Soapbox moment

Ok, I was TV surfing yesterday and heard of a story that got my attention. It was about illegal immigrants, and how they are coming to America for work. They are standing up and down the streets of Georgia looking for work. I hear reports of a mother saying how our children deserve the right to an education in America. Why is it that people feel to get symphony or their point across they need to include the children. No one wants to see children be so unfortunate in life. I have no problem if you are a citizen of this country and working, paying taxes and everything everyone else does to give their kids the world. But coming into our country and trying to pass off as a citizen, not paying taxes; that's where I have a problem.
I am not trying to be political or discriminative towards anyone, but if you are not a citizen you should not be getting any type of benefits from our country. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/7/16/161925.shtml

Everyone sees us as the land of opportunity, but we have our own problems to deal with.

Ok, back to all the FCC being objective about anything being shown on television these days. Penn&Teller have a new show coming out on Showtime, there is a lot of talk about not being able to use the actual title of it because of the name bullshit. I mean c'mon this is cable where they can get away with more than regular TV can. I see nothing wrong with it. There is so much more worse things on television, radio and even in print these days to expose anyone to "bad language" Does the FCC now feel the right to get more involved than they need to in every aspect of our lives? Don't we live in the land of the free? Times are changing.

http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/about.do

Pre-teens with phones?

From reading the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday April 12, 2005; I came across an interesting point about cell phones. Yes, now days everyone seems to have one but this one is built without a normal key pad. It is built with only certain number of keypads that you (the parent) can save only the numbers that your child can call. This will cut down on the ability of children not using the phone to talk to friends. It comes already with a 911 button and then the parent's can put in their numbers to be reached at. So that the child can directly reach them when they need to.
This is a type of phone I am all for the children having.

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/life/20050309/d_cellphone09.art.htm

Oprah did it, why can't Dave?

A call everyone should have to deal with, jury duty. It is done by everyone to eventually get called to serve and then go through screening to see if they qualify. Why are people being over looked to serve? Is it that they know people in higher places to get them off the hook? This should not matter, we all get called. Having a funny monologue should not dismiss you.


http://tv.yahoo.com/news/ap/20050412/111334248000.html

Batter Up!

All I can say is thank god it is spring. I am so happy that baseball season is getting started but not happy about no hockey season, I am over that now. Of course I will always cheer for the Cardinals, then I will cheer for the Cubs and Red Soxs. Hopefully with all this steriods rumors going on we can get past that and get on with a great season of baseball.

C is for Cookies, right?

Now with so many people reported to be overweight especially kids, television is trying to change it for the better. They are changing the beloved Sesame Street to be more health wise program. They are cutting back on the eating of cookies for cookie monster. But that is why we love him so much, he eats cookies and doesn't care about how he looks.

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/ap/20050407/111291480000.html

Sold for $8,000

Can you believe that a man that was not happy with his middle name actually went to ebay to sell the rights to give him a new middle name. A Utah man did just that, what are you thinking to let someone in America to legally give you a new name. I think you should just change it yourself if your not happy with it. What are people thinking these days?
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl46rebayname,0,5353498.story?coll=sfla-business-headlines