This weeks blog

Alright, so there are a few things I'd like to blog about, simply because they're there.

One of them being the television show, Heroes. I love this show, and have followed it pseudo religiously since the day it started. And while I'm a huge fan of the show, I'm also a huge fan of something else. CONTINUITY! I'm a good enough fan to go with the flow and just assume that it all gets worked out in the end. But some things I'd like to know are worked out. For instance, when Peter lost his memory and accidentally transported (then girlfriend) Caitlyn (with her adorable irish accent and everything) to the virus ridden future, what happened when he came back and left her there? I know since he destroyed the virus and all that she's probably back in Ireland or wherever dealing with her mob-ish brother and goon-ish friends. But it would be nice if he sought her out since she helped him during that lack-of-memory period.

Also I think we need to consolidate storylines. I'm all a fan for having a huge cast and intricate plots and sub-plots and plots to my sub-plots plots but I think the show is taking it to ridiculous lengths. I've been reading on the web, and lest we forget about Niki's abusive father and her sister Jessica who was also one of her alternate personalities that was killed by said father. (and this is not one of her other two twin sisters who were injected with power inducing formulae (or whatever the plural of formula is)).

All I'm asking for right now is a little more continuity and a little less assumption that we viewers are just gonna stick with it. Tie up some loose ends Kring, before you loose viewers like we've been infected with the shanti virus.

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One other thing I'm relatively pleased with is the continued success of Cloris Leachman on DwtS. I think that despite the fact that the judges don't seem to know what they want from their dancers, and are either high, drunk, or both, when watching people perform that the dancers are doing a wonderful job. Lance and Lacey are doing the best they can with what the judges are telling them. Cloris is trying to find a way to balance her dancing skills and her far better skills as a show-woman. She is an entertainer after all.

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Lets see, I know there's other things in the news that bother me. Oh. Here's something interesting. Apparently after getting bailed out with a large portion of 700 BILLION dollars and after spending approx. 440,000 more dollars on a retreat and spa thingy, the executives at the prestigious AIG decided to do a little hunting....IN EUROPE. After reading this I am more adamant than ever that that company just needs to go under.

Not once, but twice did they use funds, after the bailout of their company which staved off financial ruin of their top executives, did those same executives who begged for money go off and spend it frivolously. If anyone that I know did that, the money would be gone faster than we could blink, and we'd be thrown in a federal prison and the key would be melted down for something else. Now is the time that we need to step up and tell the rich that simply because they have money, doesn't mean that their (excuse the language) shit don't stink.

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Interestingly enough, there's another minority out there that is seeking to get full protection under the law and failing. After reading the article, I couldn't imagine why. And before you jump down my throat about bashing minorities, read the article

Personally I think that its a crock. If you're an "ex-gay" then you're not homosexual. Which means you're also not bisexual. So unless you're something really out there like a...necrosexual or something (any anything beyond hetero, homo, and bi is probably illegal), the only thing left is heterosexual. Ergo, you're straight and have full rights, protections, and privileges under the law. So where's the problem.

If the issue comes from having once been considered homosexual, and the things that happened during that period, (assuming that being homosexual is a choice (which is not my viewpoint, FYI)) then you have nobody to blame but yourself. You made the choice to be gay, and you made the choice to back out of that lifestyle. You also made the choice to open your big ol mouth about having been gay too you idiots.

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Alright, well I think that concludes another resounding issue of things that I find annoying. As always I welcome discussion on anything I blog about here. And for those interesting in reading my treaties on how being gay and Lutheran works....I haven't started it yet, its still purely in mental form. Maybe once snow flies I'll start putting it on paper.

Oh, before I forget I finally got my copy of Pastor, I am Gay the book that Sarah Palin purportedly wanted banned/removed from a library up in Alaska. Its an AMAZING book. I only wish I had this book when I was in college. I would have told EVERYONE to read it. As it is I'm going to recommend my old professors read it and discuss it with their students, or at the very least add it to the reading lists or something for their classes. It would come in as such a good useful book for a Youth Ministry course or a good discussion in a religious course nonetheless. I highly recommend it if you're going to be dealing with GLBT people in your religious career at all.