Mid Winter Blues

Stuck there again this year.

I hate this time of year, hate the lack of sunshine and the miserable wet days. Thankfully it's coming mostly in the form of rain this year, but there's a couple of months of winter to go yet, so anything is possible.

Compounding that is the crap on tv news, day in, day out, political crap and the whole monotonous pile of garbage and lies.

New this year is the never ending political and bigoted bullshit on Facebook. Yeah, I'm upset, I said BULLSHIT!!!

I go to Facebook to stay in touch with friends, some of whom I haven't seen in over 40 years. I post what I consider to be humorous items at times, and all in all, I try and do what I did when I worked at the post office each day. I try and brighten just one person's day each day.

I know we are all individuals and we all have our beliefs and our ideologies. However, is it really necessary to post doctored pictures, blatant political lies and bigoted remarks on a social website? I mean, just because someone wants to be a racial and political bigot doesn't mean the rest of their friends really want to read their ignorance each day.

There's been one of my "friends" who for the past week and half has been posting the most ignorant and blatantly racial crap and he's been totally insulting to anyone of a particular political party. It's bad enough that he posts items he's not checked for validity, but he has to add demeaning comments and sterotypical generalizations to them as well, and frankly, today was it! I got so pissed off at a so called political picture that I went to his page and I unfriended him!

He won't miss me, and I sure as hell won't miss him.

But it amazes me how so many people think it necessary to put that crap on a social website and reveal to everyone that they can't think for themselves and they totally believe that everyone of a certain race or a certain religion or a certain political party are ALL the same.

It's this small minded thinking that got our nation in the fouled up mess it's in right now. Why in the hell can't people get beyond this pinheadedness and realize that each person is an individual REGARDLESS of their race, creed, religion or political affiliation.

It's bad enough to have to watch the political biased garbage that goes on in Congress each day. It's disgusting to have to watch our nation's president make a State of The Union address and see the constipated face of John Boehner behind him scowling at his every word. It was easy to see during the President's speech the other night that NOTHING he wants to pass thru Congress will because in John Boehner's eyes, Barrack Obama is the enemy because he is a Democrat. Congress doesn't care about the nation, they only care in making sure nothing the President supports passes thru.

So, when I see this on tv each day, hear about it on the evening news, the morning news and the radio, I sure as hell don't need to see it posted on Facebook as well by ignorant people who don't know what the hell they are talking about.

Politically, I'm as middle of the road as you can get, I don't vote straight, I support candidates from both parties, and I am intelligent enough to know that good ideas come from both sides in Congress. I know we are all different, but what is it about someone's political affiliation that marks them and typecasts them?

I don't get it and I never will, because frankly, I grew up over the years and thankfully I got more intelligent. Obviously there's some out there who haven't.

So, today, I've had enough. I won't trash up my time on Facebook anymore by reading this crap. If I feel like I have to unfriend someone because of it, as much as it pains me to do so, I will.

Today was the start of that.

I also apologize to you, My Faithful Few, for spewing out this way, but I needed to release some tension, and writing usually seems to do that for me.

Hopefully these winter blues are about over.

At least I hope so...