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Jul. 14th, 2016 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missizzyEveryone on my Twitter timeline is praying for Nice. I'm incapable of prayer, but there's always room for more grief, especially when the death rate's already past 70 and might go higher still. My sister went to Nice once. She described how beautiful it was. I myself have only been in Paris, but I'd like to see Nice someday. Certain Americans preach that terrorists target us because they hate our way of life, but whether or not that's true for us, I think it genuinely is true when ISIS targets France-although of course right now we can't even be sure this one was them; there's just so much violence in the world now. When even Medina isn't safe...well, that says something about ISIS, that they actually targeted once of Islam's most holy cities, but since it happened I've felt like there's no boundary the more evil people of the world won't violate.
Speaking of evil people, my mom was actually hoping Trump would choose Newt Gingrich for his running mate, thinking that might help bring him down. Instead he goes with an unknown. Well, Sarah Palin was an unknown when McCain brought her into the spotlight. Meanwhile, apparently journalists going to the Republican convention are doing so with very real fears of being subjected to violence. Hopefully nothing will occur in Cleveland like what happened today, but who knows, the world is so crazy. While my brother-in-law prepares to go to Philadelphia because the company he works for is doing the lighting for the Democratic convention, but hopefully that'll be less dangerous.
Speaking of evil people, my mom was actually hoping Trump would choose Newt Gingrich for his running mate, thinking that might help bring him down. Instead he goes with an unknown. Well, Sarah Palin was an unknown when McCain brought her into the spotlight. Meanwhile, apparently journalists going to the Republican convention are doing so with very real fears of being subjected to violence. Hopefully nothing will occur in Cleveland like what happened today, but who knows, the world is so crazy. While my brother-in-law prepares to go to Philadelphia because the company he works for is doing the lighting for the Democratic convention, but hopefully that'll be less dangerous.
