Excellent speech.
Excellent speech.
When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence. — GARY LLOYD
The nation we live in is the nation we have built by design, each successive generation raising the wall of tyranny a little higher. - Chris Griffin
You're not special. You work for the man! Now shut up and get back to work!
(lousy slacker)
I am the MAN :rofl: Now, what's your badge number?Originally Posted by KG4CGC
"Friendships come in strange packages
The best ones are opened with a smile"
NA4BH '15
(said thickly) Bad-jez? Bad-jez? We donn need no stinn-kin bad-jez!I am the MAN :rofl: Now, what's your badge number?
"'Vunce de rocket goes up, who cares vere it comes down?
That's not my department' says Werner von Braun."
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
what he said (I love you anyway Bob!)
Last edited by suddenseer; 06-09-2012 at 08:59 PM.
cul de n8tb
"Sadly, it always takes a few martyrs to get the ball rolling." Colonel Tim Boldman 2001
"There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference."--William James
"Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings." Victor J. Stenger
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.
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.
Last edited by KA9MOT; 06-12-2012 at 01:10 PM.
"One man with courage makes a majority." ~ Andrew Jackson
Steve KA9MOT
Macomb, IL
You had the family unit going with granma there. Even if she wasn't, I have a feeling you had family cohesiveness. A lot of families didn't. The dollar was the bottom line. Business was the bottom line. The family took a back seat. This is what a lot of families lived with.
Mr. Rogers was awesome and that video was really cool. Well done.
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