I DO NOT GIVE A DAMN!!!

I have not looked at the TV much since the crazy MF’ers up in Boston set off a bomb at the finish line.  There have been some stories rolling through my facebook feed telling stories though.  I consider myself ill-informed on the topic of the Boston bombing.  I have raised up some prayers for those who were killed and those who lost loved ones and for those who were injured and will carry the scars of that day with them forever, whatever form those scars take. 

I saw something attributed to Mr. Rogers on the old interwebs.  Here it is. 

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world."

There were hundreds of helpers!!  

I also saw something from Patton Oswald, who by the way I have never thought was that funny but this was poignant.  Here it is. 

“I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."

For me, that sums up what it is to be an American, we are helpers and we outnumber the evil bastards that roam our planet with us.

Something I saw today on the facebook got me riled up again about the way the media reacts to such things.  It is fucking shameful that they glorify the worthless bags of shit that perpetrate terror on our society.  Even the word terror pisses me off!  These guys, foreign and domestic, are mass murders, no different than Hilter, other than in the numbers.  They believe in something and are committed to their  cause, as committed or more than we are to protect our way of life.  When was it changed, changed from what it is, mass murderer, to terrorist and why?  Terrorist is word used by the media to get ratings.  It is used by the government to identify certain of those among us.  I believe the word is already overused and when a word gets overused it loses its effectiveness.   These people are killers, plain and simple and I don’t need the White house or the media to tell me that is was terrorism. 

Another thing, I could case less, less than I would a puss filled festering boil on some nasty toe, about ANY BIT OF information about these two shit birds.  The media hypes these guys up and they have gotten their 15 minutes of fame.  Our young people see this and it is a way for them to get their 15 minutes of fame.  It becomes the “norm”, my life is just like his, maybe I should do the same thing.  I think it the most terrible of disservices we can do, talk about the murderers.  Other than to let us know what the sentence was and when they have been executed.  I don’t want to know, and REFUSE to watch anything else about them.  Don’t care where they are from, don’t care why they are here, don’t care about their parents, uncles, neighbor’s friends or teachers.  I don’t give a shit!!     To give them anything more than that is to give them what they want, perpetual news coverage and an extended bit of fame for a cowardly act.      

I know there have been lots of stories about the helpers, and I appreciate that.  I wish there was a way they could come back in a few months’ time to talk to survivors, folks who helped out and were fearless in the face of adversity.  I would like to know the impact this had on their lives, how did it affect them at work, at home, in church.  I want to hear the story of the guy whose leg had every bit of flesh blown off of it.  How will his recovery go, will he become friends with the man in the cowboy hat who saved his life?  Tell me the stories about us, because Damn it there are more helpers and people who stand facing the darkness of the world around us – and there will always be more of us than there are them and that is what I care about.    

On a lighter note, I did see something about Boston.  I can’t remember exactly but basically I will not act up when I am Boston.  They will shut the city down, everything will stop – buses, subways, public and private transportation, work, schools everything and then ask the citizenry to lock themselves up while they will bring in whatever resources necessary to hunt you down.  Talk about the American way, props to the mayor of Boston!