Tim Alatorre Online

I'm not usually at a loss for words but today might be a rare exception... well, maybe not.  To be honest the events of yesterdays election and the two year campaign running up to it have left me unexpectedly dazed.

Two years ago if you had told me that our next president would be a pro-abortion, anti-military, socialist I would have said "sure, could happen, after 8 years of uncontrolled Bush hating how can a conservative win?"

If you had told me that this person had spent his youth smoking pot and hanging around with anarchists, spent 20 years in a black power, hate America church, had a wife who had never been proud of America until the day her husband started running for president, and had land deals and associations with crooks and unrepentant domestic terrorists, I would have said, "sounds like a stretch, no way he'd get the nomination."

Had you then told me that the major US television news networks and newspapers would unapologetically praise this candidate at every opportunity, suppress any story that was negative while making even the mildest of controversies of his opponent into hour long specials, that they would refuse to do any investigative journalism into his past or present affiliations yet would demonize even his opponent's supporters, I would have said, "you've been reading too many George Orwell novels, sure the US media is biased but they still have some professional decency."

I love Facebook.  I have been able to connect with so many past acquaintances and friends it is amazing.  What I love most about Facebook is the ability for me to share my life with my friends in a way that I have never been able to before.  I see a window into their experiences and beliefs, and they into mine.  Lately I have had a number of really good discussion with some of my friends, for those who are not in on the Facebook scene, I thought I'd re-post some of them here.