[Graybeard58]

ping

[digger48]

Theres another way...


Like myself and most of the kids I grew up with.....


Boy Scouts

Girl Scouts

[goldstategop]

Liberals won't stop until they decide what we can eat, when we can shower and brush our teeth, when we can have a bowel movement, when we can exercise, where we can drive, how much we can work for and how long we can work for it, where we can sleep and how we'll be buried when we die. Socialism is truly cradle to grave. I kid y'all not.

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)

[Socratic]

Let's have special jumping instruction for the white boys.

[johniegrad]

America has a "swimming gap," with racist origins, of course. Minority children 10 to 14 are more than four times as likely to drown than their white peers because, according to The Hartford Courant, Southern plantation owners prevented slaves from learning to swim so they would be less likely to escape. "

I agree. We should compensate any former slaves that have drowned in these public swimming pools.

[Tax-chick]

Of course, that would require the construction (with union labor) of hundreds of new school pools at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, plus the hiring of many more (unionized) gym teachers/swimming instructors.

Nonsense. IF the state determined it had an interest in swimming instruction (gotta start with some premise ...), then give the families a voucher for Red Cross swimming lessons, and verify that the student had taken the course before admitting him to the new school grade.

Ipso facto, all over.

[phrogphlyer]

The responsibility for teaching children to swim belongs to their parents, not the state. It's saner, simpler and far less expensive than another any massive government debacle.

[Texas Eagle]

Connecticut has minorities???

Oh. They're probably referring to people with net worths under a million dollars.

[BenLurkin]

Pools at the schools is probably a good idea.

I've swum at inner city public pools. There was very little actual swimming to be seen -- mostly just coarse horseplay.

They tend to be dirty, dangerous places. The lifeguards are shouted at, ignored and abused. Some are victims of sexual harassment and even assault.

[RFC_Gal]

782 American children 14 or under drowned in 2003, the last year for which statistics are available, but drowning rates have been declining steadily in recent decades. Each drowning is a tragedy, but the National Safety Council says the average American child is more likely to die in a plane crash than drown accidentally

Isn't that wrong? How can the chance of a child getting killed in a plane crash be higher than drowning when the number of kids who get killed in plane crashes is much lower than those who drown?

[paul51]

When do we institute the gun safety and shooting classes?

[Just A Nobody]

You are not gonna believe this nanny state mandate.

[Gabz]

Nanny State PING.........

Personally, I do think everyone should learn to swim, and at a young age............however, I'm not the government.

[freepatriot32]

it never ends i have not read any comments on this article so far but i would bet my life savings that 30-40 percent of the preepers responding are all for this

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[Cobra64]

Jeez. Don't let W hear about this. He'll propose another Federal program: The Department of Homeland Swimming.

In the interest of bi-partisinship, the President will appoint well known swimmer, Senator Ted Kennedy to oversea the department.

Senator John Kerry, Democrat MA will be responsible for developing the swimming training curriculum.

[DakotaRed]

Let me guess, they need to raise tobacco and alcohol taxes to pay for them, right?

In a somewhat unrelated, but related manner, just today I received an advertisement from Scott's Corporation asking me to sign up for their lawn care service. I'm sure you all recall them as being one of the companies that have decided to test employees for off the job tobacco use and fire them if they ever smoke, anywhere.

Being the evil smoker I am, I sent it back with "WARNING: Sent by a smoking household" on the outside of the envelope. Inside, instead of the application order sheet, I wrote the following in a note; "Thank you for considering me for this service. However, I feel compelled to decline due to my being a tobacco user and your companies senibility against tobacco. As you are so concerned about the use of tobacco, a legal product, I would not like to subject any of your employees to my smoke. Again, thank you for thinking of me and I sincerely do regret my having to sever our over 30 year relationship of my using your product."

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"Opponents will be condemned as racists, and if that fails, there's always the old saw: 'If it saves one life, it would be worth it.'"

Smoking Bans.
Eminent Domain.
Seatbelts.
Helmets.
Concealed Carry.
Your Weight.
Stupid Drug Laws.
Light Pollution.
Your Bedroom Activities.
Global Warming.
Banning Soda in School.
Mandatory Immunizations.
Farm Animal Tagging.
Electronic Chipping for Man and Beast.

Gee. I'm starting to see a pattern here! And I'm not all that smart to begin with. Wonder how many really stupid people welcome this invasion of their personal and property rights with open arms? *Rolleyes*