Political commentary, opinion & insight into the state of the United States of America.

In this campaign season you will be inundated by campaign ads that are all head fakes. The media will blast you with tales of candidates who put a dog in a cage on top of his car,  or another who ate dog. Stories about hazing in high school. Or, yet another version of whether a candidate was really born in the US.

I’m going to make it easy for you to pick a candidate. Here’s all that’s important to you, your kids, and your grand kids, if you have any. If you believe a candidate knows this is a problem and speaks to solving this problem, that candidate should get your vote.  If a candidate tells you he can fix this by taxing the rich, he’s lying to you.  If a candidate wants to spend more, he’s not your candidate. If he tells you we need to send aid to some foreign nation, he’s not the man.

Watch this and give some thought to who is even talking about this problem. Or, who’s hiding the ball on this problem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW5IdwltaAc&feature=youtu.be

Estimates of injuries from these packages are all over the board. The number I found most often is 300,000 trips to the emergency room every year from people trying to break into these clam shells. Christmas is the peak time.

Amazon is banning these packages from their product list. Finally, someone is doing something about them. The right someone, the retailer, not the government. If the government took this on we would have to hire another few thousand people and spend millions.

Here’s my reality TV idea. Pick the 50 worst, in numbers of injuries, and have the CEO of the company marketing the product open it on TV. I would extend that beyond clam shell packages. How about some of those zip lock packages where you are supposed to tear just above the re-seal line? How many products like that do you open with your teeth, since there is no clear tear point?

Over the counter drugs. Want to see a CEO try to find and pull that little tab that is supposed to open the tamper proof cover? A Spam can? How many get cut on those?

This would trump Undercover Boss, which has become a farce by now. How dumb does an employee have to be to not wonder why a camera is following around a trainee while they work together. Nice disguises. It’s great theater for making women cry. Cry, when the CEO passes out large sums of money to everyone who appeared on the show.

Pick CEO’s from companies that make a multitude of packaged products so they can’t practice on all of them ahead of time. One trip to my show and that company will upgrade the packaging department. Injuries will go way down and we will have money to treat more illegals in our emergency rooms.

Chris Matthews, one of the most arrogant and nastiest people on TV got his comeuppance on Celebrity Jeopardy this week. Mathews, who considers himself an intellectual, used Jeopardy to demean Sarah Palin on numerous occasions in the 2008 Presidential campaign. Here are some of his comments:

“Is this [vice presidential debate] about her brain  power?… Do you think cute will beat brains?…Do you think she’d do better on  the questions on Jeopardy! or the interview they do during a  half-time?…My suspicion is that she has the same lack of intellectual  curiosity that the President of the United States has right now and that is  scary!”

Then on January 12, 2010:

They find these empty vessels who know nothing about the  world! Nothing about foreign policy! Who immediately begin to spout the neo-con  line. I read her book — it’s full of that crap….It’s unbelievable how little  this woman knows!…Don’t put her on Jeopardy!”

And again on  November 2, 2010:

“Senator, do you think Sarah Palin is qualified to be  President of the United States?…If she were on Jeopardy! right now  and the topic was national government, American government generally defined,  would she look like an imbecile, or would she look okay? Does she know  anything?”

And finally on  January 19, 2011:

“I’d like to see her on just a couple of episodes of Celebrity Jeopardy! or It’s Academic Mac McGarry to just see  if she knows anything.”

Well guess who was on Celebrity Jeopardy this week? Mr. Nasty, himself.  How did the intellectual wizard do? See for yourself, click the link below.

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