posted February 20, 2007 05:48 PM         

*edited the rest because no one is interested and I'm not anymore either*

Re-edited (3/03/07) to re-post original copy I cut since more are participating and I want my original feelings to be understood:

She said this while we were walking into the video store, I told her she can't say it, it would hurt people's feelings and make them cry etc. Strange thing is that I was going in to get 'SuperSize Me' because although I rarely rent movies on my single mom going to college budget, but I figured I had waited long enough for it to be on the dollar shelf... actually it was on the two for a dollar shelf.

So, I watched the movie finally and had my daughter watch it, "***** " and "******** " and all. The rest of the content was much more vile and obscene than that language could ever be.
From the first bit, the guy was my hero and I was filled with emotion at his bravery and his effort to make a difference. I had tried to talk to the supervisor at the college 'Early Learning Center' (sounds so great, doesn't it?) where I did work study while going to classes so I could monitor the setting and people who were responsible for my daughter while I was in class. I thought it was shameful that the pretty colored brochure claimed "healthy meals" when everything was covered in grease, even the canned vegetables and white pasta, which were always SWIMMING in margarine. Most of the "teachers" there, and my supervisor, mostly looked at me as a trouble maker and psycho nut job simply because I brought it up and asked if we could request that our vegetables (our menu was different from the college students each day so it wouldn't have been that difficult of a request) come without a stick of margarine melted in the metal tub.

I have also heard a nice sized sample of every idiot in my tri-state area telling me that McD's advertising, and issues like the cost of living (for just housing, bills, and liability insurance on an old family vehicle to get to work which is above what a minimum wage job at 40 hours a week provides) that make it necessary for a dual-earning household, has nothing to do with the obesity/health problems and overall misery of most of the people in area... blah blah blah I can hear the idiots clammoring to line up and argue so I'm done.

The point to the above freaking out is to explain why I cried throughout this movie. I did laugh (in a NO KIDDING sort of way) when he said that he was going to punch his children in the face whenever he went by a McDonalds, because obviously, that is the only method that a parent COULD use that might actually come close to over-powering the psychological implanting done by these corporations.

*sigh*
I think I need a Double Cheeseburger.

I just hope jwhop and Pid don't come argue with me intellectually about this because I tell ya, I am so emotional about it that all it will take is one random comment to trip me right over to the 'conspiracy theory crazed, red, white, and blue hating Left'. I don't want to hear from anyone with a political agenda either, just from other crazed parents who understand why you just want to cry and kick the crap out of yourself for even bringing a child into this world when you are exausted from protecting them from everyone else's self-serving, blind "creations", better termed "NIGHTMARES".
Oh, I know I'm not coherent.

I wrote this last week for poetry class, it's called Innocence.

I don't know
If it's right

To share the dark
And the light
Innocence
Purity

Why, oh God
Does she look
To me
With those eyes
That are wise

And would catch
Deceptive
Lies

posted February 20, 2007 05:58 PM         

my daughters have to beg me for fast food...
I prepare all our meals from scratch...

we moved back to NH last April

in Canada..going to McDonald's
for 3 of Us, was $20.00
and a 30 minute wait..

eating out in Canada is expensive
alcohol is very expensive
cigarette's

here in The U.S.
you have the dollar menu
booze it cheap
$3.00 for a bottle of vodka
versus Canada $23.00

we must take back control!

posted March 02, 2007 02:44 PM         

That makes no sense. It's like saying, do you take your lunch to work, or do you walk?

posted March 04, 2007 12:14 AM         

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I can hear the idiots clammoring to line up and argue so I'm done.

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Haha, perfect mental image. I think I know just what you mean.

posted March 04, 2007 04:08 AM         

Johnny, you will find the movie interesting. At the very end after the credits have rolled he does a little experiment and puts a Big Mac and Fillet "O" Fish hehe and a Double Cheeseburger all under individual glass domes. He also puts a big burger from a restaurant, fries from a restaurant, and McDonalds fries under domes. He watches them mold over a month and 1/2 or more and the regular food is first to go, gets moldy and black and has to be removed because of the smell. McD's sandwiches last longer of course, take a long time to mold etc. But the Main Astounding Result is the McD's Fries. They last the entire experiment without even the tiniest bit of mold. They look just bought after more than a month and a 1/2. It's disconcerting.

posted March 04, 2007 04:18 AM         

That's really gross. Even bacteria won't mess with them. Hrrm.

posted March 04, 2007 04:33 AM         

Only 2 of us were declared "healthy." The rest were unhealthy or even obese. Out of the 2 "healthy" ones was:

1. An anorexic

2. Me, who was under doctor's orders at the time to gain weight so that my body could handle puberty.

As far as I'm concerned, that school was validating the idea that Paris Hiltonish ribs showing was "healthy" and that those girls actually healthy for real were called fat. Your tax dollars at work.

(Btw, the school also served and sold fat lunches and snacks. This is a remnant of decades ago when times were harder and the government wanted to make sure that enough boys got what they needed to then turn to muscle in PE class so that they could then be drafted via Selective Services. But the girls share in that food, and typically also have a much less strenous PE class since we're not expected to be drafted, and even to this day we're not supposed to fill out the Selective Service cards.

posted March 04, 2007 11:43 PM         

"This is a remnant of decades ago when times were harder and the government wanted to make sure that enough boys got what they needed to then turn to muscle in PE class so that they could then be drafted via Selective Services."