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May 30, 2005:
Shopping:
I have invented a new retail company with a slogan. Tram-Law
is the company. The slogan is, "Come shop with us at Tram-Law,
where we screw our workers legally."
Person of Interest:
Have you notice the federal cops have changed their descriptive
language. Now when they hold a suspect illegally, they call him
a person of interest. It seems this allows them to hold a person
without charging him on the rational that they have not actually
accused him of a crime. Of course, the local cops are jumping
on the bandwagon. Maybe we should all reread Orwell's "Nineteen-Eight-Four".
Remember, "Ignorance Is Strength," "Freedom
Is Slavery," "newspeak," "bellyfeel,"
"doublethink," "Who controls the past controls
the future; who controls the present controls the past"?
Remember that? It is finally coming true, just a bit late.
Invasions:
I recently posted an essay on the Forum about Michigan's problem
with the Emerald ash borer and Dutch elm disease. Those are not
the only problems created by the fact that the world has become
a single community. We also have zebra mussels in the Great Lakes,
along with predator fish, and new forms of alga. Lest we forget,
AIDS was also imported into America and the rest of the world
from Africa. Perhaps we should stop pretending we can isolate
ourselves from the rest of the world with quarantines and other
legislative nonsense. Perhaps we should learn how to meet these
problems and deal with them on a worldwide basis. Now there's
a thought. Quit pretending and think, then act. Do you think
our government is capable of that? I don't! Cowards, sniveling
cowards trying to hide from reality and preserve their prerogatives!
Viagra:
Now it turns out that Medicare is paying for this drug to be
used by known sex offenders. Of course, the media is making self
righteous noises about it. These are the same TV broadcasters
who regularly run those disgusting ads for the drugs like that
with sluts and pimps posing as human beings while doing their
gross suggestive charades for our children who watch daytime
TV. Who is kidding who here? The drug companies are immoral and
culpable. The TV networks are immoral and culpable. All Medicare
did was join the parade of immoral and culpable groups.
For sure, Medicare should stop paying for this drug, not just
for sex offenders, but for anyone. There is no justification
whatsoever for using taxpayer money to create an artificial sexual
function in a person who's time has run out. If he went limp,
there is a reason for it. Look to the age and or the life style.
Healthy humans do not need that stuff and should not have to
pay for it for those who think they do, whatever the reason.
Stem Cells:
Congress has done an in-your-face to King George. They voted
to use new lines of embryonic stem cells that would be otherwise
discarded. The king has promised to veto the bill. He reveals
himself for what he is, anti-life, anti-health, and anti-human.
He would rather see people die that give up his primitive religious
convictions.
More on Orwellian Ideas:
There are suggestions that we should be putting tracking microchips
in old people and children so they can be found if they get lost.
It sounds good, but when does that become an invasion of privacy?
I personally would resist to the death any kind of intrusion
into my person like that. What if all our kids could get microchipped?
Can you visualize a government that would gleefully promote that?
That government is in power now. When the kids become adults,
they government will be able to track them on a minute by minute
basis. The concept of personal privacy would simply disappear.
Big brother will indeed be watching us.
My idea is a bit better, I believe. I have no objection to
putting microchips in known sex offenders. History tells us they
will never reform and they must be watched. Okay for a certain
class of criminal. For kids and old farts, I have a better plan.
How about a Micky Mouse wristwatch with a chip in it? It could
be unremovable just like the wristbands the hospitals put on
us when we are admitted. Those can only be removed by cutting
them off. The best parts are, it is noninvasive and it shuts
out the government snoops.
Addictions:
Let us speak of gambling, smoking, and drug addiction. The media
tells us that most of the people who have these addictions are
precisely the people who can least afford them, the poorest of
the poor.
Abandoning the Workers:
More companies are vying for permission to abandon their insurance
and pension plans for retirees. The courts seem all to willing
to grant that permission. I think it is a new form of evil corporate
government collusion. Before a court can even consider giving
that kind of permission, it should strip the executives of the
corporation of all of their personal assets. I mean all, not
just a few. There no reason whatsoever that the people who raped
the workers should continue to live large on the stolen money.
The precedent for this is clear. Our government routinely
strips people, not only of their property, but of their dignity,
when they go on medical disability under social security and
medicare. These are just ordinary citizens with no power to bribe
and con the courts. If they can be stripped like that, the big
shots should be stripped too.
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