Category Archives: 2017 May

Facebook & Google: The New Faces of Big Brother

FK – This won’t work unless the average dumbass gets off google, youtube and fakebook with the rest of us.

Their obvious goal is to sweep us off to some dark corner of the net where the sheeple will be afraid to tread because the authorities warned them about ‘those extremists.’

The Imperative of Replacing Google and Facebook

The killer bees of fake news

Who deserves to vote?

As they’re doing with mainstream weaponvision:

ABC Accused of Playing Politics In Canceling Tim Allen Hit ‘Last Man Standing’

ABC Besieged by Boycott Calls After Cancelation of Conservative Tim Allen’s Hit Show

FK – Gee, are ‘conservatives’ finally learning to stand up to the propaganda stream? Pity they don’t really understand what they’re really up against or what will be required to fix this mess if it can be fixed.

If Allen supported Kasich in the primaries he’s not a ‘conservative.’

SJW Laci Green takes the Red Pill?

FK – Let’s see, on the one hand you acknowledge they only want our capitulation then you claim we need ‘dialogue’ with those who have proven over multiple decades they will keep lying to our faces and keep expecting us to pretend they’re not lying when they know full well we know they’re lying.

Huh?

WE ARE AT WAR! Yes, some can be ‘red-pilled,’ many will have to be exterminated. Simple sad fact. We’ve had the net for 20 years now. It’s easy to learn how evil the twin evils of socialism and gun control are yet our domestic blood enemies, our greatest enemies, keep trying to shove both down our throats at the point of a govt. gun. Does this tell you anything?

The questions that matter are ‘Who is originating and funding the propaganda that spews out of the SJWs’ mouths and what is its real purpose, to destroy ‘the right'(those who wish to be free) or the ‘left'(those who wish to enslave everyone) or both?’

Her original vid:

FK – Waking up is a process. I’ve been doing it for 20 + years. Think ‘enlightenment’ without all the new agey horse crap. The fight for human liberty is the pinnacle of human endeavor.

Think the bumper sticker commies like that reads: ‘Question Authority’ then think ‘What does one do when authority refuses to be questioned?’ Protest? No, they’ve already refused to be questioned and protesters are being thrown in prison, which can happen here as is happening to those in Europe who dare to question why fundie ragheads(and think how indoctrinated you are in PC that you don’t like that description of those who adhere to an ideology that is completely antithetical to all western civilization, and feminists, supposedly stood for) are being imported in large numbers, put on welfare and allowed to breed.

Your generation is possibly the most indoctrinated in authoritarianism in modern history, surpassing even places like Cuba or the ‘former’ Soviet Union or even N. Korea. Simple fact.

You’ve been taught to hug the whales and the trees and the sexually degenerate and instantly fully hate anyone who questions these edicts, closing off your minds and ears to all reality. Simple fact.

I grew up during the ‘sexual revolution’ and it wasn’t. Human biology still demands much of the same insanity our so-called ‘morality’ always has. We’ve gone in the opposite direction for the last several years thanks to the ‘right’ and the ‘left’ so-called. Now it’s the ignorance of abstinence because of the fear of a sadistic god vs. the ignorance of calling obvious birth defects and mental illnesses ‘happy, healthy and normal.’ How absurd.

All politics is violence since all government is force hence voting is the most violent act anyone can participate in since you are electing someone to hire someone to stick a gun in your neighbor’s face and force your particular brand of human insanity down their throat at the point of a govt. gun.

If nothing else ‘free speech’ is telling others what they don’t want to hear and not being forced to lie in order to save their feelings or their particular system of authoritarianism. Personally I’m sick of all sides expecting me to lie for them.

What must be done – A manifesto of the ‘isms.’

The idea of ‘harmful speech’ is abhorrent to human Liberty since our Bill of Rights, the document that makes us exceptional, forces our governments to acknowledge the most basic right we posses: To fight back against and kill them when necessary.

Our nation was founded by ‘subjects of the King’ who killed their government’s employees to improve human Liberty. It is a process that history proves and is proving now will have to be repeated. Lose sight of that and you have the sad pathetic situation we have now.

If your generation ever grows up, and it seems unlikely, they should seek out those who taught them their ‘feelings’ are more important than human Liberty and drag them to whatever tree or light pole is handy and hang them until dead.

‘Social Justice’ is a commie/globalist phrase created to control your minds. It’s only really meaning, like ‘democracy,’ is another form of manipulation.

I think of what the ‘apostle’ Paul allegedly wrote about his education before his conversion which was loosely: “I count all I learned before as dung.”

Your education/indoctrination by the mainstream/govt. schools and news/entertainment media was mostly dung. And that’s mostly because of all the important stuff they hid from you. And it’s obviously a far greater crime than was committed on my generation.

We’ve had the net for 20 years. It’s easy to learn how evil the twin evils of socialism and gun control are yet our domestic blood enemies, our greatest enemies tell the same re-hashed lies and arrogantly expect us to pretend they’re not lying while shoving both of the aforementioned down our throats at the point of a govt. gun. How long does it take for you to catch on?

Once again my standard answer to such:

Let’s make amerika free again!

Are we ready for the outcome of voting for the lesser of two evils, and eventually getting more evil than we can handle?

Is there a militia force in your county yet? Why not? Are you afraid of the ‘m’ word that’s in the Second Amendment?

The patriot newbie guidebook

The Bill of Rights is what we’re fighting for.

Who’s our greatest enemy? Those who build the Trojan Horse or those who open the gate?

Nothing will get better until we stop worrying so much about the fundie ragheads and start rounding up and at the least deporting our real enemies, our domestic enemies.

So who or what is our real enemy? A tiny no. of fundies who manage to kill a few mush heads now and again or our own white home-grown “Liberal”(commie) trash that works relentlessly to disarm and thus fully enslave millions?

What will we do when a commie SCOTUS rules it’s OK for the “Liberal”(commie) trash, our real enemies, to demand we ‘turn them in?’ How many cowards will comply? Those are the questions that matter.

What’s an ‘illegal gun?’ Those two words are nowhere to be found in the Second Amendment. A right applied for is a privilege.

Was the last ‘mass shooting’ site a ‘gun free zone?” Why are commiefornia and others still ‘may issue’ states? Why do we seek ‘permission’ to exercise the most basic right any creature possesses, that of self defense?

If the Marxist mutt and other commie extremists that call themselves ‘liberal’ and ‘progressive’ tell us to surrender our weapons and thus our most basic right, they’ll find out what blood really is.

The most important ‘private property’ anyone owns is their own life, health, safety, and no one, anywhere, anytime has the ‘right’ to take that from them or deny them their most basic right, that of self defense.

We all get the elected public servants the brain dead sheeple deserve.

I’ll vote for the candidate that will bring the troops home, activate the militias, and re-invade and re-conquer commiefornia and the other commie enclaves on the left and East coasts.

They’re not ‘leftists,’ ‘liberal’ or ‘progressive.’ They’re communists/globalists. They want us disarmed so we can’t kill them when enough finally wake up to the necessity of doing so.

Our Liberty is dying because of our failure to hunt the “Liberal”(commie) and globalist trash to extinction.

What must be done – A manifesto of the ‘isms.’

Don’t understand my bad attitude? Start here.

Governments will always be able to get guns so we must always be better armed than them.

Act politically but prep for what history shows will have to be done. It’s way past time to prep for what will be required.

Rules for the militia

And once again, I’m proven right:

FK – Help? It needs a straight jacket.

What we have here is one insanity vs. another. As usual.

What to teach your kids

Trump as click bait, and other things…

Was the Civil War About Slavery?

FK – Now I know prager u is controlled opposition.

What percentage of southerners or southern soldiers owned slaves? What percentage of Yankee soldiers and officers were slavers? What did most of their letters home say about this? Read ‘The Life of Billy Yank‘ and ‘The Life of Johnny Reb.’

What happened when Lincoln issued the ’emancipation proclamation’ that only ‘freed’ the slaves still in territory controlled by the Confederate Army? Kentucky officers almost mutinied because they proclaimed “That’s not why we’re fighting.'” Many of them owned slaves. They were fighting to ‘preserve the union,’ by force. What are you if can’t un-volunteer for something you volunteered for? Are you no less a slave than those who picked cotton?

Read ‘The Real Lincoln.’ The republicrat party of that time was the original party of big govt.

Why did the Yankees invade the southern states? To ‘save’ the slaves and ‘free’ them? What absurdity. Only a child would think that as ‘racist’ and ‘supremacist’ as most ‘whites’ were at that time that they set out to kill 600,000 white soldiers and thousands of civilians to free the black slaves. The hard corp abolitionists were a minority like most political activists of whatever time period.

Did the big plantation owners who controlled the governments want to preserve slavery because it was the only economy they knew? Of course. By today’s standards they’re ‘evil’ but slavery had existed through all human history and still exists. See my column link below. We are not free here.

The slaves weren’t freed until the 13th Amendment was passed and they were raised into another form of slavery and then through the 14th Amendment we were all lowered into that same form of slavery.

As with all conquerors, our own empire, the Yankees who only won because they did have a larger industrial base and population and were taking recruits straight off the boats from Europe, and the ancient tribalists who killed the pagans for their ‘promised land’ an excuse has to be generated for all the death and destruction after the war as in “We fought for democracy, to free the slaves or to take the land promised to us by ‘our god’ regardless of what those other peoples’ gods had to say about it. WE WON so we must be right!

Might always makes right doesn’t it? The victors always write the history books and indoctrinate the next generation of soldiers so they’ll be good killers for the empire.

The uniform doesn’t give you credibility: The empire’s military hasn’t fought a war for Liberty since 1865 and the bad guys won that one.

And now that I’ve watched most of it, I”ll blatantly write you’re a lying sack of shit and proud killer for the empire and the banksters that run it. War is a racket.

I’m a vet, do ya’ want to thank me?

The patriot newbie guidebook

The Bill of Rights is what we’re fighting for.

The purposes of gods and golden rules

As always, we’re fighting the wrong war:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W3Qy_Nmq1I

FK – We should’ve kept the troops home from Korea and Vietnam and had them kill the commies here first.

And from my must read/watch page:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn2ELZ8dC40

FK – Hey, it was on Fox News so it must be true right?

This Guy BLISTERS TV Audience With Massive Truth Bombs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKlw2sQuXfk

FK – Well he certainly wasn’t on the commie news network. So what do purposes do the brits have for letting him run his mouth in such a manner? Not that I disagree with much of it.

The real reason for Armageddon?

The patriot newbie guidebook

The real reason for Armageddon?

BREAKING: Syrian War And The Battle For Golan Heights – Genie Oil & Gas Exposed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSkmtpQen2o

FK – But gee, I thought the next war over there, the ‘war to end all wars’ was going to be about whose sadistic god gets to burn the vast majority of humans that ever existed alive in fire forever, including babies and kids?

Billions will be disappointed if it’s not about that.

Russia wins energy war in Europe after EU surrenders on Nord Stream 2

How Information Is Controlled by Washington, Israel, and Trolls, Leading to Our Destruction

FK – I call them the unmentionables.

In a free country there’s no such thing as a group whose motives cannot be questioned. When we have that we have a serious problem. We have a serious problem.

The Tea Party’s National Security Threat

The killer bees of fake news

The purposes of gods and golden rules

What is an ‘anti-semite?’:

What Every Girl Needs To Hear

FK – The truth is that you’re still making generalizations and leaving out a lot of ‘truth’ most sheeple and people don’t want to speak of.

I once had a Saudi solider show with his hands, his finger snugly inserted into the fingers of his other hand, why he wanted to know if I had a 16-year-old cousin I could sell him. I felt he was serious.

Our biology stems from the cellular need to reproduce that evolved in some pool or jungle where larger cells struggled to eat our ancestors before they could divide or where the strongest primate had the biggest harem.

Once another male actually told me, in so many words, it was OK for him to have multiple partners but his partners damn well better not. But a lot of men don’t want to put up with the amount of bullshit necessary to deal with such a situation. I never had that kind of patience.

It amazes me to some degree that we still don’t seem to be able to talk properly about ‘sex’ decades after the so-called ‘sexual revolution,’ Every generation of teens seems to go through the same thing. They’re biologically primed for something their parents and societies are usually in denial of and thus they aren’t taught how to make love without all the bullshit. From one set of nuts they get ‘abstinence’ and now from another set of nuts they’re told it’s ‘normal’ to have two mommies or two daddies.

We went from no sex ed decades ago to something a little better than a sterile form of biology class in my day to the current insanity of multiple fluid genders in any one being at any given time. It used to be that guilt only came from either doing it or not doing it well enough. Now it’s from not being accepting of whatever insanity comes along next.

My grandmother who was raised in the horse and buggy days tried to instill in me the biblical injunction to marry a ‘helpmeet,’ someone to cook and clean and pop out babies while I went off to the factory as my parents did to earn a check and pay for the trailer. You can damn well bet I wouldn’t have grown richer doing that. But then I’ve never understood why the working poor want to reproduce anyway.

You’re a very attractive intelligent young woman. Perhaps you can argue you were born rich. Many can’t and be honest with themselves, that may be why a lot of them find it easier to sit on the couch and comfort themselves with chips and soda or whatever or harder more dangerous substances.

Men usually have to choose between ‘settling’ for someone who may or may not be a good ‘helpmeet’ or maybe being one of the lucky few who are smart or disciplined or driven or dishonest or whatever enough to make a lot of money while still young and then be lucky enough not to marry a gold digger who may physically represent his dreams but otherwise be a nightmare in the bedroom and the courtroom.

Chasing that younger woman thing as part of some middle age crisis often does cause the first wife to end up rich.

Those young would-be studs who try to act like that early primate with his harem have to remember that in modern society 30 seconds of pleasure can earn him 25 years of child support court.

The crazies won’t be helped by the culture war or ‘Waking up is hard to do’

The purposes of gods and golden rules

Overview of the Secret Space Program – Crunching the #’s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD4r7qP0OLw

FK – I’m too disgusted about too many other things to be that upset about ones and zeros floating in someone else’s cyberspace. That’s all it is anyway. I’ve just seen too much.

War is not always voluntary

In February or March of 2001 I attended a militia meeting where we were told via connections with government agencies to expect a major event in August or September of that year with major changes in our national law to be passed afterward.

At the very least they knew 9/11 was coming and they let it happen.

Trump as click bait, and other things…

The killer bees of fake news

Disclosure, or exopolitics is now a thing…

The purposes of gods and golden rules

The purposes of gods and golden rules
Barry Bright May 5, 2017

As usual, this got me started:

The problem with the ‘golden rule’ is that most sheeple and many people don’t mind being slaves to one form of authoritarianism or another and thus have no problem voting their neighbors into the same slavery.

‘Everything won’t just ‘work out,’ because we let morons vote. We also let sheeple vote for a check or a job or some other benefit and we let whores enhance revenue and protect the state and its laws for a check and a retirement plan and we let our soldiers go to foreign lands to kill for democracy and power and resources and one insane philosophy or another that says its god should be the one to get to burn billions, including little kids and babies, alive in fire forever.

Things ‘worked out’ in this country for 200+ years as the slaves hoed tobacco and picked cotton and in the Soviet Union where 70 million, more or less, were murdered by human ignorance.

Everyone who ‘believes in’ a divine being is ‘religious,’ can’t have one without the other. Once you say “There’s a divine being,” you usually start asking what it really is and really wants which history shows leads to all kinds of problems.

Not that religion doesn’t have its purposes, the elites have always used it as a way to keep the slaves working while waiting for paradise in the next life.

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Still works. Before or after that the priests who usually work for the kings, or vice versa, set about writing down ‘the rules‘ all the plebes have to exist by which of course usually include “Obey the magistrates appointed over you because they were appointed by god,” and “All that happens is ‘god’s will‘ anyway so you may as well show up for work today,” and “Pay your taxes, to Caesar, or whatever, cause all god wants is your soul,” and on and on. Get the idea?

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What especially amuses me are those who don’t live any more of a ‘christian’ life than my dog does, who will jump out of their pants to defend a belief system that obviously doesn’t mean much at all to them except as a way to escape eternal punishment or to gain ‘eternal life,’ whatever that might really mean.

I’ve read the new testament‘ a couple times and have been studying it more lately, and those parts of the ancient tribal propaganda I can stand to read, and the more I learn of it the more absurd and disgusting it becomes to me.

It’s really funny how the alleged writers of the new testament couldn’t agree on the genealogy of Jesus or on what happened after his alleged resurrection. How our own governments do the same basic thing the ancient Hebrews or whatever did, call on god or our modern god, democracy, another false god(and don’t miss the comments on that link), in the process of murdering those whose land and resources we seek to obtain or obtain for others.

Most sheeple and people have a very simplistic view of what their chosen ‘belief system’ is or is supposed to be and often can’t cite a single verse of the ancient tribal propaganda of whatever tribe to prove their version, sub-version or subversion one way or another.

The slightly smarter believers can regurgitate a few words of scripture or maybe carry on a real conversation about their theology but still refuse to acknowledge that it is what it is: a collection of writings, fiction, mythology, legend, propaganda, made up or slightly ‘based in real events’(like a modern movie or novel) over a long period of time by people who shared a similar mindset, that of seeking to control others and the world around them and create a more perfect world order under their version, sub-version or subversion of what ‘they’ consider to be ‘right’ or ‘moral.’

I call this the busybody gene. We see it in religious folk and in communists and fascists and in all sorts of other isms.

We do need basic laws and all governments seek to enforce a basic morality, usually for the benefit of the state and those who run it. The elites always consider us to be livestock. There is nothing more important to understand than that.

The purpose of the law‘ should be to keep real criminals out of society’s mainstream. Thus we should have a militia force whose sole purpose is to closely watch/regulate the governments and send elected, hired and appointed malefactors to the work camps when they seek to enslave us. We need police who understand their first allegiance is to human Liberty and our Bills of Rights. We need soldiers who know the same and who will uphold their oaths and put the liberty of the people before corporate profit.

We need to bring the troops home and have them hunt our real enemies who have long been here for our domestic blood enemies with white skin do not simply disagree with us they are waging war on human liberty and our Bills of Rights.

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Waking up is hard to do and I sometimes wonder if our life spans weren’t shortened so that too many wouldn’t exist long enough to figure things out.

Long experience has shown me that often all one has to do to be labeled an asshole or ‘know-it-all’ is to act as if one attempts to know anything at all. The average sheeple would rather die than think or take on personal responsibility for the world around it.

And far worse is that rare individual who has the courage to say what will be required. Few on the ‘right’ or the ‘left’ can stomach this, especially since their stomachs are so full nowadays of steak and ice cream and the processed foods that fill our over-stuffed super markets.

When our Founders wrote of the ‘pursuit of happiness’ I think they meant it was an individual choice, not an idea of what happiness should be enforced from above. Those who seek to enforce their idea of ‘happiness’ on all deserve no respect, whether they do it at the point of a gun or at the threat of eternal punishment. Simple truth.

However we do have to ‘educate’ or rather indoctrinate each generation of blank slates, children, in a love of Liberty or they will fall into the same trap humanity has sought to escape since someone invented a ‘new cave order’ by rolling malefactors around in the fire for all to see.

It’s hard to worry about one’s ego when one is sitting in prison for breaking some law written by some authoritarian or another that forbade possessing some thing that they didn’t think we should possess. Whose ‘ego’ is winning then?

Ever notice that a lot of ‘higher thought’ or ‘morality’ is just stuff someone made up according to whatever situation they found themselves in? Nowadays we have shelves full of ‘self help’ books and an internet full of memes that illustrate this beautifully.

What should we already be doing about it so we can live in a free country they lie to us and tell us we exist in, when we so obviously don’t?

What are we but little bits and pieces that we pick up over time? A sad fact is most struggle their entire existences in this world to pick up as little as possible. I’ve long had a natural curiosity, and I developed a natural distrust of anyone who expects me to ‘believe’ what ‘they’ would have me believe simply because they claim it’s ‘right.’

As a teenager that had attended a rural southern Baptist church all my life I got tired of seeing my peers get ‘re-dedicated’ and re-saved by a god they obviously didn’t really understand and would probably never put forth the effort to while the adults were telling me obvious bullshit because to them I was still a child, or in reality, because the average adult is still a child.

I remember one cousin, after we had reached legal age, if I remember correctly, discussing the rural folklore that claimed the cattle in the field bowed down at midnight on Christmas Eve. I don’t know of anyone who ever went to look.

An age old irony of so-called human civilization is that in our efforts to become civilized, if indeed that’s what most even seek, we can’t fathom that the height of civilization is to learn to leave others the hell alone and that would include not forcing others to lie about what they think we are or do.

Religion’s ten teachings

The real golden rule is to not do to another what they don’t want done to them unless they have proven themselves incapable of existing among others without harming others or their property.

But I expect it’ll be a long time before the tool-using monkeys get smart enough to apply it on a regular basis. Religion is really cultural, in the way ‘the scriptures’ are interpreted and lived in each generation and in each individual. I’ve sat around enough campfires listening to various versions, sub-versions and subversions to know this to be true.Image result for common laws of all religions

Change is coming, however slowly.

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It’ll probably take a few more wars over resources or power or over whose sadistic god will get to burn billions alive in fire forever before they figure it out.

The Teachings shared by all religions

15 Great Principles Shared By All Religions

And then we have the illusion that some systems will ever ‘co-exist’:

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Antifa Chick Goes to Turkey With Muslim Loverboy, Gets Raped and Beaten

FK – So why do we tolerate this trash, I mean the trash that wants to let the fundies in our country so they can(maybe) get them to vote commie(for a govt. check)????

Even mainstream ‘conservatives’ are finally seeing what I and others have been screaming at them for years:

America’s Second Civil War

FK – I’m not sure how much ‘ego’ will have to do with that.

And it’s still one insanity fighting another for the control of the hearts and minds of the human species.

And of course he misses the fact that the ‘first’ civil war was the last war fought over Liberty and the bad guys won and we’ve been reading their history books ever since.

I really like what this guy had to say(from the comment section mentioned above):

Brazen Heist LetThemEatRand Feb 18, 2017 8:42 PM

So then Plutocracy is the right word, a subset of Oligarchy.

The problem must be human nature down to its core. I’m always fascinated with how human psychology changes between the individual and the collective. Man as a collective creature behaves much more irrationally, as the collective IQ drops substantially and man feels part of a group, thus exonerating himself of responsibility and sense. A sort of halo effect. As you say, we have collectively allowed the usurpation itself.

People collectively look for a sheperd. People give up their power too easily in a group. Also self-interest has always been a problem, the “agency problem”. Democracy, like Communism, is proving to be too ideal given our behaviour. We are also far from ready for Anarchism, which is kind of alot like Communism if one really thinks about it, except there is the anarcho-capitalist flavour which I prefer. But I’ll admit, humanity is not yet ready for that either. We can’t even handle Captialism. All these are ideals, but the Hegellian Dialectic has trapped us into a pendulum from one extreme to the other. And here we are swinging yet again. When one gets tired of the predictability of the pendulum, you start trading on it and making money out of it.

Democracy, like religion, is another form of manipulation:

The word they used was ‘unalienable.’

And don’t miss this segment:

FK – Remember when the official deficit was less than a trillion dollars?

The SCOTUS is NOT the final arbiters of our rights. WE ARE!

And from another ‘democracy’:

The false God of democracy: why we need an unelected House of Lords

Two Bizarre (drowning)Deaths at Bohemian Grove

FK – What, you’ve never skylarked with or succored the lads?

To be ‘fair’ if that’s possible in this, sheeple and people at that time saw things differently. Kids were ‘taught to swim’ by simply throwing them in the water and if they successfully dog paddled to shore they were considered to be swimmers, and could maintain this falsehood their entire lives unless they ran upon a situation where it was necessary to float, at which point they likely drowned.

The dynamite doesn’t surprise me either. They weren’t as squeamish in those days. Some of them may have been veterans and had thus seen far worse things than a mangled drowned body.

On the other hand, I wouldn’t put anything past them since they consider us to be livestock.

And to be clear on a point: If you don’t learn how to relax and float you can’t swim and will begin to sink once you lose the energy to tread water or fight your way across the surface, which is what non-swimmers are doing.

Again, if you can’t float, you can’t swim. If you’re in water over your head and run out of energy to tread water or fight your way across the surface, which is what non-swimmers do, then you will sink and die.

What to teach your kids

All of which has put me on a tangent: Can you float like a pancake?

FK – Most kids of that age are naturally not afraid of the water. But if they can’t float they can’t swim and can die!

There’s no excuse for not drown proofing kids:

FK – Babies are natural floaters. I’m not convinced that some of them won’t have to relearn the skill as they get older unless they grow up around the water.

What am I saying? This planet is 70 percent water. Kentucky has more miles of running water than any state except Alaska. Swimming is one of the most basic survival skills.

And for the grownups who may be old enough to be afraid of the water:

FK – There’s no excuse for anyone of any age not knowing how to swim.

And more on floating:

FK – I was taught to float and get used to having my face in the water by holding onto the edge of the pool in shallow water and turning my head and breathing as if doing the freestyle stroke. It can take time for some.

Learning to overcome the impulse to panic is the key, as with all things. Panic in the water and  you die. For those who are a little more daring: