Posted on 12/23/2012 8:21:19 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
What has happened to my country? I am old. I am 77. I pay to live in a gated community because I am scared.
“Bravo Roberto” near my home serves from a cooked-from-scratch, delicious menu, items not bought from a food service truck, not served up by a chain restaurant that loads Americans up on heavy doses of salt to achieve its number one rating. In these tragic times, food, friends, family, God, prayer and Christmas are about all we have left. And “Bravo Roberto” serves up every day in Florida’s St. Lucie West a product we have allowed ourselves to be traded out of by the nasty liberals, the nasty Democrats, the
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Well yeah, its hard to imagine what you didn't experience. I grew up in the fifties and by comparison to anything since it was indeed a halcyon era. Leftists strive mightily to tell you it never was like that--"Leave it to Beaver" never existed they say. Well, no, mothers didn't do housework in high heels and pearls like June Cleaver but the rest actually happened.
Poeple went to church, went to work, joined Boy Scouts and played Little League, families saw movies together at the drive in, joined bowling leagues; left doors unlocked, cars parked along the street with windows open in the summer (no AC in most cars, but nobody even missed it) and keys hanging in the ignition.
Life for minorities was better then than it has been since, even though they have more money now, they have lost the community cohesion that kept them together, with intact families and lower crime rates.
The postwar era was perhaps the best time to come of age that America ever saw, and almost certainly will never see again. Almost overnight, as the decade turned to the sixties, the wheels began to come off, and we have never recovered.
I was up in the Tri-Lakes. Moved to AZ in 95 with my daughter. It was still rural here even then in a lot of ways.
But Tupper, Saranac and Lake Placid are now about destroyed so I hear. The ecos wrecked what was left of the logging industry (my families’ business for 100 years). Now it’s a hipster retreat with regulations for everything you can think of.
As has been said...damn those bastards to hell.
On MM...
As a side note I mentioned this the other day on a thread but it speaks to how utterly screwed up today is.
A while back on another board there was a discussion of women today vs. the past. One of the younger guys said without the slightest hint of irony that Monroe was “a fat pig”.
Just how freaking screwed up is your sense of sexuality that one of the icons, one of what humanity once considered the top shelf of beauty is “a fat pig”?
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You’re right! It’s different and “you can’t go back.” I made the mistake of trying for 6 years after my husband died, but I couldn’t take it. Drove through Silver Bay where my father was born and raised and Grandpa’s house had been torn down and dorms were in its place. There is still a lot of wilderness, but Lake Placid and Lake George are nightmares (not that they were much better back in the day)! Essex County is drug-infested. There are frequent drug busts, homes are broken into, vacant houses have been burned, even the rectory in town was broken into and valuables stolen, and lots of stupid vandalism like destroying window boxes, flower gardens and park lights! All unheard of in my childhood.
There were soda fountains in NYC and no riot gates on the stores up until about 1969.
Then the communists took control.
You can still start a business, even if the takers’ll say jealously, “you didn’t build that”. You can buy a Glock and become proficient for the purpose of self defense for you and your family. You can start an IRA and invest your money for YOUR future. You can joke about the Wookie and joke about the concussed Hillary’s fat a$$ without repercussion.
These are the good old days. Cheer up, things will be worse.
Humble suggestion to all, run for public office.
IMHO, I don’t like walking off the field until the last out.
If you’re older, you have some wisdom to contribute.
If you get elected, you will stir up a bit of a hornet’s nest, true.
But why not ? Say something “crazy”, like the nation needs to turn back to God. Why not ? Do we not have a right to say that ?
Most of the people that held leadership positions in early America were relatively old for their time.
IMHO...
It screamed at me, "Remember when? Do you think we will ever be this cool again?"
When I left, Essex Co was deep into meth. The Jail in E-Town was pretty much at capacity with drug crimes. After the 80 Olympics, Placid took a rocket ride into the toilet. Saranac always was on the crap side and my beloved old Tupper just got wiped out. The mills closed/no jobs. Then they Turned Sunmount DDSO into a criminally insane facility. And the families, half insane themselves, followed.
Isn’t liberalism wonderful?
HA! Speaking of Rocket Rides! ;)
I’m 49 and still remember a lot of these things were around during my childhood. And you did not have the crime and pedos running around like you did today.
Mom was still a a mother and a housewife....and did that with much love, pride, and respect. And, being a real immigrant family (my mom and I, along with some brothers and sisters, born in Germany)...it was expected, and cherished, that we learn English. And that was in a town where most of the residents spoke only Spanish...until they learned English (unlike the English-Refusal and Aztlan/Reconquista nonsense of today)
And it was still a time when things were Made in the USA, not shipped from Communist China. I can still remember when one was verbally and physically corrected if they ever mentioned “Free Trade with Commie China is a good idea” (and we have a lot of NeoCons and RINOs joining the Liberals now with that nonsense).
Coke and Pepsi still had sugar...second-hand smoke did not harm you....and you did not have to ride your bike around wearing gay spandex and electric colored clothing
Yes so many changes since my younger years...and too many not for the good
Bravo.
Remember when Essex County ALWAYS voted Republican? Not anymore...it went to the dark side this time! Even Ticonderoga! I couldn’t believe it! I’m so glad I’m outta there. (But FYI, Tupper Lake is still very beautiful. I was just there in August.)
I was born in 1946. I remember good times and tough times. Nothing like now. This is not the nation I remember back in Eisenhower’s Presidency.
I’m surprised you didn’t need a permit to get inside the Blue line.
I remember when the democrats up there were to the right of Reagan. My grandmother used to get the Free Press sent out. A few years back it looked like a dogfight to see who could go left the farthest and the fastest.
And they actually and seriously wonder why....
Yes, Tupper is one of the most beautiful places in the continental US. All the ADKs are. It’s just not possible to live there unless you are either wealthy going in or willing to drop into poverty to stay. I think the pop is like 2500 or 3000 now. It was 5K when I was there. And that is a monster loss for an area that size.
And don’t even get me started on the ski area on Mt. Morris.
Bastards.
Beginning in 1968, Americans were afraid to go to bed because when they woke up they might find they were declared criminals in their own home.
It has become much worse since.
Going downtown on the bus. Going to the beach on the bus. Being out all day and no Amber Alerts. Grandmother taking the bus to go downtown.
Now you don’t go on the bus unless you want to get mugged, insulted, and have garbage thrown at you. Now you would never let an old lady go out into the jungle alone.
Applying for a job and getting it almost every time.
Now you don’t get the job because someone less qualified, but fitting a certain description got it. If you do get a job you have to pull your own load plus those of the slackers who got hired to fill a quota.
The savages have already won.
Went to a public school. The Christmas concert was filled with “religious” Christmas songs that would cause a major incident if sung now.
Silent Night, Oh Little Town of Bethlehem, The Dradle Song, even Oh Tanenbaum, and on and on and on.
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