Well, I know I am in the middle of something with my ladies, but I have got to hop up on my soap box here for just a few. I know they will not mind this little diversion.
America, what in the hell are you thinking? Riots over Penn State coach firing! Is a ball game that important? Where have I been all my life? I see acts of cowardice on the news when a 2 year old girl was hit in the street and people walked past and paid no attention. I think that was in China. What did the world say? They said "Things like that happen in the United States, but not here." We have become known as a country of callous beings.
Where else are athletes paid millions of dollars to play a season of ball, put them on a pedestal, and then riot in the streets because a 10 year old boy got himself raped and the adults who were supposed to protect him turned blind eyes? That particular coach was to be excused because he had a winning team! I am sorry, I just don't get it. Sandusky is the guilty one here, you say? Sandusky is not the only one to share in this debacle. There are laws in place to protect the weak and young and they are there for a reason. There were a lot of responsible people who turned a blind eye on this one. This one and how many more just like it?
I am so sick of turning on my television and seeing some one with down cast eyes making their little spiel about "Oh, well, I am so sorry. I should have done more." The politicians who lie directly to the camera for weeks and then when confronted with the actual picture of them with thier hand in the cookie jar tell us, "Oh, well, I remember now. I am so sorry. I am an honorable man, but there was that one time." And Lord only knows if all of Tiger's women were ever uncovered. (Well, we know they were uncovered, but I mean in the sense of publicly discovered.) I do admire his wife, oh, excuse me, his EX wife.
I rather live in my own little world and try to just do what I think is right, and people, this is not right. I look at my world around me and I am so happy that I am old and this is not going to be my fight that much longer. Man's inhumanity to man is just about more than I can stomach for many more years. I see the "Occupy " forces over on the corner and I watched the Tea Party blossom, falter and splinter. I long for the days before technology when we did not see what was happening in virtual time.
If I indeed do get to come back for another shot at this life, I hope I can come back in the time of the Pony Express and no phones, no television and I can eat fresh cows cream on my cracked wheat in the morning and top it off with a pat of real butter!
America, what in the hell are you thinking? Riots over Penn State coach firing! Is a ball game that important? Where have I been all my life? I see acts of cowardice on the news when a 2 year old girl was hit in the street and people walked past and paid no attention. I think that was in China. What did the world say? They said "Things like that happen in the United States, but not here." We have become known as a country of callous beings.
Where else are athletes paid millions of dollars to play a season of ball, put them on a pedestal, and then riot in the streets because a 10 year old boy got himself raped and the adults who were supposed to protect him turned blind eyes? That particular coach was to be excused because he had a winning team! I am sorry, I just don't get it. Sandusky is the guilty one here, you say? Sandusky is not the only one to share in this debacle. There are laws in place to protect the weak and young and they are there for a reason. There were a lot of responsible people who turned a blind eye on this one. This one and how many more just like it?
I am so sick of turning on my television and seeing some one with down cast eyes making their little spiel about "Oh, well, I am so sorry. I should have done more." The politicians who lie directly to the camera for weeks and then when confronted with the actual picture of them with thier hand in the cookie jar tell us, "Oh, well, I remember now. I am so sorry. I am an honorable man, but there was that one time." And Lord only knows if all of Tiger's women were ever uncovered. (Well, we know they were uncovered, but I mean in the sense of publicly discovered.) I do admire his wife, oh, excuse me, his EX wife.
I rather live in my own little world and try to just do what I think is right, and people, this is not right. I look at my world around me and I am so happy that I am old and this is not going to be my fight that much longer. Man's inhumanity to man is just about more than I can stomach for many more years. I see the "Occupy " forces over on the corner and I watched the Tea Party blossom, falter and splinter. I long for the days before technology when we did not see what was happening in virtual time.
If I indeed do get to come back for another shot at this life, I hope I can come back in the time of the Pony Express and no phones, no television and I can eat fresh cows cream on my cracked wheat in the morning and top it off with a pat of real butter!
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