Author: MichelleMcHatton

I'm a writer. I'm also a wife and a parent who works too much and lives too little. In addition to writing I also love to read, listen to music, travel, cook, I enjoy looking for bargains at flea markets or thrift stores, Christmas, football and of course writing! How did I come up with the title of my blog? Two things: 1. I live in New England (duh) and 2. Canadian singer Alan Frew once arrogantly told me to "get a New England life"--again--DUH! I already HAVE one!
A Scenario

A Scenario

by MichelleMcHatton

Here’s a scenario:

Imagine America is attacked by various individuals with bombs.  It doesn’t matter who the people are or where they come from.  What matters is what they are bombing.  The only things they are bombing are properties owned by ASSHOLE:  Trump Tower.  Mar-a-Lago. his hotels, his golf courses.  There are plenty to go around.  They could have a field day.  After they destroy all the properties, I wonder what ASSHOLE would do?  Would he hop on Twitter and declare them to stop?  Would he fly to each property to inspect the damages?

Now here’s another scenario:

America is attacked by various individuals with bombs.  Once again it doesn’t matter who they are or where they come from.  The places they attack are Trump Tower, the Statue of Liberty, Sears Tower, Hoover Dam, Disney World and LAX.  All are famous landmarks.  Which one do you think ASSHOLE will mention first?  Do you even think he’ll mention any of the other landmarks?  Do you think he’ll care if anyone was killed at any of the other landmarks?  Do you think he’ll care if anyone is killed at Trump Tower?

My point is:  if a nuclear bomb was dropped on us today, no matter who drops it, no matter where it comes from, how is ASSHOLE going to react?  What is he going to do to protect us?  My feeling is that he isn’t going to do shit because (1) he’ll be shitting in his pants under his desk in the Oval Office (2) he has no clue how to protect us.  Like everything else he says he’s going to do, he has no plan.

As Americans I feel it’s important for us to know how our “leader” will fight for a country he obviously doesn’t care for.  He made it quite clear he doesn’t care about America or what it stands for when he dissed the American press, people involved in U.S. intelligence and former presidents during his most recent overseas trip.  On top of that he acted like he and his Russian ASSHOLE counterpart were long-lost reuniting lovers.

I have a feeling that North Korea isn’t the first and only country ASSHOLE should be worried about.  Unfortunately, ASSHOLE doesn’t realize that.

Shedding Some Light Into My Little Part of the Country

Shedding Some Light Into My Little Part of the Country

by MichelleMcHatton

I wasn’t going to post anything to commemorate Independence Day this year because I’m not feeling very patriotic.  What I am feeling is embarrassed, disgusted, fearful and sad.

I really don’t like feeling this way about America due to a select bunch of assholes.  America isn’t like that.  I was an American long before the Crazy Train took over. So today I stopped and reflected about what, for me, makes America my America.

I compiled a list and started with the basics:  my family and friends

Then I began thinking about what being an American means to me.  Freedom.  Simple things like getting in my car and driving to any state I want to and not having to present identification papers at each state border.  Knowing there are military forces that have protected us for years and will keep protecting us.  Knowing that journalists are our eyes and ears and we can choose to believe what they say or not believe what they say.  No matter what anyone else says.  I like being able to watch whatever I want on television at two in the morning without the government shutting the networks down.  It’s nice not having to sneak around to an out-of-the-way secret internet cafe to use Twitter because if the government found out I was using Twitter, I could be killed.  I love knowing I don’t have to respect anyone or show loyalty to anyone in the government.  Especially someone who doesn’t deserve it.

I then added the material things:

backyard barbecues

Thanksgiving

 

Christmas

going to the beach

Disney World

Springsteen

Ben & Jerry’s ice cream

Patriots football

national parks

New England foliage

mountains

Boston

New York

fireworks

the Statue of Liberty

 

After thinking about the things that make America what it is for me, I began to feel a little better.  Until the darkness that America is under passes, I will try to remind myself of these simple things to shed some light into my little part of the country.

“America will never be destroyed from the outside.  If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln