Observations for Friday

1)
I live in the south and there are acres and acres of lawns everywhere. Everyone must have a lawn here. Day after day, trucks pulling trailers with lawnmowers go by my house.  If you are in the business of selling trailers or lawnmowers, this is the place to be. Not a day goes by in the summer where I don’t hear a mower somewhere nearby. One of my favorite observations is when the lawns get cut on Sunday at the elementary school across the street. The riding lawnmowers here are super models. They can turn on a dime, and get up to at least 35 mph. And those guys cutting the lawn across the street go flat out.

So with all this attention to lawns and their care, how come people here park on the lawn? It mystifies me and I see it on a daily basis. They all have driveways. Why not use them?

2)
If I poisoned the water in Raymond, and made people sick, just how long would it take for me to be arrested and put in jail? I’ll bet pretty quickly. So how come the people who poisoned the water in Flint, Michigan are still walking around free? Why hasn’t someone called the police?

3)
The bank robbers at Wells Fargo are also walking around free. All the top executives should be facing criminal charges instead of the poor regular workers who were fired. Once again, big money has different laws than the rest of us. Why hasn’t the federal government arrested them?

4)
Will we ever stop killing the Native Americans? Why isn’t the news reporting more on the stand off up north. This is a very serious problem. What would happen if we started digging up white people? Or desecrating white burial grounds?

5) How did the presidential election become a spectacle? I have to confess that news of Hurricane Matthew was welcome relief from it.

6)
Last of all, but not least, there’s the Epi-Pen obscene profits for the pharmaceutical company who makes them. Has the last piece of humanity gone out the window? Have they no shame?