I Can't Look

Do you ever feel like just putting your head in the sand instead of watching the news? If I want to see what is going on in the world lately, I find that I turn on the news or go searching the news websites and come away with a lot of nothing. Not nothing, something. Junk. The talking heads are wasting my time.

What have I learned lately? I know that we are into our third war now, even though we have a supposed anti-war president. The President acted without Congress, which has upset a lot of people. Bush acted with Congress and it upset a lot of people.

Also, we've hit the one year anniversary of ObamaCare being signed into law and corporate supporters continue to drop like flies. They say it is not affordable as we are entering the much discussed and forewarned about second dip of the "double dip recession." All of the information was available last year, why didn't they say something then?

Here's what it looks like to me: Washington still isn't behaving constitutionally or doing much of anything rational and Americans seem as fickle as ever.

Since we are so bored with all of the chaos all over the world, people are starting to talk about the 2012 run for President. Fickle, no? I confess was persuaded by the hype and "might" have ordered a "few" books by "some" of the potential "candidates." It's done already so I can't be fickle and change my mind. I'll put up some book reports when I finish some of my reading!

It's a sad state of affairs when I find that the most uplifting and motivating thing in current events is the courageous way the Japanese are facing their current plight. Our media seems so focused in finding fault or placing blame, yet that is an American message. The message I hear coming out of Japan through blogs and smaller internet news sites is one of strength and dignity. Nobody is mad that they haven't received their free stuff yet. The people seem to be unified by their disaster. They are just supporting each other and trying to get through this terrible tragedy. Really amazing.