Dinosaurs at the ZOO

So I was reading the Local Paper today (thats right Edson has a local Paper) and there is a section every week where they ask the local kids some question. I think it is their poor attempt to try to relive the Cosby days. Anywho, this weeks question was "What is the coolest thing you've ever seen?". Now one little girls answer was "Dinosaurs at the ZOO". Now those of you who know me well, know that I get great enjoyment out of telling tall tales to children; but to tell your kids that Dinosaurs live at the ZOO. Come on parents thats a little on the mean side. Getting you kids hopes up, "look son, look at that Dinosaur isn't that neat." How is that kid going to feel when they get to the whole mass extinction thing in school. "Sorry Billy you couldn't have seen a Dinosaur they all died a horible painfull death, with lots of Pain and Horrible other Nasty Unconfortableness." Not not only is Billy's dad horrible person for lying, now poor Billy is going to alway wonder what that animal really was, and why his dad is so stupid to think it was a Dinosaur. Come on people lets tell your kids fun lies. Like my all time favorite the troll in the signal box. Now for this lie you need to be at some sort of intersection or crosswalk with signal lights. This is because all signalled intersections have a control box somewhere near by. Now when your kid pushes the button to cross the street tell them that every time they push the button it shocks a little troll that lives in the control box, and the more you push the button the more the troll gets shocked and the light will change faster. Every now and again you get a kid who will sit there and push the button till their little fingers bleed. Now isn't childraiseing fun.

Life's Heros

So I was reading this poster the other day in the Fire Hall where I work and it had across it in big letters "Fire Fighters Are Our Heros!' and in the back where the pictures of a bunch of little kids. Now this is probably the jelousy talking but how are fire fighters any more of a hero than us EMS folk? I really think that kids would see fire fighters in less of a hero light if the could better understand what we did in EMS. You show a kid a fire trunk and tell them it is a big truck full of water that gets put on a fire. Thats something easy to understand. You show a kid an Ambulance and tell them it is full of things which they see at a doctors office and are scary and full of equipment that they have no hope of understanding how it works. Of course the kid isn't going to think that we arn't as cool. I think this is an unfair gig, just because kids don't understand what we do they don't look upto us as they do the fire fighting and for that matter law enforcement community. Oh well what can one do, its not like I can make the kids look up to me so I guess I will have to live out my life in the shadow of those Fire People.

The Man is Amazing

So it has been almost four months since I posted last and I had almost forgotten that I even had this thing. So back to posting I must go.
So I was reading the following from Reuters:
"Kim (Jong-il) pilots jet fighters, pens operas, produces movies and accomplished a feat unmatched in the annals of professional golf by shooting 11 holes-in-one on the first round he ever played."

I understand that in a Communist Dictatorship the over all love and adoration of the leader is important, but shouldn't one draw the line some where.
I mean fly fighter planes, sure I can believe this. Country leaders have been pilots before this is nothing special. He produces movies, well of course he does everyone know he is a movie junkie and has nothing but money to spend on more. He pens operas, okay so maybe he has some musical talent. You never know he very well could have written an opera, because no where does it mention that any have been preformed or that any where any good. The problem I have is him shooting 11 straight hole-in-ones on his first ever attempt at golf. I'm sorry no matter how dumb you are or no matter how much you love your leader. How can you believe that your leader had done something that no other person has ever done before. Done something that for all intents and purposes are impossible. How does the propaganda department think this is going to help out. This is like Winton finding out that Big Brother... Ok I was going to put this great 1984 example in but I was unable to think of an example of something that Big Brother would be unable to do. Big brother could do it all, the could say that he was the greatest floral designer ever and throw in how this makes him better at killing who ever he is to be killing and people would love him for it. But Best golfer ever, come on North Korea please tell me you all have enough common sense to understand that all this is a big pile of shit. But maybe its just me.