Random Rants

[mmcnealy]

Normally I try to keep my journal full of happiness and light, untouched by the darker side of my life, which is why I haven't been posting lately.... I have just been in the rantiest mood lately, so here are a few Random Rants from me since I just had to get it out.

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If I have offended anyone by posting the below, my sincerest apologies, but I just had to let it out.

A. SCA name Y.C., these rants are _not_ about you!
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-Just because I want kids and am willing to give up the doubious pleasure of holding down an office job which is going nowhere fast and if I keep it up I _might_ make it into management in 20 years, yes I have a Bachelor's, going for a Master's.... I AM NOT A BREEDER!!!! That is like the most insulting thing I have ever heard. If you don't want to have kids, don't have kids, I respect that position and don't call you insulting names, please do the same for me, OK?

-Is it still OK to like the government? I happen to like the President, I think he is doing a good job. *gasp!* Lately I have had to be totally silent at dinner parties, around certain relatives and other social events because the people who were there were so anti-govt anti-country anti anti anti-everything. It was so un-comfortable to just sit there and have them shred conservatives, the presidents, religious people who actually go to church and try to do things right, and pretty much anything else, hyenas would have been more pleasent companions than such negative people.

Has civility gone out of style? Whatever happened to "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all"?

Maybe I have a little bit more stake in the country being married to a guy in the military, but guess what? I voted for Bush and I like him. And whatever you may say about Bush, Clinton was worse, and I am not just saying that because he was a Dem. I personally am quite happy to have the newspaper headlines be about things other than Presidential scandels about money, files, real estate, interns, sex, suspicious murders, yada yada yada. I didn't vote for Gore simply because I didn't want anyone who was tainted by those kinds of scandals. Enough is enough. Fresh perspectives and thoughts please.

-Bush did not ruin the economy, the economy was already going down in flames at the end of Clinton's terms, there was just too much irrational exuberence and screwy accounting going on for it to show up. Working in the financial industries and having a Business degree, I could see the cracks in the pretty varnish and the storm clouds on the horizon, it was only a case of when the storm would break and the floods sweep down from the mountain. I personally was surprised that it took so long for it to happen, there were bad bad signs back in 1998, with the LTC bailout and Japan not improving but going down deeper into recession. I am not going to be investing in Real Estate anytime soon, I think that's the next bubble to burst.

-Democrats are the worst crybabies and losers. Suck it up, get a clue and try to win elections without cheating at the ballot box next time. Make me **care** about your agenda, not just pity you that you have no life except to whine that its not fair. And stop changing your fricken minds along with the polls. I am a woman, I am white, I have a good job, I am hetrosexual and married, I have moral scruples... If you want my vote, put up a platform that I can agree to. Not this B.S. that is currently coming out.


On a totally different note, but still ranting.......


-Must T-Tunics have an inverted U for a hem? Did no one ever teach people to trim their hems even?!!!???!!? Good grief. I just wanted to walk around Coronation and trim things even with my scissors, it was really bad. Not as bad as the woman who thought that a black sarong and duct tape pasties over the nipples was appropriate garb to walk around in. She really needed a bra, looked like the indigineous women in old National Geographic pictures.

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Comments

[sarahbellem.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm kinda hurt by the last bit about democrats being cry babies. I'm a democrat, raised by democrats, living in liberal Northern California where we're all majority democrats. I'm *not* a cry baby. I'm pretty open about my dislike for the Bush adminstration (and no, not all Republicans) because I don't believe he stands for what I value. If he stands for what *you* value, that's great! It's a free country and hey, if there wasn't a little variety out there things would get pretty boring. But being lumped into a "cry baby" statement like that is just too much like me saying "all Republicans are money grubbing bastards." It's not true by a long shot, is it? Besides, if you want to get brutally honest about the whole thing, there's not a whole lot of difference politically between Democrats and Republicans, except on the core traditional issues like abortion rights and tax cuts (and even then it's not perfectly cut and dried). I think Clinton rocked, and I really could have cared less about who he slept with (find me a president who is a total saint, for one), but even then I didn't agree with 100% of his politics.

Standing up for your political beliefs is something to be admired, no matter what your particular affiliation is. And really, if you catch me saying anything bad about this adminstration, it's pretty much always about the President himself and those scary Rumsfeld people. I actually like Colin Powell a whole lot and if he ever ran for office, I'd back him completely, regardless of his political affiliation.

I know you're just irritated with a handful of people in particular, and hopefully not the entire Democratic constituancy. Think about Jimmy Carter... The guy is a staunch presbyterian who spends his life building homes for the poor. How much more "family values" can you get? ;)

goodness

[elegant-emily.livejournal.com]

duct tape pasties?
just...

*Whimper*

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Edaoin

[wengeue.livejournal.com]

Just a quick comment. Disagreeing with the president or any other governmental figure doesn't make someone "anti-country." If you truly believe the country is on the wrong path, it is your responsibility as a citizen to express that belief. In other words, I don't believe in "my country right or wrong" -- when something is wrong, I must say so. And I believe that is patriotic, and contributes to making the country stronger.

There are mistakes and evil on both sides; some folks do deserve to be "shredded," as you put it. But of course there are times when it's probably not appropriate to discuss politics. I won't discuss them around certain relatives at all. ;-)

I don't agree with your politics, but I will defend your right to have them and express them... just do the same for us lefties, OK? And please consider that calling us "losers" is just as inflammatory as us calling you a loser. But I understand sometimes people just have to rant.

religious people who actually go to church and try to do things right

[(Anonymous)]

OK, Marion, I understand you were in rant mode and posted a disclaimer. The politics thing doesn't make any difference to me - since I live in a different country and I've never voted in my life (I've never even *registered* to vote), but the religion thing is offensive to me.

It implies that people who aren't religious and don't go to church are in the wrong (or , at least, aren't trying to "do things right"....) I don't know if that was your intention, but that's how it comes across.

I believe in the concepts of good and bad, right and wrong and in trying to live with the emphasis on the "good" and "right" side of the balance - that has *nothing* to do with religious beliefs.

It really pisses me off when people come over all "holier than thou" because they are religious and chruchgoers and think this makes them Right and non-believers (or believers in different faiths) Wrong.

It's not necessary. I have Christain friends, regular churchgoers, who don't feel the need to be judgemental about non-churchgoers, non-believers, people of other religous beliefs etc. They accept that other people don't necessarily believe as they do and that it's the people themselves that count, not their religios beliefs or lack of them.

I'm an athiest, I'm also *proud* to fill the role that in a Christian would be known as a "Godparent".

The parents of my "Godchildren" asked me (and the other "Godparents") to stand in that capacity, not because of my (our) religious beliefs, they know I have none, but because of the effect they believe I (we) will have on the upbringing of their children. They aren't bothered by the fact that I am not a "believer", not at all religious, not a churchgoer. They have faith in something I feel to be far more important, an individual's drive to "do the right thing" regardless of their individual religious beliefs or lack of them.

OK.... I'm off the soapbox now. I won't appologise for offending anyone with what I've written. If you're offended, comment and have your say - I stand behind my view.

Teddy

Re: religious people who actually go to church and try to do things right

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Teddy,
I am sorry that you read my rant as implying that people who go to church are the only ones who can do things right and everyone else is in the wrong. that wasn't my intention or point. I fully respect peoples different beliefs and if you want to believe something different than what I believe, I have no problem or issue with you doing that. I believe that we all are searching for something to fill the spiritual void and I have found what fills mine.

My rant was at someone I was sitting next to at a dinner who went on a tear about a religious person who was acting on their convictions and the dinner guest didn't agree with those convictions so proceeded to shred them and anyone who happened to agree with them.

As I was stuck at that end of the table, it was hard to get away and I was not willing to ruin the nice evening by defending the convictions, which I happened to agree with, so I worked on changing the subject nicely, which only moved it into the political arena..... *sigh* some days you just can't win.

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Sarah,
I should have put in a seperate disclaimer that the rant did not apply to anyone on LJ.

Sorry about the cry babies comment, you aren't lumped in that catagory, just the ones who are in party leadership, who keep complaining about how not fair it is, yada yada yada. I just want to yell at them to move on already, move on from the last election, move on from the war, give me leadership and direction!
I am not registered in either party and I don't vote a straight ticket, I pick and chose my votes based on the candidate.

Which brings me to relatives.... Democrats outnumber the Republicans in my family and my Grandfather was a dyed in the wool New Dealer who was very political, several other of my relatives that I see on a regular basis are sort of on the conspiracy theory side of the party.

I agree with some position from both parties, sort of a moderate middle position. I usually could care less about politics, I just don't know where this rant came from.

Re: goodness

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Hehe, yah, and I guess the sunburn she got was pretty nasty too.

Oooooyyyy, there are certain spots that I would prefer to never see the sun. Ouch.

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Of course I respect and defend your right to have them and express them, which is why I said nothing to the people at the dinner party and just let them go off on the subject. I usually don't even bring up politics as I have learned by clashes with close relatives that sometimes silence is a virtue. I hate conflict and disagreements, I much prefer to have harmony, especially when its in a situation with food. Who wants to have an upset stomach or lose their appetite before the main course?

My rant is mainly at the leadership of the Democratic party, I just want them to move on and be a party that I can respect, that I could actually vote for again. I hate it when people or organizations are sore losers and can't get up, brush themselves off and get going again.

[sarahbellem.livejournal.com]

I understand... Believe me, I do. I was feeling a tige sensitive yesterday, and spent all night obsessing about that reply I posted... I'm so weird that way. Anyway, you know what they say... "Politics are all fun and games until someone loses an election."

;)

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

So I am not the only one who agonizes over LJ posts? As soon as I posted it, I was thinking I should make it private or delete it or something.

Thanks for understanding :)

Breeder definition

[alienor.livejournal.com]

Just because I want kids and am willing to give up the doubious pleasure of holding down an office job which is going nowhere fast and if I keep it up I _might_ make it into management in 20 years, yes I have a Bachelor's, going for a Master's.... I AM NOT A BREEDER!!!!

Nah, breeders are the ones who don't take care of their children, don't enforce limits, allow their children to run haywire all over the place, etc.

For instance, fiannaharpar is a parent, not a breeder. There's a difference.

[wengeue.livejournal.com]

Yeah, political discussions should be left for after dinner -- I totally agree with you on that.

I have some rants about the Democratic leadership myself (lifelong Dem here) but I think they are from a different angle. And this is not the place for it. ;)

Re: Breeder definition

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your definition, some people use it to refer to anyone who has children, my cousin for instance....

A. SCA name of YC

[(Anonymous)]

Was abit worried at the dinner party with who you had to sit next to. I kept wanting to yell "how about That new King Charles the IX.. Think he'll make a great king?!? I say next time we rip the duct tape off her & flog her for the HERETIC she is (was she a protestant?)heheheheeeheh. I believe in Democracy & the right to vote. People vote their conscious At least you voted, most people don't.Always your friend (no matter what you believe), Ysabelot Clarisse (who is polar opposite in beliefs, but you & I are cool Like that) Hey how about that King Charles IX?

Re: goodness

[elegant-emily.livejournal.com]

eek! *pain pain pain*

Hope she had LOTS of sunscreen.

hehe.

back to being bummed... :-\ about to write in my journal once i get caught up on the sca_garb mailings.

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Edaoin

Re: A. SCA name of YC

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Ysabelot, you make me laugh. ;)Polar opposites is the truth. This'll teach me to show up ten minutes late! If I had showed up ontime I could have sat at the cool end of the table.

Yah, howabout that new king!