If you thought education in America was extremely important you may want to rethink that just a little. To get things in more of a perspective, if u like I thought there was such a thing as kids these days. Take a look at these two videos and tell me if I'm losing my mind. Gone are the days of playing with big wheels, legos, water guns and smoking candy cigarettes, now kids are stealing cars, rolling weed, smoking cigarettes and acting out scenes from Scarface for school plays.
Seems as if we are headed toward having a generation of males that are either homosexual or ganstas, and females who strive to be hip hop groupies for fame. I remember being sent a video just a few years ago of a little girl in pre-school dancing like a stripper, bent over with her behind shaking in a little boys crotch, but lately, the photos that are appearing on facebook and these two videos make you ponder exactly what is to come of the next generation.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Where Have All The Kids Gone? - It’s Kite Flying Season
I may just be feeling a bit of nostalgia, but, I can remember as a kid growing up, my friends, my brothers, and I couldn’t wait for the months of March and April. We would always get new kites to fly around Lake Michigan.
Nowadays it seems kids don’t even play outside. It kind of bums me out because if you’ve checked out any kites these days they are built in a much better manner. No more plastic kites made out of your local grocers plastic bags. Kites now are made of nylon or many different materials like canvas; sort of the same material that tarps are made of, which I’m sure gives the kite more durability and probably and overall better flight experience.
I can recall flying kites for hours on end. I’d let my kite’s string extend totally off the reel, as if it could soar with airplanes above the clouds. The one I favored most of all had a bald eagle print, but I was saddened when a huge gust of wind helped it meet its demise.
Kites in those days had creative prints, but the wooden sticks construction was not thought thru in the case of crash scenarios, making for a quick end to a kite season in some instances.
So parents here’s my plea, as spring arrives initiate some outdoor activities with the little spuds. Take it to an open air area with as few trees as possible, and enjoy how technology, mixed with the creative mind, has developed a much more pleasurable kite flying experience.
Nowadays it seems kids don’t even play outside. It kind of bums me out because if you’ve checked out any kites these days they are built in a much better manner. No more plastic kites made out of your local grocers plastic bags. Kites now are made of nylon or many different materials like canvas; sort of the same material that tarps are made of, which I’m sure gives the kite more durability and probably and overall better flight experience.
I can recall flying kites for hours on end. I’d let my kite’s string extend totally off the reel, as if it could soar with airplanes above the clouds. The one I favored most of all had a bald eagle print, but I was saddened when a huge gust of wind helped it meet its demise.
Kites in those days had creative prints, but the wooden sticks construction was not thought thru in the case of crash scenarios, making for a quick end to a kite season in some instances.
So parents here’s my plea, as spring arrives initiate some outdoor activities with the little spuds. Take it to an open air area with as few trees as possible, and enjoy how technology, mixed with the creative mind, has developed a much more pleasurable kite flying experience.
Friday, March 19, 2010
America's Healthcare Fluke
I've sat and watched all the hoopla on display by America's politicians over the past few weeks now, and it just all seemed to look like the best theatrics not even Broadway has on a September night in New York City. First, let me start off by saying Healthcare for everyone is not a problem at all for me. The Americans that oppose the bill may have a good argument also. I, probably like all the politicians, have not read what has been proposed, but I do know that American allies in Britain have a different view on Healthcare. In a documentary I watched, a British fellow did have a rather interesting P.O.V. He said they have no problem paying for others to be healthy because it would give himself the satisfaction of knowing that if people he passed on the street were in as a good health condition as possible it would give him a better chance of staying in the clear of catching meningitis or something terrible like that.
Well I'll be... That kind of makes sense to me. Here's where I get thrown off about Healthcare in America though. These uber smart ladies and gents in Washington like to debate over everything as if simplicity has never existed in politics. For one, I've seen these commercials advertising that people should ask more questions when going to the doctor. Why not tell citizens to ask more questions in general like the amazing documentary Food, Inc.... Where does my food come from? Is there anything in my food that shouldn't be? Why does my country have the most obese people in the world? Now, that would possibly happen in a perfect world. Clearly if the health of fellow Americans were an issue this would be a diagnosis of the problem and not the symptoms.
We now live in the age of we're so smart that we now engineer our food in a lab. Haha! Forget growing the food our parents and grandparents were familiar with. We can make it better, give it more protein, make it bigger, fuller in flavor, and have a longer shelf life. How genius is that? Never mind testing it to see if it has any ill effects on peoples immune systems or anything. Americans simply don't care to know. If you don't believe it, just go out and ask any regular Joe what a GMO is. More than likely they'll have no clue. For those of you who have not the slightest idea of those three letters, here's a bigger, more familiar word, or name, with just about the same aptitude; FRANKENSTEIN. Picture that in the sense of dealing on a smaller scale with a seed.
In Sir's opinion the healthcare crisis was brought on by a partnership between corporate friends. The food industry helps out the medical industry which in turn feeds the insurance industry. Never before has diabetes, blood pressure, and obesity been more prevalent. I'm not an expert on recommendations, but I would say that people should at least start to grow your own food again. I know some may say that's not a clear resolution and I would not disagree. The seeds you may purchase could very well be GMO's . So true! I had to learn from my own mistakes, you have companies out posing their seeds as organic even though their seeds are spawned straight out of a lab. (Huh-uhm Ferry-Morse). Could you say that you're eating real food if your food produces a seed that cant be regrown? There are a few companies sprinkled around that have real seeds. A big company named Monsanto is closing in on all op posers as I type. They are the biggest seed perp's in the world.(Also the parent company of Ferry-Morse).
Unlike the England counterparts who demanded that their food be labeled if it's a GMO or not (Kudos to you guys), in America that's nowhere near the case. It's not a state or country that does not have GMO production. For almost fifty years this has been going on. Still, many Americans have no knowledge of whats going into their bodies. We're deep in the mud on this issue because some of your favorite politicians sit on the board of these companies. Now would you go against your money pot when you're on the verge of being $3million dollars richer every year. Exactly! Now I'm not trying to spark an uprising in anti-anything, all I'm saying is ask more questions about how to solve the problem not the symptoms. I have my very own garden, and would you believe I got knocked for loving to grow my own food. The funny part of it is the people knocking me have all of these health conditions caused by not eating healthy.
Well I'll be... That kind of makes sense to me. Here's where I get thrown off about Healthcare in America though. These uber smart ladies and gents in Washington like to debate over everything as if simplicity has never existed in politics. For one, I've seen these commercials advertising that people should ask more questions when going to the doctor. Why not tell citizens to ask more questions in general like the amazing documentary Food, Inc.... Where does my food come from? Is there anything in my food that shouldn't be? Why does my country have the most obese people in the world? Now, that would possibly happen in a perfect world. Clearly if the health of fellow Americans were an issue this would be a diagnosis of the problem and not the symptoms.
We now live in the age of we're so smart that we now engineer our food in a lab. Haha! Forget growing the food our parents and grandparents were familiar with. We can make it better, give it more protein, make it bigger, fuller in flavor, and have a longer shelf life. How genius is that? Never mind testing it to see if it has any ill effects on peoples immune systems or anything. Americans simply don't care to know. If you don't believe it, just go out and ask any regular Joe what a GMO is. More than likely they'll have no clue. For those of you who have not the slightest idea of those three letters, here's a bigger, more familiar word, or name, with just about the same aptitude; FRANKENSTEIN. Picture that in the sense of dealing on a smaller scale with a seed.
In Sir's opinion the healthcare crisis was brought on by a partnership between corporate friends. The food industry helps out the medical industry which in turn feeds the insurance industry. Never before has diabetes, blood pressure, and obesity been more prevalent. I'm not an expert on recommendations, but I would say that people should at least start to grow your own food again. I know some may say that's not a clear resolution and I would not disagree. The seeds you may purchase could very well be GMO's . So true! I had to learn from my own mistakes, you have companies out posing their seeds as organic even though their seeds are spawned straight out of a lab. (Huh-uhm Ferry-Morse). Could you say that you're eating real food if your food produces a seed that cant be regrown? There are a few companies sprinkled around that have real seeds. A big company named Monsanto is closing in on all op posers as I type. They are the biggest seed perp's in the world.(Also the parent company of Ferry-Morse).
Unlike the England counterparts who demanded that their food be labeled if it's a GMO or not (Kudos to you guys), in America that's nowhere near the case. It's not a state or country that does not have GMO production. For almost fifty years this has been going on. Still, many Americans have no knowledge of whats going into their bodies. We're deep in the mud on this issue because some of your favorite politicians sit on the board of these companies. Now would you go against your money pot when you're on the verge of being $3million dollars richer every year. Exactly! Now I'm not trying to spark an uprising in anti-anything, all I'm saying is ask more questions about how to solve the problem not the symptoms. I have my very own garden, and would you believe I got knocked for loving to grow my own food. The funny part of it is the people knocking me have all of these health conditions caused by not eating healthy.
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