What's Better and What's Worse In The News

What's Better With George Zimmeran?
  The evidence has been released on the Zimmerman case and according to  Reason magazine's blog, it completely exonerates Zimmerman. The evidence is so obvious that it begs the question of why he was even charged. This seems obvious especially in Florida: Zimmerman was charged to geve a powder keg situation time to cool. However, that time may have been bought by a false arrest which put him and his family under tremendous pressure. This sets a dangerously cynical precedent for the state to try to deprive someone of his civil rights just because he is extremely unpopular with one race. If there is no evidence against Zimmerman, I predict he and his lawyers will be filing a suit for false arrest, imprisonment, and prosecution. He should too. It is wrong that the government perverts the law to give special consideration to blacks. It tells them if they aren't getting privileged treatment better than what whites get, they aren't getting justice.
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What's Better With Bullfighting In Spain?
  The popularity of bullfighting is slowly declining due not only to more humane attitudes toward the bulls, but more importantly, the loss of property sales which were filling the coffers of towns and cities. This money was being used to sponsor bullfights.
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What's Worse With Hepatitis C? 
  Hepatitis C now kills more Americans then HIV yet it only gets $30 million a year for prevention compared to HIV's $800 million. It is the main cause for liver transplants, often taking 20 years or more to damage the liver. It is more likely to be transmitted by shared needles than sex.
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What's Worse With French Cuisine?
  It appears that most restaurants in France now don't have chefs but microwaves. The microwaves are used to heat industrially prepared meals that are frozen and sent to the restaurants to be heated when needed. It is a dirty little secret that the French restaurant world is very worried about. Why pay a great deal of money to buy frozen food prepared by, say, Nestle? Restauranteurs blame the minimum wage in France that has increased 33 per cent in the last twenty-two years. In addition, socialists want to pass a bill that will force restaurants to acknowledge each item obtained from an industrial supplier on their bill of fare. This is already in practice in Italy and should be in France as well. This is going to create another tier of restaurants that serve food only cooked by chefs. It will also bring about a higher tier of prices which is what raising the minimum wage causes. No mystery there except for liberals.
Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW  Gainesville, Florida 352-359-0850 Sources: Wall Street Journal, Gainesville Sun, talk show hosts Cain, Limbaugh, Morrison, Dean, Savage, and trying to read widely.