It's scary.

I don't know why, but I've become hooked on FoxNews Channel.  I started watching back in the early stages of the Republican primary.  But that's not what's scary.  What's scary is the type of news one learns about watching the news as much as I do now.

Tonight there was a special show investigating what happened in Libya on September 11.  I just about cried.  It's frightening that just shy of one month before the ambassador was assassinated, the majority of the security was pulled out.  It's difficult to fathom how something like that could happen - that our own government could drop the ball so badly and then lie about it. Mostly, though, my heart broke for the man who was in charge of the security team that was withdrawn.  There's nothing quite so upsetting as watching a strong, military man barely keep himself together saying that if he and his team could have been there, they could have saved those people.  And you know each member of his team is probably thinking the same thing and feeling the same way.  It's incredible really, and upsetting.  The world is so horribly unstable and the people who want desparately to do what they can to protect each other aren't allowed to do so.  What is wrong with this logic?!

Also scary, are the cranky feminists that seem to be coming out of the woodwork.  One woman actually said she's treated like a "second-class citizen."  What?!  You're some sort of "expert" or something asked to be on a news show seen internationally.  How is that treatment as a second-class citizen?  I suspect there are some jerks out there in the workplace treating women poorly, not paying them fairly, et cetera, et cetera, but can there be that many?  Still?  Have we as a culture still not grown out of that?  I haven't noticed anything like that...but I have only ever had one male boss before, so maybe I've just been lucky.  Either way, what are these women whining about?  They have it good!  You can't tell me the nice clothes they wear for their interviews are the only nice clothes they have.  I can imagine the kind of cars they are driving.  And I bet some of them are balancing family with work of their own choice and some probably could stay home with those kids if they would like to, but no, they have to be on TV fussing that they can't get cheap enough birth control and high enough pay.  *rolls eyes*  Bunch of whiney babies.

Wars and rumors of wars...so the Middle East has all sorts of war going on all over the place and that's real war...and then there's the purported "war on women" that is so much fiction it makes me want to slap a liberal, whiney, bra-burner.

Also scary?  There are people all distraught that Mitt Romney said he received a binder full of qualified women while there are people dying at the hands of psychotic terrorists all around the world.