Glad she has her priorities.

What a twat.

I hate to say it, but there are some things on the second page that I agree with. Students are getting too mollycoddled and need to be biatch-slapped more often.

Father Jack Hacket: I hate to say it, but there are some things on the second page that I agree with. Students are getting too mollycoddled and need to be biatch-slapped more often.

I agree there. Still, I don't think that yoga classes are a bad thing.

Michelle Malkin and tag? I hope Subby is wearing kevlar.

How the hell did she get out of the kitchen again?

vernonFL: Still, I don't think that yoga classes are a bad thing.

MANDATORY yoga classes? Come on!

Sadly this is just the tip of the iceberg....

Yes, I'm sure yoga is replacing math on the class schedule and not being taught as part of a PE curriculum.

Michelle Malkin - stupid = 0

Dancin_In_Anson: vernonFL: Still, I don't think that yoga classes are a bad thing.

MANDATORY yoga classes? Come on!

Sadly this is just the tip of the iceberg....

Make it part of gym class. Make yoga the warm up to actual physical activity. Yoga has proven benefits. mandatory, but as a part of something that should be done anyways.

Father Jack Hacket: I hate to say it, but there are some things on the second page that I agree with. Students are getting too mollycoddled and need to be biatch-slapped more often.

What does this have to do with secularism or yoga?

Dancin_In_Anson: vernonFL: Still, I don't think that yoga classes are a bad thing.

MANDATORY yoga classes? Come on!

Sadly this is just the tip of the iceberg....

Mandatory is just silly. Can't they just have a segment of gym class on Yoga?

Let's play spot the logical falacy. I'll start. Here's a slippery slope argument:

Why stop at yoga? Tantric chanting, here we come. And, hey, Kabbalah has done wonders for Madonna. Let's add hypnotism and acupuncture classes while we're at it. Hot stone massages? Bonsai tree-clipping? No Relaxation Technique Left Behind!

Didn't Hitler have issues with multiculturalism?

/godwinned baby

Hey Michelle,

And I hope you get ape raped by this guy:

*Shrug* She's a hateful biatch who realized she could actually make money pretending to be offended and then just being herself. Nothing to see here.

This is typical! You knew that sooner or later the Feminazis, hippies, and teacher's unions would get together to teach our children stretching and breathing techniques!

What's next!? Requiring kids to go to some sort of exercise classes where they will be forced to do things like play ping pong or climb ropes! The nanny state has clearly destroyed personal responsibility!

While I don't have a problem with Yoga as an exercise form, are they really going into the pseudosciencey mystical babble bits of it? If so, which the Times article doesn't state, then for once I agree with leechface Malkin.

goletaal: Glad she has her priorities.

Doesn't everyone?

Those who whine about this forget that in high school gym class, we all had to do some inane exercises or participate in games we don't like. It's called school. Get used to it.

/dodge ball, anyone?
//still traumatized from being taught square dancing in elementary school

/thinks malkin sucks

Waah! It's not like it was when I was a kid! Kids dress funny! They do strange things! Change is all around me! WAAAAH!

FTFA:
And here I thought high-school principals should make schooling, not "bringing the culture to a healthier place," their top priority. Silly me. Welcome to your new nanny-state nightmare.

Kids taking a Yoga class is my new nanny-state nightmare?

I have never thought of it being as bad as being hanged, drawn and quartered. Just goes to show what I know.

Yeah, this really throws a monkey wrench into the right-wing agenda of perpetual fear and anxiety. Sane, clear-headed, rational voters are like kryptonite to Republicants. How can Big Pharma (no relation to Big Poppa)expect to profit from natural stress relief?

Rapmaster2000: This is typical! You knew that sooner or later the Feminazis, hippies, and teacher's unions would get together to teach our children stretching and breathing techniques!

What's next!? Requiring kids to go to some sort of exercise classes where they will be forced to do things like play ping pong or climb ropes! The nanny state has clearly destroyed personal responsibility!

Taking away games like dodgeball? Nanny state.

Forcing gym on students? Nanny state.

Heh.

So wait, who's the neocon and who's the libtard in this case?

I've seen fundy types go ballistic over yoga in public schools before. Not sure what the problem is. Are they afraid of folks getting all relaxed?

Yes, authentic Indian yoga is religious. But the yoga that's taught over here is bastardized and Americanized, it's just exercise and relaxation. I've never heard of large masses of Christians becoming Hindus or guru worshipers because they took a yoga class.

Her heritage looks pretty multicultural to me and she says some mad shiat...

As long as Michelle Malkin still offers the "happy ending" I guess her opinion is valid.

/nah... STFU

Michelle Malkin has a horizontal vulva.

A Party member...is supposed to live in a continuous frenzy of hatred of foreign enemies and internal traitors, triumph over victories, and self-abasement before the power and wisdom of the Party. The discontents produced by his bare, unsatisfying life are deliberately turned outwards and dissipated by such devices as the Two Minutes Hate, and the speculations which might possibly induce a sceptical or rebellious attitude are killed in advance by his early acquired inner discipline...called, in Newspeak, crimestop. Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.

- Orwell

For a minute there, I was incredibly happy at the thought of high school chicks doing yoga. Then I remembered it was Boston area chicks, and I was sad :(

/seriously, ugliest farking chicks on the planet

clifton: Taking away games like dodgeball? Nanny state.

Forcing gym on students? Nanny state.

Heh.

You don't get. Yoga sounds like yogurt. Yogurt is a food that nannies feed to babies.

Thus yoga is something done by nannies. Your total obliviousness to this claim shows you are nothing but an evolutionist secularist. If you don't like America, you can get the hell out.

wow. dnrfta, but I guess I can be considered a secular extremist?

that's pretty cool. watch out for those crazy seculars! if you piss them off, they may just shrug it off.

/was VP of the Secular Student Alliance in college.

//keep your rosaries off my ovaries!

///im a dude.....the above is what the girs would say.

goletaal: Glad she has her priorities.

I'm sure that Graeme Frost's family had a restraining order, restricting her from their neighborhood. Afterall, she was stalking the poor kid.

She's moved on to greener pastures.

Christian fundamentalists generally seem to think yoga is a direct route to demonic possession. Of course, they also used to think that about the suggestion that the earth revolved around the sun and not vice-versa.

Is it my imagination or do headlines with Boston in them seem to get more than their fair share of greenlights?

Does anybody know if this is true and if so, why?

Egalitarian: I've seen fundy types go ballistic over yoga in public schools before. Not sure what the problem is. Are they afraid of folks getting all relaxed?

Yes, authentic Indian yoga is religious. But the yoga that's taught over here is bastardized and Americanized, it's just exercise and relaxation. I've never heard of large masses of Christians becoming Hindus or guru worshipers because they took a yoga class.

Because they think yoga = religion. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. It is religion to them. Mostly because they are idiots

I have just started to practice qigong and even then, I haven't really seen anything that is incompatible with christianity

The lady doth protest too much.

Man, this is almost as good as her post attacking the vaccine that prevents cervical cancer ("My Children aren't going to have sex! Why should I be forced to get them this vaccine?").

Dancin_In_Anson: MANDATORY yoga classes? Come on!

And it's worse than MANDATORY dodgeball how?

And here I thought high-school principals should make schooling, not "bringing the culture to a healthier place," their top priority. Silly me. Welcome to your new nanny-state nightmare.

Where did he say that it was the top priority? It's pretty easy to destroy an untenable argument that you invented.

Michelle Malkin looks like she was drawn by a marginally accomplished 8th grade art student



"You've done an outstanding job, Cameron, however the eyes are different sizes and the mouth is sort of off to one side"

tweekster: Because they think yoga = religion. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. It is religion to them. Mostly because they are idiots

So yoga is religion. But having the Ten Commandments on the wall is not.

Hm.

She's so hot.

What's all this I hear about Yoda being taught in our public schools? The Star Wars series are enjoyable films, but this sort of pop culture has no business in our public educational system. Do they teach the kids to play with their lightsabers too?

Emily, that's yoga, not Yoda.

Oh, that's different. Never mind.

Doesn't she have any brain damaged children to bully?

While Michelle Malkin has a right to say pretty much whatever she wants, I can't quite figure out why anyone listens to her....

Why is she so angry? Sounds like *someone* could use some yoga herself. Chill out, lady. Unwad your panties.

At least we know what time of the month it is at the Malkin household.

zalasur
I was horribly picked on in 2nd-9th grade, especially PE class. Illinois required square dancing as part of PE. Therefore, square dancing was especially horrific.

Then I moved down south where PE requirements were less stringent, probably for lack of funding. I had to take one year of PE and when we got to square dancing, I was one of the few kids who had done it before. Blissfully easy in comparison to a year before.

\Except for the PE teacher/football coach being my dance partner and squeezing my arm a little too hard
\\some years later, he got busted for having sex with a cheerleader