Leading stupidities
by Miki SaxonThe economic meltdown and political action has pushed other stupidities to the bottom of the page, so I thought I’d offer up three that I’ve found over the last month or so.First up is a sad story about a guy who has been forced out of his normal ride because of high gas prices—familiar enough that you feel his pain?
Don’t. Because the guy is Sean “Diddy” Combs and the ride is his private plane.
Poor Sean. It used to cost only $200,000 to use that plane, but when gas prices escalated this summer he was forced to fly commercial—first class, of course. (See his video plea “for free oil from his “Saudi Arabia) brothers and sisters””
Next up is another little gem about what sets the rich off from the rest of us when it come to gas.
In an effort to be green Cadillac has built an Escalade Hybrid that, according to a print ad in Business Week, gets a whopping 20 city/21 highway. Whoo hoo—but it’s all relative. The non-hybrid version gets 12city/19 highway.
The the stupidity I’ll leave you with will, hopefully, encourage changes in you and those you care for—especially your kids.
The cause of the tragic train crash September 12th that killed 25 people and injured 130 more has been traced to texting.
“The engineer of a commuter train that collided last month with a freight train here, killing 25 people and injuring more than 130, was sending text messages on his cellphone seconds before the crash, federal investigators said Wednesday. …the final one he sent was at 4:22:01, just 22 seconds before the trains, traveling at about 40 miles an hour, collided.” The engineer never applied his brakes.
This should be a seminal lesson to all of you who text while walking, driving, working with machinery, whatever. You wouldn’t read a book while doing any of those things, so why would you text?
Show the story to you kids and friends that text, talk to them (and yourself) and choose not to be stupid.
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