September 4, 2023

I was a ten-year-old DRAG QUEEN !!!!!

In the midst of all this anti-drag talk and legislation, I finally remembered!!

It was the early 1970s...
There was a Halloween party coming up across the street. I don't remember whose idea it was,
but I liked the idea! I dressed up as a full-blown femme fatale!

I had a bra and big boobs! A wig, a dress and a string of pearls which I swung around!

I regret that no one apparently took a photograph of me that has survived.
My older sister helped me out with the makeup and costume.

Being only a ten-year-old boy, I was damned pretty in drag, if I do say so myself!

I think I may have even flirted with the boys....

(is that "sexualizing"?? I'm not sure, but maybe today the reich-wing would want to bring charges!)

((should my parents have been ARRESTED, for ALLOWING THIS???!!!))



It was all great fun, and nobody got hurt...

and I grew up to be a very straight male,
who on one occasion very much enjoyed dressing up in women's clothing and makeup....


EVERYBODY should try it ONCE, no matter HOW old they are!!!!!

(ESPECIALLY the people who are SO HUNG UP on it!!!!
They are way too up-tight..)


((Much later on, when we were adults, my best friend did it for Halloween kareoke!
He wore a purple dress, and sang "Like A Virgin"... LMAO))

August 29, 2023

I was without mains power for almost 5 days...

just got it back a couple hours ago--- lost due to the "historic damage" in the Michigan storms last Thursday night...


It sucked anyways. I hope my freezer food is still edible--- a 20-pound bag of ice kept it all at "refrigerator temps" at least..... and has lasted longer than I expected...


I own 2 deep-discharge batteries which, powering a power inverter, allowed me to have a couple hours of TV at night, and one low-watt lightbulb, and a fan for a little while--- but they had not been used for a long time, other than to recharge them about twice a year, they had not been used for about 5 years... (otherwise, I would have gone completely goddam crazy..)
They may be wrecked now, but maybe they need a little distilled water--- but they are far beyond their expiration date if i had been actually using them all this time... (2016, but they were not used very much, only maintained)


Wish I had bought one of those Generac natural-gas generators, when I had the money to do it---
(but how many times do these emergencies actually happen RIGHT HERE where you are? LOL
twice in the last 20 years, but only once did it affect me)


Anyway, glad the lights are back on-- one day early against the previous predictions...

I will give more thought to possible future misfortunes....

July 18, 2023

Florida Republicans Declare Covid Vaccine A Bioweapon, Seek To Ban It (DailyKos)

Recently the Brevard County Florida Republican Executive Committee voted to declare the Covid vaccine (all of them) biological weapons and urge they be banned from the state. The resolution declares “Covid-19 injections are biological and technological weapons” and that “enormous number of humans have died or been permanently disabled.”

As stunning as that may sound, it’s just part of a growing wave. Over half a dozen Florida county GOP officials has passed similar resolutions.

Not content to interfere in the personal decision to have an abortion, the proposed resolution demands that it be illegal to give or receive Covid vaccinations in the entire state of Florida. This means that the 67% of Brevard residents, and 93% of Brevard seniors, who have already received Covid vaccinations did something that would be regarded as a criminal act after this law is implemented. Thank the Constitution for the prohibition on enforcing ex post facto laws. Florida already bans requiring anyone to get the vaccine. Now they seek to criminalize a decision to get one.

The resolution also demands that all existing doses in the state be seized by the Florida Attorney General for testing “on behalf of the preservation of the human race.”

Read more:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/17/2181805/-Florida-Republicans-Declare-Covid-Vaccine-A-Bioweapon-Seek-To-Ban-It



So Florida Republicans are stark raving, mouth-foaming INSANE! Gotta love that "Florida FreeDum"!

What's next? prohibiting vaccinations for measles, polio or smallpox ?


I am now less puzzled by DeathSantis' large re-election margin---
Florida Republicans LOVE him, and a lot of Democrats failed to vote, because of hurricane damage and general demoralization....

but glad to see his '24 presidential hopes falling apart!

June 10, 2023

My last public performance, when I was 17 years old--- Chopin

but I did not play it as well as Van Cliburn, who was my piano hero
( i did see him perform once at Interlochen, Michigan-- the famous music camp
which I attended for several weeks in my youth...)


Fantasie-Impromtu by Frederic Chopin, my favorite artist when I began to mature
(before that I am enamored with Mozart...)

performed by Van Cliburn

June 10, 2023

In defense of Roger Waters, lead singer of Pink Floyd at their peak--- he is SMEARED!

In recent days, I was myself also puzzled and troubled by
"mainstream media reports"
that he had recently "appeared in Nazi regalia"....


Well, it seems that this allegation was totally false....

In the film 'Pink Floyd's "The Wall" ', at one point, Waters portrayed himself as a fascist leader,
in a completely fictional scene..... the uniform he wore bore the "crossed hammers",
NOT the swastica....and these scenes have been used by right-wing media to falsely attack him

(picked up by the mainstream media, who do not bother to do any research!)

I was a great fan of this film, back in the early 1980s...

It was an INCREDIBILY ANTI-FASCIST and ANTI-WAR movie!!!!

Now I have seen many attacks on him on this very site,
based on what seems to be very false information,
or regurgitated information from those who are too young to have any understanding,
or older people who had no understanding of 'Pink Floyd'....

(I recall one outburst from my own mother,
who presumed that it was a 'gay band')...

YES, in Pink Floyd's "The Wall" a future fascist leader was portrayed,
but it was not a positive portrayal---

this scene is entirely fictional, for the sake of the movie, and there are NO Nazi "regalia" here---
only an imitation of it--- which has been used by the far-right wing in this country, to SMEAR him,
as some kind of supporter of fascism!

That such tropes have been repeated on this site, is not very good....


In any case, Roger Waters DID NOT EVEN APPEAR in "The Wall" movie---
his role (if any) was portrayed by the lead singer of the 80s 'Boomtown Rats' !!!
so the accusations are entirely false, on their face...


Here is what Roger Waters has to say about all this,
with some news links at the end:


"The elements of my performance that have been questioned are quite clearly a statement in opposition to fascism, injustice, and bigotry in all its forms. Attempts to portray those elements as something else are disingenuous and politically motivated. The depiction of an unhinged fascist demagogue has been a feature of my shows since Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” in 1980."

"I have spent my entire life speaking out against authoritarianism and oppression wherever I see it. When I was a child after the war, the name of Anne Frank was often spoken in our house, she became a permanent reminder of what happens when fascism is left unchecked. My parents fought the Nazis in World War II, with my father paying the ultimate price."



https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/roger-waters-investigation-nazi-uniform-berlin-police-1235341587/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CsuO7H-t9p5/?ig_rid=a6dfd7e4-1523-4f8c-a747-a4385dd5a312

https://www.instagram.com/p/CsuO7H-t9p5/?ig_rid=a6dfd7e4-1523-4f8c-a747-a4385dd5a312


And if you have never seen 'The Wall' by Pink Floyd,
it is about goddamn time that you do!!

(I am sure that you can see it now on YouTube, in its entirety--
but you may have to see it 2 or 3 times before you entirely 'get it'--
because it is very out-of-order.... lol)

(( and smoke one if you are holding one!!! do it for me, I no longer partake! lol))

May 23, 2023

There is ANOTHER "more explicit" US debt payment law, signed by Pres. Nixon,

around 1970, which states that the US government 'SHALL PAY' their debt obligations...
(This is more explicit than the 14th amendment, which says that the national debt
'shall not be questioned')...

(I read about it on an article on my phone's newsapp 'Smart News', and God forgive me, I did not immediately post it-- I meant to, but life interfered... and now I can't find it...)

The article made a very compelling case about this particular statute, although the article was about the whole debt issue.

To wit, this particular statute compels the US government, headed by the President of the United States, to 'pay the national debt', without any conditions or exceptions....

As such, it is in direct contradiction of the 'debt limit statute' which was passed during World War 1.

So, no matter what the President of the United States directs the Treasury Department to do (if an agreement is not reached), he will be in violation of either one US statute, or the other....

If he directs them to let the 'debt ceiling' rule, and not pay the debt, he will be in violation of the 1970s statute...

and if he directs them to continue to pay the debt,
he will be in violation of the ancient World War 1 'debt ceiling law',
(which may be unconstitutional)...

The article also made the case that when US statutes are in conflict, legally, the later statute shall rule...
which means that President Biden should cite this statute, in ADDITION to the 14th amendment, when he continues to pay the debt without GQP passage of a new debt limit...

This would seem to be a 'trump card' to me (sorry about that) in any future legal conflict over the matter (in addition to the 14th amendment, I think it closes the case).


This article, or perhaps another, also made the argument that no one has 'standing' to file suit, if the US Government continues to pay our national debt without a congressional agreement on the "debt limit"...

Exactly 'who' is 'harmed', if the US Government continues to pay its bills ??
(besides Kevin McCarthy??? lmao)
and how could the Supreme Court conservatives rule, that the US Government must violate all other laws, US and worldwide,
by refusing to pay their lawful debts?

(violating all other laws in order to keep one ancient law)



SORRY I cannot provide any link to that article, I curse myself, and I googled...

I appeal to the DU lawyers and legal experts to help me out here, but I know what I read.

IMHO, it should be added to our 14th amendment arguments which are widely argued.

May 8, 2023

Maybe there should be an "age limit" for owning an arsenal, instead of worrying that Joe Biden

is too old to serve another term as president ???


By my observation, there has recently been an observable pattern of "senior citizens with guns"
committing many of these crimes or gun assaults--

or at least, more than would be expected to be "their share"...

shooting people who knocked on their door, for instance...



I am not an "ageist", but it is common sense that people eventually become too old to safely operate an automobile, and that is concluded by their driving record, and tests...

so it should also be concluded that at some age, they are no longer competent
to own an arsenal of arms that could equip a small army ??!!!!


(posted in response to the news of a 71 year old "road rage" defendant with over 70 guns)


There is an age limit for youth owning guns, always has been, although there is debate about the number...

I make no argument here about a "number" for senior citizens--
but obviously when one becomes very old, they lose a certain amount of their mental capacity among other things--
I am losing it myself! LOL

Certainly there is no good argument for them being able to possess an arsenal of firearms and ammunition that they are physically incapable of moving by themselves in a reasonable period of time.. LOL

Such would be a target for "criminal repossession", in any case...

April 25, 2023

Tucker's demise is too beautiful for words!!!!

I presume he will land hard upon one of the minor hard-right cable networks.....


The only bad thing about Faux firing him is,
it may be more difficult to track his physical location....



but, it may be less worthy to do, now.....

April 8, 2023

"stand back and stand by" :D

and that is what our 'older and wiser' President Joe Biden is doing now,
while the wheels of justice go to work
on the accidental-president and deliberate criminal and committed fascist, TFG...

March 11, 2023

Deputy 'Barney Fife' In DRAG!!! OMG!!!!

I just watched the episode..... clearly he was 'grooming' Opie.... I may be permanently psychologically damaged!!

(I suddenly feel the urge to put on a dress, and makeup... Opie, on the other hand, went on to star in a c-minus 70s flick called "Eat My Dust" where he climbed into a shower stall with a naked buxom blonde, but I digress...)



CLEARLY this 'family television show' which is still rated-G,
was actually a far-left communist gay LGTBQ conspiracy, with drag queens, intended to groom our innocent children
(and susceptible adults....)

/s

I predict that certain Republican state legislators,
who had not yet been born when this show originally aired,
will none-the-less (within the states of Florida, South Carolina, Missouri and Texas)
submit state legislation to BAN "Mayberry R.F.D." from airing
on any cable or broadcast television stations within their respective states....

what else could a true family-friendly patriot do ???


Obviously they have gotten so out of control,
I am tempted to find venues to appear 'in drag' as a political statement,
although the only time I ever did it before, was at the age of ten
as a Halloween costume...

(I believe I made a pretty girl at the time, my older sister helped with the costume and makeup,
but I suppose I would be less pretty now, 50 years later.... lol)


STOP THE MADNESS, FOR CHRIST SAKE!!!!

and all you Republicans who are obviously acting out of a desperate 'homosexual panic',
just COME OUT!!! we will not hate you for that....