WAVE MAKERS A spacious, new water park is being built a the present time on the down Massanutten Mountain near the town of Penn Laird, Virginia. It promises us all the many wonders associated with water in movement, and among them will be a super-sized pool which will be bring us a regular series of ocean-like waves
machine-made waves.
It won't be ready until Spring, of course, the folks here in the valley will have to be content with a wave making machine which is functioning here and throughout our country making maximum use of political currents coupled with a plentiful supply of hot air.
We have been experienced some wave-making of a political nature.
Those persons who have oppose the Bush Administration as a normal reaction were anticipating a time when their spin on the news would be overshadowed in the news by reports from the in Winter Olympics Games from Turin, Italy. It came as a totally and unexpected shock just a day into the opening of the Olympic games get the members of liberal press were listening to their more conservative member -Fox News, precisely, were on the air interviewing the Vice-President of the United States describing a hunting accident in which he had peppered a fellow bird hunter with shotgun pellets.
To make maximum use of incident critics centered on an alleged
“delay” in calling the media to tell them about the happening. My personal memory of what news reporting tells me this is a sort of story we would have been expected to “dig out” and we would not depend on handouts or await someones call. Normal contacts a the sheriff's office and at the local hospital's emergency unit would tell us that a well known lawyer who had been hunting on a nearby ranch had been admitted to the hospital with gun shot wounds.
Chaney withheld such an announcement, thinking it to be proper for the lady who owned the ranch on which the hunters were guests, might wish to inform the local press. Chaney then arranged to talk with Britt Hume at Fox News.
Since that time we have been deluged with a fanciful array of wild stories, fabrications, fanciful theories and views beyond the usual reactions. One holds that the same big conspiracy to destroy the nation. Another wants Bush to fire him, and “the drunken hunters” have been documented. My favorite among all of this in will of God bringing shame and disgrace on our wanton leaders who we see as example – purposely killing God's birds for pleasure and enjoyment.
Certainly, we ,as a nation of millions, can conduct our political affairs on a higher level than we have this week. I sit here this evening not being proud of “my” generation.
It is “your” generation as well. “
“Ours.”
A.L.M. February 1, 2006 [c487wds]
