And you two look like a couple of boobies.
(Obscure Caddyshack reference)
Posted on 10/02/2010 7:32:35 AM PDT by BullDog108
SPOKANE -- A brouhaha is brewing over “I Heart Boobies” bracelets at Riverside High School after the principal suspended 9 students who wore them to school and refused to take them off.
The bracelets are sold by a non-profit and are designed to raise awareness and money to fight breast cancer. Unfortunately at Riverside High School they raised a little too much awareness for school administrators.
"I think its ridiculous that they would suspend us for wearing something for a good cause that says boobies," Riverside student Dakota Jewell said.
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I totally agree with your comment regarding basic propriety.
Re: the correlation between abortion and breast cancer, the situation is even worse than that. Money raised from the hawking of all these “breast cancer” items goes to he Susan G Komen Foundation, which supports Planned Parenthood.
We are devolving as as a civilization.
That’s the way things go.
You are completely right.
“Americans need to stop be hypocritical over...”
Americans need to stop publicly obsessing over it. It is not a subject that should be in the public eye.
Well, personally, I think it speaks volumes that this girl was named ‘Dakota Jewell’ by her parent(s)...
Many people are unaware of that fact.
My Pastor was praising his daughter-in-law, from the pulpit, for raising money for the S.G.K. foundation. After church, I informed him about money going to Planned Parenthood from S.G.K., he informed his d-i-l, who was also ignorant of the fact and has now stopped her activities on their behalf.
Supporting trying to cure or find a cure for breast cancer is an admirable thing, giving money to the baby killers is not.
HA
I don’t like the “save the boobies/tatas” language for another reason. Breast cancer awareness is supposed to be about saving LIVES, not “boobies”, isn’t it?
I have read stories of women facing mastectomies that feel that they are not a “whole person”, are “mutilated”, and that their husbands will reject them. Doesn’t this campaign enforce that feeling—that it’s about breasts, not lives? There’s enough breast-obsession in our culture already.
Neat little gig, if you think about it. The Susan G. Komen Foundation is just trying to keep itself in bidness. They pay Planned Parenthood, which performs abortions and creates more breast-cancer victims (induced abortion increases risk at least 40 percent). Then Komen's officers get to raise more money, pay themselves, hire more people, contribute to pro-abortion politicians in their country clubs.
I'm partly joking, but only partly. It's outrageous that people who profess to be fighting breast cancer don't talk about one of its main risk factors.
And there's the diagnostic risk itself. It now looks as if the process of stretching and squashing the human breast between X-ray plates and zapping it with radiation increases the incidence of breast cancer—creating more cancer than it detects.
Medicine is tough and diagnosis is always experimental to some degree, but the breast-cancer business seems uniquely corrupt.
Jill Stanek, pro-life author has asked a very good question: “Is it really morally permissible to cause breast cancer in one room if screening for it in the next?”
I like it!
There are ZERO studies using women who have NEVER taken birth control pills, as the control group!
Yet they persist in announcing “no connection”.
Here's a study:
BCP’s begin wide availability in the early 60’s.
Rise in incidence of Breast cancer begins in the early 80’s.
And you two look like a couple of boobies.
(Obscure Caddyshack reference)
When schools worked, these bracelets would never have even been created, much less worn by school kids.
Your view, is the view that broke down our effective schools; the liberal/libertarian left has rampaged through the school rules and controls since the 60s.
Holy smokes! THANK YOU for this 411.
Just more sexualizing of the kids
Susan G Komen Foundation is all about kiddie sex since they partnered with Planned Parenthood.
You make a very valid case. The focus needs to be on cancer and saving lives. I am sure most people mean well who are focusing on the shock and attention getter, but we need to maintain class.
True, not the biggest discipline crisis in education history, but last time I checked it was possible to make people aware of breast cancer without using the word “boobies.” After all, it’s called “Breast Cancer Awareness Month” not “Boobie Tumor Awareness Month.”
People who expect public schools to turn their “production numbers” (graduation rate, actual learning, etc.) around while also expecting the people in charge to let a bunch of kids give them the finger and do whatever they darn well please are part of the problem.
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