CREDIBLE BUT NOT SPECIFIC!

(Richard Esposito, Rhonda Schwartz, Mathew Schecter, Green Bay Press Gazette)

(Fareed Zalaria, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Frazer Chronicle)

 

An article this morning in the Green Bay Press Gazette caught my eye, and how couldn’t it, How Safe Do You Feel? What with all the talk about terrorists, and terrorist attacks here in the United States. Thankfully the article was about home safety against fires. The headline and accompanying article gave some in depth tips and common sense ideas on how to escape a fire in apartment complexes, (Green Bay has been the site of two in recent weeks.)

 

I am, at the present time working on a blog that will carry with it some astounding statistics with regards to shootings that occur in the private sector throughout the country. I find the thought process of needless random shootings a kind of bizarre look into the soul of our societal fabric. Stay tuned, it’ll take some time…..and I’m on vacation from July 29, through August 5.

 

Maturity is what we all are supposed to achieve with advancing age, but somehow, here in American, for some, maturity never seems to arrive at the station…..that train simply goes right by the depot, leaving a major portion of our country searching for a semblance…..a nugget, a speck of maturity.

 

To me, maturity is a kind of coming of age; it’s a mix of life’s experiences, formal education, and a heavy dose of common sense. Maturity does not come easy, and some people never ever gain the trait, yet whether we are mature, or just silly and frivolous, we all have to deal, one with another.

 

FRIVOLOUS SHEEP

September 11, 2001, when the terrorists who had commandeered those jet liners and crashed them into the Pentagon and the world trade center buildings, life as we had known it was over. The change took less than a day and has been a festering sore every sense. “Heads will roll, and people will pay,” that wasn’t said, but it should have been, instead President Bush said that “those people who wish us ill will are put on notice right now,” You play with the bull, you’re going to get the horn.

 

Of course our political leaders didn’t say it quite that way, but it’s what they meant, or my opinion of the entire Bush regime is flawed. In the days and weeks after the September 11 attack, our governments begin a constant blitz of almost mis-information. And as we all know, the Bush White House shifted gears and pointed to Iraq as a major player in the twin towers attack.

 

The message is the massage continues to this day, it can be felt throughout all of our security efforts from the border patrols, to the protection of our president, to the mall cops that patrol the video machines in the nation’s malls.

 

I thought maybe cooler heads would emerge from the McCain, Obama and Romney, Obama election runs, but I was wrong. I knew everybody knew that McCain was not the answer to our problems in the White House after two terms of Bush. And even though I voted again for Obama, I didn’t feel real satisfied …..but Mitt Romney, surely you jest!

 

THE COLD WAR HAS RUN HOT AND COLD

For whatever reason, Americans seem to need a war, an event, or situation that we seem to rally for, and to give our support to. The United States was attacked on September 11, 2001 of that there is no doubt, and the cost in lives was heavy, more than 2,900 deaths and 6,000 injured.

 

Our wrath was understandable, our attack of Afghanistan was in retribution for the loss of American lives, and the world applauded and supported are effort to bring to an end an oppressive lifestyle and attitude. However that feeling was in response to a justified response to an act of war. But like the man said, how long are you going to milk this instance before you switch teats.   

 

John McCain’s fate was sealed during the Bush administration with every lie that was told after 2002 during the run-up to the Iraqi invasion. The Bush people told so many whoppers it’s a wonder that McDonalds didn’t seek an injunction because of product infringement with regards to their Whopper, (which would taste so good right now).

 

The Bush administration has been responsible for, and we are suffering because of, the insidious way that it (the administration) practiced their governance, spending on defense like drunken sailors, that in many aspects, left the country bankrupt. We aren’t trusted throughout the world, it’s a fact, and it’s one of the reasons that we have replaced Russia as a cold war opponent with the terrorist threat.

 

I will say one thing for Barack Obama; he was saddled with by far the largest financial crisis as he assumed office. Bush spent trillions of dollars on the war effort, and he will go down in history one day as the most ridiculous of all presidents, it’s going to be his legacy, but sadly we’ve paid for it, some more than others.

 

ISN’T IT TIME TO TAKE STOCK

As a responsible people we need to stop this merry-go-round, take stock and head off into a different direction before it’s too late. I’m not sure that we have the time, current activity, and our misdeeds can make for a cruel bed partner.

 

I keep harping week after week about the average man taking charge of his life; it’s really the only way that in the end, we will survive. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, I do not particularly care about the future generations, the generation before mine sure as hell didn’t give much of a care for me, yet surprise, surprise, I survived…..so will they.

 

We need to take stock because it’s the right thing to do, and because it is way over due, and we need to bring these jerks to justice. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Don Rumsfeld, and whoever else it might be deemed necessary.

 

That said…..realistically, we need to take stock so that we can move on into a more predictable way of operation. We need it, our kids and grandkids need it, and the world needs it. What-do-ya say?

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!