More grrr

For some reason, i feel the need to hop up on my little soap box today and just rant. (Speaking of soap, seeing as how I always forget my grocery list, would someone PLEASE remind me to buy anti-bacterial bar soap today? Thanks in advance)
Okay random gripe number one: Yes, the BLOG posting on your daughter was fascinating and I am sure people WOULD enjoy reading it. BUT, for the 82nd time; I CAN'T PRINT SOMEONE ELSE"S SHIT! ESPECIALLY a blog. You want people to read it? Have them look up the blog and share it that way, OR, what I can do is print a letter to the editor from you referencing the aforementioned blog with a link to it.
2. Why does EVERY news story on line which features a "leave a comment" section have to turn into a right versus left political discussion? I was reading a lovely piece on how the Mennonites are STILL in Louisiana helping to rebuild homes after Hurricane Katrina. ( I happened to see it on the news last night, too.) The comment thread (which are thoroughly entertaining as a whole) started out with everyone commending the group on their service and then morphed into a "we spend too much money on the military democrat versus republican bashing." You know what? I am a registered republican...do I blindly agree with the ENTIRE party, FUCK NO! Do I despise the Democratic party and their beliefs? NO! I tend to agree with both parties on different issues, it just so happens that when I checked the card when I was 18, I checked the elephant sign and have never changed it, so it irritates me to no end when generalizations about democrats and republicans and right and left get thrown about. I believe I should be able to own a gun if I want one. Does that mean I want my psychotic-trigger happy-wife beating neighbor to own own? NO!!! I believe unions have served a purpose, but i shouldn't have to have my tax dollars continue to increase so government workers can continue to get free family healthcare because the union says so. I also believe that allowing a crappy teacher to continue to teach because he or she has seniority is bull. I'm just not sure how you gauge teacher performance, because just taking standardized test scores into consideration is not the answer. (My son is the perfect example, he is an A/B student, except in math where he hangs out around a B- C+ because he does take after his mother a little) but according to ITBS scores he's damnded near an idiot savant. I just know that when it comes to unions, teachers, police, county workers, what have you, no one should be allowed to keep their job for doing sub-par work and you know the saying, "It's easier to nail Jell-o to a tree than it is to get rid of a unionized employee." I believe a woman should have the right to get an abortion, BUT I vehemently oppose those who use abortions as birth control, I'm just not sure there is a way to differentiate or "enforce" that, so it's best to just let abortions be legal. I believe spending is out of control and that as a government (on all levels, local, state and national, we have to separate our needs from our wants. Wow, that is as politically charged as I ever want to get. It's exhausting.
3. Side note on the Mennonites, (no rant involved here) this past week I was sucked into a fascinating story that involved the possibility of finding perhaps relics from the Flood of 1958 in Exira. (You can read about that adventure on Friday) Just yesterday, as I was finishing my research on the Flood, I ran across a quote from one of the "Lucky 13." (for those not familiar, there were 13 individuals who hung out in flood water waist deep on top of a flat bed trailer, taking turns holding children on their shoulders until flood waters receded they all survived the ordeal, hence the name Lucky 13) He talked about remembering the Mennonites coming to help with clean-up and rebuilding. Ironic that I ran across this yesterday and then there was a story about the service of the Mennonites on the news last night.
4. I truly need to forget the address of the website with the sparkly belts. I think I just went through my entire paycheck ordering bling.
5. I know I said this on FB the other day, but I truly believe you are either a part of the problem or you are a part of the solution. There are things/situations/people in life that will never change. You can either adapt your way of thinking and your way of acting in order to make the best of it, or you can continue to be a boil on the problem's ass and make things worse. While there are times I truly enjoy being that boil, it's another one of those things that is exhausting. In the end it's never worth it.
6. Why is it there are some people out there who always look so perfect and so well put together, yet when I try to do the same I look like a frumpy, disorganized mix between Tammy Faye Baker and an over accessorized circus clown?
Whew...I think I finally may have run out of things to say......good thing huh?