The boys were, anyway
Today I doubt they could do it even if they were allowed to try.
Me getting arrested last night:
Memories:
My favorite memory of my childhood is my back not hurting
Forward thinking for the evening:
heh
I know people who need to read this:
If it was still in print, I’d give ’em a gift certificate at Amazon….
In the latest fashion trend:
Municipalities are condemning generations of kids to have teeth like British people……and bones that are not as strong as they could be….by stopping fluoridation of municipal drinking water.
Not one can say they have any evidence as to why they should be doing this.
All because some idiot thinks that low levels of Fluoride cause some kind of unspecified health issues….Despite there being no evidence that low levels have any effect, and despite the fact that since about 1950 people have been safely getting fluoride in their drinking water….and that any dentist will tell you that it makes for significantly stronger and denser teeth, and any osteopath will tell you that it makes for better bones. But somehow fluoride in drinking water in the 1950s on is linked to an increase in “autism” that happened in the late 70’s (But we thought it was food dyes and high-fructose corn syrup that caused autism last week….,remember?) …No one can show any evidence that the levels we use in the United States are anything but good for bones and teeth and have no detrimental effects otherwise. Not a single study. Not one. There have been a bunch of “things called studies” that were so poorly done that the data was useless, but nothing that can pass as a decent statistical study. It’s all anecdotal and fear.
But people, folks with zero science background, who couldn’t pass an 8th grade science class, who can’t use logic, think that low levels cause harm because some “studies” showing ingestion of fluoride at 5 times our municipal water amount may have some effect. But, stupidly, they can’t understand and won’t learn. That’s like thinking that all radiation is bad for you but you still go out in the sun. They drink water with chlorine in it, which is just as much a “poison” but have no issues with that….They are as lacking-in-logic as the Glowbal Warming folks…It’s more a religion that anything resembling logic or science. They don’t care what the truth is. Will all the “believers” all move to Utah or to the counties in Florida that are stopping fluoridation? If they really believed what they say, they would….but they won’t.
The poster child of this is the now-secretary of HHS, a one time “environmental attorney” whose advice not to get the measles vaccination for your children has likely led to the death of 4 or 5 kids…this year. …whose advice is not worth the air he exhaled to speak it. He knows less than he thinks, uses no science in his evaluations but he meets his followers confirmation bias. Honestly he should be horsewhipped for the damage cause by his unscientific “advice”.
So now we get to do an experiment: Kids who get no fluoridation in their water…dental health vs whatever the current claim is for the negative effects of fluoridation. In about 10-15 years we will see….even though the evidence is already there to see from the past. And the kids will be harmed by the lack. Ask your dentist next time you go in for a checkup or cleaning. He or she will tell you that they can tell right away if you grew up with fluoridation or not by the condition of your teeth.
If ever there was an example of failure
In Woke and Democrat/Liberal policies, Albuquerque is it….
Seems that crime is so out of control, what with drug use and homeless encampments and the crime and violence that they both bring, that they are mobilizing the National Guard to help the local 5-0 to bring it under control.
The democratic states largest (also heavily democratic) city has an illegal problem, a drug problem, a homeless problem and an overall crime problem….
Liberal and Woke policies are just not getting it done, are they?