Sherry Murphy

[Adam]

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/006/region/7_year_old_boy_found_dead_in_N:.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/07/national/main535506.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/06/national/main535319.shtml
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/52759.htm
http://24hour.tri-cityherald.com/24hour/nation/story/705619p-5209759c.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2635305.stm
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/jersey/...i?j0149_BC_NJ--ChildrenFound&&news&njchildren

This crazy cow was entrusted with the care of her sister's three kids a few months back. After ten complaints to the cops and such, they finally went in to have a look, and found one kid dead, wrapped in a plastic bag and stuffed in a garbage bin; and the two smaller kids covered in crap, cowering nder a bed, with burn scars on them.

 

[Tiassa]

Well ...

... It happens.

What? I'm an American? I know damn well that, as priorities go, children come somewhere below Super Bowls and market-share.

With such hideous priorities, what can we expect?

Why else do you think that when someone defends the US against a criticism, there is such a tendency to appeal to the self of the critic? You know, "Well, would you have opportunity like this elsewhere?" Or, "Would you have such security elsewhere?" A bunch of these myths have been shattered by 9/11, but in the ideal it would be ten years before the full power of that transition became apparent or manifest.

But Americans are largely stupid, even our best-educated. It will take longer, and heaven knows if they can find a surrogate myth, they'll take it.

Nobody in this country is taught to do what is right. Rather, we are taught to do what profits us most.

Under such conditions, the inherently stupid become dangerous.

Hence, sir ... it happens.

thanx,
Tiassa