Headline:Adopting Monkeys
Commentary: I thought i had heard it all. Until I read the headline on the above story. Women, oh please save me from my own weaker sex, adopting monkeys in replacement for real children. Good grief. Get a life ladies. If you really want to do some good in the world find a cause. That cause should not include taking in a wild animal. Wild animals were never meant to be your children. It is bad enough when you call the dogs and cats kids. Please. These poor little monkeys suffer through your selfish desire need to parent. There are plenty of living, breathing, needing, real live human children in need of real parents. There is no need to adopt a wild animal that can't say no to you. If you really miss that full nest, go volunteer at a local school. Go work at a day care facility. Go raise money to keep monkeys in their natural habitats. What's next? Shark farms?
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Can we please watch commercials not written by 12 year olds?
I am so tired of recent commercials. A majority of them seem to have been written by 12 year old children. At the top of my list recently are the credit report for free commercials. Is anyone else hoping that guy singing will get laryngitis? If I hear that stupid song one more time! Thank goodness for the mute button.
Others that are getting on my last nerve?
Anything that makes a man look stupid.
There is a paper towel commercial that not only picks on the stupidity of men, but has included the boy child as well. How many paper towels will it take to clean up this mess my little moronic child spilled on the floor? Boy child: a lot! Dad: two sheets! Oh no, the mom has these correct answer because you know, she's the only one who ever really cleans around this place! Just one amazing paper towel will do the cleaning job! Wow. What would we do without paper towels, and a maid servant to clean it all up. Obviously the men would just leave it there and slip in it at some point. Or just grind it into the floor and carpet.
Pharmaceutical commercials. I am sorry but I don't want to hear about the miracles that drug companies are out to share with us. The information about the side effects are enough to stop anyone from wanting to ingest any of these.
Don't worry there'll be more to come soon!
Others that are getting on my last nerve?
Anything that makes a man look stupid.
There is a paper towel commercial that not only picks on the stupidity of men, but has included the boy child as well. How many paper towels will it take to clean up this mess my little moronic child spilled on the floor? Boy child: a lot! Dad: two sheets! Oh no, the mom has these correct answer because you know, she's the only one who ever really cleans around this place! Just one amazing paper towel will do the cleaning job! Wow. What would we do without paper towels, and a maid servant to clean it all up. Obviously the men would just leave it there and slip in it at some point. Or just grind it into the floor and carpet.
Pharmaceutical commercials. I am sorry but I don't want to hear about the miracles that drug companies are out to share with us. The information about the side effects are enough to stop anyone from wanting to ingest any of these.
Don't worry there'll be more to come soon!
New additions to the commentary
I have decided I cannot just pick on the print or digital media. There are so many goofy things on TV news, commercials, and television shows, I have decided to go ahead and just rant and rave about them too.
Friday, June 20, 2008
You can only be so good
Headline: New Oscar rule limits song noms to 2 per film
Commentary: Oh this is not the path we should be going down. But it does certainly speak to the "hollywood" feel good behavior. You can be good, but not too good, as you wouldn't want to be better than anyone else. We give first graders ribbons for participating so as not to hurt their little feeling and they'll try try again. The academy has fallen into the "let's never allow anyone to feel disappointed in life" category by making this change. If someone is a good composer and writes the best music ever, why should it matter that someone else didn't. Except that people who write trash and call it music will never get a chance at an Oscar if we don't change the rules. This mentality is pervasive and demoralizing. We live in a world filled with ninnies!
Commentary: Oh this is not the path we should be going down. But it does certainly speak to the "hollywood" feel good behavior. You can be good, but not too good, as you wouldn't want to be better than anyone else. We give first graders ribbons for participating so as not to hurt their little feeling and they'll try try again. The academy has fallen into the "let's never allow anyone to feel disappointed in life" category by making this change. If someone is a good composer and writes the best music ever, why should it matter that someone else didn't. Except that people who write trash and call it music will never get a chance at an Oscar if we don't change the rules. This mentality is pervasive and demoralizing. We live in a world filled with ninnies!
Monday, June 9, 2008
Oh yeah?
Headline: Bernanke: Danger of downturn appears to have faded
Commentary: Evidently Mr. Bernanke hasn't read the rest of today's news. Maybe someone needs to let him know of the fact that more people than ever are filing for bankruptcy, food stamps and housing foreclosures. This morning I was at the grocery store, an elderly gentleman in front of me had 12 items in his cart. Some soda pop, bread, a couple cans of vegetables milk eggs and
sausage. I think he tossed a candy bar in there at the last minute. His bill came to $46. His electric bill will probably be over a hundred dollars this month because of the heat. I am not sure where Mr. Bernanke is shopping, but he isn't buying his own gas or milk and I'm sure his house is paid off.
Commentary: Evidently Mr. Bernanke hasn't read the rest of today's news. Maybe someone needs to let him know of the fact that more people than ever are filing for bankruptcy, food stamps and housing foreclosures. This morning I was at the grocery store, an elderly gentleman in front of me had 12 items in his cart. Some soda pop, bread, a couple cans of vegetables milk eggs and
sausage. I think he tossed a candy bar in there at the last minute. His bill came to $46. His electric bill will probably be over a hundred dollars this month because of the heat. I am not sure where Mr. Bernanke is shopping, but he isn't buying his own gas or milk and I'm sure his house is paid off.
Friday, June 6, 2008
There really is something to this oil pricing thing.
Headline: Oil's biggest day yet drags down stocks
Commentary: The story is about how oil prices will be at $150 a barrel by July. This link explains in much more understandable terms. There is an agenda out there that most of us don't understand clearly. The rich will get richer, the poor poorer. If we don't all wake up and quit drinking Al Gore's kool-aid there won't be any quality to our lives at all. God is in charge of the climate on this planet not Al Gore or his minions of the world.
Commentary: The story is about how oil prices will be at $150 a barrel by July. This link explains in much more understandable terms. There is an agenda out there that most of us don't understand clearly. The rich will get richer, the poor poorer. If we don't all wake up and quit drinking Al Gore's kool-aid there won't be any quality to our lives at all. God is in charge of the climate on this planet not Al Gore or his minions of the world.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Oh look a Pringles time capsule!
Headline: Ashes of Pringles can designer buried in his work
Commentary: I must applaud Mr. Baur for his inventiveness and creativity. Fredric Baur invented one of the most widely used packages in the world in 1966. His patent was granted in 1970. He then, very creatively showed us a different use for said packaging. I think I would have loved to know him in real life. My best to his family, loved ones and friends. May you find peace in reminiscing about his life for years to come.
Commentary: I must applaud Mr. Baur for his inventiveness and creativity. Fredric Baur invented one of the most widely used packages in the world in 1966. His patent was granted in 1970. He then, very creatively showed us a different use for said packaging. I think I would have loved to know him in real life. My best to his family, loved ones and friends. May you find peace in reminiscing about his life for years to come.
A Champion of healthcare
Headline: Kennedy Undergors Surgery
Commentary: This is great news for Senator Kennedy. However, I wonder, just wonder how many other people with the same condition were told by their insurance company to go home and die because there was nothing more that could be done for them. Insurance companies run healthcare in the U.S. Senator Kennedy has helped put this system in place. He has the best healthcare plan available to a U.S. citizens. We, the taxpayers, provide it for him. Shouldn't we all be so lucky?
Commentary: This is great news for Senator Kennedy. However, I wonder, just wonder how many other people with the same condition were told by their insurance company to go home and die because there was nothing more that could be done for them. Insurance companies run healthcare in the U.S. Senator Kennedy has helped put this system in place. He has the best healthcare plan available to a U.S. citizens. We, the taxpayers, provide it for him. Shouldn't we all be so lucky?
Friday, May 30, 2008
So very Christlike
Headline: Clinton Mocked At Obama Church
Commentary: From Pastor Michael Pfleg's Church website: "Pfleger says that “as church, we are supposed to model Christ. I cannot think of a more Christ-like activity to go to those whom society has seemingly forgotten about and abandoned, those who are broken-hearted and wounded and tell them unequivocally that God loves them, we love them and want to help them. That is what being a Christian, a disciple of Christ is all about.” This quote is taken from a fund raising letter sent to parishioners in March of 2000. A cached version can be found here.
Yes, it is actions Like Pastor Pfleg's that bring our communities to Christ. It is obvious from the words spoken at the sermon on Sunday that the above quote is just lip service pandering to the community for donations. When a person truly has put on the robes of Christ he can't say the things he said in that church on Sunday. This is not a race issue. Many people would like it to be a race issue. This is a religious issue. Are we teaching hate in the church? Or are we truly concerned with the sharing the redemption of Christ? I understand why people turn their backs on the church when a pastor of 30 years is able to spew such hate on one day, and pander about Christ the next.
Some may argue that he has apologized. He was having a bad day and lost his way when caught up in the emotion of supporting a candidate. Number 1, he was in a church. What has happened to separation of church and state. Number 2, I'll accept that argument from someone who is in the world and works in a business or other setting daily. But not a person who proscribes to be have taken a vow of poverty to spread the good word of the Gospel of Christ. The Good word of God should be part of your fiber, be part of who you are and such words of hate should not be able to be roused in you. It is unfortunate that he lost his way like this. Repentance should heal all of us, it is to bad Christ has to take those stripes as well. I can forgive him, however, he does need to be accountable for the repercussions of his words and actions.
Commentary: From Pastor Michael Pfleg's Church website: "Pfleger says that “as church, we are supposed to model Christ. I cannot think of a more Christ-like activity to go to those whom society has seemingly forgotten about and abandoned, those who are broken-hearted and wounded and tell them unequivocally that God loves them, we love them and want to help them. That is what being a Christian, a disciple of Christ is all about.” This quote is taken from a fund raising letter sent to parishioners in March of 2000. A cached version can be found here.
Yes, it is actions Like Pastor Pfleg's that bring our communities to Christ. It is obvious from the words spoken at the sermon on Sunday that the above quote is just lip service pandering to the community for donations. When a person truly has put on the robes of Christ he can't say the things he said in that church on Sunday. This is not a race issue. Many people would like it to be a race issue. This is a religious issue. Are we teaching hate in the church? Or are we truly concerned with the sharing the redemption of Christ? I understand why people turn their backs on the church when a pastor of 30 years is able to spew such hate on one day, and pander about Christ the next.
Some may argue that he has apologized. He was having a bad day and lost his way when caught up in the emotion of supporting a candidate. Number 1, he was in a church. What has happened to separation of church and state. Number 2, I'll accept that argument from someone who is in the world and works in a business or other setting daily. But not a person who proscribes to be have taken a vow of poverty to spread the good word of the Gospel of Christ. The Good word of God should be part of your fiber, be part of who you are and such words of hate should not be able to be roused in you. It is unfortunate that he lost his way like this. Repentance should heal all of us, it is to bad Christ has to take those stripes as well. I can forgive him, however, he does need to be accountable for the repercussions of his words and actions.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Earthquake will be bad someday.
Headline: California Quake scientists detail impact of 'Big One'
Oh please, anyone with half a brain could do this. Have you seen the news lately? I could have written the descriptive in my sleep. However, I didn't go to school and get a degree in prognostication. Maybe I should have, then it wouldn't bug me so much. At least weather people go on TV and dress in goofy looking clothes so we can laugh at them before they "predict" the weather. I cannot believe these people get paid to do this for a living. Who else could continue to get paid just for making predictions like this? aaack.
Commentary: To quote from the article "Water and sewer pipes crack. Power fails. Part of major highways break. Some high-rise steel frame buildings and older concrete and brick structures collapse.
Hospitals are swamped with 50,000 injured as all of Southern California reels from a blow on par with the Sept. 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina: $200 billion in damage to the economy, and 1,800 dead.
Only about 700 of those people are victims of building collapses. Many others are lost to the 1,600 fires burning across the region — too many for firefighters to tackle at once."
Hospitals are swamped with 50,000 injured as all of Southern California reels from a blow on par with the Sept. 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina: $200 billion in damage to the economy, and 1,800 dead.
Only about 700 of those people are victims of building collapses. Many others are lost to the 1,600 fires burning across the region — too many for firefighters to tackle at once."
Oh please, anyone with half a brain could do this. Have you seen the news lately? I could have written the descriptive in my sleep. However, I didn't go to school and get a degree in prognostication. Maybe I should have, then it wouldn't bug me so much. At least weather people go on TV and dress in goofy looking clothes so we can laugh at them before they "predict" the weather. I cannot believe these people get paid to do this for a living. Who else could continue to get paid just for making predictions like this? aaack.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Someone isn't clear on the definition of Rock Star
Headline: Ashlee Simpson Marries Fellow Rock Star
Commentary: Okay, in this universe a "Rock Star" is rooted in Rock Music. A culture created in the 60s, 70s and 80s. When you think of Rock Stars you think of Neil Peart, Getty Lee, Roger Waters, Mick Jagger, Tony Iommi, Ian Gillan, Ozzy Osbourne. The list goes on and on. These guys write, perform, and live rock music.
Ashlee and her new mate are wannabe rockers. Ashlee Simpson couldn't define rock music in a sentence if her life depended on it. Pop music singer maybe. And her husband? Not a rock star either. Maybe a musician who plays a bit of rock music, but a suicide attempt and a statement of bi-sexuality does not a rock star make.
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