Dear Malala,
You do not know me, and I certainly do not know you, but I have followed your story since the day it first crossed the world to reach me. Like millions of other people around the world I have watched in rapt awe at the journey you have taken and the strength and courage you have shown in the face of unspeakable evil.
Today I heard you speak for the first time. For months I have heard hundreds of people expressing their wish to adopt you as their own child because of the inspiration that you are, and I sincerely understand their desire. But after listening to you speak today, it is my most fervent, heart felt wish, that you would adopt me! You may have only seen 16 years on this planet, but you are the wisest and the oldest soul I have ever had the intense pleasure of encountering. You are a true hero. I salute you. I applaud you. I support you.
Mostly I just want to Thank You. Your courage and wisdom serve as the greatest testament to the truth of what you fight for and in that I hope I can someday grow up to be just like you. Thank you for putting words to what I have always known, and for having the strength to stand up and speak out so much sooner than I did. And please tell your parents that I Thank Them as well, for supporting and enabling your voice, the entire world owes them a great debt of gratitude for their gift of you.
Sincerely,
One Mother who is Extremely Pleased to have people like You in this world!
Hello! Hello, hello, hello all you Lovely People out there in the Internet! I hope everyone is enjoying this delightful Fall (or Spring, for those of you in the southern extremities) day! Mother is finally coming out of her latest funk and is preparing to take on the world once again.
The latest shenanigans in our Government really threw me for a loop emotionally. Not because what they are doing has any real affect on my life, it probably doesn't, but I know that the number of people that it will affect is far greater than the numbers we are being given, and I am deeply concerned because I am a human being with compassion and empathy, something we could use a lot more of in our Government right now.
What upset me far more than the morons in the House of Representatives, was the reactions of their supporters. One lady wrote a post about how she had whole-heartedly supported the Tea Party platform, until she was the one being hurt by it. Yeah, fuck you bitch! It was fine and dandy as long as they were only attacking the people you don't like, but when it affects you, its suddenly horrid! Fuck off! It has been horrid since day one, nice of you to finally notice, but you will have to forgive me for not giving a shit about your petty little personal problems when you are finally getting what you deserve. Paybacks are a bitch aren't they?
It is slightly refreshing to know that at least a few of those people are finally getting what they deserve. If you have spent your time, money, or energy trying to deprive others of their freedoms or their security, then you do not deserve to have any either. My only wish is that Karma would shit on the rest of them as badly as they have shit on my country.
I saw the new movie "The Purge" the other day. That really pissed me off. Nice concept, wrong enemy. It isn't the poor that we should be removing from our society, it is the ubber rich. They are the ones that cause the real problems, like pollution, and poverty, and the wanton destruction of pretty much everything in the pursuit of the all-mighty dollar. The world would be a much better place without the rich than it would be without the poor. Actually, it would be a much better place without the selfish and greedy bastards, doesn't matter how much money a person has, I know plenty of jackasses who are poor too.
And that is the whole problem for me in a nutshell. Why does how much money you have determine a person's worth? Why am I automatically assumed to be worthless because I do not want to spend all of my time and energy in pursuit of money? Is there really nothing else of value in people other than their net worth? How can people think like that? I mean seriously, I spend a lot of time bitching about how shallow people are, but this is taking shallow to the extremes! Sick, evil, twisted freaks are celebrated because they have lots of money, while decent, loving, hard-working people are vilified because they don't. What the hell is that?!
I have a novel idea. How about instead of fighting to force your beliefs down everyone else's collective throats, why don't some of you try living them? How about instead of falling for the hyperbole and propaganda designed to keep the "common people" fighting amongst themselves, we stop fighting and start looking out for each other? How about we all start acting like grown ups and start paying attention to the things around us that really matter? If people could put even 1% of the energy they spend on who's football team is better into making our world better for everyone, we would have a fantastic place for everyone to live. As long as we keep letting them distract and divide us they will always be controlling us. Only when we see our own power and start taking it back to use for what truly matters will any of us be free.
Until Next Time ...
Hello there Lovely Internet People! Mother has always tried to be pretty open about her myriad of psychological malfunctions. I don't see them as something to hide from or be ashamed of, there are a necessary and normal part of my survival, and I do my best to enjoy them whenever possible.
Unfortunately there are some dysfunctions, that while they may serve a useful purpose in my struggle for survival, they are not really fun, or even funny. My telephobia is one such dysfunction. I really hate the freakin telephone. I am not really "afraid" of it, its not like I think it is going to grow teeth and bite me or anything. I just have a freakin panic attack every time I even think about calling someone, or just answering the damn phone.
I had to call eBay today to deal with a stupid customer who refused to take no for an answer and tried to use a second account to buy an item she knew she was blocked from buying. What she did was totally and completely against eBay rules. I was completely in the right, and I knew that, but I still had rivers of sweat cascading from both armpits that could have rivaled the annual output of the Amazon, and knots in my stomach tight enough to strangle an insect. It really didn't help either when the woman who answered the call had an extremely thick accent that I could barely comprehend. I have a hard enough time understanding what people are saying on the phone when they speak clearly, throw in an accent and I am totally lost. I cannot understand speech unless I can see the person speaking, it doesn't process correctly in my brain. I hear the words just fine, I just cannot understand what is being said. Even in person, I can't hear you if I am not wearing my glasses, on the phone, I am lost. And no, video calling would NOT make it better! I sure as hell don't want people to see ME when I look like something the cat wouldn't even drag in most of the time!
So, after 20 minutes of back and forth, I think I have everything straightened out with eBay. Still not sure, but I think so. Of course if the stupid customer tries to leave me a negative feedback I will have to go through this shit all over again, but for now I think I am covered.
That phone call was two hours ago. I had to take a bath when I got off the phone. I was soaking wet from sweating, my entire body was shaking, and my hands and feet were completely numb. And this was from a call that had very little possibility of not turning out in my favor! Two hours later, after it did turn out in my favor, I am still shaking. I can feel my toes now, but controlling my fingers to type is still a challenge.
I can't even handle calling people I do want to talk to! I am always sure it will be a bad time, and that I will be bothering them, even if they told me to call! And having them call me isn't much better. Every time the phone rings my heart stops beating. Our phone doesn't ring very often, and when it does it is usually not someone we want to talk to, so the sound of the ring hits me like a mortar round exploding in my head. Its not pleasant.
I do have a cell phone. But I don't use it. I got it for emergencies, but since I don't get to go anywhere by myself, if there was ever an emergency the only person I could call is already with me. I have never sent a text message and have no interest in starting, computers are for messaging, they work just fine. From what I have seen, most people who do a lot of texting seem to forget how to spell, or how to use grammar or punctuation, and generally come across as being unable to form a coherent thought if their life depended on it. Not something I have any interest in, I have enough issues of my own, thanks anyway.
Oh well, I survived another encounter with the evil beast, that is all that matters, right? Until next time ...
Hello again Lovely Internet People! Mother is settling in nicely to her new fantasy world of equality and common sense. It is quite pleasant here, especially since it is so sparsely populated. There is plenty of room in the west wing for anyone who cares to join me.
Today, in my fantasy world, I am celebrating, and taking ownership of, how incredibly successful, and just plain fucking awesome, I truly am. I have survived 46 years in a world that appears to have been exclusively designed to ensure my continued longing for the sweet release of death, I call that a success! I battled through more than two decades of culturally induced and family mandated chronic depression and came out the other side happier than I ever dreamed was possible. I call that a major success! In a society that defines success solely based on the relentless pursuit of having far more than you could ever need, I have learned that the true value of a life is found in living it and treasuring every moment of it. I have seen past the facades and illusions created to engineer a status quo that serves only a select few and their shallow narrow-minded world view. There is no greater success than that.
In my opinion, freedom of the mind is the greatest success a human being can attain. The ability to rationally examine our ideas and ideologies and where they came from is a truly unique human ability, something that no other creature on earth can do. Unfortunately far too few human beings are willing to concern themselves with where their beliefs come from, they are too busy proclaiming them to be the only valid beliefs that any one can have. Even when presented with evidence that counters their beliefs most people would rather attempt to attack, belittle, and/or discredit the evidence than take one second to examine why they believe what they believe, or whose interest is really being served by that belief. There is no greater success to be found in this life than to be the master of one's own thoughts, and in my continued ardent determination to become master of mine I will claim immeasurable success, whether any one else wants me to take the credit or not.
I learned a new word yesterday that I really like because I think it could be used as a very accurate adjective to describe me. The word means : "irregular, abnormal, anomalous" or "a person or thing that deviates from the ordinary rule or form" according to dictionary.reference.com. Sure sounds like me to me! So, I have decided to start telling people that I am a Heteroclite, just to see the reaction I get. I don't know about you all, but this had success written all over it in my book!
So my Dear Internet People, Mother's challenge for all of you today is to claim your own minds and give yourselves credit for your own definitions of success. If the status quo doesn't serve you, then join me in creating a new one that does. Its all an issue of mind over matter, if we don't let them into our minds, then they don't matter! Take back your power, it is greater than you know!
Until next time ...
Hello There Lovely Internet People! With all of the bad news and doom and gloom that has flooded our collective psyches for the last week (more like the last several decades), Mother has lost what was left of her mind. The shear stupidity of the people who we allow to run roughshod over our lives is more than I can take anymore. I reached the end of my rope, and when I got there I found out the government that I had mistakenly believed had been designed to "promote the general welfare" and "protect the blessings of liberty" of the people of this country, had taken all the knots and given them to the knot hoarders, claiming they would "trickle down" to the rest of us eventually. I don't know about the rest of you, but all I was left with was this very thin, frayed thread, made of inferior man-made fibers, and it just could not support the weight of the never-ending bullshit any longer.
So today we bid good-bye to the remaining shreds of sanity that had kept Mother tethered to this world. She has broken free into a world of fantasy and will not be returning to their reality in the foreseeable future. The reality that has been manufactured by government and the media is not one I have any interest in participating in, so I am opting out, completely and totally. You all can have it if you want, but I am just not capable of being cold and heartless enough to play along with this systematic assault on common decency and the continuous insults to my intelligence.
So I am retreating to my little fantasy world, where facts and learning are still admirable pursuits, and propaganda based hysteria and fear are laughable, but failed, attempts to destroy the hearts and minds of people every where. I am not going to participate in a reality where selfish greed and superficial appearances are glorified, but compassion and rational thought are vilified. I refuse to even acknowledge the possibility of a reality in which the contents of a persons financial portfolio are more important than the content and character of their life.
In my fantasy world, I hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal,
that they are endowed by their simple existence with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That
to obliterate these rights, realities are instituted among Men, deriving
their unjust powers from the consent of the sane, --That whenever any
Form of reality becomes destructive of our rights, it is the Right of
the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new reality,
laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in
such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and
Happiness.
Mother has spoken.
Hello there lovely Internet People! I sat down here this morning with the intent to write something funny and uplifting to try to get all of our minds of the fiasco in Washington for a few minutes, but I am having a really hard time with implementing that intent. All of this nonsense is just so fucking ridiculously stupid that it hurts my brain. I am so sick of being LIED to, they keep going on and on as if they think we all have the intelligence of a turnip and will fall for all of their BLATANT LIES! I am just sick to death of the people who are supposed to be "promoting the general welfare", and "protecting the liberties" of our people tearing us apart and stripping us of our freedoms while screaming that the other side is doing what they are actually doing.
I do not like the democrats, not even a little bit, I think most of them are stupid fucking hypocrites too, but at least they aren't completely fucking insane! There are probably hundreds of dumb shit laws on the books that need to be overturned that are actually destroying our country, to shut the Government down to protest one law that will do a hell of a lot more good than harm, is just batshit fucking greed-inspired psychopathy! And to make claims, as some of the wackos have, that the ACA is the most evil law ever forced upon humanity is only showing what incredibly sick inhumane fucks you really are.
Do I like the ACA? No, not really, I would have much preferred to have actual Socialized Medicine, like every other civilized country in the world. But we can't have nice things in this country anymore because we let a bunch of self-aggrandizing, spoiled rotten fucking rich fucks take control of our entire Government and force feed us their lies for the last 70+ years! It is time for this shit to stop! The PEOPLE of this country need to kick the entire Government OUT of our personal lives and demand that they get back to work doing their jobs, which is to protect us from each other, and the rest of the world, not from ourselves! Get out of our bedrooms, our bodies, and our minds, and do your damn job!
Quit with the fucking lies to preserve the status quo. The status quo needs to be obliterated, not preserved. We need an extreme transfer of wealth in this country, and we need it now! And I am not just talking about the money either, I want the damn wealth of knowledge transferred back to the people too! I am so sick of public schools designed to churn out non-thinking drones who will do as they are told and can't think for themselves, and that is what our schools have become in this country. If you doubt that fact, go watch a couple editions of the "Jay Walk All-Stars" from Jay Leno, or Jimmy Kimmel's last on the street interview with people over the "ACA vs Obamacare", I rest my case. In the Information Age of today, everyone should have free and open access to actual factual information on any subject they could possibly ever want to know, and we shouldn't have to wade through thousands of fucking lies and distortions to find the fucking facts either!
I am really sick to death of the fact that EVERY time I see a "news story" I have to spend hours researching to figure out if it is true or not! That is fucking insane! There was a time in this country when the "News" was not allowed to lie to us, could we have that back, PLEASE! Pretty, pretty please! I don't think that is too much to ask, do you? If we can't get our Government, or its employees (you know, the people who are supposed to be working FOR US), to tell us the truth, can't we at least get one segment of society that is required to tell us the truth? No, we can't have that! Now the government, in some places, is actually telling Doctors that they MUST LIE TO THEIR PATIENTS! By law, they are required to tell patients things that are blatantly not true. WTF is that!?!
We even have one branch of our Government that is REQUIRED BY LAW to lie to us every fucking day! The people who work in the DEA are not allowed by law to say anything that goes against the agency's policies. Never mind that many of those policies are based on LIES! That is not relevant to them, at all. If they want to keep their jobs they have to keep pumping the propaganda machine no matter how many lives they destroy or how much damage they do to this country. It is truly beyond repulsive and repugnant.
I was so proud of my fellow Americans when Obama was first elected. And I had really high hopes for his presidency, I thought we might finally have a chance to get rid of some of the actual assaults on our freedoms that the Bush Jr. administration forced down our throats. You know like the Patriot Act and Homeland Security, the actual laws that took away our rights, the ones Obama said he would get rid of, the ones that are still there and growing every fucking day apparently. I even was foolish enough to have hope that he would hold true to his word and not continue the persecution of medical marijuana patients. He let me down on a lot of fronts, I am extremely disappointed in the things he has not done, but I will not sit idly by while people blame him for the problems created by the Republicans. That's not right and it is not fair and I won't tolerate it. His is not a Socialist, or a Communist, or a Muslim, or a Kenyan, he is just a good man, in a fucked up job, trying his best to keep our collective heads above water, and getting no help from anyone on either side of the isle.
I am just so tired of the whole freakin mess! The whole world seems to have flipped its priorities upside down and lost its freakin mind! I know I like to go on to you all about how crazy I am, but I truly think I may be one of the very few sane people left on the fucking planet. I am not the crazy one, the rest of them are. When the only value you can see in a person is their net worth, you are the fucking crazy one. When you scream for a "Christian Nation" but display the most UnChristian of ideologies, I think you are the crazy ones, not me. And if the "end of times" is as near as you want to force it to be, I cannot wait to see the look an all of your damn faces when you are NOT called home during the rapture! Your God is not smiling down upon you for shoving your ignorant, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, self-righteous nonsense upon everyone else while ignoring his most important lessons about love, and community, and the evils of greed. He is NOT Pleased with you at all!
Your God is not going to judge this country lacking for allowing all of its citizens equality under the law, if you believe that you are seriously crazy. He is going to be severely pissed that we fucked up his beautiful garden with all this pollution and destruction in the name of the all-mighty dollar. And I am pretty sure he is really gonna be more than a little bit perturbed that you all are worshiping that dollar way above him. And that whole thing about placing yourselves above him by judging other people, when he expressly forbid that in his precious book, I just can't see that going over well either. You people aren't just crazy, you are delusional, deluded, and just plain fucking sick in the head. I understand that you have to keep lying to yourselves so that you can sleep at night, but just fucking quit lying to me, because I ain't buying any of it! Never have, never will!
Mother is NOT Pleased would be a serious understatement today. Mother is fucking pissed off beyond all reason at the moment. The fact that a tiny minority of loud mouthed lunatics have managed to shut down our fucking government in a terrorist ploy to mandate their insanity is just unfuckingfathomable! And the fact that there are still morons out there supporting these traitors is more than I can fucking take! Lets be really fucking clear about this, the lunatics are the Republicans, if you have any doubt about that fact get the fuck off my page because you are too stupid to be here.
I have had it with every last ones of those mother fuckers and anyone stupid enough to support them. You are sick and you should really all just be put down for the betterment of mankind. Every last one of you! Lying selfish greedy fucking pigs who do not deserve to be allowed to foul this beautiful planet with your ugliness any longer. You sick fuckers seem to spend everyday looking for new and worse ways to fuck up everything that is beautiful in this world and I have had more than I can fucking take of it!
The fucking Affordable Care Act is nothing more than really fucking lame insurance reform. It is NOT health care reform! It is NOT fucking socialized medicine, NOT EVEN CLOSE! I am so sick of all the fucking lies and distortions! No it ain't fucking perfect, but it is the fucking law! Get used to it. The only ones who are going to be hurt in the least by this are the INSURANCE COMPANIES who HAVE to take care of the people whose money they are taking instead by giving it all to the CEO and shareholders. All the lies and bullshit are just that, bullshit dreamed up by the insurance companies trying to protect their "right" to be fucking greedy pigs! Wake the fuck up!
The Republicans have stripped us of our civil rights, one after another for the last 12 fucking years, now they scream about not being "free" to force people to die for the ultimate sin of being poor? I am so fucking sick of this nonsense. Poor people have just as much right to live on this fucking planet as the richest mother fucker out there! We are poor because people like you are allowed to use and abuse us for your own profit and we have no recourse and no alternative. The game has always been rigged in your favor, and now you bitch that it is not rigged enough? Just because you can't stand that the black guy got elected, twice, you deliberately set out to destroy our whole damn country? Fuck off!
