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To: SandRat
I grew up on the water- literally, it was at the front door- and I can't recall a time when I could not swim... my parents had a theory of "making me safe around the water" rather than trying to scare me away from it.

Likewise, when I was big enough to hold a gun, I learned how to shoot- and how dangerous firearms could be. Again, their theory was to "Make me safe around weapons, rather than trying to make the weapons safe around me."

The whole area we live in is surrounded by water- not just the ocean, there are miles of salt marsh and swamps, rivers, creeks, and borrow pits-- and yet, a season never passes where someone falls in the water and drowns, and the first thing you hear is "old so-and-so was so scared of drowning he never learned to swim..."

15 posted on 06/12/2005 8:35:16 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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To: backhoe
Nathan Zachary in reply #5 said it best when he wrote-

We know what the Liberal knee jerk solution to all this is don't we? Ban everything, swadle everyone in a protectiv layer of foam, keep them under obsevation 24 hours a day in a rond with padding on the floor and walls, funished with padded, rounded funature, and feed them 3 times a day with big brother aproved meals.

We all know that we are incapable of taking care of ourselves, we need a collective group of liberals to take our earnings and make all decisions for us.We know what the Liberal knee jerk solution to all this is don't we? Ban everything, swadle everyone in a protectiv layer of foam, keep them under obsevation 24 hours a day in a rond with padding on the floor and walls, funished with padded, rounded funature, and feed them 3 times a day with big brother aproved meals.

We all know that we are incapable of taking care of ourselves, we need a collective group of liberals to take our earnings and make all decisions for us.

Most of use here know far better than the namby pamby libs, because we were raised to be strong and independant and to stand on our own two feet.

18 posted on 06/12/2005 8:42:28 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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