Blog-IT-o ergo sum

	7/31/2003

Internationally "Accredited" Police Force on Patrol in Greenwood, South Carolina

The stuff from which conspiracy theories are born... A picture named internationalpolice.JPG

Maybe we need to get some of these patrol cars shipped to our troops in Bagdad

11:58:25 PM

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What's in a picture

As far as I could see, there is no baseball stadium in close proximity to downtown Greenville, South Carolina and their local river is only about twice the width of Buffalo Creek.

What I did see however at 7:00 pm on a weeknight was this: People on the sidewalks, well kept store fronts, a tree lined street free of parking meters. On the next junket to study improvements for our town the Greensboro city fathers need to drive to Greenville instead of flying to Chatanooga. (Of course Jesse Jackson still has not convinced Greenville County to add a paid MLK holiday for its workforce, but that is for another post.)

1:03:19 AM

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Politically Correct Billboards

(The old blog was getting way to heavy on the big picture stuff, so I will make an effort to stay more local.) Driving the highways and byways of the Carolinas gives one ample time to stay up on the latest billboard campaigns, particularly the ones sponsored in part by the Ad Council. Here's one of my favorite current ones co-sponsored with the US Army.

Four points here: 1) How many women circa 1940 ran their own sweat shops? 2) Nicely coiffed white women are now the poster children for cynical capitalists who prey on high-school dropouts? 3) Someone in the US Army approved this ad? 4) We still have sweatshops in the USA?

A picture named Sweatshop billboard.JPG

12:41:34 AM

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