Since I am doomed to be awake for the rest of the night...
I thought I’d catch up on my FB pages. I subscribe to several online newspapers. And tonight there is a distressing amount of news from Boston.com to the LA times.
Though the news and video of the soldiers who murdered Afghanistan civilians was on the web last night, it is in the Prime Time News today. News like this takes me back to the 60’s and 70’s.
The 60’s is known for the Civil Rights movement, the Anti Vietnam movement and the Sexual Revolution that helped gays and the greater populous to see sexual orientation is part of the normal spectrum.
The Afghanistan tragedy is shades of “My Lai,” Vietnam, all over again and shame on us all. Then there is the story form LA with regard to the sexual orientation of the LA Chief Justice Judge Vaughn Walker, who correctly struck down Prop 8 calling the law “Unconstitutional,” who is being held by a different standard in his ruling because of his sexual orientation.
It is like reliving the 60’s again and again. When one thinks that finely, maybe, we are making some small progress, it all comes back to haunt us. There’s the possibility of the Healthcare Bill coming out of Committee without the Single Payer Option included. You may not realize this but this too is an old subject.
With the 70’s there was hope. Nixon ran on the promise of bringing home the troops and, believe-it-or-not,’ Universal Health Care. He was intrigued with the idea of the HMO model. Had he not been caught up in the Watergate Scandal we would have Universal Health Care now.
The legislative process seems to take 20 years to bring legislation to a vote but it takes another 20 years before it comes up again. So we seem to have a history of not passing important legislation that effects us all for 20 years and more.
We Americans have a very short memories. When it comes to war, we didn’t learn our lesson in Vietnam and went headstrong into war in Iraq and now Afghanistan with the same disastrous results. The troops are no better trained to be warrior today then they were in the 40’s, 50’s or 60’s.
As for civil rights, they again are being questioned of hampered by obsolete laws and prejudice. Why do we fight this one over and over again?
Then there is health care where millions have died because the people we put in office don’t have the guts to do the right thing. Where greed has taken over Congress and the Senate; where we again have Wall Street and corporations dictating to us and leaving our rights to blow in the wind…
The reoccurring news gets me down… I must be tired,
Sleep tight. Don’t let the bedbugs bite, See you tomorrow...
Sleepy Sally Sandman
Sep 28,2010 3:39 am
