"And the Dead keep it."

I really dont like to speak ill of the dead. Yes I agree the way Dime-Bag died was tragic and terrible. I would never wish a death like that a upon anyone even someone who was responsible for a band like Pantera. This is what sets me off, I'm a no news-media hound by any means, but when Dime-bag died I could'nt escape images of people mourning him. People coming up to me "sux about Dime-Bag." People lined up around the street to his house. I'm halfway convinced his death was responsible for me being late to work one day. Blogs everywhere mourning him.

But the news I have to actually go looking for is about the 60,000 dead. 60,000 dead almost just like that. Where are the fucking memorials for them and the mournings. We dont half-ways give a shit. I mean sure almost 500 million has been donated to aid. But I mean really is that a whole hell of a lot. I'm sure we've spent that much in a week on homeland security after the towers went down. We're spending 60 billion a month on that ridiculous ass-fuck of a war in Iraq.

Now some people would say that the Dime-Bag comparison isn't fair because that's a local thing he's from my hometown. Well that's my fucking problem. That's my fucking point. Since the 60,000 dead dont live within driving distance of an SUV's full tank a gas we dont care all that much. Sure we care, aww that's really sad. But for fuck's sake Priorities are so fucked here. If it happened to Americans it would be a national tragedy people would be putting some stupid sticker on their car or tying some flag to their tree. Instead a real global tragedy is treated with less emotion than a fuckin Super Bowl.

I've grown tired of politic discuission and the like but this is just one of those things that really shows what's important to the typical American lifestyle that says we take care of our own. What happend to caring about humanity and not nationality. fuck..