Friday, May 05, 2006

Inability to own up: the new disease!

U.S. Rep. Kennedy bashes his car into a barrier and blames it on a disease: drug abuse.
Golfer John Daly lost $1.65 million in five hours playing mostly $5,000 slot machines, the disease: gambling.

Wait a minute? Disease?

How about stupidity, lack of common sense, lack of ability to face reality, lack of self control, but not a disease by any stretch of the imagination. To call these things a disease is a slap in the face of everyone that has faced cancer, leukemia, glaucoma, etc. You decided to pop those pills, you decided to bet your money, people with real diseases didn't have those choices, they just got it and dealt with it.

So, I'm suppose to actually feel sorry for a man that plays GOLF for a living that he blew 1.65 MILLION on slot machines in 5 hours? awwww! That poor man! Here I am, scrimping money so I can afford gas at 8 bucks a fucking gallon so I can drive to my crappy job so I can get paid and waste all of my "earnings" to buy more gas to drive to my crappy job. OR, I'm sitting in my swelter house because my electrical bill went up 72% thanks to "de-regulation" and I can't afford to fill my tank up to drive to an air conditioned mall.

And what about "de-regulation"? How is it that someone thought "hey, lets give other electrical companies a fair shot at providing home owners with electricity"? One company owns all the power lines, owns all of the electric generating stations, so did they think that Bob's electric company was going to snake an extension cord to my house and provide me with electricity? What the F?

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