Sunday, October 22, 2006
Wuss kids and some pretty scary shit
Exercise: 30 push ups, 50 leg lifts, 120 crunches
Ok so like just when I think everything is finally settling down from the busy summer schedule and that I will have more time to post BLAM! I get hit with this cold/allergy crap that just kind of left me not wanting to have to tax my brain with trying to come up with something to write. I call it cold/allergy crap because I'm not really sure which of the two it is. It hasn't behaved like a typical cold in which there is at least one day when I wake up feeling as though I have been run over by a truck but it also hasn't really behaved like the typical allergy stint I tend to go through for a couple weeks in the fall in the respect that I've been coughing my head off. I don't know what the hell it is but I will say that my bod has decided to kick its ass. I don't get sick often (I think the sick germs know I hate them and my body will quickly show them the door if they try to come in) and when I do, it's rare if I'm down for a day if that.
Now then - on to the topics covered in the title of this post.....
After hearing a story on the news a few days ago about how a school out East decided to ban the game of tag because of possible injuries which could occur and the observations I have made of the kids in the neighborhood waiting for the bus in the morning, I have come to the conclusion that today's youngins are a bunch of wusses. I mean really. When I was in grade school, I can remember some girl pushing me down a metal slide that sat on blacktop (something you rarely see these days if at all) because she didn't think I was moving fast enough. I ended up going down head first and scraped my lip up. Sure it scared me a bit and it hurt like hell but c'mon, that just came with the territory. When you're a kid, you work is to play hard and injuries are all part of it. These days it almost seems like kids would have to purposely try to get an injury because stuff has become so "idiot proof" or adults have decided to further stifle fun and creativity because they are thinking with a brain living in a much older body that can't take as much punishment as that of a kid.
As for the kids waiting for the bus....There is one kid in particular whose mommy takes him in the car to the bus stop and waits there with him every morning blocking the fucking road the whole time. Now I might be a little more sympathetic if it were freezing cold outside (even though I waited out in weather like that without any problems) or the kid wasn't able bodied but she did this even throughout the summer months and there's nothing wrong with the kid. It's not like we live in a place where someone would be likely to try and kidnap the boy and even if it were an issue of her not wanting him to wait by himself, she could always drive the extra 1/10 of a mile to the stop where several kids wait. Yep, kids today have definitely turned pansy.
With that out of the way, here's the scary shit....
Bush's little law that he signed which basically kills Habeas Corpus and further turns him into that Decider he claims he is. YIKES!
And now for something completely different...
Obama was on Charlie Rose the other night. Unfortunately I couldn't watch it all since the program doesn't come on until 11:30pm but I will say that I like good old Barack more and more every time I hear him talk. Think I may also have to check into reading his book as it sounds like it would be really good.
Speaking of Obama, I heard on the news that he has now made a statement (something to the effect of not being able to promise six years as a senator) which could suggest that he may run for Pres. in 2008. Oh how I hope he does and that he not only gets the nomination but also gets elected. Our country soooo needs someone like him right now.
Well kiddies, I've got other stuff I need to attend to so I'm off for now.
Til next time....
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