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Summer Day Camp In The Country

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

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What is summer day camp, to a young person? If you’re an inner city dweller, it’s a center possibly in the local school yard playing city games on the concrete school yards or table tennis and basketball (indoors or outdoors) and stickball or handball. The fantasy of that city child is to have a day camp they can go to, with trees, grass, lakes, wooden cabins, picnic grounds and other such non-every day amenities that kids in the country kids have. The country kids have their backyards and woods that they can explore but sometimes envy the city kids for their culture and what they consider their city cool attitude.

So what is the right way to satisfy that young person living in your life, in the country? I would say a day camp to get them out of the house away from the electronics and that provides activities that can have them interact with their peers in their own age groups and gender.

Expand their personal relationships and exposure to other children with diversified backgrounds and develop self discipline, enhance their education and expand their inter-personal skills. A well established Summer Day Camp in your area has this type of basis to build upon; it should have a reputation of experience and also extend its reputation for serving the local and surrounding community with its needs. It should provide the young person with a list of physical activity to challenge and improve the young person’s physical abilities.

This type of activity should be fun for the young person also. Activities like canoeing, swimming, and water skiing are some of the activities that help develop individual awareness, as well as teamwork. Team sports like soccer, baseball and other strong team building activities should be offered as well.

Friendships and life long memories will be made. If you as parents both work consider a quality, established day camp for your children that’s convenient or nearby and has a good reputation. Summer Day Camp represents more than just a summer experience, but rather a lifetime of memories. Kids attending Summer Day Camp will enjoy a wonderful experience. Summer Day Camp will provide your child a wide range of both new skills and practical knowledge and enrich their lives, and supplement their year round academic school skills with complementary activities focused on physical fitness, art, music, culture, nature and other productive forms of creativity.

“I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.“ ~ Leonardo da Vinci

Global Warming or Global Change

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

You would think that if Paul Harvey was alive he would call this “THE REST OF THE STORY”.  Anyone with half a brain should call it “THE END OF THE STORY”.

W32xI received this message from  friends that are much more informed and have more credentials in climatology than me. These people pointed out to me that we should “Follow The Money!” This means that when the “Crisis” of Global Warming (now referred to as Climate Change) goes away, these people (i.e, Al Gore) will no longer be in the spot light and cannot continue to collect millions from our government coffers.    My only request is that you watch this informed video at least one time and that you try to keep an open mind.

Do YOU have an open mind? Is this climatologist from Western Washington University totally uninformed?  He is the founder of The Weather Channel.  I DARE you to watch and learn!

Click Here to listen to John Coleman Meteorologist/Founder of The Weather Channel.

Respond with your opinion after viewing.


Freedom and Socialism Don’t Mix

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

 

One of the consequences of such notions as “entitlements” is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
  Thomas Sowell quotes (American Writer and Economist, b.1930)

 

   “Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed, and in hell where they’ve got it
  Cecil Palmer 
 

Freedom and Socialism Don’t Mix

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For more than fifty years American presidents and Congress have attempted to mix socialism with our capitalist system to make it fairer. We have taken a lot of the candy earned by top performers and created federal programs to distribute candy to those who didn’t earn it. But socialism and capitalism don’t work well together. Socialist policies dramatically increase government spending and debt, siphoning wealth and productivity from the private sector. Government intrusion into the free market has under mined personal responsibility, reduced incentives to work and save, and insulated people and businesses from the consequences of bad decisions.

It is actually quite amazing that there is any debate in America on the value of freedom versus socialism. The collapse of the Soviet Union was a definitive rejection of the principles of a socialized economy and culture. China and India were backward economies until capitalism began to raise the standard of living for its citizens (although China doesn’t accord their people a democracy or human rights). There is no example in the world or the standard of living of their citizens. There is no example in the world or from any time in history where the principles of socialism actually worked.

 

What is your opinion, please answer this question:

   Are you willing to relinquish or give up your freedom for a pound of sausage?

  1.  Yes
  2.   No