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Wellll...size DOES matter. lol

Looking at colleges for my daughter. She's strong in math and science and has talked about Air Force Academy. She wants to be a pilot (fighter) but I'm not sure she will qualify physically (she's 5' nothing). If anyone has any alternate suggestions I would appreciate it.

That's why I'm proud to be an American.

Not all of our kids are a-holes. My sixteen year old daughter regularly takes on her liberal teachers and wins. My daughter is informed, VERY smart, doesn't get emotional, and makes her teacher(s) stick to the facts. If it is something she is not sure of she comes home and finds out then goes back and "revisits" the issue. Since she is well liked by the other students, I have hope that she is reaching them as well.

In Richard Preston's book THE DEMON IN THE FREEZER, the point is made that if you have the smallpox virus available then it only takes the equivalent of a moderately equipped college lab to alter the virus and produce smallpox that is vaccine resistant.

I have serious doubts about the medical community being able to quarantine and contain an outbreak of "garden variety smallpox, let alone a strain that would be resistant.

Are you serious? Documentation?

Homeschooling is best. However, (bear with me here), a LOT of problems could be solved if conservative parents would step up to the plate and volunteer in the organizations that the kids are in. I'm a PTA board member. I have a big mouth and lots of opinions. What I found, is that I wasn't the only one, just the only one willing to speak out. I was willing to call PC ridiculous and go head to head with the liberals. I win more often than I lose. I have backing of other board members and some of them have begun to find that THEY can speak out, be heard, and make a difference. Same with the sports teams and Sunday School and Boy Scouts, etc...

MY kids will think for themselves. I read the textbooks and we discuss the inaccuracies/lies therein. I correct teachers (one told my son that Texas had been annexed by the US...I don't think so). I feel that we need to make a difference in the larger world. And it's hard to change anything from outside.

Someone help me out here. Didn't the Supreme Court rule that the Boy Scouts had the right, as a private organization to decide who could be members/employees without worrying about being pc?

I could be remembering this incorrectly.

My husband and I were talking about this. Here's my theory;
Women live with the knowledge that rape can happen to them at any time. We know it, we think about how we would handle it, how we would deal with the aftermath, how to protect ourselves, etc... Men, as a general rule don't. It isn't something that men have to be concerned/aware of on a daily basis as concerns personal safety.

Women in the services KNOW that, if captured, rape will happen. We deal with it. We survive it. We don't let it stop us from doing what WE want with our lives. We don't think that all men are responsible or evil. It's not noble, or sacrificing. It's just a fact if you are a woman.

Except Texas' flag. We fly at the same height.

ANYTIME, I want to know what is going on in my childs school, I have the legal right to sit in on and monitor the class, activity, assembly or whatever. Now, I live in Texas and our laws are probably more open and reasonable than the ones in Vermont and Maine. I also don't have to give prior notice. This is not to say that we don't have our share of liberal educrats and if the parent does not know the law then you will be lied to and railroaded into doing what the educrats want. At the very least, I would have checked my children out of school until I could find out what was going on.

At this point, though, I would be seeking legal remedies and possibly filing wrongful arrest charges.

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