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Democracy Now Report on Washington's New Word For "Hunger" In America

This made me sick to watch. For the most prosperous nation in the World, there still is 12%, or 35,000,000 Americans that have no sufficient food to eat.

Think about all the money that has been wasted on the war in Iraq, that could have been used to feed starving people here in the USA.

Such a waste and American tragedy.

If you can, this holiday season, please give to your local homeless charities in hopes of bringing some joy and happiness to those lives that our less fortunate than your own. Remember, this is the time for giving.

Let me know your thoughts on this issue.

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Too lazy to make show notes. And I am getting sick...

Travel with me as I describe my 2006 Thanksgiving holiday.


Todays musical guests include:

3 - 2 - 1 Contact! - The Children's Television Workshop

Don't Be Shy - Spektrum

Are You The One? (better than Point 22) - The Presets

Blue Monday (Jori Hulkkonen Remix 2) - Flunk



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Over the Thanksgiving holiday I traveled to Northern California to the City of Tracy. I stayed at my best friend's parents home. It's a yearly ritual.

During my holiday weekend, I attended an outing at the California State Railroad Museum, located in the California's state capital city, Sacramento.

If I liked trains, I might have enjoyed the museum. Unfortunately, I could care less about trains, and became bored after about 30 minutes.

I took pictures to stay awake!

Please listen to my next podcast (sometime this week) for all the gory details of my Thanksgiving holiday.

You won't want to miss it!

We're Gonna Turn It On, We're Gonna Bring You The Power

I have to admit that when I saw this video on You Tube, my whole childhood flashed in front of my eyes. Very surreal. It has been years, I mean years, since I saw The Electric Company opening, but as soon as saw the first 3 seconds, I completely remembered it. Gave me a little chill. It was like I was six years old again, sitting in front of the TV eating a Pop-Tart.

OK, now with my adult eyes...a couple of things caught my attention. Why were those kids (which were us!...my fellow Gen X'ers) all wearing the same shirt? Take a look, it's that gray monstrosity in the beginning of the clip. And a very ugly shirt, I might add. How BIG did the pockets need to be? They were HUGE!

And what's with the characters changing of clothes? Was that suppose to remind us that they were teachers? I don't know..... What about Rita Moreno's two piece number? I thought that was a little risque for kids TV. But it was the 1970's. I forgot that Morgan Freeman was in the show.

Oh well....It was a nice little look at childhood lost.

Did you watch The Electric Company?

Lily - Kate Bush

The very talented, Kate Bush

The Electric Company

A Little Bit More About Myself

A Star On My Headstone

The Old Religion


Memories Of Freaking Out My Mother

What Is Behind The Mountains?

Mommy, Why Don't You Go To Church?

Fire & Brimstone


Spiritual Responsibility

Living In A Backwards World

L.A.! Here I Come

Philosophical Research Society

Casting My First Circle

Learning The Five Points

Hoping Peace For War Widows



Love & Shoutouts

Christiaan of SATURNcast

PizzaBabe & Bob

ZillaFag

Andy & Bob's Blog World

Aj of Cuppa Tea and The Rainbow Podsquad

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The Girl And The Sea - The Presets

New Rule - There Is NO Devil, So Stop Blaming Your Screw Ups On Him

It's like Bill Maher has been reading my blog lately. Talk about simpatico!

Everything from the election, gay bashing, the religious RIGHT, crystal meth, and gay hookers are covered in this very funny Bill Maher monolog.

This clip is hilarious! ...... AJ!, Bill can't say the word "E-V-A-N-G-E-L-I-C-A-L" either, just like you! At least you're in some good company.

Maher was on his game for this one. I hope you enjoy it.

SATURNdiary

I have discovered a little gem of a podcast called SATURNcast. SATURNcast is hosted by Christiaan Huygens.

Broadcasting from New York, Christiaan, hosts the SATURNcast about twice a week. SATURNcasts are full of intelligent conversation and observations with cutting edge sarcastic wit from the humble host. I love your sarcasm, Christiaan. It reminds me of my own family. And how could I forget to mention...Christiaan loves Nine Inch Nails and Halloween III - Season of the Witch, just like me! Cool people always find each other.

If you want to hear some great conversation hosted by an intelligent and funny guy, then SATURNcast is for you.

Christiaan has a pretty sexy voice as well....You do, Christiaan.

And remember.....SATURNcast is just another great podcast on The Freak Network.

Go Visit The Freak Network ..... and Freakify Your Feed!

Love and thank you' for Sin, PizzaBabe and AJ .....also Christiaan from SaturnCast (I forgot to mention you in the podcast) for all their well wishes.


Post Depression & Remission

My Boring Job

Neocon Hell Crumbling


Bitter Old Sack of Bones

Time Bandits & Vice President Cheney



Spiritual Restoration

A Divine Diamond

The Pink Elephant In the Room



Your lawn will suck ass in Houston

APLD cleans up house

"Cornerstone of our reputation"



The Freak Network

Love and Goodbyes



So sorry for all the air-puff induced over-modulations. Still getting used to this recording stuff. Next one will be better.

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Well... don't expect a perfect lawn if you live in The City of Houston..... if you're gay.

Apparently, there has been a very big discussion during the last two weeks on the Web involving a small landscaping business in Houston, TX and the gay community.

The story starts with two gay men living in Houston who decided they wanted to landscape their lawn, They called several landscaping companies for bids. It turns out that they got a response for a bid back from a very well known and highly recommended Houston landscaping company, Garden Guy.

Here is the response that the Garden Guy company sent to the gay couple:

" I am appreciative of your time on the phone today and glad you contacted us. I need to tell you that we cannot meet with you because we choose not to work for homosexuals. Best of luck in finding someone else to meet your landscaping needs.”

Well, how nice of them to end with "best of luck" Didn't the last sentence seem a little cynical?

The story continues. The gay couple, in state of shock, emailed all their friends asking them not to patronize Garden Guy and to email this message to all their friends. The momentum was so strong that it literally blew up on the web. The email campaign became so huge that it reached the offices of the APLD, or Association of Professional Landscape Designers.

The APLD, under pressure from it's own members, and barrage of negative toned phone calls, made an official statement condemning the owners actions and hastily formed a non-discrimination policy for its members. The owners of the Garden Guy claimed to belong to the APLD, but APLD officials stated that Garden Guy were currently not members of their organization, nor would they be invited to be in the future.

Here is APLD's official statement.

"It has come to our attention that a former member has declined a professional engagement on the grounds of the prospective clients' sexual orientation. This conduct does not conform to the policy and practice of APLD,"

Hard to believe?, people. That in the year 2006 we would see a thing like this.

Oh, before I forget, let me share with you Garden Guy's pledge to "all" of its customers:

"Treating you with respect and honesty are [sic] the cornerstones of our reputation.”

Hey AJ!.......Hey ZillaFag!

As a Democrat Residing In The Biggest Blue State of All, I Welcome You
Back To Reality.

We Love Ohio!

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Thank You America!

Thank you, America!


Thank you, for letting your voice be heard. I feel good to be an American again. Feels like a heavy weight has been lifted off my shoulder.

Is there hope that Americans can escape this Neocon nightmare?

I haven't felt this good in so long. I feel a bit more hopeful that the World may have the chance to become a better place.

I hope the Democrats understand the great challenge before them.

But for now, it's time to celebrate!....Thank you, America, for voting. Thank you for letting the American peoples collective voice be heard, loud and clear....

No, your eyes are not playing tricks on you...Tigger has done a podcast.



Living with clinical depression.

I think the title speaks for itself.

I thank you for listening.




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This whole Rev Ted Haggard scandal has got me really thinking.

I wanted to share a comment that I made in response to a question that came up in my mind after reading a response by a reader on my blog:

Do people like Rev. Ted Haggard and Marc Foley cast a negative light on the gay community when they are publicly outed?

Here is the reader's post and my response:


Lesa | 11.05.06 - 5:27 p.m. |

"Mike Jones, the ex-male prostitute, did not hold a gun to this hypocrites closeted head. This does not shame the gay community. It shows us that many bigots, gay bashers are spewing hate because they themselves ARE gay and don't have the courage to live as such."


Tigger | Homepage | 11.05.06 - 11:19 p.m. |

"Firstly, thank you for stopping by my blog.

You brought up a good question for me:

"Do people like Ted Haggard and Marc Foley hurt the gay community overall when they are publicly outed?"

As an out gay man, I think it is really sad that someone, like Ted Haagard, has lived his entire Life hating a part of himself and having the inability to be truthful to himself and accept that being gay is just a real and normal part of who he is. It is the way that God intended him to be.

I am glad that Mike Jones did what he did. He was speaking from the side of Truth.

My problem with people like, Ted Haggard and Marc Foley, is that they live in the public eye. When confronted with accusations supported by supporting facts, people like Ted and Marc, more than often end up putting such a negative spin on their own reasons why they have had gay sex. "The Devil made me do It." "I got lost in the Darkside", "I had a broken childhood", "I was a victim of child abuse", "I am an alcoholic", etc...

The general public hears these explanations via mass media, and some people think these reasons as true. It gives them some explanation to understand why someone is a homosexual. It feeds their ego and makes them comfortable with themselves. For these people, the last thing their gonna accept as a reason as to why someone is a homosexual is ..."I was just born this way"

Falsehoods such as the ones stated above, is where Haggard and Foley's explanations hurt the gay community as whole, because it creates false impressions of who we are as seen by the general public.

There isn't a clear answer either way, I feel."

.:.

I would love to hear anyone else's view on this subject, gay or straight readers.

Let me know what you think.

Nobody says it better than Trent Reznor

Evangelical Rev. Ted Haggard and boyfriend, or whore depending on how you look at it.

Lie to God, and your gonna fall.

Wow, who would have imagined another staunch conservative Republican would turn out to be gay? Marc Foley in Congress, now evangelical Rev. Ted Haggard. A married man and a father of five children.

Reverend Ted Haggard has been accused of paying for monthly trysts with a gay man for the last three years. Let me tell you, these are the gay men I truly despise. Their lies hurt the whole gay community. Additionally, Ted Haggard is very staunch vocal opponent of gay marriage. Gays like Haggard only make it so much more difficult for gays that had the courage to be truthful with themselves and came out of the closet. We only go backwards when people like Haggard come out,only after they have been outed publicly.

Of course, Rev. Haggard is denying all accusations. But, he has resigned from his head post of the 14,000 member New Life Church.

Haggard responded to comments with the following:

"I am voluntarily stepping aside from leadership so that the overseer process can be allowed to proceed with integrity," Haggard said in a written statement. "I hope to be able to discuss this matter in more detail at a later date."

I don't know about you, but why would you step aside if it wasn't true? At least Marc Foley admitted he was gay and resigned.

Well Rev. Haggard...your lie came back to destroy you. I believe that God is sending you a strong message. What I have marveled the most about this current election season, is the opposite effect the gay issues are having on the Republican Party. In 2004, gay marriage cost Democrats their votes because it rallied all the evangelicals of the right to vote Republican, but in 2006, gays issues are bringing down the Republicans. Karma, you say? Maybe.

Additionally Rev Haggard's opposition to gay marriage is not his only evangelical crusade. He is also a strong anti-evolution critic. Please, Please, Please...watch the You Tube video below. The clip is taken from Richard Dawkin's documentary about American evangelical born-again Christians. In this clip, Richard Dawkin argues with Rev. Ted Haggard over his disbelief of scientific evolution theory.

You've got to see Haggard argue his Creationism position.

Two things by the end of the clip become very apparent:

1. How could anyone believe Ted Haggard is NOT gay?
2. Ted Haggard sounds like a madman.

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Are we in a cultural civil war?

Over the last two terms of this horrible Administration, I have seen a chasm growing wider in my America. When did political personal character attacks become mean and malicious? Something unique is happening in America today. We are dividing against one another. I see it happening. It scares me. .

How can Republicans really believe that everything is fine in America in the year 2006? We are in a war that was based on a lie. Our government has lied to us repeatedly. Our moral credibility is for shit in the international community. I cringe whenever I start to think about how many American lives that has been lost, and the tremendous amount of money that has been wasted. For nothing at all. That is what makes the sting that much worse.

I feel like people are becoming more aggressive in general. More prone to really take a personal attack to a very personal level. I think this is a major part of the problem that is causing Americans to choose sides, to separate, to become divided. The mudslinging has been taken to new extremes during the Bush presidency. Personally, I think the whole thing has become very scary and ugly. We are alienating ourselves away from the people (i.e. Democrats, Liberals, Progressives, Gays, Minorities, Illegal Immigrants, the list is to long to write) were told are "wrong", "dangerous", "unpatriotic", "weak", "suspicious", and "fearful"...

And there is the magic word, folks. FEAR. Fear is dividing us. FEAR will destroy us.

Watch the video from Media Matters.org, in which Pat Buchanan rattles out a bungling, monolog regarding how John Kerry's troop remarks may have cost the Democrats a chance to take over the House of Representatives next Tuesday. Are you kidding me? With all that is going on in this troubled, war ravaged World, we are devoting attention to this. Sad, people, sad.

Go out and vote next Tuesday. We have remove these nonpartisan, corrupt GOP congressmen from our government. I know we will never be free from all corruption, but this is a very pivotal moment in our federal government. We have to act today. Vote for change.

We may never get this chance again to create change and reform. We must bring back the balance to our government.

Do You Want To Hear The Real Truth, Listen to Democracy Now!

In one of my many late night online cruises through the iTunes Music Store, I happened to stumble upon an electronic artist duo, known as The Presets.

The Presets are from Sydney, Australia (Tory, from Idiot Box Radio should be glad hearing that). Members of The Presets include Julian Hamilton and Kim Moyes.

In 2005, The Presets released their debut Album, Beams which contained super hit single, Girl And The Sea.

The Presets music style is a blend simple techno drum beats with a melancholic lead male vocalist. The Presets sound is a bit on the dark ambient side, with some experimental soundscapes thrown in the mix. The Presets remind me a little bit of The Smiths. That haunting sound that only Morrissey could produce. Maybe, The Presets are The Smiths of the future. Great rhythm and harmony blended with strange sounds and a penetrating bass line, might be one further way one could describe The Presets sound. There's a strong degree of funkiness in many of The Presets tracks. And don't let them fool you, they can sound very much like hard rock, almost punk at times.

You can find all The Presets tracks in the iTunes Music Store.


Girl And The Sea - The Presets



I really liked this video. It remined me a lot of somethig Bjork would produce.