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Scenario:
Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot
with shotgun in gun rack.
1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at ... | | | | | 
11-18-2008, 07:39 AM
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| | | SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2007 Scenario:
Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot
with shotgun in gun rack. 1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to
his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2007 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to
jail and never sees his truck or gun again.
Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers. Scenario:
Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school. 1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins.
Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2007 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark.
Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it. Scenario:
Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students. 1957 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the
Principal.Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2007 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested
for ADD. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability. Scenario:
Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a
whipping with his belt. 1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal,
goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2007 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse.
Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang.
State psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being
abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affairwith psychologist. Scenario:
Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school. 1957 - Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2007 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug
violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons. Scenario:
Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them
in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed. 1957 - Ants die.
2007- BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called.
Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents,
siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny's Dad goes on
a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again. Scenario:
Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. > He
is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him. 1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2007 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator andloses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy. | | | 
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| | | 1957 Fonzie uses excessive "hair product" to slick back
his hair, dresses in leather, hangs around juke boxes and
enters dance contests. He is seen as manly and cool.
2007 Fonzie is ridiculed as being gay, or at least metrosexual.
Fonzie gets pissed and walks into Arnolds' and shoots everyone dead. | | | 
11-18-2008, 08:46 PM
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| | Quote: Originally Posted by Bada Bing 1957 Fonzie uses excessive "hair product" to slick back
his hair, dresses in leather, hangs around juke boxes and
enters dance contests. He is seen as manly and cool.
2007 Fonzie is ridiculed as being gay, or at least metrosexual.
Fonzie gets pissed and walks into Arnolds' and shoots everyone dead.
Didn't he play some weird guy in the Waterboy? When Red took the playbook he dressed in high heels and talked in the phone to his grandma, but the phone line was cut off the actual phone. Man do I live that movie!
"Mama, I like Vicky Valencourt, and she likes me too, and she let me see her boobies!"
"Now that's some high quality H2O!"
"Water sucks it really really sucks!" "H2O!"
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11-18-2008, 10:07 PM
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| | | Jack, Johnny, Mark, Jeffery and Billy sound like a bunch of damn troublemakers to me. lol
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| | | This is a really sad picture of what has become of childhood. Under the guise of protecting children, society has hyped up the perception of danger to impose these dramatic overreactive policies. I often carried a knife to school. no big deal. And short of extreme physical violence, the police were an absolute last resort. Faculty dealt with the problem & it was over. No one got a juvenile record, counseling or Ritalin prescription. It amazes me that the late boomer people I grew up & went to school with have become the worst type of coddling, pampering, paranoid helicopter parents. I believe that is the group driving these extreme changes. I also blame the internet, which brings out the freakazoids from the woodwork and into direct contact with impressionable kids. Protect kids, sure, let's not overdo it. I would add that that list easily could have been 1977 vs 2007. | | | 
11-19-2008, 03:19 AM
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| | Quote: Originally Posted by Decent Jack, Johnny, Mark, Jeffery and Billy sound like a bunch of damn troublemakers to me. lol Quote: Originally Posted by tarkus1 This is a really sad picture of what has become of childhood. Under the guise of protecting children, society has hyped up the perception of danger to impose these dramatic overreactive policies. I often carried a knife to school. no big deal. And short of extreme physical violence, the police were an absolute last resort. Faculty dealt with the problem & it was over. No one got a juvenile record, counseling or Ritalin prescription. It amazes me that the late boomer people I grew up & went to school with have become the worst type of coddling, pampering, paranoid helicopter parents. I believe that is the group driving these extreme changes. I also blame the internet, which brings out the freakazoids from the woodwork and into direct contact with impressionable kids. Protect kids, sure, let's not overdo it. I would add that that list easily could have been 1977 vs 2007. It was defenitely a difference time. I can remember my brother and I riding the train to NC after shool was out to visit the grand parents for much of the summer, both with rifle in hand.
Bolded text in quote is quite true. I wonder what happened? What will in be like in the future? | | | 
11-19-2008, 06:28 AM
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| | Quote: Originally Posted by BillW What will in be like in the future? The future. I stopped thinking about that years ago. I was on quite a few forums and in numerous online and offline associations for Freedom. I was a writer. I was a voice. And I was angry. And I was terrified. Angry about the way things are, terrified about the way things were going to be. I was a very loud voice, I was a recruiter for the Cause.
Then something happened, or rather, a few somethings, in my personal life, which took precedence over everything I was trying to accomplish. These things were so large, that in the grand scheme of things, I began to feel very small. I lost my voice, I lost my ability to write, I lost my confidence, but the absolute worst of all, I lost my anger.
One thing I cannot bring myself to be, until I get angry again, is one of those people I used to loathe, one of those people who would lead me to bang out page after page of an article or letter, the people who fueled me to to change minds and make a difference. A bystander. Someone who merely complains and worries, but won't take the effort to do anything else. Won't take time to write a Representative, or join a group of like-minds working towards a cure for the problem, or write articles, or sign petitions, or do any one of a hundred things they could be doing instead. I refuse, I will not be a bystander. What I am is just as bad, but, at least there's that.
I'm coming back. It's a slow process, but I do feel that spark now and then. I try and fight small Causes now, I'm not quite strong enough to look at the Big Picture yet, I'm not ready. One day, if I'm not angry yet, I will force myself to become so, because I can't live the rest of my life as a Sheeple, just accepting everything that comes my way. I have to be able to look back, when nothings changed, and know at least I tried, or when change has come, and know I was a part of making it happen.
There. Justa little insight on why sometimes I use humor or saracsm on various issues. I'm really not that much of an uncaring smart-ass. Not really. | | | 
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11-19-2008, 10:18 AM
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| | Quote: Originally Posted by Decent One day, if I'm not angry yet, I will hang out with Curly, because I can't live the rest of my life as a Sheeple, just accepting everything that comes my way. I have to be able to look back, when nothings changed, and know at least I tried, or when change has come, and know I was a part of making it happen. Fixed, lol | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode |
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