Gays, again....

Is anyone besides me tired of this bullshit??? "Straight" Republicans (or any politicians, preachers, or plain-old people who are hard line against gays) are the meanest, most judgmental asses out there about gay marriage, gay adoption, gay rights on medical, insurance, and inheritance clauses for their partners. They repeatedly turn out to be closet gays who revel in their predilections to persecute others, lie to their wives and children, and, once they get caught, get free passes for their prejudices and preferences from their political and religious affiliates along with slaps on the wrist from the criminal justice system while those they've persecuted get treated like pedophiles and criminals. Hello, Larry Craig????????????

And then the Religious Right and Republicans forgive them because they cry, beg forgiveness, say they've "re-discovered" God, that they've gotten their wives' and children's forgiveness, that it will never happen again, that it was some sort of "temptation" by the Devil, and that it's "okay?" Are y'all just STUPID??????????

Gay is gay. No matter how much y'all like to say people "choose" their lifestyle, or that they were "seduced" by the Devil, or that they didn't know what they were doing, ultra-conservatives, hard-core Republicans, and fundamentalist Christians who condemn homosexuals are fucking idiots. Gay people are gay. Straight people are straight. Bisexual people enjoy both sexes. Pedophiles are unfortunate sickos who don't care about male or female to a point but will take whatever they can get when it comes to a child and are not a part of this picture even though y'all paint them as such. Pedophiles are not homosexual, heterosexual, or bisexual; they are child rapists who cannot be fixed. There's a difference, one that y'all don't seem to understand even while you're forgiving hard-core gay haters who turn out to be gay.

But can you Republicans PLEASE quit forgiving those of your ilk for "momentary" lapses if they're GAY????? What you don't get is that people like ME don't have a problem with people who are actually gay. And you let your fellow Republicans who get caught off the hook because it must have been a "Devil's" lapse. WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!! He's gay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nature is Nature, and it's time for y'all to quit being so judgmental and hypocritical. Just because he's your bud doesn't mean he's not a hypocrite; no, it wasn't a momentary lapse (HE'S GAY), but it also doesn't mean he's a bad person (and it's time for him to admit this to himself and his family as well), and just because a person is a liberal or Democrat who supports gay rights doesn't make him/her a BAD person. So, wouldn't you rather have a person who's honest and not a damn hypocrite??????

Gay isn't bad, but lying assholes who persecute others who are gay when they are themselves = hypocrites.

Wake up, people.

Sunny

Americans who need more proof, read this....

Maybe Mark Davis and Rush Limbaugh and 99% of Republicans will never get it, but the rest of America really needs to wake up. Ignore the pundits and politicians, who have been getting paid by corporations and advertisers to ignore the reality of global warming and scoff at the possibility that humans contribute to the Greenhouse Effect. To read the entire article, see The Truth about Denial by Sharon Begley. Here are a few points from the article:

"Warming of the climate system is unequivocal," concluded a report by 600 scientists from governments, academia, green groups and businesses in 40 countries. Worse, there was now at least a 90 percent likelihood that the release of greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels is causing longer droughts, more flood-causing downpours and worse heat waves, way up from earlier studies. Those who doubt the reality of human-caused climate change have spent decades disputing that.

Since the late 1980s, this well-coordinated, well-funded campaign by contrarian scientists, free-market think tanks and industry has created a paralyzing fog of doubt around climate change.

In contrast, majorities in Europe and Japan recognize a broad consensus among climate experts that greenhouse gases—mostly from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas to power the world's economies—are altering climate. A new NEWSWEEK Poll finds that the influence of the denial machine remains strong.

As a result of the undermining of the science, all the recent talk about addressing climate change has produced little in the way of actual action.

Republicans have also received significantly more campaign cash from the energy and other industries that dispute climate science.

The planet is indeed warming, and at a rate since 1980 much greater than in the past.

Every effort to pass climate legislation during the George W. Bush years was stopped in its tracks.

All the Democratic presidential contenders have called global warming a real threat, and promise to push for cuts similar to those being passed by California and other states.

This summer, Texas was hit by exactly the kind of downpours and flooding expected in a greenhouse world, and Las Vegas and other cities broiled in record triple-digit temperatures. Just last week the most accurate study to date concluded that the length of heat waves in Europe has doubled, and their frequency nearly tripled, in the past century. The frequency of Atlantic hurricanes has already doubled in the last century. Snowpack whose water is crucial to both cities and farms is diminishing. It's enough to make you wish that climate change were a hoax, rather than the reality it is.

Wake up, people.

Sunny

In Memoriam - Dr. Kalpana Rao

I called yesterday to make an appointment with my neurologist, Dr. Kalpana Rao, in Richardson, TX. She has been my neurologist and unofficial medical adviser since 1997 when I had my first bout with Bell's Palsy at the age of 27.

Her office called me back today to let me know that she died of ovarian cancer in January of this year (2007).

First, think what you want of me, but I'm devastated. No, we weren't friends or relatives or colleagues. No, we didn't socialize outside of the doctor/patient relationship. No, we didn't have any other bond at all.

But I liked her very much. In fact, I told multiple friends and family about her over the years and recommended her to people who might have needed her skills as a doctor. Right now, I can't even imagine seeing another neurologist. After I moved out of Dallas, I would still drive an hour and a half to see her rather than change doctors.

I enjoyed the way she gave me a hard time about my smoking and my not keeping up with my regular 6-month check-ups and facial exercises. (She was a 5-foot little something [I'm 5'7"], who would point her finger up and lecture me.)

I delighted in her tales of going home to India each year and reveling in her friends and food and native celebrations. She didn't mind answering my questions about her religion or homeland or events and knew I asked out of curiosity, not prejudice or malice. So she shared with me, even if it was just a little bit.

A doctor isn't usually a friend, and Dr. Rao wasn't either. All jokes and sarcastic shots between her and me aside, she was a professional. We didn't socialize, or keep in touch outside of her work, or exchange photos, or chat on the Internet. But I liked her, and she was a damn good doctor. She never preached but always let me know how she felt about my habits. She never worried but always made sure I was medically checked out anyway. She never hovered but always insisted that I follow up with her.

I'm terribly saddened to hear about her loss. She was not only a good person but a great doctor. I can't believe she died of ovarian cancer. Unfortunately, I was told that she did, in fact, have her woman's annual exam before she died and that they didn't find the cancer at that time. Even if they had, ovarian cancer is usually very deadly.

To all the family, friends, acquaintances, professionals, students, and patients in Dr. Rao's life, I just want to say that I feel your loss, and it's a big one.

Dr. Rao, thank you. You were a wonderful doctor and person, and I didn't have to be your friend to see that.

Sincerely,

Your patient and admirer, who loved to give you a hard time, which you always reciprocated,

Sunny