I'm Back Again

I noticed from the date of my last blog that it's been quite a while since I entered anything. Sheer laziness is at fault but time does not stand still especially if you are no longer a spring chicken like myself and still have plenty to say.

Most people are creatures of habit and I am no exception. As usual I started off today with a cup of coffee and a copy of the New York Post. Why the New York Post? Why not. It's news reporting may be just one level above a tabloid, and I've noticed that on more than one occasion it has lifted stories right out of the National Enquirer, (yes I confess, I read the National Enquirer) but at least it's editorial policy is not tainted by "political correctness" and more often than not makes sense. Unfortunately there seems to be a disconnect between the news and editorial. In the news pages prominence is given to the most sensational and frivolous stories especially when celebrities and half-naked woman are involved. The childish headlines must be written by half-educated college frat boys, never clever or funny just stupid and in bad taste. For serious news you have to read the op-ed section.

The first story that caught my eye today was about the legislation allowing gay marriage in New York. How could it not, it was splashed across two pages. There it was in living colour, all the state and city officials celebrating their victory over their backward foes who refuse to admit that homosexuality is just as normal as the other. You know, the one between a male and a female. Looking at the picture it reminded me of that old fable about the half witted emperor who is parading stark naked before his cheering subjects who are afraid to tell him the truth and only a small boy in the crowd has the nerve to shout,"the emperor has no clothes on", or words to that effect. I can't remember the rest of the story but it seems to me that most people today are as afraid to tell truth as the emperor's subjects for fear of being punished and there are not enough brave little and perhaps naive boys willing to say what they really think. Certainly Bloomberg' whose facial expression says 'what am I doing here?' has no backbone and the divorced and living in sin with his girlfriend Cuomo fits right in.

The crowd in the New York Post photo is just like that crowd in the make believe story. They are trying to make a truth out of a meaningless farce, a ridiculous sham. If homosexuals and lesbians wish to live together and create rights and obligations between themselves, that's their business. They should have the same protection before the law as any other law abiding citizen as well as the same responsibilties. But that doesn't mean that they can force their dysfunction on the rest of society, especially its innocent children, and tell us it's normal. Most marital laws were created for the protection of the children of the union, so why do homosexuals need these same safeguards since for the majority of them they are irrelevant. Once again it's a means of establishing some equivalency between themselves and a male-female relationship something that until our amoral times has never been accepted by society even those where homosexuality was not frowned upon.


They reject referenda by the people because they realize that when your average citizen steps into the anonymity of the voting booth and doesn't have to fear being called a "bigot", he will become that little boy and cast his ballot for what he really thinks. That is if he's rational.

I have to end with Franklin Roosevelt's famous quote because it truly fits the crazy times we live in. "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself", fear of "Big Brother" who will somehow punish us if we don't follow the Politically Correct dogma. Really, if you think about it what can he do?

J