"sigh...can you hear me now?"

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sigh...can you hear me now?

I guess the trailer park disease is spreading in the country faster then we expected. Last night I heard one of the most disturbing facts ever, followed by a even more disturbing comment by a busty "Britney Spears" type imbecile masked as a Miss Teen USA wanna be. During last week's pageant, Miss South Carolina Lauren Caitlin Upton was asked why one-fifth of Americans couldn't find USA on a map.

"I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps," she said tentatively. ( or brains for that matter)

She also made random references to South Africa, "Asian countries" and "the Iraq", and said they needed support from the American educational system. (yeah, Im sure people in "the Iraq"...so many comments so little space. Think of this one as an ad lib)

I don't know where to even begin on what's wrong with that statement. Let me just vent one comment though, she came in 4th place. This moron was placed in consideration as an option to lead other upcoming trailer park hopefuls. No wonder darwinistic ideology never catches on in certain parts of the country. Their completely content with their elected leaders in all fields scrapping by with the bare minimum. It's encouraged. If i ever hear one defensive comment that pageants winners are doing it for scholarships, and their Mother Teresa type mission charities etc. so help me god, and I'm not even that religious. Anyways, this morning while reading an article in The Star Ledger of the latest U.S made disaster in Iraq, things made sense. How in world is this uneducated blond Koolaid suppose to speak sense and understanding, when degree carrying "journalists" can't decipher the difference between civilians and insurgents. Do they even know what insurgency means. Here's a tidbit of the article:

..." Some 30 masked Insurgents attacked a U.S. outpost Sunday, triggering the gun battles that ended when a U.S. Jet bombed a house where a gunmen had taken refuge. In addition to the dead, 14 insurgents were captured, the military said.

Iraqi officials said eight people were killed in the house bombing. Police and hospital officials identified the dead as Mohammed Adbul-Wahab, his mother, wife, and five of his young children. U.S. Military spokesman Lt. Col. Michael Donnelly told the associated Press he had reports of two civilian casualties, a male and a female who were in a taxi during the initial fire-fight.

"Any civilian casualties are truly regrettable, but it is important to understand that our forces are there to secure the people of Samarra and bring then peace, not bring them harm like the insurgents did," Donnelly said."...

I better see a proper detraction on this. Where do I even begin. They start the article saying that the "insurgents" attacked specifically U.S troops at an american outpost not civilians in the area, and the americans in self defense (obviously) attack back, and kill a family of 8 because 1 gunman was hiding out on their property, and all this is for civilian protection interests. I don't know about you, but doesn't common sense tell you that if the american troops weren't there, these so called insurgence might not have been in attack mode, and maybe these poor civilians would have had a chance. And I don't know about you, but I've seen cops before, and when one of those felons go running into someone's yard or house they don't bomb the whole house. They usually tend to go in their guns drawn and mortal combat that shit, for lack of a better reference.

But this is just another problem of these young products of the No Child Left Behind Generation. To them All Iraqis are the enemies. And to kill 8 civilians and children because of 1 person seems to not even get a one breath hesitation. And for the "journalist" who wrote this not to concentrate on what's written between the lines and not question actions and statements that are unjust is just as appalling and dangerous to the world as the actions from the actual perpetrator. Keeping the ignorance factor a float seems like the new journalistic theme of this century.

And side note... if i hear one more michael vic story.....yes it's a sad tragedy what he did to dogs. I have two furry daughters and i can't imagine my world without them. But to bring more attention to this then to human civilian lives, or the lack of progress in the Gulf coast, or the horrible flooding in India where people are trapped in flood made island situations without access to food or water, just proves my 'America Has Lost Common Sense Theory'. At this point its past a theory or hypothesis, I am pretty much sure the book on this is in. The jig is up.

Today is the anniversary of Martin Luther Kings famous "I have a dream speech." He's probably rolling in his grave as I write this. But here is a small excerpt that i've always liked.

'We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.'