Here is the article if you wish to read it.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/05/nine-fish-with-hands-discovered-almost-extinct-handfish.php

Gothi Michael Jason Lush D.D.

Here is a list of things that life is too short to tolerate.

Bad Beer

Back stabbers

cold showers

regrets

not taking risks

meaningless relationships

bland food

bland people

not kissing

slow cars

harsh drugs

dogma

and lastly

Bad beer.

A certain “Spokesperson” for paganism, we’ll call her “Giant-celestial-gas ball-bird-of-prey” had a featured rant on “Social Justice”. The piece was well written and made fine points any decent pagan should be able to stand behind… but something just kept sticking in my mind as “off” when I read it. She only ever mentions the Goddess. 

That got me thinking. 

I have seen the same activity in many pagans and I am not sure of why this happens. Is this over compensation for the male saturation that has occurred from the Abrahamic faiths? Is it forgetfulness? Or is it as I suspect a malicious act? 

Do these people feel bullied to the point of passively attacking the intangible aspect of gender in a transiedental being?  

The group of guys that I was introduced to Paganism by were very balanced as far as this aspect goes. They acknowledged evenly the God and Goddess. Aware that the world just does not function if either side was left out. Our rituals always included both; our day to day lives reflected it.  So the people who only acknowledge one or the other, or emphasize one as if better than the other, are they Paganisms Right-Wingers? Is Ms. “Giant-celestial-gas ball-bird-of-prey” the Wiccan Rush Limbaugh or perhaps the Glenn Beck of the old ways? I would like to think that it is just forgetfulness, but then again I would also like to think that feminism was still about equal rights and not about militant lesbians using an antiquated platform to attack the “Pig-Man Oppressors”.

Let me know what you think. You can post here or e-mail to MimirsWell@insightbb.com

Having read many complaints today about the “Pork” found in the new health care reform bill I am at once disgusted and inspired. Follow me here okay?

Disgusted: I am truly enraged by the people who cheered on George Walker Bush while he raped our country of it’s resources, rights and soul. I am more disgusted by those who gave silent consent to his heinous actions by saying nothing. I am furious that these same people are scouring the new Health Care Reform Bill and picking apart it’s “pork” to tare it apart because they are afraid of it due to a group of knuckle heads who said things like “the government is going to abort any baby from women who already have a child.”

Lets look at that shall we? Why would the government cut off it’s source of tax payers and why would the government put that kind of money into it. Honestly the business of government like any business is to MAKE money not destroy it’s income. To all those who have started picking apart the new Health care reform bill; Where were all you Dick Tracy’s when Bush sent us to war over imaginary WMD’s? Where were you when he signed a bill that allowed Haliburton to gain Rebuild contracts in Iraq with out bidding? It’s Pork you all know it and it’s nothing new.

These same people swallowed the lie of WMD’s in Iraq and the Haliburton contract scandal and think nothing of it.

But the sad fact is that our government has been hi-jacked by a cancer, a blight on society. It is not some foreign party of mysterious mustache twisting villains it is the lobbyists. And we pay them to do it.

The problem is called Pork and every bill is full of it, that is the unfortunate side effect of our government. People can be bought into supporting a bill they know nothing about if you give them something in it. Kind of like Ed Wood changing his movies to make his investors happy.

Inspired: And this my friends is where the inspiration fits in. I think that like the late great Mr. Wood we take control of our “movie set” away from the bankers and christian fundies who are ruining our “movie”. It is time we turned down their dirty money and showed up on set in a pink angora sweater and take back our “set” if you catch my drift.

Lose the lobbies and add more watch dogs!

Bark bark

Gothi Michael Jason Lush D.D.