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Monday, December 28, 2009

On insurance quote

The big news right now is how a Nigerian man, the son of a wealthy banker, tried to blow up a Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Thank god the passengers stopped him. It illustrates how crazy these Muslum fanatics are. He's a child of wealth in an extremely poor country. He should be grateful. Instead he tried to die young. Even worse than Osama bin Laden who was also rich and has given up the comforts he could have to live as an outlaw, but even he is smart enough not to go up in a plane to make himself a martyr. He isn't out getting an insurance quote because he knows he's about to go to Allah. No, Osama lets others do that for him.

On emergency medical assistance

I just read THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY by Michael Crichton, and it's a fascinating, fictionalized story of a true life crime that took place in England in 1855, and uses it as a way to have a close look at society of Victorian England, and how technologies such as the railroad were changing the old life, and how that was all for the good, because people did live in great poverty and there was a lot of amazing kinds of crime, and of course now emergency medical assistance. He points out that most thieves were children. Though most people who stole clothes were old women who took little children into alleys and then stripped them. Young women and children stole laundry drying in the sun.