Saturday Silliness

 

1. I called it “The Saturday AM Children’s Ghetto” . Also “Kiddie Crud”.

   I believe most of the points in the linked article, not all equally.

   Posted by Oink       03/11/2006  at  10:11 AM  



2. Reporting from the sticks of Maine:

   I don’t let them roam the neighborhood all hours of the day. If they’re outside, I’m out there with them. I do try to let them play outside for at least an hour or two each day after school, if nothing else to let them run their energy off (Hey, my husband’s forward deployed so I can use all the help I can get)

   Foods? I don’t get the latest cereals most of the time. (Even at the commissary they’re expensive) Cheerios. My kids LOVE Cheerios. And Fruit Loops (I get the Low Sugar Fruit Loops. Cheaper and my kids don’t notice the difference)

   Snacks? My kids like applesauce, yogurt, and bananas. The only snacks other than that are those snacksize bags of Cheese Nips or Teddy Grahams.

   Drinks? Hell, my oldest son don’t even like the taste of SPRITE, let alone Coke or Pepsi. (Can’t say I blame him, I HATE Pepsi. But I can drink Dr Pepper like mad. Go figure.)
   They drink milk, water, or juice in my house. If we’re out, it’s Sprite for my youngest son, milk for my oldest son.

   TV? While the kids are awake, the TV stays on cartoons. Or we pop in a DVD of cartoons or kid friendly movies. (My oldest LOVES Wizard of Oz and they both enjoy the first season of Rocky and Bullwinkle DVD set)

   It’s not rocket science what I’m doing for my children. It’s called COMMON SENSE. Something that seems to be lacking in a lot of parents these days…

   Posted by Severa       03/11/2006  at  10:59 AM  



3. TV can turn adults minds to mush too. 

   Message to Fox News:  American Idol is not news. 

   I am gross and perverted
   I’m obsessed ’n deranged
   I have existed for years
   But very little had changed
   I am the tool of the government
   And industry too
   For I am destined to rule
   And regulate you
   I may be vile and pernicious
   But you can’t look away
   I make you think I’m delicious
   With the stuff that I say
   I am the best you can get
   Have you guessed me yet?
   
   I am the slime oozin’ out
   From your tv set

   You will obey me while I lead you
   And eat the garbage that I feed you
   Until the day that we don’t need you
   Don’t got for help...no one will heed you
   Your mind is totally controlled
   It has been stuffed into my mold
   And you will do as you are told
   Until the rights to you are sold

   That’s right, folks..
   Don’t touch that dial

   Well, I am the slime from your video
   Oozin’ along on your livin’room floor

   I am the slime from your video
   Can’t stop the slime, people, lookit me go

   Slime people.  Reminds me of our US Senators in both parties.  Bunch of creeps.
   Stop the propaganda, vote Zandstra for US Senate

   Posted by Z Woof       03/12/2006  at  08:21 AM  



4. OK, Z-Woof! You’re on. Center Stage. Check out Sunday’s top post on HSA’s.

   

   Posted by The Skipper       03/12/2006  at  08:48 AM  



5. There is good reason why the TV, aka the one eyed monster, is called “Idiot Box” or “Lobotomy Box”. Way back in the 1950s, the (then) head of the FCC, Newton Minow, referred to TV as “the vast wasteland”. He had it right back then, but I’m sure that he had no inkling of how true it is today.

   Posted by Rat Patrol       03/13/2006  at  10:57 AM  

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