Greebo
N9017H - C172M (1976)
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Retired Evil Overlord
{rant on}
Random thought/venting of the day/moment:
So I'm eating lunch and surfing the news sites...and I hit MSNBC, which at the time has a BREAKING NEWS banner...that an Arrest Warrant was issued for M.J. because he was at the hospital for back trouble.
This is the big headline. This is the GRAB YOUR ATTENTION story...
Not
• Pilots grade aviation security an 'F' (gee, after 9/11 you'ld think...)
Or
• Clinton checks into N.Y. hospital (hey like 'im or hate 'im he's a former president)
Or even
• U.S. jobless claims hit two-month high (something which affects most of us more personally than M.J ever has or will)
Or any other of these "Also in the news" stories
• At least 36 killed in Shiite mosque bombing
• Letters tie suicide victim to Lefkow murders
• Baseball vows to fight steroids subpoenas
• 'Hillbilly heroin' fuels U.S. crime rate
No...what grabs our headline news is Michael Jackson got scolded by a judge.
Pardon my Belgian, but W*T*F!!! What the hell is wrong with us, as a society, when crotch grabbing pop stars on trial for pedo charges take priority over ANY of those other headlines???
Is this what matters today? I mean - at work, the people I work with anyway - we don't talk about MJ. When we talk about news we talk about Iraq, we talk about Social Security, we talk about Gun control and Education Reform - NEVER pop stars (ok, well, Janet Jackson's boob was a topic for a while, namely What the Hell was that thing on her nipple...) but hey that was at least related to the Super Bowl.
In the spirit of Mr. Rogers, "Can you say, our priorities as a society are completely fubard"?
{rant off}
Random thought/venting of the day/moment:
So I'm eating lunch and surfing the news sites...and I hit MSNBC, which at the time has a BREAKING NEWS banner...that an Arrest Warrant was issued for M.J. because he was at the hospital for back trouble.
This is the big headline. This is the GRAB YOUR ATTENTION story...
Not
• Pilots grade aviation security an 'F' (gee, after 9/11 you'ld think...)
Or
• Clinton checks into N.Y. hospital (hey like 'im or hate 'im he's a former president)
Or even
• U.S. jobless claims hit two-month high (something which affects most of us more personally than M.J ever has or will)
Or any other of these "Also in the news" stories
• At least 36 killed in Shiite mosque bombing
• Letters tie suicide victim to Lefkow murders
• Baseball vows to fight steroids subpoenas
• 'Hillbilly heroin' fuels U.S. crime rate
No...what grabs our headline news is Michael Jackson got scolded by a judge.
Pardon my Belgian, but W*T*F!!! What the hell is wrong with us, as a society, when crotch grabbing pop stars on trial for pedo charges take priority over ANY of those other headlines???
Is this what matters today? I mean - at work, the people I work with anyway - we don't talk about MJ. When we talk about news we talk about Iraq, we talk about Social Security, we talk about Gun control and Education Reform - NEVER pop stars (ok, well, Janet Jackson's boob was a topic for a while, namely What the Hell was that thing on her nipple...) but hey that was at least related to the Super Bowl.
In the spirit of Mr. Rogers, "Can you say, our priorities as a society are completely fubard"?
{rant off}