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Thoughts and prayers

I am not given to sentimental chit chat perhaps or maybe there is something more sinister afoot but I don't get this cliche in modern journalism. What the heck does the phrase or the three words really mean? Our planet is struck by variety of natural and man made disasters with fair regularity that would make Metamucil proud. Once an event like that occurs there is some serious reduction in force - literally where mortals lose their lives. Now how the sudden outpouring of thoughts and prayers begins is beyond me. Could it be one of the reasons why we are getting dumber by the day? Our thoughts and prayers are focused on too many distractions. So I say mind your own and go forth and things will actually work out alright. Thoughts and prayers don't actually mean anything and just sort of sound cute in the news I suppose. That is why radio and TV including the NPR recently resorted to one of their own sending his thoughts over the radio waves (without asking me esp as I am funding the station in small part - and am not just thinking that but putting my money where my thoughts are) to the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Another thing - when people think these thoughts - what are they? Are all thoughts created equal? Are some of them naughty? How do we know? And what is this mumbo jumbo about prayers? Since when did we start that? FedEx sure isn't getting a cut of all these sendings? Are they praying too? What are their thoughts? Speaking of NPR another thing that has made me want to reconsider my donation is this whole BS about putting someone with a perspective on air and then quickly disavowing themselves off it. The thoughts and commentaries expressed in the perspective are those of the jack in the boxers and not of NPR. What? So then what the hell did you give him airtime for? What exactly are your thoughts? You scared? It's okay to have thoughts about victims which they did not even ask to be expressed and now this passenger that actually did gets dumped? Maybe I should look into praying so that this insanity stops? Just my thought!

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