Parades Suck

I hate parades. They are boring. It's like watching my neighbor put up holiday decorations (at least his light up).
Parades celebrate peoples ability to walk in a straight line while giving a mediocre, at best, performance.
Then you have crappy host announcers that are usually drunk, and editing that focuses 5 minutes on one float and 2 seconds on the next. Also, floats adorned with advertisments, and bad singing & acting you wouldn't even find off off Broadway.

Parades need excitement! Take a queue from China. Put in a couple of hot air balloon torches for some big fire bursts. Have a giant chicken & cow walking with 10,000 firecrackers going off on a stick. Throw in some smoke grenades or fog machines.
Jazz it up parade coordinators, this is the 21st century!!!

Vote Obama (or Clinton)

Bush, both stupid and stubborn, is the worst thing that has happened to this country. I cannot in good conscience vote for McCain because his ideals too closely resemble Bush's. Obama may not be the best choice, but he is by far the better choice.
I will not exchange my civil liberties for security.

New Tropicana OJ Bottle

The new Tropicana bottle design sucks! The lid does not stay closed to shake the OJ!!
We had 2 major spills because of it.

Goodbye Tropicana. Maybe if you get back to screw caps I'll buy again.

FOOD ALERT

TBHQ, tert-Butylhydroquinone – You might have noticed this new chemical in some food you buy and eat. It's a new food preservative being used, I presume, to replace or help lower the amount of hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils already being used. As you know, hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils decrease good cholesterol and increase bad cholesterol – a double whammy. (I avoid these foods like the plaque wherever possible.)

Anyway, butane (yes, that's lighter fluid) is used in the production of TBHQ and comes from natural gas and crude oil. Yuck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tert-Butylhydroquinone :
"In high doses, it has some negative health effects on lab animals, such as precursors to stomach tumors and damage to DNA.[1] A number of studies have shown that prolonged exposure to TBHQ may induce carcinogenity.[2] Other studies, however, have shown inhibition against HCA-induced carcinogenesis (by depression of metabolic activation) for TBHQ and other phenolic antioxidants."

Maybe it's just me, but I thought that food production was efficient to the point of no longer needing questionable preservatives. If I buy cookies, I know they wont last more than 2 weeks before they're eaten. So that brings the question, just how long are these foods sitting around before they are sold to the public? Months, years?

It's bad enough knowing what can go into the production of flour, eggs, butter, and sugar (very basic cake ingredients) let alone adding man made chemicals for the sake of making money.

Movie Ratings - IMO

This is a post not about the extremely flawed and outdated MPAA, but about what I feel a movie should actually be rated.

Take Talladega Nights, it's rated by Encore at 3 stars. This is by far too generous IMO. It should get no more than 2 stars. The first portion of the film is like pulling teeth for me and others. We had to force ourselves through it at different viewings until it took a 180 degree turn and became watchable.

(Actually it could be that the negative opinion of pay-tv movies channels showing mostly 2 stars or less movies most of the time is causing them to upgrade the rating on lesser movies.)

More later.

Movies/Films

Any movie that focuses on a woman crying over love loss is a chick flick. I was just watching The Holiday, when I decided to post this thought. Not that chick flicks are bad or negative, just pointing out an idea.

Frosted Mini Wheats Bite Size UPDATE

Kellogg's must have read my blog or have gotten wise to there own quality control. I have not seen "KBA" boxes for a while. Instead, boxes marked "KBC" are junk! There's the same old problem of overcoated/undercoated pieces.

Avoid KBC boxes.