Spanking Kids

So I was watching my local news and saw that Massachusetts want to make spanking kids ILLEGAL. They want it to be illegal to spank your own child in your own home. Ridiculous.

The lawmakers apparently don't understand that there are already laws about child abuse. Child abuse is punching, burning, sexually assaulting, drowning or pulling children's hair to punish them, not spanking them on the butt. MAYBE if local governments took care of the children that were abused after the FIRST time, people wouldn't have children to abuse. Repeat offenders are being given custody of their children after beating them, that's a little more important than spanking isn't it? Maybe these people should be more concerned with keeping those children safe.

I got spanked with my mom and dad's hand and I also got spanked with a red patent leather belt, I never whined about child abuse. I was a bad little child sometimes and bad children need to be spanked. It's not like parents hit their kids that hard anyhow. These people are touchy-feely hippies. Some lady in the news report said, "I have never spanked my children and they turned out fine... I think that spanking leads to other crimes against children." She's an idiot. Her children are just going to grow up to be passive aggressive nutcases like her.

I don't condone hitting children, but a smack on the butt never killed or dramatically traumatized anyone. People have the right to discipline their children how they sit fit. Discipline, not abuse.

Christmas "Naughty and Nice" List

Whoever came up with this list, is an idiot. Some Christians are banding together to boycott stores that don't advertise the holiday season as Christmas.

Some stores on the "Naughty" list are: Banana Republic, Bloomingdale's, GAP, Home Depot, K-Mart, Nordstrom, Sears.

Some stores on the "Nice" list are: Bath and Bodyworks, Big Lots, Dillards, Dollar Tree, JCPenny, KB Toys, Lord and Taylor, Macy's, Sam's Club, Target, Toys-R-Us, Walmart.

I'm so sure that the big wigs at GAP or Bloomingdale's are just SHAKING in their boots over this list. These Christians are getting a little big-headed aren't they? Do they really think that they have that much sway? If they want stores to advertise to Christians they should start a Christian advertising firm, otherwise, they should just shut up.

I don't think the Christians understand what they're asking for so let me shine a little light on the issue with their halo's; if you expect every store to advertise to Christians then all the other religions are going to want to be advertised to as well. GAP doesn't give a flying rat's ass about what religion is buying their fleece-lined outerwear or over-priced cotton sweaters for relatives that they don't really even like. Target is more concerned with selling crap-upon-crap that people don't really need than targeting YOU just because you worship Jesus. Next thing you know the Muslims and the Jews will be demanding we advertise for all of their holidays, does anyone realize how many that would be?

Stores generally advertise for "Holidays" because there is more than one event during December. Steer past your ignorance for just a second and realize that these stores are selling gifts for the other holidays as well. Hanukkah and Kwanzaa are holidays in December where people give and receive gifts you know? Weird. So "Christmas" advertising wouldn't be relateable for them would it? No. The word "Holiday" (as politically correct as it is, and I HATE PC crap) is a more all-encompassing word so that everyone feels comfortable buying crap from these stores.

So don't shop at GAP or Target Christians, or at least make sure you sound self-righteous enough when you tell all your friends that you're not going to shop at those stores, and then do anyway because Target has great deals and GAP has cute PJ's that make PERFECT gifts for people you don't know that well.

Vaccines Vs. Common Sense

So parents in Prince George's county, Maryland were all up in arms about being required to have their children vaccinated or child protective services would be called on them or they would be serving 10-30 days in jail.

Well, I guess it just makes sense to have your child vaccinated doesn't it? Do these parent's really want their child to die from a childhood illness that could have been prevented with vaccination? Some stupid hippies and government conspiracy theorists are trying to raise eyebrows with a theory that vaccines cause autism and the government is trying to cover it up. The government doesn't care enough about children to provide them with proper healthcare why would they spend that much time and energy covering up something like that?

Stop being hippies and get your damn kids vaccinated. I wouldn't even allow children that didn't have updated vaccination records into any school. If you want your kid to be sickly then my children shouldn't have to be forced to be around them. Homeschooling people, that's what the hippie kids need. I've gotten tons of vaccinations thanks to government medical insurance and so have hundreds of people I know and not a single one of them is autistic. So there goes that theory.

On the point of whether delaying or stopping vaccinations all together is child abuse, my personal opinion is, absolutely. Vaccinations provide children with barriers against horrible and possibly deadly illnesses. If you are denying your child the things that provide health, you are abusing them. It's like a lie by omission, if you omit these shots you are apathetically abusing your children. The chance of a child getting sick from a vaccination is so slim but people still feel the need to "raise awareness" about the "evils" of vaccines. Get a life, raise awareness about STD's in public schools.

Where to start?

So being bored at work as I usually am, I decided to take out my frustrations involving current events on this here blog.

Today's topic is going to be Eco-Terror. That sounds really boring but this is hilarious.

Gareth Groves of Northwest Washington buys a brand-spanking-new Hummer and brings it home to his neighborhood full of environmentally aware people. Northwest Washington, yeah, they like trees and stuff.

Well he parks it for all of the tree-huggers to see and loath. This guy seems suprised that someone vandalized the hunk-of-junk-display-of-stupidity-and-wealth. Seriously, buying a Hummer is like wearing a big sandwich board that says, "I'm stupid and I have money that I don't know what to do with." I digress.

The Eco-minded vandals keyed "FOR THE ENVIRON" on the side of the Hummer after slashing the tires and smashing all the windows. The Fox News report said that they were "two masked men". No one in the whole neighborhood can manage to think up who could do such a thing. Yeah, right. They aren't turning in one of their own. On the flipside, they should teach their vandals how to spell or finish words if they're going to vandalize. Spelling errors muddle your message vandals!

When this Gareth guy (what kind of name is that anyway?) was interviewed he said that he was "...in shock..." and one of his buddies, Andy Sexton said, "I'd say one in five people who come by have that 'you-got-what-you-deserve' look." Well, yeah because that's EXACTLY what they're thinking.

The people in this neighborhood are riding their bikes to the store and driving Prius', they don't want to look at a gas-sucking idiotmobile and imagine what it's doing to their precious environment.

It looks like this guy has a 40 thousand dollar lawn ornament until he can afford to get it fixed. My advice, get it fixed and trade it in for something that doesn't make you look like a huge douchebag. I mean, this guy KNEW that his neighbors would hate it, he deserved it. He probably just bought the thing to get a rise out of the community. 12 miles to the gallon, seriously? Paying for gas that often is more stupid than the fact that it's an off-road vehicle that will never see anything but paved roads and maybe the occasional gravel driveway.

So, Gareth Groves, either find out who did it and make them pay to get your moron-car fixed (you've already alienated all of your neighbors anyway), or move somewhere where people care less about how you're contributing to destroying the Earth.