I saw the infomercial on tv the other day, and although I have no interest in purchasing this flashlight, I though I would do a little research on it and find out the real deal on it. I will spell out the pro’s and cons that I came up with.

In all fairness, I do not normally think too highly of “As seen on TV” products, as they are normally junk. However, I will try to be fair in this review.

First of all, they claim you do not need batteries. Well, from what I found, there are batteries in it, but not the kind you change out like in regular flashlights.

Pros-
1. This flashlight would be handy to have around but not for general use. This would not be the flashlight to use when working on a car or other work where you really need clarity on the subject.

2. You don’t need to buy batteries to put in it.

3. They seem to be built tough and shouldn’t break when dropped.

4. They are waterproof

Cons-
1. Shaking this thing for 30 seconds will give you about 5 minutes of light. Reviews I read on this are mixed. Some say the light is bright, but most say the light is very focused and fades rather quickly.

2. There is a large magnet in there, so you need to keep it away from anything that will be affected by the magnetic field.(tapes, electronics, etc.)

3. I’ve read several reviews where customers were double billed, or experienced poor customer service.

$20 for a flashlight like this seems a bit much. I’d rather have a high quality flashlight that runs on batteries.

Tucked away on the third page of the Sunday Paper, was an article about how congress is very close to finalizing a new welfare overhaul.
There are several things the government could do that would clamp down on abuse of the system, and save billions in the process.

I think it is too convenient for people to be on welfare. Do you even have to leave your house anymore? If you ask me, the welfare program has become too user friendly and politically correct.

When I’m at the grocery store, I see the neat little food stamp machines that accept food stamp credit cards (for lack of knowing what they’re actually called). Who pays for these, and are they there to make things a little bit easier for the food stamp user? Why not eliminate these terminals and go back to the old fashioned food stamps. If you’re going to be on food stamps, you should have to go pick them up somewhere.

The biggest idea that I had that would never make it. It should be mandatory that before you pick up your government check, you should be required to provide a urine sample for a drug test. If you test positive for any illegal drug, no check for you. I can hear it already. “That’s discrimination!” But is it? If you can’t afford supporting life and need government assistance, how can you afford drugs?

Why I’m on the subject, how many people would you think use a portion of their welfare check to buy alcohol or tobacco? I would guess it’s a lot.

I realize there are a lot of people out there that have genuine reasons to be on government assistance, but there are also a lot that abuse the system. I don’t want to see a bunch of elderly citizens hauled into the welfare office to pee in a cup. On the other hand, the woman that’s been sitting around making babies one after the other should.

I was reminded last night why I quit watching Bill O’Reilly. He claims to be a center of the road guy, and that may be the case. The problem I have with him is he blows things so far out of proportion, it’s not even funny. He’ll get all fired up, scream at people, and it seems so fake to me. Maybe they should call him “Hollywood” Bill O’Reilly.

Aside from all that, I could probably tolerate him a lot more if he wouldn’t go on for ten minutes talking about his books, websites, premium memberships and bloviating. It just gets on my nerves.