The World As It Is
Posted on April 18, 2007 19:17:19
The blog still isn't working like I want it to, but there is just so much going on that I have to rant about.
I just received a piece of mail from a car dealership that was printed to look like a check from the U.S. Treasury. You know, a tax refund check. It came in one of those manilla color envelopes and the Statue of Liberty could be seen on the "check" behind the envelope's window.
I'm not expecting a refund from the government, so I knew it wasn't a check from the Treasury Department, but how far will companies go to make sure people open their mail? I can see hundreds of people ripping open this envelope only to discover that it isn't a tax refund but an offer for Vehicle Purchase Assistance. Wow! A chance to go further into debt!
OK. Here comes the second round.
It was a terrible thing that 32 people were shot to death at Virginia Tech on Monday. We should all be saddened and concerned by this sort of sudden and overly violent act.
However, the extent that the media "covers" and carries on about it is ridiculous. Do people really need to know every little detail? Do they need to hear the stories of the eye witnesses down to the last gory note? Do we have to dive into the personal lives of the victims?
And they (the media) want us to get all riled up about how the campus security was lacking. WHAT? Who could have foreseen this type of event happening? We don't live our lives for this sort of thing. If it had happened at my old school, Temple, I doubt very much the entire campus would have been closed down after the first shootings.
It just shows how much the media thrives on spreading fear and paranoia. And we Americans eat it up.
A week or so ago here in the Tampa area, a man walked into a gun store and held several people hostage for about 12 hours. Do you know how the press handled it after the police told them not to give out too much information? They interupted prime time programing with their tickers saying that the police were dealing with "a situation" that had closed a major road. It only took me a few minutes to realize there was a hostage situation. And I knew where it was. I mean come on. Couldn't you have at least waited until the 11:00 news to break a story you shouldn't be telling us about?
Oh well, what are you going to do? OH, I don't watch that much news. I rather not be brainwashed into over-grieving for people I don't know, being paranoid that someone is going to shoot me when I step onto a college campus, that college administrations and small town police departments aren't doing their jobs.
Stop force feeding this crap to us!
I just received a piece of mail from a car dealership that was printed to look like a check from the U.S. Treasury. You know, a tax refund check. It came in one of those manilla color envelopes and the Statue of Liberty could be seen on the "check" behind the envelope's window.
I'm not expecting a refund from the government, so I knew it wasn't a check from the Treasury Department, but how far will companies go to make sure people open their mail? I can see hundreds of people ripping open this envelope only to discover that it isn't a tax refund but an offer for Vehicle Purchase Assistance. Wow! A chance to go further into debt!
OK. Here comes the second round.
It was a terrible thing that 32 people were shot to death at Virginia Tech on Monday. We should all be saddened and concerned by this sort of sudden and overly violent act.
However, the extent that the media "covers" and carries on about it is ridiculous. Do people really need to know every little detail? Do they need to hear the stories of the eye witnesses down to the last gory note? Do we have to dive into the personal lives of the victims?
And they (the media) want us to get all riled up about how the campus security was lacking. WHAT? Who could have foreseen this type of event happening? We don't live our lives for this sort of thing. If it had happened at my old school, Temple, I doubt very much the entire campus would have been closed down after the first shootings.
It just shows how much the media thrives on spreading fear and paranoia. And we Americans eat it up.
A week or so ago here in the Tampa area, a man walked into a gun store and held several people hostage for about 12 hours. Do you know how the press handled it after the police told them not to give out too much information? They interupted prime time programing with their tickers saying that the police were dealing with "a situation" that had closed a major road. It only took me a few minutes to realize there was a hostage situation. And I knew where it was. I mean come on. Couldn't you have at least waited until the 11:00 news to break a story you shouldn't be telling us about?
Oh well, what are you going to do? OH, I don't watch that much news. I rather not be brainwashed into over-grieving for people I don't know, being paranoid that someone is going to shoot me when I step onto a college campus, that college administrations and small town police departments aren't doing their jobs.
Stop force feeding this crap to us!
