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    My brother-in-law in the US sent me this, figured some of you might relate to it:


    TO THOSE WHO SURVIVED the 30's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's


    First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank
    while they carried us.
    They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for
    diabetes.
    Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright
    colored lead-based paints.
    We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and
    when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we
    took hitchhiking.
    As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
    Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special
    treat.
    We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
    We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO
    ONE actually died from this.
    We ate cupcakes, bread and butter and drank soda pop with sugar in
    it, but we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
    We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we
    were back when the streetlights came on.
    No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
    We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then
    ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After
    running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
    We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at
    all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound,
    no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat
    rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
    We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were
    no lawsuits from these accidents.
    We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms and
    although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many
    eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever.
    We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door
    or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
    Little league had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who
    didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
    The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard
    of. They actually sided with the law!
    This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem
    solvers and inventors ever!
    The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
    We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
    HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
    And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS! Please pass this on to
    others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and
    the government regulated our lives for our own good.
    When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. - Anais Nin

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    Originally posted by Amled
    before the lawyers and
    the government regulated our lives for our own good.
    Nice...
    No man is free until all men are free - John Hossack
    I agree completely with this Administration’s goal of a regime change in Iraq-John Kerry
    even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act-John Kerry
    He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It’s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat-John Kerry

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