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‘Absolutely Insane’: Connecticut Law Would Axe Fitness Requirements for Female Firefighters
Free Beacon ^ | 18 Jan 2023 | Aaron Sibarium

Posted on 01/18/2023 3:51:19 PM PST by Rummyfan

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To: hanamizu

“it might not be the stupidest thing offered by dems today.”

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Attempting to define the “stupidest thing offered by dems today” is like “winning” an argument with a snail.

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21 posted on 01/18/2023 4:21:35 PM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Rummyfan

My cousin’s daughter was on the Swat Team in Tucson years back. She could have kicked my ass across the state with one foot.


22 posted on 01/18/2023 4:22:12 PM PST by sasquatch
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To: lee martell

Don’t expect these hefty gals to go up a ladder and carry somebody out of a burning building.


Nope. They’ll post videos to YouTube of the fire as it burns out of control.


23 posted on 01/18/2023 4:23:30 PM PST by rbg81
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To: Rummyfan

The five Connecticut State Assembly Democratic lawmakers who introduced this bill should be charged with misfeasance and thrown out of the assembly. But since the Connecticut state government is a Demonicrat-controlled kakistocracy, nothing rational will be done.


24 posted on 01/18/2023 4:27:42 PM PST by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: Rummyfan

That law would be illegal, wrong and unconstitutional. It would be invalid from minute one.

But so are laws that give special privileges by sex, such as special privileges for “woman-owned” businesses.

Laws that grant money to people based on sex or ethnicity are also invalid.

Not that it matters.


25 posted on 01/18/2023 4:31:55 PM PST by I want the USA back (News media are pond scum. My pronouns: Haha, heehee, hoho. )
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To: sasquatch

My sister in law was like that too, 6’ tall and about 250. I tussled with her once, and it took me and my cousin to slow her assault against my sister. I went low, he went high. She was ugly to boot. Not like Chyna ugly, more like the Mom in the movie Goonies.


26 posted on 01/18/2023 4:35:41 PM PST by Glad2bnuts ("People who didn't take take the Jab have -0- regrets, those who did may be SADS.)
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To: Rummyfan

Don’t expect to be carried out of your burning house in Connecticut.


27 posted on 01/18/2023 4:37:05 PM PST by SamAdams76 (4,818,034 Truth | 87,745,895 Twitter)
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To: Rummyfan

Easy enough to solve. Just don’t go get them out of a burning structure.


28 posted on 01/18/2023 4:40:21 PM PST by GingisK
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To: Rummyfan

If you want to see dozens maybe hundreds of veteran firefighters retire early or just quit pass this bill.

Fire fighters depend on their fellow fire fighters for their lives.

Fire fighters go in to burning buildings in pairs and depend on their partner to drag them out if they pass out on the entry.

If your lieutenant orders you in to a burning building with some one you know can’t drag you out are you going to go?

If I an a 250 pound man and my partrner is a 100 pound woman, do I risk my life on her ability to drag me and my 75 pounds of turnout gear out of a burning building?

I wouldn’t? If I had enough time in service to retire early I would sign the papers and go. If not I would quit. My wife and kids would rather have me alive than a survivor’s pension.


29 posted on 01/18/2023 4:42:05 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spiritIq)
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To: Rummyfan

Yep.

The airlines dropped the height and weight requirements for flight attendants in the 80’s.

I saw a woman who was in flight attendant training that was so corpulent that watching her try to squeeze through the over the wing emergency exit door was like someone trying to push an oyster through a keyhole.


30 posted on 01/18/2023 4:42:07 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Rummyfan

A very high percentage of firefighter on the job deaths is from heart attacks from exertion

Firefighter fitness

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2UatexAnMUk


31 posted on 01/18/2023 4:44:34 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: Rummyfan

Yay more people who can’t do the job requirements.

Seriously, who can truly be for this?


32 posted on 01/18/2023 4:46:03 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Actually thats exactly what they should do.


33 posted on 01/18/2023 4:46:41 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: hanamizu

Women perceive things differently than men and women may offer valuable insights to defuse a tense situation.


My circle is anecdotal, but there is a notable tendency for female police officers to provoke rather than calm, as they use aggression to counter their smaller size and perceived weakness.

Where they tend to be useful is where female victims have been savaged, and want nothing to do with a man while they get their wits back together.


34 posted on 01/18/2023 4:47:16 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Rummyfan

“more diverse.”

Those who:
1. Can do the job.
2. Cannot do the job.

How’s that diversity for ya? I hope nobody feels left out.


35 posted on 01/18/2023 4:51:33 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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To: qaz123
Let them have everything they want.

No.

Once they get what they say they want, they never give any of it back. It does not matter whether their proposal works or not. In fact, the more damage done, the better.

An ultimate demonstration of power is forcing other people to do actions which are harmful to themselves. It's all about power.

There is no learning experience allowed with feedback from painful consequences that can correct bad decisions.

The game must end.

36 posted on 01/18/2023 4:53:28 PM PST by flamberge (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Rummyfan

That decision is going to get people killed.


37 posted on 01/18/2023 4:54:34 PM PST by mware
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
corpulent...the word for the day!!
38 posted on 01/18/2023 5:03:16 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: Rummyfan

“If your standards are too high, lower your standards!”

America has been experimenting with a “Lowest Common Denominator (LCD)” mentality for the past 60 years.

LCD ONLY works in mathematics! LCD TOTALLY FAILS when exported to general society!


39 posted on 01/18/2023 5:08:03 PM PST by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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To: flamberge

I understand what you’re saying. And I agree with it.

But, the game will NEVER end. It will NEVER end as long as voters, Republican voters, continue to elect squish Republican candidates.

Typical Squish Republican: I really like Pres Trump’s policies, tax cuts, securing the border, supporting law enforcement and the military, renegotiating trade deals so they’re better for American’s, energy independence, no unnecessary foreign involvements-war-military actions, finally getting Peace In The Middle East.....but I didn’t like the mean tweets and the insults and the speech.

NewsFlash....in this day and age, NO ONE is having it both ways.

In this day and age, you can narrow down your average politician at any level to:

1. Squish Republican that will go along to get along and succumb to any pressure or stress put on them, to play nice with the other side.

2. Democrats and the Left that are the biggest hypocrites but keep pushing and pushing until they get what they want or they’re run out of office

3. The Go Along to Get Along Republican as long as they can make as much money as possible while holding their position.

4. The In Your Face, Tell You How the Cow Eats The Cabbage, says the ugly baby is ugly, put it to you straight and doesn’t care about your feelings.

Sadly, for anything to be done, in this day and age, this country needs about 99.9% of Republican office holders to be #4. Yet, most of Republican voters elect #’s 1 and 3.

So, that being said, give them what they want and watch it all fall apart. To think that there’s any other way out of this nonsense is an exercise in futility, IMHO.


40 posted on 01/18/2023 5:08:22 PM PST by qaz123
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