The View from Ptown on Friday afternoon......

  Harry sends us this : "The weather bears is/are lovely, wish you were here...... "

( again , it's " g-r-r-r-r-r " or " WOOF! " )

The South, The North ... and the Jehovah Witnesses

All along the Watchtowers, baby... the local JH crowd loves Kyle.

" I am a gay Episcopalian , with strong outwardly Heathen tendencies " ( or is that the other way around -  a gay Heathen with Episcopalian tendencies??? ) I have told them, yet they keep on coming. Leaving me little gifts, inviting me to Jehovah themed tupper ware parties...

At first it was this lovely older couple, who I do not think had ever had dealings with a Southerner before. " Hello, how are  you today? " not : " Get off my steps witch, before I break out the water hose" Now, I do not really know ANYTHING about the JH Church, other than the fact they own A ZILLION DOLLARS worth of  property in Brooklyn Heights, but I am guessing that our core values are going to be pretty far apart.

The last two times I have received a visit from them , one just this afternoon, it has been the b-team , the newbies out bringing in the flocks. These are the sweetest , nicest people, who always smell so good. Here is the thing about up here.. Ladies DO NOT DRESS for other ladies, at all. You would sooner find a skunk in our church as you would some foundation garments and panty hose... it just does not happen. And yet , these Ladies and Gentlemen dress as if they are going to visit a grand dame great aunt for lunch. Very nice church dresses and suits and ties. ( and again , I am not sure what the one lady that came to see me so often was wearing perfume wise, but it was very nice) 

So, these well groomed , seemingly kind folks, show up unannounced at your door, and far be it from deep South Kyle to turn them away.. No, I ask them in and listen to there little spiel about this or that , God and for some reason , always " the end times". They seem really fixated on that one. Now sure, "Being Bobby Brown and " the real housewives of New Jersey " were as sure a sign that we are coming into the END DAYS as we are going  to get.. but I am not dwelling on it. 

Today's topic was " How to survive the end of the world." When I asked her " Isn't this an oxymoron ? " she just sort of smiled. Again, I don't think they get man questions.

don't know my own strength!

At 9:44 tonight, I posted that the President needed to get fully behind the Matthew Shepard Hate Crime Bill.... around 12:44 the Senate of the United States passed it... nothing up my sleeve...

GIVING US A BIG OLE LOSER OF THE WEEK !!!!! ( yeah, team rainbow!)

Damn, but we are on a roll.....

UPDATE : FIVE ( F-I-V-E !!! ) REPUBLICANS voted FOR the bill:

• Collins, R- MAINE
• Snowe, R - MAINE
• Lugar, R- INDIANA
• Murkowski, R- ALASKA
• Voinovich, R- OHIO

Pat Buchanan is a racist idiot...

Or at least plays one on tv.

MSNBC just changed there whole website to be super cool and interactive, there for making it harder than it needs to be. FIRST, you get to see OUR PRESIDENT, end his wonderful speech to the NAACP. ( Kyle is ready to be re-dipped!!)

Then comes Pat and his tin foil hat crazy self......like I said on the facebook : jawdropping! ( I hope this will embed...)

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

ok.. it did.. I think.. its long.. but watch.

AT LAST....

Just Damn.

I pretty much needed this today:

If you can find the end of his speech, his fantastic , amazing speech, do yourself a favor and watch it. Here is a LINK to the entire speech and text of it.

WHERE HAVE YOU GONE BARACK OBAMA?

This is who we all voted for, this is the leader that we so so need right now. 

"The first thing we need to do is make real the words of your charter and eradicate prejudice, bigotry, and discrimination among citizens of the United States. I understand there may be a temptation among some to think that discrimination is no longer a problem in 2009. And I believe that overall, there probably has never been less discrimination in America than there is today. But make no mistake: the pain of discrimination is still felt in America. By African-American women paid less for doing the same work as colleagues of a different color and a different gender. By Latinos made to feel unwelcome in their own country. By Muslim Americans viewed with suspicion simply because they kneel down to pray to their God. By our gay brothers and sisters, still taunted, still attacked, still denied their rights. On the 45th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, discrimination must not stand. Not on account of color or gender; how you worship or who you love. Prejudice has no place in the United States of America."

Listen to the applause this line gets from this almost all African American audience, they get it, they know. There is not a limited amount of freedom in the world. We as a nation are only as strong as our weakest link. My freedom does not effect yours. 

What or who is holding President Obama back? 

• an Executive Order tomorrow ending dismissal of gay and lesbian service members
• send a bill to the house overturning DADT
• full support of ENDA
• full support of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes bill.
• END DOMA, NOW!

Queens and queens .....

The throngs out in Anaheim are chugging along... seems like they have been at it since Elizabeth started this mess.. it's a LONG convention, and then Neil has to take that train back. Real progress has been made out there.

Oh, for the day that the Episcopals ran the country!

A few days after all their internal fireworks, the news is dribbling out. Here is just a sampling , for anyone that cares. So far, there has been no right wing explosion - odd, but maybe the crazies in charge just see this as an old story.... 

New York Times

Washington Post

Associated Press

and a pretty nasty little diatribe from the Murdoch owned LONDON TIMES

come on Summer... come on Summer...

The day is doing its best to hit that 80 degree mark by lunch time... I'm loving it.