Kill with Kindness..........and a spoon

Just came back from a great meal at Frida’s! woohoo, that’s some great salsa, hats off to them, they work hard to make it fresh and from scratch, and they even use adult labor (take a hint Kathie Lee Gifford).
Okay, so I’m reading the news today, and I’m seeing the name Storms again, which just doesn’t set well with me. I think I’m going to have to design a t-shirt for the Tampa gay and lesbian community, one that reflects tolerance and intelligence…………or I might just do something of my usual style………if I can find that porn video she made with her husband and Jingles the clown.
So, now we see that the tourism industry around here is starting to get prepared for the backlash that’s coming. We’ll probably see some declining real estate prices in Seminole Heights if the current trend continues, but I hope not…….Seminole Heights is an institution…..you don’t have to be weird to live there, but it sure helps.
So, the convention and visitors bureau has decided to hire a PR firm to help it out, because we all know what happens when you get press like this nationwide….KATHAPO! tourist season doesn’t look so crowded. That’s not such a bad idea from a traffic stand point, however, from an economic standpoint, it sucks donkey butt!
I find it interesting that Rhonda hasn’t banned the news from reporting murders, child molesters, bank robberies, prostitution, and drug busts….I have to wonder how she explains those to her 7-year-old daughter when she is listening to the radio and hears the announcer convey details of a gory homicide. Does she immediately outlaw news reports? Will she be outlawing Chanukah and Rosh Hashanah? People choose to participate in the Jewish way of life, however, they are not required, it isn’t life or death. I propose that from here on out, no county employee be allowed leave for Jewish holidays, or, for that matter, Protestant holidays, such as Christmas. I don’t want to explain to my 4-year old niece that Santa doesn’t really exist and that it was all a marketing hype created by Wal-Mart and Sears to sell more stuff at the end of the year instead of taking a big tax hit on it on January 1st. I think her fragile mind couldn’t handle it and it would probably cause her to grow up and go on Oprah to blame me, so let’s save everyone time and money and stop recognizing and promoting anything anymore……problem solved!
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We could all act like big boys and girls and take the responsibility of allowing people to celebrate who they are as long as no one gets hurt. The thing is that it does take a village to raise a child, even Rhonda’s daughter. She’s not going to learn everything about life from mom and even if she does, she’s probably not going to believe half of what mom says until she sees it for herself. Kids today have the opportunity to live in a world where they can be themselves without worrying about who is going to club them over the head or burn them at the stake, why take that away from them. Teach your children well, people, teach them that everyone has a right to be here and everything is the way it should be. You don’t know why that person is standing on the street corner begging for money or even what the money will be used for, but in the Divine Consciousness of the Universe, it’s all in order. It’s all happening the way it should, just stop trying to control it.
Oppression has a way of finding the light and pushing back obstacles, just like the plants in the cracks of the sidewalk. Pushing through resistance and adversity, looking for that one beam of sunlight, that little bit of warmth to grow. When adversity finds the light, nothing can stop it. I ask that Rhonda would reconsider her ideals, but somehow, I don’t think it will happen in my lifetime, but I’m okay with that.
How about we get the whole gay community together for a flash mobbing at Rhonda’s house? I’m for it, call your friends, anyone you know who’s gay or even is passing up a good opportunity if they aren’t. We can all meet at Rhonda’s house, gather on the street in front of it, and moon her………….oh wait, that’s the evil part of me coming out again.

god hates fags

Ya know, I never really knew this until someone told me, I think it was my dad. Anywho, it’s strange that so many of the same people who march out there and scream sinner are the ones who are at the adult book stores and parks trying to hook up with a guy for a quickie. Drive through any parking lot of an adult book store and see how many minivans and SUV’s with child seats and Jesus stickers on the back of them you see.
If you have ever read “Course In Miracles” then you know that you’re never really angry for the reason you think you are, especially since there are only two emotions, love and fear. It has been my experience (and most friends of mine who happen to be gay) that the louder someone screams about how wrong homosexuality is, the more tendencies they have toward homosexual experiences. I don’t know why we can’t all just say “I’m gonna do my thing, you do your thing and we’ll all get along.” The recent trouble with Rhonda Storms is an example here in Tampa. She has brought forth a measure by the city council not to recognize gay pride events or to support them in any way because she saw a gay pride month display at her local library and decided that she didn’t want to explain to her 7-year-old daughter what homosexuality was. I hate to tell her, but at 5 I knew more about sex from the kids at school than most of my sex ed teachers ever told me. If she is sheltering her daughter from the world, then she has a surprise coming when the child reaches her teen years. I knew a lot of girls like that where I went to school, their parents would shelter them from everything, TV, sex, boys, drugs, drinking………and most of them didn’t know how to handle that stuff when they were away from their parents out in the real world. Wake up people, sheltering children forever is not the path, all that does is make them ill-equipped to live in this world. Teach them something instead. How about telling her daughter that there are different types of people in the world who have different ways and that’s okay. I feel certain that Rhonda’s husband is sleeping with the houseboy and she feels she needs to take it out on someone, so the gays of Tampa are it!