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• Man Asked to Remove T-Shirt Because of Quote From Popular ‘Princess Bride’ Movie

  January 24, 2013 at 10:48am

  Just bought my son this t-shirt for Christmas. It’s his favorite. People need to lighten up. Do you really think that this guy was going to have a t-shirt made to announce evil intent on a flight? Really?

• Tiger Mom Vindicated! Daughter Gets Into Harvard, Proving Chinese Mothers Are…Superior?

  April 2, 2011 at 9:34am

  In reply to BlazingBlonde.

  Did you read the book? I don’t know about you, but their lives sound like a living hell that they all got used to. The academic success of her children is undeniable, but the screaming, crying, and yelling in the house does not sound like something ANYONE should have to live through.

• Tiger Mom Vindicated! Daughter Gets Into Harvard, Proving Chinese Mothers Are…Superior?

  April 2, 2011 at 9:31am

  In reply to Conserving Ink.

  Exactly. We just read her book in our book club and I was struck by a couple of things:
  1) Her children did seem to achieve a high level of success in multiple areas.
  2) The success of the tiger mother’s methods came at the cost of childhood freedom.
  3) The cycle of pushing the child to succeed followed by an adulthood of pushing the next generation to succeed led to a lifetime without a lot of pleasure.

  I think there has to be a happy medium here somewhere.
  That said, I just volunteered in my youngest son’s first grade classroom about a week ago for math games. I brought small groups of children into another room for fifteen minutes of games. In one group, two of the children both commented that they are both of Chinese heritage. During the game, the one Chinese boy (David) turned to the Chinese girl (Emily) next to him and said “What’s 6*1″? She turned to him and laughed and said “SIX”. The first graders often use easy examples like this, so I joined in and said “What’s 256*2″?. Little Emily promptly started figuring the answer out in the air in front of her. As I watched her carried the 1, I realized she really DID know multiplication, and she gave me the correct answer. Not to be outdone, David asked for a problem, which he also answered correctly. All this, as the rest of the group was struggling to add the values on two dice without counting the spots. I asked David and Emily how they knew how to do multiplication, and David told me that he does pages and pages of rote math every day after school, and that, furthermore, multiplication was what he did in kindergarten and he was on to bigger things now.

  All I can say is that they must be soooooooo bored in first grade.

• Update: Oprah’s ‘Family Secret’ Has Dad Baffled

  January 24, 2011 at 10:35am

  In reply to Kimberli.

  I don’t know about evil, but I am done with Oprah for a variety of reasons. I was a pretty big discovery health watcher but now will not even let my tv hesitate on that channel for fear of boosting her ratings. I hope she will get off her soapbox and go away soon.

• Socialized Medicine Epiphany: Universal Healthcare Questioned by….Rosie O’Donnell?

  January 5, 2011 at 12:54pm

  In reply to thegr8restoration.

  My sister-in-law is aboriginal Canadian and has a number of family members that struggle with severe obesity. Her uncle died from complications of diabetes, so when his son got to the point where his diabetes was out of control, kidneys were starting to shut down, etc. the doctor told him he would need gastric bypass or he would be dead in short order. That said, they put him on the waiting list for the surgery and told him it would be in excess of three years. He came down to Wayne State University Medical Center here in Detroit and was told he could have it within a month or so. He has since lost the weight and returned to being a healthy young man. Who knows what would have happened if he hadn’t been able to do that….

• Socialized Medicine Epiphany: Universal Healthcare Questioned by….Rosie O’Donnell?

  January 5, 2011 at 12:26pm

  In reply to Puddle Duck.

  This is not just with regard to “elective” surgery. There are priority lists for EVERYTHING, it seems. My mother and father-in-law waited several years without a family doctor because they are elderly and were smokers. When a new doctor would come to town, they had the townspeople who wanted a doctor fill out an application. Those selected for further thought were then interviewed. The doctors didn’t want the people that might cost them time and effort.

  Currently, my father-in-law is waiting for his turn at radiation therapy for the stage 3 lung cancer that it took six months to diagnose. Most of the time elapsed was spent waiting to make it to the top of the list for the test. The PET scan that he needed took a very long time because of his age and lack of priority.

  This doesn’t just happen with the elderly. One of my best friends called me one day and told me (during the health care debate last year) that she would volunteer to make commercials warning people about the Canadian Health Care System. She had just spent six months waiting for a gynecology appointment after being diagnosed with a prolapsed uterus in the emergency room. She said that she could feel “something” hanging out of her and was in a terrible amount of pain, but she was told that there was a waiting list of prolapses and that hers wasn’t the worst out there. Their advice was to do something like Kegel exercises to keep it from falling out all the way. When she finally saw the gynecologist, it turned out it wasn’t a prolapse at all, but a tumor in her uterus. The pain stemmed from the fact that her uterus was contracting trying to expel it and couldn’t because it was still attached. She did get her surgery to remove it the next day though!!!

  Little things that we take for granted are just not part of the health care system. I have had two family members go to Canadian hospitals with broken appendages, only to be told that the radiologist went off duty at 5, and could they return the next morning? My brother’s finger was so mangled that he got in the car, drove to Detroit, and had it surgically repaired there (he is an American who just vacations in Canada).

  The most ironic thing I find is that whenever I have had to take my children for care in Canada, the first thing they do is make you pay BEFORE they give you care if you don’t have an OHIP card. My son was unconscious, vomiting relentlessly, and so dehydrated that his skin was staying pinched in little folds and no one would even look us in the eye until the VISA rang through. Our friend’s brother had his leg broken in several places and needed emergency surgery in Quebec and they would not care for him in any way until they wired $10,000 to them. Why don’t we take THAT part of the Canadian health care system and apply it to all the illegals who show up to give birth in our border hospitals?