Thursday, June 01, 2006
Something's Not Right
Here in the good old USofA, there's people who freeze to death in the winter and die of heat stroke in the summer. I haven't heard of anyone yet, but I'm sure there's dozens if not hundreds of old folks who are going to die in their threadbare apartments because they don't have enough money for air conditioning and are too scared to open their windows and doors.
We've got teenagers hanging around on the street corners packing guns and wearing bulletresistant vests knowing they're probably going to die before they pass their teens and they are resigned to the fact. We've got people getting evicted from $3,000 dollar homes because they can't keep up the payments! -- just how much can a payment be on a house worth $3,000?? By the way, arsonists blew up the house this week.
In other countries, over 6,200 people were just killed in an earthquake in Java; hundreds get killed everyday in Iraq, mostly by other Iraqis; and so many people starve, are murdered or killed in Africa, that nobody even keeps track anymore.
OK, now after all of that, I just read about Barbaro - that horse - A HORSE - that broke its leg in a race. After putting the horse in a special horse ambulance, the police blocked the road leading up to the hospital - so the horse wouldn't be jolted! They flew a special doctor from Florida to Pennsylvania where him and 9 other doctors and nurses spent four hours operating. After which the horse was put into a special swimming pool so it wouldn't strain its leg and then finally moved to its air-conditioned stall where it will stay "indefinitely--monitored and checked around the clock, petted and cosseted and fed hand-picked grass..."
Next you read about somebody's gramma dying from neglect, think about how Barabo has to rough it.
