So you may remember this post about a crazy woman who went off on someone because of her supposed Anti-American posts. We were talking about this person on a message board, that’s how I found out about it because I don’t follow the knitting circle or anything. I put this crazies blog on my RSS feed and let me say, she’s crazy everyday and admits freely to having a mental illness so it’s not surprising to see what she writes.

Apparently she likes to check where she gets referrals, I do the same. And she found her way to the message board. Deciding she didn’t like what she saw us say, she posted this on the message board. I’m going to cut it up because it’s long and so I can comment.

I read the thread about the “incident” and I just wanted to clarify some things, okay? I’m really not the monster as some people might think and I actually do care what people think about me. Blog posts and arguments don’t tell the whole story—so I’m goin to try and defend myself here. You can take it or leave it. I’m sure most have formed an opinion and won’t change it—but you can never say that I didn’t try to give you the other side of the story.

Well I can say we have open minds but just by reading her blog alone you knew she was all sorts of crazy in regards to patriotism. She’ll try to justify her horrible behavior here next.

1. I didn’t get irked simply because of a post about one’s nation’s special day. I got peeved (okay, more than peeved) because I felt it was a pattern of snide, anti-my-country comments. I say a pattern because it had happened before and other people had discussed with me their displeasure.

And? So because a few people got their panties in a wad over an non-American expressing displeasure with how America is run you felt it was okay to harass her and be insanely nasty towards her? Does anyone follow this logic at all? As if someone can’t voice concerns and displeasure with how this nation is run and what’s happening, especially a “foreigner” even if she lives here right now.

2. Yes, I’m ultra patriotic and reacted strongly. Not because I used to live in Texas (I was actually born in California), but because of the life I lead before this incident. To make a long story short, I grew up in foreign countries and longed for my country. My family worked for the US Govt and many bad things (anti-my-country) things happened to us during those years. Also many bad things that had nothing to do with politics. And all during that, I pined to come home. But alas, I was not able to until I was able to enter college.

So because people were nasty in other countries it gives her the right to be overzealous and attack people just the way she apparently was. And the inability to recognize that not everyone actually believes America is the end all of great things is beyond me. Yeah you love your country but you know what, a lot of people may find their own countries to be better. And just because they’re here, for whatever reason it is, doesn’t mean they have to love this country.

3. During my 22 year nursing career, I took care of many vets—survivors of WWII. I listened to their sad stories and did my utmost to ease their suffering. Hey, I was a good nurse, despite whatever else you might think about me. I told some of their stories in 2006 and 2007 on my blog. There was one old vet who had been a pilot during the war—and he was hit, and his fuel began leaking. His plane was about to explode and he knew it. But he was flying directly towards the Castle in Monaco. He didn’t want the explosion to ruin such a beautiful thing and so he took EXTRA time to turn the plane so that it would fly out over the Mediterranean to explode. Only then did he and his co-pilot “Pie” bail out with their parachutes. The force of the explosion hurt both of them and he had physical problems for the rest of his life. I took these stories of vets trying to save my country during WWII very seriously. I was grateful for their sacrifices.

Here she is trying to justify her working while deathly sick, and at the time she worked in the ICU. Some of us on the message board found this to be highly inappropriate and very dangerous to the already sick patients. This story of a vet and what not I guess was supposed to make us patriotic or something, I’m not sure how it fit into her justification of working while really sick (she was almost hospitalized herself but convinced the doctor to not do it because she had a test).

4. Yes, when I have a verbal argument, I am not pleasant. I may say some pretty ugly cusswords and lose my temper. But as for my basic personality, I am a pacifist and don’t believe in physical violence. Cut me some slack, I got irritated about something I felt in my heart, okay? The particular issue cut me to my soul, and if you want to know why just listen to the Lee Greenwood song and you’ll get a little clue as to how I feel….

And we got passionate and called you out on your inappropriate behavior. Somehow she justifies bad behavior by pinning that it’s something she feels passionate about. Being passionate doesn’t mean you get to be a bitch.

I’ve skipped number 5 which was just her explaining what her mental disorder is. We already figured that out and it gave us a bit of insight as to her actions. She’s still hilariously funny though in her actions.

6. I have nothing against any particular person. The topic that started the problem would have occurred had it been my own sister who had said the things I objected to.

So here it is, if she disagrees with you you better watch out, she’ll be on the war path. The I’m right and everyone else is wrong, is highly arrogant at best. There is no excuse for her behavior, her threats, and her trolling. I disagree with a lot of things my family believes, I sure wouldn’t call them out on it. It’s a little thing called respect for those who believe different. (Sadly it doesn’t stop my family from doing similar things.)

7. Speakin of sis, she really is friends with GWB. She also made Norman Schwarzkopf’s birthday cake. My family is in politics. Big deal. I’m not “bragging”. I put this stuff on the blog because I put everthing that happens to me on the blog. I was thinking of putting a newspaper picture of my father, as a very young officer, guarding an equally young Donald Rumsfeld (in 1967!!) on the blog but now you guys have me shy about that stuff…..

This is something I specifically called bullshit on in the original thread. Her sister met GWB once. This woman believes casual association equals friendship. I bet you anything GWB wouldn’t remember the name of her sister if questioned. But hey let her continue believing it. And as to her father guarding Donald Rumsfeld, coolness for him, but that doesn’t make them family friends. Like I said originally if I ever get a picture of me and Dale Jr. together do I get to call him my best friend?

I’m going to skip the next two, they’re just things saying she blogs the truth and so forth. Sure you do.

10. About the “Who Ya Gonna Call?” series of posts (which I’m going to soon write the Final Chapter.) Every single word of those stories is true. Do you really think I’d write such things about an organization who could sue me for slander and libel if they WERE NOT true? Think about it.

We questioned some of her stories on her blog because they just didn’t read out well. The timeline, the details, the way people spoke to her, just didn’t make sense. So we questioned some of her stories. She wasn’t happy with that.

11. What else? Oh yes, I never was a “stalker”. There is another side of that, but I am going to choose to let the matter rest—and not get into the tit-for-tat stuff. It’s over.

Okay yeah, she wasn’t a stalker, she was just someone who harassed another blogger because she didn’t like it and then when people harassed her she got all pissy. LOL! And that matter, she posts about it still to this day. And look she’s on a message board defending herself in regards to that matter.

12. Am I proud of the way I verbally handle arguments? Am I proud of my bad temper? NO. Do I ever regret losing my temper and wish I’d handled a matter differently? THOUSANDS OF TIMES—in fact, almost every time I lose my temper.

Great. And we have the right to call you out on the way you handled yourself. You put yourself out there like that, people are going to respond. Don’t like it, don’t post.

So that was her first post in a nutshell. Then later she posted another post which basically repeated a lot of patriotic junk, as if having these experiences in other countries excuses her behavior in any way.

Now don’t get me wrong, the girl could have attacked that person on her own blog, wrote something about how wrong her opinions were and stuff on her own blog. But she didn’t do that. She went to this other person’s blog and got downright nasty. And then started emailing this person with even more nasty things. There’s a difference between doing what I’m doing, which is blogging about how I think this person is utterly wrong and harassing a person with threats and stuff like that.

Then she comes back and accuses us of being unreceptive to change and different opinions, which is hilarious in itself seeing as the whole drama was caused by her nonacceptance of change and different opinions.

Then she accuses the message board of being the ones who flame her on her blog. I assure you we’re not. Hell we had forgotten her until she showed up.

Anyhow this may not be funny to others but it is to me because this blog has never created that kind of drama nor would I feel the need to defend myself on a message board and believe me I’ve had people talk about me on a message board before and I just left it alone.

ETA: On a side note, this person knows I’m writing this blog post and will probably post a comment or send a harassing email. I may or may not allow the comments to be published. I moderate comments as it is. I will decide whether they will go up or not.

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