As IF Times

Kids and Killer Hot Dogs? 3 Tips to Prevent Choking on Food – On Parenting usnews.com.

Sounds reasonable.  I suppose hot dogs as a dangerous food for kids can rank right up there with such hazards as running with scissors or playing with firecrackers.   The real question is at what age range do the warning labels apply on this newly labelled death food?  Presumably, nobody is stupid enough to feed hot dogs to children until they have teeth, so that would exclude the under 1 year crowd.  At some point, the parents  have to take their eyes off the kid when he’s eating, because if they have to monitor every chew up until they feel it’s safe for junior to eat unsupervised, the parents may want to stay with the pablum or should consider getting the kid tested for IQ deficiency. 

I mean if the kid hasn’t mastered bite, chew, swallow by the age of 10, the odds are high that long division will be a challenge and saving for college is probably unnecessary.   No doubt, upon the heels of this recommendation from the American pediatric group, a veritable phonebook sized list of hazardous foods will be released to worried parents.  In the legal world, this creates another opportunity, because if some ill fate should befall someone’s child resulting from eating food items on this list, well, let’s just say someone’s kids will be going to college.

Has anyone noticed the eerie resemblance that kids these days bear to domesticated pets?  They both live in controlled environments, have regimented food and receive over the top fawning and preening.  Our western society is raising bubble kids, children who live in protected cocoons until some vague time of adulthood when they are allowed to go into the world.  Like domesticated pets though, many of these kids are unable to fend for themselves once out, depending on parents for the most mundane things.  Can you imagine if in nature, birds were not taught to fend for themselves and instead hung around the family nest?  You’d have birds nests the size of trampolines and you certainly wouldn’t park your car under one of those.

It’s very ironic that parents of kids today are themselves the tail end of the baby boom, people who were given lavish attention and nurturing during their time as kids because of the post war mentality of their parents.  This generation was also about drugs, free love, do what feels good yada yada yada, but now themselves are hovering over their own brood like over-bearing  nannies.

Back to the hot dogs;, while we don’t feed food to kids shaped like grapple hooks, to all of a sudden post warning labels on hot dogs after decades of consumption is nannyish in the  extreme.  What are we supposed to eat at ball games? Kibble? All I can say is, if this warning takes hold, lots of ears, snouts and eyelids will go to waste.  I guess there’s always baloney.

link Sky Blu of LMFAO claims Mitt Romney got physical first on flight from Vancouver.

Hmm.  Who’s version of the incident to believe? A 62 year old former candidate for president of the United States.  Or a 20 something artiste of rapper renown.  A senior travelling with his wife or a guy who’s claim to fame is the smash hit, “I’m in miami bitch”?  Who to believe…

The talented lead of the wittily named band, LMFAO apparently was in the talon-like vulcan grip of the 62 year old Romney, so naturally, he had to defend his’self er, himself.   Hopefully this is a lesson to all 60 plus seniors not to act so aggressively towards younger citizens.  For far too long, youth have been bullied by this generation with their aggressive opera music and intimidating swagger.  For too long, seniors have been wreaking havoc by running large corporations, creating jobs and building industries.  Next thing you know, they’ll be running governments and steering the nation.  This kind of reprehensible behavior cannot be condoned by rap youth who only wish to peacefully spread their misogynistic and violent ballads. 

Kudos to the likes of Sky Blu for ‘sticking it to the man’.  With all the repression and intimidation faced by his generation every day, it’s a wonder they have time to pen such mellifluous music.  Hopefully they can influence everyone to forgo striving for a useful life and instead choose the more culturally desirable path of drugs, violence and of course illiteracy.  Meanwhile, the seniors  had better watch out.