Low and behold~

So, while I'm sitting on Everquest just waiting for things to spawn so that I may get cool new items..when I decide to visit www.cnn.com and see if anything newsworthy has happened that I care about in the 6 hours I haven't checked the news.

First Time's Person of the Year is the American Soldier. I was kinda sort of expecting someone else, but I think its a much better choice than the runner up. The runner up was apparently Donald Rumsfeld. Again was he really all that newsworthy this year? I seem to remember him being like how
Robin Williams described him in his comedy special.."I don't know where.... I don't know when....But something terrible is going to happen...That is all." Someone tell me what great things he did to be the Person of the Year, I don't wanna dis him if he doesn't deserve it.

That leads me to the second news post I saw....The Terror Level will be decreasing!!! WOOOO. erm...what ever. I don't care. I'm pretty sure 95% of the population things the alert levels are just a damn joke, which for the most part they are. Think of some other countries that have high terrorist problems, or did in the past. Israel doesn't have an alert system, they just realize that yes, someone will blow themselves up. They have the best intelligence system in the world, and they can't stop everything. Ireland/Britian doesn't have an alert system, and I'd put the British intelligence up there with the Israelies when dealing with the Ireland.

What is it about Americans that we think we need to be told something bad was going to happen? Personally, I'd rather it just surprise the hell out of me when it happens, rather than worry about it happening all the time. I'm sure that's why Israel and Ireland/England don't have one. Its not good for your citizens to live in fear. Maybe the government is actually stopping attacks when they put everyone on high alert, but I doubt it.