What’s on your mind today?

We were pretty quiet yesterday because the Maine voting really had us thinking amongst ourselves, and we’ve decided to take the next step in our personal evolutions and move into actual activist mode.  

We’ve been talking on this site about “Spousal Rights” as opposed to the terminology of “gay marriage” for a very long time — but we preach to a committed choir around here.   But, we’ve never taken the “Spousal Rights” idea on the road and tried to start something with this.  

We believe a new approach is needed to attain equal spousal rights for all couples…and that this needs to be a civil issue, with “marriage” and its religious connotations left to churches.  What we need to lobby for is equal protection, equal financial opportunities, equal legal obligations for any two adults of legal age who wish to enter into this sort of civil partnership together. 

We’ve decided to make it a new mission of ours to change the terminology being used by the LGBTQ community — to rebrand the Equality Issue and ultimately convince the entrenched, stubborn, myopic, delusional LGBTQ activists at the helm currently that they are very much steering ship after ship over the falls into disaster by insisting on jamming the term “gay marriage” down middle America’s throats.  ”Gay marriage” will never happen. 

“Spousal rights” will…as that term does not carry any emotional or religious baggage and actually conjures no visual image at all.  

Please do us an enormous focus group favor today — PLEASE find one or two people you know and ask them to close their eyes and say the first thing that comes to mind when you say the following words (tell them not to think, but to just blurt out whatever it is they see visually in their minds’ eyes when you say the words):

(1) Homeland Security

(2) Clean Energy

(3) Spousal Rights

(4) School Vouchers

(5) Gay Marriage

Psychologically, we believe the people having visceral reactions against “Gay Marriage” would not be hell-bent against the more nebulous, Borax-sounding, rebranding “Spousal Rights”. 

Aspic never sold as well as gelatin…or its proprietary eponym, Jell-O. 

Prunes were gross and just for old people until dried plums came along. 

Patagonian toothfish couldn’t be given away in restaurants but Chilean sea bass remains one of the pricier menu items. 

It is all about the branding in this country, folks…words are important…there’s a psychology behind everything that current LGBTQ activists don’t appreciate.

So, strategically, we intend to do what we can to see that we get through to them.  Don’t ask us how, because we have no idea, but it’s time we got off our butts and took the laptops on the road and into our community more here in Boystown.  We’re going to start meeting with local LGBTQ leaders and talk to them about this rebranding.  We’ll try our level best to get the message to higher ups in Marriage Equality groups.  We’ll write Letters to the Editor and articles we’ll submit to LGBTQ publications.  

Hopefully, when we write on this topic, you’ll help us spread those links so as many people as possible can help the LGBTQ community see the path to equality is not through forcing people to accept “gay marriage”…but giving them the opportunity to embrace “spousal rights” as a concept that doesn’t emotionally and psychologically alienate them instantly.

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Speaking of activist mode, Michelle Bachmann’s leading a charge of citizens to Washington today.  Here’s a site with more information on that.  There is information there on how to find your local representatives.

Here is something we want you all to remember everyday, that has been told to us repeatedly through the years by the Senators and Members of Congress we have known personally:  letters, calls, and personal appearances by constituents MATTER. So few people bother to do this, so seldom do voters actually contact Congress, that when they do it sends the Congressional offices into panic mode.

Every letter, call, or visit a Congress Member gets is treated as if thousands if not tens of thousands of people feel the same way.  Some of these Members get so few calls a week that 100 received in a day would make them apoplectic.

If Bachmann’s March is a success…we bet there will be a huge uptick in Pepto Bismal sales as Members contemplate what to do about Pelosi’s dismal Utopiacare bill.

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Here’s some random fun we discovered this week, at www.CantYouSeeImBusy.com 

These are games you can play that look like they’re Word documents or Excel spreadsheets.  There’s one that’s like Pong and it’s our favorite…you run the little space bar across the document and bounce a little ball upwards to disappear the words on the document.  Instead of getting caught playing Solitaire or Minesweep, you can get caught with an open Word doc that looks like you are almost kind of sort of doing what you are supposed to do all day.

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Another fun thing we just had to share with you, which helped us get out of our post-Halloween funk, is THANKSGIVING PIZZA. 

Of course, we discovered this at Pie Hole in Boystown last night (home of our favorite After School Special sausage and marshmallow pizza).  Pie Hole had been running an Octoberfest special pizza in, duh, October: sauerkraut and bratwurst.  We popped in for one of our After School Specials but were delighted to see the Thanksgiving theme up and running.

- Roast turkey

- Gravy (instead of pizza sauce)

- Craisins

- Sage

- Mashed potatoes

- Cheddar and what we think was provologne cheese

Great Merciful Zeus, it was Thanksgiving on a pizza.  Loved it.

We never thought we’d replicate the joy of having a Thanksgiving Sandwich for the first time several years ago (turkey, mashed sweet potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, on a toasted baguette…with pumpkin cheesecake drizzled with root beer sauce for dessert), but Thanksgiving Pizza was indeed such a marvelous holiday-themed gastronomic surprise.

Though, if we were to tweak Pie Hole a bit, we’d probably use cranberry sauce instead of pizza sauce and eliminate the gravy (which we personally don’t like), and we’d substitute sweet potatoes instead of the regular mashed (because we love sweet potatoes), but that’s just us. 

And we will DEFINITELY be making this pizza at home in the future…and think about it, this is yet another inventive thing you can do with Thanksgiving leftovers.

From Boystown to your town, another holiday treat randomly stumbled upon.