I guess sanity still does exsist...

FOXNews.com - British School Puts Three Little Piggies Back in Play - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News: "The three little piggies will live on after all.

A day after it was reported that a school in Britain would be changing characters in its play from the three little pigs to the three little puppies to avoid offending Muslims, the Honley Church of England Junior School changed its mind, and will use the pigs in the music festival."

Cooler heads must have won out on this one..

Ignorance gone to seed again

FOXNews.com - Cops: Mom Left Kids in Freezing Car While She Went Tanning - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News: "

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Sheboygan police arrested a woman after she allegedly left her two children in a freezing car for 20 minutes while she went tanning.
The 27-year-old woman was arrested after two people spotted the children, ages 23 months and 10 years, in the car, the police department said in a news release. The vehicle was locked but not running."
Officers responding to the scene Wednesday evening were approached by the children's parents. The father met the mother at the tanning salon and was arguing with her about why the children were in the car, police said.
The children were dressed warmly, but they had "goose bumps" from the cold, the release said. They did not require medical attention.
The temperature at the time was 12 degrees, with a wind chill index of about minus 2 degrees.
The woman could be charged Friday with two counts of misdemeanor child neglect, police said.

"She said she was going on vacation and felt that the tanning was a priority," Lt. Jeff Johnston said Friday.

The last line says it all. Why are people like this?!

Does anyone watch commercials and not see something bad anymore?

GM sticking with robot suicide ad criticized by group - Feb. 8, 2007:

"A suicide prevention group is calling on General Motors to pull an ad which shows an assembly line robot throwing itself off a bridge after making a mistake, but the automaker is sticking with the spot.

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention issued a statement saying that the ad sends dangerous and insensitive messages, and it asked members of the public to write to the automaker and ask that the ad be pulled.

I predict, if this trend continues, that in the near future everyone will be offended by something in an ad and advertising will stop all together. First the snickers ad and now this. We are in a politically correct world gone mad.

Aquateen Revisited

FOXNews.com - Defendant Charged in Boston Marketing Stunt Scare Videotaped Police Response - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News:

"One of the men criminally charged after placing blinking cartoon advertisements around the city and causing a terrorism scare videotaped a police bomb squad removing one of the devices, but did not tell the officers the object was harmless.

Surveillance cameras caught 27-year-old Peter Berdovsky videotaping officers removing what they thought was a possible bomb last week."

I had been willing to cut the guys a little slack that they did not realize what they were doing was wrong. Unfortunately, if the facts are that he videotaped the police man disarming what he thought was a bomb and did nothing about it then throw the book at him (and maybe one of those light boards so he will have something to play with)!

Finally an article that lays the Boston Mistake where it should be

"The whole atmosphere is charged with stupidity," said Lou Colasuonno, senior vive president at Financial Dynamics, a business communications and PR firm. "There is enough to go around between whoever conceived the promotion and Boston's reaction to it.

"On one hand, "who in today's world would dream of leaving unattended packages lying around as part of a promotion?" he asked. Then again, "Boston shut down half the town, while other cities didn't even notice or saw them for what they were. That seems to indicate they were over the top."For Clarke Caywood, a professor of public relations at Northwestern University, "anyone with a sense of recent history and any peripheral vision would have said, 'We are in level orange or whatever, and these are kind of mysterious looking things.' I can't imagine there was enough oversight on this project."For their part, the authorities "were doing the typical overreaction to make themselves look tough," he said. "There were two mistakes here rather than one, and there are going to be two good case studies out of it on law enforcement's error and the Cartoon Network's error."

PR blunders abound in Boston promo stunt - MarketWatch

To be honest there is enough guilt and stupidity to go around on this incident. Turner, its companies, and marketing firms are to blame to put something like this all over not only Boston but several citties. Boston did over-react to some degree. Someone should have been able to look at it real quick on a bomb squad and tell it was not a bomb. It really should have been a footnote in a slow news day. Instead, it bacame the news. It went on all day. While I work days and do not have a TV close by that I can scan the news on I can tell you there were lots of news stories coming from various news sources in my RSS feeds. The story really took on a life of its own.

State of the confusion

This is not an article on the State of the Union Address that I have on the TV now. It is more a statement on health care. I realize that hospitals need to cut costs but this is ridiculous. This morning I was woke by my doctor at 6AM and told they were going to do an MRI on me to make sure that the Gall Bladder did not leave anything behind when it came out. It is now almost 8:30 PM and I sit in the hospital. I do not understand this at all. Even the Doctor got upset. But even him raising hell with the MRI people did not get them up here to take care of me. Now, I realize I am not there and do not know what the people are going through but there is a thing called communications. The is none. I understand that this is the normal state of things at this hospital, and they bill themselves as one of the 'premier' hospitals in Tulsa. I am not sure what that means. If it sounds like I am angry, I am not. Anger will do no good in this situation and only make me feel sicker. I do need answers soon and it looks like I will not get them.