Joke I rewrote? Thougt it was funny.

Gonorrhea Lectim

Very important information has just been made public that I think is something you should all be aware of:

Gonorrhea Lectim. The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of this old disease.

The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim. It's pronounced "Gonna re-elect 'im." The disease is contracted through dangerous and high-risk behavior involving putting your cranium up your rectum. Many victims contracted it in 2006, but now most people, after having been infected for the past 3 years, are starting to realize how destructive this sickness is.

It's sad because it is so easily cured with a new procedure just coming on the market called Vo-tem-out! You take the first dose/step in 2010 and the second dosage in 2012, and simply don't engage in such behavior again; otherwise it could become permanent and eventually wipe out all life as we know it.

When Do We Hold Them Accountable?

         Here is something I do not understand, why do we elect people to create laws and punishments if all we are going to do is allow people to plea punishments down to a lesser penalty?  I was always taught as a child to follow the rules or there would be consequences.  As I got older these rules changed to laws, and if I do not follow the law there is punishments accordingly.  As I get older it seems the more money a person or a company  has, the less the law pertains to them. 

          The latest observance of this is the Tito's Vodka incident in which the enviromental protection agencies laws were charged to have been broken by illegal drained production waste into a creek.  The Austin American Statesman writer Tony Plohetski gives you some of the details about the case.  You can read about how Fifth Generation Inc. has agreed to pay a $50,000 fine, and how they have made improvements so it will not happen again.  You can also read about how some other companies have received some fines for their infractions.
            The one thing you do not read about is why the Fifth Generation Inc. was able to make a plea agreement.  What makes this company or anyone for that matter able to get a lesser penalty for breaking the law.  I think this is rediculous and careless of  judicial system to allow this disregard for the law.  So now I guess other companies can look at it like, what does it matter if I dump illegally as long as the profit of dumping is more than the fine the state will impose.  The rules are layed out for businesses at the Texas Commission on Enviromental Quality and is free to visit this website for anyone, so the excuse of "I did not know" can not be used.  I mean what is going to happen if from now on we say it was just a little spill, and this person or company does so much for Austin so we will just let them off without using the full extent of the law.  After a while what will our city and or state look like?  I think we need to stop and think about two things.  First, if every company and or person in Austin or in Texas for that matter were allowed to dump just a little waste of some kind, what would we be leaving for future generations? Second, when are we going to stop and realize that the people we elect are writting the laws that we pass, and that these laws are being ignored and manipulated every day in court rooms across our state?  Maybe we need to either pass laws and hold everyone accountable the same across the board, or set laws for companies of different income levels and people to. That in my opinion is the only way people might actually stand up and rebel against what happens everyday across Texas and the United States instead of just lying down and taking the "Good Old Boy Politics."