May all you Mothers be remembered Maybe

Originally I was planning on making Saturdays post all about women and especially focus on mothers for Mothers Day today. I achieved a pretty good lineup of stories going for the part of the blog post about women in general ...Let's see how it goes....!

I was first going to cover the story out of DeTroit, Michigan about how the under wire of a woman's battle ready armor stopped a speeding bullet in its path. Then I was going to cover how a Marks and Spencer's department store in Britain put out a campaign entitled "We Boobed" to apologize for the previous $3 handling fee attached to shopping for bras that exceeded the Double D size and then offered a 25% discount too.

I was then going to segue into something about us bois (gay or straight) love of motor boating and fascination with this particular part of the female anatomy to the pointe of impersonation (this one is for Fetcho) and modification with silicone inserts versus our (gay & straight bois) utter disgust toward the other distinctive portion of female anatomy, a vagina, which we spend hours finding alternative names for on a regular basis.
(Photo: Rob Lowe and Andrew McCarthy)

The post was then going to close that portion by taking in a quick recap of the FaceBook Scandal regarding an advert for And Then Came Lola [WEBSITE] a threesome lesbian movie produced by Ellen Seidler and Megan Siler of Fast Girl Films, which was finally resolved because of a TWITTER campaign which spilled out across the GLBT blogosphere. (Source: QMUSER)

It was going to be a long drawn out graphic post and then I hit a road block when looking up some history on our Country's founding mothers. There are no songs about America's founding mothers that are not either derogatory towards women or indemnifying of their contribution to the history of this Country. I have looked all over and I dug through volumes of Americana songbooks and have not been able to locate a single song dedicated to the sacrifice that women have made in the founding of this great nation that doesn't degrade them for being a temperamental bitch.

Clementine drowned in a pool;
Dixie has a dissociative and cant tell that she's lost;
Susanna is mourning the loss of her loved one in war;
Dinah is busy in the kitchen giving someone a blowjob;
Kentucky is bipolar and suicidal looking for a glimer of hope;
Kansas is a housewife that has a voyeur fetish for ruminant mamals;
Indiana is a drunk grubby gold digging wench watching your every transaction from a distance.
Georgia is so sweet and evil she is considered a demon who preys on innocent men's brains aka a succubi;
California is waiting for you to tell it to fuck off it likes to be dominated even if it has the largest population;

There is more but you get the basic idea on the basis of each State's song but it doesnt end there. You will find that even the songs that do immortalize certain women's accomplishments is usually in tandem with their less feminine attributes or in direct reflection against their feminine nature. There are not any songs about Dolly Madison "saving a snapshot of Georgie and his wooden dentures as the Executive Plantation Manor burned to the core", during the British burning of Washington D.C. in the War of 1812. Which she then made sure to whitewash six times over to hide the burn marks. In that spirit isn't it about time we made a song for her too?

Virginia Foxx got one in 48 hours for her hatred toward & ignorance of a young gay man left on a fence to die.

What about Betsy Ross?

By creating the first American flag she "bled with our bois in battle as she diligently weaved the banner to which we now yield our hearts toward in honour and our mind in reverence". That banner that always used to give hope to weary soldiers and citizens alike was first created by the sweat and tears of one woman. I did find one (video 6:35 mark on) satirical comedy routine Everybody Wants To Be An Art Director by Stan Freberg from his 1961 Capital Records project Presents the United States of America, Vol. 1: The Early Years which broke into a musical bit between the banter.

I am all for Free Speech and for the Nothing Sacred Rule, unless proven otherwise; but this is proven and true, by all of our young men and women whom have shed their blood into its fabric throughout time and eternity. Every time a flag is burned in disrespect you are allowing the honourable memory to fade from existence, the blood stain to be washed out and hardly recognizable to future generations.

We have garnered so much pomp and circumstance toward the ceremony and take our legacy for granted. How easily do we forget the meaning behind the words by Francis Scott Key to The Star Spangled Banner? Any time We The People allow our Government to grow without accountability we defame the honour that this flag represents. This Country that was established to provide a more perfect union, a Union of People, where all, are created equal and endowed with their rights by our Creator; not entitled to them by Society or assigned to them under law!

That struggle and journey to live that Inherent Truth every day will never be completed. However we cant only just go forward from here either, we've got to remember to look back and clean up our messes and failures every once in a while too. What is really even more sad is the original purpose of Mothers Day that of peace not war has been completely forgotten. May we not forget to love and honour in a lasting legacy our mothers both historical and biological. May our nation find peace so that no ones son or daughter has to die again.

QUESTION: Which historical women should receive the privilege of an American Folk song in their honour?

The 4th of July, 1776 - The Declaration of Independence: We still havent been reading OUR LIBERTY its rights!

Obviously this is going to be a gratuitous male flesh, eer, cute bois in underwear post, since it is a holiday. And of course we need to pay homage to our Armed Service Members whom every day sacrifice their lives for our freedom. After all, when was the last time you pledged your life, fortunes and sacred honour, for an ideal as simple and as dificultly complex as liberty? With all jesting and drooling aside, let us seriously review these one thousand unanimous words that founded our freedom folks.

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We Hold These Truths To Be Self Evident:

That all men are created equal....

That they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights....

That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness....

That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed....

That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness....

That is five separate truths that we as Americans have a tendency to forgo for security; or obliterate based on civil societies assumption of "what is morally right", or at least in the moment - plausible defensible. It is time for us as a Country to return to these founding principles of our nation and hold ourselves and our current leadership to this organic law of the land (ip 4), and these standards and vote them out of office, while we still have the ability to do so.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

Our founding fathers listed twenty eight grievances in general terms against the British Crown and Parliament, and then stated, "A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." How many of these acts are our current government affecting on to the average citizen today?

Refused Assent To Laws, Interfered with the State passing laws through use of Federal Statutes (eg Medical Marajuana), (not quite the same as judges) but he removed without cause ninety plus Federal District Attorneys for political gains and to stifle on going prosecutions of big business, He established or erected a multitude of New Offices (Homeland Security), and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,

On a side note the rest of that last grievance reads: "and eat out their substance." to which my mental cartoon trips an image of Uncle Sam asking if, "Anybody", in effect, "wants a rim job?", yucky-lol. Anyway I digress, back to the list. Here are some really big ones that have hit the press junkets in the recent three months:

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power, He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation, For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States, For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent, For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury, For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses.

With the addition of the illegal (now immune) wire tapping scandal, that brings a total to twelve out of twenty eight grievances listed in the DOI that the current administration of our government has similarly assailed the Citizens and People of this Country with. It is time for a change and not just from Republican to Democrat, but to a multiple party plank, like it used to be in this Country. When President Abraham Lincoln ran for office there were four different candidates each from different parties. If we were able to do it almost a hundred and fifty years ago, we can do it again!

Now is the perfect time for the LIBERTARIAN PARTY, a party of principles, and a party that's values are liberty from large obtrusive government and is for individual freedom! We have a wonderful candidate for President and Vice President, whom I may not agree with on everything, but dammit these gentlemen are a better choice then the same old Washington stoned to the hilt former maverick has been and the newcomer that has no business being in the U.S. Senate let alone the White House. If you would just accept your responsibility, YOUR DUTY, to make a clear and conscious vote for the best person and still instead vote for the lesser of two evils, you will have only yourself to blame when the Country gets flushed down the toilet with the Constitution leading the flow right behind Uncle Sam's touche.

As a Gay American and a local Religious Leader, if former Congress member Bob Barr of Georgia is truthfully willing to meet my people half way, then I will do the same. That is the least I can ask from a candidate compared to the the other two saps on the political stump who aren't even willing to keep their answers, to my Community members' questions, straight.

One of the downsides to New Media: Old Rules

In true old fashion reminder that riddles with every person especially the minute they begin a new venture or start a new job within government or major corporations and small alike: scrutiny rears its ugly orifices. The person either has to sift their history or obliterate their previous or future independence of expression on views and events from the public view. One of the things that NEW MEDIA NEW RULES promoted, wrongfully so in my opinion, was "no anonymous blogging/comments"; unfortunately that lack of pseudonymous status, has now claimed part of the historical record of Fort Wayne politics and life events in its wake.

Rachel Blakeman, formerly the Editor of BE PART OF THE SOLUTION has, according to Jeff Pruitt @ Fort Wayne Left, accepted a position within the Mayoral administration of Tom Henry as the Public Information Officer; as a precursor to that event, BPOTS went dead about three days ago and is now completely wiped from existence. This is the ultimate reason why traditional print media will never go completely away as a primary source, because it provides an historical record and is independent from what your current and future boss or company might consider within the preview of your eligibility for or sustainability with employment. If we are going to embrace the New Media over the Old or Traditional, then the Old Rules need thrown out as well or at least revised to accommodate if not the independent thought then at least the historical recall; which due to these actions, whether undertaken by Rachel as a personal decision or directed to her as a condition of employment, has greatly diminished for our posterity part of the dialogs of our City's history.

I used Rachel's analysis to balance my own on certain thoughts and issues and the give and take across the blogosphere of Fort Wayne has lost a great contributer to the conversation. I hope and pray that at some pointe she will make an archive available. I also wish her the best as she explores these new opportunities to keep the citizen informed and government as transparent as possible. BTW, Jeff, thank you again for the information.

Fort Wayne Citizens Deny Revitilization Plan 60 Years Ago

taking from the past to make the future better

This picture and story has come up every few years or so and I am surprised that it isn't hanging up at a Meijer Store or Pizza Hut anywhere. In all actuality the way it is designed versus the way the city is laid out now we got the better deal for the most part. I mean seriously it still only takes less than 20 minutes to cruise from Glenbrook Mall to Pettit Avenue except during rush hour. The ideas presented in the drawing though not in the specific location are worth reviewing

+Underpass or overpass some of the more obsolete intersections (eg: Wallace to Crieghton north on Lafayette and south on Clinton) where this could really prove beneficial is an underpass inerchange system for the intersection of Coldwater Rd.- SR 327@ Coliseum Blvd.- SR 930, one of Fort Wayne's deadliest intersections.

+ The use of service access roads (like Barr Street is now between Main Street and Washington Blvd.)

+There are two major roundabouts in the design of this picture one is south of Pettit at Fairfax and what was supposed to be US 27/33 not to mention the big one in the heart of town at what would have been Clay and Breckenridge. One could surmise even back in the 40's that FW drivers don't like roundies but they work! I have often thought that if we had roundies at some of our less important and secondary intersections we so would be better off and we would have fewer multi car accidents, as long as the roundies stay at no more than two lanes wide, ask any IPFW student about that one.

One last comment and I will quit.

+The idea of cutting off the neighborhood access to major roads is a good idea that really should be reviewed again for possibilities. If neighborhoods had fewer access points to or between major roads it would cut down on people zipping through your neighborhood and possibly hitting your child that just stepped out on to the street to go after a ball. If neighborhoods could only be accessed from secondary streets it would also reduce congestion during rush hour on the major roads.

Thanks for reading.

Source of Origin: What Might Have Been by John Good of Fort Wayne Left