On A Horse?
ABC noted that a man has been charged with drunken driving while riding a horse in Kentucky. No doubt he was drunk, his blood alcohol content was .244%. We used to ship people with .25% and higher to the hospital for observation, but I wasn’t aware you could use the Vehicle and Traffic Law for horses. Apparently horses, bicycles, and riding lawn mowers are covered under Kentucky law.
May 11, 2005 Comments Off on On A Horse?
News As Entertainment
People are once again realizing the priorities of the corporations that select what the “news” is on any given day. The number one priority is audience ratings, which drive advertising rates.
To have media staying power a story must involve a celebrity or a crime involving a white female: cute if a child, pretty if an adult.
There are a lot of people who go missing every day, but to be mentioned on CNN they must involve white women from middle class families and above. All of the special laws are named for white women and children.
These atrocities happen to boys and non-Whites, but you wouldn’t know that if you watch the national media.
Small wonder people in this country have no idea what’s going on. The Right has inordinate power because they get their messages out, while most people assume that TV news will tell them what’s important.
May 11, 2005 Comments Off on News As Entertainment
Republican Retirement
Yet another corporation is allowed to escape the effects of bad decisions by its millionaires at the top, and the debts they authorized are shifted to taxpayers through a government bailout mechanism, similar to the bail out of the savings and loans after the mistakes and corruption of its millionaire managers.
The Republicans don’t want the middle-class to ever be able to retire. They just altered the bankruptcy law to ensure that there is no escape for people who are not in the seven-figure salary bracket from the interest and fees claimed by corporations, but corporations can still receive forgiveness of obligations when they enter bankruptcy.
Agricultural work should come naturally to people who backs are bent in years in cockpits or cubicles, and there will be work for years picking cotton to supply the Chinese textile industry.
May 11, 2005 Comments Off on Republican Retirement
