trouble”? And that’s almost what it seemed to be. Then the White House tried to cover it all up during the election campaign. Though, what is the point of our vast military resources in Southern Europe and in the Mediterranean if they were “too far” from Libya? Struck me if a ship was off the coast of Tripoli, and the Ambassador went to Benghazi, the ship should have sailed the 600 miles to be precisely at the ready to get them out of a war-torn violent country with extreme AntiAmerican views. This wasn’t sending an IRS agent to a tea party – it was a war zone. You send unarmed civilians to a war zone and tell ‘em “tough” when the going gets rough? Oh, no, that’s the not point of the military.

It’s a different issue as to whether we should have had an ambassador there in the first place – another thing to investigate. But surely if you put personnel on the ground in a war zone you have the fire power to back ‘em up. And when the call comes in – you send in everything you can muster. Taranto is barely 300 or 400 miles from Benghazi – how fast can a jet fly? Even a helicopter surely plods along at more than 55 mph.

Then too there’s the lingering Green Energy investments that have been more Red Ink bankruptcies – who were all these people who got money to do basically nothing? Solyndra was a new company – it quickly got federal funding – and then it quickly went bankrupt. Fisker is rotting to the core. There’s a few more other boondoggles – almost after thoughts in the mess we have now – but hundreds of millions spent on absolutely nothing. They were more like campaign ads than investments. They were more publicity statements than functional businesses.

Well, there’s plenty of details out there already – and plenty more to come. And yes, the Republican’s job is to question everything (as they themselves should be questioned; to be fair, I don’t trust either side.) More political and involved bloggers than I have begun putting together this puzzle – while the White House is clearly trying to scatter the pieces.

But it is my job, as citizen – to point out that the president is in charge – and he’s responsible. I do blame him for the tone, the actions, the minions – everything. Here’s a man who claimed he would run a scandal-free administration – he’s on top of everything – not to worry, he’s brilliant. And he knows nothing? He’s so important to his own administration that no one told him anything? Oh, plausible deny-ability is a movie theme – not real life. Maybe the president hangs out with too many actors, he thinks his script says “I’m innocent.”

Even more importantly – if it is true that the IRS is too big and cumbersome, if the various agencies are too complex to truly be monitored and controlled and guided – it’s the very reason I’ve said for years that the government is too big – and that it ultimately can’t be good to get all this power in Washington. If they can’t control the IRS now – what will happen when the IRS is in charge of healthcare? That the IRS has been brought in to help run healthcare shows how utterly idiotic the whole thing is. What could the IRS do about healthcare other than extract more unions.

And it seems the NETU – or the Union that runs the IRS – (the president doesn’t, Mr. Miller doesn’t – they knew and know nothing – they’re not even sure what happened and by who – and they’re not releasing any names either, it seems) – has been donating 99% of their funds to the Democrats – while the Democrats are calling for the destruction of the Republicans. Certainly the thing is ripe for misuse, collusion and illegal activities.

Indeed, the whole rotten carcass of the Federal Government is ripe for abuse, collusion and illegal activities. As I’ve said for years – the government has become Royalty without the ermine. It bodes no well.

The best government is the least government. The president said “Don’t worry about tyranny …” in a speech in Ohio – well, sir, what you got going is tyranny. And you’re not in control? You’re against what your own administration is doing now? Now you’ll find all the bad guys? And of course, not change a jot or tittle of the system and merely get new underlings of whom you also won’t know what they’re doing – but they’ll all be political appointees? Hahaha. Don’t make me laugh.

Meanwhile, over in the Department of Justice Eric Holder is also going down the “I know nothing” route. Not about Fast and Furious gun running to drug cartels in Mexico – not about the IRS, or Tea Party Targeting – nothing. He’s even recused himself, he said, from certain important matters, because he’s got conflicts. Well, to be sure, every political appointee has conflicts – which is why we need much less power in these people’s hands.

Even if impeachment doesn’t happen (and we really don’t need it, for the trammel it will cause,) and even if no buck lands on the president’s desk – the silver lining is that it is clear now that even the most dedicated people – who loooovvvveeee big government – are completely clueless and unable to run the thing right. They have no control over anyone beneath them, eh? Well, then, lessen greatly the number of underlings – to better manage those who remain.

Some press maven’s are worried that American’s “Trust in government” is going to suffer? Who ever trusted the government? Certainly not me. Maybe it was the “NIXON RESIGNS” headline I saw when I was 14 years old. Maybe it was the police raids I experienced at a gay bar or two. Maybe it’s the Czech relatives who taught me about the wonders of big government – I have many formative experiences against government.

Frankly, I’d be very happy if people lost faith and trust in the federal government – for a long time – to start the Great Dismantlement. It is time to disentangle the people from Washington – and to return to much more local government – themselves corrupt and craven – but easier to watch and handle.

The American people just don’t need all this government – and this administration might very well be the death knell of that rallying call “Let the government do it!” Yes, well, look what they’ve done! I’m sure the mess will get worse as time goes by – and if for the next 3.5 years we have a president doing nothing but defending legal and political scandals – then we can see that we really don’t need this messianic president with a vision for the nation – but a plebe who makes sure that ambassadors are safe, the press is left to it’s own devices, and a Revenue collection system that is so much simpler than the one we have today.

One can only hope for some change.    

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Stop calling for “death to gays.” Sunday, May 19 2013

A young man was shot and killed in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York yesterday – one of the most peaceful and delightful neighborhoods in all the city – the gayborhood. It was apparently for no other reason than that the murdered man was gay. It’s a “hate crime” – a term I don’t really like, and have problems with much of it. But it sure is “hate” to just kill someone for no good reason. To just walk up to a total stranger and shoot him in the face demonstrates a hate of mind numbing proportions. From where does this hate come from? What would possess the man? On will come the opinions. Here’s mine.

Here’s the story: http://news.yahoo.com/police-call-fatal-nyc-shooting-hate-crime-175502430.html

The issue isn’t how insane this man was. That’s obvious. The issue isn’t that a gun was used – a knife might have been used, a baseball bat, a crowbar, fists, or just tying a man to a fence post on a cold Wyoming prairie. “Gun control” is not going to control a man like this. I doubt the gun was even legal. I doubt the man was allowed to own a gun – he had a prior conviction of violence.

But supposedly he uttered “anti-gay slurs” – I can’t seem to find a quote – but there were multiple if not dozens of witnesses for he did it on a crowded street in a busy place. I know this neighborhood – I went to New York University – where the man was caught as he ran away. So bold to shoot someone – he runs away. Coward.

I hung out in this neighborhood. Apparently the man was in the Stonewall Inn, threatening people. I not only know this bar – I have a very good friend of more than 40 years who works there. I shall be in the bar in just three weeks. I shall be on these streets where this man shot someone.

Apparently this is one of several incidents in a few weeks of gay men being attacked. This was the first with a gun – others were with the weapons I mentioned – it is not the weapons. These attackers specifically came to the Village to do their evil deeds. They were compelled to thrash and murder gay men – for sport. Yes, it’s a sport.

And this sport is aided and abetted in a sickening call for nothing short of the genocide of gay men by many religious and political figures in this nation. That is this constant and even more vocal that we are sick, and depraved, and evil, and abominations – and that we are to be put to death because of a Bible verse of uncertain meaning. What the hell was the ancient Aramaic for “fagot” or “queer” or “sissy” or “homosexual”? You couldn’t come up with one.

But there are people like Brian Fischer of the Americans for Family Values – who so despises my family for accepting me as I am that he calls repeatedly for them to reject me. He is demented in his disdain for me – and I do take it personally. I see no way to avoid taking very personally all this calls for “death to gays.”

This murderer, Morales, probably Puerto Rican, Catholic – did what Democrat New York State Senator Ruben Diaz called for in his Bronx anti-gay rally: Death to Gays. He had ample support from Rabbis — and from an obtuse and obese unwed mother named Maggie Gallagher who pretends to be “For” something positive. She is only “for” hounding gay people. The litany of despicable comments from her and her minion Jennifer Morse can be found at GLAAD’s accountability website — go look it up.

This sport is aided and abetted by the Family Research Council — NARTH, AFTAH, one million moms, NOM and a host of other people calling for nothing more than the elimination of gay people by any means — fair or foul. Let them mourn the murdered man — I doubt they will. Or call for “loving the sinner, and not the sin.” They will probably have more sympathy for the heterosexual murderer than they will for the “homosexual” slaughtered.

These are the same people who insist we hide and never appear — except maybe to work as slaves and penitents to their God in eternal damnation for having been born with a “Predisposition” and our fathers did something — And It’s Our Fault. They are mindless in this drivel, it is intellectually dishonest and Biblically errant.

You want to learn something, you Tea Party friends of mine? Go see www.goodasyou.com for the endless parade of nonsense and bile and calls for death of gay people. Hell, go see the comments on my article at http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/04/gays_are_much_ado_about_nothing.html – it’s mind numbing – this disdain, this hatred, these vile words from alleged Christians. They are not Christian by any measure of Christ. They are Pharisees and hypocrites at the temple door.

This constant iteration by the Catholic Church that we are “Intrinsically Evil” and a threat to all that is good is disgusting. It is nothing short of medieval thought against what they perceive of heretics.

And it is the sort of mentality of people like Morales who feed of people like the very Cardinal of New York – who will now in hypocritical mush spout platitudes that we shouldn’t be killing that which he feels is evil and from the devil and should be extirpated from this earth.

This call for our change is nothing but cultural and personality genocidal – and calls for our death are Hitlerian in scope. I’m tired of it, frankly. I think all gay men are.

We have extended the hand of peace and rational thought for 60 years – and still this arrant nonsense from otherwise sensible people that we should be compelled to change or suffer the consequences – including incessant reiterations of Leviticus 20:13.

If we are abominations to be put to death – then put up or shut up. Start the killing. Or come to your senses.

And stop encouraging people like Morales to take pistol in hand a blow a man’s face off on a pleasant evening.

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The Scandals Wednesday, May 15 2013

It is actually rather sad to see the administration mired in scandals. And not just one, but at least three – maybe more. It is not good for our nation. Oh, politically many will be happy. And surely the mess in Washington needs rational resolution. But scandals are not the way to go about it. Nothing good will come of this, at least not right away. It’ll take a while.

 Yes, the investigations should continue. The truth must be known. The guilty found and charged, and removed from responsibility. Spying on the AP – even with all the mumbo-jumbo about the need to fight terrorism – is just spying on domestic news. That’s against the 1^st Amendment. Makes no difference if Obama gave an order, or was informed. It’s not what he knew or when he knew it – it’s that it happened when the buck stopped at his desk. He’s responsible no matter how you look at it. He creates the mentality that drives the minions. With the hagiography around this man, people follow him. Everything they do they think helps him. That’s their mission. He creates that mission.

 Then there’s the IRS fracas and Tea Party groups. As Jon Stewart said, roughly: “You’ve given the conspiracy theorists ammunition.” Well, yes, shows the paranoid aren’t as paranoid as anyone thinks. Indeed, as I can do, it is often said that gay guys are paranoid – well, sure – look who’s against us and what they say? And so, once again, Tea Party and gay men have something in common – a government which discourages their 1^st Amendment Rights to assemble and redress their grievances – even with heated language. I dare say, if “God Hates Fags” is 8-1 Supreme Court acceptable, so is “We hate government.”

 There’s Benghazi too. This is the most serious of them all. The first two scandals are rather tiny – no death was involved – and this sort of political shenanigans has been going on for some time. Nixon comes to mind. So does Woodrow Wilson, but that’s history. So does the Alien & Sedition Act – but that’s ancient history – the early 1800s. But the death of an ambassador, and Marines, and well, people, Americans, of any kind, in a foreign land – that gets attention. Well it should. Why were we there in the first place? That’s a deeper question than what the president did or didn’t. Why would anyone think that we could have an “ambassador” on the ground in Libya? At most an “observer” with some strong back up is about all we could hope for. We won’t understand that place for decades, if ever. Even putting the man there, and his entourage of civilians was foolhardy.

 But the excuses, cover ups, the “what difference does it make?” – all this lying, prevaricating, dissembling, the entire panoply of “it’s national security, so we can make stuff up” cannot stand. It’s antithetical to the reason of our nation. Sure, there’s some secretes, governments always have that. But we’ve gone way beyond it – to doing stuff without saying why – and then just blithely lying and dismissing any concern when the screw ups occur.

 The argument that we had no forces nearby is so lame I can’t imagine a sane American official uttering it. Why on earth do we have bases in Italy, in Traranto, and elsewhere, and why do we have a fleet – the Sixth I think, correct me if I’m wrong – with an aircraft carrier with a 100 most sophisticated jets man can make – and hordes of helicopters. We have advisers and equipment in any number of the nearby countries – anybody – any one of them – could have been called in. Don’t tell me they would have been ineffective. The psychological reaction to American aircraft of any kind swooping in, buzzing the crowd, firing a few tracer shells surely would have given the crowd pause – a few more moments for the doomed – who may then have not been doomed. Meanwhile, even more forces could have come. Try at least. Always.

 To say nothing could be done recants the entire point of all our many forces in the region. I marveled during the beginning of the Libyan “crisis” that we were wholly unprepared to deal with it. The very reason we pay the president, his minions, the Joint Chiefs and on down, is to have a plan – to know what to do – and have the means to do it. What point are billions in defense – if we can’t send in a helicopter, drone, jet – anything. What is the point of a commander in chief if the response is “can’t do a thing”?

 Meanwhile, there’s still Fast & Furious, there’s Solyndra and so many other boondoggles. This administration is verklempt. Either on purpose, as more and more are beginning to say – or through sheer incompetence. This incompetence comes from their ideological blinders. They see things through prisms which shift reality out of all proportions.

 On top of this – virtually everyone is recognizing that ObamaCare is not going to work. “A train wreck” Democrat “I voted for it to find out what was in it” Max Baccus said. Of what need are legislators and presidents if all they can do is gum up the works or do nothing? At most they seem inept even at spying and disrupting their “political enemies.” Since when are people in this country enemies? I have never grasped that. Oh, sure, disagree on the current tax rate – state your position, marshal your facts – but to call the other side “enemies” is unAmerican. Were did this idea come from? It’s almost communist in the “enemies of the people” mindset. Any group of people cannot be “enemies of the people” – they are Americans. 

And Liberty requires us to figure out a way to get along – not to declare each other enemies to be conquered and forced to do our bidding. Perhaps that’s one problem with the current Left & Right – each thinks they have the one and only one answer. The other shall be vanquished or the nation doomed. Nonsense. America is about the preservation and encouragement of peaceful differences.

If you want to save the environment, plant a tree. If you wish to support the oil industry jobs, drive a Hummer. Between the two America will move on. But it’s coming to a screeching halt as each side demands either tree or Hummer – and not both.

Which is one reason for the administration’s problems – “We won.” And now they think they will remake the place or something. And along the way their well laid plans have failed, and blown up in their faces – and all their huff and puff about change is shown to be the same old thing: sheer human and political and liberty-thought incompetence.

Well, if any good comes out of this mess is that the American basic distrust of government results in the dismantlement of the behemoth we have. Can’t send a jet. What’s the point of it, then? Can’t do a thing. Why are you in power? We must investigate everyone. Why are you paranoid? Well, now you’ve give us reason. Thanks, you’ll unite the nation yet.  

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Lessons of my 55th B’day Tuesday, May 14 2013

Yesterday was my 55^th Birthday. Oh, I had fun enough.

But I want to make this clear to gay guys who read this blog and straight folks as well:

I’m from a generation that was harassed, chastised, harangued – illegal, scorned, despised – oh the list of negative adjectives can almost be expanded exponentially.

I’m not bitter, or upset, or somehow felt I missed out – I had a great life.

Yesterday was my 55^th B’day –

and what I realized is that virtually any gay man over 40-50 went through what I did. Oh, I was lucky – for my family and 90% of my co-workers were fine with me. But I know too many who were not as lucky – yet not a one is bitter or upset or a typically aggrieved minority in this nation – seeking government handouts.

 I have for decades always viewed my gay activism as for the youth: for those gay men younger than myself.

 Oh, I did a lot – I’m thinking of writing a memoir – virtually none of which has to do with lobbying or radical or militant or whatever other word any of us are called.

Oh, it will take a book to express what I mean – it’ll have to wait – one is in progress.

Ah, the differences we older gay men have wrought in the face of heterosexuals.  

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