Favorite Holiday Flicks

I was looking around the internets to find more holiday film goodness to put on the Netflix lists. I found many that I had totall6y forgotten in addition to all the yearly traditionals that are aired on television.

One film in particular I had been wracking my brain to remember the name of... all I could remember was that it was somewhere in the Scandanavian countries and had some skates in it. In a stroke of luck I googled Holland+Skates+movie and ended up having the entire first page dedicated to the film and the book it was based upon. Go figure.

The film in question is Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates. Technically it may not qualify as a christmas film, I do not recall if it just occurs during the winter. However, I do remember feeling the holiday goodness & cheer while watching it, which may be the Disney Effect.



Anyone else remember this classic?

What are your favorite holiday films?

WIC some good, some bad

Got the following snippet from a Minnesota based paper. My major issue with this is that the people fighting the plan aren't fighting it in the correct manner. Instead of blocking fruits, vegetables and whole grains they should be fighting so that these three are ADDED to what WIC already provides. I remember WIC, I remember the end cheese and whatnot. A better balanced food allowance is a wonderful idea but the fact that they want to cut what is already provided in order to allow for additional options... I remember what a WIC check looked like. It explicitly lists what types of food, down to brand names and package sizes. What? So instead of a pound of cheese a gallon of milk some frozen concentrated juice cans and a dozen eggs you only get a half of each of those so that you can get a loaf of bread and... How are they going to designate the fruits and veggies? Canned and frozen only, nothing fresh or organic. You have to have money for fresh and organic.

Maybe I'm just bein cynical.

EDIT: This adds a little more information to the following article. Mainly questioning the ability to split a check two ways - it is either all at a supermarket as is traditional or somehow being able to have an item by item sign-off by various suppliers to the WIC consumer. Then you put the burden of the extra travel to various locations in order to get what you want. Travel cost increases are not viable to people who need WIC to feed their children.

Summary Box: Dairy farmers fret about losing money from WIC

The Associated Press


A NEW DIET: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing adding fruits, vegetables and whole grains to the Women, Infants and Children program, with the aim of offering more healthy foods.

NOT EVERYONE'S HAPPY: The proposal would mean less dairy products, eggs and juice - and less income for those industries.

FIGHTING THE PLAN: Dairy farmers, eggs producers and juice makers have come out against the proposal. The USDA hopes to finalize the proposal by next September.

Got Breast Milk?

They kicked the woman off the plane for feeding her baby? So what if she popped a breast out for the kid to latch on to, if it makes you uncomfortable DON'T LOOK. It isn't that breasts are sexualized, they've always been sexualized, it is that they are over-sexualized and objectified as ONLY being about sex. Like men own women's breasts. *rolls eyes* WTF?!

Breast-feeding moms protest lactose intolerance


Babies at the breast, protest signs close by, nursing mothers staged "nurse-in" demonstrations in airports across the country yesterday rallying behind a woman ordered off a plane for breast-feeding her daughter too openly.
"I truly hope it does get the message across," said Becky Fontana, 29, nursing her 4-month-old daughter as she sat cross-legged on the terminal floor at Burlington International Airport.
About 25 women turned out here, parking themselves near a Delta Air Lines ticket counter in a peaceful — but not-so-quiet — demonstration mirroring those in airports in Boston, Columbus, Nashville, Tenn., Harrisburg, Pa., Hartford, Conn., Albuquerque, N.M., Louisville, Ky. and elsewhere. In all, more than two dozen demonstrations were planned.
Some of the women carried hand-lettered signs saying "Don't be lactose intolerant" and "Breasts — Not just for selling cars anymore."
"We're not here to blame anyone," said Chelsea Clark, 31, of Fairfax, wearing a "Got breast milk?" T-shirt as she nursed her 9-week-old son at the Burlington airport. "It's about raising consciousness about our culture's sexualization of the breast. Breast-feeding needs to be supported wherever and whenever it happens. Babies don't know the meaning of 'wait.'"
On Oct. 13, Emily Gillette, 27, of Santa Fe, N.M., was ordered off a Freedom Airlines flight about to take off from Burlington International Airport after a flight attendant asked her to cover up while she was breast-feeding her 1-year-old daughter.
She had been sitting on the New York-bound plane — which was three hours late departing — when she began nursing, prompting the flight attendance to hand her a blanket. When she refused it, the female flight attendant had her removed from the plane, along with her husband and child.