In my first blog of the year I said that I thought 2010 was a strange year and I said that I thought that 2011 would be a strange year, too. In my opinion, 2010 was a disappointing year, but 2011 has been an astonishing one … and we haven’t even been through the first quarter of it yet! I never could have imagined that so many things could happen in such a short time. We see the entire Middle East is in revolt … oil prices, food prices, and global violence is on the rise. That’s all occurred in just January and February alone.
Government unions here in the U.S. are up in arms because states are having to face cutbacks caused by poor decisions that were made in the past. Now the states and the government unions will have to find ways to correct those mistakes. They will have to do so without asking for any more new money from the taxpayers because we don’t have the money for the taking and we will no longer put up with poor government spending. We know that for every dollar a union employee and politician is paid, and every benefit they receive comes from our pockets. In most cases, the benefits and pay government employees and politicians receive is a lot more than the people paying the taxes. If they aren’t careful we the people will fire them all.
I have been saying that 2011will be a year we’d like to forget but most likely never will. I think that 2011 will be forever remembered just as 1776, 1944, and 1968 will always be remembered. Here are just a few of the remarkable happenings we’ve witnessed take place this year: there was the suicide bombing of the church in Egypt, the suicide bombing in Russia, the murdering rampage in Arizona, birds and sea life have turned up dead by the thousands in parts of the country and millions of fish died in California, the Egyptians overthrew their dictator (Libyans are trying to do the same and very many of them have been killed), even more protests are taking place all over the Middle East. In Wisconsin government workers have used the Egyptian turmoil as a false rallying cry for their selfish movement. Disturbingly, the Chinese unveiled their first stealth jet fighter … one that looks almost exactly like ours. It went on it’s first test flight while our Secretary of Defense was paying them a visit ... what a coincidence. Those are just a few of the things that have happened since the first of this year.
And now we have Japan. Japan was hit with the triple crown of disasters … an under water earth quake that triggered a massive tsunami, that then has caused (at the time I wrote this blog) three explosions at nuclear power plants. The magnitude of these disasters was brought horribly to bear as 1,000 bodies of victims washed onto Japanese shores. The death toll will exceed 10,000 it could be in the hundreds of thousands. One official has said that 10,000 are missing from his city alone. Fortunately, Japan has planned for earth quakes and tsunamis, but not of the type and scale that just hit them. Certainly they could never have planned for such devastating disasters to happen all at the same time. Even if they had, there’s no preventing them.
The Japanese have shown tremendous grace and fortitude in dealing with the aftermath of the disasters. There hasn’t been rioting, raping, looting, violence, or disobedience. The people are helping and working with one another peacefully, prayerfully, and civilly. They have been a lesson in politeness at a time when it is most needed. It is a remarkable contrast to what Americans saw happen in New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina. I pray that the Japanese people will not have to suffer anymore than they are enduring right now, and I know that you and millions (no, billions) of others all around the globe are doing the same. And I pray that 2011 will give us a break for a while.
There you have it.
Pass it along if you like or let me know if I don’t have a clue.
Eddie
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