Well, I guess everyone has heard about the "Fort Hood Massacre" by now. Very sad. Tragic. I couldn't figure out at first how one guy with two hand guns could shoot more than 40 people in a couple of minutes and without having to reload, but there it is.
I'm glad the Army worked so hard to keep him alive, so that he can be interviewed and serve as a case study. Usually, lunatic killers go down with their victims. Often by choice. Or maybe usually by choice, or they wouldn't start shooting in the first place.
And now today, a crazy in Orlando, Fla. I don't even know what happened exactly, just that this guy was apparently fired from his job and decided to get even.
Remember a couple months ago, the nursing home killings, and that nutcase at the Holocaust Museum, and the killing of the Army recruiter in Arkansas? I think I advised then, "Get used to it." That hasn't changed. There's too much pressure building. We're all getting squeezed from every direction.
So your life starts going to hell in a handbasket. Nothing you can do to stop it. You lose your job, can't pay for the house or the car. Lenders are unforgiving and taxes and prices keep going up. It's like nickel-and-diming you to death. How are you going to put your kids through college? Where are you going to go when you lose the house?
Hmmmm, who's behind all this? Where did it all go wrong?
Everyone finds their own explanation, their own object of blame. Even the White House does this. According to them, the world was a virtual paradise until George W. Bush took office and now we may never recover. I think it's time the White House begin accepting responsibility for making things worse and start working on some real-world solutions instead of promoting its pie-in-the-sky socialist agenda, but I don't think that's going to happen any time soon. They seem to spend more time "making honest errors" in counting up all those jobs the Stimulus bill "saved or created." Anyone else who did that kind of accounting would be in jail. Maybe they should consider hiring a laid-off professional who actually understands how to count. FYI, Comrade: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.... You have to keep it pretty much in that order.
At any rate, I keep losing work, can barely pay my mortgage. Now I get a county property tax assessment that's pure fantasyland. Really, what the county thinks my house is worth is based on recent sales at a new "luxury" subdivision down the street. My house is 50 years old and the gutters are falling down. Only half the plumbing is copper. The furnace is 20 years old. The fair market value according to the county is easily about 25% - 30% more than I would even dream of asking for with a straight face.
I called the county and asked them if they hadn't heard about some serious reversals in the mortgage and real estate industries. "Well, of course, ma'am, but our assessments are based on home sales from 2006 - 2008."
Oh. I get it. If they go by what's happening now, they'd have to decrease assessed values and couldn't collect as much in taxes, so they do the assessments based on inflated home values from banner years. Yeah. Makes perfect sense. After all, they have to pay for the ongoing road and sewer construction being done for subdivisions that have been canceled due to market conditions. I understand. They have all those voters on the county payroll to support.
That's Lake County, Illinois, just to put the blame where it belongs. Yeah, lots of rich people up here along the lakefront, but the vast majority are just working stiffs trying to make a living. And we bought homes up here because it was way cheaper than Chicago and Cook County.
The only question is: How in the world does the county expect homeowners to pay even more in taxes?
How in the world do Pazzo Pelosi and Harry Reid and the Comrade expect people to pay even more in taxes for crappy, rationed health care, electricity, bonuses for Tim Geithner's friends at the ever-expanding Goldman Sachs, and on and on and on?
So, pick a target and come out shooting. Apparently for some people, that seems like a plan. And death to them looks like a preferable alternative than continuing the never-ending struggle against the nightmare that has become life in America.
So, once again I say, "Get used to it." If you go out in public frequently, you might want to look into some kind of body armor. Americans are instinctively unwilling to "go gently into that good night" of marxist-socialist oppression.
And a hearty "Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!" for those heroic people who were at the Capitol yesterday trying to defeat the House's socialized medicine bill. I heard that many of the concresscritters they tried to talk to disappeared... kinda like the way cockroaches scurry away when you turn on the lights.
All of my "representatives" are socialist nutjobs -- that's Dick(head) Durbin, Roland Burris, and Melissa Bean. Even if I did go to Washington, it would be a waste of time talking to them. Although I still do the occasional email just to keep up my typing skills. I don't think they pay any attention, too busy sucking up to Pazzo and the Comrade, apparently hoping for a better assignment in the parking lot or whatever.
Just can't wait for the 2010 elections.
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