So I'm the single mother of a teenage daughter.

That should be enough said right there. Truthfully it should.

But said teenager has a surefire way to get my goat faster than anything I know and that is to accuse me of racism or worse being stupid because I don;t see life from her perspective a lot of times.

Like last night.

My significant other is having major phone issues so he was using my phone to call his provider. Half an hour later, he has the promise of a new phone on its way and he was telling me about the end of the call I couldn;t hear. The lady from the call center in the Phillipines who could barely understand him and he her. So my only comment was, for right or wrong, that if people are going to do business in a country they need to be able to coherently speak the language and comprehend it as well.

That set my kid off  like you would not believe. I was rude and a number of other things. I told her that there have been a number of times I have been on the phone and I cannot understand the other person due to their extremely thick accent and have really wanted to request someone with better ability to communicate with me and again I was informed I was rude and horrible.

Why? I speak English. Ok American English, but still.  I do not have the ear for dialects and accents and so on that I did when I was younger. I do not remember most of my high school Spanish class. I have not had to use it. The language of this country, the language govt business is done in first and foremost is English. Speak it. Read it . Learn it. If I was moving to or even visiting another country, I would darn sure learn the language first.

Just saying.

To the RNC

An open letter to the Republican National Committee:
I just checked my email and found your survey invitation.  I was curious so I checked it out. I have several issues with your self serving survey.
1) In order to even start the survey, I had to pick a candidate, which quite frankly, given the piss poor excuses for candidates, surpassed only by those on the other side....and that not by more than the tiniest fraction, is not something I am prepared to do. So I slapped a checkmark over one who probably won't last past the next primary and began.
2) Your list of most important issues that I have to pick only ONE of....yeah well I see ALL of them as vital. Everything from the economy, which sucks ass, to terrorism, to protecting our constitutional rights as granted by the Bill of Rights....My candidate will deal with it all....not just a pet one or two.
3) The temerity of you to ask for a donation at the end. I don't have enough extra cash to buy a pot to piss in, sorry if that offends folks, so dry up. Do not ever dare to send anything else to me that contains a request for money. As a matter of fact, just don't send me anything else. I'm a highly intelligent adult and more than capable of determining my choice for president, senate, and dogcatcher without your surveys and questions clogging up my email and rural mailbox. However, feel free to call my home...with a number and name readily apparent on my caller ID, and I will be more than happy to answer in multiple bullet points any question you wish to pose.

Thank you.

And this is in no way giving permission to the other party to solicit my vote.

Poor little crybaby

So Trump is all hacked off and doesn't want to be part of the GOP debate tonight because miss prissy pants Megan Kelly is a moderator. Well boo freaking hoo. Hey Donald, are you a mature adult male who is running for the top office in this country? Well Suck. It. Up. Buttercup. You want the top spot? Deal with it.

Not that anyone sane would vote for you. But that's beside the point. You're not going to get the easy questions and it's time for you and all the other candidates to give specific answers to we the people's questions about just HOW you plan to fulfill your promises and ideas and programs as President.

I want up front. If you are going to raise taxes 300%, then tell me that. If you're going to up border patrols, I want to know by how many and by when. If you're going to dismantle the illegal disgrace of Obamacare, I want to know how and when.

If you're going to continue to shred the Constitution like the current disgrace-in-chief, then I want to know that too.

And if you don't have the right answers,You. Don't. Get. My. Vote.

See, Donald, you of pretty much all the candidates don't have a record of votes in office we can look at. All you have is a dubious financial history, a lot of loudmouth boasts, and a history of supporting liberal policies.

And you want us to believe you're conservative?

Bullshit.

You are the white Obama. You say of lot of nothing to get non thinkers to back you so you can catapult yourself into the presidency and quite frankly probably f the country up more than it already is. You have a lot of plans for hope and change...yeah well we've had 8 years of it and we're choking on it. Those of us who study history and have borne the brunt of this administration's failures do not want another like it.

We want someone who will bring our country back to its former glory...Someone who will give pause to those who want to bring us down. Folks like ISIS and their ilk should shudder in their shoes at taking us on, instead of laughing at us because our fraudulently elected (remember ACORN?) leader kowtows and apologizes and writes executive orders to try to force us to accept and tolerate those who would do us harm.

So quite frankly again, if you or any other candidate can;t or won;t handle and answer the hard questions, then you don;t deserve to be on the stage, much less president of this country.

Musings from the beach

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.

To be a cat

I have decided I want to be a cat.

They get to sleep all day.

They meow and instantly get food, water, treats, and attention.

They can scratch and lick whatever they want whenever they want.

No matter what they do, everyone thinks they're cute.

Meow.

Pics are my Chrysm cat...isn't she pretty...

I'm embarrassed to be a female

No, don't take that literally. I love being a female. I love doors being opened for me and the men around me doing the heavy lifting and all...even though I can and have and will continue to do so for myself. I love feminine things, like floaty dresses and short shorts and all.

But what embarrasses me today is the article I read by I would presume a college educated modern female on why she is "Vagina Voting". And I cannot believe in this day and age who we vote for should be decided by what body parts they have.

Vagina voting is something conjured out of thin air by those who purport to be scions of feminism. It means that you let your nether regions decide who to vote for, usually a female or a really nice looking male who is either gay or at least acts like some wuss masquerading in male clothing. I.e. Bill Clinton, Obama, Barney Frank, etc....someone who talks the manhater talk (well except Bill, who liked his women on their knees).

This particular author had a horrible painful experience as a woman...her period. Cough, Gasp. Choke. Pass me the Kotex.   Yes, she ended up with a dumbass of a male doctor who, for her uterine fibroid tumors which caused  an abnormally heavy flow, prescribed not a hysterectomy, but an IUD. Really? This lady agreed to try it and after more months of now constant flow, was in misery. Short story, her hubby apparently decided it was time to switch doctors, and she even admits she simply told him to make the appointment and make it with a female doctor. He did, uterus is now history as are the fibroids, hallelujah.

But her whole theme seems to be since men don;t bleed from their vagina once a month and have ruled the country for 200 years ( her math also needs work), that we need a female in there who knows what it's like to have a bad period. Good God Almighty Above.

Ok, I'm 47. College educated, well read, raised two sons and now a thirteen year old daughter and gasp, we both menstruate. We both wish once a month that Eve hadn't eaten the apple and Adam had had a set of balls and killed the snake....lol...But neither of us has ever wished to be a man, think men are irrelevant or anything else along those lines..we have different political viewpoints, but hey, we're both intelligent females.

The idea of voting for a female simply because you have periods, a vagina, a set of boobs, or whatever, is just abhorent . As is males voting for a male because well he doesn't PMS every 28 days.
We as a country need to get away from the train of thought that we have to vote for someone because of their gender, their race or ethnicity, their religion or lack of, and so on. Heaven help this country if we don;t stop now the tendency to vote for someone because it will make history or we don;t want to appear racist or sexist or whatever.

We need to vote with our BRAINS, not our genitalia. Not our emotions. Not because daddy voted that way or the union tells us to or "ohmygod he;s so hot". Sigh.

We need to question our candidates; we need to know exactly where they stand on the issues important to us...and if they don;t do the job, then hold their feet to the fire. Hold them accountable for their votes and their actions. Recall them. Vote them out.

This country needs strong leadership, whether it's male or female is completely irrelevant. And we as a people need to quit being distracted by  freaking social issues. I don;t care if you are a transgendered mutant midget who is polka dotted.....If you obey the Constitution and uphold it and do your constitututional duty....whether as President or a member of Congress or the Supreme Court, you will have my vote.

You know, I keep hearing and seeing a lot in the news and online about white privilege and race relations and racism.

I'd like to call bullshit on most of it. 

Yes, racism exists. It is pretty much as old as Adam and Eve. Quite frankly, just like most -isms, it's probably not going to go away.

So it seems, to me anyway, that the issue shouldn't be so much that racism exists, but how we, all of us no matter color of skin or circumstance in life, deal with it.

See, I wasn't raised to be a racist or a bigot. I was raised to see people as individuals, not their skin color. And that is how I have raised my kids. 

But I have been accused of being racist because I don't automatically back down and apologize for being white. Why should I? My skin color is an accident of birth..my parents are white, therefore it stands to reason that I am also white.

Why should I hate on my color, which is nothing I had any control over? Why should I apologize for the fact that slavery happened? That things like Little Rock and the KKK happened? I don't ask for apologies for the fact that coal mine owners oppressed their workers, even though my poppaw was a miner. There is not a person alive today that was either a slave or slave oowner prior to the Civil War. So yeah I hate like hell it happened, just like I despise the fact the Holocaust happened... But it doesn't make me guilty of it, nor responsible for it.

Nor am I responsible for things like Ferguson. I'm not the idiot who committed a crime and got shot by a cop for refusing to.obey a direct order to stand down. Was the cop.right? I don't know...but I do.know that if I feel threatened and I.have the means, I will defend myself...and while protest is great, when done correctly..peacefully...what happened in Ferguson was neither... Nor was it a protest..it was a wholesale excuse by those purporting to be supporting the family of the, quite honestly, thug...to loot and abuse, and steal and rape and even kill. 

Call me wrong, call me stupid, call me a blkeeping right wing nut job of anything but a white woman. You wouldn't be the first..but people need to quit looking for scapegoats and start accepting responsibility for their actions. 

Try starting  there, instead of blaming every one else for your poor choices.