Why We Need The ACA

The ACA (Affordable Care Act) is being rolled out today, government shut down or not. I've been posting a lot of opinions and comments online about my annoyance in regards to the shut down. I have decided to throw my flag up with #teamobamacare and began commenting on the fact that it is happening. DEAL WITH IT.

From http://www.getcoveredamerica.org/

So what am I hearing on the internet? Well, I am from southern Louisiana and many of my representatives voted for the repealing of the ACA. In turn, I know many VOCAL citizens who view the ACA as a socialist idea put in place by Congress and the Democrats. Conspiracy theories are rampant, unfortunately though there is no one speaking out against it and it becomes the norm. I think people are confused on what the ACA means to the public. For me, I'm going to list a few things for why I support it.

Why I Support the ACA:

1. I am 24 years old and work 4 part time jobs. I do not work enough hours with any of my jobs to get full time and thus the benefits given to full time. No one was hiring full time and I had bills to pay, so I took what I can get. ACA means I can have some sort of health care.

2. A good friend in Louisiana was diagnosed with an odd disease that resulted in her getting a hp replacement at the age of 22. She has a pre-existing condition and no one will cover her. ACA gives her on option.

3. Another good friend was unexpectantly diagnosed with renial kidney disease, meaning she has failing kidneys. She is on hemo-dialysis and will need a new kidney. If the ACA was in place before October 1st maybe she wouldn't be over $80,000 in debt to the hospitals we had to go to for emergency room visits when she was violently ill from kidney failure. Or maybe she could have afforded to even visit a doctor to see what was wrong.

4. For all the people like my friend who have to wait till they are violently ill and on a deathbed to go to the doctor because they can't afford a regular visit.

5. For all the people living in cancer ally of Louisiana who have treatable cancers but will eventually die from cancer because they can't afford the screenings.

These are only some of the reasons why I support the ACA, Obama Care. We live in a country, no actually a world, where we deem basically if you should live based on how much you earn. It doesn't matter if you are trying and constantly being pushed down. It must be your fault for not getting a full time job when none are available. It is your fault your child is deathly sick because you live in an impoverished neighborhood that is near a chemical refinery and you couldn't afford anywhere else to go and couldn't bring your kid to the doctor because you don't have insurance.

Things happen. Yes, the ACA is not the best option, but lets face it. IT IS AN OPTION. And honestly, when you have nothing, an option seems like a god sent.

Hulk Out.

Good Morning Government Shutdown!

So if you didn't know...HAPPY GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN!

Actually, take the happy out, because this is a bunch of bull shit. I can't believe where we are as a country with our politicians. It disgusts me. We have elected officials who are derailing our country and undermining the people's voice for a few extremists in office and in our country. Really? Wow.

I went online and basically looked at how my Louisiana politicians voted on things, and of course, all the House Reps of Louisiana voted for the amendment to repeal Obama Care. Although I know personally I did not vote for any of these representatives, is saddens me that they are still in office for mostly having people do just that. Not vote for them BUT also NOT VOTING IN GENERAL.

I think this should put US citizens up in arms. We need to remember we have a democratic process and we did our part. We showed as a country we want Obama Care in some form by keeping him in office, the courts showed support of it by upholding that Obama Care is NOT unconstitutional. Now we need to look to the legislative and change that to support the initiative and TAKE OUT these ignorant and selfish assholes.

If you don't vote, then you need to stop complaining because in a way that means you allowed this shutdown to happen. And if you don't think it means anything to you, maybe this is the country and politicians we deserve because we ourselves have become so selfish and ignorant as those we allow in office. I truly do believe in this country, but the people and politicians make me wonder where are we going and if we will ever become the people and country I know we can be.

You don't get instant access and the on demand changes in our government and system. You have to work towards them. You want change? GO FUCKING DO SOMETHING YOU LAZY ASSHOLES LIKE VOTE.

Hulk Out.

Dear Straight People

I forgot about this video from a long time ago (March seems so long...).

It touches me. Makes me laugh and think, because I have been the speaker. I have been the one spoken to. I have had friends who represent the words spoken. And it is beautiful and it hurts sometimes. I think we as as society too often would rather acknowledge our difference than our similarities. Classify something as "other" and put it away as "unacceptable."

We need to learn to love. Love each other and ourselves so we can create something beautiful

Dear Straight People. I love you. I hope you love me too.

The Reason DADT is Gone for the Better

There was an article that showed a picture of a solider receiving a gift from his unit for his last day of active service.

BAM! Rainbow flag with Marine Corps image. Damn. That is actually beautiful.

This just warms my heart because one of the loudest proponents of repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell was the Marines. Now yes, there is still some issues in the military, but clearly this unit did not feel "threatened" by a gay man in their unit. Honestly, if you are feeling threatened it means you have some issues with your own sexuality and need to stop and think for awhile.

Sometimes the news makes me happy. Other times not so much. Tonight, it seems good.

Hulk Out!

Sherlock Love

This is just amusing. Though I haven't watched Sherlock series from the BBC I plan to, and this article makes me want to more.

Watch the not so hidden love between Sherlock and John in the buzzfeed article. You will get a few laughs.

CLICK HERE FOO

Bringing it to the small towns...the GAY AGENDA

On the Colbert Report on his segment "People Destroying America" a piece was shown on small town Vicco, Kentucky and their "gay agenda" mayor. Under their mayor, Johnny Cummings, Vicco has become the smallest town in the country to pass an ordinance forbidding discrimination based on, as Cumming says, sexual preference. Watch the clip HERE:

From colbertnewshub.com

First off, I need to say I loved the clip. It is funny, to the point, and shows something super important about small towns. This important fact? That all people from small towns aren't close minded hicks.

This has been a topic that INFURIATES me many times. I was born and raised in a small community in East Baton Rouge Parish and I get it. I get the stereotypes that are put on myself and my family. I get it. I get the fact that before I lost my accent people thought I was a close minded hick who probably slept with a distant cousin and knew nothing about "cosmopolitan" life. I get it. I get the fact that I had a roommate from "the city" who judged my father based on where he was from and refused to sit in the same room as him because she dubbed him a racist. I get it. And I was/am pissed.

Many times we look at discrimination and say, oh, those white people over there are bad. They think like this. If anything you put a barrier up saying "you are different and not like us and we won't accept you." In turn, people turn against you and say your ideas are wrong, but at the end of the day, people are a lot more complex than we give them credit for.

I come from a small town. I come form a Roman Catholic background and an Evangelical Christian background. Oh, and I'm gay. My community knows. My community accepts me. My small town community wants to come to my wedding and dance at it and came to a candle light ceremony in acceptance of same sex marriage. My small southern community was outraged at the Trayvon Martin case and the verdict. My small town religious southern community may have ignorant and backwards people, but so do the cities of "freedom" and "equality" that we look at in the country.

People are more complex than we give them credit for, and we need to remember that. It gives me hope for the future and possible laws that could be passed in my hometown. Who knows, maybe I'll be the lesbian mayor that helps with it?

HULK OUT

Insert Hulk Rage

I’m disgusted with the world.

Wow. I know. What a great way to start off a blog that hasn't been updated in a long time. But I am. A lot of things have happened in my life since I last updated. I really don’t want to go into them, but here is the breakdown:

Starting Dec. 2011:
Dec 11: Feel in love and graduated from college and moved to Louisiana.

Jan 11 – June 12: Worked at a plantation and enjoyed southern life, had my heart broken, had a cousin get married

June 12: Moved to Chicago to work for Teach for America

July 12- Aug 12: Tried to find myself in an organization and a city that I was unsure about, Paw Paw is re-diagnosed with cancer, black could surrounds me

Sept 12: Begin working as a middle school math teacher and in the first weeks of school Chicago Teacher’s Union issues a teacher strike.

Oct 12 – Dec 12: struggling with teaching, told I would be fired if things don’t turn around, relapsed into self mutilation and an eating disorder, Paw Paw dies in November from cancer after ending chemo treatments, through till Dec. I began to accept I would be fired

Jan 13 – April 13: Not fired and having more hope in life, students take ISAT, still depressed and struggling with life, find in April my contract will not be renewed and need to decide if I will stay with TFA or not

May 13: On my birthday my Maw Maw (Paw Paw’s wife) has a heart attack and is put on life support, pulls plug and officially dies on May 4th, go to funeral and have my sister ignore me and officially ends any relationship I will have with her (haven’t spoke to her since the wake), decided to leave TFA and seek a job abroad

June 13: Mom comes to visit and help pack up classroom, planning to move to Brooklyn, 1st week of June roommate is violently ill and after a week agrees to go to the hospital, after 8 days in the hospital she is released with the diagnosis of kidney failure and will need to be on dialysis until she has a transplant, after deciding she is family I decide to stay with her in Chicago to support her and put my plans to travel on hold

July 13 to present: looking for a job and thinking what is life of a 24 year old right now.

 So that is my life in the past year in a nutshell and can elaborate on more if needed. But in the end after all this bull shit that is life all I can feel is SO ANGRY. I don’t feel sorry for myself or anyone else. We make our choices and we make our lives for the better or worse. The thing is my life is chaotic and when I see and read the news and see the government just putting out bull shit I get pissed. Infuriated. RAGE.

It is one thing for me to have to deal with my shit, it is another to see my country almost give me more shit than I want. So I plan to update the blog now and spew my rage out because I need to have something to let an outlet where I can send this rage out. Cause honestly, if a riot finally happens (and I honestly believe with the current political tension in this country it will happen) I know I will end up in it with a metal rod and a broken down car in from of me. So forgive me or not, but I am an angry southerner who is just pissed.

Care to read if you want. As Lady Sovereign would say, “love me or hate, if you love me then thank you , if you hate me, then fuck you.”