Uniforms

Foxnews has a story that is being reported out of Osceola County, Florida that a member of the county school board has told parents to stop spending money on their vices and spend the money on the school uniforms for their kids instead.



Needless to say this has kind of pissed off some of the parents that live in that county in Florida.



Now on one hand I agree with the parents. We are currently living in some very tough economic times. Maybe this county school board member is out of touch with current reality. The economic hardship just to drive to where said parents would have to buy the clothes could be excessive. But beyond that we have a member of the local government telling people how to spend their money. Hey smart ass!!! I have a suggestion for ya. Why don't you buy the clothes for the kids out of your pocket? You obviously are well paid for what little you do.



But there is another side to this story. This public school system requires kids to wear uniforms to school. Now why would that be? Could it be because parents could not or would not take responsibility for their kids attire?



Just like the United States Congress gave up their Constitutional power to declare war to President Bush, so too have parents given up their responsibilities concerning their kids to the government. And just like Congress now they want to cry and complain about decisions that are being made.


If parents would have taken an active role in making sure that the clothes that the kids wore to school were proper, the idea of uniforms would have never come up. Instead you have parents that send their children to school inappropriately dressed and then the school system takes over.


There is also the fact that some are better off than others and can afford nicer things. Thus we have the start of class envy and that leads to kids beating the hell out of one another over a pair of jeans or shoes.


There is always someone that is going to be better off than you are. Its just a fact and its a fact that we don't seem to keen on accepting. Some people feel that if the Jones' can buy the $200 pair of sneakers than their kid deserves them to. That, I hate to say, is just plain BS. It is just a fact of how life is and has been for decades. I had to put up with it. My kids had to put up with it and my grand kids are going to have to put up with it. Nothing the government does is going to change that so you might as well learn how to deal with it. In doing so you teach your kids how to do the same.


No, instead we want to keep this kind of stuff going. When I lived in New Jersey they actually have formal graduations from kindergarden and 5th grade. The 5th grade graduation actually came with a certificate. You should have seen some of the clothes that parents bought to dress their kids in. This was especially true for the little girls. We are talking expensive gowns. For what? Kindergarden? 5th grade? I have never heard anyone ask to see a 5th grade graduation certificate when applying for employment.



Then there are the extravagant trips that parents pay for when their kids graduate from High School. Then I think about what happened to that Halloway girl in Aruba and wonder if as parents we have lost our minds.



Come on parents...don't want to pay for uniforms...then show the county that you can control the kids attire and maybe then you can shop where I did...the Goodwill Store.



That is my opinion...what is yours?

Friends

In the Dog House with Baddog (www.nowlive.com/baddog) we got into a discussion in the last half-hour about the friends on NowLive (www.nowlive.com).

Most of the Dog House Crew are coming up on their one year anniversary on NowLive. The main characters on the Dog House all started their shows within about a week of each other. There is Baddog, Meroll and C-roll (www.nowlive.com/brotherlylove) myself and my wife smokinbeaver.

This group started together and have grown together. I'm just not sure that we have grown up together. Being with this group is like be with a group of very immature adolescents. But it is fun!!!

I got a comment yesterday from a recently added member of NowLive asking me why I haven't accepted the friendship request. I commented back the reason was that I didn't know them. I guess I struck a nerve and the individual got pissed at me.

You see I am not like most folks on NowLive. I don't just click accept for anyone who requests it. If I haven't met you in a show, then the chances are I am not going to accept. I usually leave them in my profile for a while to see if I notice the person actively taking part in a show that I am in. The other way to be approved is if I see certain other people on their friends list.

Friends in my mind are a gift from God and are to be cherished. I have been blessed with a great bunch of friends on NowLive. Most of them have actually become more than friends...they are family to me. So much so that two of them, Baddog and SexyShelly, are about to become real family. My son is marrying their daughter. Sounds like some real Jerry Springer shit don't it!!! Well we are rednecks after all!!!! Just wait, real soon you may see us all on an episode of Maury trying to figure out who the daddy is.

If you want to learn more about us and maybe find a way to become a member of this less than exclusive family, why not come to NowLive make a profile (its free...really) and join us. Then look for the fine programming that makes up the Redneck Radio Network:

• Wakeup Call with Broken and Smokin - Saturdays at 9 AM ET/6 AM PT
• Dog House with Baddog - Monday through Friday at 7 PM ET/4 PM PT
• Brotherly Love - Look for schedule. They are currently taking a break

Friends are where its at folks. That is how I feel. What about you?

A politician makes stuff up? Are you Kidding?

Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, released an Earth Day press release which contained a bible reference from the old testament. Below is the quoted text from her press release.

"The Bible tells us in the Old Testament, 'To minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.' "

Now bible scholars are saying that this quote does not only not appear in the old testament...it doesn't appear any where in the bible.

Now I am not a bible scholar in any way shape or form. I do however have a computer version of the bible that contains 12 different versions and I did a search to try and find any hint that this text was taken from the bible. I too cam up with nothing even remotely similar to the text Ms Pelosi quoted.

According to the bible scholars that are calling her on this little mistake, they cannot even find anything even remotely like that text.

Claude Mariottini, professor of Old Testament at Northern Baptist Theologial Seminary, calls it "fictional," saying, "It is not in the Bible. There is nothing that even approximates that.

So here we have a politician making things up to fit the need. Gee that never happens...does it?

Politicians do this all the time. The big problem here is that with the internet and its vast research capabilities it has become much harder for a politician to get this kind of trick past even the average US citizen. In fact I think it bears stating that whenever you hear a politician quote anything, especially the bible, it might be worth time to do your own internet search and see what you come up with.

A politician is a creature that says whatever they think the audience listening wants to hear. The politician does not want to lose their power. This means they do not want to lose the office they hold unless it is to move up the food chain.

It is time for all of us as responsible Amercians to start watching ALL politicians from whatever party and see if they are being truthful. If these scum will fabricate quotes they will sure as hell lie to all of us.

Remember that politicians want their power and that is power over you and me and the rest of us. Power to raise taxes...lower taxes...spend OUR money and pass ridiculous legislation that may not even give a damn about.

Its time for America to start watching politicians instead of blindly following them.

That is what I think. What do you think?

More Government BS

As if I wasn't totally pissed off yesterday at FORMER president Carter and his apparent senility, now we have a government agency showing its collective asses to the masses.

Here now I present to you the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.

There is a little micro brewery located in a little town called Weed, California. The company using a play on the town's name had a little saying on their bottle caps that has drawn the attention of the agency mentioned above. What is the saying you ask? Well it says; "Try Legal Weed." The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau said that the slogan amounts to a drug reference.

No I do not use weed in any shape or fashion. My wife has been known to use dandelion weeds as a vegetable for diner but that is the limit of our weed fascination. I work in an industry where the use of grass is illegal and getting caught on a drug test would mean an immediate dismissal. So I refrain from use of said product due to that and other personal reasons. But I am not going to ask anyone I know to refrain from its use. I just keep my distance from them to make sure I don't end up with a false positive.

But this ruling by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau is pure bullshit.

We have people writing books and websites that exploit women and children. They tell of how to go about luring some kid into a sexual relationship. There are others that tell you how to make and use explosives to kill people. There are books and websites that tell you how to plan a murder and will even assist a person in locating a professional. All of those items are illegal activities and cause a hell of a lot more harm to the public in general than a bottle cap on a beer that says something about legal weed.

The other references above have all been protected by infringing on someones first amendment rights. Never mind that fact that websites tell adult males how to have sexual contact with young boys and scare these kids for life. That is free speech. But any reference to weed will obviously damn our kids to a life of hell and hardship.

May I also mention that this cap was on the bottle of a product that is not for sale to minors. Any minor can search on and get access to websites and books of the other subjects referenced above with no limits or legal issues involved.

Now if you want my opinion (and you probably don't) let me lay it out for you.

I believe in free speech. I believe it is sacred to a point. But whenever a book, website, media, magazine, newspaper, artist, etc gives instructions for breaking the law, they you can kiss your free speech rights good fucking bye. Now this means that this bottle cap might be considered against the law under my loose definition above but if the standard is equally applied to all of these situations then so be it.

But the federal government has better things to worry about than getting up the ass of some little micro brewery for a freakin bottle cap that says Try Legal Weed.

That is my opinion..what is yours?

Hey Jimmie...stay the hell home

What ever happened to the days when ex-presidents went home to build their library and collect those enormously large speaker fees?

Oh how I long for those days.

Now I want to warn all readers of this blog that my language might be a little more...ummm...harsh than normal. Well I am just sick to EX-president Jimmy Carter and all his bullshit. Mr. Carter it is time for you to get you punk ass back to fucking Georgia and fuckin stay there.

Do you think that is clear enough or do I need to make it a little stronger?

I am a person who typically says that we are to respect our current and former presidents. You may not like them...but they ARE to be respected. You may not like George W Bush...but he IS the president and should be afforded respect.

I am having a very difficult time affording any respect to FORMER president Carter who seems to think that his ass is sitting in the chair in the oval office making decisions and getting sexual favors from interns.

You know what FORMER president Carter, I don't give a rats ass who said what to you about you little trip to see the leader of Hamas. You hear me...I don't fuckin care!!!! I don't care if the US put a big sign on the World Trade Centers with a bulls eye that says "Fly Plane Here"!!!! The simple fact of the matter is that these are kin to the people that setup that little stunt and are currently involved with the shooting of RPG's and rockets into Israel. The current administration has stated time and time again that we will not deal with Hamas. Is there some part of that simple statement that your peanut brain cannot figure out. Being a private citizen does not give you, in my opinion, the right to go off and act like an ass. To go and do things that you know are against the current policy of this administration and then play it off to the old "well nobody told me".

As much as you run your mouth sir I would think you actually read the fucking newspapers and/or listen to the news. Now I'm not sure that you don't qualify for the new No Child Left Behind series called Dr. Seuss Gives You the News.

You know FORMER president Carter, you had your 4 years in the sun. Why not do what all ex-presidents have done before you. Go back home...build your library...collect speakers fees and go quietly into the sunset.

I mean damn Jimmy, get some fuckin class will ya!!! Go build the homes for humanity like you were doing. That is a noble cause for a FORMER president.

But for God's sake please just shut the fuck up!!!!

Poor Mr Clinton

Sorry I haven't blogged recently. We are going through an inspection at work and the last 10 days have been really busy.

But, what I want to talk about is former President Bill Clinton and the "open mic" incident that happened in Philly on Monday.

Well ain't this just a little twist of fate. You have to love it when someone gets caught on an open microphone running their flapper. And I don't particularly care whether you are a democrat, republican or independent. I don't care whether you like President Clinton (the former) or hate his guts. I just love it when a politician of any kind who will always take an opponents comments out of context and use them against them gets caught in the same web.

Now I will say, for the record, that I am not a fan or former President Clinton or his wife. Of course I am also not much of a George W Bush fan either. I will also state that I believe that the comments Mr. Clinton made about South Carolina were not meant to either demean Mr. Obama or his race, color or creed. They were taken out of context.

However, after watching the Clinton's use this very same tactic and then get caught with the same trick and wanting to complain about, I am not going to say that I don't find a bit of satisfaction in it.

So how does it feel Bill? Everyone was aghast at some of the open mic comments that President Bush has made when he thought he was speaking without his words being collected for general consumption..

I guess the difference with me is that I can take the comments made by President Clinton as being an oooops. A mistake. Nothing more and nothing less. But I guess the same can't be said for most of the population.

So get over it folks. Get back to the issues and leave this menial bullshit where it belongs. Of the front page and off the news...completely!!!

That is how I feel. How about you?

Take responsibility!!

One of the biggest problems in the US these days are people who are unwilling to take responsibility for their actions. Dr. Phil McGraw has been on TV with his talk show trying to get people to do exactly that.

Now it seems that Dr. Phil, or at least the staff of his show, refuse to practice what they preach.

We have all heard the story out of Polk County Florida where those 8 teenagers abducted and severely beat a 16 year old girl. The 6 girls and 2 boys were arrested and will be taken to court as adults for their actions. All 8 were given bail between $30,000 and $38,000.

Enter staffers from the Dr. Phil show hoping to get the leg up and get this on the show paid the bail for one of the young ladies. The bail was $33,000 which means that Dr. Phil and his show had to put up 10%, or $3,300 to get the girl released.

Rather than taking responsibility for this major screw up, a representative for Dr. Phil's syndicated show stated that staffers "went beyond" the shows guidelines in posting the bail.

Oh please!!! I find it very hard to believe that a staffer for the show had the authority, on their own, to put up the $3,300 plus whatever collateral was required for the remainder of the bail on their own. A staffer would not have the authority to put up $33,000 of company assets without the consent of the shows main producers.

While Dr. Phil bills his show as an above board show where people are shown the true nature of their screw-ups and take responsibility, the show over the past several months has been shown to be anything but that.

First was Dr. Phil going to see a certain famous female with the hopes of making a show out of her case (I don't even want to mention her name here). Then he proceeds to go on the air and run his flapper about it. The man is a doctor (or so it says in the show title) for heavens sake. What ever happened to patient-doctor privilege? Guess there ain't any when it comes to Dr. Phil.

Now we have this little episode where they try to secure a segment on the show by putting up bail for this girl and we are to believe that the producers knew nothing about it. Now Dr. Phil himself might not have anything to do with this. But some how I doubt it. I can just see good ole Phil going to some staff flunkie telling him (or her) to get their butt to Florida and secure a deal with at least one of these kids to appear. Yep...I think Dr. Phil is up to his folically challenged head in this mess.

Of course all of this has nothing to do with helping any of these kids that are in deep shit at the moment. It is all about TV ratings and ad revenue.

Personally, I think it's high time for Dr. Phil to leave the air and take up his new position as a client for the Hair Club for men. Hell...maybe he can even be the president of the company!!!

So that is my opinion. What do you think?