This morning I had to surrender my Indian Passport to the Indian Government. Its the first time I have applied for a visa to my country of birth, and for that I had to hand over my Indian Passport. It was a very strange and bitter sweet moment in my life. I panicked a little, as I feared a loss of identity. Then I realized something, I am an American.

I had accepted citizenship to the United STates in 2006. After Bush won the second time, I knew even if I lived in one of the bluest states I had to vote for the next election. America was increasingly becoming MY country, and no longer just the country I lived in.

It's a strange experience for an immigrant when they realize that the country they love, know and care for more is no longer their birth country. Yes, I still love India, but I know so much more of the nitty gritties of the political and cultural environment of the United States of America. I am so much more involved with the United States of America than I am with India. I am so much more invested in the United States of America than I am in India.

I have become an American. An American who will cast her first vote in a Presidential Election for Barack Obama.

People like Sarah Palin may not think I am a REAL American. I am not white. I wasn't born here. I don't live in a small town. I don't support fear-mongering greedy bigots.

But, I am an American and as an American, I am proud to vote for Barack Obama.

Yesterday Lisa and I were at dinner with my parents, and we were discussing Lisa's coworker Robert. He is a homophobic, racist, xenophobic, anti muslim, anti hindu, anti jewish bigot. He refuses to eat at the halal-cart because its run by a muslim. He says these really vile things etc

So in jest i asked my baby brother (his name is neil, i call him halfu)

Pri: Halfu, do you hate other religions

Baby Brother: Ugh NO.

Pri: Halfu do you hate people of other cultures?

Baby Brother: NO (sounding exasperated)

Pri: How about gay people?

Baby Brother: Umm that's you, you know

Pri: So whom do you hate:

Baby Brother: People like Robert.

Says Lisa's republican aunt to me. I was slack jawed for a bit, and I very politely told her this is very untrue. Infact the opposite is true. Then i ran away because i couldnt trust myself to be polite.

Also heard:

"Sarah Palin is a real tough cookie. Goes hunting, fishing, loves meat and is just a tough coookie she will take the womens vote away from HIllary Clinton. No one wants her anymore, she is too agressive"

There were other WTF moments but quite frankly, it was all too much for me to remember


Sometimes i am very glad to have a 100% democratic family.

hillary clinton throws the party under the bus by saying almost the exact same thing that obama did

Aint this tree cool?

two crazies:

one threatened a lawsuit

the other threatened to be an ass


very scare. or not.

Thats what one of my favorite du'ers once said to me.

For some time many of us have wondered just who is Jack Schitt?
We find ourselves at a loss when someone says, 'You don't know
Jack Schitt!'

Well, thanks to my genealogy efforts, you can now respond
intelligently.
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Jack Schitt is the only son of Awe Schitt.

Awe Schitt, the fertilizer magnate, married O. Schitt, the owner
of Needeep N. Schitt, Inc. They had one son, Jack.

In turn, Jack Schitt married Noe Schitt. The deeply religious couple
produced six children: Holie Schitt, Giva Schitt, Fulla Schitt, Bull Schitt,
and the twins Deep Schitt and Dip Schitt.

Against her parent’s objections, Deep Schitt married Dumb Schitt,
a high school dropout.

After being married 15 years, Jack and Noe Schitt divorced. Noe
Schitt later married Ted Sherlock, and because her kids were living with
them, she wanted to keep her previous name. She was then known as Noe Schitt Sherlock.

Meanwhile, Dip Schitt married Lodza Schitt, and they produced a son with a
rather nervous disposition named Chicken Schitt. Two of the other six children,
Fulla Schitt and Giva Schitt, were inseparable throughout childhood and subsequently
married the Happens brothers in a dual ceremony. The wedding announcement in the
newspaper announced the Schitt-Happens nuptials. The Schitt-Happens children
were Dawg, Byrd, and Horse.

Bull Schitt, the prodigal son, left home to tour the world. He recently returned from Italy
with his new Italian bride, Pisa Schitt. NOW when someone says, 'You don't know Jack Schitt,'
you can correct them.

I recently read the book, In Defense of Food: An Eaters Manifesto, by Michael Pollan. In this book he describes a law in 1938 imposed by the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. This law required when we buy traditional foods that most of us recognize, such as bread, butter, milk and cheese we should get exactly that. " if a food resembles a standardized food, but does not comply with the standard, that food must be labeled an imitation". However in 1977 the food industry managed to get this law overturned, and fake foods were allowed to pass as the real thing. So bread, that completely isn't what bread used to be, is now considered well.. bread. This new bread has the nutrients leached out of it, and while it pleases the palate and is whiter than before, is nutritionally useless.

Anyhow as I was reading this I was thinking of the corruption of day to day words as it applies to us gay folk. Words that are comforting and provide structure to people like family, values, tradition and morality have been so corrupted, that like fake foods, the shell of the word exist but its meaning is skewed. We have families and values and tradition and morals, but the right has succeeded to a great degree to deprive these words of their true meaning while still keeping them 'familiar'

Corrupted familiar words don't repulse society quite the same way, had Focus on the Family been labeled Focus on Destroying Fags and Dyke's, I am sure society would be far more repulsed. Quite the same way that they would if wonderbread was labeled fake.

I know this is a long winded thought, but it has mulling in my head so I decided to write it down

which is really a bunch of people and a lot of land above everything else. they put the concept of america, america as a dominant force, america as an enforcer of the world ahead of everything else.

while trampling on the rights of the people and the land of this country.

maybe, i am not being particularly clear here, but on the one hand you cannot destroy american land (arctic) and hate american people (continued discrimination and exploitation) and claim to be a patriot

1. the catchword here is YOUNG. young people are hardly educated in sex in america. Let alone the risks of unprotected anal sex. \

2. young kids are taught to be ashamed of their gayness. studies prove that when men who are not identifying as gay but having sex with men, they are more likely to have unprotected sex. this is because even now gayness is associated wiht HIV, not unprotected sex. this is partly why i hate the ex-gay movement and other varieties of homophobes, it encourages younge people to hate themselves, thereby acting in ways that are self loathing and suicidal

3. people make mistakes. the price of that mistake should not be a deathly disease. just from the sheer unfairness of HIV, one should have sympathy for it.

how much more wealth and social status have you accumulated than her?

how much more education have you gotten in those last 15 years?

how much more maturity/wisdom and ability to manipulate? ( i am not saying that you are manipulative, just that we all are to a degree, and we get better as we get older)

how much more confidence do you have in comparison to her?


be aware of these things, because they matter

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