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Do you agree with Don Imus being fired for calling the Rutgers girls basketball team “nappy headed hos?”

Is this a freedom of speech issue?

I admit, I’m torn. I believe in freedom of speech but I think there should be limits. People are worried our “young people” will hear what he said and it will affect them. Uhh, they hear a lot worse in today’s rap lyrics. All the women are bitches and hos and you’re told to “smack them up” and treat them like garbage.

One of the people who campaigned to get Don Imus fired is Jesse Jackson, who is infamous for calling Jews “hymies” and New York City as “hymietown” in a 1984 interview. Now, granted, this was a while back, but still … isn’t he just as bad?

Shock radio hires shock jocks for one reason — TO SHOCK YOU. Calling black women “nappy headed hos” is part of his job, I guess. He’s supposed to say things to cause controversy.

But, how far is too far?

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Today, when at the grocery store, I saw a display of 16 ounce bottles of Pepsi. They were being sold individually, so I went up closer to check them out. These were not regular bottles of Pepsi, though. Oh, no, this was Pepsi Jazz, and diet Pepsi Jazz at that.

I guess they thought they had to “jazz up” the taste of Pepsi. So, I bought a bottle of Diet Pepsi Jazz Black Cherry French Vanilla, Diet Pepsi Jazz Strawberries & Cream and Diet Pepsi Jazz Caramel Creme.

The caramel cream was my least favorite, as it didn’t have a strong taste of caramel or cream. The black cherry French vanilla was too busy for me, but the strawberries and cream was really good. There was a slight taste of strawberry without overpowering the taste of Pepsi.

I found out there are many, many, MANY other flavors of regular and diet Pepsi. There is: Pepsi Lime, Diet Pepsi Lime, Pepsi Twist
Diet Pepsi Twist, Wild Cherry Pepsi, Pepsi Vanilla, Diet Pepsi Vanilla and Pepsi One.

When I was a kid, we had Coke, Pepsi and RC Cola. If you wanted diet soda, you had Tab or Fresca. That was it. Then along came Diet Rite Cola. Life was simple. You wanted a drink, you drank a little soda and they all seemingly tasted the same. Then the cola wars started.

If you were sick, you were given ginger ale. Plain old ginger ale. Have you shopped for it lately? Raspberry flavored, grape flavored, orange flavored and cranberry flavored ginger ale.

Why do we have to continually flavor things? Wasn’t life simpler when things were just, well, plain?

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