10-09-2013, 01:33 PM
Back in the day................
Schools are a bit different these days, there seems to be a "mentality" out there that thinks it is OK to bring a gun to school and shoot someone......Where was that mentality when we needed volunteers to be "In Country", in Viet Nam !?, instead of running off to Canada to avoid the draft.
I have no real answers, but ........
A squirrel, passes gas two counties away, and it is in the evening news.
There isn't a week that passes that we here, in the Chicago area, don't see on the evening news another grieving parent of an innocent child shot on the streets of Chicago, a victim of a "gang banger".
I get the feeling that the "American Empire" is fading into decline, and will soon join the Roman Empire, as nothing more than a subject studied in a history class.
Instant news, Instant communication, Instant awareness of all the wrong that's happening, is, I fear, becoming the instant erosion of societal values, or worse, the new "spectator sport" of death by gunfire.
Seriously, when "Positive Achievements" have to take a "back seat" to all the death and destruction, it becomes a case of "murder" gets you more "press", than finding a cure for the incurable, or saving a life at your own risk.
With all the movies, and the proliferation of "Reality TV Shows ", criminals are becoming glorified,
Not the best message to be sending out to society 
. If this must truly be the course that society has set? then so be it, Aharrr and fall on! :o :o
As ye sew, so shall ye reap. I'll be steppin' down from the "preachin' box" now.
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I had a great night out last night.
Monday, the new furnace was installed and is working beautifully !
I'll see at the end of the month how my Gas Bill compares to what it was with the old furnace.
Schools are a bit different these days, there seems to be a "mentality" out there that thinks it is OK to bring a gun to school and shoot someone......Where was that mentality when we needed volunteers to be "In Country", in Viet Nam !?, instead of running off to Canada to avoid the draft.
I have no real answers, but ........
A squirrel, passes gas two counties away, and it is in the evening news.There isn't a week that passes that we here, in the Chicago area, don't see on the evening news another grieving parent of an innocent child shot on the streets of Chicago, a victim of a "gang banger".
I get the feeling that the "American Empire" is fading into decline, and will soon join the Roman Empire, as nothing more than a subject studied in a history class.
Instant news, Instant communication, Instant awareness of all the wrong that's happening, is, I fear, becoming the instant erosion of societal values, or worse, the new "spectator sport" of death by gunfire.
Seriously, when "Positive Achievements" have to take a "back seat" to all the death and destruction, it becomes a case of "murder" gets you more "press", than finding a cure for the incurable, or saving a life at your own risk.
With all the movies, and the proliferation of "Reality TV Shows ", criminals are becoming glorified,
Not the best message to be sending out to society . If this must truly be the course that society has set? then so be it, Aharrr and fall on! :o :o As ye sew, so shall ye reap. I'll be steppin' down from the "preachin' box" now.
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I had a great night out last night.
Monday, the new furnace was installed and is working beautifully !
I'll see at the end of the month how my Gas Bill compares to what it was with the old furnace.
We always learn far more from our own mistakes, than we will ever learn from another's advice.
The greatest place to live life, is on the sharp leading edge of a learning curve.
Lead me not into temptation.....I can find it myself!
The greatest place to live life, is on the sharp leading edge of a learning curve.
Lead me not into temptation.....I can find it myself!