First family vacation in years. At the beach hundreds of miles away from home..left oldest son, 22, in charge of making sure the house doesn;t blow up and the cat is fed...before you yell, he opted not to come..lol.
So trip down, by car, was rainy beyond compare. It. Rained. Constantly. Didn't get a break from the constant rain til about an hour or two away from our destination. Two days in vehicle with nothing to look at but rain. So since I wasn;t driving, I did a lot of surfing the net on my phone. Facebook, Twitter, my email, different news stories, etc. And I had a lot of time to contemplate the vapidity of the people who make and create and react to the news du jour. And it makes me wonder if no one sees what is happening behind the headlines.
I mean, we've gone from Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner to the Confederate flag to all sorts of little stupid crap in between. Do we forget that we have a President hell bent on making deals with Iran, who would just as soon blow us up as look at us? Do we forget our country is printing useless paper money as fast as it can trying to pretend its way out of debt? That China basically owns us because of our debt? That we have about a dozen seekers of the next presidency who pretend to be conservative out there running their mouths about everything from the debt to transgender bullshit that no one is listening to except idiots like those at Salon who twist everything around? As well as two extremely far far left of center candidates on the other side who think socialism and all is the answer (but at least one cant be depended on to answer her phone when her own ambassador is pleading for help prior to his massacre?) #Benghazi.
I have all kinds of opinions on the social issues of the day...my teen daughter reminds me on a daily basis that I need to get with and accept that LGBT and gender fluid and whatever the hell else they want to call themselves need to be respected and treated as special beings. Um. No. I follow the rule that if you are decent to me, I;m decent to you, but I don;t believe in giving out supposed rights to every little special interest group just because they are the ones currently yelling the loudest. I'm not fighting a social interest battle. I simply want our country to survive.
And unless we as a citizenry pull our heads out of our butts and pull together as a people, we're done. As long as individuals whine and bitch and moan because someone looked at them cross eyed and now they're so offended they need to go cry while laws are passed to prevent people from looking at others cross eyed, then we're done. Get over yourselves. Grow the hell up. Get out of mommy's basement--after all you're 40 yrs old dammit---get a job and get a clue about the world. Inform yourselves, preferably using other sources than Huffington Post. Read a history book, preferably one written before the last 20 years.
And stop paying attention to, and giving attention to, the idiots abounding out there who do stupid crap. Pay attention to those running this country. Vote. Hold office holders accountable for their votes. Make some noise.
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