All in Your Trembling Hand.

Today I stumbled upon the following, which is an excerpt from someone's blog:

"As soon as I saw the “ELIMINATES RIGHT…” wording, I did a double take to make sure I was voting the way I wanted.  Nobody wants to eliminate any RIGHTS, which are God-given.  I know that God did not grant rights for a man to lay with a man.  In fact, such chosen behavior was punishable by death in biblical times:

Leviticus 20:13 (ASV)
¹³ And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Today, we love them as children of God and try to guide them in becoming Christians and forsake such behavior in the future."

This person titled their post "God Wins in California on November 4th, 2008."

Ohhhh, so THIS is what Jesus was talking about...

 In my usual manner, I slapped out a response. Please enjoy the music:

"As a Christian woman, I am deeply saddened by the unabashed fear-mongering and blurring of truths that I read in this entry. The will of the people holds no ground in an argument over whether or not citizens of our country should be allowed or denied certain civil rights. We don’t get to simply “vote” on whether or not we have to treat our neighbors with dignity and respect, even if it means that they get to do something that we don’t understand or approve of. We hold no authority to judge them. The argument of gay marriage is an argument “willed” by judgment and the misuse of power in the face of misguided fears. And so I fear that you are sorely mistaken; God did not win in California on November 4th, 2008, Fear did."


And it all boils down to one simple truth:

Love is but a song we sing
And fear’s the way we die.
You can make the mountains ring
Or make the angels cry.
Though the bird is on the wing
And you may not know why.
C’mon people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now
Some will come and some will go
And we shall surely pass.
When the one that left us here
Returns for us at last.
We are but a moment’s sunlight
Fading in the grass.
C’mon people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now
If you hear the song I sing
You will understand (listen)
You hold the key to love and fear
All in your trembling hand.
Just one key unlocks them both
It’s there at your command
C’mon people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

Thanks for that, Youngbloods.

The Youngbloods (nice hair, guys)

 

                                                                
 

All the blog's a stage.

Seriously, I checked.

Another...

At this very moment I'm chatting with a guy from India named Jhanuari who is insistently telling me all about the ever incredible Ecobill - even though I keep telling him (command X, Command V) that I'm really not interested in hearing about it. We're waiting patiently ("Cat, thank you for waiting patiently," he says) for my account information to populate his screen. I can hear his accent through chat, and it's driving me crazy. Not because I have something against accents, or against India, or against outsourcing in general (okay, that last part is actually a huge effing lie - outsourcing is so amazingly useless and unbearably inefficient for the consumer...but I digress), but because I'm seething (seeeeeething) though the unbelievable pile of injustice that is Comcast's $25 over-billing of my account. Seeeeeeething.

I'm cyber yelling. At Jhanuari. I'm blasting him with caps. I should be cuffed and muzzled. It's just that I can't seem to overcome the small bits of life that my brain screams and gasps and screams are injustices.  Objectively, as well as after-the-fact, I hate when I get all bent out of shape like this. In the calm after the storm, I usually feel kind of embarrassed (or highly mortified, in the case of IRL instances of fighting tooth and nail with someone over whether or not I should be refunded my 50 cents for the extra slice of tomato that I swear I never got). I just (sniff), I just don't know how to "let it go."

In response to my hyper-sensitivity, one of my friends once told me this: "We must fight injustice where it stands." I think he might have been mocking me. Though of his statement - I tend to agree.

But what exactly is injustice?  Because surely it isn't missing a green light because that stupid old man in the Buick couldn't seem to find the gas pedal. And I really don't think it's a 19 year old barista's failure to fill my coffee cup to the brim while shamelessly charging me...wait for it...full price (gasp!). Certainly we mustn't have a massive cow every time the pendulum swings in a different direction and we get mildly fucked over. Small infractions are just that - small. And the blood on my hands (yeah, I've cut a few people off) makes me just as guilty as anyone else.

I told my friend this much. His response? "This is true." Ah, truth!

So the verdict? Comcast is about to take me for 25 hard-earned buckeroos. That's annoying, right? Right. Unfair? Absolutely. But is it a massive blow of injustice? Ugh. It's not. But it's not as though someone has just raped my mother. I haven't been robbed at gunpoint. No one has invaded my country and set my house on fire. Small beans, Comcast, small beans. 

Thanks, blog. I feel better now.

Top 5 ultra-secret government conspiracies and/or cover-ups involving babies.*

I’ve got a baby. She’s cute. Now for the countdown…

1.     Government agents seize Oath Keeper's newborn from hospital (baby returned)… http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread617765/pg1

2.     Stem cell veto uncovers a controversial top secret government “Snowflake Baby Program”… http://unconfirmedsources.com/?itemid=1818&skinid=14

3.     More than 1500 six-month old black and Hispanic babies in Los Angeles are given an "experimental" measles vaccine that had never been licensed for use in the United States (this is bona fide ghastly)…

http://www.rense.com/general36/history.htm

4.     A babysitter accidentally interrupted a top-secret government recon mission, and now his memory must be erased…http://conspiracy.ifoday.com/?p=19769

5.     Rep. Gohmert is still peddling his “Terrorist Baby Conspiracy”… http://politifi.com/news/Rep-Gohmert-Still-Peddling-His-Terrorist-Baby-Conspiracy-1026233.html

*I cannot, nor do I wish to, verify the authenticity of the conspiracies referenced herein. ;-)

I made a blog!

I have no idea how this thing works, but I've been inspired to recreate myself in a way that is reflective of the woman that I really am. Blog - that seems appropriate. Plus, and in addition to, I love to write. And from some strange reason I can never "find the time" (yeah, thanks for that, facebook). 

I have no focus for this blog.

But I'm going to write it anyway.