Sunday, March 5, 2006


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It happened when Clinton was president, and it's happening again now: the seeming incompetence of our leadership, won't permit us to live in peace. Instead, we're being forced to deal with all the fighting among those who are in charge and who, like a bunch of spoiled, ill-mannered children, spend their time beating each other up while screaming, "It's his fault.....it's her fault.....it's their fault!"

I'm tired of their antics. Politics is just about the very last thing on this earth that interests me, yet how can I ignore its piercing, constant noise?

Some say that the noise is good and that the tide is turning on many things that were just plain wrong and even dangerous. So perhaps if I can manage to see it like that, the noise won't bother me? Like outsourcing, for instance. It's coming to light now, that some of our largest corporate entities that outsourced IT-jobs like crazy, are now pulling those jobs back into the US, because they've lost more money as a result of consumer outrage, than the pityful amounts they gained by doing their business overseas.

Perhaps the world is not quite as flat as Thomas Friedman thought it was.........or wanted it to be? Perhaps the Dubai Debacle was a necessary evil that forced us to become aware of the fact that financial profiteers have been ignoring every decent standard of doing business, thereby seriously endangering the rest of us?

After all, didn't it just take a real-world war, for the Defense Department to be forced into doing something about the disgusting truth that they've been sending our military personnel into harm's way with inferior weapons, dangerous equipment, and without personal body armor?

Hmmm........it's working..........I don't feel quite as overwhelmed by that piercing noise. Perhaps I can train myself to hear it as the sound of change. The music of progress. The jingle bells of good things replacing the bad and the ugly?

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