What are we becoming ? Or maybe what have we became ?

I Look around see things in the course of a normal day that makes me think "What the Heck was that ?"  Things like :

• We now fight "wars" against groups and ideologies and ideas, not other countries.
• We have "Black Ops" going on in 70 or so countries around the world , fought by "special operators", who shoot and kill people on are behalf and are not called soldiers , at least not in the traditional sense of the word?
• You can protest at the funeral of a soldier who has died in combat, but you have to stand in a fenced in designated area to protest the President or at political functions.
• Things you "tweet", even stupid things, can get you arrested if other people do as you suggest.
• We will pay $1.69 for 12 ounces of water in a plastic bottle and yet will yell our heads off if have to pay $3.50 for a gallon of gasoline.
• It takes a billion dollars to get elected to the Presidency (give or take a few million dollars). The job only pays $400,000 a year. I'm supposed to tell my kid they can be president and somehow convince them that you should spend 200 times what the job pays, in order to get it? Is that Right ?
• A Senator can serve as little as one term (6 years) and has a lifetime pension and health care. The same things for the average citizen if they can even get it, usually takes 20 plus years of service, and can be wiped out by one bad business decision by one ignorant executive?
• Conservatives are getting excited about Michelle Bachman and Rick Perry. I'm just stunned. This the best we can do ? Really ? Seriously ? No joking ? Ahh man...
• Instead of Shows and movies that have plots and make a point , reality TV is what people want to watch ? Are you joking me ?
• California is considered the most liberal state, yet IOWA is the first one to allow gays to marry ? Huh?
• And speaking of gays marrying, these fruitcakes now are calling for Bert and Ernie to come out of the closet and get married? On a kids show? What ?
• Ashton Kucher will be the highest paid sitcom star once the new season of Two and 1/2 men starts showing. Ashton Kucher is a star ? The Highest paid Star? I hear the twilight zone music.
• There are people who actually think that MMA and UFC fighting takes skill and talent?  That think that watching people fall off of padded swinging turn styles into the water is entertainment ? That watching a fake competition about fake tribes on a fake set, in a fake jungle, has anything at all to do with Survival? Shows about crackheads and wino's and gang bangers and prostitutes being chased by the police and booked into jail actually have some sort of value ? People who have drug problems and are crazy are TV stars ?
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