I just read one of my classmates blogs on childhood obesity called A Healthy Choice. I do have to say I agree with her completely. I do think that Congress should pass the Child Nutrition Act because just through my experiences in my K-12 years, me and many others probably lived off of vending machines. Just the smell of the crap coming from the cafeteria was enough to make me want to vomit, and so I went straight to the machines. So if schools were to take out vending machines and offer healthier foods that also tasted decent enough to nourish children's bellies, I really do think that it would cut down on this childhood obesity epidemic. I have a son who loves to eat, so I can just imagine him seeing those yummy potato chips and thinking, "MMMMmmmm!" He's already on the higher side of his percentile in weight and I have done better with offering him healthier options at home. I would most definitely like to see it continue on while he is at school because it would defeat the purpose if they just feed him crap at school. Yes, most schools have replaced vending machines with water and Gatorade or just removed them completely, but I know the elementary school my niece goes to, they have separate stands set up so the kids can buy junk food after they have eaten their lunch. This also defeats the purpose of removing or replacing the vending machines.
All in all, I agree with my classmate. I think they should get rid of junk food all together. I don't know what I would eat but at least I'll know my son and everyone's kids would be healthier, which would mean less trips to the doctor. Although healthy foods are more expensive, I think everyone would save in the long run because of medical bills they won't have.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
Keep the Murdering Bastards Alive?!?!
So there was a bill that was introduced to the 111th U.S. Congress on March 19, 2009 called S.650: Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2009, sponsored by Sen. Russell Feingold (D-WI). It basically states that this act would repeal death penalty provisions for a wide range of homicide-related offenses under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the federal criminal code, the Controlled Substances Act, and other statutes relating to aircraft hijacking, espionage and treason, and offenses punished under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. It would also prohibit the sentencing to death or execution of any person for any violation of federal law after the enactment of this Act and commutes death penalties imposed prior to the enactment of this Act to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
Luckily as far as I know and how it appears, this bill has been abandoned in the Committee.
I say luckily because as far as the death penalty stands, even though I do see the pros and cons to the death penalty, if I had to choose whether I was for it or not, I would most definitely say, yes I am. I am ALL FOR IT! Now I know two wrongs don't make a right, but having the opportunity to witness a capital murder trial, I saw the toll it took on everyone involved (including the courtroom work group), whether it was a losing or benefiting outcome.
Say this bill were to pass, what then? Hmm, let's see. These killing fools stay in prison until they are old and croak anyway and in the meantime, taxpayers pay to house them and that includes giving them three meals a day, a bed, air conditioning, recreational activities, jobs, and a place where they are living and breathing just fine, all while everyone that the prisoner's crime affected mourns and lives with the pain and thoughts of their loved one(s) dying a brutal death. Now how does this sound fair? If it were up to me, I say torture them the way they did their victim(s) until they beg for mercy and then kill them the way they killed their victim(s), but since the Constitution protects the criminals, I'll just have to deal with lethal injection, although in a couple states they still use the firing squad which is close to pleasing me, but who cares what little ol' me thinks. I'm just glad I live in Texas with the old, conservative, and 2nd Amendment lovin' geezers who love the death penalty.
Convicted criminals have all these protections granted to them in the Constitution such as protections from cruel and unusual punishment and It just doesn't make sense to me. The killers weren't thinking of that when they were killing people. I bet that if something horrid happened to a member of these congressmen's family, they would have a different opinion on the death penalty. Yes, the downside is the killers would die a "somewhat peaceful" death, but at least they're not breathing the same air and using up taxpayers money. I would think it cost more to keep them alive than to just be done with it and put them down. Now we just have to work on moving their death dates along!
Luckily as far as I know and how it appears, this bill has been abandoned in the Committee.
I say luckily because as far as the death penalty stands, even though I do see the pros and cons to the death penalty, if I had to choose whether I was for it or not, I would most definitely say, yes I am. I am ALL FOR IT! Now I know two wrongs don't make a right, but having the opportunity to witness a capital murder trial, I saw the toll it took on everyone involved (including the courtroom work group), whether it was a losing or benefiting outcome.
Say this bill were to pass, what then? Hmm, let's see. These killing fools stay in prison until they are old and croak anyway and in the meantime, taxpayers pay to house them and that includes giving them three meals a day, a bed, air conditioning, recreational activities, jobs, and a place where they are living and breathing just fine, all while everyone that the prisoner's crime affected mourns and lives with the pain and thoughts of their loved one(s) dying a brutal death. Now how does this sound fair? If it were up to me, I say torture them the way they did their victim(s) until they beg for mercy and then kill them the way they killed their victim(s), but since the Constitution protects the criminals, I'll just have to deal with lethal injection, although in a couple states they still use the firing squad which is close to pleasing me, but who cares what little ol' me thinks. I'm just glad I live in Texas with the old, conservative, and 2nd Amendment lovin' geezers who love the death penalty.
Convicted criminals have all these protections granted to them in the Constitution such as protections from cruel and unusual punishment and It just doesn't make sense to me. The killers weren't thinking of that when they were killing people. I bet that if something horrid happened to a member of these congressmen's family, they would have a different opinion on the death penalty. Yes, the downside is the killers would die a "somewhat peaceful" death, but at least they're not breathing the same air and using up taxpayers money. I would think it cost more to keep them alive than to just be done with it and put them down. Now we just have to work on moving their death dates along!
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