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Participant[quote=HiggyBaby]…Nice job bg! You are fighting the good fight!…?[/quote]
11th District COFI, Baby … I’ve been playing this same poker game since the mid-eighties and haven’t been overly shocked or disappointed yet!
Participant[quote=HiggyBaby]…Nice job bg! You are fighting the good fight!…?[/quote]
11th District COFI, Baby … I’ve been playing this same poker game since the mid-eighties and haven’t been overly shocked or disappointed yet!
Participant[quote=briansd1]I believe that gays have always been around and have always comprised the same percentage of the population (though they lived in hiding in the past).[/quote]
I believe this also.
[quote-briansd1]The precentage of overweight people have increased in the last 50 years in America. The phenomenon is also visible across the world as people get richer and can afford more food.[/quote]
The difference in the last 30 years is VERY pronounced, especially in young people. The young people of “yesteryear” didn’t have computers and all these other electronic gadgets currently available. Phones were on the wall so often you sat in a barstool or stood up while talking on it. Same with public phones where you had to feed another dime in it after 3-10 mins. To change the TV channel, you got up and turned both the dial and the rabbit ears :=] They also didn’t have “power bars,” 300 kinds of chips, 100 kinds of soda, 50 kinds of “energy drinks,” a zillion other packaged snacks, Starbucks and multiple fast food outlets to choose from (now with “supersized” meals). All these choices tend to add a lot of calories to a kid’s daily life if they have the money and are freely allowed to choose.
VHS tapes and DVDs also did not exist. Kids back then pursued sports for entertainment and had to line up around a movie theatre or a record store when a movie or music single or album they wanted was released.
I am worried about obesity in the younger crowd today. It’s epidemic and many teens are starting to have health problems from it. A LOT of these kids are uninsured which doesn’t bode well for getting the care they need.
Participant[quote=briansd1]I believe that gays have always been around and have always comprised the same percentage of the population (though they lived in hiding in the past).[/quote]
I believe this also.
[quote-briansd1]The precentage of overweight people have increased in the last 50 years in America. The phenomenon is also visible across the world as people get richer and can afford more food.[/quote]
The difference in the last 30 years is VERY pronounced, especially in young people. The young people of “yesteryear” didn’t have computers and all these other electronic gadgets currently available. Phones were on the wall so often you sat in a barstool or stood up while talking on it. Same with public phones where you had to feed another dime in it after 3-10 mins. To change the TV channel, you got up and turned both the dial and the rabbit ears :=] They also didn’t have “power bars,” 300 kinds of chips, 100 kinds of soda, 50 kinds of “energy drinks,” a zillion other packaged snacks, Starbucks and multiple fast food outlets to choose from (now with “supersized” meals). All these choices tend to add a lot of calories to a kid’s daily life if they have the money and are freely allowed to choose.
VHS tapes and DVDs also did not exist. Kids back then pursued sports for entertainment and had to line up around a movie theatre or a record store when a movie or music single or album they wanted was released.
I am worried about obesity in the younger crowd today. It’s epidemic and many teens are starting to have health problems from it. A LOT of these kids are uninsured which doesn’t bode well for getting the care they need.
Participant[quote=briansd1]I believe that gays have always been around and have always comprised the same percentage of the population (though they lived in hiding in the past).[/quote]
I believe this also.
[quote-briansd1]The precentage of overweight people have increased in the last 50 years in America. The phenomenon is also visible across the world as people get richer and can afford more food.[/quote]
The difference in the last 30 years is VERY pronounced, especially in young people. The young people of “yesteryear” didn’t have computers and all these other electronic gadgets currently available. Phones were on the wall so often you sat in a barstool or stood up while talking on it. Same with public phones where you had to feed another dime in it after 3-10 mins. To change the TV channel, you got up and turned both the dial and the rabbit ears :=] They also didn’t have “power bars,” 300 kinds of chips, 100 kinds of soda, 50 kinds of “energy drinks,” a zillion other packaged snacks, Starbucks and multiple fast food outlets to choose from (now with “supersized” meals). All these choices tend to add a lot of calories to a kid’s daily life if they have the money and are freely allowed to choose.
VHS tapes and DVDs also did not exist. Kids back then pursued sports for entertainment and had to line up around a movie theatre or a record store when a movie or music single or album they wanted was released.
I am worried about obesity in the younger crowd today. It’s epidemic and many teens are starting to have health problems from it. A LOT of these kids are uninsured which doesn’t bode well for getting the care they need.
Participant[quote=briansd1]I believe that gays have always been around and have always comprised the same percentage of the population (though they lived in hiding in the past).[/quote]
I believe this also.
[quote-briansd1]The precentage of overweight people have increased in the last 50 years in America. The phenomenon is also visible across the world as people get richer and can afford more food.[/quote]
The difference in the last 30 years is VERY pronounced, especially in young people. The young people of “yesteryear” didn’t have computers and all these other electronic gadgets currently available. Phones were on the wall so often you sat in a barstool or stood up while talking on it. Same with public phones where you had to feed another dime in it after 3-10 mins. To change the TV channel, you got up and turned both the dial and the rabbit ears :=] They also didn’t have “power bars,” 300 kinds of chips, 100 kinds of soda, 50 kinds of “energy drinks,” a zillion other packaged snacks, Starbucks and multiple fast food outlets to choose from (now with “supersized” meals). All these choices tend to add a lot of calories to a kid’s daily life if they have the money and are freely allowed to choose.
VHS tapes and DVDs also did not exist. Kids back then pursued sports for entertainment and had to line up around a movie theatre or a record store when a movie or music single or album they wanted was released.
I am worried about obesity in the younger crowd today. It’s epidemic and many teens are starting to have health problems from it. A LOT of these kids are uninsured which doesn’t bode well for getting the care they need.
Participant[quote=briansd1]I believe that gays have always been around and have always comprised the same percentage of the population (though they lived in hiding in the past).[/quote]
I believe this also.
[quote-briansd1]The precentage of overweight people have increased in the last 50 years in America. The phenomenon is also visible across the world as people get richer and can afford more food.[/quote]
The difference in the last 30 years is VERY pronounced, especially in young people. The young people of “yesteryear” didn’t have computers and all these other electronic gadgets currently available. Phones were on the wall so often you sat in a barstool or stood up while talking on it. Same with public phones where you had to feed another dime in it after 3-10 mins. To change the TV channel, you got up and turned both the dial and the rabbit ears :=] They also didn’t have “power bars,” 300 kinds of chips, 100 kinds of soda, 50 kinds of “energy drinks,” a zillion other packaged snacks, Starbucks and multiple fast food outlets to choose from (now with “supersized” meals). All these choices tend to add a lot of calories to a kid’s daily life if they have the money and are freely allowed to choose.
VHS tapes and DVDs also did not exist. Kids back then pursued sports for entertainment and had to line up around a movie theatre or a record store when a movie or music single or album they wanted was released.
I am worried about obesity in the younger crowd today. It’s epidemic and many teens are starting to have health problems from it. A LOT of these kids are uninsured which doesn’t bode well for getting the care they need.
ParticipantI’ll just follow the slow wagon train on down for $0 … like I always do :=]
ParticipantI’ll just follow the slow wagon train on down for $0 … like I always do :=]
ParticipantI’ll just follow the slow wagon train on down for $0 … like I always do :=]
ParticipantI’ll just follow the slow wagon train on down for $0 … like I always do :=]
ParticipantI’ll just follow the slow wagon train on down for $0 … like I always do :=]
May 5, 2011 at 10:46 AM in reply to: OT: California Prison Academy: Better Than a Harvard Degree #692536Participant[quote=pabloesqobar]…Again, sorry about your family member. But 1 isolated incident in another State does not support any conclusion about the prison guards in CA.[/quote]
I just want to add that the incidences CAR and UCGal’s relatives who were prison guards experienced happens nearly every week in every state in one or more institutions. There are layer upon layer of regulations and procedures those employees must follow but it’s always a judgment call. Very often, they’re damned if they take action and damned if they don’t (and damned if they take the “wrong kind, not enough,” or “too much” action). Besides these heavy “inmate-control” responsibilites, these institutions are often a hotbed of political discourse and hierarchy inside (“classification” be damned) for those who work there. The unsuspecting “new hire” or “transfer” doesn’t understand all these “ins and outs” until they have been stationed there awhile (and hopefully latch onto a “mentor” they can trust). It is very easy for an employee (new or experienced) to walk into a “situation” in there or have a “situation” walk into them that will end up being a cause of them being disciplined or their ultimate discharge.
It doesn’t help that there are many lawyers in CA who will sue the state on a prisoner’s behalf for prisoner neglect or maltreatment. This keeps an entire fleet of attorneys in each major AG’s office perpetually busy (also taxpayer funded).
May 5, 2011 at 10:46 AM in reply to: OT: California Prison Academy: Better Than a Harvard Degree #692612Participant[quote=pabloesqobar]…Again, sorry about your family member. But 1 isolated incident in another State does not support any conclusion about the prison guards in CA.[/quote]
I just want to add that the incidences CAR and UCGal’s relatives who were prison guards experienced happens nearly every week in every state in one or more institutions. There are layer upon layer of regulations and procedures those employees must follow but it’s always a judgment call. Very often, they’re damned if they take action and damned if they don’t (and damned if they take the “wrong kind, not enough,” or “too much” action). Besides these heavy “inmate-control” responsibilites, these institutions are often a hotbed of political discourse and hierarchy inside (“classification” be damned) for those who work there. The unsuspecting “new hire” or “transfer” doesn’t understand all these “ins and outs” until they have been stationed there awhile (and hopefully latch onto a “mentor” they can trust). It is very easy for an employee (new or experienced) to walk into a “situation” in there or have a “situation” walk into them that will end up being a cause of them being disciplined or their ultimate discharge.
It doesn’t help that there are many lawyers in CA who will sue the state on a prisoner’s behalf for prisoner neglect or maltreatment. This keeps an entire fleet of attorneys in each major AG’s office perpetually busy (also taxpayer funded).
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