It's A Piece of Shit Now!

Have you ever bought a new car? Not just a new family car, but a really cool car that you knew everything about. The engine size, horsepower, size of the tires and rims etc. A car that you feel is the envy of all the other drivers on the road as well as your friends. You keep it spotless, use the best gas, always change the oil on schedule and follow all other maintenance items. A car that makes you smile just to look at. Ever had one of those? I think most of us have. I know I have and then the unthinkable happens and you are involved in an accident. It may be a major collision or just a little fender bender, but either way, you wish it were a total so you replace the car. Invariably it is never a total and no matter how quick you get it fixed and no matter how good it may look the fact remains in your head. It's a PIECE OF SHIT now!

Well today that awful, sinking feeling came over me about our country. The feeling came when another case of anthrax was diagnosed in New York. It is the feeling that things REALLY aren't ever going to be the same. That the panic that is occurring in NYC because of this discovery sets us right back to September 11. The nation wept for the victims of those attacks and then did what Americans do best. Go back to being Americans. Since that day we have been repeatedly been told to expect more terrorist attacks, but did most Americans really feel another attack on our soil would really take place? I didn't. Sure it was in the back of my mind even before September 11. And so far there is no evidence that the 2 cases of anthrax in Florida and one now in New York have any relation to each other or that they were even the acts of terrorist groups. Frankly when I heard that the building where the tabloid The Sun was produced, I figured it could be anyone whose good name was smeared by that particular publication. Hell it could have been one of those space aliens that were hanging with Hillary Clinton. But when a second case was discovered in New York it seems more and more like a terrorist, foreign or domestic, attack.

Today I feel like my shiny, great country has been reduced to a piece of shit. Panic and fear are widespread. It has become risky to even open your mail as it may contain deadly bacteria. When the attacks happened I had a hard time shedding tears. It was probably the shock of it all coupled with the fact that these were not people I knew or could even know through several degrees of separation. But I stated I wept that America may never be the same. And like that new car after it has been wrecked the first time never being the same, so it seems that America is on that same path.