Today is Friday.

It was Friday all day long and now I'm home and looking to enjoy the weekend. Politics has been crazy all week, but today I just want to relax and not worry about where we are and where we are going.  The one thing that I do find really weird and wish I had some explanation for, the lack of coverage of the fires in West Texas. 200,000 acres burned and not one national outlet is covering it. Why? Is it because it's Texas? Is it because it's West Texas? What's the deal?

My prayers go out to all those that are fighting through this and making the best of a bad situation. God bless.

Difference between Cultures? What is Normal?

Just like everyone else in the world, I have been reading and seeing the latest information from Japan. Any normal person has to feel some level of heartbreak and concern for these individuals.  And that is where this post came from.

A Normal Person. What is that? Can culture determine that?

The individuals that are working in dangerous conditions with near certain death in their future at the power plants to save people they don't even know.

And looting?  If there is any, it's not making the news. Either in the US or on the web.

Individuals crammed into gyms and small spaces with no electricity, no heat, and very limited food.

Even dogs that won't leave an injured companion by himself.

Are things like this even possible in the US if we were put into the center of a tragedy of this magnitude?

I believe our armed forces still operate under the same honorable code that has been in place.

Local police. Protect and serve? Kind of seems like it depends on where you live and if the test has been lowered to make sure the right amount of people are accepted.

I saw hope for our nation during the floods in Tennessee and seeing the neighbor helping neighbor code still existed in some part.

But if you mix that with the looting and the way people acted during and even after Katrina, after the Lakers win in 2009, after the OJ trial, where do we fall?

But is it just that Japan is so much different from the rest of the world and rioting and selfishness are now the norm?

A quick Wiki search of riots shows a list dating back to the Seventeenth Century. Hundreds off riots all over the world.

It seems though that historically rioting was a tool used to get attention for freedom, food, or rights.  Looting was from the rich in times of extreme poverty, not from your neighbor just because they weren't at home.

It's up to you as to whether you want to learn something from this situation, but whether YOU do or not, I already have.