Sesame Street turns 40

I seriously thought another author was going to cover this…since you know its on Google.

This past week there has been many things on the Google image above the search bar. As you all may have noticed it is all in the spirit of Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary. If you do not know what Sesame Street is then you really have been sheltered both as a child, and if you are an adult, as an adult. To those very few who do not know, Sesame Street is children’s pre-k programming designed to teach about language, numbers, and just good manners. Sesame Street made it’s grand debut in 1969. Episode 4,187 airs Tuesday on the Public Broadcasting Channel in America.

Funny things.

This isn’t art or an artist as Dorian likes to speak about but it is still funny. Photographs can be considered as art and Princesses’ keyboard cat inspired this collage of funny internet pictures.

Best movies of the noughties

There is no spelling mistake there. Noughties is the decade we’re finishing, apparently, and if this movie list from the Times is any indication of my lack of taste, I fart in their general direction.

I haven’t played with a list like this in a while. I’ll bold the ones I’ve seen and italicize the ones I would consider watching. Summaries of the movies are available on site.

ANDY WARHOL _ Endangered Species

BALD EAGLE

Planned Parenthood Director Who Quit Was Pressured to Meet Abortion Quotas

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
November 5, 2009

Bryan, TX (LifeNews.com) — The former Texas-based Planned Parenthood director who recently quit after seeing an ultrasound video of an abortion says high Planned Parenthood officials wanted her center to meet quotas for the number of abortions done. Abby Johnson had been the director of the Planned Parenthood in Bryan/College Station.

She turned in her resignation on October 6 and watching an ultrasound of an abortion capped off years of pro-life advocates urging her to quit.

Now, Johnson tells WorldNetDaily that Planned Parenthood officials were pushing her to keep abortion numbers high and that she, in turn, pushed employees to meet abortion goals as well.

“There are definitely client goals,” she said. “We’d have a goal every month for abortion clients and for family planning clients.”

Remember Remember

Remember Remember the 11th of November. This is a day to honor those that have fought for your freedoms. This is a day to remember those that fought for Queen and Country. It is Veterans day. This day has a long history it is a global Veteran’s day and people from around the world wear Poppies to remember those that have fought in generations past, those that are fighting now, and most importantly those that have given Life, Limb, and in some cases Sanity in the name of Life, Liberty, and the American Way. In of course America and those that did the same for Queen and Country in England. So Remember Remember the 11th of November. Remember to wear your Poppy, see a parade, Drink with a Vet, or toast to all the Vets, or even a moment of silence and reflection. It doesn’t matter how you honor your Vets on Veterans Day, just as long as you take a few moments out of your day to do so.

How the Mass Media shapes our social thinking.

I know it has been a long time since I posted. I have my own personal reasons. But I have decided to once again step on the proverbial “soapbox” to rant and rave.

I have seen a disturbing social ill, and that is not reverse ignorance which is in its self both confusing and an oxymoron in my opinion. But seriously this disturbing social ill I see is the mass media. I’m not going into a rant of how some portions of the mass media is influenced by different political parties and ways of thought. This fact is actually both irrelevant and common knowledge. What I am focusing on today is Mass Media in print. Ten years ago magazines like people, time, and some others was considered valid sources for news other than newspapers. Today every magazine looks like a tabloid. Over the past year I have seen countless front pages that talk about celebrities and their weight. This is expected in Vogue, Elle, and Cosmo just to name a few. But now People, US (formally US Weekly which was a national news magazine), and some others have become nothing more than tabloids. The scary thing is people actually are influenced by the articles in these magazines. Just as an example, back when Jessica Simpson was happy and resembled the average american woman and not a barbie doll. She was berated and teased by these magazines, newspapers, as well as news programs. They all said she is fat. They dropped the f-bomb. After a while she changed back to what the Mass Media pictured and is pushing on the american youth and society as what every woman should look like. Which in my opinion, is a meth addict. Skinny gangly some muscle but not too much. But enough to make her stomach and butt flat. Today I was in the grocery store to buy soda and cat food and guess what I saw? These same magazines with the picture of a famous woman pregnant. The headlines read this is the most beautiful I have ever felt says X celebrity. And underneath that How X celebrity feels about being fat. I almost vomited when I saw a young girl pick that up thumb through it and buy it. Here is a news flash from reality, at one time the human body both male and female was considered sacred. This was in all its forms, at one time it was taught that beauty can be found in all shapes and sizes. At one time it was taught that each human body is a work of art in itself regardless of the persons actual appearance. The flaws just made that persons body more perfect. At one time the most beautiful look in a woman’s life was being pregnant. At one time Pregnant women where honored because their body was performing the miracle of life. All these things at one time was taught.

Now beauty is only skin deep. Now you’re too fat if your ribs cannot be counted, being pregnant is treated like a disease. Maybe this kind of psychological conditioning is what influences abortions. (There are valid reasons and I will not go there and if anyone does I will delete the comment. I’m tired of that song and dance and don’t really want to hear it again, so don’t play it. If you really want to know my views on the topic I have posted them on the Caveman abortion thread. I will gladly debate on there.) Just a thought. Methamphetamine, and Cocaine in all its forms are on the rise with women. I have met more women that did those drugs than men. A quick explanation of how those drugs work. Both of those drugs suppress your appetite and increase your metabolism. Causing your body to not store fat so your body uses all of your stored fat as energy. There are side affects to this. One of which is not being able to sleep. Some hardcore addicts can sleep on both drugs but most users don’t sleep. This happens sometimes for weeks at a time. A lot of “medical shows” state that going without sleep for x amount of days will make you insane. This is to incite fear in those drugs to keep people from using them. At the same time magazines show celebrities bodies that look like they use something that has similar effects. Ritalin is basically methamphetamine without the amphetamine. So there is a rise in the use of these drugs, there is so much of a rise in the use of Methamphetamine that under the Patriot Act it is considered a terrorist act to make, sell, and use this drug. And people buy into the crap that the Mass Media is shoveling down their throats. Some people see it for what it is, manipulation. Now I’m not saying there is some nefarious scheme by a so called shadow government to shape the social thinking of America. That statement is just absurd, and ridiculous. What I am saying is the Mass Media is pushing propaganda, not the governments except for the political “news shows”, this is more of a personal propaganda. Just like playboy pushes Hugh Hefner’s idea of a beautiful woman. It is the owner of the Media outlet that is pushing his or her own personal views on certain “key topics”. In turn this makes the female and some of the male population of America in to vain, arrogant, snobby people. Look at how kids treat one another. If a kid does not dress or act a certain way, immediately those kids are ostracized. They are turned into social outcasts, for things out of their control like looks for instance. Or because of their weight. I’m not talking about the overly obese either. I’m talking about the average woman’s body size. (Which is actually statistically between a 12 and a 16.) But the minority has taken control of the majorities thinking. When will people open their eyes and see things for what really is and not what the Media says it should be?

Bill Keller’s Devotional for 11-06-09

A 50 million year old fossil? News broke a few months ago that they had discovered a 50
MILLION year old fossil. Every time I hear one of these stories I cringe, since it only
reinforces in the minds of the masses that this world did NOT come into existence the way
God, the Creator Himself, said it did in the Bible. It only bolsters the myth generations
who have now grown up in schools have been taught, that we “evolved” from a
drop of pond scum and that we are little more than a genetic accident with no meaning or
purpose.

Of course, to believe there is a 50 million year old fossil means you believe in the
scientific dating method used to make that determination. Here is why carbon dating and
all other methods used for dating these types of archaeological finds are flawed. When
God spoke the earth into existence, it was created in a mature state. Unless you knew the
mature age at the moment God spoke the world into existence, it is IMPOSSIBLE for any
dating methods to be accurate!!!