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All About Balls
past 60 to 85 years have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. That was before the rise of ‘I am a victim thinking,’ the overpopulation of lawyers, and government overreach.
Truth Sounds Like Hate To Those Who Hate Truth
The sport of choice for the urban poor is basketball. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is bowling. The sport of choice for front-line workers is football. The sport of choice for supervisors is baseball. The sport of choice for middle management is tennis. The sport of choice for corporate executives and officers is golf. It’s apparent that the higher you go in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become. Conclusion: There are tens of thousands of people in Washington, DC who play marbles.
America’s Twilight Zone
Today I woke up and as I had my morning coffee, I reflected on many dramatic changes that have recently taken place. No matter how I vote, no matter what I say, something evil has invaded our nation, and our lives are never going to be the same. I have been confused by the hostility of family and friends. I look at people I have known all my life. They are so hate-filled that they agree with opinions they would For starters, we survived being born to mothers who never express as their own. I think that I may well have may have smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. entered the Twilight Zone. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a You can’t justify this insanity. We have become a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes. nation that has lost its collective mind! Then, after that trauma, we were put to bed on our If a dude pretends to be a woman, you are required to tummy in cribs covered with bright, lead-based paint. pretend with him. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on Somehow, it’s un-American for the census to count doors or cabinets and, when we rode our bikes, we had how many Americans are in America. baseball caps, not helmets, on our heads. Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals As infants and children, we would ride in cars with no child car seats, no voting in our elections are good. booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes. National leaders lament that they want to unify the nation, but their actions Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special are widening, not narrowing, the gap, treat. People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. people who have never been slaves. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, People who have never been to college should pay the debts and no one actually died from this. of college students who took out huge loans for their degrees. We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon. We Immigrants with diseases are welcome, but you’d better be drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And we weren’t able to prove your dog is vaccinated. overweight because we were always outside playing. Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as to the U.S. must go through a rigorous vetting process, but long as we were back by dark. those who cross the southern border illegally are welcome. We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps And many in this group seek to be takers only, and want to and then ride them down the hill, only to find out that we forleave the giving to somebody else. got about brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we People who say there is no such thing as gender are learned to solve the problem. demanding a female President. Transgenders born as males We did not have PlayStations, Nintendo and Xboxes. There insist on competing in women’s sports. were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video If you stay at a hotel or board a bus, train or plane, you have movies or DVDs, no surround-sound or CDs, no cell to first show a photo ID, but if you have to show a photo ID to phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no chat rooms. vote, you are a victim of discrimination and/or voter “suppresWe had friends, and we went outside and found them! sion.” We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and lost teeth, and We see other countries going socialist and collapsing, but it there were no lawsuits from those accidents. seems like a great plan to a growing number of vocal politiWe got spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping-pong paddles, or cians, academics, actors and entertainers. just a bare hand, and no one would call child services to report ‘abuse.’ Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they We ate worms, and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they are doing us forever. now. We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, .22 rifles for our 12th, rode Criminals are caught-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them horses, made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and although we is bad because it’s a violation of their rights. were told it would happen, we did not accidentally put out very many eyes. And pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us racists?! And yes, we ran through the house with scissors Nothing makes sense anymore: no values, no No Matter How Bad Your and/or knives in our hands. morals, no civility, no regard for the Constitution. Little League had tryouts and not everyone made We are clearly living in an upside- down world where Situation May Be, the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with right is wrong and wrong is right, where moral is Just Remember… disappointment. Imagine that!! immoral and immoral is moral, where good is evil There Are People Out There and evil is good, where killing murderers is wrong, The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! but killing innocent babies is right. Worried About The Gender These generations have produced some of the best It’s enough to cause you to wonder, “What is next, Of A Plastic Potato. risk-takers, problem solvers, and inventors ever. The a revolution or the Rapture?”
To Kids Who Survived The 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
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