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I Feel Like I Time Warped to the 1970's.
Myself | 5-17-2014 | Myself

Posted on 05/17/2014 11:06:41 AM PDT by Nowhere Man

I had a thought a while back and decided to post it:

There is a side of me that feels like I time travelled back to the 1970's. Let's face it, like then, we have a horrible economy, an inept President, gas (and energy in general) prices are high, we have a weakened military, Islamic radicals causing trouble, the Russians are invading their neighbors and we have Jerry "Governor Moonbeam" Brown as governor of California.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 1970s; economy; jerrybrown; obama; seventies
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To: Nowhere Man

I see what you did there.


101 posted on 05/17/2014 4:55:17 PM PDT by Salamander (Black Ace Dog Handler)
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To: Nowhere Man

Last horse race I ever watched.


102 posted on 05/17/2014 4:56:39 PM PDT by Salamander (Black Ace Dog Handler)
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To: Hoodat

Anyone who doesn’t think that video is the shit is...just...well...dead to me.


103 posted on 05/17/2014 4:58:16 PM PDT by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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To: Nowhere Man
I didn't have one either....but I'm makin' up for it, big time...>:-)


104 posted on 05/17/2014 4:58:42 PM PDT by Salamander (Black Ace Dog Handler)
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To: Hoodat

didn’t they do “American Band”?


105 posted on 05/17/2014 5:02:08 PM PDT by ealgeone (obama, borderof)
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To: Nowhere Man

I haven’t been in a mall in literally years. Even then, I only used to go there to keep my kids occupied.

At the heart of it, I think it’s the antisocial atmosphere - from the clerks to the loudmouth, pushy, rude clientele dressed like slobs.


106 posted on 05/17/2014 5:03:15 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: FlJoePa

Zombified...so much better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzlky9Klu4I


107 posted on 05/17/2014 5:03:51 PM PDT by Salamander (Black Ace Dog Handler)
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To: Hoodat

Just heard “Limousine Driver” by GFR on the radio today. They just don’t write ‘em like that anymore


108 posted on 05/17/2014 5:04:41 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Salamander

Or not.


109 posted on 05/17/2014 5:07:33 PM PDT by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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To: FlJoePa

There’s just no pleasing you.

:-P


110 posted on 05/17/2014 5:09:29 PM PDT by Salamander (Black Ace Dog Handler)
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To: ealgeone

One of the albums I probably played the most during my high school years was LRB’s “Backstage Pass” Live Album....Great Stuff, they recorded most of it with a symphony orchestra. I’ve been searching high and low on iTunes for it.


111 posted on 05/17/2014 5:26:52 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Hoodat

Mel, Don and Mark.....Hell, Yeah!

People forget just how huge these guys were in the 70s.


112 posted on 05/17/2014 5:28:30 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Hoodat

Best GFR story, was when they opened for Zeppelin, Peter Grant threatened their manager and told them they couldn’t tour anymore with them because they were blowing Zeppelin off the stage.


113 posted on 05/17/2014 5:32:09 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
LRB had some of those songs that made you think as a teenager. “Cool Change”, “Reminiscing”come to mind. Now if I could just find a early model Mustang with a cassette deck we're really going back!
114 posted on 05/17/2014 5:43:35 PM PDT by ealgeone (obama, borderof)
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To: ealgeone

My favorite was “It’s a Long Way There.”


115 posted on 05/17/2014 5:45:31 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: blueunicorn6
The 1969 Jets/Colts Superbowl preceded all the things in your first paragraph.
116 posted on 05/17/2014 6:06:55 PM PDT by kitchen (Even the walls have ears.)
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To: dfwgator

Grand Funk concert, upstate NY, five bucks. Sweet.


117 posted on 05/17/2014 6:07:08 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Nowhere Man
Obama gets a partial pass on the Shuttle retirement. It was obsolete and at the end of its useful life because, among other problems, the insulation on the Shuttle's miles of wiring had begun to crack and shed. To keep the Shuttle in service would have required waiver of its scheduled inspection and recertification for manned space flight, making for a near admission that it was no longer safe to fly.

The real point (which you may well recognize) is that after retirement of the Shuttle and Obama's cancellation of Bush's Constellation program, NASA no longer has clearly identified, ambitious manned space flight goals around which to gather political and public support and plan and budget the development of missions and suitable new hardware.

Obama's proposal to have astronauts chase near earth asteroids offers little challenge or inspiration. Such a small goal does not stir our sense of adventure and demand useful new technologies in the way that manned Mars missions and a permanent base on the Moon would. Obama seems content to let NASA founder and have Russia and China lead mankind into space. It is as if, after discovery of a new hemisphere, Columbus was told to stay home and conduct coastal patrols around the Spanish peninsula.

118 posted on 05/17/2014 9:42:03 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: greene66

70’s weren’t so bad....remember all the patriotic celebrations for 1976?...the Tall Ships?....my wedding?...the birth of two of my children?....


119 posted on 05/17/2014 10:20:34 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Nowhere Man

The difference is this: in the 70s, as liberal as the media was, they knew and reported that Carter was a failure.

The media today, obsessed with race and sexuality, refuse to trumpet the truth about this abject failure Obamugabe.


120 posted on 05/18/2014 5:12:20 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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