Banning Barbie

Has anyone heard of parental control, parental duty, parental responsibility? It appears not. I forgot what city or town or state banned the sale of Barbie dolls because something along the line of giving girls a false body image. Do these morons watch TV or listen to the radio, this country is going down the toilet and they're worried about a doll? If you're worried about false images you better ban TV, movies, magazines anywhere there are pictures of women. It's American culture actually every cultural has it's "perfect" type so now they want to make a CHILD'S TOY, A DOLL THAT HAS BEEN AROUND FOR 50 YEARS ILLEGAL right up there with automatic weapons and crack these people need a life.Back to my first question to my way of thinking it is the responsibility of the parents to give their offspring a good self image, to explain life to them that everyone is different and they should just be the best they can be. It doesn't appear parents can handle this so let's dump it on the government and the taxpayers. Yes the taxpayers who do think paid the legislators to enact this inane law, and it'll probably cost more to enforce it I can just see it now the BEA (Barbie Enforcement Agency) raiding toy stores guns drawn and all, it'll be a new reality show. How about the people who already one or more, do they have to turn them in? Will we have a new criminal element 6-12 year old girls dealing in illegal Barbies? Will they be suspended if they bring one to school?
Morons and idiots are running the world. This has to right up there with the stupidest law enacted in the history of the USA maybe the world

Chimp victim

Can anyone explain to me why they are keeping this poor woman alive? No hand, no nose, no eyelids, facial structure totally destroyed, and they are not sure if she even has brain activity. Is that a life? How callous and uncaring is it to force someone to live like that? Are they just doing it to get the money for her care? I've never understood how cold and self centered people can be when it comes to keeping people alive when they have absolutely no quality of life. Don't tell me it's a gods choice to end someones life not when the only things keeping that person alive are machines that is nothing more than people playing god. Suicide and assisted suicide should be totally legal.

Obama hype

On the radio they were talking about “hype”. How Americans have the habit of hyping up the poorer choice. One example they were using was VHS over Beta. According to experts Beta was the better tape, yet VHS spent more money in hyping itself and became the major brand. It seems to happen in everything Starbucks is another example. The other thing Americans enjoy is novelty. When a product is being hyped and it is novel it becomes wildly successful for a time then reality sets in and buyers remorse starts. Is this what is happening with the new president? Did he only win because of the hype and the fact he was the first black candidate? Is buyer’s remorse setting in and that is why he is having problems getting solid democratic backing? Is he really the best person in this position? None of his ideas appear to help the average working class American; they just seem to be aimed at alienating big business and corporations. Don’t say we need to blindly get behind him and support his proposals that’s how most dictatorships, start blind foolish support and obedience. This new green house gas tax on business is just going to drive more companies out of America. I think it would be a lot more intelligent to loosen EPA and other restrictions on businesses to bring them back, to have them expand, to put more Americans back to work. Down the road work with industry to keep jobs in the US and protect the environment intelligently not with knee jerk reactions. If Obama and his administration does not do something quickly to bring real manufacturing jobs back to the US we won’t need to worry about EPA regulations, we won’t have any businesses any tax base any country. Taxing and putting the harshest restrictions on businesses in the world is not going to get the US going again. 4% percent of the popular vote was not a mandate or landslide by any stretch of an imagination. Obama has a long way to go to prove he is the best person for the position he holds and driving jobs out of the country doesn’t appear to me to be pro American. Maybe the radio show was correct and the hyped product is the worst choice or maybe Obama can prove that theory wrong. It’s all up to him.
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More brain dead government

The right hand says "Let's raise taxes on cigarettes"The left hand says "Let's give smokers tax money in the way of programs and incentives to help them quit"
Let's increase revenue and plan on using it and yet be doing everything we can to stop people from buying the item that is going to raise our revenue. Simply mind boggling that the people who dream this up can actually dress themselves. Scarier is that they are allowed to and do procreate there by insuring further generations of morons and idiots to run governments.
When more people quit smoking where is the government going to raise taxes and fees to make up the difference? Also are the tax increases going to at least cover the programs and incentives to get people to quit? I'm taking about the advertisements to quit also.

Winston tastes good like a cigarette should

Winston tastes good like a cigarette should, call for Philip Morris; I’d walk a mile for a Camel, the old cigarette slogans or jingles. I remember when they were on TV and radio along with liquor ads. Doctors use to appear in ads telling you which was their favorite brand. Then again back then they didn’t know the dangers of smoking. It was accepted I can remember smoking in grocery stores.
Then they started to find out how dangerous smoking was and slowly as it was verified and published the ads were taken off TV then radio.
What replaced them?
Ads for drugs, doctors, hospitals, insurance companies and the most dangerous of all, attorneys replaced cigarettes and booze. I’m not sure that was a good trade.
When I was growing up outside of aspirin, alka seltzer things like that none of the items I listed before were allowed to be advertised
I was musing today on health care today, cold blooded insurance companies, DRGs, doctors who don’t care about patients and are just in it for the money, drugs that can cause more problems than they cure, drugs that become addictive in a dose or two. People live longer, is the quality of life better? People without medical training see an advertisement for a drug and go to their doctor and demand it. The doctor prescribes it; the drug company makes money the doctor gets paid for the visit. Then the patient has reactions to the medication, more doctor visits and more drugs. The patient’s quality of life goes down yet they live longer using more drugs and doctor visits. Doctors and drug companies get richer. I thought it was illegal to practice medicine without a license yet advertising companies are telling people how to diagnose themselves what would you call that? Lawyers say it’s legal and why it keeps them rich as well.
We may not have lived as long on the average yet somehow I think we were healthier, happier, had more personal freedom and a better quality of life when cigarette ads were on TV and radio.

Boycott hersheys chocolate

Hershey's chocolate is closing a plant in PA after 23 years and moving it to Mexico. Way to go NAFTA. Where's Obama and his people on this?They can tell someone not to buy a jet but protecting US workers I guess not. I think the article in the paper said 260 jobs.Is Nestles part of Hershey? Someone let me know what chocolate I can buy to support American workers.
I agree you can't boycott everything made outside of the country it is a global economy. However why should we support a company that puts American workers out of jobs. They moved to better their profits they only get that if we continue to buy it now. Are Mexico's FDA standards up to American standards? Or are they going to sell sub standard chocolate. NAFTA is great isn't it.
While it's only chocolate it's a stand for American jobs and American workers. Chocolate happens to be the product. It's a stand to tell the American government NAFTA with Mexico isn't working, all it's doing is costing American jobs. Buy Swiss chocolate, German chocolate Chinese whatever just don't buy Hershey's they are anti American. Maybe we should all tell our grocery stores and mom & pop shops to stock something else. This is how true change is made grassroots with real Americans standing up for other Americans.Like the song said 'If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything'I stand for Americans for America.I hope Hershey's hasn't received any bailout money.



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Obama the puppet

Obama is nothing more then a puppet on Pelosi's and other senior democrats strings. They say jump he says how high.
Lets' face it he was not elected by the democratic party he was elected by crack addicts, welfare recipients and people who never voted before and talked into doing it by ACORN. Had he been elected by the democratic party, had the rulers of it really wanted him they would have stood behind him a lot better than they have. Someone made a comment that the government giving money is good and it will get us out of the depression. It didn't work with FDR check your history WWII got us out of that one. No the government giving out money is like giving a fix to an crack addict, good for a short high. What is needed is to have new jobs in the private sector otherwise we're doomed. If that means cutting pork, welfare, and a lot of other services for now to give the private sector tax cuts so they open new plants and stores and businesses that's what is needed. Pelsoi and the rest of them don't care they have their millions and their retirements. Crack addicts and welfare recipients don't want their benefits cut because they may actually have to work. So who pays the price for these losers? The hard working American taxpayer. I'm not talking corporate welfare, I'm talking that any one who wants a loan to start or help grow a business gets it at a reasonable interest rate that must be payed back to the government just like they would have to to a bank.Credit card companies are forced to cut their interest rates to no more then 5% above prime. That would free up billions in disposable income that would stimulate the economy. We need real action to get the private sector moving, you just can't tax government employees if that's all we have to pay for the government it just doesn't work.We need a true leader not a puppet on the string of a useless self seeking politicians.