On it goes...

The rant continues:

JJ, a Blogger who I read every day now, observed on her blog that a lot of people have slowed down in their postings. She surmised that the reason might be all that is going on in the world. I think she is right. So many things have happened over the past few days, that if you are not in some way affected by what you see and hear, you are either ignoring it on purpose, or else you have no idea of the implications of it all. That is not meant to be a belittling statement. I wish that I could just go about living my life, safe and secure, and not have to worry about the future, but I cannot. I put my finger on (finally) why I get so emotional now when I recall my trip to Disney. The reason is, that for four short days, I didn’t have to worry about anything. I didn’t have to nag the kids about homework, I didn’t have to meet a dead line at work, I didn’t have to worry about getting the shopping done, or whether or not dinner would be on the table on time so that we could get to whatever practice the kids were involved in. For four blessed days, the yoke was lifted off my shoulders, and I could be a child again. Those of you who do not know or do not care what is going on in the world, you may be the smartest ones of all.

7. Twenty prisoners have escaped from prison in Yemen. Twenty terrorists, some of who were responsible for blowing a hole in the side of one of our ships, the Cole. Have any of you seen pictures of the Cole? Does anyone know what kind of explosion it takes to do that kind of damage to a man of war? Has anyone considered how lucky the sailors who survived were that the fuel tanks did not ignite, or the weapons magazines did not explode? We are lucky, as a nation, that there is not another mass grave on foreign soil standing as a tribute to the folly of trusting terrorist nations. Let me ask another question. How many people think that this could have been accomplished without collaboration from the local government? How many accomplices does it take to tunnel under a jail and then have twenty inmates vanish? These men were convicted of mass murder. Yet our peaceful Islamic allies have not found them yet. Allow the rumor to circulate that the Koran was some how mishandled, and our politicians wet themselves. Watch the news and see if there are any repercussion for another crime committed against the people of the United States. Sure, the politicians will stand at whatever podium and talk into whatever camera is pointed at them, but when it is all said and done, much is said and nothing is done.