There was a shooting at the University of Arkansas coming over the wire as I sit here. Now let the knee jerk reaction commence.

I know the kids need to be kept safe, we should send them to school armed with an array of concealed weapons, a bullet proof snowsuit, a helmet, goggles and a panic button but god forbid you pass out condoms. Don’t get me wrong I am not for kids banging around all day long but let’s think about the percentages for just a moment.

I am no statistician but if I was to consider the amount of people that go to class each day and the amount of people killed in school shootings I suspect that there is probably a better chance of getting bit by a shark or dying in a plane wreck, now I am not sure about that but I bet I am close on this one.

Ask yourself; where is this fear coming from? Is it just mortal danger or is it something deeper. You know what I fear; I fear that we will start to seriously consider allowing students to carry guns in school. While you may think this is a good idea and have this view that some responsible young man or woman will gun down a potential crazy, saving their own and by extensions their peer’s very lives. That might happen, then again there is another scenario, several kids start firing in a classroom and it turns into a little blood bath or maybe some normally reasonable kid finds out his college sweetheart got drunk at in a dorm room and nailed some degenerate and flies in seeking vengeance because now they have a gun and an inflated sense of self to go with his surrogate unit decides to exact his revenge OK corral style, where before we might have just had a bar fight. I don’t think this sounds too unreasonable a stretch. Think about how many people you know that at times had the capability to snap in those years.

I would be all for carrying guns if we lived in a society that did not promote and encourage gun violence. If some one breaks into your house kill em, if some one gets in your way squash em, we are a society that is salivating to eliminate the competition, from voting you off the island to nuclear bomb. I wish we could be responsible with fire arms but it doesn’t appear we can be.

Don’t start yelling about your first amendment rights, you can have your guns, just keep them in the closet until the one world government tries to take you land.

So here we are I have complained enough and now I am going to offer you the solution.

Deal with it.

Crazy people do crazy things and the more we press our society into being paranoid the more you are going to squeeze the crazy out of people.

Obama the messiah, I have seen these words thrown around far too often in one combination or another. As I was afraid of Huckabee’s overzealous pulpit pounding, or McCain’s war mongering I am a bit uneasy about the left attempts to deify Obama. Listen, I don’t think it’s coming from him although with all the adulation it certainly could be easy for some one of lesser standing to be influenced but I guess that’s why folks like me aren’t running for president.

I thoroughly enjoy the talk of a coming messiah; it makes me all warm and giggly. That being said maybe we should step back and let Obama play this hand out before we roll back the stone and let him ascend to political office.

Let’s take a look at other so called second comings, some of them have thought they were , some of them didn’t but had that thrust upon them and others are ones I think have a shot.

Haile Selassie I– The foundation of Rastafarianism, who am I to say he wasn’t.

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson – His followers are still waiting for his resurrection which some people say will be in miraculous form like riding down from heavan.

Sabbetai Zevi - disappeared in 1676 and to this day some followers are still waiting his resurrection

David Koresh - the Branch Dividian messiah figure was crucified by the new Rome U.S. government in the eyes of all sorts of conspiracy theorist.

Elvis Presley – he had the Memphis mob and resurrection myths swirled around him for years.  

Those are only a few famous faces in the second coming game!

History is littered with messianic figures and I am not here to say one is holier than the other I would mind you time’s lens distorts many things. I remember in a far off world that the game of cowboys and Indians was much different in the past. Which one is the savage depends entirely on which history books and in what time you read them. We as people seem t want to raise that pedestal really high and maybe it is simply because we are so starved for inspiration that when we see it or feel it we believe some how that not only is it divine in nature that it is intimately connected with divinity.

Attaching those virtues that would “save” mankind to a politician is risky business; after all they didn’t call Jesus Christ the king of kings because he wore a ruby crown.

Believe what you want, runes, chicken bones, crosses, bullets whatever it is that gets you though the day, but, I would be wary in putting to many eggs in the political basket.

And by the way what happened to the press and the Clintons did they just get bored with them as a story or was the story of the rising Obama just that much more exciting news cycle?

Read more about failed messiahs at http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/departments/relstudies/290/judaism/failedmessiahs.html

Sex sells baby and you buy it

While the 24 news cycles must be fed like a Labrador at thanksgiving dinner maybe some one needs to step back a little and decide how they want it go down. It’s great to damn Clinton to hell for impropriety and to try and turn John McCain into Gary Hart but if it continues there wont be many people left. If you honestly think that your elected officials who stand in some of the most powerful positions in the land don’t indulge in the trappings of that power you are fooling yourself. The pious Christian right or the aggressive leftist who both blame and blame and blame, have very little legs to stand on if people want to dig deep and be far to arrogant as to throw all those stones.

The democrats and the New York Times are really going to burn themselves in they want to take on some high moral ground on McCain because I highly doubt that Obama’s book is the end all be all on his skeletons and we all know that you don’t have to dig to deep to uncover some Clinton relic.

People are flawed, now if there is any truth to McCain and certain political favors to lobbyist that may be a different story but his record would say something else and I would be highly disappointed if that did come to light for couple of reasons.

1. If your going to be an effective president you should be able to at least cover up back room deals
2. It would be a shame if we couldn’t at least trust a candidate’s main issue.

Like the rule to lay off of politicians kids we should lay off the personal lives, who cares if a senator is gay or like to have to have wee dinner parties with Barbie dolls. Some of the greatest minds are flawed by some f the extremist quirks, I personally would rather have those quirks than some hallow shell that looks the part.