Text 35148, 59 rader
Skriven 2009-08-18 06:31:06 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
  Kommentar till text 35023 av David Drummond (3:640/305)
Ärende: affordable health care
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Replying to a message of David Drummond to Bob Ackley:

 DD> Bob Ackley -> David Drummond wrote:

 DD>>> Only to the 3rd trimester? It sounds on the news as if you have many
 DD>>> post-natal abortions in USA too, delivered by high speed lead
 DD>>> tablet.

 BA>> Most of those are gang or drug related.  Some are simply stupidity.

 DD> Which category do the school shootings fit into?

Stupidity.  The two most common elements in the universe:  hydrogen and
stupidity.

 BA>> Recently a fellow was accosted entering a friend's house south of
 BA>> Council Bluffs, IA, because he was carrying a .22 pistol.  He said
 BA>> not to worry about it because it was loaded with blanks, and to
 BA>> prove it he handed the pistol to his sister and told her to shoot
 BA>> him with it.  She did.  In the head.  He died a day or so later,
 BA>> because of the bullet in his brain.  Apparently the round in the
 BA>> pistol's chamber was *not* a blank.

 DD> Ah - that one fits into the "stupidity" slot.

 BA>> In this country deaths caused by motor vehicles exceed those caused
 BA>> by firearms.

 DD> Same here.

 BA>> Most motor vehicle accidents don't make the national news, let alone
 BA>> the international news.

 DD> Local motor vehicle deaths make the local news - and every year they
 DD> bitch about the total road deaths by state and federal.

 DD> Every year they implement more methods of making speedsters pay fines
 DD> for their follies as "that will bring down the road death
 DD> statistics". Every year it raises more monies for the government
 DD> coffers and does nothing about the road deaths.

No surprise there.  That seems to be the situation everyplace.

In Omaha there's one particular intersection where people 'run' the red traffic
light on a regular basis.  Occasionally one of them gets caught and ticketed.
In one instance I was waiting in the left turn lane of the cross street there,
the light turned red, 3-5 seconds later my left turn arrow turned green, 5-10
seconds after that an 18-wheeler blew through that red light (he was 3/4
block from the intersection when the light turned red).  Fortunately I was 
looking and realized he didn't intend to stop, so I didn't pull into the
intersection
on my green light (I'd've been 100% right and 100% dead had I done so, he was
doing about 50 mph and would have impacted right on my driver's side door).
If I were the judge I'd put those people in a pillory from sun up to sun down
on the median of that road at that intersection; fines, even heavy fines, don't
seem to help.

--- FleetStreet 1.19+
 * Origin: Bob's Boneyard, Emerson, Iowa (1:300/3)