Child Care?

Now here's a shocking report.

It seems children who spend their time in Day care are more likely to be disruptive in class. Contrary to the Bull-oney being spewed by those who favor the state sponsered raising of children, day cared children do not have better vocabularies, nor do they do better socially than children raised by their parents.

Anyone with any common sense would see this study is right. Older children may be able to deal with being one of ten or a dozen individuals competing for the attention of an adult, but small children don't work that way. How are they going to get better vocabularies when the only people they talk to are each other. There is of course Sesame street, but many day care providers don't think that is stimulating enough for children. It's much better if they fight over toys or swings, or sit quietly waiting for the chaos to stop.

While it's good for children to learn they are not the center of the universe, they usually don't learn this until they reach Middle school. In this way day care children are ahead of the curve.

Several years ago (10+) there was a report on "60 minutes" about day care and families. The reporterette followed 3 families through their day. They also brought in a financial consultant to determine whether day care was financially necessary. In two of the three families they were actually spending more money on day care then one of them was getting paid. It would have been financially benificial for them to stop working and care for their children at home. While all of the mothers said they would love to be home with their children, only one stopped working.

Bottom line is that while some people need day care, many people don't want to take responsibility for raising their children. They refuse to sacrifice their new car, big screen TV's, Donna Karan or Bill Blass clothes, and $100 dinners. They don't want to be stuck at home, there's no one to talk to and nothing to do. These are things however to be thought of BEFORE procreating. Unless you are ready to put you life on hold until your children are old enough to care for themselves, maybe you should just go dancing instead.

What's new

I wish I could say that something is new. It's not. I'm beginning to think there hasn't been anything new since about the mid-morning of creation.

People are incredibly unoriginal. They do the same stupid things day after day. Mothers do the same stupid things their mothers did. Fathers do the same. Children don't listen to anyone and everyone ignores anyone about anything that might cause them to evade, or escape the same mistake that has previously been made bagillion times before.

The only differences today have to deal with technology. One can kill a lot more people today, single handedly because of the method used to deliver the agent of said death. Toxins, chemicals, and other poisons some of which would have previously been untraceable leave evidence captured by modern equipment. People use them just the same.

Husbands and wives continue to beat each other up, or beat and abuse their offspring. Women are left pregnant or become so due to laziness or incompetence on both sides. Children sit through 13 years of school, and learn little except how to cheat better on tests and how to sleep with their eyes open. Human beings find the same old perversions, just in new glitzy packages, that lull them into depravity and addiction. Hypocrisy reigns as the most widespread human characteristic. A couple of examples:
Affair Republican"
Affair Democrat
Global Warming Pro
Global Warming Con

And here is the worst excuse for hypocrisy I have ever seen. Ann Colter vs Bill Maher. Which comment is worse? The one where someone calls someone else a obscene name or the one that wishes someone else DIES. Being dead's pretty final, wouldn't you say. If you want to apologize to someone for something you've said about them, their assuming room temperature would make that pretty hard. Why would Edwards who is a champion of alternate lifestyle types, be offended to be lumped in with those he supports. Should Ms Colter have used such language absolutely not. It's offensive, crude and beneath her. Should Mr Maher have said what he said, absolutely not, for the same reasons and because it cheapens him and those who associate with him, his party affiliation and his humanity.

There really is nothing else to say. There are idiots and morons on both sides of the aisle. Today it seems like there's nothing but idiots and morons. Poor poor country.

Hiding behind the veil?

Not content with using women and children as shields members of the Taliban in Afghanistan have taken to wearing the religious apparel in order to escape detection. Yes in deed, ladies and gentlemen, these freedom fighters, these beleaguered patriots have decided to take to the veil in order to bomb, kill, maim and then escape. What courage, what commitment, what fervor.

I'm sure our founding fathers, leaders of the American Revolution would have used the same tactic, if only they'd thought of it. They instead dressed up like farmers, lawyers, townspeople and on one occasion as Native Americans to protest what they considered unfair treatment. Actual violence didn't begin until someone from the other side took the first pot shot.

September 11, 2001 was like that first shot at Concord. It was also heard round the world, and called together freedom loving people everywhere to stem the tide of tyranny. There are some who will claim that the US and it's allies are the tyrannical force in Afghanistan and Iraq. Ask them what part of "Kill the Infidel" the bereft of life part or the YOU part, do they not understand.

Wait for it- Eviro War Chapter 1

Well just when you thought it couldn't get any sillier or hypocritical. Drudge has these three amazing stories to relate. The first is about Algore and PETA (pathetic enablers to absurdity)

Next is a lovely little story (rated PG 13) about Canadians and Sex . Of course I wasn't sure Canadians actually had sex. Might be too violent an activity with too much stress for them.

And last but not least there are several stories about Mother Nature giving her opinion on how effective any government is where "Global Warning" is concerned. The weather , as those of us who live in the Plains experience every spring, is nothing if not changeable and unpredictable. How long have we been tracking weather again? How many years have records been kept, reliably. Oh that's right we depend on science for our "truth" these days.

Science which at the beginning of the 20th century told us the atom was the smallest unit of matter, that put the wrong head on the body a dinosaur which stood in a museum for forty years before anyone noticed it. Science that can't cure the common cold or figure out when life begins. That science, the one that after how many years demoted Pluto from a planet to a whatever they're calling it now.

Now lest you get the idea that I am science phobic, I am not. I just would like everyone, scientists and lay people to understand that science is not "fact". It is only what we have observed until now. Years from now with new equipment and knowledge, who knows what we'll "know". Science fact is our best guess and has more in common with religion than anyone wants to admit. Theory vs faith, knowledge vs belief, God vs science is what many would like to promote. There are however a few of us who think that it all works together in a grand and glorious plan, conceived in the mind of the ultimate scientist, clinical trials set up and overseen by his graduate assistant, participated in by his son's and daughter's, with their consent, by the way. Variables provided by a disgruntled former student who seeks to claim all the fame and fortune for himself by skewing the results and interfering with the participants.

I realize that if the former ideas ever became popular, human beings would have to find something else to fight about. Maybe who's more of a waste of greenhouse gasses, Rosie O'Donnel or Helen Thomas. I could answer that too, but I wouldn't want to solve all of the worlds problems

Color blind

Here we are ladies and gentlemen, again. 50+ years later and we are still chewing over events in the civil rights war. Politicians Obama and Clinton are stoking up the fires of racial intolerance and hatred. They continue to tell people of color that they are not getting their fair share of the pie.

Let's for the sake of argument take that last statement. People of African decent make up roughly 15% of the population. If we were truly being "fair" that would mean that 15% of the jobs in this country should be done by said people. That would mean that one teacher in 15 would be a person of color. That might work in Iowa or Wisconsin, or most rural communities in the Plains and West but it would not work in places like Detroit or Washington DC. What about the military, civil service or sports teams. A football team has to have eleven men on the field and usually has about 44 players in total, 2 or 3 would be of African decent, and we don't even want to talk about basketball.

Like most people, I am sick and tired of being beat over the head for things that happened before I was even born. I have tried over the course of my life to be kind to everyone no matter what. Do I avoid young white, black, asian or hispanic groups of men when walking in the mall or down the street. I do. Not because I think all men are dangerous, but these days you can't tell the victims from the villains. I don't know that given our differences in culture, attitude and emphasis that I would be friends with Paris Hilton, Jane Fonda or Hillary Clinton either. I don't fight back until I or my freedoms are being spat upon. Once that happens, it's all over but the crying.