How Stupid Are They?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Things were much different then and a small 6-7000 population town in the suburbs was pretty isolated from the "Big Town" problems.

We always like to think that this is true, but I have found while growing older that much of this was fanciful and wishful thinking.

BUT, you never know for sure.

Yes, and people are people no matter where you go.....

[up148]

Possible, but in a small, rural, sleepy, growing out o f farming town, 20 miles east of KC, it was pretty idyllic. I have no idea what it was like in eastern cities or western cities as my world was pretty small.

Heck, we only had one police car in 1965-66 and if you got caught speeding, burning rubber or doing something stupid on the road, the one policeman/chief would tell you "no ticket this time, but go home now, park the car, and don't drive for a week" "If I see you on the road in the next week you get the ticket you should get today". Everyone obeyed. It wasn't Mayberry by any stretch, but it was a very close knit small town community.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Possible, but in a small, rural, sleepy, growing out o f farming town, 20 miles east of KC, it was pretty idyllic. I have no idea what it was like in eastern cities or western cities as my world was pretty small.

Heck, we only had one police car in 1965-66 and if you got caught speeding, burning rubber or doing something stupid on the road, the one policeman/chief would tell you "no ticket this time, but go home now, park the car, and don't drive for a week" "If I see you on the road in the next week you get the ticket you should get today". Everyone obeyed. It wasn't Mayberry by any stretch, but it was a very close knit small town community.

I know. I lived in such a place in Pa, yet.............and it still wears a facade of that rural small town. Thing is that I learned years ago it really was a facade, and that many people were perfectly willing to stand in the river and stare at the pyramids,

[up148]

Yeah, reality can suck sometimes. But, it's still a great memory and little to nothing is like we remember. That's why you can never go home.....it's not there any longer.....it only existed at the time you remembered it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yeah, reality can suck sometimes. But, it's still a great memory and little to nothing is like we remember. That's why you can never go home.....it's not there any longer.....it only existed at the time you remembered it.

Yup!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Yeah, reality can suck sometimes. But, it's still a great memory and little to nothing is like we remember. That's why you can never go home.....it's not there any longer.....it only existed at the time you remembered it.

Yup!

Agreed. Fully.

[healey36]

Murph, they say one of the great strengths of America is its ability to reinvent itself over and over, unlike many other countries. Seeing pictures such as that, one begins to wonder.

The great Al Stewart once said, "Our time is just a point along a line that runs forever with no end."

Helps keep things in perspective. You have to be sure to leave a mark.

Lord Grenville
Al Stewart

Go and tell Lord Grenville that the tide is on the turn
It's time to haul the anchor up and leave the land astern
We'll be gone before the dawn returns
Like voices on the wind.

Go and tell Lord Grenville that our dreams have run aground
There's nothing here to keep us in this shanty town
None of us are caring where we're bound
Like voices on the wind

And come the day you'll hear them saying
"They're throwing it all away"
Nothing more to say
Just throwing it all away

Go and fetch the captain's log and tear the pages out
We're on our way to nowhere now, can't bring the helm about
None of us are left in any doubt
We won't be back again

Send a message to the fleet, they'll search for us in vain
We won't be there among the reaches of the Spanish Main
Tell the ones we left home not to wait
We won't be back again.
(Won't be back again...)

And come the day you'll hear them saying
"They're throwing it all away"
Nothing more to say
Just throwing it all away

Our time is just a point along a line
That runs forever with no end
I never thought that we would come to find
Ourselves upon these rocks again
Oh no...

Go and tell Lord Grenville that the tide is on the turn

Healey

P.S. The kid in the raincoat kills me every time. A young Jim Cantore perhaps?

[HONDO74]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I don't "get" what it was that he was trying to do, besides break his neck.

[Roy]

Isn't he one of the Jews Will Not Replace Us marchers?

[HONDO74]

Isn't he one of the Jews Will Not Replace Us marchers?

And speaking of "How Stupid Are They"

[v8vega]

Democrats here rammed through a 12 cents gas tax increase a year ago. We had a initiative to repeal it and it's a lot of money so heavy advertisement against it and it failed. also it was written so yes means no and stupid voters didn't read it.
Today gas tax goes up another 6 cents that was tied into it.
Also starting today you have to undergo a background check to buy ammo and the goverment knows how much you bought. also there is a fee added and I am not sure how much, keep hearing different amounts. The Democrats here hate guns so constantly increasing laws to make owning guns so onorious people give up on it. Thats the goal.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[up148]

Most likely a few more liberal states to join in, but doubt this will carry over for the nation..........but, you never know.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Most likely a few more liberal states to join in, but doubt this will carry over for the nation..........but, you never know.

If any elected officials, liberal or conservative, smell even a trace of way to raise money, take it out of your pocket to be used for whatever, count on their doing just that. It has no bearing on on party or ideology.