Author Topic: The Polygamist thing... (Read 7520 times)

AtlLaw · « **Reply #150 on:** May 01, 2008, 05:19:40 AM »

Quote from: S.B. on April 30, 2008, 05:42:18 PM

T.R. I take exception to your statement and sent you a personal message about your misguided thinking?

Good! The courteous thing to do. No sense in another public fight of this nature. But please relax... heck! you should hear how some talk about Catholics!

On topic bit: Has anybody ever heard of that "brittle bone syndrome" they mentioned on the news as a possible reason for the inordinate number - if the number of broken bones is unusually large - of broken bones? I've only heard of it in old folk...

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #151 on:** May 01, 2008, 06:37:00 AM »

it seems the hardest thing for alot of people to accept is that other people have the same freedoms they do !

Broken bones , whats normal for a group of children , seems like when i was in school we were always writing on someones cast . Had one myself twice !

DalesCarpentry · « **Reply #152 on:** May 01, 2008, 06:39:57 AM »

I don't know the statics but I am sure less than 10% of children end up with a broken bone. Dale

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #153 on:** May 01, 2008, 06:44:55 AM »

where would you find a like group to compare ? would it not depend on location , sports played , work etc ?
i wouldn't venture a guess cause i don't know ! I find it counter productive to admit lack of knowledge then present a conclusion based on at best a wild azz guess ! but that's just me !

rex6666 · « **Reply #154 on:** May 01, 2008, 06:57:32 AM »

I don't know about the bones seemed high to me but i don't keep up with such. I spent some time
trying to look up the % of 14-18 year olds being pregnant, I could not find found 25 and down
and 25 and down % of abortions but not 14-18 year olds some say 60% is about right, Man that
sounds like lots to me. I am 60 years old sooooo i have not kept up much with what 14-17 year old girls
are doing other than acting and looking silly at the mall JMO $:-\$

AtlLaw · « **Reply #155 on:** May 01, 2008, 07:22:34 AM »

I didn't think the number of broken bones so unusual, among boys, either.

Quote from: rex6666 on May 01, 2008, 06:57:32 AM

I am 60 years old sooooo i have not kept up much with what 14-17 year old girls are doing

Me either, my granddaughters are a bit younger then that. But cummon Rex! Some 18 year olds find old men interesting! If ya got game!

DalesCarpentry · « **Reply #156 on:** May 01, 2008, 07:34:50 AM »

I also have tried to find statics on broken bone of children in the United States. This is really the only study I could find. According to this study 10% would be crazy high. Looks like it's time for another poll. Dale http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/4/3/194

myronman3 · « **Reply #157 on:** May 01, 2008, 07:50:04 AM »

TEN PERCENT!!!! that settles it!!! get out the ropes and let's start hanging people!!!!!

next we will hear that 50% had stitches at one point or another. the compound i grew up in, 100% of the boys had cuts so bad that they needed stitches!!!!

OMG!!!! of course, when you take the hype out of it, calm down, and look at it in an objective manner, all that means is that my brother and i both had stitches when we were kids. big deal.

rex6666 · « **Reply #158 on:** May 01, 2008, 09:49:32 AM »

the broken bone don't seem too high to me, i waited till i was 26-27 before i broke any, should have broke my neck a lot sooner, had some stitches it had to be bad to make the 22 mile one way trip just
to get stitches, put a band aid on it or wrap it up, first soak it in kerosene.
AtlLaw you do as you please, most of us boys will, but through the years i have noticed that most 18-20
year old girls were interest in old men as long as the old men had a pocket full of money or till the bar closed. just MY observation, your milage may differ.

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #159 on:** May 01, 2008, 10:19:24 AM »

funny how money works for women and beer for men !

AtlLaw · « **Reply #160 on:** May 01, 2008, 10:29:04 AM »

Quote from: rex6666 on May 01, 2008, 09:49:32 AM

most 18-20 year old girls were interest in old men as long as the old men had a pocket full of money or till the bar closed.

And I thought it was my good looks and charm!

Go ahead, burst my bubble...

AtlLaw · « **Reply #161 on:** May 01, 2008, 10:42:46 AM »

Oh, BTW, Dale's poll about broken bones, so far, 85% of those responding broke at least one bone before the age of 18. Now admittedly this is a small sampling, and those that frequent these pages are known to be unusually virile and enamored with the more active manly pursuits; men among men as it were. Nevertheless...

Dixie Dude · « **Reply #162 on:** May 01, 2008, 11:18:26 AM »

I have 7 children, and only one broke a bone while growing up. Skating, her elbow. I broke my wrist while fishing. Fell on some rocks on the side of the river. I am 54. So, the broken bones does sound a bit high at the compound. I have three sons who went hunting, fishing, tree climbing, playing sand lot football, etc, but it was my youngest daughter who broke her elbow while skating.

beemanbeme · « **Reply #163 on:** May 01, 2008, 01:31:51 PM »

Brittle bones could be a genetic fault. FYI, at one time the Pa Amish community had the highest incident of birth defects in the USA. They alleviated that by "arranging" marriages with Amish folks from other (West Coast for instance) groups.

I would imagine that in today's environment, it would be hard for a kid to break a bone falling off the sofa playing game boy and too, the diet of todays youths is better even with the obesity.

When I was a kid growing up (I'm 70), it seemed there was always somebody around with a cast on an arm or a leg.

S.B. · « **Reply #164 on:** May 01, 2008, 02:21:48 PM »

Personally, I try not to judge any other person. Maybe, it's time to end this condemnation of others without proof? Do any of you really believe anything the news tells you. or is this just something you want to hear?
Getting to sound like gossip!

no guns here · « **Reply #165 on:** May 02, 2008, 01:23:53 AM »

And now these damned Texas NAZIS have taken a newborn baby away from the mother! Their offenses and sense of the children being assets of the state seems to mount every day! Might as well have Hitler in control down there.

ngh

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #166 on:** May 02, 2008, 03:22:33 AM »

In reality they reunited the baby with the under age mother that was already being held !
NEXT MYTH ?

beemanbeme · « **Reply #167 on:** May 02, 2008, 06:57:10 AM »

What do you mean, SB, "getting to sound like gossip"? That is certainly giving them the benefit of the doubt. IMO, Its been a one dimensional media lynching (aka circus) since day one. The only concern of the media has been to keep their ratings up!

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #168 on:** May 02, 2008, 07:23:21 AM »

beemanbeme, ratings nothing more !

S.B. · « **Reply #169 on:** May 05, 2008, 03:11:28 AM »

This is how Illinois handles these cases:

http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/05/05/news/doc481e74ec84896225231526.txt

ruins peoples lives?

six_gunz · « **Reply #170 on:** May 05, 2008, 08:49:38 PM »

Quote from: S.B. on May 05, 2008, 03:11:28 AM

This is how Illinois handles these cases:

http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/05/05/news/doc481e74ec84896225231526.txt

ruins peoples lives?

"Mistakes are made, said DCFS spokesman Kendall Marlowe" ..... yes, but by the thousands?

That's just wrong!!!