Indeed it was! Jumping off at the highest point was great.
Apostle Claver tells the world how the real party of racism is the Democrats
Posted on 09/02/2010 5:16:01 PM PDT by Kaslin
Indeed it was! Jumping off at the highest point was great.
Apostle Claver tells the world how the real party of racism is the Democrats
Tort reform indeed.
I remember monkey bars made of metal sitting on a concrete platform. We fell off many times, scraped knees, and got in fights sometimes. No parents were ever even called; it was just school yard stuff. Boys looked up girls dresses and no one went to jail.
If kids are not allowed to be kids and get hurt once in a while, it is no wonder that we are turning into a nation of sissies (and worse). My goodness, we have to let children figure out what their fears are and tackle them in full presence of peer pressure.
Perhaps this is the way to end government schooling. Massive lawsuits.
That and the exodus of parents who don’t want their kids being viewed by teachers as the next sexual score, being taught gay and other perverted high risk sexual stuff is great.
Maybe we start getting lawsuits against schools for teaching kids about high-risk sex behaviors. For crying out loud if they’re pulling out swings because they can get hurt and the school is liable, we’ve got teachers talking about and discussing gay sex and other perverted sex techniques and there is no liability there????
Pretty soon if enough lawsuits are filed perhaps they will start ousting school officials and shutting down the publics schools because they can’t afford the lawsuits along with the teacher pensions.
After all, kids would be safer NOT being in a public school. Stats show compared to private schools kids are much more likely to be hurt in a public school.
California passed a law banning school yard swing sets about five years ago. Schools were given until last year to have them removed. No swing sets on any public property ANYWHERE in the entire state now!
Everybody had his own pocket knife. It went like this. Two guys faced each other, with their knives open. Each got to set his own feet spacing by throwing his knife and sticking it in the ground away from his feet. The knife had to stick with the end of the handle at least two fingers above the ground. The farther apart your got to spread your feet, the better.
You threw fingers to see who threw first. When the game started, the other guy threw his knife to stick into the ground between your feet. You had to move the closest foot to the knife. If the knife didn't stick (two finger rule), your foot wasn't moved and it was your turn. If it did, he got another turn. Anyhow, the game continued with each guy's feet getting closer and closer together. You lost if you got too nervous and said "chicken". The other guy lost if he hit your foot with his throw. Then the winner took on the next challenger. ...*Hint: This was not a good game to play while wearing KEDS sneakers.
It was a lot of fun and everybody got pretty good at throwing a pocketknife. If the teacher caught you (usually because it tended to develop a cheering crowd), the game was over because she made you stop, scolded you, and made you put your knives away - which we dutifully did. We were obedient kids.
We also took our guns to school during hunting season. Of course, this was the early 1950s, and it was another America,... one long gone.
Do you remember swinging on those metal backyard swing sets and seeing who could swing the highest so that the legs would come out of the ground and it would lift?
Hang them from the remaining swingsets, as a warning about poor choice of profession.
It's for the children.
I see this as just one more factor in this nation’s problem with childhood obesity.
“Trial lawyers need to go the way of the swingsets.”
“Hang them from the remaining swingsets, as a warning about poor choice of profession.
“It’s for the children.”
LOL
I don’t understand why these cases are taken by the courts - isn’t there such a thing as “throwing them out”? Does every case HAVE to be taken???
I hear ya. I can remember things like “smear the queer” in the newly fallen snow. (It had nothing to do with homosexuality. Shoot, at that age I had no idea what a homosexual was.)
We’d also play “king of the hill” after the playground snow got plowed up into big piles. Many fat lips and bloody noses, but that was expected. I can only remember being in trouble for intentionally throwing a punch or a snowball. How the playground supervisor knew the difference, I’ll never know.
I also remember playing some kind of game on the monkey bars where you tried to wrap you legs around the apposing climber and pull them off of the bars. I can remember one girl who was quite good, but she also was quite likely to kick you between the legs too. I don’t think the ground under the monkey bars was padded like playgrounds are today, either.
When you take away the valuable lessons learned by pain, you train these kids to be wussy adults.
I played that as a kid. We called it "crunch course," but it was still pretty brutal (thankfully I was pretty large for my age, so I didn't have as much to fear as my prey BWAHAHAHAH).
You're kidding, right?
In the unlikely event that you're not, here's my reasoning:
95% of the problems facing this country would be solved by fixing the three Ts. In this particular instance, tort reform.
If sanctions were imposed against attorneys bringing frivolous lawsuits, and attorneys didn't get rich regardless of whether they won or lost cases, and plaintiffs didn't get huge windfalls when they won, there would be far fewer court cases. The remaining court cases would have actual credibility, and would be fought because of the merits of the case, not because the defendant had "deep pockets". We'd almost instantly see a return of at least a modicum of common sense.
Unfortunately, it's not in the legal system's best interest to implement this and, as the vast majority of our politicians are lawyers, we're going to be hard-pressed to see any legislation in this regard.
That brings us back to term limits. We need to limit the ability of incumbents (career politicians) to use the "good old boy" network to keep their cronies in office, beholden to them to protect the status quo.
Back in the original days of this country, politics was a public service, performed by people who had actual lives and professions that they took time out from.
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