7 Marines Killed in Nevada Mortar Accident

Seven Marines were killed in a training accident, Tuesday morning, at Hawthorne Army Depot, in Hawthorne, Nevada.

A 60mm mortar round blew up in it's tube, instead of launching, while the Marines were training with the mortars.

They were part of the 2nd Marine Division, based in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

Six of them were killed instantly, one died from his wounds on the way to the hospital, and another seven are in serious to critical condition from wounds they sustained.

The Marine Corps banned use of the weapon, while an investigation is underway, and the other services are likely to join them in the moratorium.

India Bus Crash Leaves 37 Dead and 15 Injured

A bus fell off of a bridge, early Tuesday morning, in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, India.

Thirty-seven people were killed and fifteen injured, when the bus went off the bridge and landed upside down.

Witnesses said that as the bus reached the bridge, over the Jagbudi River, that it went right through the guard rail and straight off the bridge, flipping in the air.

A crane was brought in to lift the bus off the victims.

25 Syrians Killed in Chemical Weapon Attack

On Tuesday, twenty-five people were killed in what appears to be the use of chemical weapons, in Aleppo, Syria.

Government media quickly blamed the attack upon rebel forces.

Opposition forces countered that it had to have been a government attack.


Syria's national military is known to have chemical weapons, but rebel forces were not thought to have them. 

However, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is generally pro-opposition, did state that sixteen of the dead were soldiers of the regime.

That would at least make it appear that rebel forces were the perpetrators of the act.

The use of chemical weapons marks a dark step in the civil war, and could bring international involvement.

Multiple foreign governments have repeatedly pledged to stay out of the war, but listed the use of chemical weapons as a "red line" which they could not ignore.

The civil war, which turned two years old, on Thursday, has killed nearly seventy-five thousand people and displaced over a million Syrians.

17 Bombings Kill 65 in Iraq

Terrorists celebrated the ten year anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, with a series of bombings.

In seventeen separate attacks, sixty-five people were killed and two hundred and forty injured.

Attacks were focused on government forces and popular Shiite areas of the country.

Authorities were quick to put the blame on Sunni terrorist group Al Qaeda, and the attacks followed patterns the group has used before.

Al Qaeda has not claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the coordination of the attacks does not suggest the abilities of any of the other active terror groups.

Life is spelled R-I-S-K

America was founded on some principles. One of which was 'personal responsibility'. You were free to make you own life choices knowing that there were consequences. The example I was raised with was you don't work, you don't eat.

My mother's family were farmers. I grew up in a farming community. This was the way of life. You literally had to work for your food. You had to plant, fertilize, water, prune, then harvest the food. People also preserved what they could for the winter months and in case of drought seasons. They were their own safety net.

Some where a long the line, the federal government decided to step in and provide other safety nets. The thing with safety nets is after you land on them, you're supposed to crawl back over to the ladder and start to climb the ladder again. This time knowing what caused the fall to begin with and how to prevent it from happening again.

Problem is that the federal government's big web of safety nets became too comfy. People began to feel it was their right to stay, even though they put no effort into creating, building, or sustaining the net. So now they live rent free on our hard working backs.

Back to my original thought - RISK.

Personal responsibility is one hundred and eighty degrees away from shared responsibility. I happen to like the personal kind myself. If I fall, it is up to me and only me to get back up. No one pays for me. No one is responsible for me. Not that I wouldn't take help from a friend or family member. Lord knows we've all been there. But what right do I have to take money from a stranger from miles away because I fail?

Life is about taking risks. You learn from them. I truly believe safety nets makes this country soft. We, as a country, used to be bad ass. We used to do everything ourselves. Now, we let someone else take care of us. We have become toddlers.

I'm not a toddler! Are you?