Those Were The Days, My Friend ...

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/webreturn/?url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.1: | 13 January, 2007 | self

[GVNR]

"My poor grandchildren will never know the country I grew up in."

You're right. Mine won't either.

How CAN we describe what the 50's were like - the innocence - pretty-much the "leave it to beaver" life, the afternoons on a bicycle, the warm summer evenings sitting outside on the porch just looking at the stars, the playing in the street, the neighbor kids getting together and doing - doing - whatever popped into their minds, and then finally realizing that it was getting late,- - - - - - going home to mom's cooking, having a nice warm bath and plopping into bed and falling asleep with the windows open and the front door unlocked, and then.....and then waking the following morning and starting-out on another day's "new adventure".

I fear that there won't be anything TO read that accurately says what America WAS. It will probably be referenced as failed-capitalism - doomed by the greed of the evil rich.

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I can close my eyes and see all the things you described that filled my childhood. Me and my sister taking off in the morning after eating breakfast, her riding on the handle bars as I peddled. If we got thirsty on our journey to anywhere, we just knocked on any door and asked for a drink of water. They'd tell us,'come on to the kitchen' and we'd follow them.

I'm sure there was bad back them but we didn't hear about it or see it. We lived and played in an innocent time.

There was one rule they made us obey, and we never broke it, It was always the last thing we heard mama say, "be home by dark".

What a glorious age that was to be a kid in.

[GVNR]

I have to wonder if anyone "a year or two younger" read these last couple comments and wondered if they were indeed true.

If any of you "out there" did read them and wonder:
The answer is yes.

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Yes, it's true. A bygone era. *sigh*

[El Gato]

Those who will not be constrained by the Constitution of the United States will not be constrained by anything

You think they would be constrained by a 700+ grain .50 caliber bullet traveling at around 2,500 to 3,00 feet per second?

It's no wonder many of the sponsors are also big time gun grabbers.

[Lancey Howard]

[El Gato]

Boon we'll be forced to print handbills on manual printing presses in our basements under the threat of execution if caught.

As long as even using manual presses was illegal, might as well use laser printers. In for a dime, in for a dollar.

[El Gato]

This one needs to be shouted from the rooftops, or that option may be taken away too!

Why that would be easy. Shouting from rooftops is dangerous. You might fall on a child. Gotta ban that. [/sarc

[philetus]

As long as even using manual presses was illegal, might as well use laser printers."

Modern printers will all have a implanted chip that sends copies of everything to the D.A.C.S.(Dept. of American Citizen Surveillance).Any attempt to remove or deactivate it will detonate a miniture neutron bomb and you will be fined $5000.00.