COCK FIGHTING Last year there were two States in which cock fighting was legal. Soon there will be none. Apparently a hatched chicken is more valued by society than an unborn (“unhatched”) human, for torturing and killing unborn humans is still legal in all States.
More Bias and Lies by Omission by “journalist”: On the NBC Nightly News broadcast of 19 June 2007 one of the major stories was previewed or “teased” as a review of an InterNet spoof of Senator Hilary Clinton as Tony Soprano. What the “news” piece turned out to be was a several minutes long promotion of Senator Hilary Clinton for President, complete with interviews of several women who were presented as a balanced representative sample of all American women - which they were not. Apparently the “spoof” actually is a product of the Hilary Clinton for President Campaign (or what ever her campaign is called), but if this is mentioned in the NBC piece it is done in a manner which does not lead the mention to ready memory recall.
What do Anna Nicole Smith (Vickie Lynn Marshall), Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson), George Washington, and Robert E. Lee all have in common. Well, all of them are dead, but what they all really have in common is that one rarely if ever sees an expressed concern as to whether or not any one of them went to heaven, or elsewhere.
American Indian tribes are to receive 2000 FEMA trailers intended for hurricanes Katrina and Rita victims. These trailers have been shown in many instances to be made of flimsy construction, have leaky gas lines, contain noxious and dangerous fumes, and have numerous other dangerous problems. Perhaps . . . FEMA . . . Wounded Knee . . . some connection there??? Indian best beware of FEMA bearing gifts.
Men who are the strong, silent types are all wrong according to Dr. Henry Lodge (Parade, June 27, 2007, p.16). Dr. Lodge states men must learn to emote like women, talk about their feelings like women, become more like women and abandon the traditional male traits characterized by John Wayne and Sean Connery. Dr. Lodge has not the foggiest concept of reality - men do emote and have strong emotional attachments. Just ask any war veteran, but do not expect an answer because it is impossible to explain the “buddy” relationship to one who has not experienced it. Dr. Lodge says the isolation of the modern world formulated by cubicles in the work place, isolation in commuting to and from work, and similar societal environmental changes make rugged individualism a damaging character trait which can only be overcome by men learning to become more emotional and express their emotions like women. He fails to consider there are basic, hard wired differences between men and women, including emotional needs and responses. A man need not beat his chest and holler like Tarzan, but if he is to have any self respect, he'd best control his emotions and act with the logic proper to the situation in which he finds himself. Emoting is good for releasing frustration, but it never solves a problem. Men are resolution based, they are by their very nature geared to resolving problems. Women deal with problems by discussing them, by emoting. If you have a carbuncle on your bottom you can emote on how uncomfortable it is and endure the suffering, or you can pop the "danged" thing and get it over with. Choice is yours.
The first line of the news article states: “House Republicans who larded legislation with law-makers’ pet projects when they ran the House successfully forced Democrats on Thursday to be more open about Congress’ pork barrel ways.” (Times-Picayune, June 15, 2007, A-6) There are two main problems with the article. First, there is no support for the accusation that House Republicans “larded legislation”. That lawmakers “pork up” legislation may be a popular belief, but a newspaper article, if it is to be considered news, must provide supporting facts, facts which support the statements made. This one does not. It also is somewhat ambiguous in that the article seems to state that only those House Republicans who larded up legislation in the past are now requiring more openness. Second, the article openly attacks House Republicans for forcing more openness. It would seem that applause for more openness is in order, not opposition to more openness. Or is openness bad when Democrats are forced to be open and good only when Republicans are forced to be open? The basic concept should be applause that at least some measure of openness regarding pork barrel projects is being forced upon Congress, but who ever wrote the article obviously desires such openness be applied only to Republicans. Or, perhaps, was this really just a means of attacking Republicans? Perish the thought.
Judge Roy Pearson, Jr., lost his $67.3 million law suit against a cleaners which he claims lost or damaged his pants, may be made to pay the defendants’ court costs and possibly their attorneys’ fees, and may possibly not be reappointed to his position as a result of his law suit. Enough said.
Chinese Exports - Imports to the USA: Considering the problems recently experienced with various Chinese products, including but not limited to pet food, toothpaste, automobile tires, lead painted children’s toys, sea food, and China’s internal problems with fake and poisonous blood platelets, baby food, and food protein products which contain no protein, and its smuggling export of fake and pirated CD’s, watches, and clothing, is it possible China has been exporting politicians and government officials to the USA for the past several decades?
Virginia Tech Tragedy??? The murder of five faculty members, twenty-seven students, and himself, by Seung-Hui Cho, and his wounding of an additional twenty-five people on April 16, 2007, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), has been consistently termed a tragedy. This was not a tragedy. This was mass murder and maiming by a man who apparently became increasingly mentally unstable from his early years in middle school and high school until the time of his suicide while attending university. To term this a tragedy is to diminish the reality of the death by murder of thirty-two people, the wounding and maiming of twenty-five people, the effects on all of the people in all of their families, the suicide of a man and its effects and the effects of his actions on his family and friends. This was not a tragedy. This is a horror. Seung-Hui Cho was a member of the Centreville Korean Presbyterian Church. Some of his family members had believed he may have suffered from some form of autism but apparently he never received a psychological examination or diagnosis. Seung-Hui Cho apparently was quite intelligent. Had he been offered a good education in true Christianity (not to disparage that which is provided by Centreville Korean Presbyterian Church since that quality is not known) it is possible he could have overcome any innate reserve or disfunction. That he apparently was not offered a good Christian education is the tragedy. Or, perhaps he was offered a good Christian education, and rejected it. That too would be a tragedy.
Mexican women can now legally kill their children, if yet unborn, under Mexico City’s new abortion law. Do the Democrat Party, libertines, and Planned Parenthood call this preparation for immigration to the USA? Does the Republican Party oppose this because it will diminish the number of people available to become cheap labor? Has some group been inadvertently omitted from this insult? Consider the omitted included. Are illegal immigrants from Latin America necessary to make up for the more than forty million USA babies murdered by abortion since such murder became legal in the USA?
IRAQ: We are given the US death count on the daily TV news, but rarely are informed of the unified call of Sunni and Shia for the US to fight al-Qaida and the militants entering Iraq for the purpose of killing Iraqis and disrupting what progress has been made towards some form of democracy and peace. But when was the last time you were sure you heard the truth on TV news, or were sure you read the truth in a newspaper for that matter?
The 1-800- sex phone business has a new entry. For years these predators have sought men to telephone women for obviously illicit erotic purposes. But now there are similar telephone numbers being advertised for homosexual men to call. The only difference between the two types of TV commercials is that in the ones featuring women, the women keep at least a small portion of their chest area covered . . . In both instances men are being duped into believing they may actually have the opportunity to meet someone who meets their anticipation of attractiveness. Each intended victim who “gets smart” and ignores this type of trash may wind up saving two things: their money, and their soul.
Federal Courts are beginning to promote vile language on TV and radio. Apparently an insufficient number of potentially good people are not being killed by abortions, so the U. S. Court of Appeal for the 2nd Circuit in New York has struck down a ban by the Federal Communications Commission on the use of certain “expletives”. One possible reasoning is since not enough potentially good people are being killed by abortion, perhaps the remaining potentially good people can be made to become evil by corrupting the influence of any positive moral experience.
Hershey, the chocolate candy company, is actually held in a form of trust for the town of Hershey. A while back the trust attempted to sell of the candy company, stating it could use the profits from the sale to better take care of the town. The people in the town work at the candy company, and probably would have all lost their jobs because the company probably would have moved and the product made elsewhere. It looks like the trust administrators attempted to make money by the sale (lots of bonuses, legal and accounting preparations and fees, all the normal and possibly quite legal but definitely immoral shenanigans). But the matter “soured”. Now Hershey is issuing complaints that increases in dairy costs are hurting Hershey’s bottom line. Look for the trust administrators to try to sell off the company again sometime soon.
Oh, the Chinese are being blamed for the increase in dairy costs. Apparently the Chinese are using more milk protein. First they used more coal and coal prices went up. Then more petroleum and gasoline prices went up. Now milk and milk prices are going up? Guess all that milk from all over the USA is being loaded on milk tankers and shipped to milk terminals in China. Wonder if China has offshore milk terminals similar to the offshore petroleum terminals in the Gulf of Mexico? Were there not recent stories about milk producers dumping milk because they could not obtain a reasonable price - a price sufficient for them to remain in business so that it was less expensive to dump the milk then send it to be processed? Something just does not add up. But now we know why gas stations charge for air. The Chinese are breathing more of it so there is less of it to go around and the gas stations have to charge for it even though compressed air is a by-product of the system which pumps gasoline from the station’s tank into your car.
1850's California: Do you know what happened back in 1850, in California?
California became a state.
The State had no electricity.
The State had no money.
Almost everyone spoke Spanish.
There were gunfights in the streets.
Basically, it was just like California today, except the women had what God gave them and the men didn't hold hands!
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