Thursday, July 28, 2005
CNN breathlessly announced last night that Elizabeth Smart's kidnapper has been found "incompetent" to stand trial. This both infuriates and confuses me: the man was competent enough to break into a house without waking anybody up, spirit the girl away with nobody knowing till a short time afterwards, hide her in the region being combed by police and amateur child-finders for weeks on end, keep her presence hidden during a nationwide search, keep his own identity under wraps, even convince Elizabeth herself she was someone else. But he's not competent to stand trial. No wonder our criminal justice system is a mess.
I also saw a rather amusing bumper sticker the other day that proclaimed: "FAIR Trade, not FREE Trade." I'm working on one now that says, "FREE Trade IS Fair." And it is, if you think about it. People who work hard in a free trade system get the rewards of their work eventually. But of course the lefties in the world would rather we took it away from the people who earned it and give it to deadbeats.
I also saw a rather amusing bumper sticker the other day that proclaimed: "FAIR Trade, not FREE Trade." I'm working on one now that says, "FREE Trade IS Fair." And it is, if you think about it. People who work hard in a free trade system get the rewards of their work eventually. But of course the lefties in the world would rather we took it away from the people who earned it and give it to deadbeats.
God help all of you businessmen
'Cause you'll be broke in May!
Come April 15th we'll show up
And take it all away!
But I digress. Over a century ago, a certain candidate for the US Senate described slavery as a system "that says, 'You work and labor and make bread and I'll eat it!'" It's ironic, is it not? What Abraham Lincoln once said concerning penniless blacks slaving away in the cottonfields could now be equally applied to business owners. You work hard, earn money and buy food...for ME, the deadbeat dad who's done nothing in his life except father children and watch TV, oh yeah, and drink beer. Strange how these things come around.
// posted by The Pendragon @ 7:15 AM 
