Two Weeks (of Insanity)

Sometime I feel that modern life is moving at such blinding speed that I will never be able to wrap my brain around it. Who do I believe? What is real? 24/7 news often not about what is really happening, just the "smoke and mirrors". Then I look around me and wonder how our materialistic, get ahead at any cost society is oblivious to the very real possibility that the world as we know it may be getting ready to go up in flames. I look at the people that I spend time with on a professional basis and wonder how I can communicate any of my concern without sounding like one of those crazy right wing radicals.

Just consider the last two weeks - the profound and the inane-

A man who has murdered 60,000 babies is murdered - and I am blamed. There is no justification for this act. Murder is murder. Just as there is no justification for the blame being placed on conservative voices in the media and by proxy - me. Meanwhile my president finds, rightly, "that it was a heinous act of violence".

A comedian utters vile and disgusting comments about a mother and her daughter and people find him amusing. These comments would not even have been made in polite company when I was growing up, much less on nationwide TV. And when her mother, out of necessity, defends her - she is told - "its on you - you trotted your kid out in front of the camera" (paraphrase -Behar)

A US Army recruiter is shot down in cold blood and his partner severely wounded. This is done by an American Muslim convert who says he feels no guilt due to the fact that it is right to follow his Islamic beliefs and Americans are murdering innocent women and children. There is almost no mention in most media. Our president makes no statement about this heinous act against our own servicemen, even when given opportunity when appointing a new Army commander. There is no blame placed on the MSM for its continuous hate speech against GW Bush, the war in Iraq, and lack of support for, and in fact attacks on, our military.

A madman walks into the Holocaust Museum in DC and opens fire. None of his beliefs align with traditional conservative beliefs and yet once more the conservative media - and by proxy - myself, are blamed. Now of course more laws against hate speech must be cranked out. DHS was right about those right wing extremists etc.

North Korea is test firing nuclear weapons, elections in Iran are going awry, Israel is on alert, our country is becoming more divided by the day. Every day we get another Czar of something adding another arm to Mr Obama's shadow government.

People in Iran are marching for their right to a free and fair election process, their frustration over an intrusive government and possibly freedom from the Mullahs and theocracy. Our president speaks for their "right to peaceful protest" and his deep concern over the violence erupting against them. Yet when hundreds of thousands of Americans take to the streets to peacefully protest a growing, overly intrusive government that can't keep its hands out of our wallets, he ridicules us and finds no problem with the vile names we were called in the media. In fact, he pretty much laughed it off, as Akmadinijad did about Iranian protestors being like disgruntled fans after a soccer match. His common theme is "I won. Just deal with it".

While the world is erupting all around us (not much from Chavez lately, but it is sure to come), our president feels his most important duties are to forcefully take over private businesses, control pay rates, redesign our health care, apologize for our country to those we have defended with hundreds of thousands American lives over the years, make sure he gets his date nights and golf matches in, spending as much time out of DC as possible and remaining on the campaign trail to try to sway folks with his impeccable intelligent teleprompter speeches. Oh yes, and quietly sending terrorists back to where they came from....or to island paradises.

Meanwhile I'm trying to relax a bit while wrapping up one school year and attending training to prepare for the next. I've woken up to think I had no water in the house and realized it was just the screen on my water filter in the kitchen. I've done my best to help some folks win the All-America City award for Tampa. I've started working out - the better to pedal a bike when gas prices are manipulated to force me to buy an midget car - which would not have protected the way my KIA did when I was rear-ended this morning. I spend time with family and with friends online. I've "gone green" on Twitter to support the people of Iran's right to a free and fair election process. A friend from work said "you watch Fox News? EEWWWW! Why??"

What's next? Who knows! I only know that God is in control and will walk with me through whatever it is.