Ideas help

So a very good friend of mine asked if I would help her with the writing portion of this sorta webcomicy thing. It's gonna be witty and satire-filled and quite political. Does anyone have any ideas of things they would like covered in this endeavor? Not sure if it's going to be character driven allegory, or just "Let's cover this topic this week" So yeah, any ideas you have, shoot em my way.

Dear Commercials on TV

Why do you insist on having the parents in these commercials not actually being parents? There's that Fruits Roll Up commercial where the kid is whining for a snack and the mom just up and gets him one anyways. I'm sorry but kids will learn that if you give in that they can easily get what they want. I mean I can understand not wanting your kids to freak out and embarrass you in a public setting, but there's a line where you still can be a parent and not give in to them just to save face.
And then there's that Pediasure commercial. The mom is worried that she can't get her kid to eat everything he should, so instead of being creative about things, she gets Pediasure instead. However in watching the commercial, it's clear that the kid DOES eat the things she wants him to, just not the amounts she wants. Kids go through times when they don't eat as much, or they only want to eat the same things over and over again. They do eventually grow out of it. And there are ways to get them to eat things they normally wouldn't, you just gotta be creative about it.
And then there's that one about TruMoo chocolate milk. The son asks if he could have it, which is fine. But rather than the mom looking at the ingredients and such herself, some little guy pops up on her shoulder telling her that it's good for him. and then the little devil on her shoulder has nothing bad to say about it... It's like, really? This successful looking lady can't make a decision without someone telling her how to make it?!?
I'm just sick of these commercials that are telling parents that they no longer have to be parents any more. That they need to let other people tell them how to be parents. It's just with how some people are parents these days, there's a reason why kids are terrible these days. It drives me insane. It's like the idea of parents being parents is a foreign concept these days. Like all these kids are dictating to their parents how their parents should be. There's a line between working out compromises with your kids, and letting them decide how everything should be. No means no means no. Is that really so hard?

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

You'd think I'd know that. But I swear I just keep setting myself up for disappointment over and over again. You'd think that I'd know by now that this person is highly unlikely to follow through on things they say they'll do. Or at least things they agree to do in regards to me. Yet I continue to keep trying. Why can't I just let some things alone when I know I'll just be disappointed yet again? Must I continue to give people the benefit off the doubt just to have it blow up in my face over and over again? Some days I don't know why I do such things. Sometimes I think that it would be easier if I didn't care about people or things at all. Because when they keep disappointing you over and over again, it's the worst feeling ever. I just wish that I could convince myself to stop trying. But I've always been a hoper and a dreamer. I've always expected people to be the best they can, without forcing them to be. Yet I can't seem to make myself stop hoping they will rise up to the challenge. As often as I keep having glaring facts and such that I should give up on certain things, I can't seem to let myself do so. How do you give up on a someone? Even though they let you down all the time. Even though at this point, you should have given up on them ages ago because anyone else in this situation would have. How do you stop trying to get their approval when they hardly spared you a thought in a good long while? Or at least, you don't think they have because wouldn't they have told you? Or tried to get in contact with you rather than you being the only one trying all the time.
How do you have a maintain a good relationship with someone when it feels like they've stopped trying? Or that they think it'll still be exactly the same as it was the last time they were there. Don't people realize that someone can only try so hard for so long before they just can't keep trying? And how do you tell that person exactly how you're feeling when it seems all things you've been trying to say falls on deaf ears or goes unanswered?
Some days I just don't know any more.

Job Search Madness

So I have this employment class I have to attend due some Social Services crap, and it's been taking up all my time lately. Don't get me wrong, the idea of the class is great for people who need it. But MAKING people have to take the class is kinda dumb in my opinion. We don't DO anything other than sit there and have nice little discussion about stuff that can help people find a job. This would be all fine and dandy if I hadn't had a class in high school that went over the exact same stuff. I haven't learned ANYTHING new since I started this class last Monday.
If that wasn't bad enough, I also still have to deal with some of the social services people. And let me tell you, I haven't ever met any other people as miserable and rude and lazy as I have met working at the Social Services office in my county. Yes, there are a few people who actually do their jobs and I do get to deal with some of them. But I also have to deal with the extremely rude nasty ones as well. I'm sorry, but if your job is to help people get the help they need, you should at least be polite and not make them feel any worse about the fact that they have to ask for your help. You also shouldn't treat the people like they're less than you are because you have a job. If the job market in this country didn't suck so bad then less people would have to even be in that office.
I'm just getting so sick of having to deal with them. I do my best to try to do what they want and tell me to do, but when they keep changing it or deciding that doing something the exact way they told us to do stuff isn't good enough, is just frickin ridiculous.
And another thing, half the time they make concessions for the fact that we have a child, but then the other half the time, they say we have to figure out how to make things work even though we have a kid. You can't have it both ways, either you understand and work with people with kids, or you don't. And you shouldn't make both parents work if the only reason they even need assistance is because one parent is looking for a job while the other stays home. It's okay for a parent to take care of their own child you know. I'd rather not have my son constantly looking for both of us when we have to be gone. I'd much rather he be able to have one parent with him most of the time.

I may have posted this on Facebook, but I want to elaborate on it.

I am not liking this upcoming election. I wish that third parties actually would make it, but that rarely happens. And I do not like either of the two main candidates. I shouldn't have to feel like I'm choosing between the lesser of two evils. I should fully support the person I'm voting for and feel like they will do well for this country. And not get stopped by Congress at every turn either. I'm just so sick of these people who control our freedoms putting their freedom and their wealth and their specific agendas before the well-being of the entire US population. Something really needs to change, but I'm not sure who is going to do that and be able to make it stick.
We need someone who is willing to put aside their wealth and freedoms so that our country can be saved. It's falling apart with how things are now. I almost wish we would have a complete overhaul of Congress too while we're at it. Get rid of those who don't have the best interests of the country as their driving motivation. Maybe only let those who don't lie and manipulate things to get what they want in. It's a sad day when we are proclaimed to be one of the "free-est" countries in the world when really we're giving up freedoms left and right.

Super WHY

I have quite a few issues with this show. The whole point of the show is for the kids to get answers to their problems from books. Well, it would be a great idea IF the questions that the kids needed help with weren't questions that they would already know the answer to if their parents had been teaching them well. "My friends are sad because I have apples and I don't want to give any away, what should I do?" "The answer is: share!" I kid you not, that's an episode. It wasn't a case of they were just being selfish, oh no, that would be acceptable. No, she really didn't know. And a good majority of the "Super big problems" are really things that kids should already know.
Another minor sort of thing that bugs me. The main character is named Wyatt, so that's why he's Super Why... Really, a most terrible name. But there's more to Wyatt that bugs me. Every one of the other characters are either the fairy tale character themselves OR they're the child of one of them, but not Wyatt, oh no. He's just the much younger brother of Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk. Yet he gets to lead Red Riding Hood, the son of one of the The Three Little Pigs, the daughter of the Princess from the Princess and the Pea, and in newer episodes his dog.... I don't understand the logic behind this.. It makes no sense.
Really, this show is like a Canadian less annoying Dora the Explorer.

Clifford the Big Red Dog

One of the first things that bugs me about Clifford are some of the characters on the show. There's this girl Jetta and her dog Mack. And they are not nice at all. They are rather snooty and can't stand when anyone has more attention than they do. Everyone knows this about them, yet everyone is still friends with them. What is this show teaching children? Is it teaching them that you can be a complete and total brat and rude to  other people and everyone will still like you? Because that's what it feels like to me. Almost every single episode they are in, they are constantly tearing someone down, and even though they get called out on it, everyone is all, "Oh it's okay. You learned your lesson, let's play." and then they do the same thing the next episode. If kids did this in the real world, they wouldn't have any friends after the third or fourth time they did such things. I mean really, who wants to be friends with someone who is constantly making you feel or look bad? I don't nor do I want any child to have to go through that.

Another thing about Jetta and Mack that bugs me is the fact that they seem to be much better off than any of the other characters. I'm not upset that they appear to be rich, it's the fact that they are the stereotypical sort of rich. Not all people who are well off are snooty mean people. Why can't there be more characters that are well off and nice? It does happen. Stop perpetuating this idea that if you have money, you must be a terrible person. It's not always the case.

At the moment, this is all I can think about for Clifford, but I know there are more things that bug me.