This is a golf blog. Stick those words into Blogwise, whatever that might be, and this place comes up number one; so, I feel compelled to write about golf. There are many out there who think that Golf is an unimportant pursuit and has no relevance to life, but you would be wrong.
Terrorist cells within this country think Golf is important, obviously believing that blowing up a golf course will demoralize the population and destroy the ... *ahem* ... economic prosperity the country is enjoying.
When I read that one bomb was detonated on the roadway leading to the Canyons Golf Club and one was found in a utility cart on the course in the President's home state of Texas, near Austin, I thought, for sure, the Terror Alert Level would be increased to RED. But no, nary a word. Nothing.
Why is that, you may wonder. The New York subways close down because of a rumor of a bomb. Here, a bomb goes off. Another live bomb is found. And the Texas National Guard is not mobilized. There's no publicity inciting golfers to rise up and find the Terrorists ... nobody cares.
Here's the reason: the Canyons is a mere public golf course, not a private bastion of the moneyed elite. Killing off some pay-for-play peons isn't news. Their lives are unimportant ... no doctors, no oil barons, no stock brokers, no Enron executives ... just regular people.
Kinda like the people the President sent over to Iraq and Afghanistan who have died. No great loss in the general scheme of things.
Posted by Bill at January 3, 2006 12:11 PMGlad to see you back! Happy New Year!
As to the golf course bombs - Texans daily fight a myriad of boogey bad things: huge miles long pasture fires, drought ( see first item), fire ants, bugs and creepy crawlies too numerous to list, goathead stickers, the Goatman of Greer Island, a stray Big Foot or two in the east Texas Piney Woods, and last but definitely not least, we put up with the too-frequent Presidential visit.
A couple of little bombs didn't amount to much in these here parts. (Ahem. Tongue in cheek, you know.) And, yes, because it was not a big shot VIP club facility, the threat color of the day never rose past green.
Posted by: Cowtown Pattie at January 3, 2006 01:22 PMThey were probably aiming for the gophers. Nah...that's Minnesota, right?
I wonder if you'd have to take a penalty stroke if your ball got moved because of a bomb exploding.
Hmmm.
Posted by: lucy at January 5, 2006 01:26 AM