As I am sure you're well aware, Major Hasan had a Major Meltdown today and efficiently shot and killed 12 people while wounding 30 others. He even got shot 4 times while doing it and lived!

One wonders whether Navigatio, one of my favorites on the blogosphere was stationed at Ft. Hood. If so, I do hope he was not one of the one's shot.

Whatever this was about, the Army fell victim to its own device of murder and bloodshed. I wonder about the people he shot and think that if he did not do it, how many other innocents would these people have murdered on their tours of "duty"? The answer is probably a lot more than who died today.

Shall we then be sorrowful and mourn these dead? Or shall we rejoice in lives saved? Is the glass half empty or half full? Whose life means more to me, these Americans in the business of death, or those repulsing American imperialism?

I submit neither and prefer to shake my head in disgust at the whole thing. Nonsense. Pure and utter nonsense.

Here is a conversation I had with a guy at work:

Me: "Hey buddy, can you step out of your tug for a minute and help us pull these off? We're understaffed." [Now most folks would have been polite enough to do this]
Guy: *WTFOMG Face*
Guy: "Uhhh, Why?"
Me: *You have to be kidding me*
Me: "Do you speak English?"
Guy: "Yes."
Me: "Then you must be a freaking idiot now get your lazy ass out of your tug and help us."

Then I had to work with two Negroes who were replacements for my two missing co-workers.

With the exception of rare individuals, I no longer hold blacks who are 35 years old or younger to be respectable in the least. And these two proved to me yet again that you just cannot rely on them to do even the most basic of tasks. If you want something done, then you gotta do it yourself and so I did. All night. It was irritating and tiring. Sure racial boundaries can be transcended on this point, but the negro archetype is well established and my assumptions were yet again confirmed. Young Jeezy, anyone?

"A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head."

Except that "Administration officials said the declaration was a pre-emptive move" which means there is not actually a pressing emergency.

All I know is that they can take that swine flu vaccine and keep it far away from me.

I'll take my chances.

My co-worker said his sister got the shot and now she has to live with involuntary arm spasms for the rest of her life.