A Nephew With Disabilities

Hey everyone, I’m back here again with a post about my Nephew, Josh. he’s coming up to 12 years old and like every kid his age he should be out riding bikes, skateboarding, roller blading and all the other fun outdoor activities that are available to growing youngsters these days. Unfortunately for Josh, he spends most of his spare time in front of a computer console playing computer games or surfing the Internet for lord knows what.

It seems that most kids these days have forsaken the activities that my generation and that of my own grown up kids spent our free time enjoying. In Josh’s case, he doesn’t have much of a choice in the matter as he is what we now call a person with disabilities.

Ok, I’m not looking for any sympathy here for the guy and he certainly doesn’t want any. As far as he’s concerned he’s doing the same as all his friends are doing, so he’s actually not an outsider. If it had been in my day, then he certainly would have been shunned by the rest of the kids for not being able to go out and play like we used to because of his physical limitations.

So in a way, while I would be tearing my hair out if I had a 12 year old son who never saw daylight because he was surgically attached to his computer, I’m not so annoyed with the way things are turning out. At least for Josh’s sake.

Wanna know what upsets me about all this? Ha, even if you don’t you’re gonna get it anyway! This is my rantin’ blog and Ahm a gonna use it! (Picture Yosemite Sam with red face, bristling mustache and jumping up and down in fury!)

The kids that have two perfectly good arms and two perfectly good legs are squandering their future health by spending all their time doing no physical activity. When I was a lad, my friends and I used to run, ride bikes, swim, roller skate (that was before roller blades, by the way) climb trees and all sorts of stuff. No one wanted to sit inside watching a TV when there was so much to do outside! We were fit as anything and we ate good home cooked meals so we got all the nourishment we needed. We here healthy and we grew up healthy. That was my generation.

My kids also spent plenty of time outdoors, although they were more inclined to want to also spend some time in front of the TV. I guess the TV shows were better then the ones we had when I was a kid!

But this generation of kids? They don’t want to do a damn thing except play computer games, surf the Internet, watch TV and text each other on cell phones! They eat junk food and practically no fresh fruit or vegetables. They are not building their bodies into fit, healthy specimens that will ensure a healthy and long life. In short, they are condemning themselves to an unhealthy adulthood and possibly a shorter lifespan than previous generations.

Why is this happening?

You tell me! I’ll be long gone before it comes to pass, but it’s a damn shame to watch it happen from the beginning. While my own nephew is looking at handicap shower accessories to brighten up his life, all his friends have their heads stuck to the monitors of their games consoles and when they’re bored with them, they don’t even get up off the sofa, but grab the remote and flip on the TV to be fed up a diet of brainwashing garbage from reality TV shows that are the dregs of entertainment.

Lord help us in the next 20 years. Because unless attitudes change, we’re gonna see some changes that we really don’t want to see.

Edwyn prose.

Air Disaster Cover Up?

Hi again, its Edwyn Prose here once more with another post on what’s on my mind right now. This one is about plane crashes and air disaster cover-ups.

What has sparked this sudden urge to write about this? Well, unless you’re living in a Tibetan monastery you probably heard about the Air France plane that has just disappeared over the Atlantic ocean on route from Rio in Brazil to Paris, France

Yep, its one of those certainties in life that every now and then a news story is gonna flash up on the radio or in the newspapers about another airplane that fell out of the sky, or crashed on take off or on landing. Well this one just went and blipped off the radar and no one whose saying anything knows where the hell it is.

Its a tragedy sure, all those people are probably dead and their relatives are besides themselves with grief and anguish. Its also a mystery. Not just a mystery as to where it went, but also a mystery why the airline who damn well know more than they’re letting on still won’t say where they believe it is.

That leaves it wide open to speculation from nosy old grumps like me to have a stab at where I think it is.

Chances are it’s on the bottom of the Atlantic, unless the island in that Lost series has just been moved again and has popped up in the Atlantic Ocean right under where the plane went down. Yeah, fat chance! Do you think anyone survived? I don’t somehow and that’s not because I’m wishing any ill, I’m just being realistic. Think about it.

A plane crashes into the sea miles from any land. It they were lucky enough that the sea was dead calm, then the pilot might have been able to land the plane flat on the surface and give the passengers a chance to get out, slide down the shoots into inflatable life rafts. That is of course if the plane has life rafts…

Much more likely is the sea is choppy and even if the waves are only a foot or so high, no plane will land flat on them. It’ll nosedive into the water and quickly submerge, or break up if the wavers are two feet or more high. Water will quickly flood in and that’s that. there is no way out quick enough especially as the passengers will be so closely cramped together and the aisle too narrow for any chance of escape.

So chances are, everyone on board has drowned.

Why hasn’t the airline simply come out and admitted it? They don’t want to lose credibility, that’s why. People will be scared to fly and it will cost them money. Yep, its all down to the old evil green stuff, my friends! So if you’re wondering why no one seems to know anything concrete just yet, its unlikely that they don’t actually know, its just they’re not saying until they absolutely have to.

That’s my opinion, by the way. If you got another opinion, then write your own damn blog and don’t dare start commenting with crap arguments in here, cause I ain’t interested! Remember, I’m a damn grumpy old guy and I can get irate real quick with uninformed morons who like to comment just because they got nothing better to do.

So that’s my un-PC disclaimer!

Edwyn prose

Is it Possible to Make Money Online?

Hi once again, Edwyn Prose here with some more insights into the way life should be, or if it ain’t then it darn well should be! Now I know a load of people are hankering to try their hand at making money online in some form or another and I’m here to tell you that it can be done, but it’s not gonna be an easy ride.

So the sixty four thousand dollar question: “Is it possible to make money online?” has a definitely affirmative answer, but it comes with conditions.

Ok, I know a load of you see these ads all over the place that say something like “I can show you how I made $3,000 in just 7 days!” then you have to go buy their ebook for like $47 or something and it turns out to be a pile of crap. The worst kind are the ones that then tell you to go write an ebook that is all about how you wrote an ebook and sold it to a bunch of noobs for $47 bucks and made three grand in your first week cause they all believed your ad hype!

JHC how can people  be so damn gullible?

Want to know what’s even more amazing? That there are people out there that not only buy that first ebook for $47, but when they don’t get the magic pill on how to make that kinda money, they go buy another guy’s ebook for $97 cause it sounds like it must be better than the $47 ebook! Holy crap fact is stranger than fiction and that’s no lie my friends.

But back in the world of the sane, there are actually real ways to make some money online and if you do it right and put some effort into it, you can make a decent living from it. Of course, you have to know how to avoid the scammers out there. A good rule of thumb is if they’re charging money for their advice, then its a dime to a dozen that exact same information can be found elsewhere for free. Don’t believe me if you don’t want to, hell, I can point you to a great ebook that’ll really blow your socks off for a bargain price if you want to throw your money away, might as well throw it my way!

Only kiddin’ ya!

But I’m going off the path some. There are a few very knowledgeable people online that are actively writing the truth in their blogs and websites for the benefit of newcomers to these shark infested waters and they’re not charging a dime for that information. Here’s one that’ll show you how to make money online with Adsense and it works too! The best part of it is that if you follow their advice you can make that illusive stack of dollars online but you’re going to have to work for it.

There is no free lunch online just like everywhere else and if someone tells you differently, you better be ready for the hard sell that will surely follow and be strong enough to keep your credit card in your pocket.

Edwyn Prose

Freight Forwarders Make Transportation a Breeze

Hi again folks, Edwyn Prose back again with his caustic insights into the way life ought to be… Well, I’m not mad at anything or any body right now, so that should make for an interestingly and refreshingly calmer kind of post. At least it’ll start out that way. What am I going to rant and rave about today? Well, I’m certainly going to mention my recent experiences with a shipment of goods I had to make into the next state. And for once I have some good things to say!

Ok, I’m mightily impressed by the transport company that handled the deal because it all went smoothly from start to finish and when I get that kind of service without getting the big sell I’m a very happy and not so grumpy old guy!

I was searching around for some information on the transport business online first of all when I came across this site that had some pretty good information on freight forwarders. Not that it put me in touch with the local transport company that did the job for me. I already had that local outfit, penciled in but it was just good to reassure myself I was on the right track.

Now because I’m not about to go revealing where I live to all the creepy stalkers that are out there in cyberspace, that local company have to remain nameless. But what I will say is that the men in the truck arrived promptly at 10 am when they said they would. They had my package of office furniture loaded in record time and with no fuss and when I phoned the other end to see if the goods had arrived in one piece, my colleague was very happy to report that the truck arrived when they said they would.

Best part was the guys had all the furniture off the truck and set up in the new office with slick efficiency you only see in the movies with not a scratch on anything.

The purpose of this post then I guess is to reassure anyone considering a similar transfer of goods that you should check out your local guys first before phoning a big national outfit cause they might just surprise you!

Edwyn Prose

Training Shoes Abomination!

I like to hit hard with my titles and this one is pretty hard hitting! After my last attack on Why I Hate Television, I thought it a good idea to turn my attention onto the training shoes abomination that is going on in this world and not enough people are speaking out about it. Well, guess what I’m gonna do right here, right now!

Trainers, or training shoes as they probably should be correctly known as are made by some pretty high powered global companies like Nike, Adidas, Reebok and all the rest. They sell in the stores for some pretty fancy prices too! Which would be ok as the quality of some of them is pretty good so upon first glance the average person would think, “well they got a high price tag, so they must be well made” and they wouldn’t be too far off the mark.

What Mr and Mrs average don’t tend to realize is that those trainers with their fancy price tag were made in a sweat shop (a common term for a small, dingy, hot and overworked factory) somewhere in a far eastern country by a bunch of very poor people who probably makes less than a dollar for working a very long day. Often that can be 12-14 hours depending upon how cruel and swinish their slave driver employer happens to be. Those fancy trainers that were made for a few lousy cents are then sold on to the big time companies for massive profits. The same swine employers smile while they slip the ill-gotten profits into their well-lined pockets.

Yet these big companies still buy those trainers for less than a few dollars a pair.

Then they ship them here to the US, Canada and to Europe and sell them to the stores at a huge mark-up profit. And then the stores add their own huge mark-up. And you and me, well more correctly you (because I won’t touch them) end up paying often over a hundred dollars for something that kept a very poor person in poverty and that cost less than a dollar to actually make.

Stinks, doesn’t it?

Well it’s been stinking like rotting fish for a very long time and still only a handful of well meaning folks are lending their voice to this abomination. I can’t think of any other way to describe this unbelievable abuse of human beings for the profit of some evil slave driving bastards that run these sweat shops.

Well the good news, if you can call it that, is that some smaller companies are beginning to listen to those voices as they get louder and are moving production away from the far eastern sweat shops and buying them for a fair price from workers co-operatives that pay the workers a fair wage and don’t make them work such long hours. I say it would be good news if only more of the bigger companies would follow suit. Some are starting to but its too little and too slow.

Will this story have a happy ending?

Well I hope so, but knowing how greed and power corrupts the weak minded, where one sweat shop closes another ten will open and if they don’t make trainers, then they’ll probably switch to making something else. Like fake designer bags or fake vans shoes or fake designer shirts or whatever!

At least while all this fake rubbish is flooding into the markets its giving the big companies a nice well deserved headache!

Edwyn Prose

Why I Hate Television

Well, I hinted about this pet hate of mine in my first post on this blog Who Is Edwyn Prose?, so I’ll expand a bit on this right here now that I got some spare time to vent my anger at the way a perfectly good entertainment outlet has been abused by everyone and his dog hell bent on manipulating the public at large.

Whoah, does that sound like a bold statement or what?

Well, I’ll tell you folks, you’re being sucked in hook, line and sinker and what beggars belief is that you’re all falling for it without even questioning it. I can’t believe there are intelligent Americans out there who don’t have a clue what is being done to them and are quite happy to let it keep being done!

People, television is being used to brainwash you!

It’s been used like that since the earliest times, but its only in the last couple decades that politicians, advertisers and the like have figured out how to use it to manipulate and obfuscate a captive audience of millions of people. Ok, advertisers have the edge because they’ve been going at this for decades and they know all the angles. Yup, they can sell refrigerators to the Eskimos and make them grateful they bought the top of the line model with a built-in ice maker too! You betcha!

But more recently, politicians have seen the obvious opinion manipulation properties of this huge media monster and use it to its fullest ability. Hell, how many of you really voted for GWB last time around because you thought he was a great guy? After what he did in Iraq and the way he spent our tax dollars like confetti and then left us all heading for poverty with a rapidly devaluing dollar worldwide – oh yeah the American public was suckered right in there.

But its not just the political arena that’s the reason why I hate television – its the insidious leftie influence its having on our population.

Kids grow up with no respect for adults any more. The police are treated as a joke too. All this is because of television programs that show kids dissing adults and bad guys getting the better of the police. Kids watch that crap and believe it’s the way real life is, so they just go out and do what they see actors do on TV.

Is there someone to blame? Well, you might want to blame the people behind the TV shows that have degraded our society. Or you might want to blame the actors and actresses who portray the bad guys winning. Or you might want to blame the government for allow this to happen.

On Each count you would be wrong, wrong, wrong!

The only person to blame is yourself. The blame lies squarely at the feet of the parents who let their kids watch that crap without having the balls to stop them. Sure you could cite all kinds of excuses, but they’re all lame – a parent who lets their kids do what ever they want have lost the plot and are gonna end up with a new generation of adults with no respect for anything.

Don’t believe me?

I don’t mind if you don’t believe me – hell, why should you? You know best, right?

Just remember to turn the other way next time you see some kid shooting up heroine, or running over someone in a car they just jacked, or robbing a 7/11 with a gun, or beating the crap outta some poor defenseless old person. It ain’t your fault baby! Blame society or someone else cause it ain’t your fault your kids saw it on TV, right?

Don’t think television is the root of all evil?

Think again!

Edwyn Prose

Who Is Edwyn Prose?

Welcome to my new weblog at WordPress! I’m Edwyn Prose and this is where I’m gonna tell you some about me. First up, I’m a retired businessman, so that gives you some idea as to where I’m coming from. I’ve seen plenty in my life so far and travelled some as well, so I’ve got something to talk about.

Second, I get the feeling that I can see things that very few people can see, or more’s likely they don’t want to see. I see the truth in a lot of things that are swept under the table by folks that don’t like the way things look, so they get ignored. Just like an ostrich with his head buried in the sand, most people seem to live their lives these days, although it wasn’t always like this.

Which is one reason I like writing.

I can say what’s on my mind without having my wife call me a grumpy old man! Ha! Well, if telling the truth makes me grumpy, then hell I’m a grumpy old so and so! I’d rather be thought of as a person who tells it like it is, rather than the pathetic ostriches that surround me.

Well, maybe that gives anyone who cares to read this thing an insight as to what’s in store. My views on what I see eveyday around me, what I can read between the lines on many subjects and on what real life is, which incidentally has little to do with what you see on the TV, despite most people’s ideas to the contrary.

When I get going, one of my biggest bugbears is the TV, because in a few short decades it has enslaved the nation into believing whatever it tells you to believe. Television was once a benign form of entertainment, but no longer. Advertisers have hijacked the TV to get you to buy whatever its selling, politicians have used it to further their careers, political activists have used it to swell their passive armies of sympathizers, politically correct communists have used it to erode our freedom of speech and even our freedom of thought.

You could say I dislike the brainwashing monster that is television and all it stands for intensely.

You’d be right.

Edwyn Prose