Here in my Philadelphia suburb, just after dark tonight, I started hearing small explosions. They sounded like fireworks, but today is not a holiday.
I cracked open the blinds to look outside and saw that many of my neighbors were doing the same.
Then I stepped outside. So did everyone else. All agreed that it sounded like fireworks, but it's not the Fourth of July. So people were a bit nervous. After all, George W. Bush keeps telling us that the terrorists want to kill us and our families.
My neighbors were wondering if al-Qaeda was perhaps attacking the nearby Limerick nuclear power plant or King of Prussia shopping mall.
So I walked up the hill to get a better perspective. And what did I see? Fireworks.
Good.
But the fact remains that the general consensus amongst my neighbors, at first guess, was that it must be an attack. Everyone is waiting for the next shoe to drop.
This is what we have come to.
Thank you, Mr. Bush.
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Right, thank you Mr. bin Laden. Oh, I mean, uhm... President Bush?!?
So, let me get this right. You're upset at the President because you didn't keep abreast of your own local news, which happened to include fireworks that particular evening? Oh yeah! I see the logic now...
And what about the false fire alarm at the nearby high school due to a broken sprinkler head? Bush's fault, no doubt. And then there's the train derailment several counties over that occurred near an elderly housing complex. Bush planned that one but Cheney implemented it.
There are some people that will NEVER accept that they have a full personal responsibility to themselves, their family, their neighbors, their city, their state, and their nation. Instead, they take great solace in blaming another for their own infringed comfort due to their limited awareness and resulting poor judgment.
Perhaps some can brush the 3,000+ domestic murders of 9/11 under the rug, but to deny that it could not happen yet again is both slavish and absurd. Therefore, these same some can feel "good" in thinking that the government they loath for "making" them react "fearfully" to an unknown yet clearly perceived threat is the same government that's working deligently to ensure that these loathers ONLY hear fireworks.
I have to ask myself if people such as these, given the dichotomy of their thinking, are ever "happy". My guess is that they are not.
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Tom Murphy (3 articles, 4 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 1719 comments)
on Saturday, November 24, 2007 at 7:52:31 PM
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