What in the WORLD is going on??

Abounding are stories of grief and signs of bad things to come...and this from an annoying optimist! Lets just say its been a really bad and heavy week. (Caution: the following my cause depression, slitting of wrist, spontaneous combustion into prayer, or possibly just rolling of the eyes. Either way, I'm hoping for rapture.)

- Saturday afternoon, while driving around town with Fletcher...I witnessed something I thought I'd NEVER see...a car jacking!! Fletcher started yelling "lock your doors" and I looked over my left shoulder to see some guy try to get into a car with a single female...but he was not welcomed. She pushed him out and locked her doors. Unfortunately, it was a beautiful day so her windows were down. The male assailant reached through the window and unlocked the car door and helped himself inside. SHE FREAKED! She reached over and cold cocked him like I'd never EVER seen before! She hit him so hard, he sat stunned for a second. She continued to fight him, hitting and pushing him for the door while trying to open it at the same time and even honking the horn. This all happened in a matter of seconds just before the light turned green. She started to drive off and while we were forced to turn right instead of following her, we nearly saw her succeed at pushing him out of the car while it was moving! We tried to turn around and follow her...to obtain license info but we lost her. Luckily when we called 911, there were other people who had called in as well. I've thought about this poor girl every day since then. I hope she is okay! I hope that dirt bag is in jail. I also think about what would've happened if I was a single driver as well. Would he have tried to get into my car instead of hers since I was closer to the side walk where he would've come from? I shudder to think!

- Monday morning I learned that my baby sister's uncle-in-law was murdered in his Portland home! What the heck? He was attacked and stabbed by his girlfriends ex-boyfriend. Oh my heart just breaks the uncle and his surviving family. What a senseless death! The good news is that they cops found the ex-boyfriend/murderer on the scene of the crime thanks to a neighbor who heard something and called police. So sad and senseless!

- Never would I have thought I'd be cheerful to hear that Hilary Clinton won the Pennsylvania primary. Though I've been very anti-Hilary in the past as she stands for zero of the things I stand for, the one thing that she IS that I agree with is the anti-Obama. I am so very against that man being President for several reasons but the biggest is that he insists on playing the race card! People use the race card to perpetuate their own victim mentality AND shut down discussion on anything else important. This country is divided enough between left and right/gay and straight/Jesus or no Jesus...that we do NOT need to inflame the issue of race to continue to destroy and divide our nation! I am not oppose to a black man OR woman being President...I'm opposed to any man or woman (no matter their race) making everything they say about racism. We are ALL Americans and that is the only label we should be putting on anyone. I shudder to think we what America will be like under that kind of leader Obama would be.

- My heart just goes out to the polygamist families of TX who have had their families torn apart. How does this affect us personally? If they have had their 2nd and 4th amendment rights taken away (for what I believe is due to religious bigotry) then we all stand to loose the same! Yes, polygamy is illegal...bring charges of that but that hasn't happened. I fear GREATLY for what this means to the sovereignty of this nation and the rights of all Americans. There is due process but aparently not in this situation. WHAT? We should be outraged and we should do something about it!

- There is a professor of ethics at Princeton University (Peter Singer) that says its okay to abort a child up until 2 years of age!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE HELLLLL!!!!??? His argument is that children under the age of 2 years old do not grasp the understanding of tomorrow or the future. Oh, and we should use them as organ donors. Riiiiiiiight, I get it now...WHAT? Seriously, the current state of this world makes Sodom and Gomorrah look like Saturday morning cartoons!

- Some church in DC held a prayer service yesterday morning at a local gas station asking for the Lord to help us with fuel costs. I think they got this right! Gotta turn to the Lord. Between fuel at record highs, inflation abounding, shortages on wheat in the US because we're growing corn for ethanol, weak dollar and panic runs on rice and flour...I can't take it. CALGON TAKE ME AWAY!

Can you see how things are lining up? Why does the final 'end of the world' scene of Ghostbusters run through my mind (music and all)? I've even stopped listening to Glenn Beck and still I'm a wreck! What's an optimist to do?