Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution

Last week ABC premiered a new television series titled Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. I personally had been anticipating this new show. For so long, as a student, I have been complaining about school food. It never was all that tasty and once in high school I broke a baracket while biting into a hamburger bun at lunch. However, it wasn't until I started working at a grocery store that I truly noticed the horrid eating habits this country has gotten itself into. I used to see and smell heavy set people buy frozen pizzas, hot dogs, hungry man dinners, chips, cupcakes, cookies and loads of other junk. I can honestly say, though it's been a year since I've worked there, I hardly ever saw those heavy set people buy any form of fruit or vegetable. When those people would come through my line I could not help but think that they were not the type of people who should be buying that rubbish. Calling it a form of racism or whatever you want but that was the stark truth. Thanks to Jamie Oliver, most of America now thinks the same. Like the show 16 and pregnant, it amazes me that with all the education we now have, scientific education at that, producers can find people to make a reality show based on stastics. My question to you is, as an American are you happy with the fact that other countries will only see America as a fat and lazy nation?   

Misunderstood Music

As of late, and mainly due to her new music video, Lady GaGa has seemed to push people over the edge. The majority of what I've read is all about how "weird" she is. Usually I, or rather the old me, would agree. See the old me would find something weird because I didn't understand or allow myself to understand whatever it was I found weird. Thankfully I've grown and matured into a more open and understanding person. The new me has allowed myself to be more accepting of ideas and concepts. With that being said I find myself on another level of appreciation for certain artists in the music industry. This new level has led me to do a more thorough career background check on some people and what I found really astounds me. Back in the 70s and 80s, many well respected industry insiders thought artists like David Bowie, Madonna, Prince, Elton John and Freddie Mercury, to name a few, were weird. Too weird to have their music accepted by the masses, if one can believe that. I've grown up on that music and I always thought those people were always accepted by the way I hear people talk about them. However, most insiders believed each artist's brand of music would sell only to a certain crowd and therefore did not want to take a risk with then. The only person who had a shot was probably Freddie Mercury because he had the rest of Queen, a rock and roll band that fit the mainstream criteria of that day. Flash forward to today and every single one of those mentioned are heralded for being visionaries and pioneers of their day vnow we have these great up and comers who are pushing boundaries in an eerily similar way as those in the past did. Now those same people who grew up listening to Madonna, Prince, Bowie and others, are now running the record labels and are parents of teenagers. Teenagers who are keen to enjoy the new artists because they push the boundaries. But oh no kids, mom and dad don't like this. Mom and Dad don't want you dancing to "Poker Face" but it's okay for them to dance to "She Bop" and "Cherry Pie" by Cyndi Lauper and Warrent respectively. I understand shielding young children from certain sights and sounds, but to have grown up with Madonna's music and to say Lady GaGa is too muh, is a bit hypocritical. 

Health Care Reform

This health care reform debate is P-ing me off. Illegal immigrants already have free Health Care. Because they don't have any, Health Care facilities pay out of pocket & jack up prices to offset their deficit! So people need to stop using that as an excuse.    

Baby Killer

Recently Jon Venables was brought back to prison under undisclosed charges. For those who dont know his name, when he was 10 years old he and a friend brutally murdered a 2 year old boy. Both boys were sent to places of incarciration. When released they were given new identities as a way to start life over and to move on from the past.  I have to say I think some people cannot be reformed. In the cases of feral children, not one child has been transformed into a "normal functioning member of society." Its been proven that minds absorb the most information between the ages of 3-6 so unless we catch every potential criminal during that time period, unfortunately things will remain the same. Of course I'm speaking generally but pre-meditated murderers should not be let out. They knew what they were doing and the knew the seriousness of their actions. They took a human life regardless of what age they were when they did it. Those two boys knew right from wrong and didn't care so why should we? They turned their back on the rules so the thought of a second chance never should have happened.