...so another dreary Sunday...all you can read about is bad news.

Don't tell me I need to look at a different perspective on all of this. This IS our fault, you know.

Now they say our climate may be beyond repair. We've fucked it up, and the really sad, disgusting part is we KNEW about it and we STILL fucked it up. Anyone who doesn't believe it's happening is in denial, and frankly, part of the problem.

Why take so long in fixing things? You'll put that new what-ya-ma-call-it on the cars in the year 2015 so everyone will be cleaner running. Do you really think we're that stupid? Do it NOW. We have the technology.

Everyone has an opinion on Saddam Hussein...maybe we should have just left him where he was to fuck up his people more and more. But you know, if some guy was killing someone in this neighborhood, you can be pretty sure that person would be stopped and punished. Some may think that it's his business what he does in his own country, his own backyard. I believe the same about my house, but I also have morals, and I don't hurt people. It's called murder.

So now he disrupts the courtroom, causing a lot of problems. Oh, and there's also the trouble with his own lawyers being killed. Or am I mistaken on that part? Just muzzle the asshole. Fuck his rights. I'm tired of all the damn lawyers who think it's more important to make a name and a buck for themselves and worry so much about a criminal's rights. Sure, innocent until proven guilty...but you guys seem to let the bad guys off more often than helping the ones who were wronged.*

It's our fault kids get hurt...put in family homes where abuse runs rampant, or left at the home where the same occurs. Wouldn't want to jump to conclusions. Someone might sue. And OH MY GOD just let THAT happen. Again, idiot lawyers who will do ANYTHING to make a dollar. Why don't you guys just forget that and go stand out on the street corner and sell yourself that way?**

Our health care system is more for the rich*** (gasp!) and we've made it so difficult for people who really need their meds to actually afford them that they'll be dead before they ever get any more.

We've wiped out many species in nature, and say it's ok because, well, what are they good for? Isn't it enough that they just live?

Politicians can't get along, but we're counting on them to do what's necessary for us. They act like kids fighting over a toy. Seems to me that if we voted for them, we should be able to fire 'em. Give them a yearly review...write 'em up and if they don't improve, out they go. I think we're paying them too much, too.

People living in poverty and squalor, trying to make ends meet, but we wouldn't want the car companies to lose any more money, so thousands are going to be laid
off. However, you can rest assured the ceo and his buddies won't take a cut in pay.

Let's not forget about the athletes who I always thought played because they loved to play, yet besides making millions, some do the drugs and get into all kinds of trouble and get away with it.

The actors and singers who always wanted to be famous, to be good at what they do because they love doing it, yet get paid a shitload of money anyway. Although there are a lot of good ones out there...

...Denzel Washington donated some of his own money towards a facility that houses wounded soldiers in San Antonio, Texas.

...Oprah gives away many things to some not so fortunate people on her show...because she has the money. (I don't know why he has a jet, though)

...all the stars who went and helped during the hurricanes down south; the two who called a dying girl earlier this year when they read in People magazine how much she liked them. She died soon after.

...and I always remember the story about how Susan Sarandon was in a clothing store somewhere and, after seeing a customer throw a sweater or shirt back on a table after she unfolded it, she goes up to the customer and tells her how hard the clerk was working and she didn't need to leave more work for her...that she just folded it, and maybe she, the customer, should refold it. Where was she when I worked retail?

So why don't we stop screwing with things and start working towards better things? Because of greed...selfishness...bigotry...and plain old badness.

Thank God I don't have kids...what a world I'd be leaving them.

* I'm not saying ALL lawyers; I love you, Lewis...
**Again...I'm not saying...ALL...
***And not all rich people...but, unfortunately...a lot of you.
posted by Wanting at 1:17 PM