It's all so illogical

A local 75 year old woman recently killed a fawn with a shovel because she was tired of the deer eating her flowers (I got mad, too, but then I stopped buying and planting flowers so I save money and don't give the deer a salad bar, but I digress...)

Is there outrage? I am sure some would blame this act on her advanced age, but let's suppose it was a 16 year old boy who didn't want the fawn around so he attacked and killed it. He would be labelled a monster, and animal rights activists would be up in arms and calling for harsh punishment for this boy, right? I don't think you'd have too may activists fighting on the boy's side.

But why is there such division about abortion, where the unborn baby is attacked and killed because the mother doesn't want him in her womb?

Is American History Lost?

Here is an actual exchange between myself (Me) and this other person (OP):

OP: Ohio has a law that says you must put your headlights on when driving in rain.

Me: I think politicians have to justify their existence by passing more and more laws.

OP: Yeah, local laws are stupid anyway, why when I pass the imaginary line from Ohio to Pennsylvania for example should the speed limit change, or laws regarding the death penalty be different, we're all one country!

Me: Our Founding Fathers believed in Federalism, don't you?

OP: I think having state and local governments is redundant. States are over-rated.

I kid you not, this is a person is college educated, and either doesn't understand American history, or has absolutely no appreciation for it!

Here we are today, celebrating our country's Independence, and there are people in our country who seriously need to learn, or RE-learn what that truly means. Especially with the Progressive movement continuing the assault on our country, if we forget our history, or simply abandon it, we and our children are doomed to be slaves of the government.

Soul mates

So Mark Sanford can die happy because he found his "soul-mate" but I would bet that when he got married he thought SHE was his soul mate. So it is 10, 20 years later and the honeymoon is long gone and the daily grind of Life is not terribly exciting, and things your mate does that you used to find cute are now major pet peeves, then you get to know someone with whom you "click". Human nature being what it is of course kicks in. In my views, however, once children are in the picture, you've got to keep those feelings to yourself, it's not fair to your kids to act upon it.

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

Thanks to BB from Idaho who recommended this book by Harold Kushner, I would also recommend it to anyone who questions why the world is how it is, or why pray, or is God all-powerful? The one part that stood out for me was when he spoke of the laws of nature and how can good people for example be saved if they fell out of a window when gravity is a force that makes everyone fall down, and gravity has no morals to distinguish between a good person or a bad person from hitting the ground and getting hurt. Therefore, there is simply a randomness where sometimes nature hurts the good and sometimes the bad. From that idea, I further decided that miraculous things that cure and save people is also random. So our prayers asking for miracles are not a bad thing, but we cannot think that saying certain words a certain way will change nature's course, nature changes nature's course sometimes. I still hope that nature saves Emily.

MJ must have been a conservative

From Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror":

I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make a change

He wasn't singing about looking to the government, he knew to look to himself.

Rest in peace, Michael Jackson.

The pit that is in my stomach

This feeling in my stomach that won't go away, the news about my daughter's friend, trying to deal with how to get through all that the best way, talking to other parents, and today going to a counselling center to work through it, but still listening to the news a little (admittedly not following it as closely as I did before - but I think that what is going on in the world will also impact my children's lives, too, although the immediate impact on their lives is the situation with Emily), and so I wonder about a meetup group I joined not long ago designed to network with other like-minded people to get informed and inform others about what it going on in our country that is so wrong, but I keep thinking now is not the time for me to be away from my family and the community of people dealing with the potential loss of Emily to take on the problem our nation faces, as if little old me can really make a difference to our country but I can in our community, and God damn it, isn't that why our country is heading in such a wrong direction in the first place that the local communities are not the primary source for our dealing with issues, as our Founding Fathers had intended?

P.S. Thanks for letting me vent here, it is somewhat helpful to express my feelings.

WTF?

George W. Bush had a drinking problem when he was younger, but he didn't use his power for anti-alcohol legislation.

I thought you can't legislate morality anyway.

Oh, I forget, LIBS can, conservatives aren't allowed.

The Our Father

Seems fitting to talk about the Lord's Prayer, the Our Father, on Father's Day.

We went to church last night, which for me was very strange since I am not on speaking terms with God right now, so saying the prayers we always say was just me going through the motions (maybe it is always like that though, but moreso now) when it occurs to me that the Our Father answers my question:

Thy Will Be Done

it says so basically the Lord taught us this prayer so that we realize that it doesn't really matter what our will is, it is God's will that matters, and apparently God doesn't seem to mind kids dying everyday.