[randog]

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on.

Yup. Those were the days.

[Ol' Sox]

Jesse, this is so old that my mother emailed it to me from her retirement community in Florida.

[BSunday]

Great Article. Ban the use of Federal Government as Father

[WinOne4TheGipper]

PEOPLE OVER FORTY SHOULD BE DEAD

Some of them really get on my nerves and all, but is this what you really want?;-)

[RoseofTexas]

OH MY GOODNESS! This literally brought back good memories and some tears this morn! We came from a poor but proud family, my brothers were constantly building their own kites and playing marbles outside. All 9 brothers and sisters would play outside, building houses from cardboard boxes, playing baseball and kickball. Oh my, now I'm longing for those simple days. Family was all that matter. I guess that's way I love to watch the black and white old movies. I need a kleenex..sniff! YEP, THEM WERE THE GOOD OLD DAYS.

[saluki_in_ohio]

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team

A couple of years ago, I went to a tee-ball game to watch my former girlfriends kid play. I was shocked to learn that they didn't keep score. I asked her "How do they determine the winner?", and she replied, "They do not have winners and losers in tee-ball", and I said, "Wow, I bet the liberals feel good about that!".

We didn't date too much longer.

[brityank]

Hey -- I resemble those kids!

Ping.

[1ofmanyfree]

Good post JH, Yes, just like the accidents we had as kids, we have no one to blame but ourselves. I do not believe these changes have been at all "accidental" though. We have allowed those who seek to control, the opportunity to do so. We reward them nicely too. Time for the pendulum to swing back toward center, back toward sanity and away from the nanny state mentality.

[LurkedLongEnough]

See what you have to look forward to...

[Lazamataz]

PEOPLE OVER FORTY SHOULD BE DEAD

Salam Alikum,

In the Qur’aan, we learn that if you make Shukr, Allah will most definitely increase His bounties upon you, especially after the age of 40. Also recite the du’aa, ‘Allaahumma ikfiniy bihalaalika an haraamika wa aghniniy bi fadhlika amman siwaaka’.

and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best

Mufti Lazamataz-al-Truble.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Dittos!

[RightWingMama]

I was just thinking about this this morning. How funny, it's the first thing I see when I sat down at the computer.
Our precious granddaughter spent the night and everything we do has to be planned out because we can't just let her run and play like we did when we were children. It can be stressful trying to come up with ideas.
I remember saying "see ya later" to my Mom and out the door I went. I came home when I was hungry or it was getting dark.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I'd hate to be a kid today. Yes, I am over 40.

[The Wizard]

I cannot under score how right this is and how much today's kids are loosing because of all the mamby pamby BS and PC that is fosted on them.....

If America is ever needed in the out years, it won't have a chance.....

maybe this is the plan of the Chi comms or others: make us weak, make us think that America is "just like everywhere else" make us ashamed of our great spirit, make us think that we have no enemies and then take over a generation with no back bone and no ability to stand on it's own.

[EuroFrog]

Shoot, Im only 29 (as opposed to 40) and this is exactly what my childhood was like. Im desperatly trying to do the same with my kids. Kids learn quick, its either go outside and play or stay inside and help me clean the house.

[freekitty]

Those were the days and somehow we got through childhood without being drugged.

[Cultural Jihad]

You can thank the baby-boomer generation which embraced aristocratic morals and moral-liberalism for the changes in our society. The lawyers and bureaucrats are just filling the void left by the baby-boomer shirkers of personal responsibility.

[theFIRMbss]

>According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, or even maybe the early 70's probably shouldn't have survived [1/17/2004]

Is this some new kind
of spam? We get the same crap
every so often --

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's or 70's, probably shouldn't have survived [Email from a friend | 3/27/2003 | ?????]

[crz]

We never even considered wearing a pair of shoes in the summertime. We never even entered the house till dark unless it was for the toilet or FOOD. Our clothes had holes and patches on them...real designer clothes nowdays. We played hardball with taped up used baseballs and bats. We played ragtag..shinty with tree crotches and that old taped up hardball. We took our old beat up bycs and peddled 5 miles to the nearest lake to go swimming. ALL local family (aunts, uncles etc)got together at each birthday, Thanksgiving and one day around Christmas time.

We raised our own food and sold what we didnt need...man I hated picking beans.

That was then..when there was but one TV station available and it didnt come in half the time. What would happen if that was the case now? We were money poor and happy beyond belief. Your only as poor as you think you are.

[genefromjersey]

There are apparently a few Freepers who subscribe whole-heartedly to that idea...only they want it to be people who are receiving social security,pensions,and post-retirement medical benefits (all of which they paid into).

Methinks,what these latter-day Cassius clones-with their lean and hungry look-are saying is: " MINE ! MINE ! MINE !!"