Won't someone please think of the children?

A blip passed by on the 7am news on GMTV this morning a 13 year old girl went missing; obviously a terrible event. What caught my attention though was the sign-off "Police believe she had recently been using internet chat"...Oh my gods not internet chat? Not the devil's own creation, which we all know is so filled to the brim with sexual predators, paedophiles, and perverts of every persuasion it's surprising that the normal people can get a word in edgeways. Why don't the police monitor every chat-room? Why doesn't the government ban it? Not internet chat noooooo! Okay how many teenage girls with an internet connection doesn't use chat? I'm not belittling this, the family must be frantic, but my thoughts turned to the declaration that the Columbine boys played computer games, <shock horror>. In and of its own it's a pointless statement.

Child obesity is back on the political menu (if you'll pardon the pun) with the call for a 'fat czar' to take over and ensure our children don't eat bad foods (for a given value of bad) my first thought was that good old John Prescott isn't doing much at the moment. Not only will we get a fat fat czar, but the newspapers can dust off all those "Fat controller" headlines. As a bonus he'll act as an inspiration and role-model to children everywhere -

"If you don't stop eating junk food you'll end up looking like this!"

Yeah just what we need yet more interference from the Government. Here's a teeny tiny thought - how about parents stop caving-in to the demands of their offspring for such food, and <gasp> try educating them? Nah it's all the fault of advertisements, let someone else handle it; I've not got the time.

Finally American airport security showed up for the sham it was. Confiscate bottles of water, force everyone to remove their shoes, then let a 9-year with no identification con his way into a boarding pass and board a plane Apparently the previous day he'd led police in a high-speed pursuit when he stole his neighbour's car. Only surprising it didn't end up in the same situation the professor did after committing the heinous offence of jaywalking
Anyway after this if they weren't already I can bet that terrorists will definitely be thinking about the children.


For those who think that all the airport security is great, after all there's been no more problems since it was enforced, I've got a rock here for sale that keeps tigers away - well hey do you see any tigers around?