I'm probably gonna piss people off here, but...

Tough shit.

Ready?

I could really not possibly give less of a damn that Reagan died. I'm fuckin' SICK of having to see shit about it every goddamned place I turn my eyes.

HE WAS 93 FUCKIN' YEARS OLD!!!!! DID YA'S THINK HE WAS GONNA LIVE FOR-FUCKIN'-EVER?

A 93 year old guy died.

THAT IS NOT NEWS!!!!!!

Hell, I thought he died a coupla years ago. May as well have for the quality of life he probably had, too. Who the fuck cares?

He was a POLITICIAN. That means liar, secret deal-maker, pocket-padding bullshit artist by definition. Look it up. There's a picture in the dictionary next to the word 'politician' and it's of a puckered asshole. That would be because that's what they all are, politicians... a bunch of assholes.

Granted, I avoid politics like the fuckin' plague it is, but still, I do NOT remember Reagan being said to be such a 'wunnerful' guy while in office.

Matter of fact, I seem to remember something about Nancy, astrologers and him running the country while developing Alzheimers. Lovely. There was also something about Nancy casting chicken bones about the Oval Office for guidance, but I think that was part of a stand-up's act. Wouldn't have surprised me if it had been true though.

I'm not pickin' on the whizzled up old fart personally. I'm sure, aside from him being a POLITICIAN, thus a person who LIES for a living, he was a really great guy. (rolls eyes....)

This same shit happens when certain celebrities die, too. The fact that this dillhole was a movie star + politician probably means this horseshit won't cease til about 2007.

Does anybody give one lil ol' fuck, by the way, that Ray Charles is dead, too? Hell, he's more of an inspiration to me, personally, because he spent his entire life blind and could still play the HELL out of a piano. Plus, he got robbed of 20 years that Reagan didn't.

The bigger tragedy here is Ray Charles.

If either of these things ARE tragedies. Which I doubt.

Reagan was NINTY-THREE freakin' years old. Ninty three. Old people die. It's a fact. So do young people. Hell, no one here gets out alive, right Mr. Mojo Risin'?

I'm just sick of it, now. Tired of hearing "Reagan this, Reagan that..." endlessly. Jesus. Bury the son-of-a-bitch before he starts to stink, would ya's? Be done with this shit.

And, for the record, I do NOT care to be innundated to death when Nancy dies. I do not care ALREADY. Hell, I'm even almost already pissed at what's gonna be done when she does croak. I can just imagine.... *retch*

Let me reiterate... I don't have anything against Reagan personally. We'll just set aside the fact that he was a politician and the fact that I think ALL politicians are lying scuzzbuckets, for the most part. Just shove all that over into the corner.

What are we left with?

That some 93 year old dude with Alzheimers died. That's not even a surprise, let alone the kind of tragedy that deserves all this attention. Hell, he's probably glad to be gone from all the people he didn't even know anymore buggin' the living fuck outta him (no pun intended) day in and day out. (What's the best thing about Alzheimers? You keep meeting all these new people...)

Ninty-three years old... with Alzheimers.

Yeah. I can see why THIS is reason to mourn. He's free from all that. Let's all waste a week (so far) lamenting this shit.

I felt worse when John Wayne died.

Wanna know what I do feel bad about with alla this? The one thing that IS giving me pause?

The guys (mostly) on my blogroll who're truly hurt that this guy is dead.

Rob and Mad Mikey, for two.

When I first saw the headline that Reagan's health had taken a turn for the worse, I literally asked outloud how a dead guy's health could get worse. My next question was "who gives a fuck?" Well, first Rob did. So, I kept it zipped. Kept my opinions to myself and went on.

Then, it seemed that nearly every single blogger had to at least mention it, as if someone mighta not heard. That's to be expected, though, so again... out of respect more for fellow bloggers than Reagan, I again kept my mouth shut.

Then, I read Mad Mikey's post and was GLAD I hadn't gone off.

Then, most bloggers at least, if not the media, seemed to let it go and get back to business, thank God.

Then, Ray Charles died and nobody gives a damn because they're all too busy still snottin' up over Reagan.

Now, I'm pissed. And sick of it.

Every fuckin' time I turn on this computer, there he is AGAIN on the Yahoo homepage. He's in every other goddamned headline and what about Ray Charles?

Poor bastard shoulda picked a different week to die, I guess.

Sorry, Ray. Nobody can be bothered to give a fuck you're dead. You had the misfortune to die the same week as the now 'Saint' Reagan did. Sorry buddy. You don't matter.

Wanna know what probably REALLY killed Ray? He got BORED TO DEATH with all this shit about Reagan.
I know I'm on the verge.

Ya know, nobody had two good words to say about Reagan when he was in office, but look at this shit, now. NOW, he was God, or some fuckin' thing.

What I feel even remotely bad about, about ANY of this shit, is that Reagan the Dad, Reagan the Husband died. I simply cannot mourn the passing of a ninty-three year old victim of Alzheimers. Let alone the passing of a 93 year old politician/victim of Alzheimers. (Why does that last phrase seem redundant?)

This is NOT a tragedy. Reagan died peacefully, at home, with his family around him. He didn't die in a plane that got flown into a building, he wasn't blown up by a suicide bomber, he didn't have his head sawed off by some fuckin' piece of human shit, hell, he didn't even die 'too soon'. He had a fuller life than most people could even imagine. He was a movie star (granted his most popular co-star WAS a monkey...) and he was President of the Got-damned United States of America.

Was there some other important shit he had left to do and didn't get to do cause he died?

I don't THINK so.

He went from all that glory to a wasted, mindless shell of a human being and God finally set him free from that.
As it should be.

If it's true that no one person, no one life, is any more important than any other (as I heard also 'endlessly' when that "Iraqi prisoner abuse" shit was all the rage) then we need to either cut the shit or start mourning EVERYBODY the same way.

Truly, my Grandfather's death was more of a sad, sad shame than this. He, too, was younger than Reagan and he died of cancer less than about a MONTH after he was diagnosed. Pop-pop didn't get any extra years like Reagan did. Pop-pop had more kids than Reagan, only one wife, unlike Reagan and my Pop-pop never did one single thing in his life that caused him to stutter, play stupid or say "Derrr, I don't remember" when asked to explain, also unlike Reagan.

I'm pretty sure Ray Charles didn't, either, but....

I didn't used to feel one way or the other, really, about Reagan. I simply dismissed him like I do all other politicians. I didn't hate the guy. But, even if I had overtly liked him, it's been driven so deep into the ground by the relentless bullshit, that I can see it turning to hate soon because he just won't go away already.

It's enough.
We got it.
The man's dead.
Now, bury him and shut the hell up.

Jesus.

Update @ 12:41pm...

Okay. I've re-read this, like, three times now and parts of it are making me laugh my ass off.

I think this is the best part of blogging for me... to go back and see what I said. It comes out so fast, so 'internally', that it's often a surprise to me what I said.

I'm a twisted fuck, sometimes, huh?

I just wanted to pop back in and acknowledge that, yes, I am a bitch and yes, I am going straight to hell in the express lane. I know that. Hell, I knew that waaaay before this.

That's the best thing about this life I lived. Hell doesn't scare me. Hell is gonna be Club Med after this life. I LIVED IN NEW JERSEY, FER FUCK'S SAKE!!! Hell's supposed to impress ME? Pfft.

More important, though, is that I want to say again that it's the MEDIA driving me up the fuckin' wall with this shit, not bloggers. As a matter of fact, when it comes to bloggers, I even want to go so far as to apologize if I've offended a certain few. (Rob, Mike, any others of you who know I love ya that I haven't mentioned...) I'm not railing about each blogger posting about this, I'm just sick of the intense media coverage. Maybe if it was fair, unbiased and truthful, it'd be different.

But, we ain't never gonna find THAT out, are we?

So, to recap... Yep, I'm a bitch. Yep, I'm goin' to hell. Nope, I don't care. And, if I caused Rob or Mike et al, even one moments additional pain, I'm sincerely sorry.

But, I do feel better now. I just wish the people it was directed at (the MEDIA) would all see it. And, hate it and be hurt by it, frankly. They suck, anyway.

Posted by: Stevie at 12:13 PM

Comments

1 Hey Stevie...tell us how you REALLY feel. Sorry...couldn't resist. I love your rants, girl. You inspire me!

Posted by: AmyVegas at June 11, 2004 12:51 PM (lBFdX)

Posted by: Stevie at June 11, 2004 01:08 PM (48N/c)

Posted by: Mad William Flint at June 11, 2004 01:15 PM (jRssG)

Posted by: Stevie at June 11, 2004 01:45 PM (48N/c)

5 Grrrr - Mad William Flint beat me to the obvious joke here.

Your response to all of this is part of the reason I didn't go 'Reagan-crazy' - we all knew it was coming eventually. It just blows none-the-less to actually see the coffin with the flag laying over it.

No worries Stevie.

(SIDENOTE: You know, I tried to used the word D-R-A-P-E-D in my post and it flagged it as R-A-P-E. What's up with that Stevie??)

Posted by: Mad Mikey at June 11, 2004 02:41 PM (TAP1e)

Posted by: Stevie at June 11, 2004 04:13 PM (JWp6d)

Posted by: Stevie at June 11, 2004 04:16 PM (JWp6d)

8 Good. I didn't want to try discussing fire trucks and have it flagged as well....

Posted by: Mad Mikey at June 12, 2004 12:35 AM (eMjz8)

Posted by: deuddersun at June 12, 2004 10:12 AM (Sc7Kg)

Posted by: Michael at June 12, 2004 12:20 PM (i3lBB)

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