{"id":7,"date":"2005-02-24T08:39:51","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T14:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.brentnorris.net\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2005-09-10T16:12:20","modified_gmt":"2005-09-10T22:12:20","slug":"no-news-is-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brentnorris.net\/blog\/archives\/7","title":{"rendered":"No news is bad news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does it disturb anyone else that, while we have one and half wars going on, a president who is out trying to “mend fences” and failing and several places in California failing off into the ocean, that the top two news stories this morning were:<\/p>\n

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  1. A man with a supposed direct link to God, the most holy person on the planet (supposedly) and all around buddy of God, might die.<\/li>\n
  2. A man who was once black, but did his best to not be black anymore, doesn’t have a black person on his jury.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n


    \nThats right folks the top two news stories this morning were the Pope is sick and Michael Jackson doesn’t have a black person on his jury. Forty-five minutes of news this morning was devoted to these two topics. Everything else was running by on the crawl line.<\/p>\n

    Now I think that both stories are a little ridiculous in the supposed importance of them. The first one is a story about an 80 year old man with parkinson’s disease who has gotten sick and everyone is praying for him to pull through. I don’t really understand this. I mean the christian religion is all about, “When your time on Earth is done, you get to go to heaven and be with God and Jesus” so why are they praying for him to live more? I mean the man is in obvious pain and suffering, he is supposed to be right with God, why not pray for him to go? Then when he gets to heaven he won’t have the troubles he does now. Kinda sounds to me like some of them don’t believe their own hype, and if you don’t believe that then what is the point of subscribing to the religion?<\/p>\n

    Jackson’s Jury is a whole other area. Why is the fact that there are no black people on the jury for a man who has obviously tried hard to remove any black heritage that he had, such a big deal? His trial is being held in a county, where the black population is almost non-existant, and that county is where he chose<\/strong> to live. He picked the spot. He has lightened his skin, he has hacked up his nose, cut up his chin, and straighten his hair. Why now is he attempting to lay claim to the fact that he is black? Here take a look at what he has done to himself in order to not be black:
    \n\"Michael<\/p>\n

    Does that look like someone that cares about their black heritage? Just because we remember that he used to be black, doesn’t mean that he deserves to be judged by a set of people of that heritage.<\/p>\n

    Why are these stories news? Is it to distract from the other things, or just because we as a society don’t care about things that are real?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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