We're due for a breast feeding discussion

[Diemen]

Your question first, I guess.

I never give what?

Is reading the links frustrating?

Editorial, 2/1: Fast track breast-feeding bill

This is the issue, though, IH. People ask you a direct question, and you post someone else's thoughts as your answer. I don't think you intend to, but it comes across as evasive and indifferent towards others (now granted, you are not the only one guilty of this by far).

In a discussion, it promotes a healthier exchange of ideas if the participants are willing to take the time to formulate and share their own thoughts on the matter, particularly in response to questions asked of them, rather than simply copying in someone else's thoughts on the general subject.

 

[PhilsFan]

Your question first, I guess.

I never give what?

Is reading the links frustrating?

Editorial, 2/1: Fast track breast-feeding bill

A link is not an answer. I want an answer from you.

 

[the iron horse]

A link is not an answer. I want an answer from you.

What is your question?

 

[PhilsFan]

What, do you want me to make a list of all the questions I've asked that you've dodged? Christ.

 

[deep]

I looked back in this thread and you never asked anything,

But ... you don't read. Ever. You skim and then ask vague questions that require you to type no more than two sentences.

You've never given a legitimate response to anything that's been posted in your direction. It's frustrating.

A link is not an answer. I want an answer from you.

where is your question?


your posts look more like harassment (directed at him), maybe I am missing something

 

[PhilsFan]

I don't think I did ask him anything on this subject.

I certainly don't think it's harassment to point out the inherent flaws of his posting style in hopes that he'll start conversing on the actual topics at hand instead of drive-by linking to some ass-backwards blog post.

 

[the iron horse]

A link is not an answer. I want an answer from you.

What is your question?

 

[PhilsFan]

I have questions for you in a number of other threads. Start with the "conservative case for gay marriage" thread. Ideally, answer Diemen's question in that thread, post number 494 on page 33. Or mine, post 496 on the next page.

 

[the iron horse]

I have questions for you in a number of other threads. Start with the "conservative case for gay marriage" thread. Ideally, answer Diemen's question in that thread, post number 494 on page 33. Or mine, post 496 on the next page.

Can you remember one of your questions?

I will try to respond tonight.

I'm on dial-up here and will be off-line this coming weekend.

 

[the iron horse]

Can you remember one of your questions?

I will try to respond tonight.

I'm on dial-up here and will be off-line this coming weekend.

Back to the topic:
Why Breastfeeding is Important << Breastfeeding << womenshealth.gov

 

[deep]

First Lady Encouraging Breastfeeding in Battle on Childhood Obesity

by Althea Fung
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 | 8:51 a.m.

First Lady Michelle Obama will highlight breastfeeding as a way to reduce childhood obesity in her "Let’s Move!" campaign, Politics Daily reports.

Obama will not directly ask mothers to breastfeed, but will encourage those who choose to, her communications director said, citing the sensitive nature of the issue. Let’s Move executive director Robin Schepper told Politics Daily that Obama wants to make breastfeeding easier for mothers to do outside the home.

A study published in the journal Pediatrics found babies who were breastfed for the first four to six months of their life were less likely to be overweight or obese than children who were formula fed and began eating solid foods before their fourth month.

In a push to get more women to breastfeed, the administration has also advocated for more feeding-friendly offices and the Internal Revenue Service last week announced it will offer a tax break on purchases of breast pumps and other nursing supplies. As part of the landmark health care reform bill the president signed into law in March, certain employers are required to give nursing mothers a break and a place to pump milk for the first year of the baby’s life.

The first lady is also encouraging hospitals to provide better care for infant feeding as part of the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund's "Baby Friendly" initiative.

In these times of budget cuts
Obama wants to include new tax cuts for breast feeding.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Washington (CNN) - Rep. Michele Bachmann, a potential Republican presidential candidate, is taking issue with Michelle Obama over the first lady's recent promotion of breast-feeding.

Speaking to conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham Tuesday, the Minnesota Republican said Obama's efforts to promote breast-feeding and the IRS's announcement that nursing supplies that aide in the practice can be deducted from tax returns amounts to a "new definition [of] the nanny state."

"This is very consistent with where the hard left is coming from," Bachmann told Ingraham. "For them, government is the answer to every problem."

"I've given birth to five babies and I breast fed every single one of these babies," she added. "To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies? You wanna talk about the nanny state, I think you just got a new definition."

The comments come on the heels of Obama's recent contention that breast-feeding can play a key role in reducing childhood obesity.

"We also want to focus on the important touch points in a child's life. And what we're learning now is that early intervention is key. Breastfeeding. Kids who are breastfed longer have a lower tendency to be obese," Obama told a group of reporters last week, according to Politics Daily.

"Breastfeeding is a very personal choice for every woman," Kristina Schake, a spokeswoman for Obama, later said. "We are trying to make it easier for those who choose to do it."

 

[BVS]

 

[corianderstem]

Ugggggggggggggh, never mind.

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

So, wait, I'm confused-she says she's breast-fed her babies and yet she still objects to Mrs. Obama promoting that very activity? Huh? Am I understanding that right?

Angela

 

[BVS]

So, wait, I'm confused-she says she's breast-fed her babies and yet she still objects to Mrs. Obama promoting that very activity? Huh? Am I understanding that right?

Angela

The government shouldn't promote health.

Except when it's a Republican, when their NOW hero Reagan and his wife promoted health it was good government, when a Democrat promotes health it's bad socialist.

This is the tea party logic. Try to follow along if you can.

 

[the iron horse]

The government shouldn't promote health.

Except when it's a Republican, when their NOW hero Reagan and his wife promoted health it was good government, when a Democrat promotes health it's bad socialist.

This is the tea party logic. Try to follow along if you can.

"The government shouldn't promote health."


I agree.

 

[Diemen]

"The government shouldn't promote health."


I agree.

Care to explain why? I'm having a hard time finding any downside to governments encouraging healthy living choices.

 

[the iron horse]

Care to explain why? I'm having a hard time finding any downside to governments encouraging healthy living choices.

It's not their business to be messing with my food choices.

It's not in the U.S. Constitution to limit the salt in my oyster stew.


I'm still trying to understand why some seem to love giving a central government more and more power over our lives.

 

[PhilsFan]

Do you have a problem with the government giving people information?

 

[the iron horse]

Do you have a problem with the government giving people information?

Do you have a problem with people questioning what the government tells them?

 

[PhilsFan]

Do you have a problem with people questioning what the government tells them?

No. I do have a problem with people questioning things the government say simply because it's the government and not because of any actual argument of merit.

 

[the iron horse]

No. I do have a problem with people questioning things the government say simply because it's the government and not because of any actual argument of merit.

Did I do that?

 

[Canadiens1131]

I'm on dial-up here

Cable company didn't want to run broadband access all the way out to the unibomber shed?

 

[maycocksean]

It's not their business to be messing with my food choices.

It's not in the U.S. Constitution to limit the salt in my oyster stew.


I'm still trying to understand why some seem to love giving a central government more and more power over our lives.

I feel you man.

Just today the Secret Police busted into my house threw out my overly-salted chili.

"On Obama's orders" apparently. That's what they said, anyway.

Will nothing stop this overreaching, oppresive government:?

 

[anitram]

It's not in the U.S. Constitution to limit the salt in my oyster stew.

Dump a kilo of salt in your oyster stew and eat it 5 times a day, nobody gives a shit!

 

[Canadiens1131]

"The framers were wise in their generation and wanted to do the very best possible to secure their own liberty and independence, and that also of their descendants to the latest days. It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies. At the time of the framing of our constitution the only physical forces that had been subdued and made to serve man and his labor, were the currents in the streams and in the air we breathe. Rude machinery, propelled by water power, had been invented, sails to propel ships upon the waters had been set to catch the passing breeze -- but the application of steam to propel vessels against both wind and current, and the machinery to do all manner of work had not been thought of. The instantaneous transmission of messages around the world by means of electricity would probably at that day have been attributed to witchcraft or a league with the Devil. Immaterial circumstances have changed as greatly as material ones. We could not and ought not to be rigidly bound by the rules laid down under circumstances so different for emergencies so utterly unanticipated. The fathers themselves would have been the first to declare that their prerogatives were not irrevocable. They would surely have resisted secession could they have lived to see the shape it assumed."

- Ulysses S. Grant
The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

Word, y'all.

 

[PhilsFan]

Did I do that?

Yes. You do it quite frequently. You just did right there, with the salt on your oyster thing.

 

[BVS]

It's not their business to be messing with my food choices.

It's not in the U.S. Constitution to limit the salt in my oyster stew.


I'm still trying to understand why some seem to love giving a central government more and more power over our lives.

The government has not messed with your food choices. You've never shown ONE example of them doing so.

I'm still trying to understand why you don't understand this issue.

 

[Canadiens1131]

The government has not messed with your food choices. You've never shown ONE example of them doing so.

I'm still trying to understand why you don't understand this issue.

He works in education, I think the local public school board has probably threatened to replace Tastycakes Powdered Donuts and Pizza Hut Wednesdays with communist choices like garden salad.

In which case, he's welcome to try and find a job with a private school that believes in his personal value system. What freedom of choice he has! What a country!