With Gilligan, the Skipper too...

I don't remember whether it was the original show or a made for TV movie, "Return to Gilligan's Island"????, but I remember the start of a boat trip, once they are well underway, that the Skipper inquires as to whether every thing was prepared and made ready before they left. Gilligan proudly talks about how well he cleaned and prepared everything, even cleaning and fixing the compass and getting a little black rock (the magnet) out of it. Well, if you know the premise of the show, and subsequent made for TV events, you know what happens.

Why did I remember this? Seems in releasing the documents concerning CIA interrogation techniques our President referenced that the country had lost its "moral bearings" in allowing such things to go on. Man I'm glad it only happened in the last 8 years and now things have been set straight again.

You see, I had feared... that in a country where we kill an unborn child, for reasons of convenience, a "choice" and the killing of unwanted dogs a crime, where government can spend billions on an airplane or a community hundreds of thousands on fireworks, yet we can't figure out a way to provide even basic affordable health care for our children, or where some will rally to show support for a "wayward" youth turned to piracy on the high seas, while condemning our soldiers for actions they take under the pressures of combat deployment (poor decisions and choices are made in every war, yes even WWII, which the News Reels sanitized and left us all to believe each one of our grandfathers and fathers were Angelic Heroes. Heroes yes, Angels, No. It was WAR and WAR is Hell no matter what they show back home)...well I had feared we were already a bit lost.

Mr. President, I had high hopes when you were elected, that just maybe, it wouldn't be politics as usual, that a new wind might sweep across this country. Well it did....it was hot air....seems that all politicians are full of it.

May God Bless the USA. Because we sure need it.