"If you have nothing nice to say, don't say nothing at all." — my Grandma

It chafes me a bit, as I dislike politics and the lies and misleading attitudes contained within, but lately I can’t avoid it.

The reaction to the Health Care bill is childish, and completely unworthy of attempts to justify it.

This is not to say I agree with all aspects the Health Care bill, this is not to say that I support it as-is, this is to say just this: to those that disagree with it, stop acting like the ever-feared terrorists you claim to hate so much.  Some of you have fought against terroristic tactics, and now you employ them?

Assholes, the lot of you — calling supporters of this Health Care bill “baby-killers”, calling the black members of the government who participated “niggers”, calling homosexual members “faggots”, mailing powders to offices, calling in threats…  You make me sick, and display all the worst aspects of humanity.

We have a public forum and discussion about these things, and when you have lost the battle you shut the hell up and wait for another chance.

And on that topic, just because you have your beliefs doesn’t mean someone who holds other beliefs is inferior.

You claim to hold our democratic-flavored process in high regard, until you don’t get your way.

And on the other side, those who worked so hard to get this Health Care bill through: quit gloating already.  Gawddammit, things are difficult enough because they don’t want to give up the fight, and you start pissing gasoline on the fire?

This economy has a long fucking way to go to recover, all of us have to just buckle down and keep working to make it better.  The collective infighting and bickering and childishness isn’t helping one little bit.  All y’all: shut the hell up and move on to the next topic.

And news media outlets?  Please start covering other news.  Our fucking Health Care stuff is not the only thing going on in the world, when six billion people all over the place doing things all the damn time.  Quit covering the same six stories over and over, and quit trying to win the argument about Health Care.  Let’s find out what’s going on elsewhere on this spinning ball of mud.

I’ll get back to regular posts when life gets a little more even-keeled for me.  I just got tired of remaining silent on this.

The straw that broke the camel’s back?  Someone told me Bush Jr. was the best president we ever had.

And now, I’m going back to lurking on the Internets.

Skåll!!!

I know two people who admit they are reflecting over their lives so far (both wouldn’t call it that, but I could convince ‘em that’s the proper wording,) and five other people who are thinking about things rather deeply.

Too deeply for casual conversation.

I’d love to say I know what’s caused this introversion because I don’t know for sure…  Mostly since I’ve been in a reflective mood over the past two months, but I can make an educated guess.

Life sucks.  Things just suck.

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Well, really, truly, foaming-at-the-mouth angry.  Being a little tweaked can lead to some interesting posts, but don’t do it when full of unfocused rage.  ’Cause blogging when a red haze clouds the vision leads to bad choices of words, and that’s just not a good thing.

So, I’ve stayed away, choosing that advice over succumbing to the bitter, nasty jumble of words and phrases just poised at the edge of my fingers, waiting to escape onto this screen.

When I was a wee-boy growing up in Duluth, I had problems with my temper.  I would say nasty things, behave atrociously, and was just a real pain at times.  One day someone said “Nate, you’re talking from your stomach too much.  Don’t speak from your stomach, just use it to start from.  It’s all just noise and smelly gas in your stomach.  Speak from your heart and your head.  That’s where you take that noise and gas and turn it into something useful.”

Well, I’m done typing the words straight from my stomach.  My head and heart are itching to get back to this thing what I call a blog.

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I mean, really.  (Many thanks to xkcd.com for allowing hot-linking.  Click it to read more.)

Skåll!!!

I watched CNBC all day yesterday, seeing stock up all over the place because investors were anticipating the end of the smear ads and compaigning.  The talking heads all seemed like they were holding their breath, eager for today.

After the day’s stock market watch, we switched over to BBC America and watched the results come in.  I couldn’t even think during the whole evening.  I just sat watching as the states results were called.  It astounded me how FOX News started calling results for Obama earlier than ABC, NBC, or CBS.  The british talking head kept saying “We can’t accept that!  The votes haven’t been fully counted yet!  We aren’t even at a majority!  They’re giving that one up early, aren’t they?”

I found it amusing, the anglo perspective on our political process.  Some day I’ll have to find out how their process works to be able to compare it.  Meh, someday.

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