Lincoln, Darwin, Poe: Leadership, Science, Art.
Also at 200, add the following: Louis Braille; Pierre-Joseph Proudhon; Felix Mendelssohn; Cyrus Hall McCormick; Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol; Alfred Tennyson; Fanny Kemble. No great religious leader, no great public sports figure born in 1809 that I can find (I guess the great sports celebrities didn't really come into their own until the 20th century, come to think of it).
Lincoln Award goes to President Obama. Unofficial Darwin award goes to the present-day US Republican Party, especially its many half-witted members including Palinists, Huckabites, and Haggardists. Let them keep blathering: like keeping an eye on pet pigs, it's good to know what they're up to at all times. Poe awards go to Milk and The Wrestler so far. Books, too soon to tell.
Hopefully, some sort of justice will come to those members of the Peanut Corporation of America who knowingly sent out poisoned peanut products from Georgia, Virginia, and Texas, including its CEO, 54-year old Stewart Parnell of Lynchburg, Virginia. This greaseball apparently (i.e. he's innocent until proven guilty) thought the public health was too costly to worry about, even while serving (thanks to the banally imbecilic W. Bush administration) on the US Department of Agriculture's Peanut Standards Board -- until dismissed by the Obama administration. He managed such alleged crimes while flying his airplane, enjoying a first home near Lynchburg, and a second home in Nags Head, North Carolina, and a membership in Oakwood Country Club, where he played tennis and probably laughed a lot at poor people. The company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy today, Friday the 13th.
Imagine if ten or twenty mass-order crooks like Parnell and Bernie Madoff had their heads put on spikes, would the masses be satisfied? I doubt it. Still, these guys need to be prosecuted and also held accountable for their actions without being allowed to wriggle out of it. Seppuku / harakiri might be an honor-saving alternative.
Today's Rune: Fertility.
9 comments:
Crunchy or smooth?--C. Shultz
White or wheat?--Builds strong bodies 12 ways!
Get ten white or wheat loaves for just $10 at your local Krogers!!!The right store at the right price!!!--Mr. Whipple and Artie the bagger
Parnell should be locked up and forced to eat his own peanuts until he rots in hell.
Stewart Parnell's Peanut Corp of America has struck out for the hide away of the guilty. Bankruptcy.
A modern day William Zanzinger, on a more epic scale.
All of these arrogant men should be in jail. The peanut man should be charged with manslaughter. Will any of that happen? I doubt it. Rich people cn get away with most anything.
Parnell lives in the right town. Lynchburg! Does that give anyone an idea of what should be done?
I find it somewhat ironic that we've had to give up numerous "liberties" (including the 4th amendment,) in the name of anti-terrorism & security, but it's our own food suppliers who are killing us, seemingly with impugnity.
they asked parnell in congress if he would eat his own peanuts. they should be forced down his throat
he is the Bernie Madoff of the Nut world
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