[ConservativeMan55]

This was a mere 10 to 15 years ago.

[Impy]

Yeah that was one of my favs on SNL. I stopped watching SNL several years ago.

[NormsRevenge]

I remember a day when ya didn’t need a hazmat team of change a light bulb

And a day when the pollution on our shores was from us..

A day when a comic book was cheap.

I remember Fresh baked buns

And poppyseed kolachis..

And try to forget the lutefisk

Although.. We’ll soon sample Chinese air this fall..

We’ll see!

Ask Harry Reid about odors,he can smell a good real estate deal a hundred miles away, or so I hear.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

When people said "its a free country" and meant it.

When you didn't have to stop before every random act and think, "wait, this isn't illegal is it?"

[RginTN]

I remember when people were appalled if a president said he would act on his own and then said sue me but this week I heard two low info voters saying it was showed strength!

[BurningOak]

Don’t celebrate laughing at homosexuals. It was the first step towards acceptance of the lifestyle. Once it was an invisible subculture at best and unmentionable abomination at worst. Laughing at homosexuals with Will and Grace, Ambiguously Gay Duo, Brokeback Mountain jokes, and countless other goofy homosexual caricatures paved the way to same sex marriage in this country. Humor more than anything else is how we ended up in a place where homosexual unions are about to be nationalized, and opposing this is a firable offense.

[CrazyIvan]

I remember a local teacher who had been awarded the M.O.H. for his actions on Iwo Jima. He would bring his Johnson rifle and some of his kit to school and tell his story once a year. Imagine that happening now.

[Tucker39]

It’s not that long ago that the lezzies used to call THEMSELVES names that are suddenly verboten. Remember when ElRushbo used to play a tape of a group of them screaming defiance toward straights screeching out, “We’re here; we’re queer; and we’re in your face!”

[jonathonandjennifer]

When on vacation ,as kids, my brother and I roamed all over the back seat wrestling, sticking our bare feet in the back windshield, and in general acting silly. Not strapped in seats for hundreds of miles. Boys ran around the neighborhood shooting toy guns, and everyone thought it was normal. In restaurants adults lit up a cigarette after a good meal. A boy could pester and tease a girl he liked without being accused of sexual harassment.

[SuperLuminal]

If you aren't at least 70 years old, you don't even have a clue as to what it is to experience "Freedom".

• Were you required to walk to school for grades 1-6?
• Did you get your first BB gun for your 4th Christmas?
• Did you get your first gun at your 7th birthday party?
• Was it purchased at the corner drugstore?
• Did you get your driver's license when you were 12?
• Were you (and everyone else) required to have auto insurance for your car?
• Did you bring your rifle or shotgun to school during hunting season?
• Did you have to wait until you had your first taxable job before applying for an SS card?
• Were you outraged that, once a year, you could be required to be filing & paying a government tax of as much as 3%?
• Were your parents and grand-parents frothing at the mouth over rumors that a communist was about to require (supposedly temporarily) taxes to be stolen from a pay-check before you even got it.
• If you and a friend decided you like each others car better than your own, were you able to simply hand each other the registration papers and drive off? (This was particularly fun in high school with cars switching hands routinely)

[Swordmaker]

You could walk into a school, courthouse, airport, even the boarding areas, without showing IDs, passing through metal detectors, patted down, and variously search like we are criminal suspects.

[MarMema]

Visit New Mexico safely.

[montanajoe]

I don’t buy it.

We have “real” freedom now..just as we have always had.

The difference is “now” there are a bunch of folks telling us we don’t..and unfortunately far to many,and sadly more than most on the right, believe this BS.

If a political leader, a inept government, or some talk show host can convince you that don’t have real freedom and you live in this great country, then, IMHO, you are unclear on the concept...

[cva66snipe]

I know it's not the same nation as in my youth. My youth as far as freedoms and being able to do things as a kid safely like my dad did growing up in the early 30's and 40's was much the same even in the early 1960's - mid 1970's was for me. By age 13 I could be left alone camping in the summer with boat, motor, rifle, & stove. I felt safe. Really I was safe. Today if I go camping I carry. If I go fishing I carry. I used to ride my bike 2 miles one way to the store for a coke and chips as a kid. I go to the store today? I carry.

Neighborhoods I knew in my three years living in the city growing up that were safe when I was a kid now are overran either with illegals or just plain throat cutting scum.

When I was about 9 we moved for good out to the sticks about 20 miles out of town. By age 12 I was hunting the ridges after school. Neighbors didn't lock doors. Today I keep a loaded firearm I can access quickly. Yeah a lot has changed indeed in the USA in my 56 years on earth.

[Jack Hammer]

The kids these days don’t want to hear what life was like fifty or sixty years ago, and would never understand, anyway.

They really believe they’re “free” now.

Sad.

[who knows what evil?]

We could tell ethnic jokes, and everyone in the room would laugh.