If a company comes out with a product and advertises it as the best product on the market, how can they come back later with the new and improved version of that product???   If it was already the best, what did they do to it?

Snapple is supposedly made from the best stuff on earth, but now it’s made with even better stuff??   What the hell did they do?!?   Go off planet and find stuff?

Pizza Hut has been around for years and years, but now it’s commercials inform us that now we’re eating.  What the hell was we doing at Pizza Hut before now?!?

Sorry, but this is one of those things that just gets my goat.

I just seen a commercial for the cardio jump.   I’m almost speechless.   It’s a fake jump rope!    You hold these things in your hands and do the same motion you would if you were using a jump rope and these balls on the end swing around and it somehow measures your jump and how many and all that stuff.  

You can imagine my first thought, right?   Why not just use a jump rope?   Then the price pops up, only 2 easy payments of $29.95.  Sixy dollars for a fake jump rope.   But of course then they say “Call right now and we’ll knock a full payment off”.   Now it’s $30.00 for a fake jump rope.  

Why not just run over to the dollar store or wal-mart and buy a jump rope for a few dollars?  One woman said she just loved it, it was so compact she could take it anywhere with her anywhere.   Oh okay, well that makes some sense, I mean a jump rope is really bulky and hard to take with you.

I’m just wondering how long it’s going to take for mom or dad to be going to town with this fake jump rope with the balls swinging around one each end for little susie to walk up and get clobbered in the face with a ball.   

Not to mention for this thing to actually be accurate, your going to have to get the timing right between swinging the hand things and jumping.   One guy had those hand things flat flying around there fast enough for lift off, but he wasn’t jumping in time with it.   How accurate is that going to be?

Save your money, go buy a cheap jump rope and use the rest of the money for something useful.  

For the longest time sex has been used to sell booze.   We got used to that, which is sad in itself.   Then as time went on, we grew used to seeing more and more things sold using sex.   Now we are at the point where fast food restaurants are using sex to sell food.   How damn low are we going to allow ourselves to be dragged down?

Dairy Queen started the crap with the waffle bowls and now Arby’s has slipped into the gutter too.   I’m sorry, but I really think it’s time it stopped.   What kind of message is that sending?    I really think it’s time we brought God back into things and pushed the rest back where it belongs.    What happened to selling us a hamburger by showing us what a good time friends can have gathering at the restaurant, laughing and joking over fries?    What does sex have to do with fast food anyways?

This was forwarded to me this morning and I agree 150% with everything he said. Read carefully and please feel free to pass this on to everyone you know.

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.

My confession:

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees.. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against. That’s what they are: Christmas trees.

It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it It shows that we are all brothers and sisters

celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn’t bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a creche, it’s just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren’t allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that’s a sign that I’m getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it’s not funny, it’s intended to get you thinking.

Billy Graham’s daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her ‘How could God let something like this happen?’ (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, ‘I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we’ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?’

In light of recent events… terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr Spock’s son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he’s talking about. And we said OK.

Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves. Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with ‘WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.’

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world’s going to hell Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send ‘jokes’ through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing yet?

Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you’re not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us. Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it… no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don’t sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.

My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,

Ben Stein