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~Gives Jesse some Chamomile Tea~ hehehehe....


I did wake up with more though, bare with me on the Rambling here..lol

I woke up, and my brother tried his Damnedest to convince me to read even a few e-pages of Larry Flynts "One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History " book, believe me, I told him right off the bat "Do you realiZe the level of awkwardly Weird you've reached? I wake up, craving coffee, and u smack my sleepiness away with this? I don't wanna discuss Larry Flynt with you at 8 in the fuckin morning...shoo, go away."
Eventually I caved in and read a little since he was narrating for everyone in the neighborhood to listen.....
He said the book explains amongst other things a Presidents homosexual relationship with a Senator at a time where Slavery was an issue and said Senator was a heavy influence on presidential decisions, during a Time when homosexuality was condemned by Death....
That last part hooked me...
The precious Democratic U.S., that condemns, currently, other countries and denounces "harsh" punishments elsewhere, among them being Homosexual deaths in so-called extremist Islamic/Socialist countries.
At one point, they did the same? Bah! Ok, they stopped, but still approved it once, and I'm more than sure there's a convenient reason to stop somewhere..

I did look into it, to see if Flynt was just being controversial...
I found this:

In modern times eight countries have no official heterosexist discrimination. They are Argentina, Belgium, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, South Africa, and Spain. This full non-discrimination includes the rights of marriage and adoption. Two additional countries have marriage rights for same-sex couples, namely Portugal and Canada, but in Portugal this right does not include same-sex adoption, and in Canada it varies by jurisdiction (it is legal everywhere except in Nunavut and Yukon). The Canadian Blood Services’ policy indefinitely defers any man who has sex with another man, even once, since 1977. LGBT people in the US face different laws for certain medical procedures than other groups. For example, gay men have been prohibited from giving blood since 1983, and George W. Bush's FDA guidelines barred them from being sperm donors as of 2005, even though all donated sperm is screened for sexually-transmitted diseases and even the most promiscuous heterosexual men are not barred from donating.

And then I read the "blurb"

Ben Franklin saved the American Revolution by seducing French Women. A gay love affair between President James Buchanan and Senator William King aided the secession movement. Woodrow Wilson’s girlfriend dictated his letters to the German Kaiser. And lesbian relationships inspired Eleanor Roosevelt to become a revolutionary crusader for equal rights. The colorful sex lives of America’s most powerful leaders have influenced social movements, government policies, elections and even wars, yet they are so whitewashed by historians that people think Thomas Jefferson and Abe Lincoln were made of marble, not flesh and blood.

Granted, when he mentioned a part about Eleanor Roosevelt being bisexual, I shrugged mumbling "That's not exactly news..but ok."

after I checked a sampling from Amazon, I reserved a Kindle copy, and told my grinning brother "oh shaddap"..