Politics & The Anti-Christ

Am I the only one who is tired of everything becoming political? Everything from movies to little league games are turned into a political event. What can't a movie just be a movie and that's it. If a kid isn't a good as the rest so what. Why can't one team lose in t-ball? They don't even keep score anymore. What is that teaching kids? It doesn't matter if you when or lose? It does matter. When these kids get to be adults and they don't have, from a young age, the ingrained knowledge that some people win and some lose they will have an unnatural expectation of life. They need to know that if you don't work hard you won't get anywhere in life. To many young adults exect to be handed a high paying job and have no responsibilities as soon as they leave high school.

Politics is the Anti-Christ. It is what is distroying our society. Sometimes I wish there was a new world we could sail off to and start anew. Where's the Mayflower?

McInsanity At The Golden Arches

McDonald's has agree to pay $8.5 million to settle a lawsuit over trans-fats in cooking oil. $7 million with go to the American Heart Association and 1.5 million will go to an public education program. Fox's story, NZ version.

It's about time the companies started taking responsibility for their actions. these companies have been taking advantage of the public for too long. Stan, you are so predictable. No one forced anyone to eat at McDonald's as far as I know. no they didn't but mcdonald's knew they were selling a harmful product.

I predicted this after the tobacco lawsuits. These money hungry laywers are going to go after every industry trying to make themselves a lot of money. john, you and your republican friends want to keep protecting your big corporate campaign contributors at the expense of doing what's right. Is it right for companies to be responsible for someone misusing their product? What if a kid plays his iPod on full blast for 4 weeks straight, is Apple to blame? Where is the common sense? There needs to be accountability for the actions of these mega-corporations, this is a good first start.

With the settlement of this lawsuit will other fast-food chains be sued? Time will tell.

Votes, Where They Count

The historic election in Saudi Arabia this week is a great step towards a government run by the people rather than oppressive dictatorships that are common in the middle east. This was a limited election with woman not being able to vote and the elected officials having limited power. This is certainly a positive first step.

Stan, What America should take notice of is the voter turn out. In some areas 92% of the men turned out to vote. it's great is see elections in a parts of the world where there hasn't been but there is continuation of the societal culture of oppressing women. until that changes there isn't freedom in saudi arabia. I agree with you. I'd like to see woman having the right to vote and to be equal to men, as they are here. woman aren't treated equal to men! look at wage statistics, men constantly get paid more then woman. men get promoted quicker than woman. to say that woman and treated as equals is naive. Let's save this discussion for another time, woman are treat unequal to men but often to their advantage. advantage? what crack-pot magazine of you been taking into the can.

Back to the voting in Saudi Arabia, there were more than 1800 candidates. This is a society that is starving for democracy and freedom. We see the same thing in Iraq. People are dodge bombs and risking their life to vote. People were threatened with death if they voted and they did anyways. here we go again, george bush saved the world. someone keep him a cookie. yeah, people voted but it was for show more than any thing substantial. You just said that it's great that a first vote took place in Saudi Arabia why isn't this a great first step. because george bush push through this election to up his approval ratings. the interim government of iraq just 6 weeks before the election was saying it shouldn't happen. ask the people who were killed on election day and the days afterwards how they feel about the election.

I wish no one would have been killed but you can't cancel and election out of fear. The people doing the horrible acts are terrorists, fear is their only weapon. By continuing the elections in spike of their treats is one way to disarm them. and get people killed. the country should have been safe BEFORE the election. there was polling places that didn't open because people weren't safe. The election in Iraq showed the world what can happen when people what to be free.

The elections in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Palestine should be a beacon of change for the rest of the world. If you want to be free, you can. It will take work and some sacrifices will undoubtedly happen but freedom is possible.

Peace? Or is that Piece

Here we go again, peace is apparently on the distant horizon in the middle east. The new Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas fired some security chiefs for letting Hamas continue to blow things up. The Israelis have made some overtures to working with the Palestinians.

All this is great but aren't we on Middle East Peace part XI? Haven't we seen this movie before? How long will "peace" last this time. A week, a month? give'em a chance, dude. They have a chance. Secretary Rice is doing her diplomat thing, Egypt is in there trying to help make something happen. This is the best chance in a long time. since clinton brought arafat and barak together. bush did nothing. Clinton didn't do anything other than facilitate a meeting. He didn't broker peace in the middle east. If Kerry would have won the election, you'd be saying he was responsible for the cease-fire and that because Bush was in office peace couldn't happen in the middle east. that's ridiculous. it's the republicans who have a an interest in turmoil in the middle east. They do? How's that? they can keep pouring money into the military, keep haliburton and other fat companies on the dole. bush can keep using the "we're at war" slogan when ever he does something to take away the freedoms that this country was founded on. We are in Iraq trying to make that part of the world a safer place by confronting terrorism and prompting democracy. To say that the republicans want war so companies in the U.S. can make a profit is beyond ridiculous, it's absurd. whatever.

With a tentative cease-fire and the desire to talk and discuss peace, we have a piece of the puzzle to slowing or maybe even eliminating the killing of innocent people.

Strike Up The Band

Blog Day 1:
Strike up the band. Doesn't it seem that there should be some kind of fanfare when someone starts something new? Wouldn't it be great if our lives had a Hollywood special effects guy dubbing in sounds throughout our day.

Has anyone else noticed recently that the media keeps jumping on the sensational news stories only to find out they are faked? Today there was a story of a woman who claimed her baby was tossed out of a car window. The media wants to be first so much that they don't stop to give it the ol' smell test. When it's a sensational story, they are all that much quicker to leap into action.

wow, another blog railing on the media, how orginal. it doesn't have to be orginal. Facts are facts. so what, the media is profit driven so is walmart but I don't see you complaining about that. True but Walmart is very clear in what it does. yeah but it's all the same. You don't make any sense. i don't make sense, complaining about the media because you have nothing better to do doesn't make any sense. I do have better things to and I'm going to go do them.