So tired...

I'm tired today. Tired of people writing and saying nasty things. Tired of people spewing their bitter diatribes for the world to see and hear. There is no redemption in the nasty.

Earlier today I was about to tweet about how the Giants bullpen was letting me down again, but then I thought about the friends and families of those players and how even my seemingly innocent statement could be considered nasty and mean. I made a personal vow to make every effort not to do it anymore. It doesn't help me to make a comment like that. It doesn't serve any purpose except to give me a venue to vent my frustration. Not that we don't all have the constitutional right to express our opinions, and certainly I'm allowed to be frustrated when my team is losing, but I have no right to call out a specific player.

My thoughts on this started earlier today when I was reading a particularly bitter and mean-spirited book review written about a friend's book. This person had every right to not like the book, but the comments directed to my friend had nothing to do with the book, and they were just mean. It really irritated me, and it really upset her. It was just not okay.

I was perusing cnn.com today, and I started reading these things about President Obama's education speech, and how people are trying to ban it from being shown to kids. Seriously? I skimmed the speech, reading more than half of it word for word. Any of you that know me personally know I'm not about politics. I just don't play. If someone asks my opinion I'll tell them, but I really don't dig into any of it. I don't agree with a lot of Mr. Obama's politics, but I fully respect that he's the president.

For the record, I didn't agree with a lot of Mr. Bush's politics either. I'm certainly more conservative than I am liberal, but really, I'm just trying to live my life like Jesus, and frankly, I don't think he signed a voter registration card picking one party over the other - just my opinion. This speech? Oh my goodness, it's so NOT controversial. I loved that Laura Bush came out in support of the speech. She gets it. She always has. Really people. Heaven forbid we try to encourage our kids to stay in school. Yeah.

The thing that just sent me over the edge today though was a video I saw of a pastor (a pastor!!) in Arizona saying from his pulpit that he hated President Obama and asked God, again, from his pulpit, to break his teeth or something. I was appalled. I'm still appalled. Certainly this man has the right to his opinion, but to say something like that as a spiritual leader really made me ill. I hope Mr. Obama knows that this is not representative of Christians.

Okay, I'm tired again. I have to go watch something on TV that will make me happy. I believe it will be David Boreanz as FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth.