Disturbing News

Sometimes I want to stop watching and reading the news. Like yesterday, for example.

The sum total of disturbing stories get me down. They make me wonder if these items are just isolated cases based on a few insane people, or if they're an indication of how far we have fallen as a society.

The stories from yesterday that I found particularly disturbing:

Pete Stark, a congressman from California. What he said publicly on the floor of the House yesterday may reach an all-time low for partisan rhetoric. What makes it even worse is that so far nobody from his party has disavowed his hateful comments. Speaker Pelosi actually praised him.

Portland Maine deciding to provide birth control pills to middle-school students without parental consent. Girls between 11 and 14 now can get the pill from the school nurse, who will help her hide the fact from her parents. Explain to me how anybody, anywhere, would be OK with that? No wonder our public schools are such a disaster.

Al Quaeda tried to blow up Benazir Bhutto when she finally returned to Pakistan from exile. They missed her, but killed well over 100 innocent people. Most likely, bin Laden himself is in Pakistan, but nobody has the courage to root him and his band of renegade thugs out. The question that should be asked is whether Musharraf really cares whether Bhutto is safe to return to Pakistan?

Not to mention, of course, my frustration with the mainline television networks who manage every story to drive their propagandist agenda. That being to elect Hillary president next year, of course.