It's Put a Cork in It Thing

Dear America,

 “It’s one thing to talk to Jesus. 

It’s another thing when Jesus 

talks to you...

that's called mental illness 

if I'm not correct."

  Joy Behar, 

responding to

Omarosa

just yesterday's headlines from the sh**hole, make that sh**UN-holy, sidelines -- 

and just for starters, thinking Christian's, like Omarosa, should stop judging other Christians, like Pence, about how Christians, like me, live in relationship with the Holy Trinity....that being, with God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit...just sayin'

and chiming in as a child of God, what I've come to learn in navigating this life, in a spiritual context...the more I shut up and LISTEN to what God has to say TO me and THROUGH me -- in both word and deed -- the more magnificent go my days. 

And to that end, more often than not , and I kid you not -- this girl is on her knees muttering the words, 'oh geeze...what am I thinking...Lord knows YOU know what I need before I even need it, so have at it...pave the way for me, hit me upside the head once, twice, three times a little lady...whatever You must do to make Your Way and make my day...'

For it is true! We, humans, reflect the very nature of God through everything we say and do to the very level we turn ourselves over to It; the more we connect, and align, to that which we call God and to all good things associated with It, the better the human being we ultimately become -- for the benefit of not only ourselves, but for the entire world.

Oh boy, that Joy...how sad.  

Mental illness?  Seriously?

From this girl directly to you, Joy -- I believe you to be INCORRECT in your assessment of Pence's mental state.

Being pretty familiar, myself, with the love of blabber-mouthing my way through any given day, pontificating upon the days news to the best of my ability, as only 'just a girl" can do -- safe to say, that it's pretty easy for all of us do a wee bit of judging of our fellow Americans, along with the rest of the world; we do it pretty much non-stop, in a social media infused, obsessively unhealthy, fashion.  We can tweet and post and Instagram and Facebook all the live long day, and get up and do it all over again tomorrow.

The thing is, SOMETHING good, or SOMETHING not so good, is always at play -- from the things we say and do, to the things we think about and put our energies. 

I'll choose Jesus speaking through me every day, over not; I'll choose to ask myself, "what would Jesus do" on any given day, over not; I'll most certainly risk the ridicule to choose a life reflective of this Spirit morning, noon, and night, if I must.

Matter of fact, the more people like Joy, pick on people like Pence, the stronger and more Spirited I become.  It's like, can she honestly look back at that replay and think to herself, gosh, that was a brilliant thing to say? Citing mental illness,  simply because Pence not only chooses to listen to what God has to say, but actually gives God the Glory in the very things that come out of his own mouth?  

How is this any different than that football player giving all the glory to God after manifesting successes on the field?

Pence, by trade, is a politician.  It's all about the mouth, right?

Hence, Pence lives with a true purpose in life --  a belief that his  life's work IS predestined by God, according to his beliefs (not yours, Joy) lock step with his political ambitions; this purpose is intimately connected, and can never be separated, from God Itself.  The only vehicle that accomplishes his life's work, is by, and through, his mouth --

his mouth communicates his public policy and ideology;

his mouth keeps within the framework of his faith;

his mouth speaks of his Christian compassion and foundation, often and much;

his mouth acts through multiple positions of civil service.

[which is really kinda funny when considering how much Joy and Mike have in common, this connection with the mouth and their life's work....And whatta mouth she's got, eh?  But I digress, bigly...]

As a matter of fact, Joy -- no person, or governmental body, has the power over another to abridge or destroy the faith of our choice; operating through the commonly recognized, universal freedom, established under the First Amendment...respective of the "free exercise thereof" of one's religion...Pence chooses to live a Purpose-Driven life through Christ, while in the business of politics.  This relationship shows up through his own words through Christ, be it his connections with family, friends, community or co-workers, in constant, inseparable, unalienable, motion.  It's hardly a mental illness; for by the Grace of God, it is a Gift.

Pence deserves a medal, not contempt.  And yet, leftists from sea to shining sea thought Joy was just being so funny.  How did we get here?  Yeah yeah, let's just make America great again by poking fun at the Christian(s) yeah yeah haters gotta hate, huh Behar....

Alexis de Tocqueville is often quoted with this humdinger:

"America is great 

because she is good, 

and if America 

ever ceases to be good, 

America will cease to be great."

indeed.

pretty sure de Tocqueville's mouth was in the right place.

We have to ask ourselves -- what is it that made America good in the first place?  How has America's Judeo-Christian roots benefited our evolution, as a nation?   And what explains --after all this time -- the reality that as America has grown less connected to God, and Christianity in particular, the more dysfunctional, and unkind, society has become?   It's not even hidden from view anymore; it pops up with the second cup of coffee like a bad case of acid reflux.  But, of course, not being a follower of The View, myself, naturally this girl will never give it the time of day now.

oy, Joy, put a cork in that mouth will ya

But there you have it.  This is the stuff that captivated a nation for about the last 24 hours, what a country, what a country.

And there you have it at the end of another day -- this day;

pretty sure love trumps hate.

And it's Valentine's Day to boot!  

Go kiss somebody you love xoxo

Make it a Good Day, G

Dear America,

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas...la la lala la la...

On the way to school this morning and my girl turns to me and says, "it's like winter, but you would never know it by looking out the window."  Out the window was a sparkling clear blue sky, not a shred of a cloud as far as the eye could see -- temperature, according to the car, a balmy 60 degrees; recognizing, for perhaps the very first time, one of the many truisms of life to come her way -- looks can be deceiving.

Aside from the funny reality she lives in -- finding 60 a wee bit nippy -- it is purely enjoyable, as a mom, to go through life with someone who becomes something right before our very eyes; a truly remarkable co-existence becomes us, one that constantly twists and turns, expands and contracts, on a moment's notice, on the fly, in the every day.

As a mom, we get the privilege of watching someone's reality shape and shift in our presence; it's an overwhelming burden and joy that keeps on giving, keeps on growing, and keeps on keepin' on in becoming into that which is something greater than she was before, as in yesterday, like when it was still considered to be more like fall at 65...

What begins as just an infant, welcomed into a brand new world, will one day walk on this earth with a wealth of experiences, a whole cadre of skills and knowledge, while bringing her own personal view and attributes into every moment she lives from this day forward -- and someday, without me.

Sure, talking about the weather was no big revelation this morning -- but deeper than that, is it was the spin off to ten minutes of undivided attention from one to another, okay.  Do you get me now?  It turned into a moment where we continued to talk about probably three other topics, wide eyed and giddy, the whole way to school!  Okay?  Let me remind you, she is fourteen; this sort of thing just doesn't happen every day.

I am not sure if Joy Behar's parents are still walking upon this beautiful world in which we live -- given our little Joy wonder is 68 years old -- but I have to say, if that were my daughter, she would be getting a phone call.

I just don't understand some of us at all; how uncouth we have become over the years.  I mean, for a woman on national television to actually put into words, "come here, bitch, come to New York and do it...she is going to hell, this bitch..."  No matter who she was referring to -- really, Joy, this is how you want to present yourself to the world?

She was calling out Sharron Angle of Nevada, who is currently poised to take over Harry Reid's seat in the Senate, because of her gut wrenching attack on Harry in the latest campaign commercial, highlighting his tee-tottering on immigration policy.  For this, Sharron is called a bitch, and told to go to hell, on national TV.

The parents, wherever they are, have to be shaking their heads wondering, where    did    we     go    wrong?

On my goodness, oh my goodness.  Joy, get a grip woman -- do you realize how unattractive a look this is for you?  This little game you play, from a one-room studio with a view, is so yesterday; if it is about boosting your own personal ratings, I do believe you are going about it in the wrong manner, but who am I to judge, right?  I can only imagine what you would say about me and my schtick.

Speaking of schticks, I could have sworn you were Jewish -- you probably get that all the time; it's probably the NY accent and coming from the Bronx, that throws people a little off.  But rumor has it you are a self-proclaimed agnostic -- after being raised Roman Catholic (yeah, that had to be kinda awkward at Christmas dinner over the years, no?)  I can just hear it now, "Josephina Victoria, whatta mean you don't want to pray before Mother Mary and the baby Jesus in adulation of this day!  Whatta ya crazy, bow your head and show a little respect for once in your life..."

You know, to be an agnostic, kind of misses the point, doesn't it?  What you are saying is basically, there may be a God, but because I think, therefore I am, on my own -- and in all my worldly power and knowledge, I choose not to know God, denying that God exists simply because you don't want to give It power over you.  The only thing that is real, is you, walking around and sometimes lashing out, calling another woman, bitch.

Does that experience feel good to you, Joy, is it really all that uplifting, powerful, in any way?   By your history, it must, otherwise you wouldn't keep doing it.

The thing is, it got me thinking in an oh so dangerous sort of way... this kind of agnostic viewpoint is taking over the liberal left brain; for in every way, it's as if by denying, discrediting, and ridiculing that the right even has a right to exist, or not, gives you this false sense of an overwhelming and undeniable position, giving into some kind of overriding illusion of grandeur and supremacy, a certain power over,  the argument itself.  Oh, we can't talk about it, because I think you are dumber than dumb, and the more I shush you with whatever tools I have in my twisted agenda, the better I will feel and the better I feel, the better the world will be la la la lala.

Oh sweet mary and joseph please, get over yourselves, will ya?

The right is here.  God is here.  And somewhere along the way, we need to ALL learn to get along and treat each other with a wee bit more respect.

It goes along with the president these days, too, who was carried into office on a magic carpet of red and blue, widely interwoven and connected into the very idea of making America better than it was before; in his own words he made us believe that he was crowned in America's glory wearing a purple robe, and would bring about a change we could believe in --  not at the expense of one side over another, but for all people.  WE took his words of "I am my brother's keeper.  I am my sister's keeper." tooting the American way, exemplifying our Judeo-Christian roots right before our eyes, as a good thing; but in the end -- as in over the last two years -- we, the majority, were totally, unabashedly, arrogantly, condescendingly, apologetically only to the rest of the world, denied.

The president, over the course of his time in office, might as well have told us all to shove it, bitches, get outta my way, I'm in charge now, now get 'to the back' and shut your mouth.

Let's see, how did the ladies leave things yesterday...oh right, they said "we're praying for you..." that is, everyone but Joy -- she of course, doesn't pray to anyone except getting it on with her bad self.

My girl is absolutely right, it is winter here in America -- while it seems to be coming wee bit earlier and lasting a wee bit longer every year.

Make it a Good Day, G

and that 'get to the back' thing is all true -- the president did say that -- just yesterday, addressing republicans (you know, the white man, the conservative, the libertarian, the independent, the small business owner, the middle class maker, the tea party enthusiasts, half of all women in America, shall we go on...)

Oh, we can come, he said, much like Joy baited Sharron to come on over to NYC -- we can come, just "get to the back" he said.  The world may never know if the intent was in reference to a certain bus...

And while hearing a phrase out of the seventies is funny...knowing that 'shove it', in reality, came from the mouth of one gubernatorial candidate, and fellow democrat, to the President of the United States of America,  sheds a whole 'nother light on the subject -- gotta love little old Rhode Island, man...she may be tiny, but boy, can she pack a punch.

You see -- it's everywhere and often -- our uncouthness is so unbecoming.

Dear America,

Excerpts from Eve Ensler, from way back in September of 2008 -- featured in The Huffington Post.

"I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears."  by EVE

If EVE was truly smart, she would read GOING ROGUE by SARAH; and discover for herself just how much of a true, blue, red-blooded conservationist SARAH really is.  Alaskans are born in tune to the earth, respecting all of it's inhabitants, and using our God given resources wisely; it's not a fad or a political agenda, it is a way of life. by G



"I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists."

As one raging woman rages on about another...Again, I would rush to point out GOING ROGUE is a must read for you, EVE, as there you will find how the real SARAH lives -- real feminists don't need to rage on about inequality, they just go to work; real feminists have worked men's jobs in Alaska for hundreds of years and through generations -- fishing, the pipe line, and actively participating in the needs of community and civility and society long before you were born.  It is one of her Alaskan native in-law's, A WOMAN, highlighted in her book, who started a fishing company before it was cool and still works it today -- in her nineties. But all of your anti-violence stuff, your V-Day .org, sounds like a good thing and for that I applaud you -- and I'm sure SARAH would too.

"But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war."

TOLERANCE?  really, EVE? 
And is that empowering all women, or just liberals, I'm confused? 
Open your mind, EVE, and let your own words of wisdom sink in, will you? How can you preach the anti-violence mantra when every word out of your mouth is all about the attack and annihilation of someone who simply is different than you --- why so vicious? It is so unbecoming. 

"I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity."

Now that's funny. no joke.

"Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, "It was a task from God."


Again, you speak like you actually know her, EVE, and yet the real ignorance is found in you (of course, I say that without really knowing YOU myself, oh the irony)  Earth to EVE, many of us do not believe in the Global Warming Hoax -- even, dare I say, real scientists.  The Global Warming issue is a political tool to redistribute wealth and to line the pockets of people like Gore and Soros and Moore, to name a few.  Now quite the contrary, do we need responsible legislation and regulation and rehabilitation and conservation to the resources here on this beautiful earth?  Always and forever. Do we have to destroy America in the process -- absolutely not.

"Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not."

Because so many babies are conceived from rapists...do your research, EVE.  Interesting to note, the highest proportion of abortions come from the over 22 age bracket, and many of these are smart women who simple made foolish choices by accident, and who can easily afford to drop a few hundred bucks to get rid of the issue.  How different is abortion than the likes of the killing of dolphins or grey whales or the white horned owl of some sort, is it simply because you can't see it?  Are you that oblivious to the conception of a life force?  But I digress, a woman's right to choose includes millions of women who choose life...it's a matter of principle that pro-choice'ers respect that choice and it's as simple as that.

"She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes."

Okay, perhaps you are the wrong person to discuss this kind of thing.  First, you make all kinds of assumptions as if you have sat around the kitchen table with them all the time-- that's bold.  As parents, we can't always control what our children ultimately do, now can we?  Isn't that natural?  I have trouble understanding how you, at the age of 23, could adopt a son who was already fifteen years old -- and who knew, Dylan McDermott, the actor, is your boy?  Some day, over coffee, I would love to hear more about that.

"Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth."

You know, when you do all your research according to sound bites or bits of creative and adulterated journalism, this is what you get. Besides the fact that your sentences there need some work, it must be real difficult for you to watch a woman actually speak her own mind, go against the tide and even fire fellow republicans who are out of control, and turn the energy commission of Alaska upside down -- making fodder out of the disingenuous and corrupt good old boys network that wrecked havoc on the oil business and the environment; no wait, your a feminist, that's what you are supposed to like. 

"Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air."

You must love watching reruns of MSNBC.

"Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be."

America has never "declared" war in "GOD's Name" you stupid woman -- ah oh, I think I'm letting you get under my skin.  (This must be how you feel about SARAH.)  But secondly, read your Constitution and America's Declaration of INDEPENDENCE; it's not too late.  The context of both documents was written in stone to last for all of eternity -- God was not only a vital part of our early American history, GOD was the center of it and creator of all that surrounds us.  Our forefathers, even the atheists, respected the Universal Creative Spirit and Almighty God above all else; and trusted this GOD to carry us and continue on as the cornerstone to our law, our land, our people and our freedom. By all appearances, you "learned" "evolved" "intellectuals" have it all backwards these days.

"I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and health care or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression."

NO COMMENT, sista; this is extreme feminism at it's best.

"If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, "Drill Drill Drill." I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain."

"Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?"



Polar Bear population in the 1970's was about 5,000 -- bears were being killed to the point of extinction.  Today, five times that are frolicking in the snow safely under guarded, well tooled regulation that conserves and reinforces natural growth and life, while in some areas, are seen to be actually thriving in population.

And what do you have to say to your King now?  When he duly noted in his State of the Union address a couple of weeks ago, his commitment for developing clean coal, drilling for oil and nuclear energy -- along with other alternative energy solutions of course.  He's your guy, now.  It's not a SARAH saying it.  It's your man -- the man -- the Anointed One -- not that you believe in Church and State.

The difficulty I seem to be having-- speaking to the prophet of the "anti-rage" who in turn found a way to rage against  every action of a person, real or imagined, just because they think different than you or hold a different set of beliefs--  is trying to hold myself back from doing the very same thing.

I mean, those thoughts were over a year ago -- surely some things may have changed (besides all of the hope and change we have going around). But then again, maybe not.

We saw you on the Joy Behar Show.

Maybe it's because you consider talk show hosts smarter than the average bear; maybe it's just because running the state of Alaska's got nothing, according to you, as compared to those making disparaging remarks on The Huffington Post or writing an entire play encapsulating the lives of women talking out of their ya-ya's (as brilliant as that may be, and is) --

but it's a shame really.  I think women like you give women a bad name.

I'm not understanding why we can't get along and simply have a conversation without the personal attacks; that is not being tolerant -- and it most certainly doesn't curtail the call to bear arms and go to war with one another -- can you say cat fat?

For me, that kind of behavior is the antithesis of being a true feminist -- a woman strong in her own soul, secure in her own self, and planted firmly in faith -- whatever that may be.

My guess is that you missed out on that softer side of being in your own skin, having been wrecked by a childhood that took away your innocence -- the rapture, the joy, the faith in all good things -- far too young.  You "think of pain" because your pain runs deep; and you speak of it with every word you write, as a tumultuous monument to your past of the reckless actions of a father who harmed you.

From one woman to another, I can only hope you find your peace -- and in the meantime, just so you know, it doesn't really matter what YOU think of SARAH and all the talk shows in the world won't change that.

Make it a Good Day, G