The Blame Game Redux

There comes a point in every individuals existence that they have to look at themselves
and realize that all of the problems that they have or that happen around them can be
fixed easily, the first step in this though seems to escape the grasp of some who continue
to have the same problems over and over again. It boils down to blame and placing such a
thing where it belongs. People, be they individuals or groups like taking the easy way
out and try finding a way of blaming others for the problems that exist in their lives
or around them. I find it ironic that people love blaming situations ranging from breakups
to the state of the world on everything ranging from a change in the way the wind is blowing
to, I am right and you are wrong, without any proof. I recently went through a breakup with
my ex blaming someone that she should not have for our breakup. Simply stated, there were
trust issues that she could not come to grips with and I told her how she could fix things,
to this day she continues to blame everything on this person and not on the fact that she
chose not to fix the trust issues that she had. I guess it was easier to blame someone else
than blame herself on the reasons for our breakup. Onto domestic issues, the Catholic church
which I used to attend has a problem with one Austrailian bishop promoting a book tour out in
the US, to be specific Roger Mahony and five bishops wanted him to cancel it because it has
to do with the sex scandal. I think it might be a little too late for the church to say "You
can't promote this book because it will make the church look bad." The reason why the church
looks bad in the first place is for the reason that the chuch including the esteemed Roger Mahony
tried covering up the scandal in the first place. Good job you fucking knuckleheads in
continuing to give the catholic church a good rim job without a reach around. Onto foreign
matters, we choose to blame the Arab nation on the state of the war and continue to tell
the American people "We will win the war on terrorism." Last time I checked, Iraq had nothing
to do with 9/11, Afganistan, and Osama Bin Laden did. For some reason we are still in Iraq
despite this fact. Also last I checked, we haven't found Osama despite the fact that we have
one of the "best and brightest intelligence communities." I have been in plenty of fights to
know that there is one way of winning. One, you walk in and destroy your opponent as quickly
as possible and leave. Two if the fight does not involve you, you let each party beat eachother
senseless until either they learn from their mistakes, or kill eachother off. If people are ignorant
enough to believe the rhetoric that we will win the war on terrorism, the furthest they need to
look is the British and the IRA. The UK did not win the war against the IRA after generations of
war and strife, the IRA stopped fighting and gave up on their own after finally figuring out that
there was no point. Good people died in the UK for no purpose there as they do in Iraq. Solution,
leave the country and let them kill eachother off until the point that they get tired of fighting.
Quit lying to the American community and getting our people killed for no reason, I support our troops
with every ounce of my being, I do not however support the people in charge. We blame the Saudi's for
the price of oil and the crisis our country is in because of gas prices now, yet we really do nothing
to make it inconvienient for the oil companies to continue to gouge us. We can impose sanctions against
OPEC, we can hold the oil companies and the buyers responsible for the prices. For some reason we as
the American public continue to suffer at the pumps, yet the oil companies and the heads of such continue
to get richer off of our suffering. Then again we can also blame the heads of certain cities for
not being proactive and installing a decent public transportation system like other US cities have,
NY, Seattle, SF anyone???? For some reason people seem to get around very easily in these cities
without the use of a car. We can also blame ourselves for wanting bigger and badder, Hummer, SUV,
and other gas hogs have finally begun to feel the pinch yet some people are still dumb enough to
buy into the bigger is better fad. I find it ironic that people continue to think that we can fix
everything, yet we continue to focus on external issues and situations. Simple fact of life kids,
you can't fix external problems without fixing the internal problems first. Try as you might, but
you will find the probability of failure is high. Until you fix the problems within yourself and
at home, and continue to place the blame on where it belongs instead of trying to place it in and
on other people and things, you will never grow. To this I leave you with something to ponder.
"When I was a child I spoke as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child;
but when I became a man I put away childish things." 1 Corinthians 13:11.
Try and swallow that piece of honesty kids.