As of late i have been finding myself doing a reality check on how my life is in America.  The thing that really set that off was seeing that Congress has decided that they need to investigate if restrooms are REALLY equal between the genders.  My first thought was: “Really?  Who cares?  They are wasting my tax dollars on if women have a nicer crapper than men?”

But then it hit me.

In America, we have it SO good that it is a priority for our national leaders to study Toilet Equality.  Other countries, not so much.  In Iraq, the government can’t even decide how to seat itself.  The Iraqi government even has a Department of Corruption, which “investigates” alleged cases of corrupt officials.  There still isnt power to everyone in the country, fresh water is still an issue, national infrastructure is still budding.  Add to this the whole problem of terrorist actually carrying out attacks and killing people, and maybe just maybe you can grasp the situation.

To borrow a quote from Gladiator: “The mob is fickle brother.  He will be forgotten in a month.”  This quote wholly rings true with the average American.  If it doesn’t directly affect the individual, they don’t care.  It really saddens me that 95% of Americans (yeah i made that up) will never even visit another country to see what other countries are like.  You really fail to appreciate what you have until you see what its like without it.

People who feel they are entitled money from the government, government housing, health care, government food subisidies etc, really are just incredibly selfish people.  In America, all the barriers to your success have been removed.  You even have literally millions and millions of organizations out there to help you out to succeed.  No other place in the world do you have a greater opportunity make something of yourself.

Just think, you could be in Iraq, a christian, just minding your own business going to mass, and someone could detonate a suicide vest (yes it happens ALL the time) and end your life, period.  Or you could have a child with chicken pox, who subsequently develops an infection and dies from staph, because there is no health care available for you to have for free.

Check please?

I just saw a poll on Foxnews.com that was asking if the “American flag should be banned, in America”.  I was rather perplexed.  Evidently some school administrators think that having an American flag flying over a school could cause a fight between students of Mexican and American descent.

Why are Americans not proud to be Americans?  What the hell is this?

We aren’t allowed to fly the American flag overseas on US bases.  In the recent humanitarian mission to Haiti, soldiers and marines were not allowed to fly flags on their headquarters.

Why are we shaming ourselves?  America is awesome!  We are the “shining beacon on a hill” for the world.  Our culture has spread around the globe because people universally like the comforts we create.  People love our music (Michael Jackson is still the hottest thing going in India), they love our clothes, they love our technology.

Why then, should we be ashamed of our national symbol, the Flag?  Personally it disgusts me that it is even an option for school administrator to not fly the flag.  If they are so lazy as to not address the behavioral issues in their schools with discipline (remember that?) maybe they shouldn’t be administrators.  Taking the easy way out is showing the world that we are weak.

After the “American Apology Tour”, trying to appease the Arab world, and having the worst foreign policy since Chamberlain in the UK, we have successfully demonstrated to the world that “New” America is becoming a country of pacified weaklings.

You know what happens after everyone views us as weak?  Well….you remember Pearl Harbor?  September 11th?  Or how about back when everyone just wanted to make Hitler happy, and he annexed a few countries and started mass murdering people?  Yeah hey lets go down that path again.

What the hell is going on here America?