Ok, I know I’m going to piss off a lot of soccer mommies out there, but I just gotta vent on this one, it’s the ridiculous graduation ceremonies for kindergarten, 6th and 8th graders.
Friends have invited us to their DD & DS’s (hang on, I’ll get to those abbreviations in a minute) 8th grade graduation parties and while it’s a nice thought, is it REALLY that important to celebrate the passing of the 8th grade? Is this such an incredible milestone as to warrant a party? If so, then why not celebrate the child’s passing of EVERY grade? Sure Jethro Bodine made it only to the sixth grade, but he had uncle Jed’s 60 million to fall back on, but I digress. Worse yet is that many parents reward this everyday event with expensive gifts and trips. One parent in another forum said they would give their DD a trip…their definition of a trip was to exclude Asia, Hawaii and Australia, but the lower 48 and Europe was OK. No kidding!

I see the “mommy” sites referring to their DH, DD & DS which stands for Dear or Darling Husband, Son or Daughter…hang on whilst I upchuck. Look, I know you parents out there just love your children and love to place them on a pedestal for all the world to see, but for God’s sake, let’s be realistic! Paying kids for grades or for the mundane accomplishment of passing kindergarten, 6th grade or 8th grade should be a private party for immediate family only, not a celebration equal to a wedding or college graduation complete with cake and expecting gifts from friends and family. These same people must have had their babies first BM bronzed.
With over 6.7 billion people on the planet, I made the conscious but difficult decision NOT to have children. That doesn’t mean I hate kids, but from what I can see, the problems we face today with self absorbed, spoiled children who then turn into rude adults all stems from the coddling they receive as children. Like the saying goes, there are no bad dogs, only bad owners and the same is true for children. Teach them how to appreciate success without having to be rewarded for every single accomplishment and surprisingly enough, they’ll thank you in the end.

Fire Safety Cigarettes:

Notice the FSC Label

Fire safety cigarettes are coming and may already be on your store shelves. It’s just one more way for the government to step in to interfere in our lives in a futile attempt to protect a small percentage of lazy, stupid people from burning themselves alive and the new FSC brand of cigarettes suck, literally!

What started in New York in 2004 and has now spread to at least 21 other states through advocates who have bypassed getting fire safe cigarette legislation passed through Congress, instead going directly to the states using the Coalition for Fire Safe Cigarettes. Now we can all drink heavily and pass out in bed with a lit cigarette and feel safe.

As on man interviewed said “People that smoke in bed should have been cleansed from the gene pool anyway, now we’ll have to put up with them”.  According to the CDC smoking will kill you too, but in today’s bright & cheery economy, I think many people smoke to cope with their newly discovered sub-standard life style in an attempt at a slow suicide to avoid having to work until they’re 90.

So what sucks about FSC cigarettes? YOU! You literally have to suck you ass off to get  a decent drag from the cigarette. Nobody told me about the FSC changeover, but already I was noticing something odd about my cigarettes. They tasted a bit different, probably due to the extra strips of (chemically treated?) paper added to extinguish the fire. So, unless you just hotbox a smoke, any time you take a break to talk or perhaps breathe, the cig immediately starts to go out, so when you take another drag, you have to huff & puff to get it started again. By the time I finished several smokes, my cheeks were getting sore from all the sucking. It’s enough to make you quit smoking altogether….which is perhaps their REAL goal.

I can think of better things for the state governments to interfere in;  how about cell phone usage in cars? I’m sure that kills many more people than dying in a house fire because of a lit cigarette. How about FSC candles and gas stoves that go out before your Spaghetti-O’s are warm? How about making dud bullets to give you a second chance when trying to commit suicide or shooting your neighbor? (BTW, I’m just joking about the last suggestion – suicide sucks)

What can you do about this sneaky new law? Click here to sign a petition to get it repealed, but be sure to leave a comment on your feelings about fire safety cigarettes.

$100,000,000,000 in Zimbabwe almost buys three eggs.

Now that’s an expensive breakfast:
If you think $5.00 is too much for breakfast at your local Denny’s, consider this…
Last summer, $35 billion was the going price for an (one) egg in Harare, Zimbabwe. The country once considered the breadbasket of Africa has been pillaged under the 30-year reign (ruin) of President Robert Mugabe. The nation is now near total collapse, struggling with a political crisis, widespread hunger, cholera and AIDS epidemic and a rate of inflation considered one of the worst in history. In January, Mugabe introduced a $10 trillion bill (worth about $8 in U.S. currency).
Two weeks later, the government reversed course, slashing 12 zeros to make one trillion in old dollars equivalent to one new dollar.