MASTURBATION CONUNDRUM POSED BY CHRISTINE MCDONNELL

 

Christine McDonnell is against masturbation.  To infants, especially, life would be quite different without it.  For little boys, it is the only toy they cannot lose.  Yet, society makes certain that they know that they may only play with that toy in privacy.  They don't say that public masturbation would attract pedophiles which is dangerous.  Instead they say, though our bodies are programmed to want this feeling, we should not want it.


Masturbation (click here for a definition), by her group, is called self-abuse.  Most physicians and those interested in mental health call it self pleasuring.  One might ask, if man was made in God's image, why does the body of humans enjoy the action of masturbation and why, then, does it kick in the natural body opiate, endorphins.
 
McDonnell seems to truly believe that this is for people's moral good and, while she is a Teapartier and calls for smaller government, she sees no obstruction to the government involving itself into this personal intrusion.  Does she plan to tax nocturnal emissions by teen age boys?  Does she plan to tie the hands of little boys for whom it is the only toy they can't lose?  Does she plan to take stick ponies away from little girls?

WebMD writes several reasons why there is no such thing as abnormal masturbation.  Their list is: 

1. There's no such thing as "abnormal" masturbation.

2. Masturbation is very safe -- but not entirely safe.

3. Solo sex can supercharge your sex life -- or scuttle it.

4. Certain forms of masturbation can lead to sexual dysfunction.

5. Masturbation may affect the risk for prostate cancer.

 For full explanations of each title, click here.

 

REPUBLICAN LEADERS NOT TOO HAPPY ABOUT DELAWARE ELECTIONS

If people think one Republican is just like another Republican, they would be very much mistaken. In Delaware Christine O'Donnell is not seen as preferred candidate nor felt that she has a better chance of winning the election than her opponent.  If you are having difficulties understanding the platform on which the
Teapartiers stand, you are not alone.  The contradictions are mind boggling.  While fighting to make the government less intrusive and smaller in our lives, Christine O'Donnell wants the government to force females as young as 13, who are raped by strangers or incestuously, to bear the children as a result of those rapes. 

Christine O'Donnell seems, by all I have searched on her, to violate the Constitution with her goals.  Wikipedia on O'Donnell says: "O'Donnell also served as a spokesperson for Concerned Women for America, a Conservative Christian political action group which seeks to apply biblical principles to issues of public policy."  I do not believe our Constitution has yet been amended to allow Christianity to rule the country.

Karl Rove finally was forced by the party to endorse O'Donnell but it doesn't erase his previous statements that she was an embarrassment to the party and was not likely to win.  It seems to me that  as long as the Teapartiers seemed 'against' the Democrats, it was missed that they were associated as being with' Republicans.  Voters in Arizona should also be advised that Sharron Angle is a disciple of Phyllis Schlafly.  When did we lose our sanity and our country?

  

PROMISES, PROMISES, PROMISES

The average public seems to not understand what it takes to govern this country.  Campaign promises indicate intent and goals but no one can promise that they can get the Legislators or the opposing party to allow the promises to get fulfilled.  Many people criticize Obama as not keeping his promises though he has kept more of them than The Republicans wish him to keep.  It is clearly stated by the Republicans that their singular aim is to make Obama fail and not vote in the interests of the American public.

Mind boggling ignorance of how laws are passed and what difficulthy there is in amending the Constitution,
Teapartiers have stolen candidacies from more mainstream Republicans while splintering the party votes.  Those of us who care about what is happening to the country and the Middle Class are appalled at the limited scope  by those voters.  It is as though we are allowing our teen agers to make the rules...those of us who lived through the years of the 'flower children' and their 'anti-establishment' views' are experiencing deja vu.  The Teapartierrs are not referring to or learning from history . The Teapartiers and their followers will learn a lesson, while obstructing positive movement for the country, that their adolescent and naive solutions will not work but will hurt many people in the meanwhile..

While I sincerely agree that we need many changes, we must consider the state of our country as though it is very old plumbing.  While fixing a leak you may have to jiggle the pipes.  Reverberation may spring leaks in others, so far away the leak may do considerable damage before it is discovered.  This should convince some that amateur plumbers aren't always able to control results or costs.  Neither are amateur legislators holding key positions in the Administrative service.  Many who have won nominations should be receiving the Darwin Awards, not be voted into offices that negatively impact the rest of us.

OF THEE I SING

It is inspiring for me to hear about the children's book President Obama wrote, dedicated to his daughters, before he became President.  It is being published by Random House Children's Books,  To read about this in more detail, click here.  The book will come out two weeks after the mid-term elections.

The man loves his family, the United States, and does not deserve the lies that are being spread about him. I am appalled that we have not moved very far forward since before the Civil War when if someone had 1 drop of African-American they were considered Black.  Apparently that he has 50% Caucasian 'blood', he is still considered Black  Spending some time in North Carolina, I can understand why I consider the area so backward in their thinking, generally speaking.  All one has to do is watch TV and listen to the radio.  The people here do not have the benefit of access to the same information we have where I hail from.  It would be inaccurate to call the news available down here 'fair and balanced'. 

PERCEPTION OF TIME

Coming back to a place that has not changed since I was last there did a great deal of distortion to my sense of time.  'It seems like only yesterday" started floating through my head.  As a noted baseball catcher used to say, "It was deja vu all over again". 

It is also very foreign  feeling to turn on the radio, as I did in the car, while waiting for someone.  I went through all the stations and could find NO PBS!  Rush Limbaugh was raving his lies and hateful, criticisms and opinions,as usual, ministers preaching horrible results as though they have a direct line to G
od, and everything else was country and western music or rock!  I decided that I need to keep ALL my opinions to myself for the remaining two weeks.here.

Everyday like this feels like 48 hours and, I suppose, that will seem to give me life extension...but it doesn't feel like that when even thoughts of oblivion start looking good.  I'm with someone with whom I spent childhood  and she gives me constant reruns of my life.

Today I'm luckily being visited by a friend I haven't seen for 42 years.  I think I'm now in some alternate world because the past is wafting over me in heavyh clouds of images.  The only thing unchanged from the today is the old lady who looks back at me in the mirror and the aches in my joints.

TRIP ONE FOLLOWED BY TRIP 2

I plan to fire my GPS lady as soon as I get back home.  The first leg of this trip was from my home in MA to South Jersey. and take them to their time shares on Hatteras Island, Outer Banks, NC.  I planned to go through CT on Rt 84, pick up 684 down to wards Tappan Zee bridge as I have many times before.  I.m not sure when the lady turned mean but after she recalculated a few times, with construction changes, signage switches, I was lost so I thought I had better listen to her , for a change. 

She apparently decided I wanted the cheapest route because I was steered away from every road that supported speed.  I even was sent over dirt roads, saw horse country in New York, lovely homes, stopped to let horseback riders go on, and finally (I think she gave up on me trying to send me over the George Washington Bridge and I finally found the Tappan Zee Bridge.  Following her instructions out of exhaustion at that point, instead of not turns but she had me turn on 9W and some dinky roads until I was finally able to find some obscure routes that finally allowed me to connect with Route 295 after which I knew my way to my destination.


I became a bit dispoiented when I saw Athens Garage and, for whatever reason, I was sent by every hospital in every town between MA and NJ.  My GPS is one of the better models of
Garmin but I think I need to read up on how to set up routes via some direction with which I am familiar.  If I had a passenger I would have that person write the routes I had to take and check it all out on a map later.  I have a hunch I hit a few extra states in there somehow.

I suppose the best that I can say about using a GPS is that it may take you through Asia on route from MA to NJ but, eventually you will arrive at the correct destination (if you don't run out of gas, that is).  The following day, leaving NJ for the Outer Banks of NC was equally full of "recalculating" from the lady in the box.  This time I had a co-pilot in the front seat who disagreed with every suggestion she made.  I left it on because it did tell me the correct speed limit (most of the time), the speed at which I was traveling (over it) and the road I was on (as well as the roads off it).  The trip is almost 400 miles and it rained every step of it, making this usually lead-footed driver stuck following slower drivers or bizarre risk-taking wanna-be race drivers.

I need never wonder again why I like my home so much......... 

FREE SPEECH INCLUDES, LIES, PROPAGANDA, MISINFORMATION, AND RABBLE ROUSING

The definition of 'rabble' from Merriam Webster is: 

¹rab·ble  noun \ˈra-bəl\

1: a disorganized or confused collection of things

2a : a disorganized or disorderly crowd of people : mob b : the lowest class of people 

 

We all know the rabble is easily influenced to riot and violence.  We are watching fools under cover of the right to free speech engaged in some very dangerous opinions and directions.  The 'Reverend' Jones in Florida threatening to burn copies of the Quran is among those within the tea partiers doing just that.  Some, like Michele Bachmann, Sara Palin, Newt Gingrich, Glenn Beck, Dick Armey, and so many others are worse than any terrorist  threat from Al Qaeda because they are being supported by Americans whereas it is liklely that fewer Americans directly support Al Qaeda.

It is time for me to offer a possible correction to my wild, stated, fantasies about the Saudi Arabian who owns 7% of Fox News.  A friend recently sent me the following:  "The fact that Prince Alweleed bin Talal and Osama bin Laden both come from the same country hardly suffices as proof that these two men collude. If anything, Alweleed's royal background indicates that such collusion is highly unlikely. The Saudi royalty were so appalled by bin Laden's radical views that they revoked his Saudi citizenship in 1992. I would also point out that bin Laden's program would seriously undermine the royal families investments. Remember, not all Saudis think alike" 

 

However, in the interest of 'fair and balanced' which is not often reflected by Fox News, I felt I should share that informatikon.  We can only hope for the best in those things over which we have no control.