Hello everyone!
I know, I know. I'm late with getting this up. It's still Sunday for another two hours here so it still counts as a proper SFU. I'll be a little better about getting it in on time next week. At least, I hope I will.
This week has been full of same crap different day. Himself is still unemployed. I've gotten another lovely "meeting with a manager" over with. I still have a job. Twitchy is still a pain in the ass. You know, the same stuff I tend to complain about.
Writing is going well. The Beauty and the Beast retelling is finally taking off. I've found ways of making it fit the dark, twisted vision I've had all along. No light and fluffy, although it does have a happy ending. I can't quite completely obliterate the faerie tale out of this story.
This week my SFU is going to be a little different. I'm dragging out my soapbox again. I'm bringing up some things that bothered me over the last week in regards to news and the like. The first thing that I want to talk about is something that's not far from a lot of minds: the debt ceiling talks.
Gee, who DIDN'T think that the talks were going to collapse? Seriously. The Republicans are so fucking protective of the wealthy in this country that they feel that destroying this country is worth it. REALLY? Come on. There are people starving to death in this country because we don't have enough money. There are elderly who are choosing between medications and food, knowing they need both to survive and yet they don't have enough to buy both. Whole families are living homeless because of this shit. It has got to STOP.
But they won't listen to us. Maybe when the entire fucking country is unemployed, starving, and littered with the corpses of people who fought to the end to survive and ultimately failed they'll begin to understand what their bullshit is doing to this country.
Another thing I wanted to talk about is how focused people are on Amy Winehouse. I didn't even know who she was until I Googled her when she started showing up all over my Twitter feed. I hate to break it to you folks, but, well, a musician overdosing on drugs and alcohol and dying from it isn't news. It's more common than it should be, actually.
Now, I'm not saying her death isn't tragic. It's sad to think of someone so young dying. I don't know if she had more musically to offer the world but she was still a person who had friends and family who loved her. How must they be feeling right now, knowing she's dead because no one could seem to help her fight her self-destructive behavior? Where were they when she was self-destructing?
Too many people stand back and go "Too bad, so sad. but she did it to herself so she deserves it". No one stops to think of the people left behind who have to live with the feeling that they might have been able to do something to prevent it. Just like what happens when someone suicides because of depression. Or when a doctor misdiagnoses something and a family has to watch a loved one die when, if they'd just pushed a little harder they might have convinced that loved one to see a different doctor.
Death is tragic, no matter what the circumstances. How about we take a moment to remember, not only Amy Winehouse, but all of the teens who've killed themselves because of persecution for being part of the LGBT community, or were too intelligent or too creative for their peers to understand, or are being abused and death is the only way out they can see? Or all of those civilians killed in every war that we've ever had? Or for all of the soldiers that have laid their lives on the line, who are still laying their lives on the line, and who are getting screwed over by the country they've sworn to protect? Or how about those who die due to the incompetence of medical practitioners? Or those too poor to be able to afford doctors, who die in the streets or in their homes because they don't have any way to get help? Who will remember all of the silent casualties of a war that should never be fought in the first place - a war against humanity that large corporations and politicians seem to want to wage with us as the unwilling (and unknowing) soldiers?
*puts soapbox back in her closet*
To close out, here's the usual music videos. Enjoy.
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