April 30, 2007 by Jeremy.

This story puts a whole new meaning on a Happy Meal! My guess is this wasn’t an accident but a prank by a McDonald’s employee. Some people are so stupid. I realize this story probably doesn’t meet the standards that we here at Coherent Thought try so hard to adhere to, but this story shows how illogical people can truly be.

Spokeswoman Joanna Redfern-Hardisty said because of its popularity, the previous happy meal gift had sold out at the outlet and prepackaged sports bags were substituted as children’s gifts.

One was left unsealed for display purposes and “somehow” had ended up with the customer, she said, without explaining why the condom was present.

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April 26, 2007 by Jeremy.

At least that’s what this article would have you believe. Advocacy Group: Drop Shrek From Anti-Obesity Ads
I have to admit, when you first read their claims it seems like a fairly good idea. Then you look at the actual organization and what they believe and it’s easy to spot some illogical thinkers.
From the Campaign For A Commercial-Free Childhood Website:

We believe that children have the right to grow up in a safe and healthy environment; that parents have the right to raise their children without being undermined by corporate marketers; that schools, communities, and nations, if they deem it necessary, have the right to restrict commercial access to children. Marketers do not have the right to exploit children for profit.

On the surface this doesn’t seem like a bad statement, but the implications here are obvious. They want to empower the government to censor ads as they see fit. So much for the First Amendment. I guess it is a little outdated.

As someone who works as a Director of a children’s program I fully believe that children deserve to grow up in a safe and healthy environment. I also believe that businesses have the right to sell their products and make money and advertising is one way in which they persuade consumers to buy their products.

Again we’re looking for someone else to blame. Parents forget who is in charge and let their children run things. I’ve seen this problem on several occasions. Parents should take the responsibility to have an impact on their children’s lives and stop blaming other people for the problems that exist.

It’s like blaming Subway and Jared for making you skinny. They might have inspired you to do something but ultimately you had to take action for yourself.

That’s your dose of common sense for the day!

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April 26, 2007 by Jeremy.

For this post I’m going to talk about something a little less important than most of my topics. I’m going to talk about Drive which is a new show on Fox.

I really enjoyed the show and was looking forward to seeing where it was going. Part of the reason I started watching the show was because of it’s star actor Nathan Fillion of Firefly fame. Drive, like Firefly, is already being canceled by fox I assume, because of low ratings. That would be the common sense answer. The show isn’t getting the ratings that Fox thinks it should be getting so they are canceling the show. That just makes sense.

I wish that weren’t the case but that is reality.

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April 25, 2007 by Jeremy.

In a possible stroke of genius Skybus Airlines Inc. is looking at new ways to keep the cost of a plane ticket down. This is an interesting thought and may have some promise.

It keeps costs down by only taking reservations over the Internet and not staffing a call center.

That is just plain common sense right there! One of the biggest cost in any company is personnel. We can see the same trend taking place across the board. That’s why Blockbuster is pushing for individuals to rent their movies from Blockbuster Online. Once they can get their customers doing that, they can close stores and save on that overhead. The same thinking applies to the stores that have self-checkout lines now. Once they get you bagging your own items, they can get rid of some extra baggage of their own.

Look for the future of customer service to be all automated and don’t forget to press 2 for Spanish!

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April 24, 2007 by RBuffordTJ.

Let me start by saying my political views are more towards the conservative side of the realm, however, that does not mean I only vote Republican nor do I subscribe to everything this party does or plans to do. I do not believe it is the responsibility of the government to moderate morality and many things we see going to the Supreme Court have no right to be there in the first place, such as homosexual marriage, abortion and other social topics that can and should be governed on a state by state basis.

On April 19, 2007 we observed the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing where an American citizen took it upon himself to destroy hundreds of lives with a home made bomb. He was a murderer and a national terrorist, I doubt few would argue with that. He was not affiliated directly with any group, not sanctioned by any group to carry this out and did so only because of his personal beliefs that the government needed to be punished. He was wrong, there is no simpler way to put it.

On that date an online acquaintance of mine posted a so called ‘memorial’ to the victims, mentioning we should remember the fallen then stated this:

” Let’s take back this date from the right wing who hate our nation and murder our citizens. Let’s remember that the greatest threat isn’t from foreigners in mosques, but from paranoid conservative idealogues who wave bibles.”

Some memorial huh? All about the victims huh? I must call Bull Crap on this one, and I have studied his post for days, turning it over in my head and trying to consider it from his point of view only to come to the Common Sense realization that it’s purely his way to spew political vomit against those he hates and not at all a focus on the victims. You should be careful getting into the mindset that the government needs to be punished for what YOU see as criminal, that was the very mindset of the murderer who carried out the attack in Oklahoma City.

We must remove all Common Sense if we are to take his view, to say that our greatest threat was one lunatic in a rented truck with a bomb acting alone and of his own twisted accord. To ignore a untied front of terrorists based in the middle east who’s only desire is to destroy us, our country and us as human beings, would be a fatal mistake. While our remembrance of the Oklahoma City bombing should be for the victims of a twisted mad man who was executed for his crimes, our remembrance of September 11, 2001 should be a constant reminder of an ONGOING threat to our lives.

We are not handling the threat at home like we should in that we have open borders and very little tracking of foreign nationals who enter our country. We contract out our port security to middle eastern countries, the same ones that act like our friends but are not. We play Politically Correct word games so we don’t offend people and heaven forbid we profile the people who carry out these type of attacks. You see, what my aquaintance seems to not understand is that the terrorist from Oklahoma acted alone but our current threat is acting in unison around the world to attack not only us but our allies such as the United Kingdom and Spain, both of whom were attacked by the same group.

Wake up America, its time to take a good hard look at our real threat and stop wasting time bashing Christianity and people who believe its wrong to murder children in the womb when we have an entire culture bent on wiping us off the planet. It’s time to stop using the victims of crime to attack our own government who is just as much a victim as the people who bled and died, remember…”Government of the People, by the People, for the People”! Attacking Christianity, who is doing nothing to harm this country, while ignoring our true enemy who is actively trying to drive us in to extinction is like worrying about a mosquito on your arm when there is a rattle snake pumping venom in your leg!

Common Sense wins again!
Bufford

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April 23, 2007 by RBuffordTJ.

Boy I bet that title got your attention didn’t it! I mean, who in the world could even consider not feeling compassion for this…

Well let me start by saying I love the little buggers, heck I don’t eat them so I have no intention on killing them. I am a Christian, I believe that God made me a steward of everything He blesses me with and one of those things is my environment. He said I can eat certain types of meat, fish, birds and even insects if I so choose but that’s up to me.

Now, for some strange reason I had an argument with a friend about this ‘clubbing baby seals’ issue and even one about drilling for oil in the ocean and Alaska because it would endanger the animals who live near by. He said humans are pushing certain species into extinction with our actions. He is an atheist, he does not believe in any form of God or higher power, he feels he is it and one day he will die and waft off into oblivion. So why the argument?

It is my understanding that as an atheist he subscribes to the Darwin theory of survival of the fittest, this is not an evolutionary issue, it’s all about Darwin and the biggest and baddest of the animal kingdom will rule. Darwin believed that the weaker species of all kinds must adapt or die, thus my argument for the seals…they must go.

I think even the biggest, smelliest, tree hugging hippy activist would agree that humans are at the top of the local food chain, not in hand to hand combat with a lion mind you, but with out technology and tools. So if we are the top, and our actions cause something to become extinct…then we are simply living the Darwinian Law right? My poor tree hugging friend was a little upset, mostly because he didn’t have a valid argument other than “it’s wrong”. Well if he believed in “Thou shalt not kill” as a directive from God I would say ok, but his position is from that of a non believer who thinks Darwin was right.

Once again Common Sense rules!
Bufford

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April 23, 2007 by Jeremy.

Sheryl Crow in a genius moment has come up with a way that we, as Americans, can fix the Global Warming by limiting their usage of toilet paper in the bathroom.

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I really wish I was making this up, but she is truly serious. She is so serious that she has unwittingly inspired me to start a new campaign. I am going to start granting awards to the brightest minds of our current generation. She is now the first winner of the Illogical Thought Award (Actual Award Image Coming Soon) Her idea is so far outside the realm of common sense that she truly deserves this award. I hope that she will accept it with pride!

Here is her actual statement:

Crow (4/19, Springfield, Tenn.):
I have spent the better part of this tour trying to come up with easy
ways for us all to become a part of the solution to global warming.
Although my ideas are in the earliest stages of development, they are,
in my mind, worth investigating. One of my favorites is in the area of
forest conservation which we heavily rely on for oxygen. I propose a
limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in
any one sitting. Now, I don’t want to rob any law-abiding American of
his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough
people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom
visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could
be required.

At least she does allow for the occasional use of more than one piece for the most extreme cases. The problem is she keeps going, she now has another genius idea. I actually hope this one pans out so that, when I have kids, I won’t have to convince them not to wipe their mouth with their sleeve!

Here’s her idea once again:

Crow (4/19): I also like the idea of not using paper napkins,
which happen to be made from virgin wood and represent the height of
wastefulness. I have designed a clothing line that has what’s called a
“dining sleeve.” The sleeve is detachable and can be replaced with
another “dining sleeve,” after usage. The design will offer the “diner”
the convenience of wiping his mouth on his sleeve rather than throwing
out yet another barely used paper product. I think this idea could also
translate quite well to those suffering with an annoying head cold.

After research on the idea of the one piece of toilet paper, I think that THIS MAN has it all figured out!

Cheryl Crow should be very thankful that she has a singing career because I’m not sure she could do much else…

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