Thoughts of another blog

I suppose I really need to work on my postings a bit more. I mean after all, the 107 people who have visited this blog do need something to read after all right?

So what to blog about today? Well, how about this amazing person I have found via blogger.com who goes by the handle of Veg. She started her blog to talk about the poor quality of her school's lunches. Since then the quality have improved very nicely. She was even told she had to stop blogging about them as the school was catching heat about it. So, a quick blog later and she is back!

Now, the other thing about this little girl is her ability and desire to help others. So, instead of complaining about something she took action! Now, this is an elementary school aged child (I think she said she was 9 or 10) who made a difference. Not only that but she started to raise money for kids in Africa. Nearly 100,000 pounds later (she is I believe in Scotland) she is off I would say to one heck of a start!

So,  you might be asking your self dear reader, why I bring this up? Well, the blog neverseconds is not only interesting, but informative as well. I find it to be a breath of fresh air to see someone so young who is not interested solely in some music group or movie star. She is out to make a difference in this world. So, watch out for this one folks, she is a world shaker and a force to be reconned with. Six million plus hits already and one hell of a start towards her goal of helping others.

Yeah folks, this is a real role model for your kids. So Veg, I doubt you will read this blog but if you do, please keep up the good work. 

Been Awhile

Since it's been awhile I figured I would post something here. I realize I have been remiss.

So, here goes. On FaceBook the other day I got into a rather amusing situation. A potential predator/pedobear was hassling a friend of my nieces who is also on my friends list. So being me, I made a comment. He slowly began to focus his attentions on me and left her alone.

I bring this up however as it struck me that he was trying to pretend he was smarter than he really was. I had made a comment to him that he did not understand at all so I retorted with "Well, to a sadly lacking intellect it would not make sense.". He then attempted to Grammar Nazi me by saying I had used the wrong word in that sentence.

Now, while I enjoy a good debate I had to do nothing more than laugh about this. A simple phrase that even most reasonable people over the age of, say about, six years old would be able to understand. Now, this person claimed to be 18 years old and in college pursuing a medical degree. However he could not understand a simple phrase? What the hell is this world coming too?

These are the people who are going to end up in charge of this world in a few years. These will be the people who we will rely on for everything from A to Z. Which means your medical care will be in the hands of someone who uses "Wll if u wld jst stp beeing tht wy and tink bout sich tings as wht u say". Yeah, scary huh?

Or how about the politician how points to Canada on a map while extolling the troubles in the country of Europe? How's that for a scary thing? And they will not only be in charge of the laws in this country but also our nuclear weapons. How would like you to go to war because "Dat hoe dun dissed me and biatch wld't give no head!"?? Think you will be sleeping now?

Try this on for size. Have any soon to be school age kids? Better teach them how to write as most school no longer teach hand writing and cursive. Remember having to go through that chore so we could "Write like real people do"? Yeah, I hated it too and came to realize most places of business wanted you to print things written documents since they are easier to read that way.

So what are we to do about this? Well, to be honest the only answer I have is to educate our kids against such things. Let them know while there are certain situations that type of thing would be okay (I can't think of one off hand though) but the real world doesn't work that way.  Ultimately it falls to us as parents to help with the education of our kids. Remember, we aren't just helping them with this, we are in the long run helping ourselves as well. Keep in mind, these are the people we are going to leave in charge of everything sooner or later.

Assuming we have anything left for them to be in charge of that is. With the way the world is going right now I am not sure what we will be leaving them.

SOPA

SOPA: Well I can see lots of people added their names to the list to stop this act....I am so proud of my friends! Working to make a difference...I like it! I am sad however to say that it's going to pass for a couple of simple reasons, Money and Power. The people producing the materiel that is being pirated have that and more. They are the ones pushing for this to happen due to perceived losses.

However, the major losses these companies receive is mostly due to themselves. For example, according to Billboard.com last years #1 album (I am old shup) was 21 by Adele. Cost at Wal-Mart, who does not stock nor price set for CDs or movies, 14.98. Album was released nearly a year ago.

The music industry spends millions of dollars to get one song by a crap band played heavily on the radio and get a video made so they can hype it up. So this one song, which is probably written by someone other than the people singing it, is put on a CD with 6 to 9 other crap songs. Now, to buy the song you want generally will cost you 18.99 or so. FOR ONE SONG!!!!

Now, I will grant you that not all CD's are filled with crap music but nearly 20.00 for a music CD? Do we wonder why ITunes is such a hit? .99 for the song you want much better. So because of this I can see why so many CD's are copied and passed through friends so much. Mostly because their target market is kids who don't always have the money to buy that CD.

Wonder why cassette tapes died? Because people had the ability to copy them easily. My cassette deck has a high speed dubbing feature so I can copy tapes very easily. Not to mention I can remember hanging out with my friends waiting to record that awesome song off the radio when it came on. Hence the death of the cassette, which was pushed by the music industry and Sony who put MILLIONS into the researching of the CD.

So, music industry the answer is right in front of you. You just choose not to see it and point the finger elsewhere. And your competition is not with those people, but it's with the groups in Hong Kong, The Middle East, and parts of Europe and Russia who run your CD's and movies off by the THOUSANDS and you know there is nothing you can do about that. So keep lashing out at the people who legit purchase your crap and just watch and see if they don't put you out of business