A Transfer of Power Unlike No Other

 

I’ve racked my brain at least a couple hundred times this week. I’ve tried in vain to seek out that time when a transfer of power was held any circumstances such as these. As we go about our day, there are scores of military personnel in Washing D.C. to see that the transfer of power from the out-going Donald Trump to the duly elected Joe Biden is completed. Trump, not to be unexpected, as opted to skip out of the inauguration and go golfing. Even after a sound defeat at the hands of FDR, President Hoover at least went to Roosevelt’s inauguration. And Hoover let the country sink into a national depression because he, being a small government minded Republican, opted not to make the needed investments that would have created jobs. Which is much like Trump, who opted to fiddle while America burned and descended into a chaotic state unlike, we’ve ever seen before.

I tried to picture John Kennedy’s inauguration. Kennedy took on the old guard in Richard Nixon and handed him a defeat. Much of Kennedy’s policies, such as equal civil rights, angered the many in the Southern states who viewed him as public enemy number one for what they felt was an attack on their traditional lifestyle. However, not even that inauguration was held under times as tense as these. We are living in a time that saw the Capitol Building assaulted and briefly seized by homegrown terrorist inspired by Trump, whom they view as their unquestioned winner and rightful president, even though he was defeated in the election. Those terrorists and that is the right term, even took to social media to brag about their exploits, and each and everyone of them claimed the same thing, they were on a mission at the behest of Donald J. Trump.

Thanks to the rhetoric from Trump and his sycophants like Matt Gatez and Ted Cruz, those minions are taking to what ever social media platform they can find and proclaim they are coming to disrupt the transfer of power. Though evidence clearly says otherwise, these people actually think there is a deep state that has deprived Trump from office.

If you pitched this to a movie executive, you’d get laughed out of the building. This sounds like a plot to a B-movie, it’s just too insane to be real. Alas, that’s where we are. Joe Biden will be sworn in as the next president of the United States while the military states guard against easily lead sheep who have vowed a bloody revolution. Another factor that doesn’t help is that Sean Hannitty and Tucker Carlson are willfully acting as Trump’s cheerleaders, happy to parrot Trump’s misinformation as they try to fend off conspiracy driven pseudo news networks like Newsmax and OAN to keep Fox News as Trump’s favorite media outlet.

I cannot gaze into a crystal ball and predict what this perfect storm is going to do. We’re pretty much as a place that has no historic paroral in American history. Never before has this nation experienced a president whom before leaving office, is doing everything he can in order to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the new administration. Not even Richard Nixon, in his most drunken fits of anger and rage, ever spewed the combination of anger and insanity Trump has. One could only imagine what damage he’d be doing as we speak, if he hadn’t been banned from Twitter. Trump losing his social media platform isn’t going to silence him. Trump is a man who has dined with the mafia. Trump is a man who showed admiration for Putin a man who either jailed his critics (like he did to the members of the band Pussy Riot) or flat had them murdered. He’s skillfully learned how to manipulate people and he’ll find away to keep doing that. Even if it means tearing the country asunder, because America as a free nation, is something Trump is willing to sacrifice in order to feed his ego. And that’s something we need to address before it’s too late.

Trump's war against Democracy

 

Somewhere, Aaron Burr, who was Thomas Jefferson’s Vice President, is smiling. If he could be here, he’d gaze upon the likes of Ted Cruz and he’d be proud. And that in itself is not something one should be braggadocios about. Aaron Burr slayed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, though dueling by 1804. Burr had been dropped by Thomas Jefferson on the ticket, so he opted to run for governor of New York. He lost to his opponent; an obscure candidate named Morgan Lewis. Burr claimed that his political rivals had staged an attempt to rig the election so the lesser-known Lewis would win. This led to an exchange of words between Hamilton and Burr, which led to the duel, which led to Burr Killing Hamilton, who missed shooting Burr on purpose. Burr himself would later stage a coupe against the United States, thought he’d be found not guilty, and he’d then flee the United States.

Which brings us to 2020. After losing the election, Donald Trump fulfilled a promise he had in 2015 when he was running against Hillary Clinton. That if he lost, it was because the election was rigged and he’d do whatever he could to delay the transfer of power. Trump was elected and proceeded to destroy America’s relationship with our allies, some of which stretched all the way back to when we were just coming out of British rule. Trump sided with Russian president Putin at every turn almost, even butting heads with the U.S. Intelligence Community when it was learned Russia was attempting a disinformation strategy to turn the 2020 election in favor of Trump.

Many Americans, tired to the dissention and racial divide Trump seemed almost orgasmic to see he created, elected Joe Biden. Trump instantly claimed fraud, despite there being zero evidence. Nothing, zip, zero, nada. Nothing to show any malfeasance regarding the election. Donald Trump lost. Instead of being a gracious loser, he’s instead turned his attention on doing what he can to remain in power, which includes convincing Republicans like Ted Cruz to demand the electors not seat Mr. Biden as president, and instead, declare the election null and void in a sense.

Let’s be clear, this is a war, declared by Trump, with his minions like Ron Johnson, Ted Cruz, Marsha Blackburn and Tommy Tuberville happily doing his bidding. It’s a war on democracy by a man who views himself as a czar. With Cruz and his cohorts willing to hold democracy hostage in order to ensure that Trump remains in power. Despite re-counts and investigations that have shown there was no widespread voter fraud, Trump and his band of devoted followers insist there was.

Trump in his last days in power is doing what he can to sow the seeds of distrust in the democratic process. In his last days in office, he’s doing more damage to the country than any terror cell overseas could even dream of doing. He’s attempting to tear the country asunder, and he’s using the myth of a rigged election to do it.

America has been through a lot, but this is a first. A sitting president who declared war on democracy simply because he lost the vote. He saddled himself with conspiracy fanatics like Lin Wood and Rudy Giuliani. He’s driven a wedge between people in this country that will be very hard to fix.

Then again, this is what despots do to remain in power. He’s taking a page out of the playbook of men like Fidel Castro. We are at a very dangerous juncture in this country, make no mistake about it. Joe Biden won the election fait and square. Trump’s attempts to subvert the election process laid forth by the founding fathers cannot succeed. Or the America you once knew would be relegated to the dust bin of history, and a brand new, unrecognizable country would be it its place.

I don’t think it can be explained any more bluntly than that.

Bergdahl treatment shows a darker side

I would like to start off by apologizing for taking so much time between blogs. I lead a pretty hectic life, and sometimes, it feels like my only rest comes when I’m sleeping.

I enjoy my right to free speech, and I am eternally grateful for those that fought for that right. I can sit here, post this blog, without fear of repercussions from the government. Unlike in a place like China which has blocked much of the internet to prevent people from learning about the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989. China this week blocked google in an effort to keep people from learning of the event in which the government slaughtered student protesters.

Earlier this week, Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was released from a Taliban prison in exchange for five members of the Taliban. This is a time honored tradition that every war time president has done. The first act of kindness to POW’s can be traced back to Clovis I in the year 464.

For reasons that escape logic, the GOP is actually pissed off about this recent trade. They’d prefer that Bergdahl die in prison, or that’s just how they come across. I don’t care if Bergdahl walked off his post, in the abstract, that’s a red herring argument. Now, if he’d engaged in the rape of village women, killed an unarmed citizen, or committed a viler war crime, then I could see the backlash. However, I cannot fathom why there is this backlash. Who knows what intel Bergdahl might have amassed during his time as a POW. And by the way, John McCain, you’ve officially gone off the deep end. When news first broke, McCain, a former POW himself, was against the trade, and bashed President Obama is the press. While he has since reversed course, he still came off rather badly. I wonder what would have happened if party politics had been the way they are now 40 or 50 years ago. I wonder what would have gone through McCain’s mind if he read that his own country was upset that he was part of a prisoner trade, and they’d rather he’d rot.

I thought I’d take this time to highlight something from the Geneva Convention (something that the core GOP wish didn’t exist). A person is entitled to POW status if combatant must be part of a chain of command, wear a "fixed distinctive marking, visible from a distance", bear arms openly, and have conducted military operations according to the laws and customs of war. Under special circumstances, inhabitants of a non-occupied territory can also be considered a POW if they  spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units.

Oh, for the record, here are the five winners we traded: Mohammad Fazl, Khairullah Khairkhwa,  Norullah Noori Mohammed  Nabi Omari Abdul Haq Wasiq

Now these are all evil men, there is no doubt, but let’s not act like this is the first time we’ve traded people of this caliber to get one of our own POWs. Hell, even John Bellinger, former Administration Official for Bush said that George W would have made the trade. Hell, Czar Ronald Reagan once traded 1,500 weapons for hostages. Yeah, you read that right, Ronald Reagan the God of the current GOP once gave terrorist weapons in exchange for hostages. Tell me how a 5 for 1 swap is so terrible? And let’s not kid ourselves, I’m sure the government has ways of tracking them. After all, it was the Obama White House that managed to locate and eliminate Bin Laden, something the Bush White House FAILED to do in eight years.

I won’t even get started on Fox News. I’m just going to say that the assailment of Sgt. Bergdahl is one thing. However, the attack on the man’s family is the most gutless act of cowardice one can imagine. The brain-dead trio on Fox and Friends went as far as to say that Bergdahl’s father looked like a Taliban member! Are you goddamn kidding me? But this is the type of ruthless mentality that the “journalist” that Murdoch employs at his GOP media outlet known as Fox News. Their job isn’t to report the news, it’s to be critical of everything President Obama does. I find it funny how scandalous such an attitude would have been from 2001-2008, and for that, I offer the Dixie Chicks as an example. And just the notion that so many rally behind the idea of leaving one of their countrymen to die just confounds me beyond what words can express. When you break it down, Bowe Bergdahl has a family that missed him, hoped for his return. What really should have been a day of celebration, this once anonymous family has been thrust into the public light, and is having their lives turned upside down. What does it say for our society as a whole that we allow that to go on? What other country treats a serviceman in this manner. We really should hold our heads in shame. This is not how we wish to be portrayed when it comes to how we treat those who fight for this country.

I understand that people reading this are going to have a different opinion than me on this, and I look forward to the feedback. I hope to get back to blogging on a more regular schedule.

Michael Sam history in the making

The majority of the time, I know what the blog is going to be about. And there are those times, when there are so many topics that I want to tackle, that I struggle to make the choice of what I chose. And then there are times like these, where I feel like I know what I’m going to talk about, but where is it going to take me is what I don’t know.

Last week at this time, I was rooting for Michael Sam to be drafted. Not just because he’d be the first openly gay player drafted into the NFL, but because the kid does possesses the talent to play in the league. He’s not going to be a starter at the point, but he’ll make a great special teams player, and he should do well it plays against teams in pass mode. He’s lacking that burst of speed that the starting pass rushes in the NFL usually have. It took up to the final round of the final day before he was selected. He celebrated with his boyfriend, a former swimmer, and planted on him a celebratory kiss, just as many other players had done with their girlfriends and mothers. While ESPN pretty shrugged it off, and didn’t make a big deal about it, other did. On Fox and Friends, they assumed that ESPN had “motives” for broadcasting the kiss. Miami Dolphins’ player Don Jones, an average player known for sitting on the bench more than his play in the field, tweeted his disgust. He was suspended by the Dolphins, a team still in recovery mode over “Haze-Gate”. Then there was Marshall Henderson’s ill-conceived attempt to give the world a psychology lesson. He has since tweeted that his comments were to just get a reaction from the public, but all and all, his experiment could have been done a lot better. Needless to say, his timing was horrible.

I’m happy that Michael Sam was drafted, and I wish it had been by Tampa Bay. I’m annoyed at the amount of negative reaction he got for a simple kiss. I saw nothing wrong with what happened. But then again, my life isn’t dictated by an old book of fairy tales either. And if you ask people why they are against same sex relationships, they will point to that big book of myth, commonly called the bible. Ask them to state another reason they won’t be able to find a valid one.

And then I began to think about a former NFL player, Jerry Smith. Smith was a star tight end for the Washington Redskins in the 1960’s and 70’s. If he played today, he’d be in the mold of an Eric Decker type. Smith was a star player who set many records, and by the time he retired, he held just about every receiving record for the position. Smith was a handsome man who attracted the attention of the ladies. However, many of the players, including their wives, began to suspect Smith was gay when he spurred all of their advances. No one of the team spoke a word. Perhaps Smith confided in former teammate Dave Kopay, who acknowledged he was gay well after his career was over. The public wouldn’t know about Smith’s sexuality until nearly a decade after he retired. Sadly, Jerry Smith became the first athlete to contract the disease known as AIDS. Smith’s jersey number 87 and the Redskins logo appeared on the AIDS quilt.

Smith had faded into history until the NFL Network presented a special on him under their “A Football Life” banner. Former teammates Calvin Hill and Brig Owens were interviewed on set, and viewers tweeted in questions. Owens, in no uncertain terms, said it was his belief that if Smith was a heterosexual man, that he’d be in the hall of fame by now. Owens stated he felt Smith’s sexuality was the sole reason that Smith was never going to be enshrined in the hall of fame.

Flash forward several years and now we have Michael Sam. We don’t know how Sam’s career is going to turn out.  He could play one or two years, he could play eight or nine. And then there is the slight chance he could play zero games. If he gets released before the regular season starts, you will have voices that say “it’s because he’s gay” that was the reason he was released. He could very well get released by the Rams, and snatched up by another team that feels he’s a get fit for their defensive scheme.  For right now, that’s neither here nor there. We are living through history. Michael Sam will forever be linked to being the first openly gay man playing an American sport. And so far, we’ve had two college athletes come out and admit their homosexuality and bisexuality respectively. There could be more down the line.

Maybe that could be a victory. None of us really knows how this is going to turn out, and that is partly what is so interesting about this. We’re on a train ride my friends, much like they were 60 plus years ago with Jackie Robinson ending the 50 year color barrio in major league baseball. And who knows, maybe the argument to electing Jerry Smith to his rightful place in the pro football hall of fame will follow. Sexuality of an athlete won’t matter, just like their skin color doesn’t matter anymore. And the naysayers of today will just as foolish as those generations before.

I’ll be rooting for a long career for Michael Sam. And I’ll be rooting for the culture change that is currently taking place to take shape.

So Long Sterling

April 29^th, 2014 is a day that will live forever in the lore of the National Basketball Association. It was the day that a newly minted commissioner Adam Silver stood at the podium, before a room filled with reporters, and the sounds of cameras clicking away. Obviously nervous, as it showed in his quaking voice, Silver lowered the boom heard around the world. Donald Sterling, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers a franchise known more for failed draft picks and being at the bottom of the standings, was banned for life. No going to the office, no attending games, nothing. The only way Donald Sterling could watch a NBA game was to turn on the TV, or watch it online.  And not that it mattered to multi-millionaire Sterling, he was fined $2.5 million dollars, the max an owner or a player could be fined.

The sad part of this tale is that it’s been well documented that Sterling embraces outdated racist views. Sterling was sued twice over apartments he owned. He steadfast refused to rent to blacks (“They are Lazy and smell bad.” Sterling quipped, according to the testimony of a former employee of his rental company) and Latinos (“They don’t work; they sit around all day and drink.”) Sterling also refused to rent to people receiving government assistance. Sterling, according to the two lawsuits would recruit employees to give these renters surprise inspections, refuse to make repairs, and destroy checks made for rent payment in order to evict them. Sterling also settled in a lawsuit from Elgin Baylor, a legendary NBA player who worked in the front office.

I’ve seen plenty of viewpoints saying that V, the woman who secretly recorded Sterling in the phone conversation, and leaked it to TMZ, is bitter, a gold-digger, and a hussy. They say she did it for money. Well, let’s look at the failed logic of that line of thinking. Why would she cost Sterling millions and millions of dollars? She knew that there was going to be serious fallout, maybe not this bad, but she something was going to come of this. It wouldn’t make sense for her to record him and release the tape to the media.

However, the NBA has long been aware of Sterling, and has done zip, nothing to deal with him. It took Sterling’s mistress, it took a player revolt, and it took sponsors jumping the goddamn ship for the league to do a goddamn thing. The league didn’t care when Sterling, going on the cheap, demanded that his coaching staff learn how to tape ankles so he could relieve much of the training staff of their duties. The league did nothing when the stories of Sterling being discriminative in his rental policies came to light via lawsuits. The league let a legend like Baylor twist in the wind in order to not let the world know that one of its owners was a racist.

This is an actual Sterling quote: “I Support them and give them food, give them clothes and cars, and houses. Who gives it to them?” This was in response to how he could own an NBA team and have such racist views. They only comments that were more out of step with the times was when that tax evading scumbag Cliven Bundy said that blacks were better off as slaves.

There is no clearer villain in this than Donald Sterling. The NBA owners are just minor players who sat silent. Sterling is the one that is a racist. Sterling is the one who walked all over the poor and needy. Sterling has become the most vile owner since the late Marge Schott of the Cincinnati Reds. Schott used a very racist way to describe Dave Parker and Eric Davis (a word I won’t print here) and Schott also infamously said “Hitler wasn’t a bad guy, he just went too far.”

Congrats Sterling, you are now in the same class as a woman who praised Adolf Hitler. The NBA in the end did what it needed to do. It ran Donald Sterling and his vile, racist views out of the league. Donald Sterling’s name will always be connected to racism. The league in the end, saved itself, avoided alienating its fan base, an avoided a full out player revolt. I applaud the decision, and I applaud the strong stance Adam Silver took.  Now if only the NFL could convince Daniel Snyder to change the name of the Redskins, and if Major League Baseball could finally remove Cap Anson and Kennesaw Mountain Landis, two other vile racist, out of the hall of fame.

Gun owners, you've been had.

There is a wrestler in the WWE named “Bad News” Barrett. His gimmick involves taking the microphone and saying something like “I know you’ve all come here to see me lose, but I’ve got some Bad News for you.” Well, that’s pretty much summing up today’s blog. Gun owners, I’ve got some bad news for you….you’ve all been had.

The gun companies have played you. The NRA has played you. And the Republican Party has really played you. They played on your passion, and they played on your fears. They’ve used you for their own agenda. Gun owners, you got had.

This came to me one night, when I thought to myself, you never used to see gun stores advertise on TV. And now you do. The NRA, along with the GOP and their public relations outlet, Fox News, have stirred up such fear that President Obama is going to take away your guns, that you’ve given your hard earned money willing to stop it.

Well, President Obama doesn’t have to power to just outlaw guns. He never could just “take away your right to have a gun.”  Because exactly three-hundred and thirty-eight years ago, a little document was written called the US Constitution. The second Amendment assures the right to have a gun, but it is still debatable if it assures the right of every non-militia member to own a gun. That being said, I’m going to open the wizards curtain, and tell all of me gun owning, Second Amendment protecting friends how they’ve gotten played.

Let’s first take a quick look at the NRA. It was started in 1871 by two former civil war veterans who felt that the average farmer couldn’t shoot as well as a well-trained militia man or guerilla. The NRA’s goal was “Firearms safety, Marksmanship Training, and Shooting for recreation.” Thanks to the NRA’s first president, a rather famous man named Ambrose Burnside, the NRA even worked with the military to get second hand guns, as well as training in use of the weapon.  The goal of the NRA had nothing to do with defending your home, but to defend your home land. They wanted citizens to be trained to assist in repelling acts of rebellion, like the one committed by Daniel Shay. Despite what some ill-informed tea party members have said, the second amendment has nothing to do with staging a full on insurrection.  Then came the 1920, when the NRA became very active in authoring gun control laws. I’ll give you a second to re-read that statement. The NRA once was at the fore front of writing gun control laws. There was concern for these laws, especially in New York, which nearly saw its mayor assassinated.

The NRA even helped President Roosevelt draft the gun control laws that were a part of the “New Deal.”  Then NRA president Karl Frederick praised the law, citing that gun ownership should only occur with a valid license. When President Kennedy was assassinated, the NRA called for a ban on mail order gun sales.  However, a split would soon occur within the NRA. Gun owners felted singled out, rural cities and states felt they were being punished, and race was an issue. One of the biggest groups calling for an extension of gun owners’ right was…the Black Panther Party. Once again, take a second and re-read that.

So this all de-evolved into the mess that we have today, with the NRA now fighting pretty much all gun control laws. Which brings us to my opening statement; on how all of you second amendment supporting gun owners have been had. You’ve been told to get your guns before President Obama takes them away, which once again, he doesn’t have the power to. You know, there are those people in the Senate and Congress that would have to draft such a bill, and we know it would never survive to reach President Obama’s desk, not to mention it would be a constitutional nightmare if he were to sign such a bill.

The gun companies right now are making massive profits, as are the companies that make the ammo. They have the cash to spread around, buy the representation they know will bow to their wishes, and like a puppet on a string, these newly purchased elected officials spread the propaganda that they’ve been told to spread. They’ve preyed on your fears, and they’ve laughed all the way to the bank. The NRA has used you. Gun rights groups have used you, and your elected officials have used you.

 So, before reading this, how many of you knew that the NRA was more concerned on making sure people were properly trained with guns, and that criminal elements could not legally purchase a gun? How many of you knew that many of the current laws in place, such as waiting periods, were actually authored by the NRA?

Sounds a lot different than what exist right now, doesn’t it? Listen; let’s be clear, I’m not calling for the end of the Second Amendment. I’m just calling for a little common sense, and for the NRA to go back to its original purpose: the proper training of people to use guns, and to act as an expert to the congress when it comes to drafting gun laws. But I know that’s not going to happen.

So maybe some of you can re-think if the NRA is really here to help you, or to further their own agenda, which has changed since Harlon Carter helped corrupt the group (by the way, google the named Harlon Carter). Though Carter was dismissed in 1978 from the group, he was one of the first to call for a repeal of every gun law.

But I digress. I hope this has been educational, especially the part regarding the NRA. And I hope your eyes have been opened to how the gun industry on a whole has used your fears to take money from your pockets. You’ve been played, my friends. Maybe it’s time that the level headed, defend the home, teach about proper use of guns, sensible gun control law members of the NRA to stage a coupe , and get rid of the extremist that have no issues with guns being used to settle debates.

Time is running out for you to act. That is all.

So Long Phelps, you won't be missed

I have to admit, this is going to be a blog that even I have no clue how it’s going to turn out. Because thanks to a moment of thought…the entire landscape of this blog is going to change.

As I went to write this blog, my original intent was that of a celebration of the death of Fred Phelps. Phelps, the leader (or as I’ve learned, the fallen leader, appears he wasn’t intolerant enough of homosexuals to appease his family) of the Westboro Cult, which routinely picketed funerals of soldiers, gay people, victims of school shootings, and so forth. They held signs that read “Thank God for 9/11”, among other vulgar, disgusting things. As disgusting and distasteful as their comments and signs are, according to the Supreme Court, they are protected under the first amendment. A rite, that thankfully, extends to blogs like mine.

I would like to take this time that I shed not a single tear for Fred Phelps, and I reacted with a celebratory cheer when I heard he was dead. I even had joined a group on Facebook, called the Fred Phelps Death watch. I have several friends who are gay, in same sex relationships, and I have a cousin who had gender reassignment surgery, going from female to male. I support all of them, and I’ve declared Phelps, his ilk, supporters of Westboro my sworn enemy.

I still find myself intrigued on why someone would personally decide to make themselves so hated. Why does someone in real life, want everyone else to look upon them with disgust. In my career as a pro wrestling manager and commentator, I’ve played the role of a villain, only becoming a “good guy” over the last few years. But there is the key, I was playing a role. Outside of the character I played for years, I’m the most easy going, accepting person you’re ever going to meet.

If Phelps wanted to be against gay marriage, fine that’s his right, just as the KKK and others like them rallied against interracial marriage 50 years ago.  No matter how clear the evidence is that not only is someone wrong morally, that they are on the wrong side of history, they have a right to their opinion.  However, the question that begs to be asked, is why take it to such an extreme?

What drove the likes of Phelps, Hitler, Bin Laden all peas in the same pod, the feed off hatred?  Was it a desire to satisfy the ambitions of fame? Are they just men who felt more comfortable embracing hatred, and spreading the seeds of evil?

Simply fact is we are never going to know. And while some may find my happiness that a vile being such as Phelps has shuffled off the mortal coil wrong, when you have a right to that opinion. Protesting his funeral isn’t going to do anything, because his family is going to love every minute of it. They are attention starved, and the best thing we can do, is ignore his funeral. Though I do kind of think it would be funny if someone broke into his gravesite, and buried and inflated male sex doll with him, it is best that we simply move on.

It’s time that the Westboro cult fades into obscurity and becomes forgotten about. Maybe they will become a walking punchline like the KKK has become. Maybe, our culture will so become acceptive enough of same sex relationships, that when future generations gaze upon the Westboro cult, they will laugh mockingly, wondering how anyone could have such foolish hate-filled beliefs like Westboro. Much like right-minded members of our generation view the Klan.

So let the emotion cool and set aside the urge to protest. Let’s give Westboro something they don’t want…a cold shoulder. And for those wondering why I compare Phelps so much to Adolf Hitler, it is because they really have the same doctrine. Just Phelps has recast gay people in place of the Jews. And like Hitler, Phelps was a man with zero redemptive features. A man who no one is going to shed a tear over, and as I suggested before, will suffer a fate fitting him. In search of fame, he’ll instead be relegated to the bin of the forgotten, only to see his name resurrected when it comes time to compare a vile, evil, and disgusting existence of a man to someone.

And now we’ve reached the end, so, now we both know how this blog turned out. So long Fred…you won’t be missed!