Weekend Observations

Here are just a few things I pondered today as I watched my kids baseball.

I saw a story about Secession and how nearly 1 in 4 Americans would support a state or region trying to become it's own country.  I think it's funny people who protest government overreach support an idea which would create a mandate by the seceded territory to tax and rule with an iron fist for 50 years.  Good thinking genius!  Also, I think if the current president was Republican and white, the same people who think secession is a good idea would be the ones screaming 'Merica, love it or leave it!

Why is Home Depot not getting far more grief for their data breach, a much larger one than Targets?  Sure I know that Targets happened during the holiday shopping season, and I also have no doubt the outrage machine was being fueled by Target's competition, but Home Depot's data breach happened after corporate America was supposed to have learned from Target's mistakes, and is on a much larger scale.  Is it because Home Depot is a manly man store with lumber and tools and tough guy stuff, and Target isn't?  Is it because Target is in liberal Minnesota and Home Depots corporate offices are in conservative Georgia?  Who knows, but if we are looking for places to bomb which are hurting American interests, how about we light up Serge or Vlad or whomever is the person behind this theft from the American people.  We'd only have to do it once...

The scariest modern trend in religion for me is the new form of Christianity built on validating the economic policies of the tea party conservatives and ultra wealthy.  To actually distort Christian teachings to validate wealthy people as being more blessed, that poor people only deserve a certain amount of pity and charity, and that Jesus really wants a wealthy person to have a kick caboose jet ski, is terrifying.  Ayn Rand, Reagan and Libertarian economic policies are not based on Christian dogma.

How poorly are Native Americans still viewed in the modern USA?  Native Americans were given an opportunity, by the Daily Show, to tell predominately Caucasian Americans their insistence a horrible, racist name and mascot for an NFL football team isn't actually "honoring" them.  Now, the Caucasian Americans are trying to portray themselves as victims because the minority group they insist they are spokespeople for have told them they are hurting not helping.  It's like when racists in the south tried to tell African Americans they should be honored by the flag of the political ideology that wanted to keep them as slaves.  Change the dang name already.

Talk to you tomorrow morning!