"Hagstar" wrote in message
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I don't remember much of anything good about the old days. They're gone-
that's good. Mostly I remember JFK's death, duck and cover drills, Cuban
Missiles, Vietnam body counts, Selma, Watts, Newark, then RFK and Martin
Luther King,

John H.

Not much good about these days either, John.

Today we have daily scandals in DC, duct tape and garbage bags, terror
threats real and imagined, kids killing kids for their shoes, people killing
people for sport or as a form of suicide, the Axis of Evil, Katrina victims,
widespread firestorms, Iraq and Afghanistan body counts and a choice of
presidential candidates that is really no choice at all.

All in the way you choose to look at things. In some ways the Hippies were
right.. but, like most anyone, they sold out to the system and the almighty
dollar in the end. And the cold war was better than the one we're in now
(and is also seemingly making a comeback), in that at least the Soviets had
more or less the same morals that we did, and placed the same importance on
the lives of at least themselves and their families. This century's crazies
don't care, whether they are Islamic extremist crazies or college and high
school student crazies.

All that aside, nobody used the words "good old days". Only "old days",
when we earned what we got, instead of expecting it to be given to us just
for the asking. I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I thought that was
better.

C'est la vie.

Stay safe, John.

"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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Not much good about these days either, John.

Today we have daily scandals in DC, duct tape and garbage bags, terror
threats real and imagined, kids killing kids for their shoes, people
killing people for sport or as a form of suicide, the Axis of Evil,
Katrina victims, widespread firestorms, Iraq and Afghanistan body counts
and a choice of presidential candidates that is really no choice at all.

Well, sure, but other than that, things are pretty good, right?

I mean, we -are- enjoying the longest period of strong prosperity this world
has seen in a l-o-n-g time. With the exception of energy, material goods
are cheaper in relative terms than they have ever been!

So quitcherbitchin!