Posted on 05/31/2014 5:25:39 PM PDT by Wage Slave
A year or so back we had a local case where police were called because a 12 year old was sitting in a car alone listening to the radio while her dad was inside the house taking a nap.
Why do I need a license to fish?
I love the Commonwealth, but much of our LEO is all about rai$ing revenue.
There is a reason why we are the only state that does not allow radar detectors.
Can I ask what road it was?
In ‘67 you could buy a Solothurn for under $200 and a Lahti for under $100 mail order. Now, the BATF would be camped out around your house if they knew you had one.
Don't detain an illegal alien for trespassing, littering or invading your farmhouse or the government will allow him and his family to sue you and hand them the deed to your property.
My grandfater bought 2 huge ovens from a Nabisco plant that closed down in the 50’s. Put then in the basement and grandma stated baking pies and selling them. No building permit needed to place the ovens in the basement, No food perosn inspector checking the house. no license to operate a commercial business., no zoning issue to operate a business from the home. With in a year or so her pies were being sold to evry family restuarant in our city. She was famous locally.. By the mid sixities evrything changed as more regualtions and zoning codes and licensing became nescessary. She said it was not fun anymore cost to much and wasted to much time. She folded it up..........
I don’t remember the name of the road but it was in Campbell County. Was that you??
“We’ve lost the choice to use incandescent lights in our homes.”
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Well, not really, but the government wants you to believe that.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/1/5263826/the-incandescent-light-bulb-isnt-dead
You have to wear a seat belt.
It was less than year ago on 460 in Campbell county that a motorist died when his car rear ended the car in front of him that had stopped at one of these revenue-raising checkpoints. Sheriffs eventually called it a suicide....
I remember back when that was voluntary.
It was a back road near Yellow Branch Elementary.
I didn’t know a male who didn’t have a pocket knife at all times.
My father, born in 1931, tells of the time he got a huge splinter stuck in his leg when he was about 7 yrs old. His mother handed him 25 or 50 cents and sent him on the trolley "into town" (Alabama) where the doctor pulled it out and then sent him home. Alone.
My mother, born in 1938, tells of the time during the "Detroit riots" that her (single-due-to-abandonment) mother put her and her sister (ages about 6 and 7) on a BUS eastbound to stay with family. They had a note in their pocket with an address.
For myself, personally, I can't remotely imagine putting my children in either of these situations. I don't know if this is an issue of "freedom", per se, but it's definitely an issue of the past innocence of our culture.
Oh yeah and every pick-up in the parking lot had at least one gun in the gun rack.
I don’t know how many laws have been passed where you are grandfathered in until a few years pass and you are no longer grandfathered.
Not that I have actually ever gotten a permit but you’re supposed to get one if you change your toilet. Of course, now I’m a criminal.
Used to be able to shoot off fireworks/ now, you can buy them, but not shoot them off anywhere that I know of.
Also, used to be able to sign up for a history course that taught you history.
Used to be able to elect a president who loved America and the Constitution.
Used to be able to watch the trading on the stock exchange floor from an observation window. Can’t get near it now.
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