Do we have our priorities wrong, or what?
I was scanning the moron box for something requiring more than two active brain cells to appreciate when I stumbled across a war movie that caught my attention with its violence.
People were stepping on mines, being burned alive and splattered with machine gun fire. Blood sprayed out of their backs onto the wall behind them as bullets ripped into their chests. In the next scene, the dialogue went . . . "Lets get our [ silence ] out of here!" Other occurrences of damn, ass and references to various dieties were made even more conspicuous by the dead silence that sat prominently where the [expletive] used to be. How absurd and off-point can we get!
We'll show you all of the ways people kill and maim each other, but not how they really talk? They can't show a woman's breast, but I imagine they wouldn't have any problem showing someone cutting it off with a chain saw.
Excuse me --- hellooooo --- is anybody home?
Do we have our priorities wrong, or what? Do you want to protect your kids from foul language? Then you should lock them up in a sound proofed closet, and don't let them out until they're eighteen. Certainly don't send them to school or let them play with other kids.
I'm against censorship in any form, but if you must do it, at least get it right!
Take for example the pointless fight over tobacco advertising. How many of you [who smoke, or have done so] started smoking because of an advertisement?
You probably didn't! You most likely started because of peer pressure.
I know I started because the girls next door didn't think I was a man until I smoked -- Lucky Strike, no filters, and you sucked them right down until the roach burned your fingers. A person might change brands because of a commercial, but I doubt many people start because of one.
BTW: I quit the nasty habit over 40 years ago, so I get to be sanctimonious.
(The only thing more so than a non-smoker is an ex-smoker.)
Meanwhile, the misguided nannys in DC think that printing really gross pictures showing Cancer and smoking related diseases will get people to quit.
As far as kids are concerned, gross and nasty has always been fascinating. From boogers and phlem to flatulance and guts, children seem to be drawn to the disgusting side of life. (As an example, there is actually a vomit flavored JellyBelly.)
Here's a wake up call to the regulators.
You could pack real, decaying body parts in every pack and smokers would still smoke!
Now "they" want to censor fast-food commercials because someone is under the impression that it will stop lazy or time-pressed parents from dropping the brats off for a Happy Meal™ rather than going home and cooking something nutritious.
Some school districts are banning "home made" cakes and cookies from what are now sham versions of the former "bake sale."
I had one parent argue with me that the [junk food] commercials were being aimed right at her Three and Five-year olds. When I asked if her children walked to McDonald's™ by themselves, took a bus or drove a car I got a quizzical look. When my implication finally hit her she said she, "had to take them because they woudln't shut up about it after watching the commercials."
She was not very happy with any of my suggested solutions which included;
- "Stop parking your kids in front of the TV"
and - "Grow a pair, learn to say no, and then stick to it!"
From Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan to Mel Gibson and Rev. 'what's his name' eveyone from Washington to Hollywood seems bent on doing anything possible to dumb us down and sieze even more power at the expense of our rights. Anything to divert our attention from the real problem of getting the country back on track.
Unfortunately, it appears to be working.
But that's another rant.
aka
The Original Eggman
Accept No Imitations
