Sick & Tired

A few thoughts.  

• I’m sick of conservatives complaining that people are “pulling the race card” every time someone mentions race. This is real life people not some stupid ass poker game and isn’t it funny how racists are the only ones who claim racism doesn't exist? Just because you are blind to or perhaps simply do not recognize racism doesn’t diminish its being. When racism is pointed out, rather than denying its existence a simple acknowledgment would add a much more valid contribution to the argument. These are the same people who refuse to accept the reality of white privilege while yearning for the good ole days. 

 

• I find it really irritating when a White colleague says to me “you know you’re extremely articulate”, as if it’s an anomaly for a Black man to use proper English and therefore some sort of compliment. We don’t all walk around grabbing our crotches, calling women bitches and acting like wannabe gangsters. Equally offensive is when a White person attempts to be down by calling me bro and spouting Ebonics…shut the hell up! 

• People need to stop saying, “Love the sinner hate the sin”. It’s extremely condescending, as if you think you are somehow superior to me. Fuck you. Homosexuality is a gifted, unbidden, unchosen, innate state of being. It is not a behavior, nor is it sinful. And being Gay is not a lifestyle, that’s just a stupid term used by antigay bigots to demean Gay people. Unless you consider getting up every morning at 4 AM to hit the gym, working a full 8 hour day, arriving home to eat dinner, feed my dogs and share my day’s events with my partner, watch some TV and then hitting the sack only to do it all over again some sort of deviant lifestyle. Oh and I’ve said it before but it bears repeating, whether a state issues a marriage license to two men or two women is not a matter to be determined by someone else’s religious convictions, so get over it. And stop blaming everything bad that happens on Gay people and Gay marriage. I’ve checked my Gay Guide to Causing Natural Disasters extensively and I can’t find Ebola mentioned anywhere…maybe I need an updated copy. This is what happens when you allow your official gay membership card to lapse.

• People who use the phrase "political correctness" as a weapon to admonish others with whom they disagree are those who would like to have an argument, but can't actually make one. It's a meaningless, vacant expression from thoughtless vacuous people. It would be more honest to admit you don't have an argument or you don’t care, and accept the implications of what that makes you. Or better yet why don’t you make more efficient use of that time by catching up on your closet organization, you could back-up your computer or maybe clean out that lent trap in your dryer.

• I’m tired of heterosexual people who say they are sick of Gay people coming out and “throwing their sex lives in our face”. Or they say “I don’t going around announcing I’m straight”.  Really?  People who come out are not coming out because it's an easy thing, they are not coming out to irritate and rile straight people. They do it to create comfort and security in large numbers.  They come out because they don't have some of the same rights heterosexuals take for granted. They come out to make it easier for those who follow. And straight people don’t have to announce they’re straight, it’s assumed.  Straight people have not been threatened with eternal damnation or demeaned and humiliated because of their sexuality. They haven't been told they're not eligible for basic rights because of who they love. They don't have anything to overcome…well at least not as it relates to their sexuality.  

• People who don’t vote are idiots. Not only are you ignoring the sacrifices and hardships those before us endured to get us the vote but every time your apathetic, uninvolved, my vote doesn’t count ass neglects to vote, some tea bag republican does. The same tea bag republican who doesn’t believe in science, wants to control what a woman does with her body and more importantly wants to suppress your dumbass the right to vote to begin with. And don’t tell me you’re not voting because you didn’t get everything you were promised in the last election. Boo fucking hoo, get over it. Get up off your lazy ass and go vote.  

• To my female friends who are overjoyed to have a gay friend, thank you. But can you please stop with the chile and girl references, this is not the Real Housewives of Atlanta and I am not Miss Warren. And quite honestly I’m the last person you should consult regarding fashion, style or decorating…not that kind of gay. Oh and stop asking if I’m getting married just because they’ve legalized same sex marriage in California. Have you received a save the date notice?

• I can’t stand people who use expressions like “at the end of the day”, what the hell does that even mean? Its 12 noon are you planning on contributing something meaningful to the conversation at the end of the day? And would that be the end of the work day, sunset or at 11:59 PM? Or how about “having said that”, uh yeah I’m standing right here, I heard you say it. What makes you think you need to tell me you said something I just heard you say? This is one of my favorites, “so is it just me?” yep you’re all alone in this one buddy. Maybe you should call for back-up. Lastly this one bugs the hell out of me “know what I mean” well yes actually I do because unlike you I’ve been following the exchange between us but how about I call the redundant police and have your ass arrested for conversation violations.

Whew! Sorry if I’ve offended anyone it wasn’t my intention but I feel a lot better now, thanks…know what I mean?

Ring The Alarm

It’s simple and requires little discussion. If you jump the White House fence, you’re dead…period. How the hell does someone jump the fence, sprint across the White House lawn, run through the front door, which was left open, get “deep inside” the White House and over power a Secret Service  agent before being tackled by an off duty agent? As soon as he landed on the other side of that fence and took his first step, he should have been zapped to dust. Seriously, this is the 21^st century, where were the infrared beam detectors and electric ground plates? Where were the armed motion detector drones and the robotic dogs with the laser beam eyes? Apparently the alarms had been deactivated, which sounds hugely suspicious but shouldn’t a spy satellite from space have been able to detect and eliminate an intruder…WTF! I have a home security system which alerts me when someone deactivates the alarm and lets me know who deactivated it and at what time, I can arm and disarm it remotely and I receive both an email and a phone call if there is an intruder. It’s less than $50 a month and I gotta say it’s a hell of a lot better than the billion dollar White House security system.

The real problem seems to be that The Secret Service does not appear to be overly enthusiastic about protecting this president. Remember them partying with cocaine and hookers in South America when they should have been securing the President. Anyway, why there is ever a need for the alarm to be deactivated is my question and why was the front door left open?

Ding Dong!

Who is it?

Just me the intruder, here to kill the President.

Oh, come on in, it’s open.

Something doesn’t smell right. Weeks earlier the Secret Service allowed an armed felon to ride in the elevator with the President and the idiot refused repeated request to cease filming the President with his cell phone. (Can someone put the President in touch with the security detail Jay-Z had on his elevator ride?) They detained him after the President left the elevator ran a check on him and discovered he was a felon but they didn’t even know he was armed until he turned his gun in himself….again WTF! The head of the Secret Service, Get Smart Julia Pierson who has since resigned says of the agents, “they’re only human, people make mistakes”. Uh no Jules, a mistake is when you use their when you meant there (damn auto correct) you don’t make mistakes with the President of the United States which could cause him his life. You allowed an armed felon within reach of the President because you didn’t do a preliminary background check, that’s not a mistake that’s misconduct. You were tasked with protecting the leader of the free world and you’ve failed miserably.

According to the Washington Post this President has had three times the threats as past presidents, yet the Secret Service seems to be letting a lot of kooky dangerous people get very close to him including some questionable agents. Besides the two most recent incidents there were the reality show nut jobs from the Real Housewives of D.C. who were able to crash the President’s first state dinner in 2010, the fake sign language translator at Mandela’s funeral (actually he was kind of fun to watch) and of course there was the Secret Service agent who was found drunk in an Amsterdam hotel hallway a day before the President was due to arrive after an all-night drunken binge with two of his fellow agents. Thankfully all three were discharged immediately and sent home. By far the best was when there was reported gunfire outside the White House and the Secret Service shrugged it off stating they thought it was a car backfiring or gang activity. Uh, what now? So there’s gang activity outside of the White House and that’s ok? Too ridiculous for discussion. Days later a maid discovered bullet damage in the walls and broken glass on the floor. Seriously, who’s doing the cleaning in the White House, Agatha Christie? It was determined that at least seven bullets hit the building. One pierced a window on the second floor landing in the wall, another hit a nearby window frame and several more landed on the roof. The shooter was later apprehended and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Thankfully he wasn’t a member of the Crips or Bloods or he’d still be out there.

So you know somehow they’ll blame the President for this one too. NBC recently ran a story and the headline read Long List of Breaches and Scandals for Secret Service Under Obama. The implication of course is the scandals and breeches are his responsibility and he has somehow failed. This nonsense is generated and fueled by those suffering from incurable Obama Derangement Syndrome. You’ve seen and heard from these poor afflicted souls, they think that President Obama is responsible for everything wrong in the world.  If your chicken is over cooked in a restaurant, blame Obama. Got a hang nail, blame Obama and don’t get me started on tornadoes, hurricanes and floods. Heaven forbid, but if it happened they’d hold him responsible for his own assassination.

Of course the Republicans used the incident as an excuse to trot out they’re fake concern for our President. It was rather repugnant to see Congressman Darrell Issa and his fellow right wing extremists feigning distress over the safety of the President and his family.  The same self-serving Darrell Issa who has spent the last two years investigating the Benghazi cover up... the man couldn’t prove water is wet. They would have been more convincing had they said they were concerned about property damage caused by the gang member shooter. If they’re smart they’ll introduce a bill to increase the Secret Service budget, which they decreased during the last sequester and attach a rider to it to repeal the Affordable Care Act. When the President vetoes the bill, they would then be able to attack him for recklessly supporting the Affordable Care Act to the detriment of the Secret Service and his own family's safety. Crazy? Yeah, but so are President Obama’s detractors.