WOW, JUST WOW

Mr. Rogers was awesome and that video was really cool. Well done.

I agree, Kelli! I read up on him and found that he was a VERY dedicated and gentle soul. We need more folks like him. Any haters words wont be absorbed by me, call it my fault. ;)

Mr. Moose was in control of Captain Kangaroo.
The ping pong ball torture is very effective...

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Oh, and how about the Tele-Tubbies generation?

Occupy Wall Street and Green Jobs.

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Not to mention gay marriage. !! Let's face it, we all know that "tinky winky" or whatever his name was is responsible for gay marriage. !!

Well, im convinced. I say kill them all!

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Why blame Mr. Rogers or the media. Blame society for forcing both parents to work just to keep the bills paid and the kids clothed and fed. In the 60s we saw some two parent homes where the wife started taking extra work to save up a stash but in the 70s it became a necessity just to stay above water.
When all is said and done, it's because governments would rather fight than actually work towards diplomatic ends. Throw in corporations taking advantage of whatever they could to push the market to its fullest. In other words, what the market could bear. They kept on squeezing then and today they are squeezing harder through deregulation and having the foxes watch the henhouse.
You are going to cater to the Koch's one way or another.

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My mom and dad raised 10 kids. I remember dad having 2 jobs most of the time and for a couple of months he had 3 jobs. Mom worked too. Grandma watched the kids who were not old enough to be in school or at work, or both.

When I was 10 mom got me my first job (summer months) as a dish washer on Saturday night for a caterer who went to our church. My wages went into the family coffers. We had damned little but we had a roof, clean clothes and fresh healthy food. We raised chickens, and had a 1/4 acre garden, and some fruit trees. When I was 12, my brother Robert and I shared 3 paper routes. 2 in the morning before school and 1 after school. 800+ papers every day except Sunday.

I recently received an email entitled I'M OLDER THAN DIRT, and the first sentence was about not having fast food. For us, fast food was those damned chickens.

The odd thing here is the fact that Fred Rogers, while he was alive, would calmly and quietly carry on with his work despite all the accusations of ruining our kids and turning them into pansies, rumors of his personal life, screaming about this or that, etc. He would simply press on because he knew, like he would know today were he still alive, that people are going to say what theyre going to say and do what theyre going to do and all he can do is follow his heart and do what he feels is right.

I respect Fred Rogers and the work he did immensely.