My Gay Vote

A few people have asked me how I'm voting, considering the fact that I'm gay. One is fairly disappointed in my selection or preference toward McCain. I will be voting for McCain. While the gay issue is "important" to me; it is not entirely what I am about. I am a sum of all of my parts. Being gay is only one facet. And I live a pretty decent life. Maybe if I had a partner that I wanted to marry, I might feel differently. But just because it's an issue for you, does not make it a must-have concern for me. Take Gun Control. If the right to bear arms were taken away from me - I would not be happy about it, but I could live a decent life without it. Fully aware that just because I can't bear arms, doesn't mean I won't own one. While I can't legally marry in the State of Virginia - I can still carry my gay-ness with me, fully aware of who I am and what I have inside. I know where I stand with McCain/Palin on this issue. I don't trust Obama/Biden on this issue. Obama has said, "I'm a Christian. And so, although I try not to have my religious beliefs dominate or determine my political views on this issue, I do believe that tradition, and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and a woman." While he supports civil unions and having the decision of such be made by individual states; I'm not satisfied with that stand. Gay Marriage needs to be a Supreme Court decision of equal rights, making it mandatory for all states to follow. On this issue, among others, he is hiding. I don't care for that in my President. No more than I cared for Clinton waving his finger at me saying "I did not have sex with that woman" or "It depends on what your definition of "is", is". No I will not give my vote to a person that talks pretty, says nothing, and will deliver less, and who knows what else. Nope, can't do it. I will proudly walk with my gay-penis in my pants to the voting polls and vote McCain and say "F**k Yeah!" (and whistle a little tune for Bob).

Let's be social

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'Twas the night before elections
And all through the town
Tempers were flaring
Emotions all up and down!
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I, in my bathrobe
With a cat in my lap
Had cut off the TV
Tired of political crap.
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When all of a sudden
There arose such a noise
I peered out of my window
Saw Obama and his boys
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They had come for my wallet
They wanted my pay
To give to the others
Who had not worked a day!
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He snatched up my money
And quick as a wink
Jumped back on his bandwagon
As I gagged from the stink
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He then rallied his henchmen
Who were pulling his cart
I could tell they were out
To tear my country apart!
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'On Fannie, on Freddie,
On Biden and Ayers!
On Acorn, On Pelosi
He screamed at the pairs!
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They took off for his cause
And as he flew out of sight
I heard him laugh at the nation
Who wouldn't stand up and fight!
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So I leave you to think
On this one final note
If you don’t want socialism
Get out and Vote!

PASS !!!

Never Give Up, Never Surrender!

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In last night's post I shared an email I received, wondering if it was the real deal or not. I let an anonymous poster temporarily defeat me. He/she pointed out that Bill Lear (of Lear Jet fame) died in May 1978. And so he did die, of Leukemia. But I'm defying that defeat by re-posting because as it turns out, it's a valid post. Thank you again Anonymous commenter. But if you'll read my by-line, you'll realize I'm stubborn. And my mother would agree!
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Most Americans are aware of Bill Lear, because of his Lear Jet business; however, he has accomplished much more, as you can see at this link: William P. Lear – Britannica Online Encyclopedia (only shared that because it's part of the email) His opinions are worth a read
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A Humble Plea to both McCain and Obama Supporters:
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Dear friends, (you'll understand towards the end)
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I am truly astonished by the ignorance Obama supporters have displayed in their quest to get someone - ANYONE - into the White House. Now, wait a minute. I can well understand your dislike or even hatred of our clown, GWB, but he is not the root cause of all of our problems. Our Congress is. And a change there would be welcomed by all. You ain't gonna get it done with Obama. You gotta fire the whole damnable crooked Congress. (Read my book, "BERNIE'S WAR!")
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Perhaps I'm looking at all of this from a different perspective than you because my life experiences have been so different from yours. I'm 80-years old and have traveled the world where I've seen a great deal. I spent five years on active duty as a fighter pilot in the USAF and another seven years flying with the Air National Guard in California and Texas as well as a few years flying in the USAF Reserve. I spent three years on active duty in Germany flying Czech border patrol with "cold guns" in aircraft inferior to the MIG during the Korean "Police Action" when it was thought that Korea was a diversion for a Soviet invasion of Western Europe.
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I lived abroad for a total of 28 years. Three years in Germany, twenty years in Switzerland and five years in Great Britain where I was based doing "spook" work for the U.S. behind the Iron Curtain before it fell. During that era of the Cold War I ventured to Moscow, Prague, Warsaw, Bucharest, Peshawar, Pakistan and Bulgaria posing as a Swiss French-speaking arms dealer purchasing weapons we surreptitiously supplied to the Afghani Mujahedeen in their successful fight against the Soviets - all of which came back to haunt us.
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I've been there and done that and have had close associations with top government people in Germany, the Netherlands and Great Britain. I've had more foreign affair experience than Obama could ever dream of and, yet, wouldn't have the temerity to deign myself "Presidential" material; although I feel eminently more qualified to judge who would NOT be best for our country. My long-time world experience should count for something in my plea to you to abandon this miscreant flake. You will only be doing yourself and our country an enormous disservice if you persist in your support of this flash-in-the-pan opportunist. On this, you MUST trust me.
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I've associated closely with European royalty and African politicians. I've traveled to the Far East to observe their cultures. My point is that Obama, although formally well educated and a brilliant orator, is a neophyte when it comes to understanding the world and is uniquely unqualified for the job as President of these great United States. His knowledge of economics is nil and his tax proposals absurd and life-threatening to the U.S. not only in economic terms but in preserving our national security as well. I don't want a "citizen of the world" to be President, I want a citizen of the good old USA to be President.

Screw the rest of the world as they have well and truly screwed us. The time has come for us to awaken and start looking after ourselves. Now THAT would be CHANGE if that's what you're looking for. While McCain has abstained from playing "the race-card", Obama is playing it to the hilt even though he's technically not an African-American. To qualify for this distinction you must be at least one-sixth black. Obama is only one-eighth. His father would be, as he was one-sixth. No, Obama is more Muslim than black yet he trades on his blackness.
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The larger question I have about him is that we really don't know much about him other than what HE tells us, what we read on blogs and from some serious non-partisan investigators whose factual reports are, unfortunately, generally ignored and which receive precious little media exposure.
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I, as a registered Independent, a military veteran and a patriot, beseech you to put aside party considerations and vote for the lesser of the two evils. Yes, I am NOT a McCain supporter, but he is, at least, not a flake, doesn't carry Muslim baggage and is a PROVEN hero and patriot WITH experience. It's not a party issue. It's all about electing the best we can trust with what we've got to work with. Mr. Obama is NOT that guy.
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Please, please rethink your voting position. Thanks for reading my innermost thoughts. I care about all of you, but I care more about our country. Please help me to do both.
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William P. (Bill) Lear, Jr. (b. 5/24/1928, very much alive)
lear@cfl.rr.com
Son of William P. (Bill) Lear (b. 6/26/1902, d. 5/14/1978)
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Pass!

7 Days remain

Everyone once in a while you'll get an email that you don't know if it's true or accurate or not. I tried to figure out the following letter/thoughts and did find it on the Investor's Iraq Forum. I could not disprove it on Snopes or TruthorFiction. But I tend to lean toward wanting to share it because I relate to the sentiment. So what the heck:

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A serious comment by Bill Lear (Lear jet)
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Thank you to the anonymous blog-commentor.
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But you're WRONG!

A bit about me

Meme Time
I'm lifting this from earth2karen who pilfered it from Sassy and Tina:
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I am: Trying to restructure my life patterns.
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I think: I should have left work on time yesterday to mow the lawn.
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I know: Jesus loves stupid people.
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I want: Immortality.
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I have: Very tolerant friends.
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I wish: I had more energy
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I hate: And can’t forgive the boys that mugged and raped me when I was 12. They challenge my prejudice everyday.
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I miss: Andrew
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I fear: Black cars on I-64. I wonder if I’m going to get shot at again.
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I hear: That the 2008 Presidential Election is right around the corner. You’d think that the news would report on that a little bit more.
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I smell: Smoke…. Oh, that’s me.
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I crave: Carbohydrates, damn it.
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I seek: To know the blonde guy at work a bit better.
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I wonder: If the blonde guy at work digs dudes.
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I regret: Trying to burn a house down when I was a teenager. I also, oddly, regret failing.
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I love: My dog.
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I ache: At my left shoulder and left hip. I don’t care if the x-rays came back negative. I know something’s not right.
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I was not: Guilty of pelting the substitute high school music teacher with an acorn. It was probably Obama.
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I’m not: A Barack Obama follower.
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I cry: When I watch the Color Purple.
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I believe: That children are our future… oh please! shyeah right!
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I dance: Unexpectedly, anyplace. Just to make you giggle.
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I sing: Similar to how I dance.
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I read: And write all day long and come home and do more of the same.
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I don't: Have a significant other.
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I fight: More intelligently now that I’m older.
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I write: And read all day long and come home and do more of the same.
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I win: When luck is on my side.
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I lose: Cause I’m best friends with Murphy.
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I never: …Oh yes I do.
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I always: …and often do.
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I confuse: My co-worker on purpose.
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I listen: But you do not hear.
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I’m found: At work or at home and often at friends.
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I’m scared: Of heights.
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I need: A lovah with a slow hand…
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I’m happy: Most of the time since age has mellowed me.

TAG You're It !!

Boss Lady

Today I was dreading my monthly meeting with my BossLady (BL). I'm fairly good at what I do and I take a lot of pride in how I do my job. But this has not been my year. The type of work that has crossed my desk has been idiotically complicated, required a lot of research beyond the norm, and heavily focused in an area that is by far my biggest weakness. I can run circles around people in the areas I'm fully competent in. But this one area has been the bane of my work existence. My work-items drag toward resolution and I'm not confident of my results. I tend to be overly critical and analytical in my research. But I'm like that because people's money is at stake and I believe I owe it to them to be thorough; whether they get a positive or negative outcome.

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I swamped with these hateful work-items. So I took my labored ass into my meeting to have a *Thomas sucks and I need help* session. Gawd, I hate asking for help and/or understanding or guidance about my own performance. Usually my monthly meets take all of 5 minutes. My new BL has been in her position for 4 months now. Each of my meetings has been 45 minutes or more since she came on board. She has a brilliant mind. Clearly she thinks much faster than I do and I don't know how she does it. But she's patient to listen to my issues and guide me where I need to be. This is her first time as a manager and so far she is doing a wonderful job. As task oriented as she is, she has the time to stop and wrap her head around issues at a moments notice and completely "get it".

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I left today's meeting with my pile of work and an action plan. I left the meeting feeling that I had been heard and understood. I even suggested a solution to a team process that I had been offering up for the past three years that always considered unnecessary. My suggestion offered up a more fair distribution of work and work-types that will balance ownership. She totally bought into the concept. It's such an easy concept to administer. But it's so very much going to tick off my remaining colleague-bitch. (yeah maybe that was unnecessary but it's true.)

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So Thomas, was the entire day a success? Hail no!

Gas Prices

With gas prices at my favorite station charging $2.68 a gallon for regular unleaded; dropping about .04 cents a day, I was thinking:
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22 days left until election day - at .04 cents a day, is there time enough for an .88 cent drop. Might gas prices go down that far? Is a $1.80 a gallon in our future? *I can dream*
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I can't wait to see the amazing jump in gas prices on November 8th, back to over $3.50 a gallon for regular unleaded.
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Now if I can just figure who my vote goes to for a current Thank you.
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*Nobama*

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End of Day update: $2.54/gal at my favorite station

The Recluse Returns

Okay, so I take a few vacation days and the world gets all sexy, crazy nuts. I've been feeling a bit reclusive on a major Rip Van Winkle scale. Not sure if it was all the Olympics that I was watching late into the evenings or if it was me just flexing my grumpus; but I am back and I have a few things to say:

1. Sleep is not over rated.
2. Batman - Dark Knight was magnificent. I especially liked the disappearing pencil scene and really enjoyed the hospital scene with the joker-ess.
3. The husband to Sheena Queen of the Jungle is really a warped and funny man. I tend to think of people in cartoonish images and I haven't found his companion yet.
4. I love the Pussycat Dolls and currently enjoying "When I grow up" but I don't want boobies.
5. Politics are gearing up/on the downward slope (pick your poison) so you might as well know I'm a NObama fan.
6. Sarah Palin - wow, give that man a pacemaker. But it still doesn't make me want to vote for the other team.
7. I'm a registered Republican. That really means squat to me. I'm more of a Republicrat or a Demopublican or maybe even a Grelibpubcrat. I just AM. I have my preferences, sort of like preferring raw beets over cooked unless it's cooked beets with vinegar. And I tend to like cooked spinach the same way.
8. I felt the need to spend. so rather than spend BIG, I went to Big-Lots and purchased two things I had been wanting. I bought a new comforter for me ($20 Queen) and for my Solomonster I bought a new doggie bed. We love them.
9. A major coup occured at the Grub Kitty today. The confirmed bachelor in me desperately needed sustenance in the homestead. Some major shopping occurred. My final total came to $129.04. But I saved $97.69 in coupons. I came so very close to breaking the $100 mark. I'mma coupon MAVERICK. lest you were thinking the other word. Oh, we're going to grow to hate that word.
10. I'm jazzed that September is here. It means that Fall is around the corner, my most favorite of seasons. I'm not much for Summer, a tad bit too hot for me. But then again, the northerner in me detests snow, so I'll deal. Sorry Marta - NOBama - NoSnowa.
11. Oh - and thank you for supporting my Jason Lezak fascination.
12. The Jelly Belly contest is now over as of yesterday and the results will be out soon. I'll let you know what bean is the winner. I know you're just aching with anticipation to get that tidbit of information to keep your world spinning.
13. Welcome back Kelly and Jeff, Good-Bye Large Tony, Congratulations Married People Karen and Joanne, Welcome home Jadielady, Happy Football season Joey, call me on the iPhone sometime Breenlantern, Do your dishes CawfeeGuy, Wake up Idiot, Focus on your job and MM Indigo, Bob wear a Green Arrow T for me.
14. MMGL is here to save the day!!! Lucky you's.