With that in mind I would like to congratulate Aaron Rodgers on his recent achievements. What a great "job" so to speak.
This article highlights the great things that Aaron has been doing this season.
Soon it will be the only thing that football fans will be talking about.
(special thanks to Nick for alerting me to this great article)
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Here is hoping the Packers take care of the 49ers this week.
Thanks, Trooper but my daughter picked up on it. She loves gossip and has some good gay friends. They have told her Rodgers is definitely gay. So, this made her day. The gays say the same about Braun. We'll joke about this but I am not as conservative as many of you. Being libertarian, I don't care who or what you fuck, as long as it's not kids or my dog. Civil unions, fine. Marriage, I'm not there yet. But, it has to be HELL to be a pro athlete and gay. I can see Braun coming out and looking for sympathy. He won't get a lot from the locker room, but he will from fans. Particularly when the Brewers play the Giants.
NINERS!!!
Ironic the Pack play SF next week. I have tix but gave them up. My son is kicking himself. He was been a Niners fan all his life..loved Jerry Rice. But, he'll be in Boston visiting family and I'll be in Mn. w/ in-laws. Too fuckin' cold anyway. At my age it's the sofa in the living room. I've done my share of below zero games.
Radar reports...
Of course, gays want to claim everyone is gay. But even a broken watch is right twice a day.
Who cares? Seriously, the only people who care about this are people who delight in interfering in other people's lives.
GB is a small town. If Aaron Rodgers was gay, it would be known.
That little guy needs to be excoriated for writing "where I am at". What an illiterate!
Sometimes your dog is asking for it, Nick.
why would it be known? for the most part no one knows what slash who derek jeter is fucking and he's mr. yankee and spends half his year in NYC.
If someone wants to keep stuff quiet and they have money to pay for it, they can keep shit quiet.
And that's not really true. If a guy with the profile of Rodgers was gay, it would mean a lot to gay people. Maybe even a few gay teenagers struggling with their identies. Gay kids are still killing themselves in pretty high numbers. Seeing a famous guy who's actually a good guy and happens to be gay could make a difference between some poor kid hanging himself and not.
So there's a good reason to be interested in it beyond taking delight in interfering in people's lives.
OTOH, if Rodgers doesn't want to talk about it--it shouldn't be forced on him.
Meh.
Sorry Mr. Haz. I don't mean to sound like I'm yelling at you, I'm not and if it comes across that way I apologize.
Cody, I agree completely. I taught high school in a town w/ a lot of rural, farm kids. Do you have any idea the hell a fat, rural, gay, kid gets in high school. It broke my heart when I saw it, and did what I could. But, the reality is, those kids live a life in the lower rings of hell and it's not their fault!
Yeah. I'm not sure when my father "knew" he was gay (we never talked about it) but I know he was always a little different as a kid and I know his father was always sure he was 'light in the loafers' and all the other terms for it--and apparently my grandfather was a miserable prick of a man. Picture if Crack and Meade had a baby, that kind of evil, nasty shit.
Anyway. In the time...kids in small new england towns didn't get to be gay. Unless they left the town, moved to New York and fucked everything that moved, got AIDS and came back to die a lingering horrible death (a cousin of my fathers...the gay is strong in that side of the family...).
So my father gets married and has me, cuz that'll prove he's not gay, right?
Yeah. So instead of just one person being miserable, now there's three people. Most kid's fathers had cool porn stashes. Imagine my surprise as a ten-twelve year old. "What the heck are they doing? Where are the boobies?"
And then he loses his mind, takes up with a guy closer to my age than his own, and after 30 odd years of doing everything as far as finances and stuff, he takes off...and my mother is completely clueless.
So now he's off in Minnesota, happily being gay and I've got custody of my very bitter mother--who's still clueless about finances and so forth.
Thinking about how it must have been for him, I can't really hate him for it. Must've been hell growing up in a small cow and logging town. If Ted Williams or someone had come out as a gay man back then, maybe he wouldn't have had to live that way.
It's one of the biggest reasons I got really pissed at Annie Outhouse. She called me homophobic because I can't quite get with gay marriage--I'm still stuck on that. I'm all for civil unions and equal spousal rights, it's just the tradition that I'm hung up on. But that wasn't enough for her. Fuck her. Her kids are queers. So's my father. I think father trumps kids.
So there.
Sigh. Where's Darcy. She promised me a hug once.
Cody, Wow! That is a tough, tough road. That getting married as cover for being gay should be dwindling fast. You were born a generation too soon. The is NOT A LECTURE. But, I have learned forgiveness and giving up resentment can be the most important, and difficult step. Don't get me wrong, I often have resentment, but I'm working on it. The variable is your mom. Seeing her pain, combined w/ yours, is a very tough one/two combo. Buon anno, paisan.
Cody --- (((Hug)))
Wow Cody I had no idea.
God Bless you and your family. I hope you have a Happy and Healthy New Year.
I don't think you should hate Aaron Rodgers because he is gay.
You should hate him because he is a Packer.
That is a Green Bay Packer.
Not just because he is a fudge Packer. So to speak.
That is a lot to deal with Cody.
I did not realize you were from New England.
But well said and may you have a better New Year.
I was just tweeking Trooper and not meaning to be mean. That is a tough situation and what you said was really well said. I really do wish you and your family the best.
And I don't really care a bit what Aaron is into. It is not like he is Tom Brady (who probably gets off looking in the mirror).
And I want to see them take out the 49ers.
Sorry Mr. Haz. I don't mean to sound like I'm yelling at you, I'm not and if it comes across that way I apologize.
Cody, there is naught that need apologizin' fer. If there was, I'd tell ya.
You have a remarkable life story. Have you considered writing it down?
Thanks guys. And Darcy.
I have actually thought about it, Mr. Haz, but I've held back because I didn't know how to do it without causing additional pain.
But the more time that goes by without my father even bothering to speak to me--and he hasn't since he headed to MN even though for the summer before he left I let him live in my house and paid him to paint it and so forth...the less I care about his feelings.
And Evi, if I was Tom Brady I imagine I'd get off staring at myself in the mirror too. He's very pretty.
Very.
I understand he's the reason Paladian started watching football...
But thanks. I'm not sure what happened there. Been a rougher couple of weeks than I thought I guess.
But I really appreciate that there's this place where I can.
Family stories are all different. I have told some, but since I have a young sister I am really hoping to take what I know about my parents to the grave with me. Not soon, mind you, but I don't want there to be a possibility of her ever reading about what my father did. She was only 10 when he died and I don't want to be the one to tarnish her memories of dear ol' dad.
But they are doozies, I gotta tell you.
I thought about writing a book, but it not be believed. My one remaining brother and I get together once in a while to discuss and repeat and reminisce, but we are the sole keepers of those tales.
Maybe I could write a book using a pseudonym - maybe something like Sixty One Grit - no one would ever figure that out.
Hang in there Codes, time passes, the sharp edges of memories get worn smooth like pebbles in a stream. They are still there, but the jaggedness is reduced.
Maybe you could give your notes to Mrs. Spinelli for use in her next novel.
Cody, the problem with Tom Brady is he gets off wearing Uggs. I can't support that foreign footwear.
Then again, I guess his wife is foreign too. Maybe that explains it.
My resolution, not to be even 1/10 as miserable and unhappy as a few bloggers we know. They are cursed, no matter how many hits their amazon portal gets.
It's not the wearing of the Uggs that gets me with TB12--it's the one where he's wearing a goat around his shoulders like a shawl.
I'm pretty sure there's a picture of Meade doing that with a yellow lab.
A yellow lab with her jaws taped shut and socks duct taped over her claws.
In my experience, it's the hidden secrets, lies and attached shame that end up being far more potent and damaging than the actual behavior being covered over or denied.
Young children have no choice but to accept life as presented (or dissociate) while the adults around them act out, work out or hide their personal issues.
So yes, I also believe "father trumps kids"; as the children of fathers with conflicting interests, hidden behaviors and secrets will eventually find themselves entangled in patterns that involve the whole family.
Third on the list, following fathers and kids, would be siblings, like the brother that became mine by marriage. All relationships within a family system (between parent, child and siblings) and those outside (with friends and future relationships) are compromised when behavior is hidden, lies are maintained and truth is denied.
Lived truth requires expression and writing, music and art are some of the ways it can happen when conversational, and person to person relational opportunities are limited.
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