It’s Pay-to-Gay Time
Apparently Chicago was getting a little too big for its britches about their favorite son and it got a big old biotch slap. First Oprah announced that she literally had gotten too big for her britches. She admitted – and what tacky person asked? – that she has hit the double centenary pound mark. I’m sorry you feel so bad about it, Oprah, and for health’s sake you probably should try to shed a few pounds, but heck you are one big beautiful black woman, so don’t get all shamey, do what you can and look gorgeous in the meantime. It might be karma for that wheel barrel of fat you had carted out on stage a while back.
Then Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, with the very slim resume, got carted off for allegedly trying to sell Barrack Obama’s=2 0vacant Senate seat. It’s not like it’s never been done before, but you have to admire this guy’s level of transparency. Rod married Chicago alderman Dick Mell’s potty-mouthed daughter and rose to governor on a reform plank. Like the reform-minded guv from Alaska he got bored with the job and sought a national platform. There are no transcripts of Palin trying to sell Sen. Ted Steven’s old seat. Yet. Though we face huge state deficits, I hope my NY Governor Patterson doesn’t try to sell off Hillary Clinton’s senate seat. And who knew being governor was such a giant yawn?
The “expletive laced” transcripts made young Rod sound like he was off his meds. The subpoenaed Team of Rovals linked the scandal to Barack Obama, Tony Rezko and maybe Boss Tweed. With audacity of hype FOX news denounced the pay-to-play demands of the governor and wanted off with his bleeping bushy head. Meantime the slobbying, mendacious GOP sees “ethics” as their mantra for the next election. Gag me with a forklift.
It is sad that selling vacant senate seats is seen as a viable revenue stream in this economy. Desperate times. While America shopped, our unregulated capital markets turned into ponzi scum and high stakes poker parlors. Desperate measures. The damage continues to trickle down and very good, decent, hardworking people, who shower before and after work, are being hammered.
Ironically gay and straight are equal in the great leveling juggernaut of this recession. The LGBT community is reeling. Individual memberships, donations and corporate funding have dried up and LGBT groups are cutting staff or going under. The Day Without Gay is real and it’s here and threatens to turn into weeks and months.
Now more than ever it’s time fo r our own version of pay-to-play. In whatever year-end giving we can afford we need to support our LGBT centers and organizations, local, state, national and international. We also need to support straight organizations run by courageous out LGBT leaders. We need to lean on our straight allies to pay up with us.
It’s time for some Pay-to-Gay.
December 13, 2008 @ 1:44 pm
Kat, Kate,Kate–
You never let me down–I knew you couldn’t resist Blegoievich!!!
Good Job!!
Gay
December 15, 2008 @ 1:22 pm
As per Dick Cheney, “Its Herbert Hoover time.” This is a Greater Depression brought to you by George Bush. Not only has George ruined our economy he has ruined the economy of the whole world. Check out the shipping industry, it has ground to a halt. If you want to know how bad it is see the automaticearth blogspot, run by two excellent economists. Britain is running out of food at the grocery stores! I am not joking and our turn is next come the end of January as per Ilargi and Stoneleigh. Celente is saying revolution in the USA year after next, next year expect 1 million layoffs a month. What can the really smart people in the gay movement do to help prepare us for this catastrophe which Bush has wrought upon thw whole world. We have got to start gardening, you laugh but check out Cuba and their response to American embargo, everyone gardens and they are making it. My chickens arrived with the coop, does your city allow you to have chickens? If so get some, bee hive is next, 7 apple tress now planted in my yard and I got some for my neighbor and that is ten more there. 10 blueberry plants and lots of strawberries, canning supplies. Next on my to do list is a grain mill, water purifier with enough replacement units for ten years, and a greenouse and I am ready for no more food in the grocery stores starting the end of January. Talk to the truckers, our system of distribution is all coming to a stand still. Did you hear, workers at the Nerf factory in China rioted because it closed and they got angry. Expect lots more of this stuff and we gave the banks 8.6 trillion, it was a quadrillion that was lost, what a black hole we are sending our money into, and yes it was Bush ll, they were warned in 2005 about this, regulation needed. Greenspan owned up in the House that he was wrong, regulating these greedy people was needed all along. Now we all get to suffer. Hello third world, thats why the water purifies, when our water systems break down the quality of the water available goes down, cholera is quite deadly for kids and adults. Giardia is survivable but the pain is atrocious. Make sure your purifier takes out the petro chemicals, I am going for the Big Berkley purifier personally. Make friends with your local farmers too. If you and your girlfriend need a place to stay, or you know someone and can vouch for them, they are invited. Instead of calling this age the Anthropocene, it should have been renamed the Oshitocene, IMO. Well thats enough gloom, Good luck to us all.