Author Highlights: The Lack of Common Sense

Our government has no common sense.

Now, I try not to get angry, as it doesn't serve a useful purpose. My anger is quick, like a flame turned up high on a gas burner. Then, it burns out just as fast, as if I ran out of propane.

I never used to be this way, it seems to have come as a bi-product of Crohn's disease. I live with pain and it makes me edgy. Getting tired does the same thing. I feel bad for people who are caught in my meltdown, but really, there's nothing I can do about it. I refuse to lay on the bed one day more than I have to, so oftentimes I'm out running around when I'm exhausted.
 
Today, I did the unthinkable. I flipped on a few news shows. I bounced between MSNBC, CNN, and Fox.  Bad idea.  Really, bad idea. The anger bubbled and boiled and then I did some research on a few stories. I began to wonder; what in the world has happened to people?

My thoughts, as I cruised the news stations and Internet.

1. George Zimmerman is half white and half Hispanic. His Hispanic blood doesn't make him any less guilty though. He should've listened to the dispatcher. Just because George is half white doesn't make him more guilty, either. 

2. Whathisname Kerry, you know, the guy who promised to find out what happened in Bengazi, Libya. John Kerry, of the ketchup people. The Swift Boat guy. Today, he comments on how horrible the use of chemical weapons is in Syria.

While the use of such weapons is anathema to me, I'd like to know if he's bothered to note what our drones have done to innocent women and children. I would post a picture here, but in good conscience, I can't. Trust me when I say little ones with their faces burned off are not pretty. I can't help but wonder, does he think I am stupid?

3. Thank you to the Sierra Club. Now you can add burning down Yosemite to your list of accomplishments. I love how I have to ask for permission to remove a tree from my own property even when it's to clear it a fire break. We don't have to burn down a forest to manage the trees, do we? #wouldliketokicksomeseriousbutthere

4. Who does Bloomberg think he is? If I want a Big Gulp, I'll buy a Big Gulp. I don't drink soda, but if I did this is not a man I'd invite to my party. Thumbs up to the courts for overruling this one, folks.

5. California gives business' a tax break then decides to take it back. On top of rescinding the break, business' now have to pay back the taxes the government says they should have paid the first time when they gave them a break.

Say what?

I have now turned off the television. The world can go back to doing whatever the world does now-a-days. And it can do it without me. I write simple stories that take people's minds off the world. Some of them are dark, some are filled with love, and some are just stories that want to be told.

I'll leave the judgment to others.

(((hugs)))

Louann

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