Let me be very clear...
There's a lot of other things I would like to talk to y'all about at this moment: my wife's birthday (Happy candle day, hellziggy!), my previous 60 hour workweek, Hellboy II, etc.
However, one thing springs to mind ahead of anything else at this moment:
Tony Snow (former press secretary for Pres. Bush, Jr. and shill-at-large for the Republican/Conservative directive), has died from complications from and/or the direct effects of colon cancer.
Now, I always found him to be a heartless, oily bastard who viewed the truth and loyalty to it as a game that he felt more comfortable toying with than actually thinking about. Not many were as adept at parlaying a seemingly endlessly flexible morality into fame and fortune. However, regardless of how much dismay and disappointment I've ever had for someone like him and his obviously superior (but misdirected, I feel) intellect, he didn't deserve this fate as it was dealt to him.
No one does in situations like this.
Really. If you feel otherwise, I celebrate your ignorance because you have not seen this...scourge in action personally and I truly, truly pray in my recovering-Catholic heart that you won't. Ever.
I literally mean that. After watching my own mother and her father before her literally wither, dry up and blow away, I can say that no one, not Tony Snow, not Karl Rove, not anyone ever who has placed any value on human life (no matter how misguided), deserves something like this.
It is a vicious and horrible thing of evil on a level that can only be understood by direct witnesses. And their words will fail them. Utterly.
I feel compelled to say these things because there has been no small amount of animosity and condemnation in the wake of Mr. Snow's death. "Good riddance," and "Got what he deserved," seem to be popular and pervasive. Truthfully, comments like that hurt my heart but I don't fault the speakers beause they have a blissful ignorance of a sort.
He didn't deserve it.
You can't deserve it.
The other 6 billion people on this planet won't deserve it. Ever.
While it's possible some have deserved it, that's for better people than I to determine and I truly pity them and their ends...
Please, if you have a chance, hug your loved ones and take a second to devote just one moment of silence of prayer/contemplationion/consideration of the cold stastitical probabilities that you and those important to you might be spared this...evil.
However, one thing springs to mind ahead of anything else at this moment:
Tony Snow (former press secretary for Pres. Bush, Jr. and shill-at-large for the Republican/Conservative directive), has died from complications from and/or the direct effects of colon cancer.
Now, I always found him to be a heartless, oily bastard who viewed the truth and loyalty to it as a game that he felt more comfortable toying with than actually thinking about. Not many were as adept at parlaying a seemingly endlessly flexible morality into fame and fortune. However, regardless of how much dismay and disappointment I've ever had for someone like him and his obviously superior (but misdirected, I feel) intellect, he didn't deserve this fate as it was dealt to him.
No one does in situations like this.
Really. If you feel otherwise, I celebrate your ignorance because you have not seen this...scourge in action personally and I truly, truly pray in my recovering-Catholic heart that you won't. Ever.
I literally mean that. After watching my own mother and her father before her literally wither, dry up and blow away, I can say that no one, not Tony Snow, not Karl Rove, not anyone ever who has placed any value on human life (no matter how misguided), deserves something like this.
It is a vicious and horrible thing of evil on a level that can only be understood by direct witnesses. And their words will fail them. Utterly.
I feel compelled to say these things because there has been no small amount of animosity and condemnation in the wake of Mr. Snow's death. "Good riddance," and "Got what he deserved," seem to be popular and pervasive. Truthfully, comments like that hurt my heart but I don't fault the speakers beause they have a blissful ignorance of a sort.
He didn't deserve it.
You can't deserve it.
The other 6 billion people on this planet won't deserve it. Ever.
While it's possible some have deserved it, that's for better people than I to determine and I truly pity them and their ends...
Please, if you have a chance, hug your loved ones and take a second to devote just one moment of silence of prayer/contemplationion/consideration of the cold stastitical probabilities that you and those important to you might be spared this...evil.