Rant #2,174: Backtrack

Yesterday, our country celebrated another grand birthday.

As a nation, we collectively looked back at the history of this country, and celebrated just how great this country is by having the day off, going to barbecues, swimming, watching baseball and being with family.

It was a pretty nice, relaxing day for myself and my family.

We swam, we barbecued, we watched baseball, and I personally didn't even use my car once yesterday, certainly a rare occurrence for me, as I probably use my car about as much as I use my television, for comparison's sake.

While probably 99 percent of the nation was having fun yesterday, there is always a group of people who revel in being miserable no matter what the day is, no matter what else is going on around them.

They cannot put it away even for one 24-hour period.

Let me talk about the complainers on Facebook first.

When I don't work, I usually stay away from Facebook. Let's be honest with it, Facebook is the perfect time waster. Yes, it allows you to speak to people very easily, but it also allows users to waste a lot of time, and it certainly eats up a lot of time for me during the work week.

But yesterday, I went on fairly briefly during one stretch, just to see what was on there and if I needed to personally address anything.

I got the usual crabbers who just simply bathe themselves in hate and venom, and pretty much don't stop no matter what day it is.

They complain about everything under the sun, blame one person in particular for everything--I will leave it to you to figure out who that person is--and for anyone that crosses them, has the audacity to bring up another viewpoint, gets castigated beyond belief.

Then there are those who really cross the line, those who show venom for this country because they somehow have positioned themselves to not fit in, and it usually has to do with race.

These people blame this country for every ill imaginable, use their race as their shield for their hatred--they are "oppressed" so they can say anything they want against anybody, even if it is highly racist--and again, if you disagree with them, you get verbally beat up with some of the foulest language imaginable.

These people are certainly mentally ill, and although I hate to use this "easy way out" for their actions, I will anyway: if you don't like it here, if you feel like a third-class citizen here, then please, please, please, find another place to call home.

And then off of Facebook, you have people who are beyond miserable, who suffer from severe mental illness, and who live to disrupt the flow of things that make this country what it is, which is the greatest country in the world.

That fool who basically highjacked the Statue of Liberty yesterday, a person who was supposedly protesting immigrant rights with her actions, actually set her cause back eons because of her behavior.

She managed to close the statue and its environs for hours because of what amounted to a sick publicity stunt, she put not only herself in danger but also those police who were called to get her off of the statue, and she cost taxpayers millions of dollars by her idiotic actions.

She was even disowned by her own organization--who had protested earlier and were all arrested--and officials of this organization claimed that she did all of this on her own.

That may be true, but what did she accomplish?

As she was carrying out her publicity stunt, hundreds of people were gaining citizenship legally in several different events around the country. These are people who went through the long, arduous process to gain legal citizenship.

And what does the statue sitter--herself an immigrant, according to news reports--say to these people, people who love this country so much that they went through the entire process for citizenship without any handouts?

Yesterday was a glorious day for our country, in spite of those who wanted to ruin it.

And again, for those who disdain this country, blame a certain person for all of its ills, and pretty much are miserable people themselves, there is a remedy to their ills.

Set up shop elsewhere, and see if you are happier there than here.

I guarantee that 99 percent of those people trying this will be back "home" by next year's July 4 celebration.