Halloween-Demonic or Just Plain Fun?

Depending on who you ask and what country you live you will get either as an answer! I have lived a life as Catholic (plain fun) and JW (demonic tradition). I think it's both! Why do I say that? Because Halloween is like any other holiday, it is what you think it is!

This illustration always reminds me of a situation with my son Shaun! He did not like clowns when he was a child. Of course it just happens I loved clowns and there were plenty in his room. He would get up at night scream and point. We never knew what he was pointing at. You see Shaun did not speak until almost 6 so it was a challenge understanding him.

One of those crying nights I took this huge clown out of his room and he slept like a baby should! Then began the project of removing all clowns from the room and house. Till this day he does not care for clowns. You see clowns aren't bad except to my son and others who may have this phobia. Of course Stephen Spielberg did not make this phobia easier with that clown movie in the 80's!

So holidays are like clowns; to some just another fun day to others scary as shit! To a very limited few both!

Happy Halloween and don't come knocking if you’re a clown!

Family,we loved them!

Recently my immediate and extended family have going out of their way to address some of my needs primarily one of them called LOVE.

An example of this is my Aunt and Uncle Quirino & Gertrude! I am blessed to have an aunt like my sweet aunt Gertrude! She and my uncle bought a house recently that is planned to be my home until I/we die. She in her own way said, we put in sensor back outside lighting, because you know some people may want to hurt you and Rob (being gay) and we don't want that to happen!

They turned an ugly home into our new home and in my heart and the web they will live forever!

They may never read this but Rob and I cannot ask for better FAMILY! Live on Tia e Tio!

Family

What happened to responsibility!

There was a time when parents were responsible for their children! Parents taught their children to be responsibility, i. e. There are consequences to ones actions! I remember my mother telling me time and time again the price you would pay if a specific situation happened.

She instilled in me what I then years later instilled in my children. One of the major challenges was, "bad associations spoil useful habits". I can't tell you how much my mother analyzed my possible friends. She still does this today and I am 52!

As we grow up and especially if you have brothers and sisters we have a tendency to pass the blame on to others. The penalty was severe if we did this in my family. But what has happened to owning up to your responsibility?

It actually has gone the way of losing ethics. Your ethics along with your qualities make up the person. As we see politicians, celebrities and those around us lose both we tend to without noticing embrace bad habits and lose our ethics. It is important to periodically analyze who you are, what you are and how you relate to others. Where there is weakness, work had to improve it.

Therefore own up to your responsibility because good habits and ethics results in success and happiness!

Is Sex a sin!

Easy religious topics can be explained. The ones that are difficult is another question! How is sex and sin related and is sex hetro, gay or whatever a sin?

We need to go back to the beginning of the religious discussion! If you’re not a Christian, it should not matter. But if you are explain this!

Adam and Eve lived for hundreds or even thousands of years happily together with the animal kingdom in a place called paradise. They had no children and never knew they were naked until they sinned and hid from the creator. Quickly they are ushered out before they call eat of the tree of life and then humanity starts.

Since they never seemed to care about running around naked they obviously never had sex. You see sex is a mental thing. An erection only happens with thoughts and sometimes not very good ones in the eyes of man. Especially when you have been together for a while you need extra effort (or others) to get the action going, in one form or another.

And so my discussion ends for I am a true believer that sinners are born from the act of sin!

Vote for a future- UGLY or STUPID AMERICANS

It amazes me how quickly humans forget and quickly want to change direction. This may explain why in corporations we move forward and government we tend to be stale or revert backwards. We all forget the first Bush screwed up the economy for 4 years and it took Clinton 8 years to fix.

We Americans gave the second Bush 8 years to fu.. up and now after a black president has it for les than 2 years we think he is doing a bad job. How about we give the president and his administration at least 4 years before we start judging results!

I was in the corporate world and I used to get results very quickly. But I was moving a boat he in moving a battleship. Yes government is doing too little for what we pay them! But try to get anything done in governed! The layers are so deep it sickened me. I supported government for almost 10 years and you would have to let the government collapse to fix it.

If there is one thing I would of recommended and believe me it would have been painful, was to let things collapse. Let’s give the administration some credit... Obama took office with the Dow at around 6000, today its 11100 almost doubling! And don’t get me going on healthcare. Why not take it from the politicians too. Why should they get the best healthcare while I try to survive and beg for the basics...?

Ok Americans vote with common sense and not sent stupidity to Washington.>> I mean these republicans we are about to send to Washington don't even know the constitution! I don’t say I know it all, but then again I am not running for office.

I had a boss that used to call us UGLY AMERICANS! If we change direction midstream we are not UGLY we are STUPID AMERICANS!

Idolizing humans or money

I am mindful of the scripture "thou should not bow down before any images of me"!

Today we idolize anything from humans or as I am always mindful "money". It is true that we need money. I have been reminded that money can cure many evils, but cannot stop death. It can prolong death but not stop it. Money can make life more interesting and meaningful since with it one does not have to worry about your next meal or how you will pay the bills.

So yes, it can relieve some stress from everyday living. But we have seen time and time again happiness comes from within, so people who have it all sometimes live depressed life's. It’s nice to have a balance, if you’re privileged to have money.

I have never idolized humans (as in Stars) nor have I idolized money. I have been lucky to know some fascinating humans and to have the money I needed to live a good life. Yes today we struggle with both. As you age money starts disappearing and so do people.

In order to be in the main stream and the "A" list as they call it, you need money, visibility, beauty! All of which come between the ages of 25-45!

And so if you did something’s right by age 50 you have made a few good friends, saved a little so that there is no need to idolize either money or humans to have a good fulfilling live!

Succeeding from the nation-States or I

Yesterday two of the very popular show the View walked off the set after O'Rielly expressed his hatred for Muslims. A few idiots marked all Muslims to be people to be afraid off. I believe he has forgotten Germany and the Holocaust  where Jews, Gays and any other community Hitler did not like were tortured and/or put to death.

It's unfortunate he like others don’t understand "a few bad apples does not mean we stop eating apples". In these midterm elections people are afraid! Fear has been installed little by little from the bottom up on having a black president, too much federal government, too much assistance for the poor etc.

I live in a so called "red state", long for a time when I can move to a "blue" one. I want "rights" but agree in an open discussion! I don't hate a community because of what a few may do!

If we are not careful, the minority will overtake the majority with tools such as "fear". Fear has caused us to spend billions on a false of security called TSA. You know those people that cheek little old people though security lines as if they are carrying bombs into the plane.

Our common sense has disappeared. If there is one thing that 9/11 did is turn our nation into one of fear and therefore changed us forever.

We need to remember; the Soviet Union collapsed and realizes the Federal Government could too. Some days we may have the red states as one part of North America and the Blue states the other. I don't think it's a bad idea after all. The small minded closeted right wing could live very comfortably away from those that have inspirations and embrace human beings for who they are and diversity as a way of life.

So I am surprised we haven't had states wanting to succeed from the nation (USA). Our government is out of control and we the people overburden supporting it. The people working fort he Government are the most inefficient in the world. I arrived here 40 years ago because America is where everyone wanted to come.

Not today! I long for a day when I can utilize my European passport and go back to where I can be accepted for whom and what I am! So if nothing else I will succed for the nation by moving to where I am wanted and respected!

Hard to let go of fancy electronic gadges Bye-Bye BB

Robert and I are having one of the most difficult decisions in the last almost 12 years. Letting go of our Blackberry's! It's amazing how much we are sold on the need to have the latest and greatest gadgets. I remember receiving one of the first colored Motorola basic handheld Cell phone. We were as excited as a when a child opens gifts on Christmas morning.

Then we went through the Razor (wow what a phone we thought) we went through Iphone's and though he like it, I thought it was a silly invention. I like a Qwery keyboard. I never got used to that touch screen crap.

So back to Blackberry's we went. Well, when I was working, the Blackberry is a great tool. It sync’s everything (home/work schedules contacts etc), keeps me in touch with the BB user community through IM. No longer do we use MSN, Yahoo or Google IM's.

We have wrestled trying to reduce the cost of having a cell phone and we are still at 150.00 month for two Blackberry’s. With times being so tough and putting money to good use we need to reduce the cell bill. And so this is going on at almost 3 month decision. It's become as difficult as letting our Bam Bam go!

Today we are looking at Straight Talk (ST) $45 monthly service phone/plan. That almost cuts our bill in half, but we have to give up our BB. ST runs on a Verizon network, so at least we will have great service. I guess the best way to look at this is, can we live with a cell phone that can txt (a must) take pictures (damm no flash), communicate (hardly done anyore), Blue Tooth (damm no wi-fi) and provide access to the web (why who knows).

When Rob and I analyzed the issue, we decided we would like the new cell to sync with outlook (just to be fancy), txt and share info with our community that instead of being in our neighborhood is on the web via facebook.

And so Straight Talk may be a fit! But I have 5 more days with a trial offer from Sprint on our BB. We will miss you BB (just to note that BB stands for Blackberry and Bam Bam! What a coincidence!

Right To Die-Don't Ask Don't Tell

The right to die, at least the right to a do-not-resuscitate order, is fairly well established, and hard to attack in court. But a rising storm is brewing, pitting those patients who do not want to be kept alive by extraordinary measures and those medical professionals or institutions who say they will not perform procedures that outrage the conscience.

People with opposing views are already battling in the lower courts, but any final resolution would have to be hammered out on the anvil of the U.S. Supreme Court, which has shown increasing sympathy for the right to die but has never ruled on the right of conscience.
The right to die and the right to refuse also are issues in healthcare reform legislation, with opponents complaining the bill contains nothing to rein in the do-not-resuscitate procedure or other procedures like abortion.

Shortly before getting out of Dodge in December 2008, the Bush administration issued a tough "conscience protection" rule for the healthcare industry.

President should not wait for the courts to decide that people have a right be gay and in the military, he Like Bush should pre-empt the courts ultimate decision and issue based on recent court decision and outlaw "Don’t Ask Don't Tell".

It should not be how many years you can survive in the White House; it's the legacy and right decisions that he will be remembered for.

I personally believe we need to get religion out of government, as was originally intended and represent all the people. We faced similar challenges for women voting, and black civil rights. Don't wait for the majority to agree, do what is right! Unlike Bush stand up for all the people and set the standard for other countries to follow.

Right to die is our choice since it's our bodies and being gay oriented has nothing to do with servicing your country. Gay servicemen and women have been there since the beginning of the forces. Come on face the obvious move forward!

Ignorant is no excuse! Educate yourself, being GAY is not a choice!

It just pisses me off that in the 21st century with all the education we go through and books available of the subject from experts (not idiots like the dude running for Governor of NY) that people would know by now that being GAY is not a choice.

Ask my daughter and son if at 40 I decided to lose my family, friends and my way of life be be loved for who I was. Yes it was my choice to come out, but I was sexualy active with my cousin from age 5. How do I know that! My family tells me! To me it was natural from the early years. When we played house I chose Tom (not his real name).

When someone loves me today, they know me. Is it important to be accepted as being gay! Well is it important someone is accepted as a heterosexual?

NO_ONE ahould be ashamed and come out before you hurt others like a wife, children and all the links associated with a relationship. It's also nice to have someone your in love with, versus just marrying someone because it's the opposite sex. Who you fall in love with is not sexualy driven and thats the problem with people who are ignorant.

It's very simple! If you don't know what your talking about, say nothing for you irritate people like me. I was told once by a coworker (Babtist), we love the person not the act. The person is gay, the act is sex!

Dammm people irritate me.. I should of been born in the next century when we look at people as people from a creators perspective. And I should remind the religious idiots, that Jesus never mentioned gay and embraced prostitutes! Go FIGURE!

Mad As Hell! Stop The Nonsense! Keep Idiots Out Of Congress!

With the above words the republicans, not by choice have some questionable people running for very high profile government this year. Due to pressure from the Tea Party! Dumb ass people walking around with no teeth and tea bags hanging from their hats have pressured the right to move even further to the right, if that is even possible.

We are ready to go backwards and redo what I believe is a basic need for each American, Health Care. Undo civil rights and tighten ban on gay people and in some cases but women back in their place. I hope people with common sense are mad as hell too! Mad at the stupidity going on and not allow us to go backwards.

We are a very demanding people! We want change immediate! We want to fix what took 8 years to create by the Bush administration. The last election we moved stupidity out of the White House! Now we are ready because we are mad as hell, ready to move some new idiots into congress!

SO LETS ALL GET MAD AND MOVE THE COUNTRY FORWARD, KEEP CIVIAL RIGHTS FOR ALL! AND STOP THE NONSENSE AND KEEP IDIOTS OUT OF POLITICS!

Balance of power

I am a firm believer that if the president is a democrat the congress should be republican. This would allow a balance of power. Maybe some deeper thinking of requested changes verses country needs. The problem with my thinking is that rarely will anything get done.

Our founders would be extremely disappointed of whets accomplished today. There is no more in depth consideration for whets good for the people and the country. As we see latently politicians will do what it takes to get elected. Yes process and people are so corrupted that even when you have good intentions you can’t put them into law

Ethics has been lost over the years and now we are ready to elect anyone we think will make a change and be listening. What we forget and something we never learn from history is that without being political the challenges facing our country end up in deadlock.

Family

In Webster definition of a family it has one interesting persception of the word family "a unit of a crime syndicate (as the Mafia) operating within a geographic area " Sometimes I, in a twisted sort of way I wish that depicted our family. Not that we are of the criminal nature, but we are not a unit. I love my immediate and extended family but at times it's awkward. We can't seem to be honest (a unit) and your always (like a Mafia) walking on eggshells.

Dammm why wasn't I born a jew.

Friendship

Webster defines friendship as "They have enjoyed many years of friendship." You would b amazed of who are your friends. We take that word lightly but friends are very few in between, sort of speak. When hard times, who is there? When you’re lonely, who is there? When you’re suffering, who is there?

Everyone has friends! They come with money and materialism! But I depict friendship this way!

Many years ago I was going to an engineering meeting and I happen to be outside the door when everyone was bad mouthing me! And in the room was someone I never knew was my friend! "He said you all can say what you want to say, But Joe is right!" His name was Ted Gidopolous, and to this day I consider him my friend.

When I came out hundreds of people who I thought were my friends disappeared overnight but two individuals, Nelson Couto and Ronal Rivera!

In 50 years of life I can count in one had how many friends I have. And that is the meaning of friendship.

Godly Qualities- Good For A Healthy Life

If you read my blogs, by now you know my feeling on God. There being some type of creator, I do believe these qualities are good to embrace as we play the roles of parents, bosses, children friends or whatever your role is while on earth; Faith, Goodness, Kindness,Love, Joy, Peace, Long Suffering, Mildness and Self Control!

Angels

Don't wait for them, they are here amongst us! People with good hearts that lift you up and always seem to show up just when you need them.