Rant

Every now and then one of those websites pops up that is just annoying – even worse than mine! http://www.werenotafraid.com/ Two things about this site, not only is the entire thing ridiculous, but they have bracelets for sale! Enough with the stupid rubbery bracelets. Stop it! They are OK if they are the Lance Armstrong Live Strong or whatever bracelets, because those are the originals – as far as I know anyway. But all the other “let’s sell some bracelets” groups need to stop.

So the idea of this website – as reported on by the ever so popular Strib – is that people send in pictures of themselves holding up signs or with a printed text that says “were not afraid.” It is of course a message to the terrorists. Is there some secret tape somewhere of Osama or some other terrorist guy discussing their plans to scare the entire world? Where did this whole scare thing come from? I remember something about “shock and awe.” That sounds like it might have been scary. If they wanted to scare us, they would write a book like Stephen King – he gets paid for it. Or they could dress up like gremlins and go around asking for candy. While I have no direct (or even indirect – I hope) connections to any Middle Eastern terrorist groups, I am pretty sure that the bombs in London were not meant to scare people. My best guess is that they were meant to kill people – hence the trains during rush hour etc. And these websites with all these people holding up their stupid signs just weird me out. Do they feel like they are really brave because they “are not scared.” What are they trying to do? Show the world that as they sit inside of their country home, in front of their webcam that they aren’t scared? What do they have to be scared of – an audit, a computer virus,Count Chocula? Who knows. I am sure if the average Iraqi citizen had internet they would all get a good laugh. Either way, this rant has gone on long enough. Since blowing the crap out of their homes and neighboring cities doesn’t seem to deter anything, I guess there is nothing wrong with thousands of people taking pictures of themselves and putting them on a website – that should do the trick…too bad they didn’t think of that a few hundred billion dollars ago. Anyway, the site would be a lot cooler if you could rate each picture. Then you would have to have the option of looking at the highest rated pictures for each gender…just a suggestion. Oh, and you should be able to send them private messages of course.