The Clancy Case, Flock Cameras & Political Fallout

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Good afternoon to one and all, and welcome to Fifty Plus. Back in the saddle after most of the working stiffs in this country took Labor Day off. That was yesterday, in case you missed it. And as significant as that holiday is, based on a survey I saw this past week, I have to wonder just how many Americans actually knew what was supposed to be recognized yesterday. And that in a nutshell is the American workforce.

Arguably, I suppose by people in other nations and by able-bodied but left-leaning Americans here, millions of whom, by the way, would rather take government handouts than break a sweat doing real work, this country of ours runs on the willingness of tens of millions of employed people to drag themselves out of bed each morning, take a shower, brush their teeth, pardon me, get dressed, maybe get some breakfast in them, and then drive to work wherever that is, and be productive. Work for maybe, what, six, eight, ten, maybe even more hours per day to keep this country of ours moving forward despite the freeloaders and socialists who want to drag us backward into a dumpster fire. It's not people collecting government benefits who keep this country plotting forward, it's the labor force. And our labor force, especially folks in our age group, every one of us does the best we can with what we've got to keep this country of ours running smoothly. Every hour of every day we're on the clock, we're trying to do something better for America, while a whole bunch of Americans and a whole lot of people who aren't Americans just sit on the sideline with their hands out. And speaking of work, I'll get back to working on Fifty Plus here, and more important stories than my rambling, where day after day I try to deliver interesting, entertaining, and sometimes even amusing little pieces of news from around the country and around the world, around our state and our city. Things that interest me, since most of this audience is sort of in my age group, I was in my 50s when I started this show, as I would suspect most of you were, and we've grown a little bit older and a little bit older, and hopefully have welcomed in a new class of inductees, if you will, into that Fifty Plus category. Which, by the way, is looking farther and farther back in the rearview mirror as I keep turning pages forward, and I'll gladly accept that. I'm not who I was 20 years ago, but I think I'm doing pretty well with what I've got. And you know what? It's getting a little funnier every year that we still call this show Fifty Plus when I know much of this audience is in their late 30s even, and listening on behalf of their older parents.

12 years in now, though, it would seem foolish to rebrand anything. We are who we are, and no matter what's your age, I'm glad you've taken the time to listen today. All right, let's get into the newsy stuff. Acknowledging that the tires on this particular story are getting a little bald, the Lindsay Clancy trial ended unexpectedly, well, sort of, last week, since we were all waiting to hear innocent or guilty. And as it turned out, one of the three men on the jury could not be convinced to let Clancy walk away from killing her three children in what the defense called basically innocence because of postpartum psychosis, which is a real and dangerous hormonal imbalance. There's no question about that. What the defense said, though, is that she had an episode, something that made her do what she did, but that, as I believe she said, is behind her now. And whether or not it was or wasn't a one-time thing, at least according to her, there's really no reason, moving forward, to think it couldn't happen again. If the refrigerator leaks once and doesn't get fixed, what do you think is going to happen? And here's the real conflict that may emerge from this explanation of why this happened. And it's cause for concern. For decades now, women all over our country, all around the world have worked, except in Muslim countries, they've worked really hard to prove that they're as capable as men and actually are more capable than more than a few men when it comes to running businesses or performing delicate surgeries or running countries. Women have broken through that glass ceiling that for so long kept them from rising to power in corporations, from advancing in politics. They made it.