REMEMBER RYAN WHITE

Today marks the 33rd anniversary of the day 13 year old Ryan White got thrown out of school because he was infected with HIV. White had been diagnosed just six months before, and had been given only six months to live. As it finally turned out, Ryan lived to be 18 and passed from this world one month before he would have graduated high school.

Ryan was a native Indianan as am I. He was born in Kokomo and spent the majority of his short life there. He died in Indianapolis, where coincidentally I was born. 

Ryan was a hemophiliac; commonly known as a "bleeder"; and contracted HIV - then commonly called AIDS - from a tainted blood product. But in 1985 people were scared and many were fearful that AIDS could be transmitted via sneezing and coughing. And in a darker vein, crackpots believed that one had to be homosexual to catch the disease and believed that Ryan was gay and receiving "God's punishment in his body". A year-long court battle ensued, and Ryan was finally permitted to attend school again. 

That didn't end Ryan's battle. It was only the beginning. He was required to use separate restrooms and "excused" from gym with its requirement to shower with the other boys. He was also treated as a pariah by many. His story became national news. His family ultimately decided to move elsewhere when some ignoramus fired a bullet into his home in the dead of night.

The family moved to Cicero, Indiana where people were more educated and accepting. He quickly became an international celebrity and a spokesman for victims of his disease. Michael Jackson gave him a 1968 Mustang, Elton John lent his mother money for a down-payment for a house in Cicero and donated the re-payment to Ryan's sister's college fund. 

But Ryan always was emphatic that he would have very happily given up all this to be free of his disease. 

He contributed so much to the erasure of the ignorance and fear surrounding this poorly understood and feared virus. And he suffered so greatly. The actions of the people of Kokomo made me almost ashamed to be a native Indianan.

Ryan White made me proud to be a native of Indiana again.

At some point in this controversy the Washington City Paper wrote an article about Ryan and his struggle. In response I wrote a letter to the editor. An excerpt:

"And through all this, this brave young Hoosier displays the qualities of our finest young men, smiling and taking the blows of the disease and the harassment and court battles seemingly in stride. 

The Flag of the State of Indiana is a torch aflame surrounded by stars. The torch is Hope piercing the darkness of ignorance and despair. And the highest star today belongs to Ryan White."

I hope I meet you in Heaven, Ryan.

SHOW ME WHAT A REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC LOOKS LIKE

IN A RECENT DEMONSTRATION ABOUT IMMIGRATION AT THE HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING; AN ILLEGAL DEMONSTRATION AT THAT; AN INCREASINGLY COMMON CHANT WAS EMPLOYED. This chant, which may soon overtake the tired old "Hey hey! Ho ho! (insert what's pissing the rabble off) Has got to go!" Is this: 

A fat butt floppy tit four eyed dyke gets on a megaphone and shouts: "SHOW ME WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!" And the crowd, composed of ridiculously dressed or costumed disorderly rabble replies: "THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!"

Exactly. Democracy - direct democracy - is basically rule by mob. The biggest mob wins. It's two wolves and a lamb discussing what's for dinner. That's why the Founders who wrote the Constitution didn't provide a democracy. They provided for a Representative Republic with the executive and legislative members elected in a democratic process. 

The Republican Party believes in this. Increasingly, the Democrats tend to use the violent mob. That's why the parties have the names they have. 

Shut up, sit down and go vote in November and show me what a Representative Republic looks like.

NUTCASE WITH A SHOTGUN AND A GRUDGE SHOOTS AND KILLS 5, INJURES 2 AT NEWSPAPER OFFICE; LEFTIST MEDIA BLAME TRUMP, "ASSAULT WEAPONS"

ONCE AGAIN A KILLER ATTACKS A "SOFT TARGET", AND ONCE MORE THE LEFTIST MEDIA MAKE DEMANDS ABOUT GUNS AND TRY TO BLAME PRESIDENT TRUMP.

This is getting monotonous. A man who had been identified years ago as a potential threat attacked a small newspaper in Annapolis, MD. with a gun. No one in the office was prepared to deal with an armed threat even though they all knew the guy was deranged and a possibly lethal threat. He took a shotgun to the newspaper office and blew open the doors with a blast of buckshot and then fired away, leaving five dead souls and two injured before being stopped and taken alive by police. 

The left, including members of the newspaper staff, wasted no time in ... 

LAYING THE GROUND TO BLAME THESE KILLINGS ON PRESIDENT TRUMP. Their proof? The President:

(1) has called the Leftist media the enemy of America, allegedly encouraging and inspiring the killer; and

(2) has failed to support what these morons call "common sense gun control",thus enabling the killer.

The unhinged "tweets" and other public comment poured forth almost immediately. David Simon, former Baltimore Sun "journalist" and writer and producer of the (fair due excellent) HBO miniseries "The Wire" tweeted saying "Thanks a lot you fucking fascist moron". A "reporter" for the attacked paper, the Annapolis Capitol Gazette, who hid under her desk said that while she appreciates "thoughts and prayers" she needed "more than that" (meaning idiotic gun control measures which would not have stopped one iota of what went on) and if those were not forthcoming those thoughts and prayers were not worth a fuck. In so many words.

The tweets and other commentary along these lines has poured forth in a fast, furious stream of invective; unhinged, demanding and liberally laced with obscenities. 

But what really has them unhinged is that practically nobody believes these people anymore. 53% of DEMOCRATS think they are a pack of untrustworthy liars, 94% of Republicans and a whopping 78% of independent voters say the media are a pack of lying sacks of shit and not to be trusted. The media are in fact the propaganda arm of the American Statist Progressive (ASP) movement and report "fake news" all the time. And so what's the first thing they do when one of their propaganda offices gets shot up? Why, try to leverage the event to regain their "credibility".  And how do they try to do it? By spreading lies and idiocy and hyperbole with overblown appeals to emotion rather than reason. 

It's not working. The common man here in America fell for it for a while, you thought you had finally gained control of the national mindset; and then President Trump was elected and you got put on notice that nobody believes you anymore. And you try to counter that with more bullcrap that everybody is supposed to believe because five of you got murdered? 

Rotsa Ruck, ASPs. Here at the Alexandria Daily Poop, we of course offer our thoughts and prayers for the deceased and wounded and their families. We wish you would publish the names of the churches or organizations the deceased in particular belonged to so that donations might be sent to assist the grieving families. Why haven't you done that? Hmm?