What's that, the money's running low? I guess you need to park the drones, General. These kids are enjoying being fed.

K&R

Providing a good education for our children and taking care of our sick and elderly isn't the sort of thing that we have parades for in this country. If someone busts their ass and devotes their life to making sure that our own people are taken care of, they are usually underpaid and pushed out of the way for the veteran who fought in a BS war like myself.

It's all about priorities and it is obvious what is more important in this country. Hopefully my tone is obvious here, but we have it very wrong. Very very wrong.

(by the way, I was getting ready to basically say exactly what you posted here).

Rec

Thanks, DeSwiss.

Hate to break it to you but he is in fact a wingnut.

I don't watch the games anymore, but old habits die hard. So I watch the scores. Same with baseball (go Miggie!) and all professional sports for that matter.

I started turning off the teevee in 2001. By 2006 I was done with it. Now it just annoys me.

In 2009 I died for a few minutes in-between aneurysm surgeries, and nothing's been the same since I came back.

While I'll probably never suffer fools gladly (as my mother once described me as a child, to a friend), however, I don't harbor ill-will towards anyone anymore. I know there's no point in it.

- I can't explain to you why I know this, it's something we all have figure out for ourselves, in our own way, while on our own path.....

It comes on at 6. Sorry about your health problems. I hope things get better for you. I haven't been to Nashville in over a year even though it's a short trip. Take care.

that a lunch ought to be included as part of the school day, no charge to the students. From something I read not to long ago, it seems that when schools first started serving lunch, rather than sending kids home to eat, the meals were free, at least in many schools.

and children learn better when they're not hungry.

Poor kids who can't afford lunches and who are issued a "lunch ticket" of sorts because of their family income are usually too ashamed of looking poor in front of their peers to actually eat a free lunch. If you give free lunch to everyone, the people who really need a lunch won't be shamed out of eating it.

Being and appearing poor in this country is a very shameful thing. People will make the most irrational decisions and spend money on things to make sure that they don't look poor. For instance, notice how many nail salons and things like that are located in lower income neighborhoods as opposed to upper middle class neighborhoods. Also, notice that the people who generally earn the least have the best cell phones.

but at my elementary school, in the mid- to late-'60s, lunches were 25 cents, and morning milk (half pint) was 5 cents.

Are you still living in Japan and do you know how school meals are covered over there?

School lunches, which are called "kyuu-shoku", are provided in all elementary and junior high schools and are usually served in the classroom rather than in a lunchroom.　The information from the site below is a little outdated (it's from 2006), but it shows that the average monthly cost to parents for school lunches then was roughly $40 for elementary schoolers, and $45 for junior high students. (No doubt it's gone up since then)

http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/toukei/001/kyusyoku/07022018/001.htm

helps them think better.

to make this happen in my school district. I was on free lunch growing up, and it does carry a stigma. I skipped many a lunch because of it- not good for a growing kid. If all get free lunch then there is no stigma.

in Tennessee to all high school graduates which was signed in to law about a week or two ago.

lunch, and 2) the richer parents complaining about free lunches for the poor kids. This should be done everywhere!

they are already dumping the frozen slime people.
look for locally sourced, fresh lunches.

one thing i always tell about rahm- he knows his food issues.