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life begins

Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:00 PM EST
By Hutch Dubosque
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life begins when you have a thought of having sex

raking your eyes over someone’s body gets you arrested for assault

just imaging it makes it rape

if you give your niece a birthday present, you’re a pedophile

if you dream that you are driving a fancy sports car, you are automatically guilty of grand theft auto.

i think you can see where this is going. i think you know what and who this is aimed at. our society has gone stark raving mad, totally bonkers, and is now taking stupid pills for breakfast.

what happened to logic and reason? not only did the middle of the road disappear, but the entire road has vanished. come on folks! enough with this crap, already. there are way more important issues and situations in this world than to be running around yelling; “the sky is falling, the sky is falling…”. the goddamn sky isn’t falling. it never will. what is falling is the tolerance we had for one another back in the good old days. By the way, the good old days were generally conservative in every aspect of life.

what happened to being your brother’s keeper? either no one has brothers anymore, or we just forgot how to keep them. i find myself thinking: hey, i have my own stuff to worry about. how do you expect me to worry about anyone else’s stuff? being courteous, honest, humble, and such has gone around the bend on us? silly me, i thought it was all going to be different with our generation. don’t blame it on our parents. they played the game according to the rules. we benefitted from that to a great degree. the trouble is some of our wiring short-circuited along the way, and we turned out to be greedy, selfish, little children (and that’s as adults).

well to my parents, i apologize. to my children i apologize. and, to the world i can only offer my condolences, because we certainly are not leaving behind a legacy anyone would be proud of.

to the folks that insist politically correct thinking and action is the only way to go, i say; stuff it, zip it, get over it. i am done with this crap. i am returning to those good old days when a person could freely speak his/her mind,  have his/her own  convictions, openly fight for what they believe in. and, do it as a proud American, not some sniveling little brat that needs to go with the flow and have mommy wipe his/her snotty nose.

ps: i was thinking of writing this all in capital letters. then, i realized that some people take offense to that style of penmanship. therefore, there is only one capitalized word. hey, if e. e. cummings can get away with it, surely i can as well.

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Queenie of the castle

Hutch, if it were only as easy as you make it sound to get back to where we NEED to be as a country and a society as a whole.

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Reply#1 - Wed Jan 18, 2012 11:42 AM EST
CL1

"the sky is falling, the sky is falling…". the goddamn sky isn't falling. it never will. what is falling is the tolerance we had for one another back in the good old days. By the way, the good old days were generally conservative in every aspect of life.

True, ..on the last part. lol

I won't ramble [too much:] as this topic is highly speculative from a certain 'pov.' But, I do think things are changing, rather, have changed, and in a way that generations in the past didn't experience. I think it's due to the "information age" that was not available to them (our ancestors), nor available to the elite aristocracy that continues to gain control and global power, as well as the industries that are in a position to manipulate the lives of average citizens. (they didn't have the social programs aiding immigration, either) Our ancestors didn't have the loss of privacy and security 'to this extent,' nor the loss of an honest education due to the vast diversity, or the threat of losing Constitutional rights and credibility (Patriot Act, corrupt DHS, terrorism threats forcing loss of privacy with scanners, corporate personhood, states' rights revoked, religious laws enforced by our courts).. to the *same degree*..they had some of these issues, but not to this degree.

Life isn't as easily defined as it once was. Many of our institutions' paradigms are more visible, and have had consequences that opened our eyes. Little by little change happens; we can't avoid much of it, but we can avoid some of it. Simply, we can't continue to do everything the same as we did in the past:

"Continued high migration, combined with weak economic growth and increased unemployment, can create a foundation for increased conflicts along ethnic, social and economic lines,"

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Reply#2 - Wed Jan 18, 2012 6:38 PM EST
lets think

i am returning to those good old days

good luck with that

  • 3 votes
Reply#3 - Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:39 PM EST
Hutch Dubosque

To all respondants: Thank you for your opinions and analysis. I truely believe we can stop the insanity, and regain some, not all, of what used to matter the most to all Americans. The thought of "Life", Liberty", and "the Pursuit of Happiness" runs through our veins, and is something that would be terrible to lose. Life is definitely not as it used tobe, and change (evolution) in Society is aleays a good thing. I just hope we get it right.

    Reply#4 - Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:13 PM EST
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