Anonymous wrote:What ages do you think your kids enjoyed it the most? Or is it more for the adults?

We are thinking of joining one, kids are 6 and 10 and wondering how much they will use/enjoy it. DH and I are not golfers, we would be joining to be able to go as a family to the pool, tennis, etc. We would also like to host our friends there for dinner/drinks with their same-age kids.

I guess I am also wondering if kids will want to take their friends as they become tweens/teens.

Anonymous wrote:I'm 36 nearly 37 and need to decide asap if I want a third. I am easily talked into it, and easily talked out of it. I feel now in our circles people have 3 to prove something (wealth mainly) which annoys me. I can monetarily afford it, and I had 2 easy and healthy pregnancies. I am just wondering if I would regret it if I didn't. (For what it's worth I have 2 girls, 3&1)

Anonymous wrote:What is people's endgame here? It appears ceasefire + Israeli victory + no Hamas rule in Gaza.

Anonymous wrote:The Rape of the Israeli Women

So interesting - and disgusting that the progressive left has been completely silent regarding the many rapes of Israeli women by Hamas on October 7. Not just rapes, but mutilation. Apparently, it’s inconvenient for the progressive left to speak out about these atrocities against women committed by Hamas. Just repulsive.
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Several of those involved in collecting and identifying the bodies of the dead told the BBC that they had seen “multiple signs of sexual assault, including broken pelvises, bruises, cuts and tears, and that the victims ranged from children and teenagers to pensioners.” Video testimony of an eyewitness to the music festival, shown to journalists by Israeli police, “detailed the gang rape, mutilation and execution of one victim.” The BBC saw “videos of naked and bloodied women filmed by Hamas on the day of the attack.”

It happened at scale, as part of a pattern, and with a deliberateness that strongly suggests it was systematic. The rape, torture and mutilation of women looks as if it was part of the battle plan. Hamas used sexual violence as a weapon.

Why has the progressive left in the West, for two months now, been disbelieving, silent or equivocal about what Hamas did to women? One answer is that the progressive left hates Israel and feels whatever is done to Israelis is justified.

Why have women’s groups of the progressive left been silent? Because at bottom they aren’t for women; they are for the team.

Why is it important? Because it happened. Because it reveals something about the essential nature of Hamas and reflects its ultimate political goals. Progressives admiringly quote Maya Angelou’s advice that when people show you who they are, believe them. Oct. 7 was Hamas showing you who they are. Believe them.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-rape-of-the-israeli-women-october-7-hamas-gaza-progressives-c2a4cd38?st=v5xjk5x2mdmdm0x&reflink=article_copyURL_share

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Anonymous wrote:I have huge issues with Israel killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians as a response to the horrible act on 10/7. Deal with it, I really do not care what you think of me.

Where was this outrage over the deaths of civilians in Syria, in Yemen, in South Sudan? Didn't fit your personal truth? Oh yeah, and it didn't involve the Jews. But carry on internet person.