Posted: 4/26/2008 7:09:32 AM EDT
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• When you could use the word “Sugar” in breakfast cereal names. Long live “Super Sugar Crisp!” • When people had accidents. Not because they were trying to imply that nobody was to blame, but because they certainly weren’t wrecking their cars on purpose. • When there were Siamese twins, not “conjoined” twins. Siamese. Are we really that worried about offending someone from Siam? • When you could go to the store without being filmed at least 30 times over. • When the .gov couldn’t invade your home to collect evidence against you, THEN get a search warrant. • When bad guys got a good old-fashioned whuppin’ and old ladies in wheelchairs and speeders didn’t get tasered for nothing. • When you could buy iodine crystals for water purification and pseudofed all day long if you wanted for their intended use, and only the dirtbags using them to create crystal meth were treated as criminals. • When there wasn’t such an insane and irrational fear of guns in schools and a pen with a gun manufacturer logo wouldn’t send administrators into convulsions. • When being a “Constitutionalist” was not considered “highly dangerous” by the .gov, but was considered a sign of good citizenship. • When children couldn’t sue their parents. • When there was a small amount of truth in the evening news. • When you could strike matches “anywhere” including your zipper and lighters didn’t come with safety devices. Long live “Ohio Blue-tips!” • When people had the right to offend others, but suffer the consequences; the offended had the right to retaliate, or simply get over it. • When you were considered a bad parent if you didn’t teach your children how to use a firearm. • When children weren’t deathly allergic to peanut butter or have “ADHD.” • When traveling by air was an inconvenience, not an adventure in being treated like a criminal. • When bad guys were described in detail by the media, not simply “two males in their teens.” |
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