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NFL Officals said on CNN earlier today that although they may be able to repair the hole in the roof of the Superdome, it looks like they MAY have to play the early part of  the season elsewheres.

There is so many things wrong with this statement....that I'm not even sure where to begin!! First off, they haven't even evacuated the 25,000 homeless people that have been living in the cesspool the used to be the Superdome.   Here's a quick question....if the people are still there when the first game is scheduled....will they make them pay for a ticket???   I love football......but that's pathetic!! 

On a better....more humanitarian note....the governor of  Texas say the "residents" of the Superdome can be brought to the Houston Astrodome.  He says the Astrodome's schedule has been cleared to December andthat the people can stay there as long as they need to!!   Hmmmm......maybe there is HOPE afterall......it's a sad world we live in sometimes.......Just my thoughts!!

No one faint.....yes, I am actually going to write a little today...:lol:. Todays local newspaper headline (which we deliver)  has prompted me to.They have decided to close our local naval base down, Willow Grove NAS.  Now while I was never stationed at Willow Grove, I was Air Force, my father was. My father was a very devote Navy man. In his younger years he was active duty, which is to say full time.  After he got married and had kids, he went back as a Weekend Warrior...the reserves....and he was DAMN proud of it!!  And I was proud of him....I kringe at what he would think of the mess we have made of things today.   I am pretty sure he would feel that base closings were NOT the answer.    I used to go to the base with my dad  alot....and sometimes my mom would even go.    My dad would take me all around the base with him,this was WAY before 9/11, and  he could tahe me just about anywhere he wanted.   Sometime we would go up at night and see a movie for 5o cents, watching them  from folding chairs.   They would be cheap just cause they would be older releases, this was before VHS or DVDs.   I have seen many a air show at that base....with my mom and dad, with Melis and our son.  The  Blue Angels flew there many, many years.  They had good show, they had tragic shows.   I'll have to stop by the base and get some pictures before they remove all the aircraft, it will be a while, they have a Guard Unit they're not sure what they want to do with....ahhh, to have your fate lie in the hands of the government, lucky them...Yes, I will miss the base....it leaves me with just memories.

   I started to think about my own military career and how many of  MY bases have met there demise.  By doing Googlesearchwork, (yes, thats one word...LOL) I found that 3 of my 5 bases are now gone....closed, terminated.   I went boot camp at Lackland AFB Texas.  Now wereas it IS still open, it seems that it's fate is up in the air and at least one facility that I know of is being moved, and that's there hospital, Willford Hall which will be moved to another base.  Then I was at Lowery AB in Denver,Colorado....Closed....early  90's.   Then as far as the other bases in the states, there was England AFB, Lousiana...closed, and Eglin AFB, Florida, which is the largest base in the free world and will be around long after I'm gone.  Now I was  also overseas,....I was in  Germany, Bitburg Germany to be specific.  This was prolly one of my favorite bases, and holds the most memories.   Sadly, it has closed.  I found a site that has pics of before, when it was still open, & aft er it had been closed and turned over to private industry.   I'm not sure whether to feel sad or just laugh over the fact that our dinning hall has been turned into a titty bar, or the movie theater that sat across from my barracks is some sort of Islamic church!!  Am I a Base Jinx?

Ok....that's it for now...I'm wrote out....TBC

(Reprinted w/permission from Cuttter)

I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.

I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.

I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.

We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.

I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.

I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.

I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.

I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.

We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.

I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.

I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.

I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.

I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.

Reposted with permission from Cutter)

I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.

I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I didn’t have to always deal with society hating me.

I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.

I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.


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