Some brief comments on recent news stories. The first one was a news report from ABC radio news this morning. Summarizing the short report, retail sales last month increased by 2%. Auto sales were the highest they have been in four years. Other than auto sales, retail sales were sluggish. My response to the report: Duh! Money doesn't grow on trees. If money is being spent on cars, it can't be be used on other retail items. It almost seems as if the report was trying to turn a positive situation into a negative or am I being too skeptical. It's difficult to trust the motives behind many news reports these days; so many seem to have hidden agendas.
The next one was in the Peoria Journal Star August 8, 2005. This brief story was the first story listed in the "morning report"--nation section of the paper, above the fold, first column, on page two of the first section of the paper. It seems that a 99 pound woman won a competitive eating contest over the weekend. My question: Who cares? Is this the most important national news they have? Maybe this story is worth mentioning in the entertainment section of the paper. National news? Not in my humble opinion.
On August 9, 2005 the Peoria Journal Star ran a story about the annual "Kids Count" survey in relation to infant mortality rates and low birth weight babies in Illinois. The story included statistics from 1990 through 2002 for infant mortality rates and low birth weight babies in Illinois. The listing of the statistics got me to thinking.
I don't recall in the year and one half I have lived in Illinois seeing a similar listing of the statistics for the number of abortions that have occurred both in Illinois and the United States since the Supreme Court illegally ( illegal because there is absolutely nothing in the Constitution that would prevent states from preventing abortions--absolutely nothing. The court members used their own values [or lack thereof] to reach that decision.) allowed abortions in 1973. Do you think a listing of the number of murdered unborn babies over the last thirty two years might trigger righteous indignation in some people and therefore the paper has squelched that important information? How would the public react to approximately 35,000,000 (thirty five million) murders (Give or take a few million.) in 32 years? In the view of unborn baby murderers, better to be out of sight and therefore out of mind.
The next one was in the Peoria Journal Star August 8, 2005. This brief story was the first story listed in the "morning report"--nation section of the paper, above the fold, first column, on page two of the first section of the paper. It seems that a 99 pound woman won a competitive eating contest over the weekend. My question: Who cares? Is this the most important national news they have? Maybe this story is worth mentioning in the entertainment section of the paper. National news? Not in my humble opinion.
On August 9, 2005 the Peoria Journal Star ran a story about the annual "Kids Count" survey in relation to infant mortality rates and low birth weight babies in Illinois. The story included statistics from 1990 through 2002 for infant mortality rates and low birth weight babies in Illinois. The listing of the statistics got me to thinking.
I don't recall in the year and one half I have lived in Illinois seeing a similar listing of the statistics for the number of abortions that have occurred both in Illinois and the United States since the Supreme Court illegally ( illegal because there is absolutely nothing in the Constitution that would prevent states from preventing abortions--absolutely nothing. The court members used their own values [or lack thereof] to reach that decision.) allowed abortions in 1973. Do you think a listing of the number of murdered unborn babies over the last thirty two years might trigger righteous indignation in some people and therefore the paper has squelched that important information? How would the public react to approximately 35,000,000 (thirty five million) murders (Give or take a few million.) in 32 years? In the view of unborn baby murderers, better to be out of sight and therefore out of mind.
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