A Downward Spiral: Hate, race and other common day happenings. Also: my hiatus.

 I am really getting fed up with the way things are going recently in our world today.  I will highlight a few examples.

To start with the hate:  Memphis police beat a transsexual prostitute with handcuffs wrapped around his fist because she would not respond to the term “he-she” and “fag”.  Here is the kicker…it was in the police station.  Another police officer held her shoulders back as he beat her in the face and then sprayed her face with mace.  AND NO ONE HELPED HER.  People stood around and watched as he sprayed mace into her open wounds and eyes.  When a nurse arrived they did not even help her!  This is infuriating.  I can’t believe we live in a world where such injustice goes on and no one helps.  I can’t believe it.  Have we become so…callous towards one another that you can watch someone get hit in the face with handcuffs over and over again and just let that happen?

And now for the race portion of my outrage:  Sharron Angle who recently was put under the spotlight for using dark-skinned men in ads to try and scare people about illegal immigration, while lying in the same adds about Harry Reids record, recently went in front of a group of Hispanic students and said that not only do they look Asian, but that she has been called Nevada’s first Asian legislator…and she is not Asian.  Really?  So not only can you not tell the difference between different minorities because they apparently look all the same…but your claiming to be called Asian when you are not to try and drive home your point that you could be Asian too?  Really?  How in the hell is she ACTUALLY making headway in this election?  Her comment regarding a political ad with Latinos sneaking behind a fence in a menacing way is just as bad.  She says that it represents our northern boarder.  Now, here is our issue here.  She is running for senate in Nevada and 90% of her argument is about their southern boarder.  However, she is saying that she is talking about northern.  So that means that she is either afraid of Oregon, Idaho or Canada.  I don't buy it and neither did the students.  All of the boarder focus has been southern so far, and thus this is bullshit.

And now for something that is more and more common.  Christine O’Donnell has no idea that separation of church and state is protected in the constitution.  No clue.  She was actually shocked when she found out.  She did not believe it!  Even her campaign manager stumbled when he said that she “was not questioning the concept of separation of church and state as subsequently established by courts.  She simply made the point that the phrase appears nowhere in the constitution.”  Here is the issue.  Coons read the exact texts from the 1^st amendment and she did not realize that the phrase, ”Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, “ is in the first amendment.  It is the very beginning of it!  And she said it in a room full of law students.

This is all driving me insane.  It pains me to realize just how poor our state of affairs is and I think I need a break.  I am going to take a hiatus and post infrequently while I begin to work on my novel for National Novel Writing Month.

Thanks for reading.  Be back soon.