Turn the place to glass

I had to take the car to Firestone this morning to get my front driver's side tire fixed. While sitting in their lounge waiting for the repair to be done, some news report about the 9/11 findings came on the TV. The announcer pointed out that all the pundits and theorists and general doom sayers were predicting that something worse than 9/11 was on the horizon. As the report came on, another customer, a man, was walking out the door. In typical Texas fashion, he commented that if people kept saying the worst was coming, they would eventually be proven right.

"It's like them people that say a hurricane's gonna hit the Texas coast every year," he said. "When one actually does hit, them people will say 'I told you so'."

The three of us - a man, a woman, and me - sitting in the lounge area chuckled and agreed with him. He left. After a couple of minutes, the man sitting in the lounge began to talk about how no one was going to do what really needed to be done to put an end to terrorism because it would make America unpopular but it would save the world. According to this man, all Muslims are the same no matter what they say and they all bring up their children to be dyed in the wool terrorists because it says in the Koran that Muslims must kill all the imbeciles. He said it was up to good Christians, even Catholics, to do the right thing.

"The next time they cut off somebody's head, tell the people that don't have no business there to get out, and turn the place to glass. Got some other country helping terrorists, turn 'em to glass too. Nobody'll like it, but we done it before. Show 'em we mean business. That'll put an end to it."

It will certainly put an end to it. I wonder what the next cycle of evolution will bring when this old world recovers from massive nuclear devastation.