Hypocrisy & Irony

We're all a hypocrite at some time or another.  Sometimes we'll judge a person in a way that we were judged in the past, but since we have changed we then forget or feel entitled to judge others in the same way.  I'm not a religious person by any means.  I used to be, however, events in my adult life and a lot of thinking has made me change.  I realize I had made plenty of mistakes in my life, and I'm making a constant effort to be less judgmental and try to see things from other peoples' perspectives.  Sometimes it can be difficult, but I always try to remember that I don't know a person's background - where they've been, what they've done, what they've seen or heard - and without knowing it, I cannot pass judgment, positive or negative any better than they could on me.  I guess what's prompting this are the recent events in a country in South America.  There are certain congressmen who would have military personnel lynched for their actions.  Now, I am by no means justifying their actions, as what they did was wrong by military and moral accounts some would say (again I'm trying not to pass judgment).  However, these are the same congressmen who have allowed the current economic state of affairs to come to pass.  How you can shake your finger at a group of people for doing something wrong while you have neglected to do your own job and have in turn failed others and allowed institutions to fail, is beyond me.  I am all for paying for your crimes, so don't get me wrong, but I find it ironic that the same people who are on this witch hunt are also responsible for wrongs of their own and use the incident to distract the public's eye from their failure as a political figure.  It also blows my mind how much money and resources were diverted to educate remaining personnel that what the guilty people did was wrong and to "not do it again".  Meanwhile, the country continues to suffer from economic woes while thousands upon thousands of dollars are spent as a knee-jerk reaction to "fix" the problem.  The irony of the situation is the condescending attitude the country in which the event occurred, and the attitude of the people within, have taken.  I have listened to multiple news accounts that state "don't use our country as a brothel" or "what the foreigners did was shameful...".  Here's a thought, don't make the activity in question LEGAL.  The irony is that the same people who have shunned the practice are the same people that allow it to occur within their borders.  There are no complaints as long as business is brought in, but as soon as people see the country in a negative light for a practice it allows, at that point, everything is the foreigners' fault.  My final word is, either make the practice illegal, and shun it, or make it legal but don't complain when it's viewed negatively by others.

Groundhog Day

For starters, I'm not a writer.  I'm not really sure why I even started this blog.  It might be partially because my wife has one and I wanted to try it, partially because I feel the need to get things off of my chest or because I have nothing else to do.  I'm in the military and currently deployed.  I won't say where I'm writing from or what my job is, so if anybody is reading this (highly doubtful due to the lack of interesting material would have caused you to drift off in the first sentence), please don't ask. I'm not sure what I will be posting on here, but I'm sure some of it will be political, some of it social and other posts just for the hell of it.  Names will be changed to protect people's privacy, so if you're a friend and reading this, and it sounds like a situation you were in, don't take it personal, I'm just writing to have something to write.  If you have any comments, please feel free to leave them, positive or negative and I may or may not write back.  It's my blog, so if I delete it because I find it overly offensive, sorry.