Weblog of mark

this past week my daughter told me a friend of hers was at a funeral where protesters had signs saying things like they were glad a soldier had died.  this was horrible enough to contemplate, what this family greiving for their loss felt, then to add a public protest so cold and evil i didn't think it could be true.  then my daughter said the protest was put on by anti war left wingers.  that made no sense at all to me, and led me to look up the subject online. guess what? the protests were done by some ultra-right christians who see the deaths our armed forces are suffering as God's judgement on our evil society.  the main crime we have committed in their eyes is allowing homosexuals to be in the military and in other areas of our society.  as if it were possible to just make gays go away or something.  from what i've seen in my 49 years, most likely these people are homosexuals who hate themselves for their identity and lash out cruelly for that reason.  isaw a picture of one of the protesters and that confirmed my suspicions further.  messed up as these people are  it is more than one could hope for them to quit hurting families in this way, and they can only count on God's forgiveness for their sins.  but what is most unforgiveable to me, has to do with the way i learned of this hateful practice.  my daughter's friend let slip later that she hadn't really been at that funeral but had learned of the protest from a conservative talk show host.  this person had the ability and opportunity to know the true sponsors of the protests, and in fact did touch on that somewhat, but in the end he chose to explain this to his viewers as a left-wing movement.  this is especially galling to me because the right-wing of american politics has been almost the sole causer of violence, blunders and offense in recent years and yet continue to play the victim.  they play victim to "the liberal media's bias" they play victim to the world's response to their idiocy and blundering with their "why do they hate us" posing.  and they play victim to history always having to correct the facts to look like they were right.  will somebody just PLEASE point out the obvious to these weasels.  THEY have screwed up in iraq, THEY have encouraged hate and ignorance THEY have lied their way into war and THEY should be turned out of office for all these reasons and more.