Jeremy Herndon

I was going through some old drafts that never got published and came across this one – I don’t know why I never published it! So I’ll publish it now, three years after the writing!

On April 24, 2008 a news story was released that an Adolf Hitler was going to be sold in the Ukraine, aimed at children. The news story said that the dolls were Barbie-like in nature, that kids could dress and undress him and pin on medals. There was supposedly even an interchangeable head, where the facial expression was, I think the term was either “kinder” or “gentler” – something like that. Then the story went on to say that if the sales of the doll went well that the manufacturer would expand the line and start selling dolls of his German Shepard dog “Blondie” and model crematoriums.

I think it is interesting that this “Hitler doll” story first came out right around the anniversary of Hitler’s birthday! So it has been discovered that the entire story was a hoax, although I don’t know HOW it was discovered to be a hoax, and several news agencies have had to retract their stories on the doll. I find that very interesting!

The shark experts claim that the chances of being bitten by a shark (and killed) are slim.  They claim that you are more likely to be struck by lightening than attacked by a shark.  Yet, every year I hear news stories of shark attacks happening! 

I know lots of people are fascinated by sharks; I think I’ll just stay out of the water thank you very much!

I have been seeing several commercials for some new TV shows that are due to start in January. It is hard to keep up with all of the changes with all of the channels that we get now a days. Hopefully I’ll be able to catch a few of the new ones and find a couple that are decent enough to continue watching until the summer reruns come around once again.

It’s interesting to listen to the numbers that are being spewed out at us from various sources that are busy calculating all the holiday crunching of numbers for the retailers to live and die by. Fact is that the majority of us are cutting back. With so many of us taking advantage of some type of Debt Settlement offer or possibly a Debt Negotiation due to our credit card overload from our spending craze days that are well behind us now.

There are numerous options for Debt Relief out there and having Internet access just makes the whole easy process even easier. When Christmas is all over and done with we will all have to sit back and see what adjustments are needed in order to pay for it all. That’s when it really hurts. I did hear on one news story that more people are using cash this holiday shopping season instead of using their credit cards. I know I haven’t used a single charge card this year and I don’t plan on starting either.

I was reading an article on yahoo.com about how the mid-term elections have only made the political gridlock worse. Instead of getting bi-partisan cooperation to try to make any kind of meaningful improvements in the problems this country is facing, the political parties are now just digging in their heels and getting petty with each other. I think we should toss ALL of them out on their ears and get people in there that will accomplish something and agree to work with each other instead of being obstinate brats that refuse to cooperate with each other. This is disgusting.