NO TO THEOCRACY YES TO SECULAR DEMOCRACY

A Theocracy or a Secular Democracy?

I feel the time for me to speak out on my feelings regarding “Pro-lifers”, “Anti-gay” Activists, “Anti Contraception” activists, “Tea party activists”, and Right Wing Christian Extremists.

I do not want to live in a Theocracy. The definition of a Theocracy is: A system of Government where God or a diety is held to be the civil ruler, or a political unit governed by a diety (Or by officials believed to be divinely guided).

World Theocracies include: Iran,Vatican City,Saudi Arabia, Israel, Nepal, Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan., and many African and South American Military Regime countries.

I feel that people who do not want to live in a Secular Democracy, which include the Untied States, should seek citizenship elsewhere.

In the case of “Pro Lifers”, the only reason why a woman feels the need to have an abortion is because some man in her life didn't have enough sense to put on a condom first. Men are the sole cause of pregnancies in women, since women cannot “get themselves pregnant”. Therefore it is men that hold the sole responsibility for each and every pregnancy in this country. Until the men will step foreward and take responsibility for their children, legal, safe abortions are the right of every woman who chooses to abort pregnancies . This is not Iraq or Afghanistan where women are forced to have children even in the case of rape, incest, or force. In those societies single parents are ostrasized. It is worse than death. Some may even be killed for becoming pregnant out of wedlock. Men rule in these theocracies and women and children have absolutely no rights at all.

In Theocracies, women can sometimes not even vote or go out of the house, or go out without being covered from head to toe. Murdering your wife, daughter, sister, cousin, aunt or any member of your female family members are not illegal. When women are raped, they go to jail for fornicating. The man usually goes free, since the women is usually blamed for the crime. In many Theocracies, female mutilation is common, and polygamy is common.In many theocracies you cannot have freedom of the press or freedom of speech. There is not freedom to think for oneself, or protest against your government. You must all be of the national religion, and you must do as religious leaders tell you to do. In many Theocracies there are no social services at all such as food stamps and help for single parents. In Theocracies there is no health care.

There is no housing. In many theocracies there is on ly war, strife, poverty, and rampant disease, lack of medical facilities and clean water. In Theocracies, since abortion, and all contraception are not allowed there is population explosions, high infant mortality rates, and women have a very short life expectancy., thus leaving many children orphaned, since many men are killed during frequent wars. In some Islamic countries you have a choice as a gay person to either have a forced sex change operation, and life as the opposite gender, with loss of all rights as a male, or jailed, and possibly tortured and killed. In some African countries, women whose men have been killed, and their children killed and murdered, are then raped and then forced to keep the children, and then watch them die of starvation and AID's since there are no services or care for them. Many of these women die, leaving the children of the rapists completely homeless and orphaned.

Is this what you have in mind, when you attempt to insert religion into every facet of our governing the United States? Is this idea of a Theocracy what you have in mind when you call yourself a “Patriot”?

I suggest you all think very carefully about what living in a Secular Democracy really means. It means we are not Iran, Iraq or Afghanistan., but America, a Secular Democracy where we pay taxes so that popel can have services, where people have freedom, where women are not treated as cattle and baby factories, and people of a different gender can have relationships, where there is freedom of the press, freedom of religion and freedom of speech. Where it is illegal to rape women, to force them to give birth in the case of rape, incest and medical jeopardy. Where it is illegal to kill your wife, where men can be held responsible for their children to a certain degree, and where women do not have to cover themselves from head to toe if they choose to or share their husbands with three other women. Where women can vote, and have property rights, and be a single woman when the man abandons her, she can get help for herself and her children, she has the right of divorce as well.

I for one am not going to give up my rights and freedoms and live in a Theocracy for anyone.

Ripping Apart Sarah Palin's Insensitive Thanksgiving Message

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving Message from Sarah Palin

Happy Thanksgiving(yep, carving into that Thanksgiving arctic wolf, and free range moose must be a heartwarming picture)

Over three hundred years ago, a group of settlers fleeing religious persecution decided to set a new course for human history in a new frontier. Those early pioneers chose a rocky shoreline to establish their way of life. Centuries later, America continues to set the example of what can come from a free and hardworking people. We truly remain the shining city upon a hill that the colonial leader John Winthrop implored us to be. (UM, hang on a second. You mean my ancestors just faded off into the dist when you came? What happened to good old Squanto, and Pocahontas, huh? They don't count for anything? Oh wait, that's right, YOU'RE ancestors made "America", which was named after Americo Vespuchi who was Italian, but lets just gloss that over, huh?)

What started as a small colony in the territory that would eventually become the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has progressed into the greatest and most prosperous nation in history. Americans remain the freest people on earth because of our cherished Constitution and the system of government it establishes. (UM again, arent you forgetting something? You know, the nice little story of how the Colonists and the Locals sat down and had a nice dinner together? UM, hang on, weren't you able to establish places to live becasue you stole all my peoples land, and killed us all and herded us into reservations? Still no mention of Native AMericans yet, huh? Or others that came and made this country by rge sweat of their brows, oh like lets say African Slaves??)

We have so much to be thankful for. We should recognize especially the sacrifices made on our behalf by those in uniform. Thousands of Americans will be spending Thanksgiving overseas in combat zones in order to protect our liberty and way of life. We should give thanks to those who willingly put their lives on the line for the rest of us. Where would we be without them?(Back in England, where some of you belong.But then England probably doesn't want you, anyways)

We are also thankful for what God has granted us. We are truly blessed in America with rich natural resources, plentiful energy sources, fertile land, beautiful cities, and the talented and industrious people we call “our fellow Americans.” We pray that God will continue to bless us. (OK, now this is pretty funny. You STOLE the land, and the resources from us, and put us in dead end reservations. If we have plentiful energy rescources then why do we import so much oil, and refuse to use alternative energy then? Sure the people are industrious. But Palins PATRIOTS keep trying to keep them out. Oh and you have to love the quotation marks around our "fellow Americans". HA HA. OK, we get it, Sarah, Yep, we really really do. You betcha.)

In his farewell address to the nation, President Reagan reminded us that “all great change in America begins at the dinner table.” Thanksgiving is an opportunity to discuss where we are as a nation at this moment in our history and where we should be heading in order to remain prosperous and free. Take time to discuss these things with each other, and take time to teach the young people in your family about our nation’s history so that they may never forget all that we have to be proud of and thankful for. (Yeah. Teach them about slavery. And immigration. And the genocide of the Native Peoples of America. And the war against the poor. And racism. And the extreme religious right. Oh yeah, and don't forget to teach them the "birther" philosophies, and the "denial" philosophies too. Still nothing in here about Native Americans, Americas melting pot, or anything that smacks of even a basic understanding of what the historical context of Thanksgiving even is. No "love thy brother as thyself", or "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" bible quotes or anything. Oh yeah, and one more thing. How come you didn't quote from Bush's last thanksgiving address? Or how about McCaines? Ha ha.)

Happy Thanksgiving!(ANY ONE FOR A SARAH PALIN "GOING ROUGUE" BOOKBURNING? I WILL BRING THE WOOD!!)

- Sarah Palin

Thanksgiving-Turkey Pardening- Hawaii Style

Pardoning of the Turkey at the White House-A White House Preview-

WATCH HERE-(I wonder if the turkeys name is  George? Or Bush? Or Dubya?)

President Obama transcript pardoning "Courage" The Turkey< CLICK THIS LINK



CHECK THIS OUT: A PALIN PARDON AT A SLAUGHTER HOUSE!!

OK, So here is my take on the whole mainland "Thanksgiving Holiday". Why can't you people just drop the whole Pilgrim/Indian thing and have a national day  of thanks without stirring up that whole "We came, we saw, we conquered" business?  I mean it's like having a "Confederate Slavers Day" or something. Now that we all know what really went down after this whole romantisised "We all sat down to dinner, after Squanto taught us how to plant corn" thing, after which you massacred my relatives, and eventually sold me off after the 60's sweep to a nice white Catholic couple, the whole idea of the "Mainland" style hypocritical "Thanksgiving Day", with its cherubic and innocent looking little Pilgrim and Indian boy and girl cutouts and cute turkeys means absolutely nothing to me.

In fact, it sparks a lot of anger across Indian Country I am sure, to be reminded each year of how, after you gave these illegal aliens, (Who are now standing at the border as Patriots telling the South Americans to get off their continent and go home ) food, shelter and clothing, and taught them how to feed themselves they went off and sucker punched you, took all the land, killed all your people and herded you into reservations and pretty much forgot about you. Yep, I bet that makes Native Americans real thankful.

Now lets look at the way Hawaii does it, local style. We actually have got this whole "Thanksgiving" thing down. After all, most people here aren't Native American, although there are some here but not enough to make a real dent in things. In Hawaii, Thanksgiving Day truly is a day to give thanks for what you have, with aloha, and invite people over, and sit in the garage, and eat a mixture of local food and mainland food, and really and truly be thankful for what we have without the whole Pilgrim/Indian thing over our heads at the dinner table.

Of course we don't need the Pilgrims, we have mainlanders, and the struggle of Kanaka Maoli to be even recognized as a people, after being illegally overthrown. No, we can't celebrate that coming to the table and hanging out as friends yet. The Hawaiians, have given and given, and no one even made a table to share a meal with them yet. So our version of the whole Pilgrim thing can't actually be celebrated yet.

So instead, we sort  of keep Thanksgiving Day, as a real "Thanksgiving Day". We celebrate with everyone together just for the sheer joy of having a holiday and eating a lot, kanikapila, and for the guys usually watching some football.  Yep, in Hawaii, we do it up royal. We got the right idea. We don't think about that whole mess going on on the mainland, mainly because we are in the middle of our own mess.

So let's be thankful for what we have got, and not what we don't. Lets eat until we are tired. Let's all get together as one big happy ohana.

Because come Monday, we will resume where we all left off.

Aloha. and  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!