Day: August 22, 2010

I HAD To Know!

From the VOMITORIUM

After watching FOX News…listening to the pundits spout their brand of “journalism” and after years of shaking my head at every story told on the outlet……I had to know just who watches FOX and why…..in my research I found NOTHING that surprised me……but there is a reason they are popular…..and I break down the demographics for you…..

Only dinosaurs listen to radio these days, and it’s doubtful many people under 50 even know AM radio exists, so it shouldn’t be surprising that the average age of right-wing radio listeners is 67. It’s also truly not shocking that this demographic is also predominantly male. According to a Pew study in February, 72 percent of Limbaugh’s elderly listeners are men.

I knew it!  It seems that most of the people I talk with at watch FOX are old farts who still harbor images of communist, segregation and other issue that were in the news back in the day…..and most I have talked with are white and male…..the perfect audience for FOX and Limbaugh.

So since he spends an inordinate amount of time making sh*t up I also checked on Glenn Beck and the demographics are……….

61% are male…..46% are 50+……94% are white…….35% make over $100,000…

So with Beck’s demographics…he is in the best place for his brand of commentary….those that are easily influenced.  Those that remember the days of the “Red Scare” and the days of busing and “forced” integration.

As I have said…ALL people look for the views that will reinforce their world view….right or wrong……

Is This Justice?

I have often thought that the punishment should mirror the crime….if a person sticks another hands in hot grease then that is his punishment………of if a man beats his wife then his punishment should be someone to beat him…..and…..well you get where I am coming from……so what am I getting at?  Newser is running a article about this type of thing….

An eye for an eye—a spine for a spine? A judge in Saudi Arabia has been asking hospitals whether or not they can sever the spinal cord of a man convicted of paralyzing another man in an attack with a cleaver, the AP reports. At least one hospital has refused on ethical grounds. The victim’s brother says “blood money” will not be an acceptable alternative.
Under Saudi law, victims are allowed to request that their attackers receive the same injuries they did, although the country’s leaders have been trying to clamp down on extreme punishment. A man had his teeth pulled out because he knocked somebody else’s out in a fight, and “we have also had cases of people sentenced to blindness because they have caused the blindness of another person,” an Amnesty spokesman says. “But never anything involving a spinal cord.”

Read more: http://www.newser.com/story/98521/saudi-judge-seeks-to-sever-mans-spine.html#ixzz0xBAygCKC

I have mixed feeling about this story….but I guess in the long run I would agree with the punishment…..