I've been keeping a list in my head of various things that have been annoying and/or pissing me off lately...these are things that are either directly happening to me or things that are just in general happening...in no particular order...the list includes.
1) The Donald. Can this entire pretend run for the white house be over already? Honestly, it's making a mockery of the political system. (I'm not suggesting that he's the ONLY thing mocking the political system, but he's the one that really sends it over the edge.) Let's as a nation take a collective step back and assess the situation.
Yes, there are benefits to him being able to say whatever the fuck he wants because he's not beholden to donations...and yes, I'll be first in line to say I've grown extremely weary of our nation being in a state of perpetual "offended-ness" (is that a word? No? Make it one.) People "taking offense" is exhausting...because absolutely everyone seems to have jumped on the bandwagon of offense and it's become a real problem.
However, the Donald has taken his campaign against political correctness to new heights and managed to offend even people whom I previously believed were un-offendable. In that respect, he's managed to take our collective IQ and knock it down a few pegs. The longer he talks, the bigger fools he makes out of us collectively. It's getting rather embarrassing.
Build a wall with Mexico and make them pay for it? Exactly how will this work Donald? Ask the Germans how well that wall thing worked.
The Donalds ideas are stupid at best, frightening at worst. But what's doubly terrifying to me is how many people seem to stand with him. I'm all for making America great again, but I can't see how anyone could look at the Donald and see him as the guy for the job. His behavior is pure amateur and his childish barbs continually expose him as a fraud. I hope he gets this "run" out of his system soon.
2) The proposed defunding of Planned Parenthood is another topic which quickly raises my blood pressure, especially because those who advocate for it, at least on my Facebook feed, are all dealing with inaccurate facts. I won't go overly into all the details which are continually inaccurately reported... but if you are of the persuasion that has taken the overly edited and ,by their own admission, coerced videos posted by a ridiculous fractal group as truth, then please, volunteer yourself for an upcoming firing squad. We need to thin the gene pool.
Planned Parenthood saves lives. Access to contraception saves lives. Abortion does not save lives. Ask any person who's found themselves in a situation that requires testing. If you've managed to come this far and life and have no benchmark for such a situation, please direct yourself to this post and read about when it happened to me. http://charismajones.blogspot.com/2014/08/inappropriate-jokessomewhat-appropriate.html) Planned Parenthood isn't about abortions, it's about necessary and life saving reproductive health. As anyone who's found themselves without health insurance and needed assistance or someone who is scared and uneducated about their reproductive health about how important Planned Parenthood is. And shut up otherwise.
The very wording "planned parenthood is selling chopped up babies" is meant to be inflammatory. Because who in their right mind would be for the chopping of babies. Notice, that in these arguments, there is very rarely the utterance of a clinical term. The words are chosen for a reaction. No one is "for" chopped up babies...but I am squarely behind clinical research using fetal tissue and the potential it has to save lives.
Overall, I'm pretty tired of people who are not me attempting to educate me on my own reproductive system and mandate what I am allowed to do with it. Not that I have any idea what I would do if I was faced with an unplanned pregnancy, but I want the right to decide. I'm not anti-life...I'm very PRO life. I'm just also pro my life. And pro you not being the ruler of my life.
It's pretty simple really. If you don't want an abortion, don't have one. If you can't stomach the thought fetal tissue being used for research, don't donate it.
Somehow, we've gotten to the point as a society where we are so worried to offend anyone that we are unable to lived and let live. It's not about you...it's about me, or its about her, or it's about him.
Just like our quest to rid the world of any objectionable comments, we seem also on a quest to rid the world of any differing opinions.
3) Gun Control. Deal with it, we live in a different time than when our Bill of Rights was written. I highly doubt our forefathers intended the Second Amendment to cover the right of a citizen to own an Uzi with a 100 shot clip. It just wasn't like that.
I grew up around guns. There has never been a time in my life that there was not a gun in my home. My dad had 'em. An old 22 rifle, a Lugar pistol, some other ones...they were always there. I honestly don't think there has every been much ammo to accompany said weaponry, but I was never much interested.
I spent a number of my formative years in Texas around little girls who's dad's and older brothers were hunters. Hell, one of my best friends in elementary school had two brothers who recalibrated their own ammo in the garage. They had a whole set up. Guns were always around, but I never felt much cause to examine them, because the were there, we knew what they were and we didn't have to feel curious. We could just ask our parents. (Honestly, I don't think I could ever really hunt, but that's more because the thought of having to get up early to go sit in a tree and be quiet all day sounds horrible to me.)
However, as long as we are going to ignore the rapid decay of metal health and the absolute lack of resources available for those in the midst of a mental crisis, we are always going to have a gun issue.
As long as we continue to blur the lines between fantasy and reality in gun play, we are always going to have a gun issue.
As long as we devote countless hours to the reporting of gun violence and it's perpetrators, rather than the victims, we will always have gun violence.
There is no reason a reasonable person needs an semi-automatic rifle and a large magazine. There is no sport in that...if you need a lot of bullets at one time and quickly, you have a more nefarious plan.
I am so tired of hearing people say that anyone is trying to swipe their guns. No one is.
We are so worried about offending each other, so worried about protecting the unborn and we are not the least bit concerned the deep offense of murdering an actual human being in cold blood.
Until we change that reality, we will ALWAYS have gun violence.
This sums up my big three on the list of national issues which are pissing me off. I initially planned on supplementing this list with things in my personal life that I'm also driving up the walls about...things like, how damn ineffective my health insurance's website is, the fact that some moron attempted to steal used oil and destroyed my garage door today and a conversation I had last night with someone I had truly liked that pissed me off enough that I had to engage a few members of the squad to return me to the previous even keel I was on where I purely thought the person was pathetic.
But, these national issues are enough. I'll save my personal rage for later.
However, the Donald has taken his campaign against political correctness to new heights and managed to offend even people whom I previously believed were un-offendable. In that respect, he's managed to take our collective IQ and knock it down a few pegs. The longer he talks, the bigger fools he makes out of us collectively. It's getting rather embarrassing.
Build a wall with Mexico and make them pay for it? Exactly how will this work Donald? Ask the Germans how well that wall thing worked.
The Donalds ideas are stupid at best, frightening at worst. But what's doubly terrifying to me is how many people seem to stand with him. I'm all for making America great again, but I can't see how anyone could look at the Donald and see him as the guy for the job. His behavior is pure amateur and his childish barbs continually expose him as a fraud. I hope he gets this "run" out of his system soon.
2) The proposed defunding of Planned Parenthood is another topic which quickly raises my blood pressure, especially because those who advocate for it, at least on my Facebook feed, are all dealing with inaccurate facts. I won't go overly into all the details which are continually inaccurately reported... but if you are of the persuasion that has taken the overly edited and ,by their own admission, coerced videos posted by a ridiculous fractal group as truth, then please, volunteer yourself for an upcoming firing squad. We need to thin the gene pool.
Planned Parenthood saves lives. Access to contraception saves lives. Abortion does not save lives. Ask any person who's found themselves in a situation that requires testing. If you've managed to come this far and life and have no benchmark for such a situation, please direct yourself to this post and read about when it happened to me. http://charismajones.blogspot.com/2014/08/inappropriate-jokessomewhat-appropriate.html) Planned Parenthood isn't about abortions, it's about necessary and life saving reproductive health. As anyone who's found themselves without health insurance and needed assistance or someone who is scared and uneducated about their reproductive health about how important Planned Parenthood is. And shut up otherwise.
The very wording "planned parenthood is selling chopped up babies" is meant to be inflammatory. Because who in their right mind would be for the chopping of babies. Notice, that in these arguments, there is very rarely the utterance of a clinical term. The words are chosen for a reaction. No one is "for" chopped up babies...but I am squarely behind clinical research using fetal tissue and the potential it has to save lives.
Overall, I'm pretty tired of people who are not me attempting to educate me on my own reproductive system and mandate what I am allowed to do with it. Not that I have any idea what I would do if I was faced with an unplanned pregnancy, but I want the right to decide. I'm not anti-life...I'm very PRO life. I'm just also pro my life. And pro you not being the ruler of my life.
It's pretty simple really. If you don't want an abortion, don't have one. If you can't stomach the thought fetal tissue being used for research, don't donate it.
Somehow, we've gotten to the point as a society where we are so worried to offend anyone that we are unable to lived and let live. It's not about you...it's about me, or its about her, or it's about him.
Just like our quest to rid the world of any objectionable comments, we seem also on a quest to rid the world of any differing opinions.
3) Gun Control. Deal with it, we live in a different time than when our Bill of Rights was written. I highly doubt our forefathers intended the Second Amendment to cover the right of a citizen to own an Uzi with a 100 shot clip. It just wasn't like that.
I grew up around guns. There has never been a time in my life that there was not a gun in my home. My dad had 'em. An old 22 rifle, a Lugar pistol, some other ones...they were always there. I honestly don't think there has every been much ammo to accompany said weaponry, but I was never much interested.
I spent a number of my formative years in Texas around little girls who's dad's and older brothers were hunters. Hell, one of my best friends in elementary school had two brothers who recalibrated their own ammo in the garage. They had a whole set up. Guns were always around, but I never felt much cause to examine them, because the were there, we knew what they were and we didn't have to feel curious. We could just ask our parents. (Honestly, I don't think I could ever really hunt, but that's more because the thought of having to get up early to go sit in a tree and be quiet all day sounds horrible to me.)
However, as long as we are going to ignore the rapid decay of metal health and the absolute lack of resources available for those in the midst of a mental crisis, we are always going to have a gun issue.
As long as we continue to blur the lines between fantasy and reality in gun play, we are always going to have a gun issue.
As long as we devote countless hours to the reporting of gun violence and it's perpetrators, rather than the victims, we will always have gun violence.
There is no reason a reasonable person needs an semi-automatic rifle and a large magazine. There is no sport in that...if you need a lot of bullets at one time and quickly, you have a more nefarious plan.
I am so tired of hearing people say that anyone is trying to swipe their guns. No one is.
We are so worried about offending each other, so worried about protecting the unborn and we are not the least bit concerned the deep offense of murdering an actual human being in cold blood.
Until we change that reality, we will ALWAYS have gun violence.
This sums up my big three on the list of national issues which are pissing me off. I initially planned on supplementing this list with things in my personal life that I'm also driving up the walls about...things like, how damn ineffective my health insurance's website is, the fact that some moron attempted to steal used oil and destroyed my garage door today and a conversation I had last night with someone I had truly liked that pissed me off enough that I had to engage a few members of the squad to return me to the previous even keel I was on where I purely thought the person was pathetic.
But, these national issues are enough. I'll save my personal rage for later.
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