Comments on: Yeah, sorry he’s not a big enough Tool for ya’

By: BearCountry

BearCountry — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:47:36 +0000

I’m not much of a Nixon fan, but he did establish the EPA and he stopped the Cross-Florida barge canal. I believe that those are two good things with long lasting effects.

By: T-Bear

T-Bear — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:46:15 +0000

That is something that cannot be compared, what I was comparing was the trajectory of excellence since that time. The people today will never experience what the military conscripts did returning from war to a country alien to their experiences so great were the rate of changes in public perception during that period. The nearest will be Gulf War II but the conscript is missing for either GW I or II. Aside from that, it is the plunge to abysmal levels in the general product of the educational system, the institutionalization of ignorance and belief, the demeaning of fact and knowledge, the repudiation of excellence in the public arena. Propaganda and lie have replaced fact and analysis in the public awareness.

By: RevBev

RevBev — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:59:57 +0000

What rare memories….I do recall that and mixing in the color. Who knows what that little color pack was? My mother kept her grocery coupons for years…never knew if we might need them again. Thanks for remembering.

By: Crosstimbers

Crosstimbers — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:58:22 +0000

Considering what our parents dealt with, and how they did, I’m reluctant to compare the accomplishments of successive generations/age groups.

By: KayInMaine

KayInMaine — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:38:38 +0000

Me too! I get teary eyed in the face of REAL compassion as Barack exhibits all the time. Yesterday he and his family were feeding the homeless and I cried looking at the stills of the morning, as well as, the video of him talking about it!

I’m calm. *inhale*

*exhale*

;-)

By: KayInMaine

KayInMaine — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:36:21 +0000

LOL! Thanks for the comments above about feeling the ‘calm’ this year! I was in the shower getting ready to go to work with the rest of the schmucks in our country (and I was working on a post). ;-)

HAVE A GREAT DAY EVERYONE! We deserve it, don’t we? Why yes, after 8 years of madness, we do deserve lots of great days!

By: T-Bear

T-Bear — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:17:53 +0000

EPU’d

This is a good example of the effects a governmental policy has on the economy. Whereas the US did not continue the rationing of goods and food, GB (and by extension Ireland) did. As a consequence, the recovery from the economic damages of WWII were delayed into the ’50s for both GB and Ireland was delayed even longer IIRC being a subsidiary economy to the British.

By: T-Bear

T-Bear — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:11:13 +0000

“They (’44ers) would say that. ;-) Since this is a “They who must be obeyed” it is perfectly correct to broaden the horizons. Actually, it is my contention that those who were being educated when Sputnik sailed the cold October skies was the beneficiary of a national call to excellence to meet the challenge. There have been no other classes that have since equalled the records of that time. This is also the ending years of teachers careers who started in the Great depression which filtered out all but the best. disclaimer – Vintage 43 here as well.

By: nomolos

nomolos — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:08:31 +0000

No I don’t I am afraid. It sounds horrible though. We were in Ireland, on a farm so a LOT of cheating went on. Farmers were allowed to keep some product for their families but if the milk came from the cow and into a container before it got to the farmer it was “fair game”. I learnt to milk at a very early age and homemade butter is still te best!!!

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:04:02 +0000

Do you remember the white margarine in a plastic package with a yellow color dot in one end? It was my job to massage the color dot with the margarine until it was uniformly yellow.