Thursday, June 23, 2005

I was at a local Mexican resturant on Father's Day. It's a bar and Grill with cable TV piping in Univision and Latino Channel. The news came on and I started to brush up on my Spanish. After watching for awhile, I realized that the news in the United State is far more sanatized than we realize. The Stories were the same Iraq, Mideast, Floods, Famine, Sports, and kids with melting ice cream cones (Fluff) But what struck home was the level of detail. They showed a bombing with the dead vicitms laying there in their own blood. Not a flash shot, not pictures of bruned out cars, and no shot of women weeping. This was 2-5 minutes of close up gore. Dang. I know there are censor in the United States, I'm not stupid. I'm not a liberal, but I do think most Ameran live in a warm fuzzies teletubbie land. Kids should see these images, but everyone over 18 should see this. Not because I think all war is wrong, but because this is the real world. It can be petty, creul and uncaring. This bomb was placed by people who want the status quo to remain the same in their country, very few rights for women, and the rule of the despot. They were killing their own poeple , because they would rather kill thier own istead of changing. Before you get on your high horse that the U.S. or any other country, shouldn't get invovled. Think about this, a middle eastern women in Germany was murder by her brother because she was becoming to western and was shaming the family. You call the US intollerant? Wake UP!

ON a different note: I see Congress has finally recognized the lynching of Black Americans over the last 150 years. Hmmmmm maybe they should have a law against lynching. What a great idea! What ... You mean someone has already thought about this over 7 decades ago? It was backed by Truman and later Johnson, but it was blocked? Surely not...must be those evil Republicans. WHAT!!!!!! IT was White Southern Democrats blocking the bills by fillabuster all this time. Well Thank you very nuch! You seems to forget get this every 4 years when you keep shouting from the rooftops that you are the party of the minorities. More?

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