Ronald to retire? Just say no.

That evil Ronald McDonald, forcing our kids to eat non-healthy foods. A group called Corporate Accountability International is wishing an early retirement of one of the most noticable fast food characters. I am sure you have heard the story by now. Ronald bad, Mcdonalds bad, blah, blah, blah. Do they target kids with their happy meals, and Ronald? Sure they do. Is Mcdonalds good for you? Probably not on a daily basis (just have your kids watch the documentary Super Size Me). But there is something that stands out, that has only been mentioned a few times since this story took national headlines. Here is a paragraph from a pdf file from StopCorporateAbuse.com.

“What about the parents?” I hear this refrain all too often. After all, kids
don’t drive themselves to McDonald’s or purchase those Happy Meals
themselves. But any parent can tell you how difficult it is, after a long
day at work, to resist the daily pestering by their children to take them to
McDonald’s. What parent hasn’t driven past a McDonald’s and heard the
whining from the back seat? Who doesn’t know a child bent on collecting
Happy Meal toys or visiting the playground McDonald’s so cleverly places
on much of its property?

Yes, raising two kids i know how hard it is, but I also know a simple two letter word.....NO. Come on, I know you can say it....No. There, that wasn't to hard was it? NO, we are not going to eat at McDonalds, and if you don't like what we are eating at home, you just won't eat. What is so damn hard about that? Can somebody please tell me when the last time Ronald came to your house with a gun, and FORCED you to go buy a happy meal for your kids? Seriously, shut the hell up, and don't tell McDonalds corporation what they should do. What the groups who oppose the clown should do is teach some parents responsibilty, and to stop finding ways to divert blame for their fat ass, unhealthy kids to somebody other than themselves.

You know what? Lets not stop with Ronald. While were at it, lets see who else we get rid of because parents don't have enough responsibility to feed their kids healthy.

1) The King. That guy scares the hell out of me. Gives my kids nightmares so they can't get a goodnight sleep, which in turn, hinders their ability to concentrate in school, which in turn, is making them suffer academically. It's not my fault that they are up at 2:00am on a school night when the commercial comes on.

2) Chuck E Cheese the Mouse. Shit, thats a mouse that hangs out in a RESTURANT, and sponsors really crappy, unhealthy food. Lets put that mouse in a trap.

3) The Wendy's girl. My daughter wants to go there because Wendy looks so adorable on all the food containers. She is now wearing her hair in pig tails. Problem is, her hair is not long enough, so she has little stubs of hair on each side of her head. Every day she is made fun of at school. What can I do about it? It's Wendy who is causing it.

I am sure I can find more, but those are the ones that comes to mind. Somewhere in time, parents decided that they needed to find ways to divert, and place blame, on the kids behaviour on something, or someone else, other than on their parenting skills. I know, its not easy raising kids. I hear about going to McDonalds, or any other fast food joint a few times a week, but as a RESPONSIBLE parent, I have to do the tough, but the right thing, and say no.

Let's practice one more time.

Kid: "Can we go to Mcdonalds for dinner?"
Parent: "No"

This is Acrostar signing off, and this is what pisses me off.

Storm Chasers

It's been way too long since I posted my first blog entry. Mainly since I really couldn't figure out what the hell to write about. Well, that is no more. An entire mind wave has come over me the past few weeks, so now I feel like it's time to write it down.

To start, one of my favorite shows is Storm Chasers on Discovery Channel. Since I did not post any blogs concerning the first two episodes, I am going to start on week three. In yesterday's episode, Highway to Hail, we saw the brief return of Dr. Josh Whurman, who is now leading to Vortex 2 project. Now, I liked Josh in the previous two seasons, but this year he seems more like a prick, especially to Sean. I am sure that leading a multi-million dollar project has something to do with treating Sean like a throw-away, but the way he handled it seemed somewhat odd. Honestly, I believe that Sean will be better off without the DOW, and Josh's help, since the first two seasons failed to acheive "the shot" that Sean is looking for with the DOW's help.
Meanwhile, over in the "Dominator", tensions reached a boiling point between Joel, and Reed. First off, Reed has installed a new radar device on the "Dominator", or as Sean like to call it, the red shoe, and that has Dr. Whurman concerned, which led to an arguement of sorts between the two over the phone. But, back to Joel, and Reed. Not sure what is going on between the two of them, but I believe in the end Joel will be gone. Granted, Reed can get a little over excited at times, but Joel looked like he was on edge since the beginning of the season.
Overall, not a bad episode. Only a few tornadoes, but more hot wind between chasers than storm winds.

B- for chaser arguing, and in-fighting.

By the way, my blog for the show will get better for next weeks episode. I plan on writing it as I watch the show.

Friday quick hits.

For my first, or really, second, blog entry, I present to you a weeks end blog entry called Friday quick hits. Short, and to the point topics from my point of view from the week.

Didn't expect that.

My wife, who is a huge American Idol, and Simon fan, suggested that I watch this clip from the British show, Britains got talent. She didn't say anything except that, "You've got to see this." I am not sure if anybody has, maybe you have, but if you have not, well, just click the link below. Ladies and gentleman, here is Susan Boyle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk

Now, I was expecting a complete, and total disaster, but that was one of the most amazing voices I have ever heard, and I am not into those types of songs, but that was a billion times better than anything Idol has ever put out. Wow.


You should keep your mouth shut.

Acually, this is from last week but this goes out to Janeane Garofalo, who, on Kieth Olbermann's show, stated this about last weeks Tea Parties.

“Let’s be very honest about what this is about,” she said. “It’s not about bashing Democrats, it’s not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don’t know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks.”

Janeane, Janeane, Janeane, I am not sure as to what to say except that you are about as clueless as, well, I won't go there. Your career is in the tanks, so if you have to say mindless, dumb ass comments as this to stay in the spotlight, then the best to you, but all it does is to make you look like a bigger dunce than you already are.

Thanks.

I want to send a thank you out to our President Obama, who, after us teabagging rednecks were done with our tea parties, had a meeting to cut government spending by 100 billion. I am sure that will help out with that trillion dollar spending spree you passed.

Feel safe?

Our fine head of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, stated that crossing the border from Mexico to the U.S. is not illegal per say. Not illegal? How about citizens who are veterans, or believe in the Constitution that should be put on a watch list as threats. So much more, and I am not going to get into the Canada gaff since it is late, and I am tired. All I can say is, this is the person that is in charge of our safety?

And finally.....

Why is it that people need to pull up to within a centimeter of you bumber when you are at a stop light? Why, when you pull up to get them off your bumber, they need to pull up to to maintain that centimeter distance.

My Introduction

Hello everybody in blog land. Let me start off by introducing myself. My name is Steve, and I live in the suburbs of Chicago with my lovely wife, and two wonderful kids, and a dog named Hannah, who my daughter named after, well, you know who.

I have a wide variety of interest, starting with amusement parks, and rollercoasters, to the paranormal, to playing Rock Band,and decorating for Halloween, and Christmas. My political views lean to the right, but on very rare occasions will I write my views in my blogs, unless something really ticks me off.

I wanted to start a blog for the longest time, but never got up to doing it, until now. I was always thinking: what I would write about? Then it hit me. I have quite a few interests, so that should give me plenty to write about. So with that, when you visit my blog, who knows what you could reading about. It could be something that deals with an amusement park, or the unexplained. I will do my best to keep my readers entertained. You will never know what you will come across when you visit the Acrostar experiment. Sit back and enjoy, and I hope to make a friends along the way, not to mention a few repeat visitors.

Why the name Acrostar experiment? Well, my daughter is on a gymnastics team called the Acrobats, and since I like to think of her as a star, hence the name Acrostar. For the experiment part of the name, that is just what this is. An experiment.