The Duke Scandal?

Why is the story about the Duke lacrosse team such big news? It is no different then any other number of rapes that happen every day and certainly less newsworthy then most of the horrific acts occuring around the world that we blindly ignore.

3 lacrosse players do not represent all of Duke. One could argue that they represent the mindset of testosterone charged males involved in team sports. How many professional athletes get in trouble despite the obvious costs involved? Society promotes their antics right up until it becomes violent and then wonders how it could have happened.

Rep. McKinney

I don't have much in common with Rep. DeLay. Don't really know much about him other then he has some legal problems but I completely agree with his statement regarding Rep. McKinney. Her scuffle with the Capitol Police is about her racism and not the police officers. In these litigous (is that a word?) times many a minority finds it easy to scream racism and attract attention. This makes it much harder for anyone to defend themselves as proving a negative is very hard, 'I am not a racist' just doesn't work as well as 'You are a racist'.

This carries over into many other areas, all claiming discrimination in some form or another. Try firing a minority. Files to fire a minority have to be twice as thick and much more documented then to fire a non-minority.

I don't deny that racism and discrimination exist, they do, just not at the level that many rather vocal members of minorities would like you to believe.

911 Calls from 9/11

Of course family members should be free to receive copies of emergency calls from those that died in the World Trade Center attack. Folks should be free to listen to any of the calls if they desire.

But why does the news have to broadcast them? Not that I think it is offensive, I just don't understand why the generally audience has any interest in hearing it. The calls are really no different then those received from any major problem other then knowing most of the callers are probably now dead. We learn nothing from them.

Yet airtime and newsprint was spent in abundance about their release. The delay in releasing them is the only knews. What idiot thought they should be horded?

Immigration Riots

Once again immigration reform causes a stir. Funny how the illegal immigrants all hide and avoid the system until they might get booted and suddenly free speech is seized upon.

I don't have a problem with immigrants and don't have an answer to illegal immigration. As long as Mexico and any number of other countries are cesspools of civilization then people will attempt to get into the US. I don't see that they really hurt anything other then a rather irritated minority who don't want to earn their jobs and would prefer to be able to hold the country hostage to their whims. Kind of like the auto unions.

The one thing I do find wrong in the immigrant situation is that anyone born on US soil is a US citizen - period. Mexicans, and others, have been abusing this for decades. Get across the border before giving birth, go to a hospital who has to care for you for free and the kids are US citizens. Talk about rewarding the child for a crime of the parent. This should be reformed.

Then there are the children living in Mexico who come across the border every day for school. That should be illegal. I couldn't go to the neighboring town without coughing up cash when I grew up.

Then there are t he unions are Delphi. "We will strike if the contracts are voided...blah, blah, blah." Perhaps they missed the meaning of Delphi closing ALL their plants in the US. Exactly what are they going to strike? Delphi is gone and bankrupt - lot of good that will do the union membership. GM? Strike them and they are gone and bankrupt as well. More union members on the street. Those who aren't fools should be taking GM's buyout cash and running to the bank as fast as they can.