Today, I sit and wonder about the world, or more specifically my part of the world, the good ole USA. As I sit here and type, the news channels are going back and forth between President Ford’s funeral, the funeral for James Brown and the execution of madman Saddam. These three men who died in such a short time frame are as different as you could imagine, and it is almost humorous in my opinion to see the people who are mourning their deaths and how.

President Ford is getting the lion’s share of the attention, as he should be due to his place in history. The common man’s president as they are calling him healed the nation after President Nixon. While I would argue that Ford, like Nixon was a bit more liberal than they should have been, he was certainly better than his immediate predator, Jimmy Carter. I was born in 1975, so I do not remember the Ford administration and have only faded memories of Carter as seen through the eyes of a preschool kid but in my readings in school (despite the teachers arguments to the contrary), I can see where he was a tad better than Carter and Nixon. If he had been a tad stronger, perhaps we would not have had the Iran hostage embarrassment (Carter helped to install the current Iranian regime); the record high inflation and perhaps Communism would not have been allowed to populate Southern Asia nor South and Central America (outside of Cuba).

The “king of sole” James Brown’s funeral is being ran by Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton, neither of which deserve the title of “Reverend” as they are not very holy in my book so I will not call them that, as well as Michael Jackson, who despite the “not guilty plea” could not be more so in that case (more on that another time). I can sympathize with Mr. Brown’s actions during the civil rights times, but I for the life of me cannot fathom why people are in a time warp about him. Didn’t he go to jail for abusing an ex wife or drug abuse or something? Just because someone can sing, dance or catch a ball does not make them untouchable. I would have given it about 20 minutes on one of the filler shows in the afternoon and leave it at that. It’s not like he was Elvis or something.

As for Saddam… Well, I am happy he is dead. Hooray!!! Yet we have morons actually telling us that this is bad and they are debating the merits of his death all morning on the news channels. Why??? What can possibly be bad about taking this sob out like this other than the fact that we can only do it once? He did some killing, so it was made sure that he could no longer do any more killing and the Iraqis did it the right way, quickly, so that they don’t waste any more money, time or effort on this piece of trash. In Baltimore, we are doing just the opposite and so far the only approved death penalty method is old age. SO basically, you can torture some lady, rape her to death and you get 3 squares and a cot, for 40 years while the liberals in the judiciary claim that killing you in a much more humane manner is “cruel and unusual”. Cruel and unusual is listening to one of Hillary Clinton’s speeches about how she is going to save the world if we just smarten up and vote her President for life.

For me I am going to morn the death of Ford a little bit longer, move on in the case of Brown and cheer every time I hear anything about Saddam’s. I am also going to pray that we get some divine inspiration from these three passing and learn a little bit more about how the world works and does not work.