2011...WIERD ENOUGH YET FOR YA

Is 2011 weird enough for ya yet? It is for me. Let’s see, there’s been tornadoes by the hundreds in the US. Here in Texas we’ve had fires, storms, drought, and tornadoes all at the same time. I guess that’s ‘cause everything is bigger, flashier, and meaner here, and there’s more of it. I’m not even going to mention all that has already happened in just the first four months of this year.

So much has happened that news that is only a few weeks old seems like old stuff. Gas prices have increased so much in just a few weeks that the $3.14 gallon of gas that drove me crazy in March now seems to be a distant memory. Do you realize that gasoline in January of 2008 was less than $2.00 a gallon? That means that the price has jumped almost 100% in two years. Pardon the understatement … but that ain’t good.

I’ll bet you’ve already forgotten that Japan has been hit with three earthquakes. You may have already forgotten that Egypt is still in turmoil. How about the Lieberman report stating that the Ft. Hood massacre could have been avoided … does that ring a bell? I’ll bet that you didn’t know that hundreds of terrorists have escaped from an Afghan prison. Yeah, this year is weird alright.

Now the most unexpected thing has happened … Osama bin Laden has been killed. I, for one, was caught off guard by the news. I’d even started to believe that either he was already dead or that he’d disappeared from the earth some how. I, just as many of you, had become frustrated that he was never captured or killed. I thought that should have happened years ago. It felt as if you he’d gotten the last laugh on us.

To a certain extent he still may have the last laugh. His death does not end Islamic terrorism, in fact it really does very little to end it. Other leaders have already risen into prominence over the years, while he became something of a legendary myth. But he wasn’t a myth and in the end he met his maker with a bullet round that was shot into his face by a US Navy SEAL, as Osama bravely used a woman as a human shield. That’s Bin Laden chivalry for you.

It is a good thing that Bin Laden is dead, and President Obama deserves credit for approving the mission that ended O B L’s life. Let’s pray things settle down and that we can soon bring our troops home for good.

There you have it.
Pass it on if you like or let me know if I don’t have a clue.

Eddie