“DRIVE SAFELY
DIAL 511
FOR INFO” 

The previous sign said “WORK ZONE AWARENESS WEEK”

Now if I am a highway worker, I don’t want the average moron out there, that drive around with their cell phone glued to their ear like they are sitting at home in the living room… Grabbing their cell phone for more information on how to drive safely…

You have to go here to see how those stories were slated negatively against McCain, something like 57% negative to 14% positive, where Obama numbers were 29% negative and 36% positive.

The other thing I thought was interesting is that it seems that the Washington Post doesn’t think they are a left leaning newspaper, which is about as stupid as believing that Fox News is “Fair and Balanced” 

I guess that is the Washington Post’s new tag line could be “Fair and Balanced about Obama”

Let’s say China invaded your home town and destroyed the water treatment plant, most of the schools, most of the grocery stores, and a significant percentage of roads, bridges, hospitals, telecommunication lines, sewage systems and houses. Ok, then they swarm in with tanks, trucks and troops and stand on every corner all day, every day. Now, they ask YOU to stand up a government and get the infrastructure back in place and instill not only ORDER but a sense of continuity of community, and oh yeah, have it all done and back to “normal” by 90 days? Oh yeah, the word “normal” is from THEIR dictionary, not yours.

Yep. Pretty much it.

Ok, so I over simplify. Granted most of the rebuilding is being done by US or western personnel. That’s mostly because (a) Iraqi skilled labor has either been killed or fled to another country, (b) the Iraqi’s don’t have any capital to support rebuilding, nor the equipment and raw materials, and (c) Iraqi’s are afraid that by going to construction sites, they’ll be targeted by terrorists as American allies and either killed or tortured and killed or just killed and killed again.

Any way you cut it, we invaded and messed up a lot of things and created a bees nest of problems. Now we’re angry at THEM for not having it all cleaned up and back in order on OUR terms. Yeah, that’s logical. Before this is “over” (if it will ever be), we’ll be pissing off the few that like us to the point where EVERYONE over there is against us. Pointing fingers at them in anger is not the way to smooth things out and make it all better. It ain’t going to help at all.

My 2 cents.