In case nobody saw the morning news....Obama signed the pork filled stimulus bill after declaring he would veto any bill like that, that it was not the time for earmarks.......
So much for change.......
But also as usual the morning news shows are trying to act like they are questioning what he did, but they are doing it so softly, apparently it is business as usual there too..
If it had been Bush, he would have been skewered, instead of gently and apologetically fileted....
Nice to know some things never CHANGE......
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Thursday, March 05, 2009
bad barbie......
So our lovely state has a legislator who has nothing else on his plate to deal with, and all the time in the world to plot how to screw up little girls' playtime. Not like there is an economic crisis, companies shutting down down all over the state, including a major aluminum manufacturer right here in my own part of the state. But this twit's priority is to outlaw the Barbie doll in this state.....
Oh please.
Yes Barbie is not realistically shaped anything like a real woman. Never has been. Not at any point in the last 50 years of its existence. It's a doll. Get over it. It's a toy. How many other kids toys have you seen that are completely based on reality? Anybody watch cartoons in the last 15 years and see the merchandise from them? Please.
Barbie is damaging to little girls self esteems and gives them a false body image to live up to....that's the "logic" behind this attack on an American icon. Get a grip...What is more damaging----and I speak as the parent of a 7 yr old girl who loves her barbies----is the constant barrage of super skinny people touting all kinds of diet systems because apparently unless you are a size 2 or less, you are horrible and disgusting and fat and sloppy and lazy.......
Bullshit.......
Sorry, but when I had to have a talk with my daughter at the age of 5 to talk about the fact that she is not even close to being fat.....something is wrong with this society's priorities.....I personally do not give a rat's rear end for most of the crap coming from Hollywood and Madison Avenue ad agencies......but I do care deeply about the damage their images can cause in a growing child. And Shellie did not get this from her barbie dolls, but from watching the commercials that are played in between segments of KIDS SHOWS!!!!!!! What the heck do we need a Nutrisystem commercial during Hannah Montana or Spongebob?
Not to mention the numbers of parents who place their kids on diets to keep them from getting "fat", when actually feeding them once in a while would make them look a little healthier. Now I have nothing against eating healthier---Lord knows we all could benefit from that---now if I can just bring myself to do so when I go to the store later----but when you have grade schoolers who cannot touch a french fry because Mommy said they would get fat if they did, well......do I really need to publish my thoughts?
I know the pitfalls of being overweight....I have been for years, and have a couple of health problems I could associate with it----my blood pressure and my weakening leg joints for a couple.I am working on it. And very slowly it is coming off, according to the scale, if not my clothes. But I don't walk around wishing I was shaped like Barbie, nor do I deny myself a cookie if I want one. Nor do I tell my kids they are too fat or too skinny....I try to give them a positive self image and if any fingers ever get pointed, believe me, they get pointed back at myself by me.
Parents need to quit focusing on the superficiality of the Barbie issue and the shallowness of what one looks like, and focus on keeping their kids healthy, both physically and mentally and emotionally, instead of scarring them because they do not live up to an impossible ideal.
And stupid legislators need to get off their rears and focus on what is really wrong that needs dealt with instead of finding yet another way to make themselves, and this state, look foolish...
Oh please.
Yes Barbie is not realistically shaped anything like a real woman. Never has been. Not at any point in the last 50 years of its existence. It's a doll. Get over it. It's a toy. How many other kids toys have you seen that are completely based on reality? Anybody watch cartoons in the last 15 years and see the merchandise from them? Please.
Barbie is damaging to little girls self esteems and gives them a false body image to live up to....that's the "logic" behind this attack on an American icon. Get a grip...What is more damaging----and I speak as the parent of a 7 yr old girl who loves her barbies----is the constant barrage of super skinny people touting all kinds of diet systems because apparently unless you are a size 2 or less, you are horrible and disgusting and fat and sloppy and lazy.......
Bullshit.......
Sorry, but when I had to have a talk with my daughter at the age of 5 to talk about the fact that she is not even close to being fat.....something is wrong with this society's priorities.....I personally do not give a rat's rear end for most of the crap coming from Hollywood and Madison Avenue ad agencies......but I do care deeply about the damage their images can cause in a growing child. And Shellie did not get this from her barbie dolls, but from watching the commercials that are played in between segments of KIDS SHOWS!!!!!!! What the heck do we need a Nutrisystem commercial during Hannah Montana or Spongebob?
Not to mention the numbers of parents who place their kids on diets to keep them from getting "fat", when actually feeding them once in a while would make them look a little healthier. Now I have nothing against eating healthier---Lord knows we all could benefit from that---now if I can just bring myself to do so when I go to the store later----but when you have grade schoolers who cannot touch a french fry because Mommy said they would get fat if they did, well......do I really need to publish my thoughts?
I know the pitfalls of being overweight....I have been for years, and have a couple of health problems I could associate with it----my blood pressure and my weakening leg joints for a couple.I am working on it. And very slowly it is coming off, according to the scale, if not my clothes. But I don't walk around wishing I was shaped like Barbie, nor do I deny myself a cookie if I want one. Nor do I tell my kids they are too fat or too skinny....I try to give them a positive self image and if any fingers ever get pointed, believe me, they get pointed back at myself by me.
Parents need to quit focusing on the superficiality of the Barbie issue and the shallowness of what one looks like, and focus on keeping their kids healthy, both physically and mentally and emotionally, instead of scarring them because they do not live up to an impossible ideal.
And stupid legislators need to get off their rears and focus on what is really wrong that needs dealt with instead of finding yet another way to make themselves, and this state, look foolish...
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
the word for today is.....
SNAFU..........in case you are brain dead, it stands for "situation normal, all "flubbed" up."
Hey trying to be a little nice here---it attempts to be a family blog.......
So the WV legislature is tackling, again, the problem of trying to get the county school systems to adhere to the required number of instructional days. Problem number one, we get snow and ice around here in the winter. Some years not so much, but the last couple of years or so, when it has hit, it has hit. Problem number two, school, by law, cannot begin prior to August 26th, nor end later than June 8th or 9th. Problem number three is we have a bunch of dumbasses in the legislature---hey I did NOT vote for them--you know my philosophy, if in office, vote them out......
The way I see it is we can get those 180 instructional days real easy......cut out the doggone teacher in service days----that gets you about 5 or 6 days easily. Next take away the OSE---or outside school environment days----which are just basically holidays for teachers and students with no actual purpose to them ........
When my generation was in school----I graduated HS in 1985----teachers knew going into the system that they would be "underpaid" for the amount of work they had to do. Granted, then they had to actually work. They had to grade papers and manually enter them into a gradebook, not some stupid computer program which they can then blame for not running correctly, thereby not giving the student the correct grade---been there done that. If they could not get it done on their planning periods or whatever, then teacher had homework too. A teacher actually had to deal with parents face to face, as well as maintain discipline in the classroom. Ah the days of corporal punishment. Not that I want a return to paddling, but maintaining the county codes of behavior would be nice, instead of a teacher or principal deciding on a whim that such and such behavior is no longer acceptable in one group of students but perfectly permissable in another...but I digress......
Now teachers complain that they are very underpaid, but they do less work.....go figure........
This is just the start of the ranting, folks........I'm getting my groove back on....must be the smell of rancid legislators..........
Hey trying to be a little nice here---it attempts to be a family blog.......
So the WV legislature is tackling, again, the problem of trying to get the county school systems to adhere to the required number of instructional days. Problem number one, we get snow and ice around here in the winter. Some years not so much, but the last couple of years or so, when it has hit, it has hit. Problem number two, school, by law, cannot begin prior to August 26th, nor end later than June 8th or 9th. Problem number three is we have a bunch of dumbasses in the legislature---hey I did NOT vote for them--you know my philosophy, if in office, vote them out......
The way I see it is we can get those 180 instructional days real easy......cut out the doggone teacher in service days----that gets you about 5 or 6 days easily. Next take away the OSE---or outside school environment days----which are just basically holidays for teachers and students with no actual purpose to them ........
When my generation was in school----I graduated HS in 1985----teachers knew going into the system that they would be "underpaid" for the amount of work they had to do. Granted, then they had to actually work. They had to grade papers and manually enter them into a gradebook, not some stupid computer program which they can then blame for not running correctly, thereby not giving the student the correct grade---been there done that. If they could not get it done on their planning periods or whatever, then teacher had homework too. A teacher actually had to deal with parents face to face, as well as maintain discipline in the classroom. Ah the days of corporal punishment. Not that I want a return to paddling, but maintaining the county codes of behavior would be nice, instead of a teacher or principal deciding on a whim that such and such behavior is no longer acceptable in one group of students but perfectly permissable in another...but I digress......
Now teachers complain that they are very underpaid, but they do less work.....go figure........
This is just the start of the ranting, folks........I'm getting my groove back on....must be the smell of rancid legislators..........
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