Facebook rage

Hearing interesting things about Facebook rage - heard about a woman who JK'd that she wanted to see how it felt to kill somebody, then she strangled a 9 year old kid - then heard about some tweens in a SoCal middle school who beat a redheaded kid because their Facebook page touted a "Kick a Ginger Day" (although Facebook apparently made a statement about that incident that stated the idea came from a South Park episode)

So, basically, once you peel back the veneer of it, we are faced with the realization that really it's not the technology that's doing all this to us - but WE're doing all this to us. We're really a bunch of twistos who need help, true help - and what's sad is that we now have the technology to parade all our disgusting facets to the world.

People who kill themselves on webcams and Twitter their murders, goodness, I really get a knot in my stomach. I can only pray that the Lord will indeed shine His light upon all of us and just let us know that His love absolutely encompasses us,

because I'll tell ya, if we were ever to live in a world where we couldn't see that light, what a miserable world that would be.

Basically, it's like this: you gotta believe in a love that never dies, from a God that never fails - because we all know that humans are short on love and long on failure!

So, good night, God bless, and use Facebook to keep in touch with family and friends, not to murder or maim, OK?

VG

Neil Borst last week

Just thought I'd note here that I was listening to Neil Borst's radio show last week and he was talking about a woman who had lost her teenage son a few months before and he suggested that she should just "get over it."

His assistant did say, "Well, she IS a grieving mom!"

and he replied, "Still, it was four months ago."


I just thought people should know.

VG

Mexican Italian Restaurant

I think someone should come up with a Mexican-Italian Restaurant. It may sound corny, but since both are so popular, then why not have a menu where you can choose between fajita platters OR chicken fettucine alfredo.

Or perhaps even get a mixture of both . . . dishes that can replace asiago with pico de gallo.

Truly, I know there's a business major out there who right now is trying to think of the profit margin this thing could have.

So many hate voices in the air

It turns out, at least in the Northern district in upstate New York, that even a Republican candidate who's slightly moderate can so incur the rancor of her own party that they would support an uber-conservative independent.

Have the Republican radicals so taken over the party that their vitriol has seeped like some sort of poison throughout the fabric of American politics?

Obviously, yes.

How sad.

Now, today's gubernatorial races, which really should be wholly local affairs, are seen as some sort of referendum on the Obama administration.

Last week I heard some hate-radio host, still slabbering about "socialism" say that the government should leave the markets alone and the markets will police themselves.

Does anybody remember? We DID that! We let the markets police themselves, and they stole all our money, pissed it away until it vanished like the memory of our long-lost virginity!

I remember the frustrated opposition to the Bush administration - the Americans who dared speak out spoke out against these things:

War for oil.
War because the "bad man" had tried to kill Daddy the decade before.
Warrantless wiretaps.
Secret torture chambers.
Holding American citizens without due process.
Destroying the nature preserves.
Destroying the atmosphere.
Secret shady business dealings with Enron the year before they sent the US into recession.

but now! But now! It seems like ALL of America is in strong opposition to the Obama administration, for things such as

Wanting CEOs to take a pay cut.
Wanting all Americans to have health insurance.
Asking corporations to create jobs.
Asking corporations to be accountable.
Asking people to go back to school.
Asking our children to study hard.

Wow. Gee. Either those things really are bad . . . or we are just plain stupid.


You figure it out.

VG