Success

I will get to the topic of this days blog after a few minutes. I am feeling the need to rant about a few things so here goes.

People who have accidents during rush hour deserve too. I have been enjoying the rush hour experience for a while now and I think I am qualified to make this observation. Unfortunately they usually involve someone else who may not deserve it. I watched an idiot this morning who tailgated every car she was behind. I mean close now, probably only 1 foot behind the car she was following. Last night I witnessed a woman in a Toyota RAV 4 scream and holler every time that traffic slowed or came to a stop. She waved her hands and moved her head around like she was having some kind of seizure. It was kind of scary to watch actually, I half expected her head to spin around like that chick in the exorcist. I moved over and let her pass me just in case she forgot where the brake pedal was and so I could enjoy this picture show from behind.

I want all of the people who are now complaining about nuclear power and nuclear power plants to get together and live in some commune without power and running water and all the amenities that they are so used to. It seems that some of the people who complain the most are the ones that rely the heaviest on the amenities that cheap electricity provides for them. When all our natural resources are depleted and they don't have any way to get the mini van with their 6 kids to their place of worship with the 100k organ and all the fancy lights and music and t.v. monitors I wonder then if they might think a little differently.

Now for the Success part. Most of you know that I haven't seen my sister in quite some time. 13 years to be exact. Well after getting in touch with each other about a year ago, and talking quite frequently now, she came for a visit this last weekend for my nephew's spring break. He is 16 now and I haven't seen him since he was 3 years old. What a great kid. My sister has not had an easy life, and so I'm sure that he hasn't either. They are very close to each other, he is polite, respectful, intelligent, clean, and wears normal clothes. He was very fun to hang around with unlike so many of todays teenagers who can't carry on a conversation with anyone let alone spell it. If parents judge their lives on how well their kids turn out, then my sister has truly been a success. I will definitely enjoy watching him mature into adulthood.

Generosity.

On the way to work this morning I heard an interview with the young man on American Idol who's girlfriends life was seriously changed just before they were to be married. It is a very compelling and heart wrenching story. The story itself isn't what made me think, but the outpouring of support shown by the American people through their donations to supplement his girlfriends care. Example's of that kind of charity remind us just how giving the American public is in general. There are small examples daily of the inherent good in us. I've bought stranded people gas before. Just the other day one of my friends gave a ride to an autistic man who was stranded. I bet that if somebody added up all the money that the people of the United States donate each year to underdeveloped or tragedy stricken nations we would have enough to wipe out the deficit. That's just in voluntary donations, that doesn't include the amount of money our government gives away to foreign countries.

I have a friend who's roommate is an American born individual. He has no car, he uses public transportation, and bums rides from his buddies. He also is a devout socialist and sings the praises of the French people and the country of France in general all the time. He is very proficient at bashing the American way of life. All the while benefiting from the very things that he says he hates. He pays very little if any in taxes yet expects the state to pay for his health care. How much money has the European union given to Haiti, or South Africa on any other under developed country. Hell they can't even agree to bail out Greece and that would have a direct affect on their own economy.

I believe the American people are a good people in General. When times are tough as they are now, they get a little off kilter, but for the main part they are good. I also believe in our constitution. It is important and has stood the various assaults on it for over 200 years now. When we bash our own country we only need to watch one episode of World News Tonight to see how hard the rest of the world is fighting to have the same rights as we do. Lybia, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and even The Soviet Union and China to some extent. Those people are losing their lives daily fighting for what we have. I think that everybody this weekend should take the time to watch a sporting event. One of the most blatant examples of the American way of life. What I'd like you to get out of it. Is the fact that we sing the National Anthem at the beginning of every one of them.