You know TV today is terrible. Even the good shows stink. They only have new shows for a few weeks and then they leave us with reruns for months or with crappy fill ins. It just stinks. And then shows you like, well they just disappear.
What's up with these reality shows? I mean how "real" are shows like Big Brother, Survivor, or American Idol? I'm sorry, but that's not reality for me! How about a show that follows someone from the time they get up and follows them all day either to work and around work or while a mom takes care of the kids? Pay the most entertaining real person a cool million. Sounds real to me!
And then take the news, well there's reality for you! How many times in the past 4 weeks have you heard Paris Hilton's name? Crazy isn't it? And why is she famous anyway? She's not even pretty anyway, she looks more like a spoiled, rotten bitch to me. Am I bitter? I don't know, I'd like to see how I'd behave if I had her cash. But I would venture a guess I would behave a lot better than she behaves.
And of course we hear about the idiots in Washington, from both parties and all branches of government. How inspiring! It's no wonder I don't watch TV, it's sickening. And now they want me to watch the Candidate Debates! How about when hell freezes over! And with global warming that won't happen anytime soon. If the candidates could get sometime to actually answer a question in full instead of only a few seconds, I might start watching. I want them to get the time to fully insert foot and swallow!
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Education: Then and Now
Yes I have a degree, a relatively new Associate degree in a relatively hot field. And yet the week before my check comes, we are literally pinching pennies. I wonder if staying blue collar wouldn't have been better? Yes we were still pinching pennies, and we were still requiring help from time to time, but nothing has changed from a financial perspective. What a fool I've been.
Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed going back to school, it gave me a sense of purpose and I loved learning what I learned. However, I learned it so I could make money. Yes it was interesting, but I took up that subjected for the income potential. So now, while I struggle to make the ends meet, which they usually don't, I wonder if I should have just followed my own path and let it lead me where it may.
I'm not advocating a reckless, thoughtless path. In fact, I am suggesting a profound and profane amount of introspection to find out what really makes a person's heart sing. I may sound a bit crazy, but I believe that if you do find out what it is that truly makes your heart sing, then that is what you are meant to do with your life.
You need to have faith in yourself and your own gifts. You have the ability to do so many great things. You have the intelligence to learn anything if presented to you in the right way. I am always going to advocate for school first, for almost everyone. But there are some for whom school (University) is just not the proper path. Let these people follow their own path. Help them as you would college students. They will make up the foundation of our society and a good portion of our elite.
The problem is, how many young people get to this stage? No as many as you might think. Too many students drop out of high school because they can't read or do math. Others drop out so they can work, or to take care of their families. The problem really is that too many children are being left behind by the "No Child left Behind" program. And don't get me started on the little children.
For me there is no excuse. I was raised in an era when schools taught students and we learned. We didn't all learn everything, but most learned most everything that was taught. And they had discipline. It all seemed to work, the only problem with it was we might have learned too much. Finding something to settle on has been difficult.
Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed going back to school, it gave me a sense of purpose and I loved learning what I learned. However, I learned it so I could make money. Yes it was interesting, but I took up that subjected for the income potential. So now, while I struggle to make the ends meet, which they usually don't, I wonder if I should have just followed my own path and let it lead me where it may.
I'm not advocating a reckless, thoughtless path. In fact, I am suggesting a profound and profane amount of introspection to find out what really makes a person's heart sing. I may sound a bit crazy, but I believe that if you do find out what it is that truly makes your heart sing, then that is what you are meant to do with your life.
You need to have faith in yourself and your own gifts. You have the ability to do so many great things. You have the intelligence to learn anything if presented to you in the right way. I am always going to advocate for school first, for almost everyone. But there are some for whom school (University) is just not the proper path. Let these people follow their own path. Help them as you would college students. They will make up the foundation of our society and a good portion of our elite.
The problem is, how many young people get to this stage? No as many as you might think. Too many students drop out of high school because they can't read or do math. Others drop out so they can work, or to take care of their families. The problem really is that too many children are being left behind by the "No Child left Behind" program. And don't get me started on the little children.
For me there is no excuse. I was raised in an era when schools taught students and we learned. We didn't all learn everything, but most learned most everything that was taught. And they had discipline. It all seemed to work, the only problem with it was we might have learned too much. Finding something to settle on has been difficult.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Congress get's a golden retirement and we get SS?
I just wonder why Congress can't fix the problems with Social Security. Actually, I believe I know. They have no incentive to. They aren't stuck swallowing Social Security like we are. In fact they have a golden retirement plan! And it's free for them, we foot the bill!
Yes, on average, we can expect to get a mere $1000 a month from our Social Security accounts when retire. That is if it is still there when we retire. (And it is not an entitlement, we've been paying into it all our working lives!) But a Congressperson will receive their full pay at retirement until they die, and it costs them nothing. They may get pay increases for cost of living increases and their spouses also draw about $275,000.00 a year for being a spouse of a Congressperson for their retirement years.
Now why would they care about changing the Social Security System? They aren't invested in it. Now if they had to retire on the same system we had to retire on, well now, they might have some reason to work on fixing it. Or even better, why not scrap Social Security and give the American people the retirement plan that Congress has? Why are we swallowing this system that is handed to us? Why are we just accepting the status quo? And not just on this issue but on Medicare, Prescription Drugs prices (and being able to buy them from Canada), the war in Iraq, illegal Immigration, warrantless wireless wiretaps, the erosion of our civil liberties in the name of security? No matter how you feel about these issues, participating in the conversation is your patriotic duty. Have an opposing opinion to the Administration does not diminish you patriotism, expressing that opinion is your duty and your right as an American citizen. So express yourself, be an American CITIZEN! Stop swallowing the status quo. Get up and do something. Start with Social Security. Question your representative or senator, find out why they are so much better than you to deserve such a great retirement.
Yes, on average, we can expect to get a mere $1000 a month from our Social Security accounts when retire. That is if it is still there when we retire. (And it is not an entitlement, we've been paying into it all our working lives!) But a Congressperson will receive their full pay at retirement until they die, and it costs them nothing. They may get pay increases for cost of living increases and their spouses also draw about $275,000.00 a year for being a spouse of a Congressperson for their retirement years.
Now why would they care about changing the Social Security System? They aren't invested in it. Now if they had to retire on the same system we had to retire on, well now, they might have some reason to work on fixing it. Or even better, why not scrap Social Security and give the American people the retirement plan that Congress has? Why are we swallowing this system that is handed to us? Why are we just accepting the status quo? And not just on this issue but on Medicare, Prescription Drugs prices (and being able to buy them from Canada), the war in Iraq, illegal Immigration, warrantless wireless wiretaps, the erosion of our civil liberties in the name of security? No matter how you feel about these issues, participating in the conversation is your patriotic duty. Have an opposing opinion to the Administration does not diminish you patriotism, expressing that opinion is your duty and your right as an American citizen. So express yourself, be an American CITIZEN! Stop swallowing the status quo. Get up and do something. Start with Social Security. Question your representative or senator, find out why they are so much better than you to deserve such a great retirement.
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Smoking and Movies
Well apparently we need more help in choosing what is appropriate for our children to see at the movies now. We are supposed to be swallowing this line of crap that we need censors to pre-screen films and then tag them with a new rating if they contain an actor smoking. I agree smoking is terrible for our health and our children's health, no argument here about that. But what about personal responsibly? What about the hypocrisy of it all? I mean beer an alcohol kill more teens than do cigarettes, right? And alcohol certainly impacts more families with children in this country and yet you don't hear calls to add more ratings to films that contain alcohol do you? Nor do you hear of the Super Bowl asking if it would be alright if they dropped their sponsorship agreement with the beer companies. Sounds like we live in a hypocritical society. Why not just sit our kids down and talk with them. How much good does a ratings system do anyway? I just want to go to movies more if I wasn't allowed to go. Why is talking to kids that much harder? And if they are going to smoke, they're going to smoke. Try to stop them, do everything in your power to stop them, but know it's an uphill fight.
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