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Month: March 2004
They Gave A Demonstration, But No One Came
A mother whose daughter was killed by a drag racer wants vengance to deter future teenagers from acting stupid:
The mother of accident victim Megan Landholt urged a stiff prison sentence for a teenage street racer who pleaded guilty Monday in the collision that killed her daughter in south St. Louis County last year.
Barbara Landholt said she wanted to make an example of the driver. She told Judge David Lee Vincent III that Jeremy Ketchum “and people like him cannot go on and think that this is not a big deal. We have a chance to set an example here. A message has to be sent to the drivers of these cars.”
I don’t want to knock this woman’s pain, but kids getting into their cars on Saturday nights don’t read the St. Louis Post-Dispatch or their court dockets to keep up with the consequences of their actions. They don’t think about their actions, much less the consequences. Automobile accidents, death? That happens in another school district every couple of years.
So putting the guy who killed your daughter in prison for a long or short time won’t do much for the greater good, and it probably won’t save another daughter from a drag racer, drunk driver, or cell-phone yakker. It will, quite frankly, end the life of another, albeit dumber, kid, and maybe that’s just retribution. Iit’s not, however, an example since not many are paying attention.
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Lite Posting Because We Sucks
So go read Hockey Pundits instead.
(Link seen on The Patriette.)
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Maybe They Ought to Make It A Felony
Looks like someone’s got the bright idea that cops ought to pull over people who are not wearing their seatbelts as a primary offense. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that some institutionally-important, but realistically-challenged hack explains:
“Enacting this bill is the single most important life-saving and deficit reduction measure you can take this session. It costs nothing, but will save much,” Healing said in prepared remarks to the Senate Transportation Committee.
That’s a bit frank, isn’t it? After all, we could make the world safer if we only made driving without a seatbelt a felony, but that wouldn’t exactly produce revenue, would it? We could make the world much safer by putting private citizens–you know, the only ones who hurt themselves–into straight jackets and feeding them Ritalin.
Jeez, just what I need, the ability for a cop to pull me over because he thinks he saw me without a seatbelt. Speed can be measured from outside the car. Driving without a brakelight, ditto. But seeing whether the people in the car are wearing seatbelts is not something easily seen from someone outside the car. It’s an excuse to pull people over, and a damn lot of work for a cheap ticket.
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Vote Mom for Unfree Markets
Gee, Thanks, Mom, for sending me this unenlightened e-mail forward:
>A car company can move its factories to Mexico and claim it’s a free market.
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>A toy company can outsource to a Chinese subcontractor and claim it’s a free market.
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>A major bank can incorporate in Bermuda to avoid taxes and claim it’s a free market.
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>We can buy HP Printers made in Mexico. We can buy shirts made in Bangladesh.
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>We can purchase almost anything we want from many different countries BUT, heaven help the elderly who dare to buy their prescription drugs from a
>Canadian (Or Mexico) pharmacy. That’s called un-American!
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>And you think the pharmaceutical companies don’t have a powerful lobby?
File this under When AOL Members Vote!
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Lest I Forget
Visit GDay Mate. That Australian’s got a set o’ Information-systems-industry-venom sacs on him.
I’m almost surprised I haven’t seen Steve Irwin holding him by the arse on Animal Planet.
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World Stops, Briefly
Holy Toledo, and Santa Akron, but the SFGate Web site has a reasonable column on’t. Jennifer Nelson explains how the reaction to The Passion of the Christ shows the media’s disdain for Christian religion.
Excerpt:
No matter what your religious affiliation is, the story of Jesus Christ is an interesting and compelling story of human behavior. I am not Jewish, but I would love Hollywood to produce a major motion picture about Hanukkah, which commemorates the victory of the Jews over the Hellenistic Syrians and is an important lesson in religious freedom. But if such a movie were made, do you think the Hollywood elite would wrinkle their noses and ask, “What would propel Spielberg to make a movie about Hanukkah?” I don’t think so.
In the end, Gibson, who is a conservative Catholic, spent $30 million of his own money to tell a story he believes is important. Every week, movies are released that some filmmaker feels is significant. So, in the spirit of the message on bumper stickers I see on Volvos in Berkeley, “If you don’t support abortions, don’t have one,” if you don’t like Gibson or his religion, don’t go see his movie.
Johnk yeah!
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Protest Too Much
So Jean Boutros Boutrous Aristide claims says U.S. forces kidnapped him because they wanted him out of power. United States officials, including Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, and Scott McClellan have issued denials. How stupid is that?
A more appropriate response would be for Donald Rumsfeld to stand behind a podium and say, with all appropriate hand gestures:
Question: Did the United States Special Forces kidnap Jean-Boutros-Boutros Aristide?
Rumsfeld: You need to ask yourself this question instead: Do you think that the United States armed forces and their special forces have enough technology and expertise to perform an operation of this nature. Look at Aristide. One day, he’s the unpopular ruler of an oppressed country, and then suddenly he wakes up in the savannah with just the clothes on his back and a cell phone with which to call everyone he knows to complain, to ask for cab fare home, or to plead for some anti-lion underwear. Do you think that the special forces within our country can insert into hostile territory, infiltrate a tyrant’s security, tranquilize or otherwise stun him, extract him, fly him half way around the world in a matter of hours, and deposit him into an environment that is both alien and hostile to him. Do you imagine Iranian clerics shocked to find themselves nuzzled by caribou in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge, or Fidel Castro coming to alone on a road on the Isle of Wight, or Kim Jong-Il awakening one night in a Philadelphia crack house, surrounded by gang bangers. What, do you think Aristide’s departure was a trial run of some sort? Are you all planning to be the next Tom Clancy with these plots?
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Maybe God Only Saw Fit To Strike Him With Gummi Bears
In Indiana, a college kid decided to wear a devil costume to a screening of The Passion of the Christ. In the self-aggrandizing manner adopted by college students everywhere, the kid explains himself thusly:
When asked what he hoped to accomplish by his actions, Wendell said he likes doing things to get a reaction. He was also inspired by a biography he read about the Marquis de Sade.
De Sade was an 18th century writer who caused scandals with his libertine behavior in pre-revolutionary France. De Sade was once arrested for desecrating the Holy Eucharist to see if God really existed. Wendell said his stunt was along the same lines.
Wendell, an atheist, said, “If God really existed, He would have struck me down for dressing as the devil.” He also wanted to prove “that Christians aren’t as forgiving as they portray”. Wendell says his actions were also partially due to a genuine dislike of Mel Gibson.
Buddy, maybe God didn’t see your hijinks as worthy of the amperage involved in a lightning strike and had a more fitting punishment for you:
Once inside the movie, Christians began pelting Wendell with Gummy Bears, Ju-Ju Bees, and popcorn. Management got involved after a 75-year-old woman, Hazel Meyer, poured a 64-ounce Coca-Cola on Wendell.
(Link seen on Fark.)
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