Being "Quackgrass": Beware The Rant

I'm seriously giving you fair warning that this post is purely a rant and will have no greater purpose or sentimentality except to rant about the stupidity of others, which happens to be one of my favorite things to do.

First, yes, I should be studying and not writing this, but, the more pages I turn, the angrier I get about something I read early this morning. Second, I love Steven but curse him for getting me into reading the comments on articles!!

I read this article this morning on The Boston Globe about Mitt Romney's charity boxing match last night. I thought it was one of those feel-good news stories about Massachusetts' former governor continuing to do good in the world and raise funds for his son's work with CharityVision to give vision aid to impoverished areas across the globe. In fact, this 2 round boxing match, which, face it, was probably more entertaining than the "boxing match of the century" Mayweather vs. Pacquiao, raised $1,000,000 for CharityVision! How could you not, as a Massachusetts resident, be proud of your former governor and presidential candidate for putting himself out there, taking a few punches and raising money that will significantly improve the lives of so many?! However, there always will be those that must take the negative road, and one incredibly negative people definitely got to me this morning. He made this comment on that article:

It's not the comments about the LDS church that bother me, because, if you, sir, did "get" the LDS church, you would not make those comments. They're simply the same run of the mill mockery that has always fallen on the church, and has obviously never hindered the church, so that, besides proving he is a religious bigot, means nothing. However, I was astounded at the small minded and discriminatory comment about Mitt Romney's wife.

Ann Romney was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis 20 years ago, and she has made and is making an incredible impact in the lives of every other person with MS. In fact, right now she is working with Brigham & Women's Hospital to create a Center for Neurological Diseases that will strengthen the efforts to find cures for not only MS, but for a myriad of other neurological diseases that are left largely unknown in terms of cures, reversal and modification. She is out there raising money, along with her husband, to cure diseases and bring medical help to the #50MillionFaces who battle neurological diseases. She is quite possibly one of the more influential and hard working first ladies, gubernatorial or presidential, that the United States has seen in years! And you, Mr Eastbrewster, have the audacity to say that because she needs a car elevator, which by the way I can find no evidence of her ever needing or using a car elevator for assistance, she has somehow embarrassed her husband? Because logically from your eyes, any person with a spouse who has any physical ailments is obviously an embarrassment. In which case, Mrs. Kennedy must be so embarrassed.

I truly pray for the sake of your significant other, Mr. Eastbrewster, that she never falls ill to anything more than the common cold, because she'll apparently lose all support from you. It's clear your vows stop at "sickness and in health." Having experienced a touch of this in my life, it makes me further appreciate my sweet husband who, even before we got together, comforted me one time with the council that everyone will have some sort of health problem, but at least I know what mine is now. I think it takes true character to think like that. To not waiver because you're scared, to not doubt because of the "what if," to not step out because it might be too hard is, to me, the pure essence of selfless love and Christlike faith. And maybe if the star of my rant, Mr. Eastbrewster, did "get" the LDS church, he wouldn't look at a woman, who has most likely done more in her spare time than he has done most his life, and think she could possible embarrass anyone.

Now, let's look what Ann Romney did during this boxing match--