Sick Of It

Wish I could take credit for this but alas, it was written by a fellow political board dweller named Angel May...enjoy.

I am just sick to death of all this wallowing in the "horrors" of 9/11 that goes on each year -- this year even worse. All this does is stir up hatred for people who had no part in that day. It keeps our little moron behind the podium (and in front of uniformed troops) "explaining" to us how "safe" he is keeping us and that to vote for a Democrat would be to turn the world into some kind of a wimpy pinko communist tree-hugging welfare-state full of people who will raise your taxes and don't love Jesus.

Nowhere during all this wallowing in flag-wrapped self-pity do we ever ask ourselves WHY someone felt the need to do such a thing. Never do we ask ourselves was the loss of approximately 3000 civilians worth the deaths of many, many more thousands of innocent civilians in other countries as we bombed and bombed and bombed them. Not even to mention the thousands of our own troops sent away to kill in our names.

I never hear anyone ask what we can do to better get along with people in the world. Or why it is that we are incapable of respecting other cultures.But we can argue endlessly about building some truly ugly replacement towers and where the "memorial" will be so people can go and sit and remember (and possibly fan the flames of hatred), and how the names of those who perished will be inscribed, or if they will be inscribed and how they will be inscribed. I have no doubt that great arguments have even occurred with regard to the font that will be used.

We argue about what the "park" will look like and how it will affect traffic and residences. We think only of ourselves. We call it a "Freedom Tower" (of all stupid names) and we pat each other on the backs, and polish our guns, and talk big about killing ragheads whether they have weapons of mass destruction or not -- never mind that we, ourselves, have weapons of mass destruction (and with no intentions of ridding ourselves of them).

I wonder if 911 will ever become just an emergency phone number again. Well.... if it's a start, then let it begin with me.

AM....programming 911 into my cellphone for one-button efficiency and ignoring the day-long wallow that is occurring all over this blinded country.