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To most people it is just another news story, but…

Last night Meghan and I were heading back from a lovely birthday dinner (hers) at Three Birds when we run into a police barricade on Triskett. From 145th to 140th was closed off.

Turns out a 20-year veteran police officer chased his estranged wife around the neighborhood while shooting at her car! When fellow police officers tried to intervene, he stopped his car, and killed himself. His wife, apparently, is ok.

Now, I certainly do not know the people involved. And I don’t know what it was like to be them. And I feel for their friends and family to have to deal with such a tragedy.

But what the f*@$ is going on in today’s world — hell, what the F*@$ is going on in Cleveland.

A firefighter shooting his annoying neighbors. A love triangle turns deadly at a McDonalds. And now a cop racing the city streets trying to shoot his own wife. All in the past 7 days.

I know crime happens. And I usually gloss over most of it. The news is nothing but a laundry list of who got shot. I have become disinterested because it is everywhere.

But when it happens 1 block over, and at the driveway of the house that backs up to my backyard, it hits a little too close to home.

Anything can happen.

This is a headline from Time.com.

When you have to clarify the year of the election, perhaps the poll is a bit premature. If I were called and asked who would I vote for in the next Presidential election, I think my response would be: “No clue.” I have 19 months to decide.

19 months. 1 year and 7 months. That’s 586 days from today.

I think there are more pressing issued to deal with today, than what people think about an event in 19 months.

Most polls, including the headline I stole from a Time magazine article, include Rudy Guliani. He hasn’t even announced he’s running for President, and yet you are asking people if they will vote for him in 19 months?

Not a single primary has occurred. The conventions haven’t even gotten their money yet (that was included in the pork-filled Iraq War funding bill that includes all those time lines for withdrawal that our elected officials spent so much time crafting, and pork-filling so our “well-respected” President can just veto the damn thing, thus wasting more time in DC… more blah, blah, blah, less action)… I digress…

So from here on out, I am not discussing the 2008 Presidential election. Not until the above headline can be run without the need to specify the year.

That will be 278 days from today.

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
– Theodore Roosevelt