Sunday Musings

Well it is Seahawks vs Steelers in the superbowl, I am going with Seattle since Sean Alexander was a Crimson Tide star as well. I don't watch NFL except for the playoffs and big game though I follow it in the sports news to an extent and this looks like it should be a good game. Good teams with hardnosed coaches in Cowert and Holmgren that know how to win.
In other news there is much analysis going on throughout the old and new media about the UBL tape, the NSA, Iran and the GWOT that I am a bit overwhelmed by it so I don't really know where to start. It seems conservatives have very similar reactions to the UBL tape, is the DNC mailing him their talking points? While the the Koskidz and others force the WaPo to shut down a comment section because of their profanity laced drivel. The loonbats scream for impeachment which would be impossible in the current congress and they shout down their leader San Fran Nancy Pelosi because of it. I see a once great national party bereft of ideas and consumed by hatred for Bush, Christianity, and all things conservative that has to resort to lies and photoshopped pictures. I see conservative bloggers taking their congressional leaders to task and forcing an open debate on the House leadership and its role in moving the Reagan/ Gingrich revolution forward. I see fired up sailors, soldiers, airmen and marines doing their duty with honor and professionalism in bringing freedom to millions of oppressed people. I see plagues, poverty and natural disasters and the outpouring of aid. I saw France grow a backbone , Germany wising up and China and Russia realizing Iran is not such a good friend to have. Where does all this lead us? I have not a clue, though I am very thankful John Kerry-Hienz or Al Gore is not our president. I see a mixed up, confused world struggling to make sense of itself though flailing away for a better life.
I am just a simple american Joe trying to make some sense of it all while paying my bills and swimming hard to stay afloat in the flood. I am not an expert though I consider myself semi-informed and educated and wanting the best for the US and others around the world. America is that "Shining City on the Hill" that Reagan spoke so elonquently about and loved so dearly though I believe the socialists and the lefty moonbats would rather us enter the dustbin of history along with the USSR and join Africa in its despairing chaos. That is sympathy not empathy. Sympathy is joining in the grief of others, empathy is bringing them tissues and lifting them up to continue on in the fight. An analogy would be if you saw someone puking over the rail with seasickness, sympathy is joining them at the rail puking , empathy is bringing them a wet towel and seasick medicine.