Most people will now be completely confused or angry with me for that matter. Well let me clarify a little bit for those who are not blinded by emotion, because all those who are stopped at the first paragraph. I am a gay man, who wishes to settle down with a husband for the rest of my life, however, I strongly oppose gay marriage. As do all Republicans (as stated in their various campaigns) and most Democrats (also stated in their campaigns [Clinton, Obama]) at a national level… Gay marriage is going to be hard to do and going to take 10-15 years at least.

Civil Unions are similar in most ways. It depends on what state they are in and they cannot be taken across state lines. Here’s the catch… Some Republicans (even Rush Limbaugh) and all Democrats support Gay Civil Unions on a national level. NOW!

What they oppose is the use of the word “marriage”. Something I don’t particularly care about anyway. They can have this small victory as long as I can have my big victory of being able to live my life with my partner! Or did we all forget about something called compromise?

If we could pass a law to make Civil Unions a Federal Law instead of various State Laws I could create a union with my partner tomorrow. This method would create making a Federal Law of Civil Unions of which there is already one for Marriage. This is the way to fight for my rights, not hold out for the word “marriage”.

Also, you don’t have to fight with all these court battles, you don’t have to deal with various state’s laws. The Civil Union fight would be much simpler to do. Just mirror the rights and responsibilities of a marriage call it a civil union and make it a Federal Law that cannot be denied between any two humans. Most congressmen and women as well as most senators these days would support this today! I know Obama would…. This is the kind of solution he himself has proposed! Yet he, and I are opposed to Gay Marriage….

Let’s take the state of Oregon for instance. They have a State Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage, yet the gays there are able to wed and be happy and have all the rights they would have if they were “married” because they have state Civil Unions that Mirror the Federal Marriage (rights and responsibility) calling them Civil Unions. If I wished to live in that state I would be perfectly happy….

We are currently attacking this the wrong way. The current strategy seems to be fight on a state by state level for the word “marriage” which we are not getting anywhere except the far left states. Although, we even failed to get that word in California. Then(?) work to get it solidified on a national level? I have no idea what the long term strategy of the current fight for “gay marriage” is. The fight right now seems disjointed and different in each state. Divided we will never get anywhere, we need to unify around an attainable goal.

Make something new, don’t try to change something already existing…  I hate to tell you guys out there fighting for “gay rights” and “gay marriage”… You are not fighting for my rights, you are fighting for a word. To be honest it’s a word I don’t really care for or particularly want. If you wish to continue fighting for that word I won’t begrudge you, but if you wish to fight for my rights, please…. please! Give up on the word Marriage.

Support my right to have a Union!

Yep, you heard me. If republicans take over Congress Obama will move more toward the center and become more popular and be reelected. Look back into history and see us repeat it…

Obama saw a chance in 2008. A chance to get what Democrats have been wanting for decades but couldn’t get passed. Healthcare. Republicans forced it to be a little watered down, but they did get it passed. And he (Obama) has had many far left policies and actions, many people in the U.S. right now are pushing to get back to economic conservatism. The word economic is the important one. I don’t vote for republicans because of abortion and social policy. I trust them with my money…. Because they take less of it. Leave the real use of my money to… me.

Anyway with that said, I know a lot of people that support republicans economically and democrats socially, as I do. This means they want to see some conservative economic policy in Washington again. The only people up for vote in 2010 is congress, congress will be taken over by Republicans and we’ll put a body block in government spending. I hope…..

Well, these are only my predictions.

If you can’t consider it from that angle. Please stop reading. You are not ready to take a step into a broader larger world. For those of you who would like to keep and open mind and broaden horizons a little bit please stay with me.

So first and foremost, let’s take the issue of Logical Thought. What defines logical thought? My definition of logical thought would be thought processes that are unclouded by emotion. Generally logical thought is a slow ponderous process of weighing risk and reward. The bigger the problem the longer it takes. Correction, the bigger the problem the longer it should take.

In comparison, there’s Emotional Thought. These are thoughts driven by fear, anger, pity, sadness, desperation, guilt. You can find these types of thoughts in the main reason for each bill congress puts forward these days. Healthcare is a great example. “We the richest country in the world do not cover every one of our citizens with health insurance.” This is a heaven of emotion. Pity for those who don’t have the kind of healthcare you do. Guilt that you have good healthcare and you don’t see why other people shouldn’t because good health is a “human right”. Possible anger that you do not have health insurance and other people do. Desperation that your health insurance may run out and you need to be covered by something soon and you either have pre-existing conditions or cannot afford health insurance.

Decisions made on Emotional Thought usually will not consider all the angles and will not be a complete decision, they may need to be changed or modified shortly after being implemented. They are very frequently crisis. They need to be handled and solved immediately. This leads to rash and incomplete decision making. Even those who have “thought” about it emotionally are incapable of seeing it from certain angles. That is a genetic fact of humans. When you get emotional part of your brain shuts down and you become incapable of seeing the issue from any perspective but your own.

And now, I’d like to continue with the other issues I planned on raising.The leaders of this country, mainly because of the way the media works these days, are in constant campaign mode. Trying to “sell” their ideas. Trying to convince you why their idea is right. I think this is a disaster of American Politics. Campaigns are dirty things. Anyone that has watched a campaign in detail know it’s filled with personal attacks, slander, twisting of facts and picking and choosing what to listen to and believe. Please keep in mind when I say all this the campaigns of your POLITICAL ENEMIES.

Regardless of what you believe, attacks slander and mutations of the truth go both ways. What has become of the American Political system… War.

Do you know anyone that does not have a bit to chew or an opinion or a side to fight in American Politics these days? Everyone has an agenda, everyone wants to see their issues go their way, which would be fine, but we’ve coalesced around two parties “Democrats” and “Republicans”. This has created nothing short of a battle between Good and Evil. I don’t care what side you’re on… The other side is Evil, at least that’s what American Politics has become.

Therefore, you don’t notice when your side slanders the other, but you are outraged when your side gets slandered. This reinforces your already built political beliefs, that the other side is bad and not trust worthy.

There will be no bi-partisan support anymore. There will be no non-partisan issues. There will be no compromise until we can get past our issues of good and evil. Both sides are guilty of this. They may claim to create a non-partisan or bi-partisan bill. However, most bills that claim that these days are not truly that way.

To make a compromise is to meet somewhere between issue A and B, to get point C. That is the definition of a compromise. Instead political law these days to create a “compromise” just include A and B. So therefore, a lot of times the bill is meaningless, it tries to take both sides of one issue and ends up a completely meaningless bill.

I digress. There will be no compromise, there will be no bi-partisanship. there will be no non-partisan issues until we get past this war of “Good” and “Evil”. Whatever those sides may be. That is the next step to move our country forward in my opinion. Let’s strip the emotion out of American Politics and start thinking about our leaders.

I promise you this. No matter how much you think you are a Logical person, and not motivated by emotion there’s always room for improvement. Myself included.

If you would like to start watching your leaders and what they say on the floor of the house/senate, instead of what they say to you…. Because I’ve noticed it’s vastly different! I’ve found a very good website for that purpose. It’s called Gov Track. That website also has full text of bills and most of the time it can also tell you what’s in every amendment and also has the record of how your congressman/congresswoman/senator voted. Also, if you are around a TV during the day, I’ve found it very interesting to watch C-SPAN and C-SPAN2. Unfiltered cameras on OUR politicians.

And so, I finish with a Plea. Please, let’s take the emotion out of American Politics. Let’s get this country back on the right track. Let’s make reasoned, considered, and logical decisions.

And on this topic. I’ll be honest. I agree with Republicans about healthcare (mostly). For those of you that are leftists and don’t have an open mind, and want to get this passed now regardless of the 10-20 year consequences, that’s fine you can stop reading now.

I’m here to talk to everyone that has an open mind and is willing to think and challenge their ‘leaders’. And i’m going to talk about this bill by talking about something everyone knows and should have been to and should have learned from…

I’m going to talk about an experence everyone had.

KINDERGARTEN

Yes, i’m going to try to convince you that this healthcare bill is a bad idea based on what I learned in kindergarten. Healthcare is a massive issue, and there are massive amounts of people in this country that don’t have health insurance (for whatever reason) and can only get healthcare by waiting until it’s a major problem and going to the E.R. (if they don’t have a savings account to pay for it out of). To the majority of Americans that is unacceptable. Myself included.

Another major problem is those that have pre-existing conditions find themselves uninsured. This in my opinion is the largest problem facing our healthcare industry right now.

So all in all, it’s a big problem, a massive problem… In kindergarten, what was the first thing you were taught to do when face a problem? For me it was very simple, break it down into very small problems and take them one at a time, see if they help the situation over time, if not undo them and try something else.

So, why shouldn’t congress do that? Why should it pass a super huge bloated bill that tries to fix everything at the same time. I’m sure some of the things in there will do well, and some clearly will not (everyone admits this). So why even do the things that won’t work!?

Why not just pass 100-200 smaller bills that can be easily undone if they don’t work? Why not fix the topics one at a time? This would be my solution. Fix the problems one at a time, and see where they stand with the populace of this great country of ours. I bet most of the country would support something to put people with pre-existing conditions that have been denied private insurance on medicare or medicaid. I also bet people would oppose the idea of people with pre-existing conditions put into a new bureaucracy to handle “all Americans”.

And that’s how I see this problem. Rip it apart… Make it many smaller problems… Take them one by one. Why can’t the people in Washington take the simple straightforward answer?

The only time I want them to act like children, they refuse to.

So, in short, I oppose some of the things in this bill, but I am also in favor of some of this thing about this bill… However, I think this bill should be defeated because of it’s SIZE…

Also, all the money was in the hands of one man. The Secretary of the Treasury who was by the wording of the bill required to make sure he assured the economic well being of the Citizens of the United States. Well, I don’t remember that being in the Constitution. I know we are to promote but not assure.

Well anyway. The bill was defeated. So they get to rework it. This is not something that needs rushed. It’s more important that this needs to be done correctly then quickly.

So here’s the vote.

Total: Aye: 205 Nay: 228 No Vote: 1

Democrats: Aye: 140 Nay: 95 No Vote: 0

Republicans: Aye: 65 Nay: 133 No Vote: 1

I just wanted to mention here, they only needed 12 more votes to pass it. They could have gotten that from Democrats alone. If you favor this bill (which I do not) you should be blaming Democrats. They could have, and if they really believed in the bill, should have forced it though. This shows even Democrats who were pushing for the bill the most don’t believe in it…. Just to note also, those 95 Democrats are on financial committees and in highly contested reelection runs.

Thank You Congress, for listening.

P.S. My Rep, Danny Davis, voted for it, so he’s lost some points in my mind for November.

So the problem would therefore be the Extremists part of that. People that take their religion too far. People that believe that use the Koran to justify murder. People that are out of touch with our world’s society…

Aren’t there Christians like that too? People that believe that the world is 5,000 years old, and we roamed the world with dinosaurs. People that believe the bible is a perfect historical record of the human race.

And Pagans too? Of course! Interesting, there are extremists in every possible religious group. People that just take religion past the society norm. People that take religion to deny science, or law, or genral humanity.

Wait? Aren’t there Democrats that will instantly say no to any idea a Republican proposes, even if it’s good for the country, just becuase it’s proposed by a Republcian? I would call this Extremism as well! But it goes thee other way. There Republicans that will instantly say no to any idea a Democrat proposes, even if it’s good for the country, just becuase it’s proposed by a Democrat. This is the fundemtal flaw in Washington. And there is no Democrat or Republican that has power that will change it.

Extremism causes a problem with humans. They get suck in their own thoughts and plans and blackbox everything that conflicts. Most, if not all, of the problems of this world would be solved by open minds.

And those who say they have an open mind are least likely to have them…

DEMOCRATS
Winning number: 2,025

REPUBLICANS
Winning Number: 1,191

McCain has won the Republican Nomination, today he has 1,460 Total Delegates.

So as you can see the percentages are getting higher and higher. It’s down to the super delegates at this point. As soon as more of them start coming in we will be done.

Upcoming Primaries:

May 27th:

• Idaho Primaries (Republicans Only) (Will be ignored because nobody cares anymore)

June 3rd:

• Montana Primaries (Democrats Only)
• New Mexico Primaries (Republicans Only) (Will be ignored because nobody cares anymore)
• South Dakota Primaries

DEMOCRATS
Winning number: 2,025

REPUBLICANS
Winning Number: 1,191
McCain has won the Republican Nomination, today he has 1,409 Total Delegates. Upcoming primaries are listed below, since this fight will keep going!

May 13th:

• Nebraska Primaries (Republicans Only)
• West Virginia Primaries (Democrats Only)

May 18th:

• Hawaii Convention (Republicans Only)

May 20th:

• Kentucky Primaries
• Oregon Primaries

May 27th:

• Idaho Primaries (Republicans Only)

June 3rd:

• Montana Primaries (Democrats Only)
• New Mexico Primaries (Republicans Only)
• South Dakota Primaries

That’s the end of the list…. No more primaries….. June 3rd is as long as this could possibly last in the publics hands… It’s getting closer! Then it’s out of our hands and there will be no more campaigning from these people …. Until the general election that is. Which will probably start almost immediately.

DEMOCRATS
Winning number: 2,025

REPUBLICANS
Winning Number: 1,191
McCain has won the Republican Nomination, today he has 1,331 Total Delegates. Upcoming primaries are listed below, since this fight will keep going!

May 6th:

• Indiana Primaries
• North Carolina Primaries

May 13th:

• Nebraska Primaries (Republicans Only)
• West Virginia Primaries (Democrats Only)

May 18th:

• Hawaii Convention (Republicans Only)

May 20th:

• Kentucky Primaries
• Oregon Primaries

May 27th:

• Idaho Primaries (Republicans Only)

June 3rd:

• Montana Primaries (Democrats Only)
• New Mexico Primaries (Republicans Only)
• South Dakota Primaries

That’s the end of the list…. No more primaries….. June 3rd is as long as this could possibly last in the publics hands… It’s getting closer! Then it’s out of our hands and there will be no more campaigning from these people …. Until the general election that is. Which will probably start almost immediately.

DEMOCRATS
Winning number: 2,025

REPUBLICANS
Winning Number: 1,191
McCain has won the Republican Nomination, today he has 1,331 Total Delegates. Upcoming primaries are listed below, since this fight will keep going!

May 6th:

• Indiana Primaries
• North Carolina Primaries

May 13th:

• Nebraska Primaries (Republicans Only)
• West Virginia Primaries (Democrats Only)

May 18th:

• Hawaii Convention (Republicans Only)

May 20th:

• Kentucky Primaries
• Oregon Primaries

May 27th:

• Idaho Primaries (Republicans Only)

June 3rd:

• Montana Primaries (Democrats Only)
• New Mexico Primaries (Republicans Only)
• South Dakota Primaries

That’s the end of the list…. No more primaries….. June 3rd is as long as this could possibly last in the publics hands… It’s getting closer! Then it’s out of our hands and there will be no more campaigning from these people …. Until the general election that is. Which will probably start almost immediately.