With apologies to Cheap Trick, here's my comments on the current CSPI suit against KFC (for more info, see terpfan's blog): The food police, say "don't you eat that white bread". The food police, say "trans fats will knock you dead". The food police, theyre coming to arrest me, oh no. You know that talk is cheap, and those rumors aint nice. And when I open my fridge I dont think Ill survive the night, the night. cause theyre waiting for me. Theyre look...
Advertisers understand a key concept. The best way to sell something is to take a desire and create the notion in someone's mind that it is a need. This is why big screen TV's sell so well in January; the fallacious notion that a touchdown catch on a 52 inch screen will somehow look more exhilarating than the one on your old, obsolete 32 inch screen (to those who claim that the big screens make them see the plays better, I can only say: buy a pair of binoculars. It's cheaper and better for the e...
As the debates rage on about the undisputable need to care for the poor in the community, liberals are again trying to paint Jesus as a Democrat, saying that Jesus' actions as a politician would be to place a heavy tax burden on the wealthy to feed and clothe the needy. Such postulating is mere speculation, as Jesus never held a political office, and probably for good reason. Frankly, I find attempts to coopt Jesus into the political agenda of ANY political party to be an action bordering on bla...
While I am far from an ecumenical as a Christian, there is a reason I don't judge differing views too harshly. It stems from my childhood. I was raised early in my life in the LDS church. As most LDS youth my age did, I aspired to go on a mission, and to serve the church when I grew older. Even as I went to other churches, I still pretty much considered myself Mormon up until the age of about seventeen. I was about seventeen when I moved to yet another of the many foster homes I had lived ...
It was June, 1996. My oldest daughter was turning a year old, and my wife and I were making preparations for her upcoming birthday. As we began talking about all the things we would need to do, from a major household cleanup, to ordering decorations, a cake, and a few inexpensive games, we realized this could be a costly expense, all for a party she would not remember past potty training. I had a decent job at the time, and decided to give a call to Chuck E. Cheese's, about 20 miles away. I a...
Someone recently blogged on Wendy's renaming it's "Biggie" drinks. Frankly, I think it's about damn time. Now, I try to keep my soda consumption relatively low, but in the heat of the summer, I likes my Dr. Pepper. I don't smoke, I don't do drugs, and I rarely drink, so it is my RESPONSIBILITY as a low income citizen of this country to have SOME vice that sucks the coinage out of my pocketbook so I can exercise my other responsibility of bitching about the man. And Dr. Pepper is that vice. Bu...
On another post, a blogger referred to the fact that we are considered a "free nation" by mocking it because we cannot get food, housing, and clothing for free. He assumed that that is what was meant by "free". That is an ignorant and grossly manipulated use of the words. We are free as individuals to determine our own course, and to make our own decisions. We can speak freely, we can worship freely, and, yes, we are free to solicit assistance from individuals in helping us pay for what we ne...
EA, the popular video game manufacturer, announced today a release of a new game in the video game market of its popular "Need for Speed" series. "Need for Speed: Hybrid Edition" will hit the shelves in time for the Christmas holidays, according to industry analysts, and will feature hybrid autos powering along the city streets at 45 MPH. Extra points will be given for fuel conservation and points will be subtracted for jackrabbit starts, racing the engine in idle, and other harmful wastes on...
EA, the popular video game manufacturer, announced today a release of a new game in the video game market of its popular "Need for Speed" series. "Need for Speed: Hybrid Edition" will hit the shelves in time for the Christmas holidays, according to industry analysts, and will feature hybrid autos powering along the city streets at 45 MPH. Extra points will be given for fuel conservation and points will be subtracted for jackrabbit starts, racing the engine in idle, and other harmful wastes on...
Note: While I shied away from religious topics for much of my time on JU, I believe that enough time has passed that readers know me well enough that I feel a little more secure in sharing my beliefs. I am what is known as a "grace only" Christian. I believe we are sinners, saved by grace through faith, and that works on our part will not get us to heaven. As I have examined what that belief means, I have had to wrestle with a startling inconsistency among many Christians who hold the same be...
As a Christian who readily describes myself as an evangelical, I have one big pet peeve among many of my contemporaries. And that is the feeling that exists among so many of them that every action, every word directed to a non believer needs to be a cleverly (or, as any non believer here will readily a firm, really a NOT so cleverly) concealed attempt at evangelism. It is certainly appropriate for a Christian to wish for nonbelieving friends to know the joy, peace and assurance they know in...
Note: This is the companion piece to my previous article, Hillary Clinton, Superstar. As the talk shows rage on and on about Ann Coulter, it is important to ask why it is that liberals fear Ms. Coulter so much. Sure, she has influence, but she preaches largely to the choir, although she preaches with a voice that tends to inspire the choir. But that is not, in my opinion, what galls the liberals in this country. It is my firmly held belief that it is liberal women, NOT conservative men, wh...
Note: This article is written as a companion piece for the one to follow. In 2004, US Democrats were presented with a very winnable election. A less than popular president, associated with a less than popular war was presiding over an economy that, while improving, was not what we remembered from the 1990's. The Democrats could do no better than John Kerry, whose lack of charisma and a consistent, coherent platform (he should have just made his campaign slogan "Bush sucks!" It probably would ...
Link In 1990, Robert Koselik murdered his wife, Cheryl. He received a life sentence in prison. In 2002, the state of Massachussetts began paying for Koselik's hormone treatment, as he demanded he suffered from "gender identity disorder", the fictional ailment many Americans claim as the basis for the mutilation of their genitals and acceptance of their twisted, perverted mental disorders as normal. Now, Koselik is suing the state of Massachussetts demanding they pay for his "gender r...
Link In the most recent news about Tom Delay, Texas state Democrats have wn an injunction to keep the state Republican Party from naming a replacement for Delay in the Texas election, arguing that Delay's move to Washington was a sham designed to allow the GOP to skirt election rules. Frankly, I don't like what Delay did. In fact, I believe it IS a sham, basically. But, laws are laws, and Delay and his advisers apparently did what they had to to stay within the law and allow the GOP to ...