Kinda OT but the Oregon Washington and California governors have formed a West Coast health alliance to offset dime of the chaos and harm coming from HHS
Hey, here's a thought. When we finally get these ghouls out of power and into a tribunal where they belong, can we make it our next order of business to go in and fund everything they defunded - and pay for it by defunding everything they funded? Bonus revenue stream: sell tickets to watch far right heads explode when we do.
Spent my early childhood in Raleigh, NC. Summers hot, humid, unbearable and buggy, mostly passed outside in the high grass or across the deadend street mostly devoid of cars since few of our neighbors had one.
One day Mom took us to the city municipal pool. My sister was too little and pale to notice, but the only thing I saw or felt was the small brown fingers wrapped around the high wire fence from outside, and the eyes of the kids shut out of the pool--legally then in pre-CRA south.
No cool water could douse the hot shame of being "accepted" by a system that excluded kids who should have been our schoolmates but weren't; even I did not go to public school because of the "one drop rule" that kept them out too (I was able to pass at the pool). Watching the country slide back into that evil is the greatest tragedy of my life.
My son is 6 and we enrolled him in swimming lessons last year. He did great and surprisingly took to the water very well. He’s very sensitive, and lots of things bother him including chlorine in the water and water in his ears. But he wore goggles and did pretty well. He’s still an intermediate swimmer, and could use more lessons for sure, but he wants to keep learning on his own.
We swam a lot this summer and he dove in the lake and our friends’ pool. He can hold his breath, float and swim across the pool without help or floaties.
My parents had an above-ground pool when I was growing up, and I loved the water and diving. I could hold my breath for 2 minutes and am generally very comfortable in deep water. It’s a huge safety resource and confidence builder. When my wife and I went snorkeling in Mexico this year, the water was pretty choppy and rough. We were given rental masks, snorkels and flippers, and basically threw that stuff on seconds before we entered the water. To make matters worse, I wear glasses and forgot to bring contacts. My mask couldn’t go over my glasses, so I left them on the boat and my vision is poor. I was still comfortable in the ocean and never panicked. We did have life vests on, also. I stayed close to the boat and the group and mostly enjoyed the dive. Having strong swimming skills is a huge asset and safety benefit. Naturally Trump and Co would save pennies by increasing the risk of drowning for kids and adults.
I was a little older but, growing up in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, my parents enrolled me and my younger brother in the YMCA Learn-to-Swim program when I was (I think) about 5 or 6. I'm not a strong swimmer, either, but my dislike of being in the water was probably one of the reasons my parents made me learn to swim.
It's another SHARK or BATTERY type watery situation paradox. Door One or the Lady Tiger kinda deal. Trust Sir -- Sir has given this a great again deal of thought.
When Brainworm makes Polio Great Again, it will be like when my dad was a kid and the public pools shut down in summer during the Polio outbreaks.
My grandparents got a trailer on a small lot next to a lake in the woods and during the summers, my dad and grandmother would spend the summer there with my grandfather going there on weekends and back to town during the week cause there was no work from home in those days.
Its funny (not ha-ha funny) that from that, I know one person my age who had polio, to my nieces and nephews having never even seen someone who had polio thanks to Salk and Sabin and their teams to fuck faces are going to bring it back.
I will believe in a just god if the fuckfaces end up in iron lungs.
My crazy mother "taught" me to swim by taking me to the end of the dock and throwing me in. You need to know two things about that: 1- Mommy dearest was wearing street clothes, and 2- She couldn't swim, so there was no way in hell she was going to rescue me.
To her chagrin, I did not drown and actually love swimming. I realize now that this is not a normal way of teaching children to swim.
In the mid-sixties the Summer temperatures in Chicago combined with the effluent from the Gary, Indiana Steel Mills would cause massive fish kills in Lake Michigan. Dad would drop me in the lake at the end of a long rope in the middle of the biggest, longest, deepest patches of floating dead fish he could find. This is how I was taught to Water Ski. To this day I do not Water Ski.
Well, it does fit in with the "we're all going to die eventually" philosophy of Joni Ernst and the "Just Die Already" philosophy of the entire GQP, so at least it is consistent with their beliefs.
My parents sent me to swimming lessons when I was 5 or so. Then I was allowed to go with friends to the town pool (fully stocked with lifeguards and a refreshment stand (mmm, frozen Milky Way bars!)).
I was never scared of water until the freshman year of college, where I took the mandatory Drownproofing class. It includes fun activities like treading water with a 10 pound brick hung from your neck, diving in the deep end fully clothed and making a float out of your pants, bouncing off the bottom of the pool with your ankles tied together and hands tied behind your back, and more! It probably would have better if it wasn't first thing in the morning and with a hangover.
I'd rather see teaching basic swimming and water safety skills training made mandatory for public school systems, rather than the stupidity of Tennessee ( and other ) red states making gun safety education mandatory at all levels of public schools ( as noted earlier ).
In fact, I doubt any red states will be promoting public education teaching basic swimming and water safety skills - "I didn't drown as a kid, so I don't to spend tax money on trying to make sure other kids don't"
Kinda OT but the Oregon Washington and California governors have formed a West Coast health alliance to offset dime of the chaos and harm coming from HHS
https://apps.oregon.gov/oregon-newsroom/OR/GOV/Posts/Post/oregon-washington-and-california-form-western-health-alliance?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
Soft Secession baby!
Hey, here's a thought. When we finally get these ghouls out of power and into a tribunal where they belong, can we make it our next order of business to go in and fund everything they defunded - and pay for it by defunding everything they funded? Bonus revenue stream: sell tickets to watch far right heads explode when we do.
Spent my early childhood in Raleigh, NC. Summers hot, humid, unbearable and buggy, mostly passed outside in the high grass or across the deadend street mostly devoid of cars since few of our neighbors had one.
One day Mom took us to the city municipal pool. My sister was too little and pale to notice, but the only thing I saw or felt was the small brown fingers wrapped around the high wire fence from outside, and the eyes of the kids shut out of the pool--legally then in pre-CRA south.
No cool water could douse the hot shame of being "accepted" by a system that excluded kids who should have been our schoolmates but weren't; even I did not go to public school because of the "one drop rule" that kept them out too (I was able to pass at the pool). Watching the country slide back into that evil is the greatest tragedy of my life.
My son is 6 and we enrolled him in swimming lessons last year. He did great and surprisingly took to the water very well. He’s very sensitive, and lots of things bother him including chlorine in the water and water in his ears. But he wore goggles and did pretty well. He’s still an intermediate swimmer, and could use more lessons for sure, but he wants to keep learning on his own.
We swam a lot this summer and he dove in the lake and our friends’ pool. He can hold his breath, float and swim across the pool without help or floaties.
My parents had an above-ground pool when I was growing up, and I loved the water and diving. I could hold my breath for 2 minutes and am generally very comfortable in deep water. It’s a huge safety resource and confidence builder. When my wife and I went snorkeling in Mexico this year, the water was pretty choppy and rough. We were given rental masks, snorkels and flippers, and basically threw that stuff on seconds before we entered the water. To make matters worse, I wear glasses and forgot to bring contacts. My mask couldn’t go over my glasses, so I left them on the boat and my vision is poor. I was still comfortable in the ocean and never panicked. We did have life vests on, also. I stayed close to the boat and the group and mostly enjoyed the dive. Having strong swimming skills is a huge asset and safety benefit. Naturally Trump and Co would save pennies by increasing the risk of drowning for kids and adults.
Ta, Dok. I was never a strong swimmer, but I learned soon after I started walking.
I was a little older but, growing up in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, my parents enrolled me and my younger brother in the YMCA Learn-to-Swim program when I was (I think) about 5 or 6. I'm not a strong swimmer, either, but my dislike of being in the water was probably one of the reasons my parents made me learn to swim.
Stephen Miller and Trump say "Let 'em drown."
Swimming is kind of an essential life skill. (I know, not everyone *can*)
It's another SHARK or BATTERY type watery situation paradox. Door One or the Lady Tiger kinda deal. Trust Sir -- Sir has given this a great again deal of thought.
When Brainworm makes Polio Great Again, it will be like when my dad was a kid and the public pools shut down in summer during the Polio outbreaks.
My grandparents got a trailer on a small lot next to a lake in the woods and during the summers, my dad and grandmother would spend the summer there with my grandfather going there on weekends and back to town during the week cause there was no work from home in those days.
Its funny (not ha-ha funny) that from that, I know one person my age who had polio, to my nieces and nephews having never even seen someone who had polio thanks to Salk and Sabin and their teams to fuck faces are going to bring it back.
I will believe in a just god if the fuckfaces end up in iron lungs.
My crazy mother "taught" me to swim by taking me to the end of the dock and throwing me in. You need to know two things about that: 1- Mommy dearest was wearing street clothes, and 2- She couldn't swim, so there was no way in hell she was going to rescue me.
To her chagrin, I did not drown and actually love swimming. I realize now that this is not a normal way of teaching children to swim.
MY WATERY TRAUMA
In the mid-sixties the Summer temperatures in Chicago combined with the effluent from the Gary, Indiana Steel Mills would cause massive fish kills in Lake Michigan. Dad would drop me in the lake at the end of a long rope in the middle of the biggest, longest, deepest patches of floating dead fish he could find. This is how I was taught to Water Ski. To this day I do not Water Ski.
Neither does anyone else, it seems. Go to a lake or river now, and the kids are largely being pulled around on what looks like big inflatable sofas
Same. I got thrown into the deep end of Fleishhacker Pool in San Francisco.
Well, it does fit in with the "we're all going to die eventually" philosophy of Joni Ernst and the "Just Die Already" philosophy of the entire GQP, so at least it is consistent with their beliefs.
In order for the PAB administration to fund programs like these they would need to think human life has actual value so fahgetaboutit.
My parents sent me to swimming lessons when I was 5 or so. Then I was allowed to go with friends to the town pool (fully stocked with lifeguards and a refreshment stand (mmm, frozen Milky Way bars!)).
I was never scared of water until the freshman year of college, where I took the mandatory Drownproofing class. It includes fun activities like treading water with a 10 pound brick hung from your neck, diving in the deep end fully clothed and making a float out of your pants, bouncing off the bottom of the pool with your ankles tied together and hands tied behind your back, and more! It probably would have better if it wasn't first thing in the morning and with a hangover.
(Can't honestly say I ❤️ the sound of any of that)
Did they also have you "escape from an underwater car driven into a pond"?
i forgot all about making inflatable jeans.
It's actually easier with painter's pants.
i’m sure i would have been set with Hammer pants.
I'd rather see teaching basic swimming and water safety skills training made mandatory for public school systems, rather than the stupidity of Tennessee ( and other ) red states making gun safety education mandatory at all levels of public schools ( as noted earlier ).
In fact, I doubt any red states will be promoting public education teaching basic swimming and water safety skills - "I didn't drown as a kid, so I don't to spend tax money on trying to make sure other kids don't"
They can learn to swim at The Club when their parents are able to join!
https://substack.com/@tehbaddr/note/c-40194599
Kids today have it so easy, when I was young to get a Presidential Medal I had to pull ups. These kids only have to drown, or get measles.
They made us climb ropes in Elementary School!
For me it was high school, but to be fair it was a military academy.
If whooping cough or mumps doesn't get them first.
Just thinning the herd, in a year or two we will be begging for immigrants.