Friday, August 2, 2013

This Sunday 21 US Embassies in the Middle East and Africa will be closed!



Shockingly this is all due to terrorists’ threats; US citizens have also been advised to be cautious when traveling in those countries. Emergency numbers will be available for people to get any needed help if necessary.

Upsetting and concerning, whenever we forget that we are still at war in many countries we get news of another soldier dying in another country and then we get news of the above to remind us that although it is nearly a dozen years since 9/11 things are not that much different, since that day and the days following…when we know this is.
Do you feel safer than that day after?
We are told daily that we should feel that way with the Homeland Security taking care of us and all the technical equipment they have to check when or where these possible threats are and if or when they are coming here.
The date of this year’s April fifteenth when the Boston bombings occurred and killed and maimed once again on our shores, how many of you took a deep breath when you at first were told these men who perpetrated this most recent horror were not the foreign terrorists that killed and maimed our brethren on 9/11, but our own homegrown ones?
Although, it was later on that it was partially disproved, since there was a connection with the training the older brother had while visiting their parents abroad and the brain washings he brought back for his little brother.

We as any other nation have the right to live our lives without fear.
And feeling safe is the most important thing for any human being.
Sadly, whenever I feel as you do too more than likely that we are doing better, that is with caring about us as a civilization, and than reality hits and ruins that! We have very far to go; genocide is still being committed in too many places in this world… and must be stopped!
I wish it weren’t so.
And as foolish as this may sound I thought that perhaps this international social media thing would not only make the world seem smaller, but make us realize how much we all truly need one another… IDEALISM!
But it should not be dead, idealism that is.
Hatred, killing, maiming, diseases, extreme weather affects they should all be dead, but not the caring for one another!

Every time these announcements happen I wish I knew what could be done to change it, but some things cannot be done alone, we do need the world to help to stop this hatred of people not accepting others for who they are.
Religion!
Organized religion specifically, has been the root of many disagreements creating wars since time immemorial, but we still have not learned to live in harmony with understanding all our differences.

Example: Years ago when I was putting together a fashion show for a non-profit, while the men models were getting their haircuts a casual conversation ensued and one stating honestly zealously his beliefs and me stating mine too which were counter to his, since one was a Jew, me, and one was a Christian, he, and so left in a huff, since he felt that no matter how much he tried to talk me into his way of thinking if I did not believe as he did than he wanted nothing to do with me or my fashion show, ridiculous!
If we were nations we would have been at war due to that, but why?
Some do not want to meet in the middle or the more correct reason is not being able to accept others for their beliefs; not being the same as theirs?

That time I could have lied and agreed, but what good would that have done? You see, it isn’t me anyway…lying that is. A nice man filled in the last minute.
And no religion should have to compromise by lying to them or others either, just learn to accept that everyone has their right to believe in a faith so long as it doesn’t tell people to kill, hate or maim others, right?

I know the recent hate organizations are out-shoots of the ancient religions that are more peace loving; they too try hard to separate from them.
We must know all the facts before we judge too harshly.

Oh I don’t know I must have watched too many beauty pageants as a young girl and teen, since all I really want in life is, PEACE ON EARTH AND GOOD WILL TOWARDS ALL MEN AND WOMEN! REALLY!
Fix it world, just fix it! NIKE IT!

On that note of a tall order, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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