How can there be a "miscommunication"? Someone, please answer that question for me right now. How can someone find twelve bodies at the Sago mines (with one survivor) and say "Oh, lookie there. There are twelve survivors here, and only one dead dude." I typed that for serious sarcasm, not funny sarcasm.

I'm rushing here, ain't I? Well, if you've been paying attention to the news lately (mainly CNN) you'd know there was a tragedy in West Virginia. If you were staying up late unintentionally, like I was, you'd know there was a false report that there were twelve survivors at the Sago mines and one dead miner sometime before midnight; only a few hours later, everyone would find out that someone lied. There was twelve dead miners and only one survivor, who's condition is improving, last time I heard.

Why would someone want to give false hopes like they did? To laugh unmercifully at the families? To get personal gain? Or was it just a horrible mistake? Either way, everyone's devestated with this news. Whoever finds any kind of unnatural joy or happiness in all this is not human. Let me say that again: not human. It's not right to find happiness in any tragedy. I elaborated that so just in case someone is laughing at those poor families tonight and is reading this entry, they can stop they're laughing and take one hard look at themselves and hopefully seek therapy. I'm sorry to elaborate all of that, but something in my gut says that someone's laughing at all of this tonight.

I was reading a little editorial by Miles O'Brien on the CNN website. Somewhere at the end, one of the family members said that she's mad at the whole world. Who can blame her?

P.S. - If you want to read that editorial, copy and paste this into your web browser: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/04/obrien.miners/index.html Sorry, something's screwed up with my computer somewhere, and it won't let me put in links on this little blog editor. Meh. :-/