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Breastfeeding Is Not The Only Decent Way to Feed a Child

Reader recommendation: 'A French Village,' Streaming on Amazon, Examines Life After Evil Triumphs

10 Things We All Did in School That Are Banned for Kids Today

We boys pulled girls' pigtails. That's how we showed we liked them.

California Transgender Inmates May Soon Be Given Bras, Mascara, Lip Gloss

Z-man's Essential Knowledge: Part VIII

Ditto to that, but it makes me feel ignorant.

Mexico City metro's 'penis seat' sparks debate

Seattle is the biggest water polluter

Baby boomers ruined America, according to this Generation X

SDA:

So you drastically expand the definition of "sexual harassment," and then promote an ethic that says that all accusations must be believed, and then you're shocked that workplace men don't want to hang out with women?

A Tale of Two Bell Curves

Now Murray is KKK

All he did was to wonder why jews and asians have higher average IQs, and why blacks and latinos have lower.

Charles Krauthammer: The road to single-payer health care

"That picture of Hillary is so freaky. Is that real? Where'd you get it?"

The Fake News Crisis

McCaskill: I’m filibustering Gorsuch over his “stunning lack of humanity”

BREAKING=> KREMLIN CONNECTION CONFIRMED! Podesta Company Paid One Billion Rubles from Russian Govt.

'Russiagate' Is Failing And Its Supporters Are Getting Concerned:

Though the leaders of the US security services have denied the President’s allegation that they wire-tapped him – though they were careful not to deny that they mounted surveillance on him and his associates – the President’s claim that they did, in effect smoked them out.

Thus former DNI James Clapper admitted that he had seen no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians up to the point of his retirement on 20th January 2017, and former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell more recently has publicly trashed the whole story of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Possibly the single most important admission that no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians has been found came however from within the FBI itself, though it has gone almost completely unnoticed...

Heard from Axelrod on CNN (at the gym this morning): "Trump Administration paralyzed by deepening Russia scandals."

The object of the Left’s game is to nullify Trump’s presidency, whether by impeachment or withering rebuke.

Democrats Know the Election Was Legitimate but Persist in a Dangerous Fraud

... attention to the Kremlin was bad news for Clinton. It invited scrutiny of the Clinton Foundation’s corrupt foreign dealings; the sulfurous interplay of Putin cronies, Bill Clinton’s lucrative speech racket, and Hillary’s biddable State Department that resulted in Russia’s acquisition of major U.S. uranium supplies; the embarrassing “Russian reset” whereby, during Clinton’s State Department stewardship, the supine Obama administration watched Putin capture territory in Eastern Europe and muscle into the Middle East, while arming and aligning with Iran; and the intriguing relationship between Podesta (the Clinton-campaign chairman and former Obama White House official) and Putin’s circle — specifically, a $35 million investment by a Putin-created venture capital firm, Rusano, into a small Massachusetts energy company, Joule Energy, just two months after Podesta joined Joule’s board.

Drudge:

DNC Perez Unleashed: 'Trump Didn't Win Election'...

Republicans 'Don't Give A S**t About People'...

Dems Demand Investigation Over Mnuchin’s ‘Lego Batman’ Joke

Chris Matthews: Ivanka Trump Scares Me Really, Really Bad

Her beauty scares me

Meet the Hunter Troop: Norway's tough-as-nails female soldiers

Israeli report: Thousands of Chinese jihadists are fighting in Syria

On display at Arab Summit: division and declining influence

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Regarding "Ten Things:"
I guess Red Rover is totally out.
Also, when did they start allowing vending machines in schools? I certainly never saw one, and I'd be totally against it for my kids' schools.

#1 Randy on 2017-04-01 10:17 (Reply)

My kids say they play Red Rover at school, play dodgeball, run on the playground, dress up for halloween (and other school events--crazy hat day, crazy sock day, etc.), sit "Indian-style", and only get trophies for actual achievements.

Some of these things have gone by the wayside, but I think it largely depends on where you live.

#1.1 Sean G on 2017-04-01 15:12 (Reply)

Red Rover was my first thought. Also:
See Saws where you could lose a finger in you were careless,
Swings with board seats,
A metal slide tall enough to have two bumps (which we sped up with waxed paper brought from home),
Merry-go-rounds that would fling kids off,
Monkey bars, and
Paddling with a wooden paddle for infractions instead of "alternative school."

#1.2 mary on 2017-04-01 15:18 (Reply)

Regarding 10 things:

In 1965 freshmen track I wanted to learn the javelin. For spring break the coach let me take one home. My choice was a one piece aluminum model. I walked it home, took it on the Greyhound to McMinville and brought it home on the Greyhound five or six days later. On Monday I walked it back to school and put it back in the equipment room. You couldn't do that today.

#2 Bodie on 2017-04-01 11:08 (Reply)

On the other hand, in my high school we seriously--I'm not making this up--had special volleyball courts for the girls, with little 3-foot-diameter circles we were supposed to stand in. The idea was that we might hurt ourselves if we played real volleyball.

I mean, I don't miss that part at all.

#2.1 Wendy Laubach on 2017-04-01 11:53 (Reply)

Regarding "Two Bell Curves:" The GRE, SAT, LSAT, MedCAT and others are NOT intelligence tests. They are knowledge tests, a totally different thing.

Tennessee famously had 6 person girl's basketball teams in high school, three on offense, and 3 on defense. They couldn't cross the center line.

#2.1.1 Randy on 2017-04-01 14:04 (Reply)

I'm not sure I can agree about the SAT, etc. Yes, they test for knowledge as well as horsepower, but the test results map so closely to IQ test results that it's hard to conclude they're testing for markedly different capabilities.

#2.1.1.1 Wendy Laubach on 2017-04-01 19:36 (Reply)

I remember the girls' basketball where they could not run past half court.

#2.1.1.2 Mike-K (Link) on 2017-04-01 21:40 (Reply)

Disagree with you on GRE. (I haven't taken the LSAT or MCAT to know) Yes, there are topical things like math, but there also is the logic section. This is not spitting back information you learned. It is using your brain to solve puzzles. It was the hardest part of the GRE for me, because I can get easily frustrated!

It was built up of those horrible trick scenarios such as: If Susie is the oldest and Janie is the youngest, and Susie's brother is 2 years younger than Janie, how old is Susie?

That kind of thing, but horridly complex. Not simple stuff.

I actually scored pretty well on the GRE, but I don't think I did supremely well on the logic.

#2.1.1.3 MissT on 2017-04-02 17:09 (Reply)

"Meet the Hunter Troop: Norway's tough-as-nails female soldiers"

Oh Puhleeeeze! Tough as nails ....until they break a nail!

No amount of propaganda will ever make women as physical or as tough as men. Only forced feeding of testosterone will ever come close!

As noted, they can't match men in hand-to-hand combat. Easy enough to "rush toward a gun"; that's been the standard tactic for defeating those bearing firearms, as long as the extremely narrow killing zone of firearms has been around.

#3 Old Codger on 2017-04-01 11:43 (Reply)

I think that view may go a little far. Certainly men are stronger on average, and in the overwhelming majority of cases. Strength, however, is not quite the same thing as toughness, which has more to do with endurance. Women can be as tough as circumstances require without being able to win a arm-wrestling contest.

I think we have to be careful not to conflate a feeling that women are more desirable when they're not tough, with a conviction that women aren't capable of being tough. You know how annoying it is when a certain brand of feminist demands that men adopt softer, more yielding ways? It's not always that much fun for women to get that message from men, either. That's not a decision someone else should make for any of us.

But pretending that women have the same intense physical strength as men is, as always, just silly.

#3.1 Wendy Laubach on 2017-04-01 11:49 (Reply)

It was interesting to note that as part of their training that they did indeed need to carry very heavy packs and hike long distances. The American military is being asked to reduce these requirements because that prevents women from finishing training and the claim is that these tough standards are unnecessary and sexist. Bring back the tough training, let the marines be the marines. Let the army bring back the training standards they had before this foolishness. Then if women who choose to enter combat and direct support roles can pass let them be treated as equals. The problem is that we first coddle them to get them in and then chastise/punish the men who have to pickup their load when they fail. Reinstate the tough standards and training and let the chips fall where they may. After that everyone pulls their own weight or faces the consequences. I think that then there will be genuine support and a better chance of success.

#3.2 GoneWithTheWind on 2017-04-01 12:37 (Reply)

When I read the requirements, I assumed the article was an April Fools joke. Starting with the 6 pull ups. That eliminates 99% of all females.

#3.3 gospace on 2017-04-02 01:42 (Reply)

Women who can do pull-ups join the Marines. Period. Knew a few of 'em when I was in the military. Tough-ass chicks. Scary as hell.

#3.3.1 MissT on 2017-04-02 17:04 (Reply)

I could do pullups when I was young and slender. I wasn't any kind of athlete, just reasonably fit.

#3.3.2 Wendy Laubach on 2017-04-02 18:50 (Reply)

Re: 10 things. Me and my cousin (and others) took shotguns to school when we were going to hunt after class. That was in rural Georgia.

#4 oolioo (Link) on 2017-04-01 12:08 (Reply)

I still have a small scar on my left buttock courtesy of the arrow one of my pals once shot me with.

We'd made our own bows and arrows. Then we came up with the brilliant idea of using bottle caps as arrowheads; we hammered them around one end of the arrows.

Off we went and started shooting at - well - pretty much anything. Somewhere in the general mêlée my buddy managed to shoot me.

Went straight through my new jeans.

My mother was not amused.

#4.1 JJM on 2017-04-01 13:36 (Reply)

Michigan Tech--early 1960"s. My roommate did not have his shotgun at school when partridge season opened. His Dad sent it to him on the bus.

#4.2 rocdoctom on 2017-04-01 17:23 (Reply)

Re 10 things.

Playing with mercury blobs in class, usually from a broken thermometer.

All those asbestos pads that went over the bunsen burners in science class so you could evenly heat things.

Having morning devotions and prayers being given over the P.A. system at the beginning of class. Then you said the pledge of allegiance.

Kids getting corporal punishment from P.E. teachers for misbehaving.

Giving out Saturday detention of having to clean the school.

Standing at attention when the flag in the middle of campus was raised in the morning (like at a military base today). The Star Spangled Banner was played over loudspeakers.

Having to stand in respect every time a teacher or woman walked in the room. (I still automatically stand today when a woman enters, which I guess makes me a sexual harasser under today's standards.)

Being in awe of the older high school ("academy") boys when they all dressed in JROTC uniforms (compulsory bor boys--killed off by the aftermath of the Vietnam War). Required to get on the rifle team and to shoot guns (.22 rifles) at the school rifle range behind campus which was also thought to be super cool.

Dress codes. Hair could not go over your ears or touch your collar. Only collared shirts and only tailored slacks. No writing or logos on your clothes. Girls' code was much more complicated. Getting caught chewing gum was punished with detention. Absolutely no displays of affection.

#5 Jim on 2017-04-01 13:42 (Reply)

Girls' dress code--I can't remember all of them.
Skirts had to be at least one inch below the knee. No pierced ears--no one had even thought of all the other piercings! We weren't allowed to wear stockings at our school--bobby socks. No denim jeans (shorts didn't even have to be banned, everyone knew better, I guess). No charm bracelets, etc. I don't remember exactly how that was worded since I didn't have any jewelry to speak of anyway.

#5.1 mary on 2017-04-01 15:24 (Reply)

Enjoyed the memories in these two posts. Such rules set the stage and are still standards by which I judge people. Wrong? Correct? I call it "respect" for others.

#5.1.1 jma on 2017-04-01 19:40 (Reply)

Regarding "Two Bell Curves:" The GRE, SAT, LSAT, MedCAT and others are NOT intelligence tests. They are knowledge tests, a totally different thing.

#6 R on 2017-04-01 14:02 (Reply)

They seem to correlate quite precisely with IQ, and "G"

#6.1 Bird Dog on 2017-04-01 14:52 (Reply)

Hillary looks like Christoper Walken in that picture.

#7 L.B. on 2017-04-01 15:32 (Reply)

Re Meet the Hunter Troop:
I'm not believing the hype. I was in the Navy and a member of the Pearl Divers diving club at Pearl Harbor. A steel diving tank and all you gear weighted about 50 lbs. and that was about all the women could handle. On deep dives we used twin tanks and you were carrying about 100 lbs. of gear. The women could barely carry that much weight. They sure weren't going on any long hikes with that load.

#8 Ray on 2017-04-01 16:50 (Reply)

For Barrister

Here is an interesting article which provides some hope. Can we start a fundraising effort for this guy's legal fees or will FIRE step in? https://www.nas.org/articles/springfield_college_tries_to_oust_professor_for_teaching_men_in_literature

#9 faculty wife on 2017-04-01 21:14 (Reply)

Re contrived leftist hysteria on the Russians.

"Russian trolls Democratic Party in epic April Fools' Day prank"

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/04/01/russia-trolls-democratic-party-in-epic-april-fools-day-prank/

The best is listening to the actual Russian Embassy message at the end. Priceless.

I'm sure any minute now the Zbot will be sent back to lecture us yet again about all the evil things the Russians have done in conspiracy with Trump.

The media still doesn't seem to realize Obama has fled the country. Why? What does the O know that we don't?

#10 Jim on 2017-04-01 22:21 (Reply)

People misunderstood. Portalnd claims to be a sanctuary city, not a sanitary city.

#11 Arty on 2017-04-02 09:49 (Reply)

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