this is not depressing.... really

my wife and i were watching brief tidbits of the news last night, and i swear to you, i wanted to scream, cry, whimper and curl up in a ball all at the same time. it was a simple news release, really: 14 US soldiers killed in the line of duty, somewhere in one of the many dangerous and gawd-forsaken areas in baghdad. apparently most folks in idaho have lost a son or daughter to this recent event. that's not a slam against those good people, but christ - they just lost another 4-6 folks last week to a round of sniper attacks against their own roof-top patrols...

these are lives we're losing. young men and women who will never come home again. well, at least not upright.
what caused me to launch into a tissy is how the media handles these horrors. the damned newscaster, a pale, monotonous female who just reeked of "career move," instead of doing her job to convey the loss of life, actually SMILED as the computer aided graphics behind her show the Amphibious Assault vehicle flip over, burn as the phrase, "soldiers trapped inside horribly burnt to death or died from smoke inhalation..."

wtf? do we really need to know this? is it necessary to have pretty graphics splashed across the screen so we can really experience what they did, as they DIE? to add insult to injury, the same blithering idiot of a newscaster (and i should be fair, she was standing in for another blithering idiot who was off tending his garden that night) in rough detail how idahoans indeed lost the soldiers during the past week. and what did the american tv viewer get to see? a computer design model of a birds-eye view of the buildings, 6 (i think it was 6) human-like forms poised like gi-joe dolls with swivel arm grip, only to see these "lines of yellow" flash across their bodies from opposing directions.

what was left behind in the simulation was growing smears of red blood-like marks on the ground.

people, this is f**king sick. bad enough that we all enjoy and flock to horror movies, mysteries, (harry potter films) and more because we're completely desensitized to human suffering the realities of war... but does our media have to glorify and further shove down our throats these experiences with flashy graphics?

enough is enough i say. we all need to write someone and complain about it.

anyway, love you all, just had to get that out. really just kinda blew my mind. news at 11. there's be a computer-aided simulation of how my head just exploded and my body teetered to the ground.... :\