Stacey's rants.

11/15/04

Rants 2 and 3 are political rants.  I know some of you hate my political rants, so don't read rants 2 and 3 if you are pro-Bush, pro-war, pro-Palestine, anti-Palestine, pro-Blair, anti-anti-war protesters, or if you just don't like me.  Don't read rant #4 if you're my mother-in-law. 

The first thing I'd like to rant about is this stupid stop sign.  You know, the one I complained about on the front page a couple months ago?  It's still there.  Not only is it still there, but a couple of weeks ago, I saw a Brandon police officer blow right through the thing.  Seriously, if a man who is supposed to uphold the law and protect our safety cannot be bothered to stop at the useless stop sign, why in the world would I want to do it? 

The second thing I'd like to rant about is the first paragraph of this article.  More specifically, I'd like to rant IN the article.  Read ahead.  My comments are italicized.

President Bush on Friday set a four-year goal of seeing a Palestinian state established (even though it's absolutely none of our business and all we're doing is creating more terrorists by nosing around where we don't belong) and he and British Prime Minister Tony Blair (heck yeah, let Blair do it) vowed to mobilize international support (because mobilizing international support has been Dubya's strong point) to help make it happen (make it happen?  Like you made "democracy" happen in Iraq?  Creating more terrorists...) now that Yasser Arafat is dead.

Disclaimer:  My third rant might seem like a passive aggressive attack on someone that I love very much, because he had a comment relating to this rant on his website a couple of days ago.  Person that I love very much, your comment is not the only related comment I'm ranting on.  Many, many of my friends and family have passed on similar sentiments and I've had it just about up to here. This is the angriest, most touchy rant that's on this page.  Raw emotion start: NOW.

I'd like to rant about people who say that those of us who are against this (or any) war should support the war and the president until the war is over.  Specifically, those who tell me there's nothing I can do about the war and I can't end it, so I might as well support it.  To you, I have to say, ab-so-freakin'-lutely NO.  Why not just tell me that since abortion is legal, I should support abortion and all abortionists and N.O.W.?  Why would anyone tell anyone to support anything which is morally wrong?  This war, and most wars, are morally bankrupt.  Why can't we defend ourselves against real dangers instead of attacking perceived ones?  We're not all zombies bent on "defeating terrorism," a lofty and unattainable goal.  Some of us recognize that if we don't stick our noses in the rest of the world's affairs, the rest of the world won't hate us.  Keep your moral ambiguity to yourselves and let me protest the things that are wrong with this world.  Also, which seems more supportive of troops - wanting them to come home whole and safe or wanting them to stay in hostile territory to get some impossible job done?  Whatever.

Rant #4 - oh yes, it's a mother-in-law rant.  The oft-requested mother-in-law rant. 

Mom, if I say I don't want you to do something, and you go ahead and do it anyway, you are not some kind of pitiable martyr.  Like when Drew and I were visiting after we had just driven across the country and we wanted to do our laundry and you hijacked it even though I asked you not to because I don't like the way you do my laundry and I don't like other people handling my underwear and you told your neighbor that we had driven 2000 miles to have you do our laundry - that's not funny.  Or when you tell us that you're going to buy us Krispy Kreme donuts and we ask you not to because we're on a diet and tell you, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we won't eat them and you get them anyway and get all snippy with us when we don't eat them and you tell your neighbor that you bought donuts because you know we like them but we won't eat them so they're going to go to waste - also not funny.  Also, Mom, when you call me at 10 a.m. for the 10th time and go on and on about how you didn't know if I was awake or not, that annoys me.  I'm usually awake by 8.  And, by the way, your feeling that certain things are absolutely necessary does not make them absolutely necessary.  I am not going to buy a separate protector for my hand-me-down heirloom dining room table to keep the heat off of it.  That's what 50 cent trivets are for.  Stop telling me how much I need to have some wooden thing custom made to fit my table to protect it from heat, because I love my table because it's part of my family and I'm not covering it with anything but food.  And trivets.  And those big thick amber textured glasses you have that you want to give us?  Thanks, but my husband's affinity for them does not make them match our décor.  Amber glasses in a room that's got all stainless steel and brushed nickel appliances?  No no, I think not.  You like them, you keep them.  Please, please, please stop trying to shove them off on me. 

Rant 5 - Janis Joplin is unarguably one of the best artists to ever live.  Her music has thus far been unsurpassed for its passion, cleverness, originality, and overall quality.  I love Janis Joplin and have been listening to her music since I was about 14.  That doesn't mean I can't like Lindsay Lohan's new song "Rumors" or Destiny's Child's new song "Lose my Breath."  Neither of them are actually sung by the artists, rather their computers, but both songs are fun and make me shake my booty and surely that's the mark of a good song, though they may not be songs that children not yet born will praise in their website's rants page 40 years from now.  So stop being a music snob and, in the words of Lindsay Lohan, back up off me.  My iTunes list is probably as eclectic as they come. 

The sixth rant I have (yeah, I've been building these up for a while) is concerning this bizarre new trend for side-swept bangs and long, flat, choppy, sometimes layered hair.  Mischa Barton was the first I'd noticed with this hairstyle, and she did a good job of it, but then Ashlee Simpson just screwed it.      hHiuiIII  QQPPPPPPPPPPPP]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] ;J IEJgj918888888             ujnn1`````````````````````````````````````````````

My last rant is regarding my new kitten.  He wakes up, crawls down from my shoulder, and walks all over my keyboard, all the while talking to me.  My ranting attitude is screwed because there's no way to rant about ugly hairstyles when a cute little grey kitten wants to make biscuits on your stomach.  Not because he's cute, but because he's sitting in a way that I can't really see what I'm typing right now.