Brainwashing Children

Veggie Tales. You know, the "Go God" series that teaches children all of the old school American values.  Shayne received one of these books as a gift! And we were happy to have it as we want her library to be vast so that she may choose her path wisely.  However, this particular rendition of God Loves Us, as cute as it is, is also pretty unpolitically correct. Being the good mom I am, I had no choice but to glue a couple of her thick cardboard pages together.

Apparently the little peas (or whatever they are) are dumb hicks.  Complete with missing teeth and poor grammar spelled out as it would sound.  Well, we have family that wear overalls and drive tractors.  And believe it or not they are not dumb (there is of course, an exception for every rule).  They have degrees, and all of their teeth, and you don't need a translator to decipher the words they be spewing out they mouths.

Lets break this down. Perhaps you are unaware of the immense reach that Veggie Tales is capable of.  Since 1993 they have sold 53+ million videos, 13 million books and more than 7 million CDs. They have aired on NBC, Telemundo, ION TV, the list goes on! That means that children everywhere are being exposed to the perpetuation of the country bumpkin stereotype hand in hand with being spoon fed Christianity. 

Beginning at the earliest age of childhood development children are having the seed of pretentiousness planted as deep into their souls as their faith. Which translates into stuck up hoes growing up to marry stuck up pricks that become stuck up politicians and businessmen. Politicians such as these are the ones shutting down your schools and driving economically poisonous steaks into the hearts of rural areas.  Wal Mart is also guilty of said treachery.  All these decisions derived from the notion that country folk are dumb and useless towards the progression of our outstanding American culture.  Ugh. Don't get me started. I think we can all agree that American culture is disgusting.

In summary: shame on you Veggie Tales! Teaching children that some people are better than other people.  Not to mention the flip side of this situation! Which is even MORE awful!

Lets take a quick look at the pretend red/blue map of our country in our minds. We all know that the majority of high value, Christian culture is located where? In the sticks.  Where they drive tractors and wear overalls, much the dummy peas in the currently glued together pages of Shayne's "God Loves Us" book.  So here rather than worrying about brainwashing children to be snobby, we have to worry about crushing an unconscious layer of self worth!  Classic case of self-fulfilling prophecy. 

The most despicable part of all of this is the seething irony!  Our children only know to discriminate because we teach them to do it.  So stop.

How much money does Brenden Fraser make off of Netflix?

So we started out researching a band we heard on Pandora. Which lead to researching Mumford & Sons, which lead to researching Brenden Fraser, where we noticed that not a single movie that has Brenden Fraser acting, singing, taking pictures, producing or even walking around in the background of someone else's acting, is available instant queue on Netflix.

Upon noticing this, Jesse became rather upset.  He feels like somehow Brenden Fraser is making money off of Netflix sending a movie to your house, rather than being instantly available on our Tivo/laptop.  He became outraged at the thought that somebody else that is already very successful (I use this term loosely) is sticking it to the little guy and interfering with Jesse's ability to randomly decide that he wants to watch Encino Man or Son in Law, MonkeyBone, or a handful of other's that we looked up.  None of these movies are "worth getting in the mail" and there is no reason as to why they would not be available instantly. 

So this is what he said: "Man, wtf, I hope Brenden Fraser gets in a car accident on his way home and dies."

REALLY?!?!? So we had this flash discussion about how Americans are SO greedy that he is more concerned with his ability to get a movie instantly, that he would flippantly dismiss a mans life just because he may or may not have something to do with why he can't watch these select movies.

So. Does anyone know if people make money off of having Netflix send movies in the mail rather than watching them instantly?  Obviously, Netflix charges more because it costs them money to do so, but does anyone else make any?

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