The Kingdom Come

Time for another update of random thoughts. First, my daughter will be graduating High school within a few days -- mid-term. Her mother and I are so proud of her. She has always been an A-B student. She will be going on to college after about a month off.

There is a local submarine sandwich shop my workmates and I like to frequent. It is ran by Egyptians -- Coptic Christian Egyptians. I usually like to have short discussions with them about the situations in Egypt. When the so-called "Arab Spring" began in the Middle East we talked about the changes in Egypt. They were hopeful. But now it seems Egypt, like many of these Muslim countries will become more radically Islamic. However, we spoke how we believe that there is a large segment of the "revolutionaries" that wanted true liberty and will become upset when it obviously doesn't come under Islamic rule.

Lastly, I work in an industry where I have to have a STA# (security threat assessment number) and have to pass several national security tests. Without breaching any security; let me just say I find some of this rather ironic or hypocritical since the government will not secure the borders. While we are making sure all of our industry's activities are obsessively documented, the U.S. government is letting all sorts of people cross into our nation. And our leaders ask why and how we didn't "connect the dots" during the attacks? They STILL don't seem to get it as they molest grandmothers and children at airports. All this talk about not "profiling" is really...well...a bunch of crap. All in the name of misguided bleeding-heart liberalism. What happen to GUTS in America?