Play Date

I decided to be topical today. Also, I really wanted to use a picture of the GHB toys. That shit is funny.

Not ha-ha funny because some kids are in a coma or whatever, but crazy "funny" like what the fuck is wrong with toy manufacturers in China.

ICYDK, U.S. safety officials have recalled over 4 million Chinese-made Aqua Dots bead toys are coated with a chemical that once metabolized, converts into the toxic "date rape" drug GHB.

Toys from China have a history of recalls and most recently lead-based paint has been fucking shit up. Lead! In paint! That's some uneducated shit that makes no damn sense. It pisses me off when people are so gd stupid.

Anyways, can everyone stop buying toys from China please. Problem solved.

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Isn't Taking Back The Money Enough?

This next item also relates to China, but you have to believe I'm not down on the Chinese. They fluff and fold like nobody else! Yes, that's a racially charged, potentially offensive joke. Sorry the target was there and I took a shot, low blow.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese lottery ticket seller has been jailed for life for fraud for taking advantage of a system flaw to cash 28 million yuan ($3.76 million) in tickets illegally, state media said Tuesday.

Harsh! People take money very seriously, but I have to wonder if life in prison is really necessary, especially considering they also confiscated all his property. It's not like this dude was robbing people. He ran "lottery stalls" -- which I imagine are basically little kiosks in a marketplace type setting -- and discovered that he could still purchase tickets with the winning numbers within a few minutes after they were announced. Then he would give them to friends to cash in and split the money with them or something. Anyway, long story short -- busted! The lottery center found the prizes were illegally claimed and police arrested the dude in January. The court jailed him for life and confiscated all his property. That's right, everything!

I wonder what the Chinese would do to those Enron pricks. Death by stoning? I think we gave them a medal or something.

In general, though, I'm a little lax on white-collar crime. Yes he was doing something wrong, no doubt about that. I guess when it comes down to it, I've always felt like there's the natural temptation to take a little more than we have coming and that's just human nature. It's how we get ahead because everyone is trying to screw everybody else over and give them the least amount of compensation anyway.

It's exactly why the WGA strike in Hollywood is going on right now. The people who hold the money and power don’t want to share the wealth, plain and simple. If it was up to them nobody would get anything, they'd bring back slave labor and keep all the money for themselves.

You can't simply contribute to something and expect profits to be tossed out evenly; you've got to take it. I guess I should quality that statement by adding "legally."

Another element is the temptation to take from "the man." It's not like everybody gets a handout. For example I'm a middle class white bitch just trying to make ends meet. Outside of my family nobody has ever given me a damn thing. I've worked so hard for every single thing I have. Sometimes I think that there is an unfair distribution of who gets what. The problem with that kind of thinking is that everyone probably feels that way. If life is unfair, it's likely to be unfair all around. I don't believe there is anybody out there trying to keep me down. The only thing I want to be able to say for sure is that I deserve everything I have, because I've earned it. The person I am today doesn't believe you have to cheat to get ahead -- but it sure as hell helps.

We often justify petty shit by saying we're being compensated, yah compensating ourselves! I think the world would be a lot better off if we could stop trying to excuse our actions and finally admit our flaws. If I do a bad thing I know it's bad, why lie? It's still wrong no matter what so just get over it. If you get caught take your lumps and move on.

Sometimes people get greedy. Greed is a moral issue that can drive an illegal lust, but if it's not hurting anyone why hurt the criminal. Instead of putting some poor fool in jail for the rest of his life, trade his riches for poverty (i.e. take back the money -- already done). To me that's the ultimate punishment for stealing. Next time around he'll just have to work for it.