Its quite sad. 10 years ago we seemed to be quite a decent country. But nowadays more and more news articles come out describing events and happenings that I would not have believed possible in this country.
Heres a quick list just from today:
- 1000 people issue a citizens arrest on Pres. Bush
- A high school girl has her wrist broken by a security guard for dropping cake
- Bush caught lying about 9/11 (with video)
- Chicago cops are investigated for 5000 incidents of abuse
- High school student suspended for wearing John Edwards tshirt.
- Religious group get $100k to improve science with creationism views
The headlines were enough to make me gag, but actually reading the articles made me rather revolted. I am not even sure, from reading the articles among other sources, what the hell is even going on in this country. All I can see is a lot of our countries allies are pissed and our enemies are laughing. Our citizens are angered and our politicians are deaf.
About the only good thing to come out of the news today s a rather good article from the Consumerist about how to properly write to congress and say your piece.
I think I’ll do just that now. Here is the Consumerist article if you are interested.
-Cheers
What makes me sad is all the people who only a very short time ago readily admitted to not caring about politics or anything else in the news suddenly acting like experts on those very subjects. A very biased media presents a fairly singular view that makes everything appear in shades of black & white and the sheep suddenly think they are the shepherds.
I know that that comment was aimed at me so let me tell you that I still don’t really give a care about politics, but since my kid started in the public school system I have become a lot more concerned about the goings-ons of schools.
And I have always been kind of anti-religion so most things about that shouldn’t be a shocker.
I am also not claiming to be a political afficianado. I just said the articles saddened me about our country.
Or am I missing the point again (I have a bad habit of that)?
No such aim was taken. I was just adding my own very verbose bullet point.
Ah. Well, verbose-ify away then mate.