Don't Ask Don't Tell - Get Over It

The evidence is overwhelming that sexual preference is hardwired at birth. We are born to respond to the shapes and appearances that we are hardwired to respond to. Some males will then find males more attractive. Some females will find females more attractive. Don't believe it? Look at peoples' response to infants. We are all hardwired to respond to the infant shape, the infant face - in fact almost any mammalia infant will tug at our hearts strings. We didn't learn that - it's hard wired. As is sexual preference.

We know who we are attracted to - it's not something that has to be taught. They tell us that is the result of complex brain interactions and function centered on things like facial symmetry. It's for sure alot more complicated than that - but for sure it's hardwired. As is sexual preference.

There is a heterogeneity to this. It's not - your attracted to males or your attracted to females. There are shades of gray. Homophobes probably have more gray than they can handle. These feelings threaten. Feeling threatened makes people angry. Probably most people are hardwired to respond primarily to the opposite sex. But this does not make other preferences 'unnatural'.

Being gay is just being who you are. It's not unnatural, or deviant, or the result of being oversexed, or evil, or godless, or mentally ill - although after putting up with what society puts you through for being born gay one could certainly feel that way at times. Gays are gay - born that way. Get over it.

Class Warfare - The Robber Cries Foul

According to many in politics balancing the budget, fiscal responsibility and the health of our economy is not and should not be the concern of the wealthy. Any attempt to get wall street, banks, corporations or the ultra-wealthy to pay their fair share into the community chest is now, according to them, class warfare. This is not class warfare. That is a distraction, a lie, told by the very people that helped put us in our current recession in the first place. A lie told in order to deflect attention from their greed.

The world's economies are broken. At its most basic one has only to look at the US to understand why - greed, corruption, and lack of oversight. Greed begets money. Money begets corruption and political influence. Corruption begets ineffective or non existent oversight. And that is exactly what caused this current recession. If you sell mortgages to people who can't afford it - lying about their ability to pay -  in effect preying on them; and then package those mortgages into something you can trade on wall street, illegally awarding AAA status along the way; and if you then bet for these packages to both succeed and fail; and then, when the entire house of cards falls, you pull out the 'we are to big to fail' card, causing the government to just hand over billions - no strings attached - of the masses money - your money, my money - and give it to the very few, unbelievably greedy that caused all this mess in the first place - what do you get? Our current recession. And now when asked for a little of it back - class warfare? - really?

400 people in the US now possess the same amount of wealth as the all the people in bottom half of economic scale - combined. The game is fixed. Governments and the media are controlled by this extreme concentration of wealth and influence. The final result is the greatest transfer of wealth from the masses to the very, very few since feudal Europe and a lot of human suffering.

If the people have no money they cannot buy. If they cannot buy there are no sales. If there are no sales there are no jobs. If there are no jobs there is no money. If the people have no money...

It is the perfect storm - the current recession - all courtesy of the greedy and corrupt. Class warfare? Robber just crying foul.

Go Electric

And now the popular 'cool' alternative mind-set is that electric cars aren't green. The production of the electricity to charge the cars results in the same amount of pollution as gasoline powered cars. And oh yes - the carbon released in making the car negates any benefit to global warming.
Wrong.
None of this is true.
Plug-in electrics are responsible for about 30% fewer climate-changing greenhouse gases than conventional gasoline-powered cars, even if the electric vehicle is charged with a coal-fired power plant, according to a joint study by the Natural Resources Defense Council environmental group and the utility industry-sponsored Electric Power Research Institute. That is because they are considerably more efficient than gasoline or diesel powered cars. And if you live in a state like Oregon that uses 55% hydroelectric for its electricity production that figure can exceed 75% less. Not to mention the particulates, and poisonous gases NOT coming from theses cars non-existent tailpipes.
Can you imagine Tokyo or Los Angeles without pollution from tailpipes???