I am in a really foul mood tonight. As a result of my spinal cord injury I suffer from dysaesthesia. This is phantom pain. I have a burning sensation in my feet all the time. I take three drugs for this: Neurontin, tryleptal, and amytripolene. None of these are addictive or have the side effects of Vicodin and Oxycontin. About three to four times a year, I get a throbbing pain in my left Achilles tendon. This really pisses me off since I have no sensation there.
Tuesday morning at around 3:30 I woke up with a throbbing pain in my left leg. I got up and took a percocet, but that didn't help. I was in agony at work most of the day and took off early and came home. I've had a few drinks and the pain is not as bad, but I'm afraid I'll wake up again in the middle of the night with the throbbing pain. So, yeah, I'm really pissed off tonight.
Let's start with gay marriage. Can we just get a fucking grip? We do not need a constitutional amendment banning it. C'mon, let's use some common sense here. Here's a compromise. Don't call it marriage. Call it a civil union. Why do you gay people want to piss off the Christians (or the Jews or whatever religion does not think same sex unions should be allowed)? Probably the only church that will allow gay marriage would be the Episcopalians who seem to think that the Bible is a "living document", much like liberals think that the Constitution is a "living document". And to Chris Johnson who has turned his site into all Episcopalian bullshit all the time, there's a Lutheran church on Selma right across the street from Webster Groves Senior High School and Holy Redeemer is right there on Lockwood. After all, an Episcopalian is just a Catholic who flunked Latin. Join one of those churches and quit blogging about Gene Robinson. It's getting old.
Anyway, many companies and gummints are already giving benefits to domestic partners. Call your committment a civil union and get off the marriage bullshit. Why do y'all want to be so in the face of so many people?
Rod Paige called the NEA a terrorist organization and then backed off. Well, kiss my ass! The NEA is a terrorist organization. It has succeeded in fucking up one of the best school systems in the world. Between the fucking NEA and the fucking Department of Education we have seen our gummint schools turn into little more than socialist indoctrination centers. Paige is black. Had he also been a Dimocrat, he could have gotten away with what the Dimocrats and the NEA is calling "hate speech". Fuck those socialist bastards!
I would really like to rant about the Middle East and the bullshit going on in The Hague but I am entirely too pissed off to do it justice. I could have sworn I left a comment on my new friend Marieke's site (And Godammit don't go flame her!) about my opinion on the bullshit going on. Yes, the Israeli's have killed Palestinians, but the Israeli's do not intentionally target civilians like the Palestinians do. Clinton bullied Ehud Barak into giving Arafat 95% of what he demanded and rather than negotiating further, Arafat left and started the latest uprising. So who are the bad guys here? Israel is building a fence to protect itself. So the fence is in "Palestinian territory"? They've had opportunities to negotiate since 1949 and their response has always been violence. Marieke, the Palestinians do not want a two state solution. They want the total annihilation of the Jews. They have made no secret of that. Is that what you want? Yassir Arafat is an evil old man who has led the Palestinians into nihilism. What are the Jews supposed to do? Give up? We surrender. Kill us all. If the Palestinians had the military might of the Jews, Israel would be destroyed. Israel has shown remarkable restraint.
I'd really like to do another Kerry rant. How I wish Rachel Lucas was still blogging. She could really do a righteous Kerry rant.
Oh Christ! Fanplex in Atlanta just went under. This was the former mayor of Atlanta, Bill Campbell's (You ain't got nuthin' on me. I'm innocent!) bright idea to have an arcade and miniature golf course outside of Turner Field. Yeah, that's just the thing. Turner Field is in a shitty neighborhood so people will want to come to that neighborhood before or after a Brave's game and hang out at a miniature golf course and arcade. There was $500,000 of Atlanta taxpayers' money flushed down the toilet. I'm glad I don't live in the city.
Yeah, I know, I sucked tonight. I was pissed off at too many things to do just one thing justice. I probably won't sleep worth a damn tonight either. Sometimes being a cripple really sucks!