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TERRY’S TIDBITS – I like Dick, Creating Jobs, Dramatic Rescue, Sleep

By Terry Gray

September 13, 2004

I like Dick -

          George Dick is the Libertarian candidate for the 3^rd Congressional seat in Kentucky.  He is up against Anne Northup and Tony Miller.  WHAS conducted a candidate poll on August 23, 2004 and George wasn’t mentioned.  Surprised?

          The WHAS debate between the candidates is scheduled for October 11, and George isn’t invited.  When asked, the cheeses at WHAS responded that candidates must have acquired 10% in the WHAS poll and must have raised $20,000. 

          I think it is very difficult, no, impossible to acquire a 10% rating in an internally conducted poll when you aren’t one of the choices presented.  It’s kind of like the telephone poll asking if the election were held today if you would vote for Bush or Kerry.  There are no alternatives – Limburger cheese or no cheese.  Could I please have a bucket of moose sweat with that?

          The issue of $20,000 shouldn’t be an issue.  Financial statements of candidates are posted and are public.  But the media are the first to scream about fairness in elections.  The average Joe has a problem with rich guys running the show.  Our system of government calls for representatives, and rich guys are not representative.  So where is George?

          You can contact George at georgedick@insightbb.com.  It may behoove all freedom loving Kentuckians, not just 3^rd district Kentuckians, to contact WHAS 11 and tell them that WE WANT DICK. 

In these days of George Bush, John Kerry, Anne Northup, Dan Johnson, Jim Bunning, Mitch McConnell, and all the other politicians that consider themselves representative of our citizenry yet fail miserably, an upstanding Dick beats a worn out Bush any day.

§        The phone number at WHAS 11 is (502) 582-7711.  You can email them at:    programming@whas-tv.com.

Creating Jobs

          That term has always left me feeling less than satisfied.  It just sits out there without a real handle to grab hold of.

          Create, as defined by Webster, means to bring into existence.  The government is always rattling about creating jobs.  I can only take this to mean that somebody went to work for the government at taxpayers’ expense.  They certainly can’t mean that Bob’s Hardware hired Joe in the paint department.

          Big Wig:  “Bob, we are counting on you to create a new job in paint.”

          Bob:  “But I don’t need anyone in paint.”

          The government doesn’t create jobs;   supply and demand creates jobs.  But the use of the word ‘create’ is still debatable.  How long would Bob stay in business if he just willy-nilly created jobs?

Dramatic Rescue

          FOX saved the day according to FOX.  I think they broke their arms trying to pat themselves on the back.

          Hurricane Frances beat up on Florida pretty good, and FOX was there.  So was the Florida Attorney General.

          FOX rescued a man from his car and had video to prove it.  I was less than impressed.  The cameras showed us the car stuck in water up to the middle of its wheels.  It looked to me like the water was pretty much standing still.  To get to the car, the camera had to go through some tree branches making it appear that the car was in a hard place to reach.  What many people doubtfully took note of was the big open space in front of the standing water to the right of the screen.  I was now skeptical.

          But the kicker to my skepticism was when the newsperson said to the “victim”, “So you were in the car for 4 or 5 hours and couldn’t get out?”

          The “victim” replied, “I didn’t want to get out.  The wind was crazy and things were flying through the air.”

          So FOX rescued a man who didn’t want to be rescued.  I believe the only consolation in the whole sad story is that it is likely harder to rescue someone who doesn’t want to be rescued than someone who does.

          So where does the Attorney General fit in?  Hold on, it isn’t the end of the month.  You’ll get your check, and don’t blame the mailman.

          Did you know that the Attorney General’s office has a hard time protecting its citizens?  Times are slow in the protection business except where Ashcroft is concerned.

          The Florida Attorney General came on the tube and told us that unfortunately there were those taking advantage of storm victims in South Florida.  He obviously doesn’t like free enterprise.  He said, “This gives us the opportunity to protect the citizens of Florida.”  Leave it to a big brother type to turn a disaster into a chance to prove his pay.  Wouldn’t it have been great if everyone had turned out to be angels?  Truck loads of precious cargo arriving in Florida and hard core gougers just giving the stuff away?  I lay odds that the Attorney General would find fault with that.  “That ain’t American and we are going to get to the bottom of it.”

SLEEP PERCHANCE TO SNORE

          A lady can’t sleep because she is snoring and her husband looks in to find her looking like a monster he just saw on television.  He goes to the medicine cabinet and gets some Breathe Right.  If the Breathe Right was in the medicine cabinet why was she having a problem?  Did she know it was there and was just too stupid to use it?  Or did the husband put it there and then decide to let her suffer for awhile? 

          A guy has a back bandage in his hands and asks us what it is, like he doesn’t know.  Look fool, you bought it.  Did your back ache before you bought it or was it just a coincidence?  Why are you asking me what you are holding? 

          These are the kinds of people we elect to represent us.  It seems to me that they are pretty representative.

BROADBAND

          I’d be interested in hearing from anyone who had an equipment problem related to their high speed internet after Insight Communications went down at the end of August. 

          My internet went out, so after a considerate wait I called them and was told that the internet was down in several locations in Louisville.  They said they were working on it.  Several hours later I called back.  They said it was running again.  I wasn’t.

          In the end, I had to buy a new router to the tune of $60.  The Insight guy told me it was just a coincidence that my router blew up at the same time that Insight went down.

          If this or something like this happened to you then let me know.  I think somebody is pulling a fast one.  Strider1@insightbb.com.

ANTI-SMOKING PROPAGANDA             

           It is getting more and more absurd, but the money is there by the millions.  On the history channel the other night, I saw a show about Attila the Hun.  The Romans and another group teamed up to defeat him but not kill off his army.  They needed Attila as a common enemy in order to maintain their alliance.  Welcome to anti-smokers’ groups.

          One of the first things the anti-smoking soldier is taught is to NOT destroy tobacco.  Without this evil weed there would be no money to fight this evil weed.  They’ll tell you that they are not out to eradicate tobacco and they don’t want to tell you that you can’t smoke.  Of course not; that would be self-defeating.  A good analogy is that of law enforcement and criminals.  Cops hate criminals but they need them. 

          Cotine has been used to measure the amount of nicotine in non-smokers who are often in smoky environments.  This is one of the big tools used by researchers to help ban smoking for the “workers’ health.”  But…

          Nightshade plants such as eggplant, tomato, potato, green pepper and others contain measurable amounts of nicotine.  This blows the use of cotine measurement as a tool for substantiating second hand smoke levels - out the window.  Who wants a pizza?

          Just to throw a wrench in the machine for the antis, here’s some stuff you may not know.

Nicotine stimulates recovery from brain damage. 

Nicotine holds the potential for non-surgical heart by-pass procedures.

Nicotine may help in the treatment of tuberculosis.

Nicotine may help in treating acute spinal cord trauma.

Nicotine may reduce cramping and other symptoms of colitis.

Nicotine may be an aid in the prevention of Kaposi’s sarcoma.

Nicotine may help in the treatment of clinical depression.

Nicotine is being studied for use in treating Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

Nicotine is being used to treat pain and inflammation.

Nicotine relieves some of the symptoms of Tourette’s disease.

Nicotine is being tested as an aid in mental concentration.

Nicotine may help in treating schizophrenia.

          All is not what it seems on the tobacco war front.  Health Nazis are aware of the positive health ramifications of tobacco and nicotine, but you’ll never hear a peep out of those folks.

          If you saw the Peter Jennings show on Wednesday night called The Tobacco Files, please note that this was an opinion piece.  There was a lot about the show that I could tear to shreds, but what good would it do?  I will tell you this, in the closing, Mr. Jennings reminded us that lighting up a cigarette subjects us to 5,000 chemicals.  He’s partially right, its only 4,000, but he didn’t mention the levels of the chemicals.  He failed to fully enlighten us to the fact that many of those chemicals we get in a glass of water, some in larger doses than from a cigarette.  Benzene for example is a chemical that is in tobacco smoke.  The dose we get from walking down the street is far above what we get from breathing second hand smoke.  A non-smoker subjected to second hand smoke in a closed environment would have to be exposed to the smoke for 750 hours in order to get the amount of benzene that the EPA has deemed safe.  Now go smoke that!

          The Bingo hall in Lexington that has been in trouble for allowing smoking is now in court AND they have gone private.  The health police are upset and their response has been, “They are just trying to get around the ban.”  Yes, and the German Nazis were upset when their victims tried to survive too.

          A last note on tobacco and control:  Senator Jim Bunning is supporting another tax increase on tobacco.  Do you think this money will go to educate the public on the evils of tobacco?  Even if it did go to educate the public, would it be educating the public or engineering the public?  I wrote to Mr. Bunning and let him know that the democrats need a few good liberals and he has more than proven himself.

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