Good and Bad

So, I guess that clears THAT up!

***

I saw 2 things on CNN today.

One made me smile

One almost made me sick.

President Obama spoke today

at the dedication for the Edward M Kennedy Institute

in chilly Boston.

So did many of the old timers

who fought with and against the senior Senator.

The mood was light, with guests

speaking about some of the great accomplishments

of Senator Kennedy.

No matter what side of the isle you reside on,

today there was a truce.

It made me smile.

***

CNN was covering the disaster

that took place recently

when the co-pilot of that German Airlines plane

murdered all on board

by aiming the nose of the plane into a mountainside

at over 400 miles an hour.

I can't imagine the terror those passengers felt.

But believe me, CNN tried it's level best 

to put me right there in row 11 seat c

when it rolled out it's computer animated airplane and pilot

and walked me through the minute by minute details

of those 9 excruciatingly terror filled minutes

between the time the pilot left the cockpit

and the plane disintegrated into a mountain,

reading the words AND EXPLAINING THE SOUNDS

that were captured on the black box voice recorder.

I swear, if CNN could get its hands on a video tape

that actually showed

the one hundred and some passengers

screaming and yelling for 8 minutes before they died,

they would have played it all day.

Seriously, if CNN would just have said,

"The plane nose dived at 400 miles an hour for 8 minutes

before hitting the mountain...."

I actually could have imagined MYSELF

the terror inside that plane. 

CNN made me sick.