How many times a day do you hear, see, read about how wonderful ‘Love’ is and that we should all ‘have someone to love’, ‘be in love’, have a sex on a regular basis… yada, yada, yada…

Everywhere you look, love is being touted as the ULTIMATE goal of your human existence.

And hey, while you are in love… why not have a lot of sex too?

Personally, these are ideas i REALLY like!

And then along comes the next step in the progression: a RELATIONSHIP! Hey, that’s the way things go sometimes though…

Now we all know that relationships can be astoundingly great! I think we can also agree that, yeah… there are some which will inspire you to… harboring some VERY negative emotions.

But today, i am feeling like a good rant is in order about the double-standard of the ‘pairing’, ‘partnering’, ‘mate’, relationship.

Note: homophobes, Christians who ascribe to the ‘Anyone not like us’ mentality… you can all get your matches out now ‘cuz i am probably going to pi** you off.

First!

What is it that we are ALL looking for in our lives?

LOVE! Someone to love, and who will love us back with equal measure. And no, i am NOT talking about adopting a puppy. I am talking about finding that person who will allow you to love them and will return that love.

Now, yeah, there is a good portion of the population who find that love and companionship with someone of the opposite sex.
Good on them, and yeah, i will confess to being one of them.

Does that make me and the rest of the heterosexual population any better than those who don’t have this as their lifestyle?

NOT IN THE LEAST!!!

There are PEOPLE (individuals, human beings, men, women, and yes teenagers, male and female) who find that this is not right for them. And no, i am NOT going into the argument of choice versus human biology.

What i am saying is that this is THEIR lifestyle! If you don’t want to play in that sandbox, take your shovel and pail and go play somewhere else!

These people have the right to the pursuit of their OWN happiness, not your version of their happiness! It’s in the second paragraph of The Declaration of Independence!

O-kay… all that said, let’s get to the crux of my rant: Mississippi’s Itawamba County school district has this policy that requires senior prom dates be of the opposite sex.

This is 2010 folks!

18-year-old high school Senior Constance McMillen would really like to go to prom with her girlfriend, that’s all.
It is probably NOT news to her classmates that she is a lesbian and has a girlfriend. So far, i have not read ANYTHING where these kids are upset at that, they seem to be more upset that they are not going to have a PROM!

Without going into bad ‘Mississippi’ jokes and how behind the time these people are, no, they are NOT the only ones who have shown their COLOSSAL ignorance (bordering on stupidity) in this matter. Tharptown High School in Russellville, Alabama showed their homophobic bent when they had a request from one of ‘those lesbians’ who wanted to take her girlfriend to the prom. But then, Alabama harbors the same bunch who had actually banned a wine from being sold in-state because the drawing on the label shows a nude woman. Ya can’t make this kind of material up folks…

Is this a grand exhibition of hypocrisy or what? It’s not like the school administrators don’t know that there are Gay and Lesbian students being taught within their classrooms. I wonder if they would be willing to turn away the dollars they get for teaching those very students because they are not straight? hmmm…

And yeah… sadly, there are a lot of other instances where people of today show their hypocrisy, ignorance, bigotry, and down-right stupidity in a multitude of ways.

Air Force Sergeant Jene Newsome; the Rapid City, SD police outed her to officals at Ellsworth Air Force Base. Their reasoning for outing Sergeant Newsome who, i will add, has served this country for nine years now as an aircraft armament system craftsman?

Well… read the story for yourself and tell me that my initial reaction is that they didn’t like it when she came home to find her wife being arrested. Now, it might just be me… but… i am kinda thinking that their outing her was a little payback for her alleged attitude.

i am not bashing the cops here, anyone who knows me knows that i am a VERY hardcore supporter of the police and the military people who ‘man that wall’. But, beneath that uniform are people. People who… might find themselves over-zealously enforcing the law. Good way to put that isn’t it…?

Whatever the reason… they have now screwed up the life and career of someone who was devoted to protecting them. Just because she isn’t what they think is right… just because she is in a relationship with a woman.

How much might this country suffer because of their actions? How much will SHE suffer because they took that extra step? Yeah, the law is the law, but you know…

Back to Constance though: reading through various comments on the reports and blogs on this, i have found that people are either on her side (about 98%), or the ‘this world is going to burn because of her and people like her’ (2%).

The social-media sites all have groups in support of her and all with very sizable memberships. The Facebook group “Let Constance Take Her Girlfriend to Prom!” currently has 261,631 fans who reject the idiocy displayed by the entire mentality of people still caught up in the 1950’s.

And yes, i am one of those fans.

My parting shot on this one is simple: LET people love who they want to. If they are lucky enough to find that one true love in their life, be happy for them. I hope that you have been so lucky, i know i am. But, don’t try to ruin their lives because you haven’t found it or are so caught up in a dogma that doesn’t allow for people to be and live they way THEY feel is right for them.

When the Europeans are not laughing at him and at us by extension they are outright mocking of him. The despots in the Middle-East and the Islamic world… they laugh at him. China is upset that he has devalued so much of the paper they hold that it is now nearly worthless. Heck, they are almost GIVING it away to get rid of it.

Japan actually owns more US debt now than China, and i bet if you knew who to ask is either Tokyo or Beijing you night be able to get them to throw in a a little something extra to take some of it off their hands.

With all the abject failures this man and his administration has been party to, is there ANYTHING he can point to as say “Yeah… that’s my success right there now…”?

Well, i got my answer: i was just reading a piece over at Conservative Patriot’s blog about Obama’s successes and failures in this last year and i got to thinking once again of his accomplishments.

Skyrocketing unemployment, plummeting dollar, takeovers of the auto and banking industries… i won’t bore you to tears with the list.
Actually it’s becoming so overwhelming that to go through what this man and his cronies have done in this last year is almost beyond belief.

And, as Mr. Black points out: all of these failures and successes have cost both him and the left.

With a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14 and an overall disapproval rating of 53%, is it any wonder that candidates who espouse Conservatism are sweeping the elections?

This is just one of the coattails this man has: Toxicity!

I remember people openly blaming the Clintons for the Republican takeover of Congress in ‘94… there was talk of how the Clintons were the ruination of the Democrat party.

They were PIKERS compared this man and the damage he has done to the Democrat Party.

The problem is: He has not been alone. This is a party peopled by the far left without ANY room for any voices except those who would make this into a Socialist nation.

We could go through a long list of people who have either seen the Democrat Party move away from them or who have been ostracized and literally thrown out because it has been taken over by the radical extreme left.

Puh-Losie, Reed, Sebilius, and all the others have been there all along. They have just been biding their time to come forth and show their true colours.

They act as though the last election was not just the American people voting them in, but rather a mandate to ‘remake the fabric of American society’. The Constitution be damned! Who really knows what’s in it anyway? Who cares?

And now… they are willing, no, make that fully engaged in the destruction of the Democrat Party in order to revamp America and turn it into a Socialist society.

They know full and well that they will be disgraced in the endeavor, but they are willing to throw themselves on their swords for the furtherance of the Socialist agenda.

It’s always been acknowledged that converts make the most zealous followers, but the most dangerous of believers are those who would sacrifice themselves for their faith… we see this everyday around the world as people commit suicide in the name of their god.

Instead of sacrificing themselves for religious principles; these people are doing it in the name of destroying the very country that made it possible for them to stand up and speak in the first place.

So… today I was in line at a convenience store and just ahead of me was some guy trying to show his wit and charm to the cashier with this lame attempt at a joke:
“Ju’hear how Cheata Woods had another woman come out claiming she was gettin’ ****ed by him?”
“Who?”
“You know, Cheata Woods? He’s havin’ to change his name from Tiger to Cheata.” He answered with a guffaw at this bit of witticism.
The young woman cashier just looked at the guy and handed him his change.
When he turned to look at me for backup for his joke, I gave him one of my favorite sullen stares accompanied by a monotone “Who cares?” The coupling of these pretty much made him decide to make a hasty retreat for the door.

And really… who cares?

Now, before you go off on some rant about how I am brushing it aside as though nothing happened and ‘well, they all do it, so who cares?’ bear with me for a few.

Did I say it was ok? NO!

Do I think that just because there are other big names, from the President on down, who cheat on their wives AND husbands that it’s ok? And yeah, women do it too. They are just a little better at hiding it. Probably because they aren’t showing their latest ‘trixie’ off to the guys. NO I don’t!

Do I think that he will have a LOT of sanctimonious bad press from people who ACTUALLY KNEW about Tiger’s cheating ways for YEARS and said nothing about it? Yeah… and rightfully so.

Do I think those same sports writers who are wringing their collective hands about ‘How a god has fallen?’ should be ashamed of themselves for trying to pass themselves off as shocked, SHOCKED I say! by this turn of events? Oh yeah!

According to some reports that are beginning to surface the only people who did not know about this was Elin and anyone NOT in the PGA golf community.

Is Tiger the latest to have to endure the American publics appetite as the main course in a public feeding frenzy? OH YEAH!

So yeah, we have a long (in fact, a VERY LOOONG) list of people who think that just because they are in some high place they can screw around and no one will either notice or care: Clinton, Kennedy, Sanford, Spitzer, Letterman… like I said: the list is a REALLY long one.

And yes, they all have taken a few teachable moments from the public airing of their transgressions. Generally: DON’T GET CAUGHT NEXT TIME!!!

Reports have Elin already packing up and moving out of their mansion in the Orlando area of Windermere.

GOOD FOR HER!

And what effect will all this have on Tiger Woods?

Personally? I don’t think it will teach him restraint. Discretion… oh yeah! Restraint… naw.

Professionally? Will he play golf on the circuit next year? Yeah… maybe not for the first few months, but by mid-year… yeah.

“You can’t really mean that?” You ask incredulously.

Oh, but I do. Think of how often we here in the States build up our icons only to find that they are not the true GODS we had turned them into. AND… that they had come to believing in some measure themselves!

And as soon as we have called to called to in great indignation cancel our tickets to the Masters or Pebble Beach… whoa, wait a minute, what am I thinking, so what if he screwed around with, oh never mind the number, damn those women were HOT! Aw… give the guy a little slack, being number one is a hard job and well… he needed to have a little relaxation time…
We can all say that we won’t buy Gatorade, oh, they aren’t sponsoring him anymore… oops, well, I’ve always liked Mtn. Dew more anyway.

But… I digress.

Will, Tiger be on the circuit by mid-year?

Uhmmm… yeah. Golf can’t afford not to have him playing, so they will come out and start downplaying this fairly soon I think.

In fact, if you ask me, I think he’s playing this whole thing fairly well: taking the blame early on, being quiet about it (for the most part), and taking the bunker mentality of letting everyone else expend all the oxygen.

I think he should just sit tight, let all these women start a major cat-fight over who was ‘most wronged and hurt by this deceitful so-and-so’ and NOT, NOT, NOT, do a Bill Clintonesque apology tour!

Tiger should give the whole mess at least six if not eight (ten would be better) weeks before he comes out and in one, maybe two appearances, explain that he was wrong, he has learned a valuable lesson, and with a lot of help, is going to be putting his life and the lives of his family back together.

I doubt that Tiger Woods will probably ever be viewed as a “good guy” again, but America… the entire world, has welcomed back a lot of other people who have committed more serious (and illegal) acts than Tiger Woods.

Some are already saying that Tiger will be back in two months and to play in all the Majors. It is a possibility. The game of golf needs him too badly to just toss him into the used balls bucket. There will be people who will cheer for him, maybe not as many as before this all came out… but there will be plenty there to drown out the jeers from his detractors in the bleachers.

The Tiger Woods ‘good guy’ myth is a thing of the past, Tiger still exists and he’ll continue to golf. And in time, all will be forgotten… probably sometime next week when someone screws up and steals the limelight from Tiger and his ‘Barbie-doll Mistress Show’.