Well There Goes My Childhood Ideaology Shot To Hell

This was in the Washington Post this morning and comes from the release of information after 40 years.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/04/new-light-shed-on-kent-state-killings/?page=3

Sigh! I was always, even as a young child, under the belief that Kent State was one of the worst things to happen as a result of the war in 'Nam. But as a older and wiser adult you have to ask the question. "If soldiers really believe that they are being fired on... then will they not shoot back."

The involvement of John Mitchell, one of the biggest snakes in Watergate, and the only United States Attorney General ever to be convicted of criminal charges makes matters so much worse. After all he was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury so what's another bit of lying added to the pot.

Also frightening is the fact that all names of FBI interviewers and interviewees were kept out of official documents.

We may never know the whole truth of this story, but even the possibility of justification in the shootings puts a whole different spin on what we have believed to be gospel for 40 years.

At No Time Do Two Wrongs Make A Right!!!

Mosques and Burning Books - How far have we digressed here.
Hum let’s go back to Kindergarten… if I hit him it gives him the right to hit me back.
Two wrongs still don’t make a right. Both the building of the mosque and the burning of the Koran are legal and a right under American freedoms, but that doesn’t stop them from being morally wrong.
The only good thing is the fact that Americans everywhere are protesting this book burning, just like Muslims everywhere are condemning the building of the mosque as being fundamentally in bad taste, though legal.
Oh wait… I just figured out the difference here. Shows you who the more mature child is!

Keep On Tweeting It Might Be Doing Someone Good

My latest Tweet was in reference to my ex husband’s uncle Eddy. Eddy would have died about the time that computers were something you saw in a huge truck at the fair and they could print your portrait using x’s and o’s.
Eddy had Muscular Dystrophy and lived out of two rooms in his home, his bedroom and his bathroom and had difficulty dealing with just those rooms. It was a great effort to get him to the Doctor or hospital if it became necessary.
Not being rich his wife had to leave him every day to go out and work and he was alone for hours on end. What a horrible life to be shut away like that in a broken body with a mind that was sharp as a tack.
He killed the hours with Ham Radio and CB. He was loved by all the truckers in SW Ontario and they would stop by the house to see him. Because he monitored all the radios there were a couple of times he aided in the rescue of people in accidents and snow storms.
As I was sitting here reading a great tweet from a columnist in BC, joking with a bunch  of zombie killers in AB, receiving tweets from some of the famous or soon to be famous and Facebooking with my son and daughter-in-law in MI and my cousin who could be in either Michigan or Chicago I can’t help but marvel at the wonders of communication that those younger than me take for granted.
How wonderful it would be for Eddy to have been able to see this. How many more people’s lives could he have become a part of with just a laptop, mouse and an internet connect.
Keep Tweeting, Facebooking or whatever boys and girls you never know who that Night Elf is your walking with in WOW might be.