Some Observations on the Day’s News....
We are so casual about language these days. We refer to tomatoes and zucchini as killer vegetables, and to a teen who killed four and fired shots at two dozen more as a..."school shooter." The wires headline used that term referring to the Oregon teen who shot his parents and then brought his killing to school. He agreed to 25 years each for the killings, and then the judged added time for attempted murder of the other people he shot. 112 years in prison; is kind of meaningless. Why not simply say, Kid, you’re supposed to die in jail.
Another story on the wires informed us that Tipper Gore filed election papers in New Hampshire for her husband’s presidential primary bid. How sweet a photo op. And how ridiculous. I mean, Al the Wooden One has spent enough time in the Granite State to be petrified rock. Why couldn’t he have dropped off those papers himself? His spinmasters are so turned around themselves, they don’t really have a clue which way is up any more.
Poor Al Gore. He couldn’t buy a break at a pawn shop. According to a just-released survey, as people get to know the vice president, they apparently don’t like him. His rating is now 38% negative-to-25% positive. That’s 40% of 60%. Now Gore is statistically even with Georgie Junior. Bush has doubled his negative rating since April, while his positive is down 15%. Bradley and McCain are up, but according to the polls, people can’t stand Forbes, they hate Buchanan, and they despise Trump.
People are gonna like banks less in two California cities. Banks were told that they couldn’t charge non-customers to use their Automatic Teller Machines, so the banks said, then only our customers can use our ATMs. Now I never defend banks, but I can’t imagine why they should have to provide cash dispensing service free to people who aren’t their customers. So what if people have to get cash elsewhere? That shouldn’t be the bank’s problem.
I mean, when I buy gasoline, I pay a 25-cent fee to use my check-card at the ATM machine out by the pumps. If I wanted to walk over to the station, and then wait in line — twice — I could save that quarter. My choice.
Finally, speaking of choices, NASA scientists apparently made two different choices when they were calculating how to send a Mars probe crashing into the planet instead of going into orbit around it. One group of scientists was calculating in miles and the other group thought they were supposed to be working with kilometers.
Yes, it does take rocket scientists, but until they get some smart ones, I think I’ll stay here.
And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.
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