Jerry Oxendine wrote:

I have to agree with you! How did we survive the '50s,
even the '70s without socialists like Hilary Clinton "protecting" us from
ourselves? We misbehaved, we got
paddled by a teacher and Dad gave you a "whuppin'" when you got home! GASP!!
HORRORS! We rode our
bicycles and didn't know what helmets were? You're KIDDING! We climbed
trees, fell out, had the breath knocked out of us, got up and kept going.
HUH? Why,
we'll have to make trees illegal!! We sent each other flying high in the
air by jumping on a short plank in a modified game of see-saw; sometimes the
plank skewed
to one side and we broke arms and ribs. Let's SUE somebody! We got up again
with skinned knees, and when it quit smarting, we got back on the board and
did it again. In high school, we drove school busses at 16!
WHAAAAAAAAAAT??????? We even had bus drivers' club! What, that's CRAZY! No
it wasn't. At that time, North Carolina had one of the safest school
bus driver programs in the nation! We drove tractors as
soon as we could reach the pedals and Pop-popped (John Deere) our way down
the highway with no supervi-
sion going from one field to another. YIKES!! We drove farm pickups (off
road) as soon as we could shift
gears, too! HORRORS! GASP! CALL THE LIBERALS!

You bring back a lot of memories Jer. A poppin Johnny was the first
thing I learned to drive 10 years before I would be old enough for a
drivers license, that hand clutch really made it easy. Ever start it up
without removing the tin can off the exhaust stack first?

We expect to remain
free, yet we quietly
surrender our rights to the left wingers who represent one
of the greatest threats next to our external enemies. That is because it is
creeping socialism" and slips up on us one right at a time. Like the
seatbelt issue, the liberals couch their agenda in issues that seem to "be
for the good of all".
They know that they cannot suddenly, for example, take
away guns (well, there's that pesky Constition thing they'd
like to get rid of); it would set off a rebellion.

We used to take guns to school. Hear that anti-gun liberal nuts, yes,
real guns at school. Even carried them on the school bus. We never had
any thoughts of shooting up the school, and certainly no thoughts of
shooting someone. We would leave our rifles in the prinipal's office
until after school, then walk home through the fields and pastures
looking for varmits to shoot.