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Diving in Head First

Ack! I told Jack when he asked me if I would be interested in guest blogging that he might actually LOSE readers, not maintain! Big shoes he has. I think I have performance anxiety.

I’m Boudicca (my readers call me Bou) of Boudicca’s Voice. I know what Jack likes about my blog, but it would not fit well here. My blog is a catharsis in how I deal with my life with my three sons, my life…what sometimes seems to me as a working example of Chaos Theory. My blog is not so cerebral as Jack’s, but for this week… I will try!

I have told Jack that I liked his post on Arafat. I’m a moderate like Jack, and I find myself while listening to or reading the MSM, trying to figure out how they came to their conclusions on various news items. Everything has a spin and for me, it is a challenge in trying to ‘unspin’ it and come up with the truth.

I must say, however, I was completely surprised by the MSM’s take on Arafat. Here is a man I grew up KNOWING was a terrorist. When he FINALLY took ill and appeared to be on his death bed, my first thought was, “Thank God. I hope Castro is next.” I never assume that everyone is like minded. Having children will show you immediately how early independent thought does occur; rearing its sometimes ugly head. (Sometimes for just an instant, a quick breath or the blink of an eye during the daily struggles in my life with my boys, I wish that I actually gave birth to lemmings… my being the lead lemming… but then I become sane again and realize I should cherish their independent thought even though it makes me want to strangle them at times.) Anyway, I KNOW we are all different… how we look, how we think, how we VIEW things… OUR individual realities are so varying hence we have different perspectives giving way to differing opinions. I am wholly aware of this.

Yet… when Arafat finally bit the dust, I just assumed that EVERYONE would be like minded to me, other than those in the Middle East. I was stunned, utterly stunned, when I realized he was being viewed as a hero… OVER HERE! HERE! IN MY COUNTRY!

I’m shaking my head and wondering in what cave these people have been dwelling. Are the collective memories of these people truly that short? They must be for I cannot find their perspectives. I cannot find the reality that the MSM is living in that they would see Arafat as anything other than what he was… a terrorist, a murderer, a very bad man.

Arafat… good riddance. If I never hear his name again, it will be too soon.