OT: What is wrong with America?

"dbac" wrote in news:7eAUg.9438$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com:

I can remember when highschools had gun or rifle clubs. I can remember when one could buy a gun at Western Auto,hardware stores,or by mail order,no regulation at all. I don't recall hearing about any school massacres.No postal workers "going postal".

Parents raised their kids to respect authority,until the late '60s. They taught them to know right from wrong.They taught that there were consequences to their actions.(not anymore)

Of course,there's a lot more broken homes now,divorce is over 50%,I believe,"gangsta" culture is acceptable,rap "artists" with records are admired(more if they've been shot;"street cred").Parents are quick to bail out their kids when they've been arrested,and defend them regardless of their culpability,offering excuses why their child should be let off. One can't shoot a thief trying to steal their car or other valuable possessions,unless they place themselves in danger first.

How about that football player who stomped on an opponent's bare head with steel cleated shoes last Sunday? He got a *5 game suspension*. wow.tough.

Agreed. And don't forget people that will need to have their cell phones surgerically removed - after I install that new and improved hands free option for them. ;-)

Phil

Lead pipes drove the Romans nuts and collapsed their empire. We have fiber optic cable and the internet, social values notwithstanding.

I'm far from being a Luddite BTW.

Anthony J. Cesaroni President/CEO Cesaroni Technology/Cesaroni Aerospace

Well said.

OTOH, what is wrong with America is that certified SU motor prices are too high.

Alan

Sigh. I had been thinking that the grass was greener on the other side, at least the Canadians seem more like well balanced people.

Yes, we know exactly what you are talking about, the US government. It so much just the Republicans as the current administration.

SPIRITIALLY lost? Then I've been lost all my life, I left the chech so long ago that I've forgotten just when the last time I went to a mass was. I'm a free thinker now a days and don't need someone in a chuch telling me what I can and can't do.

Even if that something is nothing more that a myth?

That doesn't work, I know, I have a brother who my dad used to bet and paddle with a 2x4 aqnd you want to know what it did? ZERO, NOTHING, he is still as rotten as can be and I would never even trust him inside of my home.

That's a joke, why? Because I don't even own a cell phone. Don't have either a cell phone or the need for one.

Yes. The power of believing is incredible.

Isn't Montana the same as Paris Hilton? White, flat and open to everyone?

Andrew

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Because that is what gets promoted. Example - check out a website called "Break.com". If you see some people fighting, shoot a video and subimt it, they will pay you for it. If you tresspass on someone else's property and get yelled at, they will buy the video. if you beat up that property owner because he yelled at you, there is an even greater chance they will buy it. And if you suggest that the ones who shot the video were in the wrong, you get flamed.

There is an entire subculture of violence developing in this country, encouraged by attention and money. It's growning and it's getting scary!!

Robert Heinlein: "An armed society is a polite society."

I can think of quite a few recent disasters that could have been averted or greatly lessened if more people were equipped for self-defense.

if you look at something like his "Beyond this Horizon" (wherein a sidearm is slightly more common apparel than a necktie) you'd lose a few innocents the first generation, but almost all the jerks and loonies.

Great, you would have to bring Santa into this, now we're all screwed!

;-) Steve

Bob Kaplow wrote:

Har har har. That is good. REAL good.

And now it turns political. The twit liberals are just as bad about "correct thinking", etc., they just add that touch of smug superiority so if you dare disagree, why, you must be barbaric or something.

Republican, democrat, just twits of a different stripe. I am reminded of that Star Trek episode "Let that be your Last Battlefield" when there is debate about the two parties.

Right. Should have put him on medication and gotten him into therapy, that would have fixed him.

And let's not forget, it's not Foley's fault. He's gay and was molested, so it's all good.

My head is going to explode, I can sense it. I feel a Clarke Griswald rant coming on...