Going to Hell in a Hand Basket
Let me start off here by warning you all; I watched the news last night and I listened to my favorite radio host Michael Savage on the drive home from work, so I am a little depressed about our world today.
Is it just me or does it seems like our world is totally going to shit? I am terribly worried for our future and the world we are leaving to my little grandson at home. Just watching the news yesterday revealed the state of our world. Below is a sampling.
Remember that congressman who was sending inappropriate emails to teenage boys? Well his whole defense a month ago was that he was gay, alcoholic and had been molested as a boy by a clergyman. That is a terrible sad story but that does not by any stretch of the imagination justify his advances on this boy. Well the priest came out yesterday and said he did nothing wrong. Sure, they went to private nude saunas together and spent nights in hotel rooms together naked and fondling each other, but it’s not like they had sex or anything. He said, and I quote, “It’s not like there was ever any penetration or anything” and he finished by saying he didn’t think there was anything wrong with the behavior at the time…
In a continuation of that story, the house ethics committee is investigating how long ago the republican leadership may have known about this guy. Yesterday the house clerk remarked during testimony that this behavior between congressmen and pages was commonplace and there were several others who do the same thing…
Two teenage boys in Florida got into a fight at the bus stop yesterday that ended with one of them pulling out a knife and stabbing the other boy multiple times in the stomach and once in the back of the head. Witnesses say they were fighting over a 15 year old girl…
Our president is calling in all of his top advisors to discuss the strategy in Baghdad and why it is failing. At first I thought maybe, just maybe, our president was finally beginning to accept that there is nothing we are going to be able to do over there to keep those people from killing each other. They have been killing each other for a thousand years and the only time they stopped was when someone more ruthless than them stepped in and quelled the violence for a couple of decades. We took him out and now they have nothing better to do than to revive their killing of each other. The fact that we are there is not helping anything. But alas, I was watching the news today at lunch and the press secretary denied everything and said this was just another routine update for the president on things over there...
And the worst one of all I saved for last. I was so upset by this that I was sick to my stomach last night. CNN somehow got a reporter in with the Iraqi insurgents and he filmed with a team of snipers as they stalked and killed a US service member who was just out on patrol. He commentated the whole damn thing like it was some kind of great thing that these guys were killing our kids. I think he should be arrested and charged with assisting murder. He is not a combatant. He is a civilian. And the gall of CNN running this video just made me sick to my stomach. I wonder if he would have provided the same gleeful commentary if it had been his son or daughter that was casually shot by these vicious assholes...
I am flying my flag at half mast for the sorry state of our country. We have no leaders who are worth a damn and I don’t even want to bother voting anymore because there is nobody out there that is any better. It is almost like instead of voting for the lesser of 2 evils I am now expected to vote for whoever is going to take longer to destroy our nation with their own greed and selfishness.
I am struggling to grasp where we, as a nation, will be in even 5 years, much less in 50.
Is it just me or does it seems like our world is totally going to shit? I am terribly worried for our future and the world we are leaving to my little grandson at home. Just watching the news yesterday revealed the state of our world. Below is a sampling.
Remember that congressman who was sending inappropriate emails to teenage boys? Well his whole defense a month ago was that he was gay, alcoholic and had been molested as a boy by a clergyman. That is a terrible sad story but that does not by any stretch of the imagination justify his advances on this boy. Well the priest came out yesterday and said he did nothing wrong. Sure, they went to private nude saunas together and spent nights in hotel rooms together naked and fondling each other, but it’s not like they had sex or anything. He said, and I quote, “It’s not like there was ever any penetration or anything” and he finished by saying he didn’t think there was anything wrong with the behavior at the time…
In a continuation of that story, the house ethics committee is investigating how long ago the republican leadership may have known about this guy. Yesterday the house clerk remarked during testimony that this behavior between congressmen and pages was commonplace and there were several others who do the same thing…
Two teenage boys in Florida got into a fight at the bus stop yesterday that ended with one of them pulling out a knife and stabbing the other boy multiple times in the stomach and once in the back of the head. Witnesses say they were fighting over a 15 year old girl…
Our president is calling in all of his top advisors to discuss the strategy in Baghdad and why it is failing. At first I thought maybe, just maybe, our president was finally beginning to accept that there is nothing we are going to be able to do over there to keep those people from killing each other. They have been killing each other for a thousand years and the only time they stopped was when someone more ruthless than them stepped in and quelled the violence for a couple of decades. We took him out and now they have nothing better to do than to revive their killing of each other. The fact that we are there is not helping anything. But alas, I was watching the news today at lunch and the press secretary denied everything and said this was just another routine update for the president on things over there...
And the worst one of all I saved for last. I was so upset by this that I was sick to my stomach last night. CNN somehow got a reporter in with the Iraqi insurgents and he filmed with a team of snipers as they stalked and killed a US service member who was just out on patrol. He commentated the whole damn thing like it was some kind of great thing that these guys were killing our kids. I think he should be arrested and charged with assisting murder. He is not a combatant. He is a civilian. And the gall of CNN running this video just made me sick to my stomach. I wonder if he would have provided the same gleeful commentary if it had been his son or daughter that was casually shot by these vicious assholes...
I am flying my flag at half mast for the sorry state of our country. We have no leaders who are worth a damn and I don’t even want to bother voting anymore because there is nobody out there that is any better. It is almost like instead of voting for the lesser of 2 evils I am now expected to vote for whoever is going to take longer to destroy our nation with their own greed and selfishness.
I am struggling to grasp where we, as a nation, will be in even 5 years, much less in 50.
posted by The Idahoan at 11:58 AM
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