**Post #500!** You’re Ignorant If…

…You don’t watch the news.

I’m so sick of people not keeping up with current events and being completely numb to the world around them. I just don’t understand it. I’m not saying everyone needs to watch it 24/7, or sleep with a newspaper under their pillow at night – but I am saying people need to at least be somewhat aware of what’s going on – enough to understand the basics.

“I don’t like to watch it because I hate seeing all the bad war stuff…in…whatever that country is over there.”

Seriously? It’s statements like this one that really piss me off. It’s real life and you’re just going to have to get over it, unless of course, you do something to change it. What do I mean? Obviously, I’ve said many times in the past that I’m a big supporter of the current war, and that hasn’t changed. I also understand other people may not be. So, change it! Turn on the news, watch some footage of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, and use it to your advantage to change whatever it is you think needs to be changed! Get out and lobby for things you believe in! If you turn on the TV and see that troops aren’t being given the right equipment – lobby for better equipment! If you turn on the TV and see that troops are dying left and right, which they are, then write your Senator, Congress, or shit – even the White House, and be heard!

“I don’t bother to write because nothing ever gets changed anyway…”

Bullshit. The White House READS most all letters that are sent to them – and sometimes they even respond. Now, of course, if only one or two letters trickle in about a particular subject, it probably won’t be acted upon. However, when hundreds or thousands of letters start to trickle in regarding one subject, yes, they do consider what is being criticized. And, even if your topic isn’t changed, so what? At least you were heard, and sometimes that’s all that matters…

Anyway, on a brighter note – this is the 500th post on Your Captain Speaks! 500 posts since December 14, 2007 – and still going strong!