What a Weekend

I had to ask myself a question: How do I look at the events of this weekend and find any semblance of sanity in the world? The answer? I can't.

Let's start with the worst of it all - Norway. The details are still coming out, but the gist is that a lunatic blew up a government building and the same lunatic, or a cohort, went to a youth camp and killed a large number of young people. His excuse seems to be that he was trying to alert everyone to the dangers of Islam. The dangers of Islam? When you shot a bunch of young people? Instead, what we see is the dangers of overreacting, hatred, guns, extremism, etc., etc.

It's amazing that anyone could try to justify such a reaction in their own mind. This guy thought that he was helping to wake up Norway to the dangers of a religion by killing people who weren't even of that religion. And yet, we see similar attitudes (although not taken to that level) in right wing fundamentalists, extreme left-wingers, zealots, and others. These folks should be asking themselves if they aren't a little bit wacko themselves. And Glenn Beck should be ashamed, as should his sponsors, for opening his big yap by saying that the youth camp in Norway "sounds a little like the Hitler youth". Really? These guys were training for antisemitism and concentration camps? Really? Why does anyone even listen to this moron?

Folks...this gunman is nuts. He thinks he has done a favor to the world. Instead, he has just proven the sickness that exists in the minds of extremists.

How about another story? Amy Winehouse. Is anyone shocked? I mean, are you really shocked that she died young? The woman may have had talent, but she was a walking billboard for the dangers of drug abuse. It is sad, and the people that enabled her drug habit should be ashamed and held accountable. But people, when you are checking TMZ for stories on drug abusing celebrities and drool over each tidbit of info that comes out, don't be surprised when they pop up dead on a regular basis. It's another example of the sickness pervading this world.

Finally, let's look at football and the U.S. government. Football...labor deal...arguing over billions...while how many people are unemployed? You people stink. Not because you are trying to make a living in the sports / entertainment industry, but because you lose sight of the big picture. People are suffering out there, and you are more concerned with getting your "fair share" of billions. That's sick.

Along with that, the Republicans and the Democrats are so focused on getting reelected by their extremist money-donating base of voters, that they don't see what they are doing to Joe Average who needs a job. Again I say...you people stink. Get off your ego trip and do what is right. Everyone...and I mean everyone...who has the means needs to pay their fair share. And it is disgusting that a single human being in this country should go hungry or go without medical care or a place to eat when CEOs and other muckity-mucks are raking in millions of dollars in salaries every year. Is their job tougher or more demanding than that of the guy trying to earn a living pulling weeds? I'm not saying they should be equal, but the government needs to remember that people are hurting, and that cutting the most needy never fixes the problem.

What's the point of all of the ranting THIS time? Go back and read the "model prayer", also known as the "Lord's prayer". You wonder why Jehovah's Witnesses go door to door telling people that God's Kingdom is the only solution that will work? Read the news from this weekend again. I dare you to ask that question.