A friend sent this article and asked me to find out from any Germans that I knew what they thought. I think it was clever of the first group. I think, like they said, it would be safe for them becasue of the media surrounding it. It sounds like it could be dangerous for any that follow. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/lifestyle_germany
I am more than a little miffed with Weight Watchers right now. According to Entertainment Weekly, WW offered Renee Zellweger $3.2 million to lose her "Bridget Jones" weight with them. What are they thinking?! WW is all about making changes in your life style rather than just "dieting". It is supposed to be about dealing with why you have issues with food. Ms Zellweger doesn't have issues with food. She was payed to artifically change her body for a movie role. All she has to do to lose th...
Did any of you wonder why Jessica got so much attention? Did you hear mutterings about the African-American woman (Shoshana) that got shot in both legs? I did. I watched the Jessica Lynch interview last night. There was a lot of information to be gleened out of the sensationalism. I finally think I understand what the deal is. Basically, there were no witnesses to what exactly happened to Jessica. Everyone else in her vehicle died. She herself isn't even a very good witness since she w...
Police officers in Cincinnatti are being investigated for possible misuse of force and people went as far as to say it was "another lynching of the black man". I see this as another example of people jumping on the Racism Card and waving before they think. Let us look at things from a police officer's view for just a moment. There is a 350 lb man (let's just assume for a moment the officer is color blind) coming at you and yelling at you. You tell him to put his arms behind his back and he s...
Today I was flipping through the news channels and saw a blurb about how Christina Applegate was chosen to serve on the Richard Blake trial. She hasn't convinced the judge so far that she should be released from serving as a juror but is going to site her busy film schedule as a reason to be excused. If I find out this worked for her I am going to be outraged! I served on a murder trial in Dec 2002. There was a surgeon on the jury that tried to site his busy schedule (of saving lives that ...
As an overwieght person, I am always intrigued by the latest food options out there. I am interested in the Atkin's friendly sandwiches at Subway. My husband said they are good. I am just wondering how good they are for you. Then there is McD's attempt at giving people suggestions on how to save calories when ordering meals there. One of the suggestions was to get a Big Mac without the special sauce. That may save you calories but if you are on a diet, I don't think a Big Mac is the answ...
MSNBC.com had an article that reported that the telethon that NBC had for tsunami relief made $18 million where the 9/11 telethon raised $130 million. That is all it stated. It made no comparison of any kind other than the bottom line. That left me wondering if there was a point they hoped people would come to or if they were just laying out the numbers for pure information sake. I watched the telethon and I will tell you why I didn't participate. In all honesty, I rea...
You may have heard about the Washington State Supreme Court's ruling on banning parental telephone eavesdropping. If not, you should look into it and be afraid. What the hell are they thinking?! A 17yr old kid assaults an old woman and steals her purse. Some parents have an idea of who did it so they are on the look out. A mom listens in on a conversation between this kid and her 14yr old daughter on her phone in her house which she pays for. The kid tell...
An awful lot of people are behaving badly these days. It is one thing to disagree with someone but it is unexceptable to be violent toward them or call them names. It is no wonder so many kids have behavioral problems. If you refer to others as idiots, morons or jerks, your kids will be saying the same things about others and usually at the least opportune time. The best behaved kids tend to come from the best behaved parents. If you say please and thank you to your ki...
Remember when we used to complain that we barely got through eating our pumpkin pie before people were out the door putting up their Christmas lights? Those were the good old days. This year I hadn't even seen "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" before being bombarded with Christmas commercials. I had to do some last minute Halloween shopping today because our neighborhood is doing this thing called "Booing". (For those of you unfamiliar with this, you get a bag, box or o...
The recent trend of entertainers using their venues to spread their political agendas really has me fed up. I am not a person who is disinterested in politics, I just don't want to be bombarded by it everywhere I turn. Everyone needs an escape from the "real world" and I am one who looks to music, movies and television for that recreational escape. I resent entertainers spoiling my retreat with their opinions on who should run our country. I resent having my musical tastes t...
My sons and I were having breakfast this morning and something in the fruit bowl caught my eye. Our bunch of bananas had more than the usual name brand stickers on them. There was a sticker that said "Go See Garfield The Movie" with a picture of Garfield on it. That is disturbing in so many ways! But what struck me first was the thought of the ads everywhere in the movie "Minority Report". I think we are well on our way. Every food item you can imagine has Shrek ...
I am a person who sees horrible things like what happened on 9/11 or what happened to Nick Berg (I made the mistake of watching the video) and feel that those people responsible deserve to be eliminated from the population. I do not feel like they need to be tortured or made to endure a painful death. Quick and painless is fine as long as they are no longer around to take out innocent lives. I just don't understand how these people derive satisfaction out of causing pain and suffe...
I heard this story this afternoon on The View. If anyone knows more, please share details! As the story was told on the show, a 10 day old baby died in a house fire 6yrs ago. The body was presumed completely incinerated. 6yrs later, the mother of the baby was at a friend's child's birthday party when she noticed a little girl and instantly thought "that is my daughter!" She saw a defining dimple that her infant had had. She then had the forethought to tell the girl she had gum in her h...
I will never understand why people pay any attention to what actors say when it comes to politics or anything of any importance. These people play pretend as a profession. They aren't scholars. They have no credentials when it comes to foreign policy, religion, politics, etc. So why should they have any clout on these subjects, because sometimes they pretend to be characters that know such things? Sharone Stone, as some may have heard, made the bone headed comment that...