Kim – 1

YOU POSTED: “Someone posted about obesity in children but said they lived in a neighborhood full of children and didn’t see any outside playing. How sad is that? We are afraid to let our children out of our sight.”

I posted on that subject “Clergy advocate health care reform” post #14 – however SAFETY IS NOT the issue at all, never even mentioned, we are not afraid to allow children to play outside. Where we live, children are safe, there is no reason to keep them in the house, even when it is early evening.

Post #14

“Look at all the obese/fat people in this country, this accounts for much illness – children aren’t eating properly, sugar and soft drinks are their fav food. When we were kids we ate normal food, it wasn’t filled with additives, nor did my mother let us have soft drinks, they were only for parties or special events. We were told to go outside and play, and that meant bikes, skates, climbintg trees, running, and games, none of us were over weight. This isn’t the case today. We have lots of children on our street, …. I haven’t observed any this week playing riding, etc., they are all most likely watching TV or playing on their computers.”

http://online.worldmag.com/2009/05/22/clergy-advocate-health-care-reform/#comments

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Apparently the first hijacking was in the 1930s. However, the terror of hijacking really entered our consciousness in the 1960’s and ’70s with the PLO and other Arab groups with political motives to gain international publicity.

The 9/11 attacks were partially political, i.e. Americans in Arab lands, but fundamentally that is based on a religious mandate from the Qur’an. Muslim terror knows no boundaries, whether targeting transportation or the energy sector or simply blowing innocent people to bits.

The difficulty of dealing with religiously motivated terror in the West is the inability to acknowledge or even mention the actual root cause. Instead of dealing with a religion on religious terms, we prefer to send armies. We prefer the death of our sons and daughters rather than address Islam head on.

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My parents used to dress up just to go downtown. We would dress up to fly as well. I worked for Delta Air Lines until 1995 and was always required to wear a suit and tie when I flew.

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On a flight to Florida in the early 1960’s, he settled himself in the back of the plane, picked up his latest hefty tome–I remember to this day what it looked like, two inches across with the title printed in big gold letters on the black spine.

The plane took off and people walked up and down the aisles, stopping near him and whispering, then continuing on. The stewardess gave him a long, searching look when she poured his coffee. More whispering. He read on.

Finally, the co-pilot came and asked him to step into the kitchen area with him. My dad said, “sure,” picked up his book and followed the official man to the back.

“Sir, I need to ask you your intentions. Several of the passengers are concerned.”

“About me?”

“The book you’re reading, sir. You don’t have a weapon, do you?”

My dad turned the volume over in his hands and started to laugh. The title: “CUBA.”

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I am also reasonably sure there is nothing new under the sun, but I think we as a people have become less trusting of our fellow man. Someone posted about obesity in children but said they lived in a neighborhood full of children and didn’t see any outside playing. How sad is that? We are afraid to let our children out of our sight. Last night my daughter had two friends over to spend the night. One of them suggested they go watch TV!!!! Absolutely not…there are three of you. Get outside and play. You have each other and you have daylight.

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