Comments on: Thursday Morning

By: Jillian

Jillian — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:02:36 +0000

I just watched the segment on the swim club incident in Philadelphia. I have been a lifeguard for 30 years and it sounds like the swim club was not prepared to have this program at the club. They only had 4 lifeguards on staff when the children arrived which is definitely a safety issue. It sounds like because of the “last minute” arrangements of this program led to not being able to staff the pool properly. They would need at least another 6 more lifeguards to staff the pool program with the extra 65 children at the pool. The club probably realized it was a safety issue and was not able to accomodate this program. Ms. Wright said that they had 8 staff members there with the children, but that is irrelevant. Number one, how many of the 8 staff memebers were lifeguard, first-aid and CPR certified ? Number two they are not on the payroll at the facility which is a liability issue.

When a pool manager is given the schedule for the summer at a pool, they hire enough lifeguards to staff it properly with the programs on the schedule. Adding a program with 65 children is very difficult to do at the last minute because of staffing issues which then become serious safety issues. Maybe the staff members who work at the camp should become lifeguard, first-aid and CPR certified to prevent situations like this in the future.

The swim club should have thought about the magnitude of 65 children in the pool with only 4 lifeguards on staff for the day before they said “yes”.

By: Brett Favre

Brett Favre — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:01:58 +0000

Three women donned scuba masks and jumped into the waters off Oahu’s North Shore, floating inside a submerged cage as about a dozen sharks glided toward bloody fish scraps tossed into the water by a tour company.

Tourist Kim Duniec said the experience of coming eye-to-eye with sharks was exhilarating. “Their eyes were scary, but they were still graceful, absolutely beautiful,” the Beaver Dam, Wis., woman said.

Shark tours like this have become a popular visitor attraction in Hawaii, but a movement is gaining momentum to shut them down.

By: Retro

Retro — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:49:24 +0000

Sarah Palin and her children have been attacked in the mist vicious ways I have ever seen any public figure attacked, EVER. If you cannot see that, Liz, you cannot see reality. Oh. Wait. Hmmm.

By: Mary Conner

Mary Conner — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:58:40 +0000

I am attending a Fort Worth Tea Party like every Free American should be doing! We are at war inside our own Country! Our rights and freedoms are being taken away from us without our consent by a man who can not produce his own LIVE CERTIFIED BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!!!!!!

By: John

John — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:39:35 +0000

BTW Liz if we attacked the Bummers childern like Sarah’s childern were attacked you would be screaming and you KNOW it.

By: John

John — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:34:17 +0000

liz you say we don’t get your sense of humor? I’m a conservative I’m not compassionate. TONGUE IN CHEEK You need smelling salts

By: Liz

Liz — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:13:29 +0000

John, you said….

I’m a conservative I’m not compassionate.

and that’s why we need liberals! (I am not a liberal, but you all think I am, so be it) I’m INDEPENDENT and I know we need both conservatives and liberals.

As for Sarah, she is not strong enough to survive the political waters. She has not been attacked half as bad as our president, but I think she knows she couldn’t take it if she was in his shoes, so she’s getting out while she can. I’m just surprised she didn’t serve out her term as Governor. I guess we can read all about it in her book.

By: charles barton

charles barton — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:06:24 +0000

Several PC makers were including controversial Internet-filtering software with computers shipped in China on Thursday despite a government decision to postpone its plan to make such a step mandatory.

Beijing’s decision this week to delay the requirement that the filtering software — known as Green Dam — be pre-installed or supplied on disk with all computers sold in China averted a possible trade clash with the United States and Europe. But the move by some makers to include the software anyway could re-ignite complaints by Chinese Web users.

Also Thursday, a government newspaper said regulators will revive the plan to make Green Dam mandatory at some point, a move that would disappoint opponents who hoped the government would drop the effort.

By: Retro

Retro — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:01:32 +0000

I think Sarah Palin is making a brilliant move. First, she defeats all the bogus ethics complaints. Then she shoves it. Since she IS ethical, she puts the state first and takes herself out of the picture so they can’t file any more harrassing complaints against her that waste everybody’s time and money. Now, she is FREE to raise money, network nationally, develop an international presence, and nobody can harrass her with these ridiculous expensive suits and the state is in good hands. I think she is just beginning. Personally I would like to see her run and win Senator first and then go for President. I think it is a smart move and she knows exactly what she is doing- she is faking out the fakers and haters. Go, Sarah!

Hi, carolynpro- we own a small business too; my heart goes out to you. I know the drill.

By: Sterling

Sterling — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:14:55 +0000

Cap, beautiful. Smooches to you! Enjoy your Independence Day, sir. Hope to see you here soon.

Excerpted from Cap:

“You all have a great 4th – today [3rd] was the day General Washington assumed command of the Continetal Army in 1775, in Cambridge; there is a humble cannonade under a tree on the Harvard campus where it occurred.”