Today was a pretty good day, all things considered, apart from being plagued with weird dreams. Oh well, into every life a little weirdness must fall, I guess. I did get to see Medicine Bluffs, which is out in the middle of nowhere, but then again so is Fort Sill. Looks like a good place to go hiking, at any rate. I'm looking forward to doing this some weekend, hopefully sooner rather than later. I hear there's good fishing out that way too. Well, I'll need a license before I do that!
It seems that sometimes the world gets dumber. Take the gates, as a for example. Like any military post, Fort Sill has gates. These gates, are of course, monitored for security reasons. But here's the thing- as probably makes sense, you register your car/truck/motorcycle with the police department, and get a sticker. The sticker goes in your window, thereby identifying your vehicle as registered with the police department on post. So far, quite sane. Now, what then would be the point of having vehicles trying to get on post line up from the gate all the way back to Tenessee somewhere so the security personnel can check each and every person's ID card? Does the posession of a military ID not thereby make the sticker somewhat redundant? If the vehicle is reported stolen (which, I would guess, would be the case if it was, oh, let's say, stolen), would it not then make sense to report that to the same security people who are at the gate?
And here's another gem- if you don't have a handy little sticker, guess what? Your vehicle gets checked (not searched) every time you need to go onto post, creating, yes, more delays. If you have a sticker, it seems that you are thereby completely incapable of bringing anything dangerous, explosive, biohazardous or just plain nasty onto post. So if you don't have a sticker, the chances are you're a terrorist, so writing your name down on a piece of paper will surely foil your plans of vehicle-borne explosive mayhem. And it would have worked too, if it weren't for you meddling kids! Doubtless we'll all sleep better at night knowing that the person who drove onto post with a shotgun in the back seat and a fire ax and industrial garbage bags in the trunk was properly documented before he murdered thirty people. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for making the post, as well as the surrounding town, a safer place! But brass, come on guys. A little common sense goes a long way!
So Greenpeace has closed down some BP stations in Great Britain, being their usual eccentric and over-the-top selves. I've got to admit, that's pretty funny. As is the fact that the company will likely go bankrupt from all the lawsuits. Will this mean a change in energy research trends? I figure the odds of that are about as good as me dating Helena Bonham Carter. Still, one can dream. Will there be jail time for those responsible? See, that's the thing about corporations- they seem to be very much slippery legal entities! Where does the corporation end and the person responsible begin? Corporations exist to act as legal entities; a person is a legal entity, and as such can own property, sue or be sued, and all that good stuff. So a corporation is, in the eyes of the law, a person. The corporation can own property, sue someone, etc. This seems to be something to hide behind legally- "It wasn't me, it was the one-armed corporation!" A corporation, being a non-person, cannot make decisions. Individuals employed by that corporation can. Would I be able to incorporate myself, (I can, as can anyone) and then go run someone over with my car, and blame it on the corporation? I am not the corporation, so though I acted on behalf of the corporation, can I be prosecuted? No, and here's why- a corporation has separate assets from the individuals that comprise it. If it's a publicly traded entity (a characteristic of corporations is that they must be), those assets must be kept separate from my personal assets. My liability is thereby limited to the amount of assets contained in the corporation. My personal assets are not at risk, and cannot be claimed. Of course, I'd still be going to jail based on criminal actions by myself, but that's different. My corporation would live on. But at any rate, the point of all this madness being, it's just a little too easy to hide behind the corporation, and then have the people actually responsible for these actions to slide by. And unfortunately, that seems to be the case with BP. No one is prosecuting them! It seems to be just a big pass-the-buck party, meanwhile, things are getting a little bit fucked up. When the oceans start catching fire, perhaps then we'll take notice. But that Greenpeace stunt was funny as hell though.
News seems to be little help here. The latest headline that caught my eye on CNN this morning? "Inmates Sick of Lindsay Lohan". Well, smack my rear end and call me Nancy, SO ARE THE REST OF US! She got off with a slap on the wrist for multiple DUIs- well, that's interesting, if I was still drinking might like to know the trick of that one! Like every other celebrity death, misdemeanor, scandal or coming-out-of the closet, it don't bother me, as Unknown Hinson has been known to comment. So what do I do? Go read the paper, that's what. Besides, there are crossword puzzles in the paper.
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