Posted on 05/19/2016 2:33:14 PM PDT by Nachum
(CNSNews.com) At a summit by the Aspen Institutes Project Play, first lady Michelle Obama said Tuesday that some U.S. communities are play deserts, because they dont have sufficient opportunities for kids to participate in sports and other outdoor activities, compared to wealthy communities.
So many communities are becoming play deserts, but in wealthy communities, there is a wealth of resources. You can be in field hockey, or you can learn how to swim. There are aquatic centers and -- Ive seen the difference. The disparities are amazing to me, she said.
As CNSNews.com previously reported, the Obama administration coined the phrase food deserts to describe an urban area where a significant share of the population lives more than one mile from a grocery store.
Mrs. Obama took part in the 2016 Project Play Summit at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., alongside her brother, Craig Robinson, a college basketball analyst for ESPN. It was hosted by ESPN commentator Michael Wilbon of Pardon the Interruption. All three grew up on the South Side of Chicago.
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Lot of red beans and rice in my navy days LOL
On Saturdays, we’d make a sandwich, grab our .22 rifles, and ride our bikes down to the Mississippi River. Spend all day plinking, and make it home for supper. No one got their eye put out.
Beanie-weenie. Creamed chipped beef. Baloney wheels. And LOTS of oatmeal and potatoes.
Discussing deserts .... how about that space between your ears MOO?
What you have there is a Cogitation Desert. These are found in many public schools and elite universities.
Good ol SOS. LOL!
Oh, no ... it was classier, because Mom used English muffins. (My freepin’ offspring call them “Socialist muffins.”
LOL crooks and nannys
Certainly... the only actual playground I can recall was the one at school. At home we all played in the yard/street and just made do with whatever was around. I recall spending weeks working on a space capsule we made from a big cardboard box.
Trouble with community organizers, they organize nothing. Well maybe protests and such, but nothing constructive. Nobama was an organizer in a ghetto, I see nothing constructive he did.
All of the “problem areas” are DemonRat controlled Utopias, just like with crime and violence.
I was so lucky when I was a kid we had access to all the refrigerator boxes we could haul away.
They were turned into forts, space ships, tanks...
And paper kites
We found some wooden pallets somewhere and dragged them home and built an awesome fort one summer.
Hell yeah!
If you had the materials you could build a manned plane that you could lunch off the roof of the barn. *wink*
Dad hated me using his tools.
All our parents did LOL
Give us power tools and welders and we are bolting Briggs and Stratton motors into Huffy bikes with bad brakes *wink*
Heh, very true!
Still, very international in a GI kinda way LOL
Thomas English muffins are the best, I like them with Welsh Rarbit
My sister, the artist, went through a spell when she was making dummies... clothes stuffed with rolled up newspaper. We could hang those out the window and get passers-by to look and react. One time we rolled one off a neighbor's detached garage roof scaring the heck out of their maid... we got into major trouble with our parents on that one.
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