Questions
1-15-07
Terry Gray

How can our local government destroy someone’s acquittal without destroying his arrest record? Thousands of Jefferson County criminal records dated 2001 and before were recently destroyed and in order to engage and enrage the public we were told that people who had been acquitted of crimes would be hard pressed to prove the acquittals. Doesn’t an acquittal come AFTER an arrest? “Sir, can you prove that you were acquitted of this offense?” What offense, if the acquittal was destroyed then the arrest record was also destroyed. Not the other way around, unless of course we are speaking of Ernie Fletcher’s staff who were acquitted before any charges were filed.

We had fewer fatalities on Kentucky highways in 2006 than in 2005, according to our socialist news stations. Did we also have fewer accidents? They don’t tell us that and statistics haven’t yet been released. Like a one-armed fisherman explaining how big the fish was that got away, we only get half the story.

What is the difference between escalation and surge? Condi Rice was recently hard-pressed to explain the difference and she failed miserably. Of course, shouldn’t we expect failure from a Bush henchwoman? The whole Bush administration has been a nightmare of failure.

Bush wants to “surge” to protect Iraq against insurgents coming from other countries. Shouldn’t he at least practice in our country, on our borders, before trying this in the Middle East? How about starting with Arizona?

News channel 11 tells us with glee that new cable barriers are coming to Louisville because the ones we now have are proving themselves by saving lives. How many lives have been saved by the cable barriers? Some cars have hit the barriers but how many lives have really been saved? There weren’t that many crossover deaths before the very expensive barriers were installed.

Why does James Ramsey, President of U of L, prefer basketball over education? Tuition keeps going up and coaches keep getting raises. Do I detect a cause and effect? Remember a couple of years ago when U o L students were towed from student parking because the parking space was needed for a basketball game. The students paid for parking and were in class when their cars were towed (stolen).

Steve Lansford, Wave3’s general manager tells us that inoculations against the HPV should be mandatory. I say the government has no right to put anything in an American’s body against his/her will at any time. Why do we put up with such socialists in the public eye?

Mitch McConnell and Jerry Abramson are both guilty of betting on basketball games? Why are they not arrested?

On the “crime reports” page of the Courier-Journal, where murders, assaults, and robberies are listed, one story stood out on Friday. The lead sentence, “Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, is out of the intensive care…” I was appalled. Why is this man walking free?

Why don’t those receiving welfare have to submit to random urine tests? Thousands of working folks who voluntarily go to work to involuntarily support those who voluntarily live off our worker’s sweat have to submit to random urine tests. Why aren’t we testing these moochers?

How can a local, unelected body of government, Louisville Animal Control, have the authority to seize personal property from personal property without a court order? The IRS no longer has this power. But let your dog bark at a neighbor and Animal Control throws your pooch in the poky. How can that be?