RYAN BRAUN, TO CORPORATE PERSONHOOD, TO SANTORUM!

FROM RYAN BRAUN, TO CORPORATE PERSONHOOD, TO SANTORUM! (Frazer Chronicle)



How you ask can Ryan Braun, a professional baseball player, the question of whether corporations, "at least in the United States," can be people, and why would I mention Rick Santorum in the same breath as a ball player and nine chief justices that decide all sorts of constitutional and law questions, simple, each gets "some" press coverage.....and I'll leave it for you to figure out which gets more press coverage.



Ryan Braun is an untypical part of the Milwaukee Brewers baseball club and their drive for the 2012 National League post season, and his position becomes even more crucial now that Prince Fielder has "fled" to Detroit and the millions that he will get to swat a baseball for that American League team.



Braun was the National League M.V.P. in 2011; the young outfielder had a truly outstanding season at the plate, on the bases and in the field. He was accused of failing a drug test that was administered last October, 2011. Throughout the process, Braun denied having taken any enhancing type of drugs.



Come to find out the length of a container that held Braun's specimen was at question, seems as if the vile had a week-end stay at the tester's house, in his refrigerator. I guess if a person's future earning power was at question, and let's make that fact perfectly clear, better care should have been taken, a better protocol would seem necessary to be established and followed.



After all, the test in question was tied to a young person's future, legacy and as mentioned, his earning power. I can understand the drug testing thing.....kind of; I however have always enjoyed the long ball, the gap shots and lots of runs being scored. How these ball players accomplish that feat really, really doesn't matter to me.



I love baseball for what it brings to the plate, "so to speak," the ebbs and flows of the game, it gives a guy time to think, strike up a conversation and simply enjoy the human spectacle of the game. I have never heard of, nor am I aware of a drug that will enhance a player’s eye-hand coordination, his foot speed, his reaction time, or his desire to win.....at all costs.



Is Ryan Braun a doper, I don't know, and what’s more, I don't care, nothing enhanced that beautiful swing that he has, his flair for the dramatic, or his game persona. Major League Baseball screwed up, keeping a specimen in a container in somebody’s refrigerator for almost 2 days was and is ridiculous. M.B.L. should be better than that, so.....till the nest drug test for whatever illegal substance, let’s "play ball."



CORPORATIONS ARE THEY REALLY PEOPLE:

I'm not sure I get this one, this question of whether a business can be a person, and if a business can be a person, what is it, a boy or a girl, tall, short, fat or skinny. Is it good looking, ugly, plain, shy, or gorgeous? So many unanswered questions regarding this "proposed person," as you can see, I'm in a quandary.



Is this corporation person a nice guy/gal or a jerk.....?”I hope not a jerk," and does it breathe, can it have illnesses like the rest of us, and does it get old and die? What rights does a "Corpy" (my name for this person) have?



Does a "Corpy" have to follow laws just like the rest of us, when can a "Corpy" drive, does it have to go to school, like grade school, middle school and high school. Can a "Corpy" enter a college, more important, can a "Corpy" play football and then play in the N.F.L. and when is it eligible for Medicare?



None of these questions have ever been answered when business wants to be included in the human race, at least in America. The Supreme Court seems to have answered the initial question of whether a corporation is a person.....it is. But not to whether a "Corpy" can go to school, or play sports or even if it has a heartbeat. Now there is a new question with regards to the "Corpy," kind of like the "new kid on the block."



"Corpy's" now want to exercise their rights in the political arena, not that you will ever have they decide on which "Corpy" to vote for on a ballot, but how much money they, "Corpy's" can spend. Hell I didn't even know that "Corpy's" had money, didn't know that they had jobs, or were given allowances by their folks.



Come to find out, the question of whether these "Corpy’s" can spend money, as much money as they want on political campaigns. Gee that sounds kind of like these "Corpy’s" need some parental control, it's kind of like, and “Where are the parents when you need 'em?"



What does all this "personhood" talk mean, you know as well as I, business wanting to set the rules by which they operate.....completely unfettered to do whatever they desire. Go for it "Corpy's."



RICKY, RICKY, KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!

Rick Santorum in many poles is leading in Michigan's Tuesday primary by as much as 10 points; at least he was, possibly until the eve of the primary. Then came the "snob" comment by Santorum against President Obama on Saturday, when the president suggested that high school students ought to go to college.



It makes.....at least this Blogger wonder who is "handling" Ricky boy during probably the most important vote so far in the GOP presidential race. Does Santorum think before that pie hole some 4 or 5 inches below his hair-line opens and operates?



Look, even though I voted for Obama, I can find whole bunches of stuff to debate his job, to "call him out," but telling kids to go ahead with advanced learning, wow, I don't get that. Higher education is not the answer for everybody, but to aspire for more education hopefully is a dream everybody holds dear, whether it be community college, or a trade school.



Santorum said that "not all folks are gifted the same way, some people have incredible gifts with their hands, President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college, what a sob."



Snobbish, snobbery, snobbing.....whatever, Rick, at least I get it; you mean that the president is an elitist, doesn't have a clue, and can't relate to the American people. I'm not a republican or a democrat, I try and vote for whoever I feel is the best for the country, and clearly Ricky, "you ain't it."