WTF!! New Language Giving Cursing a Pass! FAIL!

You know life can be a bitch. So can interacting via the internet and email. Or by phone, instant messaging. Then there is facebook, blah, blah, blah... and even the secret language of texting. There are so many different ways for us to communicate... by NOT communicating, that I find it all to be rather impersonal and detached.

Without being able to process the tone behind our words, people are often misheard or misunderstood; in fact, how many times have you gotten into an argument over something you said that was twisted around because it went through someone else’s emotional filter?

Text.. or Not to Text... That is the question. So I asked, are all of our means of communication really good ways of connecting with others? Do we want to connect or are we merely looking for ways to get the point across without having to actually face someone? Have we become that far disconnected?

We are this technological generation, with the emphasis on logic, fighting for the latest versions of a smart phone or TV. We are at the point where the mind is the control box… not human emotions. We do the brain's bidding... not the heart, as it should be. But is a text enough to send the emotional value that goes with a message we might send? I don't know, maybe if we write the text in color? Red for mad, pink for happy, and blue for sad… we will be able to send the note over with its expected emotion... perhaps a step up from the emoticon! WTF!!

By the way, WTF!! which means ‘What the Fuck.’ And in case you don’t know it, Fuck is considered to be a bad word... (altho brilliant I say... after all, a word like 'Fuck' can be used as a noun, verb, and adjective... and all at the same time! So in my book, that can't be all that bad of a word) But if I type it as WTF!! I can say What the FUCK anywhere I please. In fact, anyone can say it… WTF!!?

Earlier I was speaking to a friend. I told her about this video called, ‘What If This Were Your Child?’ It’s an incredibly disturbing, heart-wrenching confessionof a young man… no, a boy … who wants to do harm to himself.

Jonah has been bullied for 6 years now, to the point where he has repeatedlycut on himself. The bullying started in the 2nd grade; the same age as my son as I hear the some of the same sadness echoing in my son's own words about the mean kids at school. Watching this young man in so much pain was heartbreaking. I pray that as a parent, of course I don’t ever hope see this happen to my son, let alone any child... feeling like he has no other choices but...? WTF!!

Anyway… curious about the video? Here is a link.  Sorry… I digress. oops I feel just a little morel left in there.

But we as a community need to put an end to bullying on both ends. Children generally just don't wake up one day and say, Hey.. When I grow up, I want to be a big Dickhead. It's up to each one of us to hold each other up in our communities, in our families... even in our dreams. Communities… what’s that you say?  Sadly, it seems like we no longer need communities and neighbors and even, the human touch. What we NEED is more technology. MORE... WTF!!

Do you know this video was shared by a little less than 6,200 people? The videos that were shared along with this one, “The Difference Between a Bank and a Gun” and “Does Anybody Really Want a Coat this Cheap?” Of course both with courageous messages; but not a child standing in front of your, wiping the tears from his eyes as he tells you how he failed himself. Both netted over 300,000 shares each… with the Bank and the Gun tipping the scales at over 1M shares. WOW. Oops I mean, WTF!!

I get it... you gots to know where your money is.

So are we that numb? Living in that much denial to not be able to see, and share his pain --because he is gay? I mean, maybe had he not openly admitted he was gay… then we could have shared this video with our friends.

But THAT is an abomination… of God. And an abomination is an abomination; therefore, the boy must be an abomination… right? By that justification, does he deserve what he is feeling. WRONG! Altho my son isn’t gay, he isn’t normal… He is autistic. But here I go again, back to topic of bullying and denial and not what this article is about.

I'm SO CONFUSED...

Isn’t that saying that dirty word... ?              

ok, ok... I promise to stick with the topic... WTF!!

I mean is it ok that we continue to throw the F Bomb around, like it was BRB?!! WTF?? I mean huh? Both seem to fit. Just as serious…

Parents, isn't this what you have to put a quarter in the coin jar for? And yet, here we are... making one of the worst abominations of words... utterly casual... When we use WTF!! for just about everything, like we are flipping around pancakes. Would you like Syrup with that? 

Yet it’s so common that even our kids use it, yet, the 'F Word' that us so bad it earned its own initial, 'F?'  Wow.

So let me get this straight. I can’t say Fuck cuz then I would be a potty mouth. But, I can merely change it to WTF!! and then I can say it in the open…  I can write it out, text it, heck any format that will allow it, like facebook, Twitter, IM, LinkedIn... any application that allows it. The biggest offenders being... take a guess people… parents. Noooo, your children. My children. OUR children.

So let’s all be happy parents with loving children and work on can expanding language to include something other than inappropriate and not as defamatory words... Like WTH!!

Cuz you know if you don’t actually say it... it doesn’t count. Yea… Right? Have I got some beachfront property I was dying to talk to you about…

Transparency... is the New Black!

We are a day away from the mid-term elections and candidates are scrambling to get their voices heard. I saw a gentleman who was running for my local school board earlier when I was dropping off the chitlins. He was kissing babies and shaking hands (oblivious to the fact that he was majorly messing with our school’s very strict morning keep-your-ass-movin’ drop off line.

Writing campaign statements is a good way to let people know what the candidates stand for. No matter what party is talking, nor the matter they are talking about, have you noticed that they are all basically writing the same speeches.

Hope and change were the buzzwords from the last presidential election, words that bought President Obama a First Class ticket into the Oval Office no less, but it seems this election we are going in a new direction altogether. We are scrapping HOPE for TEA and CHANGE is still one of the major buzzwords because no one is happy and we are changing parties literally like we are taking out the garbage. We have done a complete flip-flop in the past two years and I don’t think people know which direction to turn in next. What they do know is that they want CHANGE!

We don’t even care about HOPE anymore. Hope is just something you do to try and make your circumstances look a little better. We want our circumstances to be different. VERY different and the only way to conquer that goal is CHANGE.

We are tired of the same ‘ol, same ‘ol... so instead of saying, “I want to focus on jobs, immigration, housing and foreclosures, your child’s education, etc…” please say, “this is HOW I am going to get you a job, and this PLAN is going to help you keep your home.”

Instead we get, “Yea, I know that children are our future and their education is important BUT, we can’t afford it. We can’t afford streets and jobs," but we can pay for the politicians to meet me at my child’s bus stop, begging for my vote… all candidates lining their speeches with the new buzz word. Transparency.

Transparency is the new black... or pink. Whatever the recent flavor-of-the-month is. Does the meaning of transparency will hold any merit? Perhaps holding its own weight in gold? Or green in Robert Rizzo, City of Bell’s now-in-jail City Manager's case. Green and gold are the colors of his word, tran$parency. Whatever it takes to get elected we will say it. We are transparent… only you really can’t see through us. You know that right?

What happens once they get into office? Well, it’s really the most amazing thing to watch as they begin to change colors, like a chameleon; they seem to camouflage in with the many colors of corporate logos and our most elite special interests and political action committees.

Our newbies get to carry around their new BackPAC’s … the wishes and desires for the wealthy and elite. Just look at our own Governor, Arnie. After all, he loves children and they sure do love Arnold, right? At least they did in Kindergarten Cop. You ever wonder why it’s so easy for Actors to become elected officials? They sure know how to put on a good show.

Here is a fun fact. Speechwriters and PR people watch how people reacted to certain buzzwords and then when they needed to get public interests back, they thrown in the buzzwords- safety, security, taxes. During the Ronald Reagan era, whenever he was going to get a bad approval on something, he just threw out those magic words.

President Reagan is meeting with so-and-so today to discuss our nation’s safety against terrorist’s strikes that have been feared …

So does that mean that after the election everything is going to change? Naaa, prolly not. Everything in the US is going to flip-flop all again. Dunno if we can withstand all the transparency coming our way from politics.

I think the smartest thing to do is something similar to the TEA parties (minus PALIN and all her crackpot gun-toting extremists) and literally take the keys back from the idiot’s carving out our nation’s future in an ice sculpture of the Statue of Liberty made of primarily of melted ice.

Oh and transparency. What’s the worst that can happen? We will begin to see their true colors?

HAHAHAHA! I should be a comedian!

The smart thing to do is to fire everyone and let’s elect George Clooney. He can rule all the way from Italy and it's the same difference. Only he is way better to look at!

Good luck to everyone trying to muddy through all of the varying shades of transparency as you head to the polls tomorrow. I'll be there. I will be the one holding the sign, "Clooney 4 Pres."