Daily Thoughts

This morning, I had the song “Slip Sliding Away” by Paul Simon running through my head, especially the part where it says.

I know a woman
became a wife
These are the very words she uses to describe her life
She said a good day, ain’t got no rain
She said a bad day is when I lie in bed
and I think of things that might have been

That pretty much how I feel lately, except that I’m not anybody’s wife…thank God!

So I decided to go to my favorite online forum. Someone has been blathering on for weeks about how people have left, somebody got mean, somebody got their feelings hurt. These are all reasonable adults, supposedly. So I’m saying I hope it wasn’t me who hurt anyone’s feelings, and that I hope everyone comes back. Then I get this email saying it WAS me who hurt this person’s feelings and ran everybody off.

Seems this guy was ragging on the U.S., and I told him that if he didn’t like the U.S. to go the f*** back to his country. I know, sounds harsh, but here’s the scenario.

I’m a patriot. I’m totally wrapped up in red, white, and blue. I feel like I have the right to criticize my government because I’m a citizen. It doesn’t matter how you get to be a citizen, you can wait your time and be naturalized, but as a citizen, you have certain inalienable rights. One of these is to not be happy with your government, and to express it as loudly as you damn well please.

I do not feel like these same rights apply to people who come here with absolutely no intention of becoming citizens, partake of whatever the U.S. has to offer, make themselves reasonably successful because of our great country, but still long to return to their native shores, and are only waiting for the opportunity to do so.

I have to say one thing here. I rant a lot about moving to Jamaica, and I would do it. I would go somewhere I could be more at peace in my life if I found I couldn’t find that peace here. And if that country allowed me to be happy and reasonably successful, I would not be bitching about how horrible it was. I would be thanking my lucky stars that there was a country that took me in and allowed me to flourish.

This guy was not happy with Obama being elected President. I don’t really remember the conversation. The thread was deleted, and it was close to the time my mother died, so I seriously don’t know what I said or did back then. I could have shot someone and not remembered, I was that upset. So my nerves were raw, and someone who isn’t a citizen at all had the audacity to attack our next President. I probably lost it.

But to be honest, if my mother were alive and well, and I wasn’t financially and emotionally stressed to the limit, I probably still would have let go on him. Like I said, I have the right to do what he did, he doesn’t. That’s how I feel. I will never change that feeling. If you hate this country so freakin’ much, go the hell back to where you came from.

Nevertheless, I apologized, simply because I did not at the time remember what I had said, or why. I also left the forum. I loved that forum. I had been posting there since 1999. Now it’s lost to me, because someone went behind the scenes whining about how abused he was, and how hurt he was (oh for Christ sake, buck up and be a man!) and turned people against me for saying what any patriotic American could have and probably would have said.

When it comes to this country, I am well aware of the faults and fallacies and downright lies we have to face every day. But I’m sick and tired of bowing down to people who come here for our freedoms and protections, but don’t want to pledge their allegiance to this country, in hopes they can some day go home. In my opinion, political asylum should be abolished. Terrorists have come into this country for years claiming political asylum, and disappeared into the population. From there, they blew up our buildings and killed our people.

This is my country. I don’t care if I hurt your feelings. If you don’t like it, get the hell out! Go back to whatever freaking country you came from, and don’t come back here ever!

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