Wit, Wisdom, and Whimsy. (your mileage may vary)
July 5, 2015
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A few years into my career with the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office.
July 5, 1994 That was the first day I walked into the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office building as an employee. Twenty one years ago today, I thought “this will be a breeze!”. Little did I know…
June 22, 2015
Gay, News, Personal, Pictures Gay, Heart of a Lion, LGBT, Lions Club, visalia, Visalia Pride Lions Leave a comment
So I’m sitting there at the Visalia Pride Lions 5th anniversary luncheon last Saturday, when a friend of mine gets up to make a presentation. It immediately got surreal when the very first words out of his mouth were “Jim Reeves”. Needless to say, he caught my attention, and I’m wondering “just what is going on?” It turns out that the entire board and a bunch of the members of the local LGBT Lions group managed to keep me in the dark, and without a clue, that they were planing to honor me with 2015 “Heart of a Lion” award.
Sandy Waymack and Slade Childers present the award.
Here’s what Slade had to say:
Quite a surprise, and completely unexpected! I was and am honored to be chosen for this recognition, and I thank the Visalia Pride Lions profusely.
May 8, 2015
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Photo credit: John Alves Storm activity, Lincoln County, Kansas May 6, 2015
“God is systematically destroying America,” chaplain John McTernan, the founder of Defend and Proclaim the Faith ministries wrote in a blog post on his website in October of 2012 (apparently now deleted). “Just look at what has happened this year,” referring to Hurricane Sandy.
Pat Robertson said the 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley could be attributed to God’s displeasure with gays and lesbians, pro-choice activists, and “perversity,”
Cindy Jacobs, of Generals International, blamed the 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami that killed more than 15,000 people in Japan on homosexuality.
God is really pissed at us for “the gay”.
But he seems to really like me. I’m both gay, and an atheist, so I’m a bit confused by the whole thing.
Why do I say he likes me? Well, according to so many vociferously anti-gay preachers, God is sending natural disasters to punish us for tolerating and accepting “the gay”. But when I went to Kansas this month to visit relatives, he missed an easy opportunity to make a point.
The week before I visited, the region around my sister’s home was hit with severe storms, and even had storm chasers out posting live video on the internet, just down the road from her house! I was watching live, here in California, as a severe storm produced tornadoes in the immediate area. The four days I was there, however, the weather was sunny, clear, and pleasant! The day I left, the bad weather started back up, and the area was again hit with tornadoes, like the one seen forming in the picture above, taken from cell phone video shot by my brother-in-law. Indeed, on my entire trip, I only got rained on a little bit, snowed on for literally seconds, and hardly needed my coat.
The only bad weather that I can see which might be directed at me is the drought here in California. The trouble is, it’s effect is the most severe in the very region that is so very anti-gay! This area is bright, bright red, super-conservative, and deeply religious. Heck, the local Sheriff (my boss!) introduced the keynote speaker at the recent Tulare County Prayer Breakfast, the nationally known anti-gay crusader and hate group leader, Tony Perkins. This region is not known for supporting the gays. (Visalia is progressing nicely, but it’s a bright spot on an otherwise dismal map)
Bad weather scares the beejeebies out of new residents in central Kansas. The Gaytheist comes to visit, and it’s gorgeous. He leaves, and the storm chasers are back out with huge tornadic activity in the area.
For a deity so allegedly worked up about “the gay”, he’s confusing the hell out of me.
April 20, 2015
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Random Google return, “seductive woman”
Meet Katharina. Or what she might look like. Or certainly what the sender of the following email would want a man to think Katharina might look like.
“Hi babe. , Cool and nice conversation we had in that place… had some fun times there…; sure that you remember me.
want to remember me? I am at (censored URL, not giving them promotion),…
You were my knight in shinning armor :)I’d like to know if we have common interests.
I hope youre as serious as I am, I will be waiting for your response”
Every once in a while emails or Kik messages show up that make me giggle. Well, I say giggle…
more a snortle, maybe. Sometimes just a slow shake of the head. They’ve obviously done a blind scattershot of emails and messages, without checking to see if they’re actually hitting the correct demographic.
Tell me, my straight guys, is this come-on something you would respond to?
I was her “knight in shining armor”… hope my sword wasn’t rusty. I do so seldom get to rescue damsels in distress, or slay dragons. I wonder if I was gallant. Maybe she’ll write me a follow-up email, just to refresh my memory.
April 9, 2015
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I should be writing, but that seems to have stopped, so now I’m wasting time with a phone camera and the editing software update that just came to my MacBook Pro. I think I still need more practice. With both. Or maybe all three.
Or maybe I just haven’t had enough Pepsi yet.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
March 26, 2015
commentary, Gay, News, Personal christian, Gay rights, hate, kamala harris, lgbtq, rodney martin, sodomite suppression act 3 Comments
Haters gonna hate. This is what the LGBTQ community has to put up with on a constant basis. In the comment section of this online article by the local newspaper, the Visalia-Times Delta, a thinly veiled threat.
Here’s the Facebook page of the hater. This is his profile cover image.
What would Jesus do?
Threats of violence from a follower of the alleged “Prince of Peace”. Religion is more often than not a vehicle for personal prejudice and violence.
Update: I thought the name sounded familiar. This jerk is a well known hater from Porterville. Surprise surprise.
March 18, 2015
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A contingent from the Los Angeles Chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were the featured program for the Tulare-Kings Counties PFLAG March meeting. Four of the Sisters drove up from Los Angeles to tell us about the group and it’s charitable works, along with a non-stop barrage of one-liners and poignant stories.
Sister Unity and JimmieJoe
Sister Unity
Sister Barbie Q
Sister Domina
Sister Tootie
February 28, 2015
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February 12, 2015
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Mineral King Bowl, Visalia, in the late 1970’s. The whole fam damily is here for someone’s graduation, but I’m not sure whose. Possibly my sister Sherry’s, which would place it in June, 1977. Maybe someone later, I’ll have to check and see if anyone else recalls who we were there for. I’m about 19 or 20, and that ball cap is my REACT hat, back from my CB radio days.
If I had been out to myself at the time, let alone anyone else, I think I would have qualified as a “twink”. Assuming the term was around then, I don’t know the history of that label to be sure. (I just checked, it started about that time, so I would have been one of the first! 😉 )
At any rate, a lot of water under the bridge since this Polaroid was snapped by one of the cousins that evening. I wonder if I still have that watch laying around in some box somewhere?
JimmieJoe / KC6YRU 
Attack of the goat people
August 9, 2015
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Image: Aaron Sims
In the big scheme of things, pygmy goats wouldn’t seem like a subject that would elicit a lot of controversy. They’re undoubtedly cute little animals, and videos of them are abundant on the Internet. The secret about pygmy goats, however, is that there are people who go full metal jacket against “city folk” (me, for one) that are against them being raised in backyards. Goats, no matter how “miniature” they might be, are livestock. They belong on farms. Backyards are not the places to raise them, no matter the reason you want them.
I dared speak my mind about the subject, and immediately became the subject of a crusade by the “goat people”.
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