[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.

[missyme]

Great Article!...

Kids knew how to climb trees, do wheely's on there bikes (Which wasn't awarded in some competition event) since we all did it. Made there own skateboards, and it seemed like you knew everyone in your area, from all your neighbors, the owner (American Born) who owned the local liquor store, the guy who ran the laundromat, the grocery clerks, so of course they were looking out for ya! and reports of bad behaviour were given to "Mom" Life was Simple.

My remembrance was walking! especially in Junior High it was far. about 1 1/2 hr from my house, and we had to walk, and possibly were given a ride if a bridge was flooded out!
But your right there were definetly "NO FAT KIDS"

[HighWheeler]

In my mid-teens, my buddies and I used to spend entire nights each summer hitchhiking from 11 pm to 7 am, just to see where we could go around the city. I would even hitch a ride to school when my car was in repair, and I would get picked up within a minute every time.

This, of course, was back when all the criminals and nutjobs were either in prison or in a Cuckoo Nest hospital, of course.

Today, the libs are letting the patients run the assylum. The innocent life I grew up in is virtually gone, the in-your-face teachings of MTV, and the shame and embarrassment people would feel after saying something stupid has been replaced by the liberal ranting idiots who are "Proud 2B Stupid". Even women who have been taught that road rage is justified if you've been dissed don't mind running a pregnant woman off the road to kill both of them. All you need to do -IF- you get caught is to cry and plead that it was a mistake and you are off the hook.

Defense lawyers used to only determine that the defendant's rights were not violated, and that the evidence against them was accurate and collected within the bounds of the law. Now these lawyers come up with wild tales from an alternate universe to explain to the jury that it is "possible" that someone else could have done this, or that the 17 y.o. boy who killed the little girl did so only after he learned the 23 bone crushing moves he used on her from watching World Wrestling, proof that it's not his fault. And the idiots on the jury buy the story as something reasonable, and give him 2 years probation.

Mass intelligence is on the wane, and people wonder why so many high paying jobs go overseas. Parents are more concerned with their career and money than the welfare and education of their kids.

[Cvengr]

Sometimes I feel like I'm Ensign Gay, just sitting back and watching history taking place.

IMHO, they debauchery we witness today makes manifest that any and all efforts to produce good, independent of God, are simply good for nothing.

We live in an off-the-shelf society, where even those who understand how to make the products people consume are considered too cumbersome. Patience is considered inefficient, while a rush to blunders is considered better than nothing.

When the resources dry up, those in control will then blame those who were producing them for their existence and relative demand.

Such is a consequence of the soulish carnal person.

[ChefKeith]

Now it is almost impossible to get kids to even go outside much less stay out and play. They just want to sit in front of the video games.