Posted by
dghutchins on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 7:07:29 AM
In case you haven't heard, Trent Lott, Senator from Mississippi, has been restored to a leadership role. Recall that he was ousted from his former position as Senate Majority Leader for making an offhand comment at Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party. I happened to catch his latest interview this past weekend on Fox News where he basked in his return to leadership and trumpeted his ability to "make deals" and influence a working majority to "get things done". What things? In his own (paraphrased) words: important things like Clean Water Act legislation, minimum wage legislation, and transportation pork...uh I mean legislation. Similarly, another "leader", Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General was recently in Africa to discuss the extremely important crisis of "Climate Change". I'm sure the impoverished, leaderless, and desolate continent welcomed this urgent message from Kofi and his SUV entourage. I'm sure Kofi's use of the bully pulpit to preach about climate change was encouraging to a nation devastated by famine, AIDS, violence, etc....Don't you get it Africa? If we could just confiscate other people's cars and establish restrictive economic rules for other people, all your hopelessness could be solved! And finally, about 3 weeks ago, American's got tired of watching true Freedom Fighters fight and decided to make a national statement to wit: There is now nothing worth fighting or dying for. National security is merely a state of mind, and if we just leave "them" alone, we can have peace (before they blew themselves up they told me so!). Apparently, Liberation-in-Action and Extreme-Freedom-Games negatively affected the carefree mood of Americans and totally bummed them out so that they couldn't enjoy Eating Worms with The Stars or Mismatched Socks and The Kids Who Are Forced To Wear Them.
We are a distracted nation, and we are soon going to pay an enormous price for being so self-absorbed in these consequential times. We have nuclear fanatics on both sides of us who watch atrocities with popcorn and soda pop. We have seen recently that a single individual (Google on Litvinenko) can be nuked to death with a 1/4 teaspoon dose of Polonium. Yet we --and our "leaders" -- want to talk about minimum wage, heating costs, transfats, and "why they hate us". Our wakeup call came on 9/11, and we have just recently hit the snooze button. Lord, I pray that we would shake ourselves from our sleep and rise to confront and defeat the evil that is boiling over around the world before we are fighting it at Starbucks and our kids are asking us why we didn't do something...besides click the remote....