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After days and thinking it’ll go around us, this morning I discovered Florence is coming to Smallville—as of now.

I may not be on blogs much for the next few days, though I do have some preplanned posts.

I’ll be back when the bitch leaves us alone.

Last week Carlos came to me and told me he had some ideas of what we might do for the weekend.

♪ ♫ Isn’t it romantic ♫ ♪

He said:

“I have a doctor’s appointment at 8AM.”

♪ ♫ Isn’t it … ♫ ♪

“Then we can do the recycling, and I also need a haircut.”

♪ ♫ … romantic? ♫ ♪

Oy.

In case you are still thinking the GOP cares about any of you, or anything but themselves, think on this:

Republicans are considering a proposal to remove House members from committees for not voting along party lines.

Yup, if you’re a Republican on any committee in Congress and you don’t vote the way the party wants you to, they’ll remove you from the committee and replace you with someone who will.

They’re not even trying to hide their deceit any longer.

Remember Caitlin Upton, a Miss Teen USA contestant from South Carolina who was asked why she thinks a fifth of Americans cannot locate their country on a map, and said:

"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uhmmm, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and uh, I believe that our, I, education like such as, uh, South Africa, and uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uhhh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.” 

Contrast her with the recent Miss America pageant and Miss Michigan Emily Sioma, up there, who introduced herself this way:

“From the state with 84% of the U.S. fresh water but none for its residents to drink, I am Miss Michigan Emily Sioma.”

Bam. Sadly, Emily did not win.

Tadd Fujikawa, the youngest player ever to qualify for the U.S. Open at the age of 15, is now the first professional male golfer to come out as gay, on, where else, Instagram:

“Coincidentally, today is world suicide prevention day. However, I was going to share this regardless.

So…I’m gay. Many of you may have already known that. I don’t expect everyone to understand or accept me. But please be gracious enough to not push your beliefs on me or anyone in the LGBTQ community. My hope is this post will inspire each and every one of you to be more empathetic and loving towards one another.

I’ve been back and forth for a while about opening up about my sexuality. I thought that I didn’t need to come out because it doesn’t matter if anyone knows. But I remember how much other’s stories have helped me in my darkest times to have hope. I spent way too long pretending, hiding, and hating who I was. I was always afraid of what others would think/say. I’ve struggled with my mental health for many years because of that and it put me in a really bad place. Now I’m standing up for myself and the rest of the LGBTQ community in hopes of being an inspiration and making a difference in someone’s life. Although it’s a lot more accepted in our society today, we still see children, teens, and adults being ridiculed and discriminated against for being the way we are. Some have even taken their lives because of it. As long as those things are still happening, I will continue to do my best to bring more awareness to this issue and to fight for equality.

Whether the LGBTQ is what you support or not, we must liberate and encourage each other to be our best selves, whatever that may be. It’s the only way we can make this world a better place for future generations.

I don’t want this to be focused on me. I just want to spread love and acceptance to others who are in a similar situation. If anyone out there is struggling, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me. YOU ARE LOVED AND YOU ARE ENOUGH…AS IS, EXACTLY AS YOU ARE!

I can’t wait for the day we all can live without feeling like we’re different and excluded. A time where we don’t have to come out, we can love the way we want to love and not be ashamed. We are all human and equal after all. So I dare you…spread love. Let’s do our part to make this world a better place.”

Welcome out, Tadd, and please accept as our gift the Official Coming Out Toaster Oven™ and a copy of the Gay Agenda.

Welcome out.

A Dallas police officer fatally shot a young black man could be facing criminal charges, police said.

Botham Shem Jean was killed last week by a “Caucasian female” officer who entered the wrong apartment in her building and, thinking she was in her own home shot and killed Jean, who lived in the apartment.

Investigators are seeking a warrant for a manslaughter charge against the officer, who has since been placed on administrative leave. The chief said she would release the officer’s name if and when charges were filed.

Huh, I guess if you walk into the wrong apartment and find the tenant of that apartment inside and pull out your gun and shoot him to death, you get to maintain a certain privacy.

This is why we kneel. Think about a black man, even a black police officer, entering the wrong apartment and shooting a white woman to death. Do you think his name would be withheld? Do you think he would not have been arrested the moment authorities arrived?

I know. Good news is that finally charges were filed, and the killer’s name is Amber Guyger.

Carlos hates violent films, bloody films, horror films, but for some reason he was intrigued by the new show The Purge which tells the tale of an America where all crime is legal for twelve hours each year.

So, he wanted to see it; it’s kinda dumb, as I expected, though not as in-your-face violent or gory … yet … but it does have one redeeming quality: Gabriel Chavarria as the hottie Latino good guy hero.

On the flip side, Lifetime has a new boy-meets-girl, boy-stalks-girl, boy-kidnaps-girl’s-old-boyfriend story with Penn Badgley as the nice guy masturbating on the street murdering stalker. He is kinda cute, in the stalkerish way.

Just sayin’.

Miss unAmerica? Really?

I am no beauty pageant queen; queen, yes; into beauty pageants, no. Unless, and here’s where I go all shallow and hypocritical-like, it was a male beauty pageant. That’s a horse of a different color, you know.

So, not being into beauty pageants—and not even the scholarship contest they pretend to be these days though what winning a scholarship has to do with evening gowns and bikinis, I do not know—I didn’t watch the Miss America pageant last weekend.

But I did hear the news the next morning that Miss New York, Nina Davuluri won, and became the first women of Indian descent to win the tile, and I thought that was a cool thing. I mean, Miss America is usually blond and has big teeth and comes from one of those square states in the middle, so this was kinda cool.

Until the asshats and the racists took to — what else? — Twitter to spew their particular brand of ignorance mixed with stupidity topped with racism and served with a side of xenophobia.

Upon receiving her title and a crown and flowers because that screams scholarship, Davuluri, who is studying to be a doctor, said:

“Everything happens for a reason. If it’s meant to be it’s meant to be. It’s a win-win just to be in it.”

And maybe that’s true; maybe it happened because we needed a dose of diversity training in this country, if what some folks felt about her win is any indication of where some of our heads are located. See, not all Americans are happy with the win, and some of those who were unhappy, took to social media to whine and complain, like an asshat by the name of Luke Brasili:

I guess he's saying that because she’s a dark-skinned woman of Indian descent—who, by the way was born in Syracuse, a city in one of the fifty states which Little Luke failed to realize—that she had something to do with 9/11. Or that it’s a dishonor to those who died twelve years ago to have an Indian-American wear a crown.

Aly Walansky, another moron with too much time on her hands and access to media, tweeted this:

I guess you’re only American if you come from Kansas, so screw off you other 49 states, you don’t belong here.

Toss into the mix one Todd Starnes, a Fox Radio host—wow, color me shocked—who thinks that:

I guess had Davuluri shot a deer onstage with her own gun, that would make her more American.

Then we have someone who calls themselves Adam of Eve, who Tweeted his blatant racism proudly:

Um, Adam of Eve? You delusional tool? The Miss America pageant has nothing to do with India, and, frankly, neither does Davuluri; just like I don’t qualify to represent Germany or Ireland because that’s my heritage. If you wanted a true, full on American to represent this country, then maybe we should close the competition to anyone who isn’t Native American, the only really true Americans here, since everyone else, including you, comes from somewhere else.

But, not all the Tweeters are ignorant morons; some of them had some fun with it, and so, let’s share a couple of those from Grand Old Parody and Questlove Jenkins:

See, that’s the issue. Nina Davuluri is an American born in America to parents who came here from India. She is not un-American because of her skin color or her name or her ethnicity and heritage.

For me, she’s more American than those morns with Twitter accounts.