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CONGRATULATIONS!
We start the New Year off with this jewel sent in by John Dear, a retired Air Force pilot who was my fellow worker some forty years ago. Thanks John.
If any of you are thinking about a New Years resolution, this may help.
To All The Kids Who Survived the 1930's & 40's & 50's & 60's and 70's !!
First we survived being born to some mothers who smoked while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking. As infants and children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from a garden hose and not from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this. We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank koolade made with sugar, but we weren’t overweight because we were always outside playing!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were ok.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scrap and then ride down the hill, only to find out we had forgotten the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have play stations, Nintendo’s, x-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD’s no surround sound or CD’s no cell phones, no personal computers! And no Internet or chat rooms....We had friends and went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cuts, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns on our tenth birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked with
them!
Little League had tryouts and not everybody made the team. Those that didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The Past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success, and responsibility, and we learned how To Deal With It all!
CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the privilege of growing up as kids before the ACLU lawyers and the Secular Progressives began undermining the court’s judges and instituting their own interpretations of the law for our own good.
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave and privileged their parents and grand parents were.
The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to the other, with the threat of bird flu and terrorists, Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the pledge of Allegiance?" (And I hasten to add: remove our 200 plus year old national motto, "In God we trust" from our coins and currency and all other places it may happen to appear in public view.)
Our pledge is allegiance to "One Nation Under God," let’s keep it that way!
Solomon’s Porch Thought for the Day
Leviticus–25:18
" Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety."
A Happy and Prosperous
New Year to All From Solomon’s Porch
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