I simply don't care if you're gay or not.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

I also don't care if you're black, white, brown, green, orange, yellow, gray, or puce.

I couldn't care less if you have one arm, three legs, twelve toes, sixteen fingers, or buck teeth. Your dress sense is all yours, and nothing you wear will offend me. Your shoe style is your own- go with what makes you comfortable.

Dye your hair electric orange and lime green. Wear it in a Mohawk. Pierce your extremities to your heart's content. Get a tat. Get two. Keep a ferret as a pet. Keep a skunk. Raise a pig for all I care.

Read Ayn Rand. Read Anne Frank. Read Spiderman comics. Your taste in literature is your own and has nothing to do with me. Write poetry. Paint portraits. Sing opera in the shower. Go hunting with the Nuge man.

Are you a Ford person? Chevy? Do you prefer a Jag V-12? Cool. Two wheels, four wheels, eighteen wheels- have at it. It's your choice, not mine.

Vegetarian? Have some yummy rice cakes. Barbecue freak? Cook up some ribs for me! Schlitz? Miller Light? Little Kings? Heineken? Scotch? Rye? Absynth? Vodka? Pour a double, on the house!


There is a familiar quote I often find appropriate: "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own." It's a good quote, and I approve the sentiment.

YOUR life is YOURS. And I respect that.

All I ask is, if you happen to be a politician, simply DO THE JOB YOU'RE BEING PAID TO DO. Honestly, and without concealment. Then what you do on your own time will stay private- hopefully you won't live your professional life as a hypocrite.

'Cause that can end up being a real ball buster. Just ask Mr. Craig.

[lazer47]

1. Go ahead and do your in-zone dance, that post was a touchdown

[SeattleGirl]

2. Amen!

My only problem with Craig is that he was a hypocrite, NOT that he's gay or bi or whatever.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. I have often said...

That there are far too many Americans who worry about what other Americans are doing with their genitalia, because they are not doing enough with their own.

[TahitiNut]

4. At the same time ...

"If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view. Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly. Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be.
I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you.
Though I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend, or your colleague, if you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself, so that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right — for me. To put up with me is the first step to understanding me. Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and, far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences."
— David Kiersey

it's

so damn sweet when Anybody—
yes;no

matter who,some

total(preferably
blond
of course)

or on the other

well
your oldest
pal
for instance(or

;why

even
i
suppose
one
's wife)

—does doesn't unsays says looks smiles

or simply Is
what makes
you feel you
aren't

6 or 6

teen or sixty
000,000
anybodyelses—

but for once

(imag
-ine)

You

— e. e. cummings

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

5. I like that.

I can strongly relate to what Kiersey said.

And it's been YEARS since I've read cummings. I'd forgotten how insightful he could be.

[TahitiNut]

8. That cummings poem has been very dear to me for nearly forty years.

In calligraphy form, it was a gift to me in 1970 from a dear, dear friend ... a former nun (then flight attendant) who saw in me that ideal. It was a stunning affirmation of my inner ideal, rarely if ever articulated by me. I was floored that she looked close enough to see it - that I saw Her.

[Skip Intro]

6. But, labels are so American. Do you want the trrsstss to win?!

sheesh!

:sarcasm:

[Demeter]

7. A Revolution the Middle Class Can Back!

Of course, the rich would say that the politicians WERE doing the job they were paid to do--by them!

That's why total public financing and election reforms are essential.

[KoKo]

9. What you SAY sounds Great to My Ears....but what about the MONEY?

All that freakin' money that it takes to run campaigns, pay consultants and Campaign Ops and the M$M that you are VIABLE.

I don't know what kind of message get's through to the public about who you are if you are running after you have to raise and payout that kind of dough. :shrug: