It's Not. But it Can Be.

We don't express political opinions here too often, but your KHEL 666 Krew (all U.S. citizens) feel that this sums up our opinion very well.
Just my two cents. Instead of embarrassing ourselves with "reality" shows, why not have programs promoting the works of the actual common person, revealing the struggles of the actual common person? Instead of spectacle, why not celebrate the regular, hardworking person? Why not bring awareness and sympathy to the plights of people who live with various physical and mental illnesses, including the fact that the disability payments they get don't even cover the cost of housing, let alone food and medication?
Instead of ridiculing common looking people, particularly fat people, for not upholding the standard of so called beauty, why not teach respect for people of all races and sizes, all genders including intersexed and transgender? Why not celebrate one another's strengths and uphold one another in our areas of weakness?
There have been a lot of improvements in race politics, but racism still exists. There have been improvements in treatment of women on one hand, but on the other hand it has come to a point where women are so sexualized that no matter our personal accomplishments, if we don't fit the qualifications of "sexy" while doing whatever it is we do, we are seen as losers.
Our children are growing up with the message that to be successful, you have to act like a petulant two year old in order to get attention, and you have to appear to be ready for sex at all times. However, if you are a promiscuous woman, you're a slut. On the other hand, if you're a promiscuous man, go you. Being monogamous is "lame." If you happen to be fat, woe betide you for even existing in the first place.
Everything that was mentioned in the video is right on target. Plus, we need to stop outsourcing our employment and manufacturing to other countries.
This truly could be one of the greatest countries in the world, but all the "rah rah, USA" propaganda isn't going to make it that way. Only right and proper action which is concerned with the well-being of all citizens will make it that way. Only kindness rather than stigma will make it that way.

Peace.

DJ Blooming Psycho

Hey Scouts, Wake Up!

So, the Boy Scouts of America continues to enforce their ban on gay boys.

Why do they not want gay boys to learn good values? What an awful thing. The only thing I can think is that they have this idea in their head that the gay guys are going to be trying to molest or seduce their straight companions, which of course is totally ridiculous. My son is a former scout. He's straight, which means nothing one way or the other, except it's somewhat relevant to this story. On school trips at a school that taught tolerance, mind, he was the only one who would room with the openly gay kid. Everyone else was apparently afraid that they would catch the gay cooties, or wake up with the guy in the bed next to them. Glad I raised my son smarter than that.

It's the Size of her Voice that Matters

It disgusts me that people ripped on Ann Wilson about her weight to the point where she went and got her stomach cinched off to a small pouch (lap band surgery) because of the ignorant comments from shallow morons. 

Who the fuck cares what Ann (or anyone else) weighs? The current size bias is a product of the multi BILLION dollar diet industry, which makes its money off encouraging people to hate themselves. 

If diets worked, there wouldn't be so fucking many of them.

Ann is amazing. When I listen to Heart, I am hearing Ann's voice. I am not thinking about "wow, I wonder what number that fat bitch is tipping the scales at." You know why I'm not? Because that would make me a putz.

Here's Dreamboat Annie for you bitches. Because I'm cool like that.

Whatever You Have To Do To Survive

I get so pissed at people who get on their high horse and say "dissociative identity disorder doesn't exist, these people are just attention seekers."

These types also say things like "bipolar disorder is the diagnosis du jour" and "Asperger's syndrome is a copout for being antisocial."

They probably also believe that all fat people are lazy slobs who sit around shoveling bucket after bucket of KFC into their cavernous maws while watching reality TV.

Everybody is just trying to get by. Nasty, judgmental people do not make the hard life that most of lead any easier.