Random Bytes: Grain Valley, Fred Phelps, and the IRS

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Richard L Zorek.........02.08.07............Grain Valley Schools are going to allow their students to pay for lunches with their fingertips. Students fingers will be scanned for prints to pay for meals. If the student is ever arrested, however, they may end up being billed for an extra lunch during the booking process. Superintendent Chris Small is reportedly a fan of George Orwell's "1984." ...............The Topeka legislature is still trying to make it illegal for Fred Phelps and his "church" from picketing at funerals. The group from Phelps church often pickets funerals protesting "homosexuality." Since funerals are the result of death, and God appoints when a person dies, according to the Bible, Phelps is essentially picketing the one he claims is his own boss. A memo from God's office said He was not aware of any such employee.................Kansas City IRS office has lost 26 computer tapes. The tapes apparently came in a shipment in August and it was just now discovered they couldn't find him because they weren't returned to the Treasury Department in a timely manner. If there is any justice, the Treasury Department will ignore any excuses, bill them, add ridiculous interest, than garnish the wages of every Kansas City IRS employee that works in the building.

The Media's Circle of Destructiveness

.....[c]2007 by
Richard L Zorek

.........02.07.07........

Lisa Marie Nowak may or may not be the perpetrator of a crime. Everything is alleged. CNN's Tony Harris is guilty of being obnoxious. As are several other reporters from various stations. I use him as an example because I happened to catch the events as they unfolded on TV. As Nowak landed in Houston after being returned, Harris was prodding the reporter to speak with people who rode on the plane with her. The way people like Harris is treating this gives me nothing but sympathy for Nowak. If Nowak had an emotional breakdown, then she does not deserve to be treated like a criminal and especially not before a trial has occurred. And that information will not unfold until a trial happens. Reporters, of course, always seem to to think they know more than the average citizen and report accordingly. They are not, however, neither judge or jury. They just think they are.

In the Missouri case of Michael Devlin and the teens he kidnapped, there was no regard from the media in reporting that the teens in question has been molested. In fact the local and national press reported that it was probably many times. Did they take into consideration at all how the two teens might have felt about having this information reported all over the news? Does that not give them more to have to deal with? I am not defending Devlin, because in his case, he was caught with the victims.

The press proves over and over again how obnoxiously insensitive they are with almost every event that happens. They are driven by ratings which creates popularity which creates money which creates power which creates popularity which creates.....and on and on. Somewhere in this circle of newsmedia life creates the destruction of someone somewhere. And the press marches on.....

Random Bytes: ExpressJet, Clinton, Slavery, Blunt

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Richard L Zorek.........02.05.07...........ExpressJet has begun selling tickets for nonstop flights from KCI to Los Angeles, New orleans, Austin, Jacksonville, Tuscon and Raliegh. Since the planes do not stop, customers are parachuted in the proximity of each city...............Former President Bill Clinton will speak at Kansas State University next month as part of the "Landon Lecture Series." It is not known whether Clinton will speak on Landon's career as a Cartwright or living in the house on the prairie...........Missouri lawmakers have proposed a resolution to apologize for 140 years of slavery. The people that were alive at that time are long since dead, so it is not know exactly who the lawmekers will apologize to. Rep Talibdon El_Amin (D-St Louis) said he thought Missouri should be one of the first states to apologize and hopes others will soon follow. It is not clear why other states should apologize for Missouri's slavery. .................Gov Matt Blunt wants metal detectors and x-ray machines installed at the Capitol building in Jefferson City as part of an "enhanced security plan." The will also give him even more freedom to suggest any kind of laws he wants without fear of retribution............................