Thirteen days into the New Year and it has already been pretty interesting locally and nationally. Essentially, I would like to cover some stories I deem appropriate for some discussion and mainly to laugh at stupidity.
I believe we should start with some local news. Real important news that happened yesterday: Congresswomen Louis Slaughter took a little tumble. Apparently she was not feeling well and took some Motrin (probably children’s Motrin) with an empty stomach. Next time you take Motrin, watch out! you might fall. Seriously though, Congresswomen Slaughter is alright.
In other local news, a day care provider (who was licensed) decided to change a baby on an electric stove. Are you kidding me!? Last time I checked, and I am no professional here, changing a baby on an electric stove even if it is not on is not the best place to change a baby’s diaper. Let’s just say this day care provider will no longer be providing services to babies; more like providing services for inmates.
Let me ask you a question: if you were an employee of mine and I trusted you to take care of bank transactions (withdrawing/depositing money), wouldn’t you expect me to make sure that the transactions were safe? Well one company in the Rochester area was robbed by an employee. Not only was this company robbed, but it was $2.5 million over a few years. The employee, Ms. Oathout, claims she “suffers from memory loss.” Yeah right! I am pretty sure that boss who trusted Ms. Oathout will never trust anyone but himself to take care of banking issues.
The final piece of local news I have to provide you is about the shooting that took place in Brockport. One avid reader of my blog was actually in the Brockport area and was locked-down in SUNY Brockport’s library for a period of time during the incident. This gun man was in a domestic dispute (there should be a poll of how many domestic disputes there are in the U.S every year) and shot the lady and a cop. Seriously, who the hell brings a gun to an argument and not only shoots the person they are mad at but shoots a cop who is there trying to keep the peace!? Well, this man who made the entire village of Brockport be on lock-down claims he has a mental disorder. Do people know how many times people claim they have a “mental disorder” when they do something stupid. I know what your mental disorder is, it’s called being STUPID! A claim of “mental disorder” should be completely dismissed in the court room for any case because too many guilty people get away with stupid shit because they have a said “mental disorder.”
Anyways, I believe it is time to move onto some national news. If you live under a rock, you probably do not know about Conan O’ Brien giving NBC the proverbial middle-finger. Yes, I am going to throw my two cents into this because I like Conan and I have a blog where I am allowed to complain or write about whatever I want. Conan is getting screwed. Just because Jay Leno cannot get good ratings does not mean Conan should get thrown under the bus. He wasn’t even given a full year to prove his stuff. NBC should be telling Jay Leno he’s done even though he has been with the company for years and people love him. However, throwing Conan under the bus does not fix the problem of ratings for the 10 pm Eastern Time slot. So NBC, good luck getting someone as talented as Conan and a youthful audience when you throw him under the bus some more.
Who doesn’t remember the Christmas day would-be suicide bomber, more appropriately called a terrorist. Thanks to lack of communications among numerous high-level governmental agencies airports have decided to put full-body scanners in to protect people. Some people claim this is a violation of privacy. To those naysayers I ask this: do you want your flight to be safe or do you want your flight to be hijacked or blown-up? The likely answer would be you want your flight to be safe. Obviously if you have done nothing wrong and you are not the threat to the flight or international security then you should have no problem with being checked out quick. The other solution is stereotype people, but obviously we can’t do that because that is mean. But go ahead and search 85 year-old grandma and her walker because we all know they hijack planes.
How about this! Did you hear the Federal Reserve has made more money than it should have! That’s right, the Federal Reserve made around $46 billion more than they should have. Now, the details are still a little unclear but remember when the same people got made at upper-end banks and “important businesses” (Exxon Mobile) because they made too much money. Obviously the Fed’s should give back the money because they are a shady business. Obviously the government should take over the Fed’s. Oh wait, they are the government. However, they did say they are going to help start to pay off our $1.3 trillion deficit, which is a start.
Again, if you live under a rock you probably missed what some are called a double-standard that involves Senate Majority lead Harry Reid. Personally, I feel that if Senator Mitch McConnell said the same thing Reid said, McConnell would be crucified politically. But, because the President accepted Reid’s apology that makes everything ok. Now do you remember 2002 when Senate Majority leader Lott used “in-artful language” and apologized he still got crucified and was forced to give up his position. That to me seems like a double-standard. So Mr. Reid, go ahead and use your in-artful language but the rest of us know if you were a Republican you would not be the Senate Majority leader anymore.
Well, that wraps up some interesting news from the past thirteen days (and more). I can already tell that 2010 is going to be a great year.
