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We read a story in fifth grade of a mean farmer who sold the cream from his milk and fed his kids the creamless milk, whose kids were thin and sickly.

Compared to the good farmer's down the road, whose kids got cream.

Back when there were milkmen, milk came in bottles with cream on top. Sometimes the cream was used for something else like coffee and we kids got thin and sickly; and sometimes we shook the bottle and got milk with cream in it, restoring our health.

Then there was homogenized milk and a choice was taken away. This was followed by milk grades in the supermarket, but this took more space in the refrigerator for everyone's preferences.

I started drinking coffee at age 10 and so always got cream.

#1.1.1 rhhardin (Link) on 2014-04-28 09:28 (Reply)

Yeah, I read a book from 1909 on setting up and running a creamery. The whole milk came in, the cream was skimmed off and the skim milk was returned to the farmer for cattle feed. A good deal of discussion on ensuring the proper amount of skim milk was returned in relation to the whole milk delivered. The only other product was butter milk that came from the butter making with the skimmed cream.

So really the legislator just wants to ensure the kids are treated like livestock was a hundred years ago.

Skim milk, whole grains, herded here and there, it does seem they want kids treated like cattle in school.

#1.1.1.1 JKB on 2014-04-28 14:38 (Reply)

Re: Dartmouth and the other higher ed inanity:

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

#2 DrTorch on 2014-04-28 09:27 (Reply)

Dr, T (#2): They gave up on that years ago.

Gun Rights: Libs HATE diversity of thought and opinion.

Envia Discord: Buncha raaaaacist, sexxxxxxist DRIVEL! Did not mention Feminists!

Milk: Danged Dems! If they can't get kids aborted, they want to deny them the opportunity to grow up properly with strong bones and teeth. Those monsters!

Cape Wind" Those Bastards! Closing off gummint/green graft just because it's outrageously expensive!

UH: Have they eliminated all copies of books & documents with the Constitution, or excerpts thereof in them, from the library?

EMT: Righteously punished for telling students about the diversity of practices they may find in the field!

Michael Lewis: Disaster news, and suggestions of catastrophe to come, sell newspapers and TV news and comment. (See: Population Explosion and AlGoreBull Worming.)

#3 Sam L. on 2014-04-28 10:41 (Reply)

What about siesta? Taco? I like adios MF. Kills two birds with one stone, so to speak.

#4 BillH on 2014-04-28 11:02 (Reply)

Michael Lewis and HFT - I am very skeptical that the SEC rules protect the investor, they have typically protectd the brokers/Wall Street types. I find it hard to believe that the HFTs make their money providing a service to the investor, just doesn't seem very likely. I also suspect that the PR "flaks" have been given plenty of $ to spread stories just like this one.

#5 berourke on 2014-04-28 13:19 (Reply)

Re fracing and health.
Reminds me of the Dow Corning silicon breast implant litigation that bankrupted Dow Corning. Lawyers Claimed the breast implants caused all sorts of medical problems. Later studies showed that women with the implants had no higher disease or mortality rates than women without the implants.

#6 Ray on 2014-04-28 15:06 (Reply)

What else is there to say? You want to know why our kids don't understand science? Take a look here:

http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/21/substitute-teacher-taped-spouting-bizarre-conspiracy-theories-in-high-school-physics-class/2/

#7 faculty wife on 2014-04-28 15:21 (Reply)

Very nice feel good picture of the gal, with the catch of the day!

#8 RL on 2014-04-28 18:12 (Reply)

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Monday, April 28. 2014

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