Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Sometimes reading hurts my head....


I have one magazine I read (there are several I do, but this is like The Readers Digest of the news) called THE WEEK…

While there is a few things that are funny (very little) like the Ohio Prosecutor was seeking to get the death penalty for Punxsutawney Phil, for fraud, in predicting a short time until Spring. Seems Phil’s handlers decided to take the rap for him, so it was dropped.  Have to say I kind of agree with the prosecutor, because Phil lied.  In fact even Facebook users were pretty upset with Phil.  I only put on.. Liar,Liar, pants on fire…

Also when I got on page 4 (which is also where Phil’s story was) There was even one of our local towns in this national magazine.
Seems in Coeur d’ Alene, one of the councilmen called 911 on their attorney. Seems the councilman wanted the police to come down to the town hall to arrest the attorney for calling him (the Councilman) a moron shortly after the council meeting, or during it. He made a statement about the Mayor as well, but didn’t say anything about having her arrested for threaten him. Which I found hard to believe as the Mayor is a class act.  She just not that type.  
Now when you consider that a lot of people around the country think we are radical nutcase up here, this didn’t help any. But then again a lot of them call us Iowa too. So many they will confuse the councilman with some in Iowa.  

But there were many items and articles in the magazine that just gave me a headache reading them.  And then there was on article on women still being harassed, abused, and raped in the service… and still the higher ups covering up.  In this day and age, this is despicable, inexcusable, not
only because these are women…. but because they are part of our troops. And here their own, won’t honor them and give them respect.…
And some of these so called men, still think the women are there for their pleasure. Disgusting and sad.  And to make it worse, they cover for each other… a lot of times without even talking to the women.
Our service women deserves so much more.   They say they are going to start a new program to give the women recourse.  Why aren’t they doing something to stop it in the first place. It never should be an issue. This is
not just a few… they figure about 19,000 a YEAR… a lot of them are not even turn in as they have seen how others were treated with the courts or lack of courts.   They say they will get this turn around… I sure hope so, it is way over due.       
 I am sure there will be those who will say not all men in the service are like that... and you are right.. but too many of them are. 

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