What an awful week

This has truly been an awful week. The school shootings have left me feeling really shaken and wondering how murdering children somehow is seen as a solution to anything for any reason. It feels as if there is some sort of sickness growing among us that is disconnecting us all from our basic humanity.

Then we have the Washington scandals. The Foley thing is, in my opinion, just a symptom of the generalized corruption in D.C. now on both sides of the aisle. Those up there have long ago lost sight of what they are elected to do and why they are really there. I fear the only solution that they'll actually hear is to vote out all incumbents and continue to do so every two years until they get the message to start doing what they are there to do such as secure our borders, fix our tax code, fix the broken immigration system, balance the budget, reduce the debt, and start acting with fiscal responsiblity. The general public is sick and tired of this do-nothing congress where the biggest thing they think of as an accomplishment is voting in a huge tax cut to the top two-tenths of one percent of the taxpayers.

I'm eagerly awaiting my copy of Bob Woodward's new book State of Denial. Already the repercussions of what he says in there are shaking the country. First Ms. Rice flatly denies a critical briefing every happened, only to be forced to turn around two days later and admit it did happen then try to explain it away. The Administration, who touted Woodward's first two books on the Bush Presidency, is now trying to make it appear as if for some reason Woodward chose in this instance to abandon the journalistic care and integrity for which he's been known for over 30 years and has produced a pack of lies. Even the denials are couched in such a way as to make them laughable. The collective amnesia is amazing.

On the personal front things are very traumatic at home at present so I am exhausted and feeling out of sorts despite having a ton of important things to get done today. It's nearly 8:30 in the morning and I am not even ready to begin work.

In all it's been an awful week, and it's only Thursday.