Time To Turn Down The Sound?

Politics are turning nasty, this is about the time I hit the mute button, every time one of the candidates jumps onto the screen. You can easily anticipate the subject "du jour", it will either be:

• Iraq (a downer in any sentence), health care for the world,
  
• saving the earth (just one gas/oil burning car at a time),
• the economy (the only way it goes anymore is down and paying people a few hundred bucks isn't going to do squat),
  
• anti-terrorism (when have we not had this problem),
  
• immigration (aren't we a nation of nothing but immigrants, excluding the Native Americans who truly belong here and were here long before Chris or Amerigo arrived),

• stem cell research (why are people so afraid of science),
• NAFTA (what does that stand for again, oh yea, sending work out of the country because that helps us keep prices down),
• the sad state of education (we are quickly arriving at statistics where more students drop out than finish and obtain their diplomas)

And now, CNN is already predicting who the smart picks would be for the Vice President spot. Their decisionmaking feels something like being on a teeter-totter. It's interesting how they never have sufficient real news, they need to create potential news on top of that.

Speaking of news, I thought it was interesting that Queen Elizabeth felt it was not necessarily dangerous to put Prince Harry on the front lines in Afghanistan until the media caught wind of it. The news no sooner leaked out then he was shipped home, escorted by his daddy and brother. So apparently the media is more dangerous than the Afghan rebels? I wonder if this ever would have happened if Diana had still been a force.

OK, time to turn off the tv.