I have been lax with blogging here this past year, while getting settled into a new culture in Texas.  But the disaster at Ft. Hood is in the news and while families await news of their loved ones and others have perished or are badly wounded, there are some that take advantage of ANY opportunity to shove their own agenda down our throats.  In this case, in Texas, the ONLY politicians to elbow their way to the cameras and microphones are those that are standing for Election or Re-Election here.  Rick Perry the incumbent Guv, Kay Bailey Hutchison the pretender to the throne, and Senator John Cornyn, desperately trying to keep his face and voice in front of the public.  All three of these have managed to make a “gripping” statement of deathless prose that if they are elected they definitely will “do something”, while making saccharine comments of condolences.  Other than those politicians, we haven’t heard much from those whose jobs in Politics are not up for grabs.  Pretty sad, but very typical of the Political mindset.