WTF.....

I was at Walmart today getting stuff for Bailey's Easter basket, after getting the usual candy, chocolate and small toys, i thought i'd pick her out some new nail polish. While perusing the many nail polishes they have, i noticed something quite......disturbing. And no, it wasn't the price of OPI. Although, $7.00 for a little bottle of nail polish is beyond absurd. I looked down to see a cheaper nail polish, $2.00, but the "WOOHOO" moment didn't last long. Now, as parents we're all aware of how young girls are dressing, well, for a lack of better words, slutty, at younger and younger ages. And, as the parent of a girl, i try to be very aware of what i wear on my daughter. Shoot, she's been asking for make up for a couple months now and well, she ain't gettin' none for, well, for as long as i can get away with not getting her any. No 3 year old needs to know what eye shadow, mascara, or blush is. Atleast, not in my opinion. Anyway, back to the nail polish. It was very pretty nail polish, especially for two dollar nail polish. But i just couldn't bring myself to buy any of it. Not with names like, "naughty girl". And that was one of the less trashy names. I mean really, what has the world come to when it's ecceptable for products aimed at young girls, to be called by such whorey sounding names?!?! I know it's just nail polish, but come on! So, i payed the absurd price for OPI and didn't feel bad about it. Atleast i know my daughter won't be wearing nail polished called "naughty girl".

War, what is it good for.........

I'm always touched by video tributes to fallen soldiers. But, at the same time, it only strengthens my belief that you can't gain peace from war. I find it odd that, living in a country that gained it's freedom hundreds of years ago, that we insist on claiming that every war we step in to is to fight for something we essentially already have. Mean while, letting our own country crumble while leaving us sesptable to our own self destruction. My views on war are generally something i keep to myself, as most of the men and some of the women in my family have either fought in a war, or were inlisted in some branch of the Armed Forces. And while i'm proud to say that my grandfather fought in WW2 and that many of the men in my family proudly served this country in some form or another, I myself, feel differantly about war than they do. In my experiance, many people believe that if you don't support a war, then you obviously don't support the people who are out there risking their lives. That idealogy is completely wrong. Many people who believe as i do, support the PEOPLE out there fighting, but not what they're fighting for. Because face it, we aren't fighting to gain freedom for the U.S., we fighting just to fight.