Everyone isn’t for war and the taking of life from aother May 27, 2007

WEST POINT, N.Y. — Vice President Dick Cheney today urged the 978 new graduates of the U.S. Military Academy to provide leadership to troops fighting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan…. blah blah yakitty yak yak yak.  If you’d like the read the full article – http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4838643.html?plckCurrentPage=1

Basically, below is the meat of a conversation I had with a person in the “comment” section of Saturday’s online Houston Chronicle. Let me know your thoughts and if I am wrong, please dictate with your conciance.

Walt wrote:

Or was Cheney there buttering them up for what’s yet to most assuredly destroy their lives. And or get them killed.

texrb wrote:

Last I heard, Walt, there is no draft that forces people into the military academy and since the war has been going on for 4+ years, I assume all of these graduates knew what they were committing to. You liberal pukes do nothing but spew hatred anymore. You offer nothing in the way of useful dialogue.

Walt wrote:

WOW texrb, who’s gaking up the hate here?
War is hell. This war will continue unnecessarily, for years to come if we allow it. The good ol’ boy republican party always stimulates the
US economy in the profiteering of war. We can’t change that which doesn’t want to be changed. It tears my heart out to know many families of dead
US servicemen. Why not turn
Iraq into glass… as in glass from a lot of sand and extreme heat. As originally proclaimed we’d finance this abortion, by war monger #43, how much oil have we, the US, seen in exchange for the billions & billions of ‘charges incurred’ financing this un-winnable war? How much are you paying for fuel? You and your fat cat Bush party are the world’s biggest idiots. I’m embarrassed for you. No wonder the whole world hates the
US.And btw, DICK Cheney is my ex boss. He is as crooked as they come. Since you are obviously immune to death, try putting a face on this debacle of a war. It’s all just so unbelievably ridiculous.oh yes, uhhhh, has anyone seen Binladen? I thought not.Now piss off, you bore me

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texrb wrote:Walt, once again you are spewing socialist hatred without an ounce of factual dialogue. It’s the same tactic the Bolsheviks used in 1917. Whoever disagrees with the socialist agenda, trash them with hate speach. I’m not a republican, yet you say “Your fat cat party”. I am an independent patriot who is sick of the factless diatribes of the likes of you.

Walt wrote:

Get a grip man. “Socialist?” Are we still playing from the same sheet of music here
TEX? Allow reality to be a friend of yours. I get the feeling you are a crotchety stodgy old man. Stuck in old man political oblivion of auld lang syne. Head buried comfortably deep in the sand. Probably polishing your six-shooter rocking on the rear porch where ya stay o’re yonder way.I have no desire or feel the need to quote my sources here big TEX. If you have any sense you might have researched your incessant encumbrance of what is the truth. It’s very simple…we have no business in that entire part of the world.Why can’t our superpower conservative good Christian country finish what war they’ve started? Why hasn’t it all ended by now? With all due respect (literally) let’s finish that which was started by #41. Can you believe I used the words “Christian, conservative & war” all in the same sentence. I can.Daily, as I enter our 42 story Ivory Tower for work, I pass the yellow ribbon adorned placard placed at the building’s entrance – for the past FIVE years (remember, the then classified war was well under way before one cartridge was discharged), announcing “our hearts and prayers go out to all of Halliburton and KBR’s employees and servicemen whom are missing, or have died fighting for our country in their respective line of duty.” I’m reminded at the beginning of every robotic day of my life that war equals unnecessary death. Not only death to our soldiers, but all other soldiers fighting for their own beliefs. You might, as so many others do, prance right by the five year old memorial there at the entrance, no longer noticing what the sign even means. I never miss what that sign says.

Hey, look if you’d like to continue this “diatribe” that YOU started, let’s not bore all of
Houston with your crass, cutting quips. I’ll be happy to entertain myself with anything you might eventually enlighten me with @ wtarpley@juno.com

As you were… patriot?… and that’s no bullshivik. And have a great F’ing Memorial Day.

Proud to have Pride April 30, 2007

Why is it that during our most innocuousness, some of the most memorable times of our lives; those that our minds allow us to recall – just show up uninvited?

I believe it is an unintended… unattended check point of our lives. A turnaround on a turnpike, marked “for emergency vehicles only”. I hope they didn’t have cameras there when I last declined their suggestion in signage.

At anyfuckin’rate and for reasons completely random in a less than stable mind. I thought tonight, of a life altering experience I was part of, June of 2000. I will always hold this hesitantly obliged invitation dear to my heart. Once recollecting that day’s events, my mind hemorrhages with the joy that seemingly ordinary day offered me.

As a new resident to Atlanta, GA, knowing no one, I embraced the invitation of  my favorite Lesbian ‘tender at the legendary 24-7 bar of it’s time – Backstreet Atlanta (for 30 years grandfathered to the playboy club), (now condos) about me participating in the “Harley Hysteria” that traditionally initiates the Pride Parade of Atlanta’s official “Gay Pride Parade”.

Imagine, my puny 140lb ass atop 1200cc’s of raw American engineered power. Basically a rocket strapped to a bicycle frame – following the direction of a woman I’d always considered to be a very womanly… MAN!

The President of Exxon – a supposed world leader I’d once met, had no longer a place in my personal repertoire of (what I thought was) fame & guaranteed fortune. He hasn’t a clue. He hasn’t a third the leadership skills I was subordiate to that June day.

Amongst the 38 of us “parade starters” were I, one other strikingly handsome (terrified) male… and 36… uh, other… women to some degree. Piloting an estimated three quarter a million dollars worth of obnoxiously loud raucous American pride. Not just gay pride – American pride.

I’ve never witnessed the unbelievable, the unspoken exchange and appreciation – the filming of us bikers, the paparazzi fashioned photography of us from the Mounted Patrol, in an odd sort of analogous way with the APD, the love and equality – the mutual respect and admiration from that of The Atlanta Police Mounted Patrol & Atlanta Fire Department – and we (Gay? or not) Iron horse riders. I’d immagned me being photographed by a Cop – but only at APD headquarters.

It was quite an extraordinary sight to behold. One I’d never witnessed anywhere. That of which I’ll likely never again see or appriciate in my time again. For however a fleating moment, we were on stage for all the city to un-christianlike pass judgement upon.

I’ll not bore you with what became that day’s & night’s activities. But if any readers know Atlanta’s Pride festivals – it’s a solid week long event, rain or shine. Many of these festivals have brought fourth the likes of The B-52’s, REM, Montell Williams,  HBO productions, Turner Broadcasting, CNN, etc., Even a version of the current Bush regime showed up. Who was that snake in wolves clothing. God love the poor bastard who signed up for that costume. He’s still recovering.

Truly, it was more fun than I could possibly have ever prepared myself for. In my own simplistic take, I figure the Atlanta Pride Parade is so large, because of the fact that Atlanta is the unassuming buckle of the bible belt. Luckily for me, The Baptist convention was being held there that year.

If God truly loves me, he’ll forgive the spectacle I’m guilty of staging on any given day.

And in that same year, in an unprecedented gesture to all, the then current Mayor allowed the Pride banners to be strung along city light poles all throughout downtown and Midtown. Perhaps his futile effort to burry the fact that he was a political CROOK! He was my neighbor. I loved him during his tenure in his respective office. Let’s just say… uh… he left me alone; as did I turn a blind eye toward him (and his filthy hateful dirty disrespectful spoiled rotten bratty ass children).

The remains of what I’ve carried away from my short time in a very odd conglomeration of a place…….  and a wonderful 4 years in Atlanta, amounts simply to this: 

Suppression shall always come as aggression for those who disallow evolution.

Quote me on that. PLEASE! GOD knows I need the negative press.

Any at all is good right?All the best my little Angels,

WMT III