Justice...?

Before reading this post please read this short blurb - "Sex Offender Wins Raffle for Abuse Victim Charity"

Now, I hear that this is...wrong. Yeah wrong - and it is.

Let's try and think from both perspectives.

This guy could be trying to benefit the organization that fight people like him, because he knows he's wrong and doesn't want anybody else to be victimized - so he buys a raffle ticket. What were the odds of him winning?

Now, he's got the ticket - but there has to be chance - and luck involved right? So who in the vast cosmo's out there decided the best fate was for this man to acctually win that $500,000??

He's got the money - he's even donating $100,000 of it straight to the charity. He wants to use the rest to "better his life".

The Question: Is it right for this man to have the money?

My answers is NO. Here's why:
I have personally known, and still know, at least 2 women who were sexually molested as children. I can tell you that the effects of that molestation are always present in their lives, and something they will never forget. The fact that this man had charges against him, as recently as 2000, makes me gape in awe at our justice system. These girls will be scarred for life because of this man. They will have unthinkable thoughts, nightmares, and more than likely be turned to a life of recklessness trying to free themselves from that memory. It's heartbreaking that this man wasn't incarcerated at the time of this raffle. Why wasn't he? Why could he even participate? That is not right.

And so - I wind up by saying that this man was fully capable of playing, and winning, this raffle...but it stems from lack of judgement on the side of the people. We really need to start thinking about the long term effects of the molestation crimes committed before releasing felons.

What goes up...

What goes up...

Stays Up! When gas prices rose to almost $4 a gallon across the country it affected prices of everything else. Anything that had to be transported from one place to another had a raise in its price. That means that EVERYTHING - EVERYTHING - went up. And then what happened? What goes up must come down right? Not so much. The price of gas went up - and it came down. But, the prices of everything else went up - and stayed up. Now the only thing going down is our stocks and our employment rate.

Here's my problem - if gas prices were the scape goat of inflation then why hasn't inflation seceded yet? Gas prices have gone down and shouldn't other prices follow suit?

Not only that - but there is more unemployment now than before the gas prices, and retail prices, rose. You would think the people who manufacture these items would be happy to lower their prices again seeing as there's a recession, and they now have 15% less staff to pay for. So now, not only are companies firing people (laying them off - to be pc) but they're also raking more profit off the top by continuing to price their merchandise at an inflated rate.

Only one word for this - uncool!

Priorities

Last night as I was watching the Late Night News, I listened to a blurb on the expense of switching all TV's to HD TV's. It was pretty interesting, did you know they were giving away coupons/vouchers for converter boxes? Oh, by they I mean our government. That's right, our tax money is going to buying converter boxes for other people's tv's. The funny thing is that they've already ran out - and are now adding people to a waiting list to give even more money away!

I thought about this a second and realised that the government won't pay for my healthcare, they won't buy my daughters school new textbooks,computers, or quality food, but they can pay to make sure everyone can watch TV.

Where did our priorities go?