Vibrant Nation

elizabeth: What I am thinking is when does the brain just shut down due to stupidity? And what science research project can I sign up for   where I help administer the tests? Don’t you catch people saying and doing stupid stuff, and hours later you find yourself riding by their house because you just want to go and flog them? I am not talking about brain freeze due to ice cream consumption – you can’t really fault a person when that happens. I know because it has happened to me.

Laurie: I’m not sure but I think stalking people via riding by their houses in the dark of night will get you some jail time. I’m real sure flogging them will.

elizabeth: Democrats lost the seat that Ted Kennedy had held for 46 years. 46 YEARS! All Martha Coakley had to do was show up and run a few ads. Reports said she didn’t like to campaign and thought she was a shoo-in to take over Ted Kennedy’s congressional seat. . Guess what – the next senator-elect is Scott Brow. I am sick to death of hearing people like John McCain saying that the people of MA spoke for the country. No, they spoke for MA and not for the millions of people who will not get health insurance because the Republicans will see to it that the proposed health care plan won’t see the light of day.

Laurie: It could have something to do with the fact that 98% the good folks in Massachusetts have health care. Massachusetts has already taken care of its own (except for having such a damn long name for its state). What is more concerning to me is that Democrats can’t seem to hold on to anything. Bill Clinton left our country with surplus, good relations with a great deal of the world, and advances in civil rights that had been stalled for years. Oh yeah, he did get a half-assed blow job, and Republicans managed to make that overshadow the good stuff and vote in a fellow party member.

elizabeth: I know this might be a touchy subject because there are so many people making such a difference. Putting their lives in jeopardy in an area that is tenuous to say the least. But the slowness in getting aid to the victims of the 7.0 earthquake in Haiti has been very disturbing. The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere will be left with thousands of amputees because antibiotics did not reach them in time. And now people in charge are saying that they did not do a good job in getting supplies to Haiti. Tell that little five-year-old who cried hysterically when she was told that her leg would have to be cut off. Tell that to all the people who will not get prosthetics because they don’t have the money. And where the hell is the Haitian president? Why is he not out comforting his people? BTW – sorry about the palace collapsing. Not.

Laurie: Girlfriend don’t get me started. People in New Orleans are still waiting for help. I realize that the Haitians we see on television yelling in distress and frustration are aggravated by severe hunger, dehydration, crushed limbs, and dead family members, but the response to the disaster in Haiti was like a speeding bullet compared to the Hurricane Katrina. Unfortunately, the Haitians don’t know what the response has been because they can’t see the efforts on TV. But the poor Katrina victims can, and I bet they are wondering WTH? Haiti is right in our back yard, but Louisiana is a part of our own house and we failed them miserably.

elizabeth: It ironic that we are looking for water on Mars but could not get water to the people in Haiti in a timely manner. Maybe we need to adjust our priorities.

Laurie: Priorities are in the minds/eyes of the beholder and that brings us right back to Stupid.

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