"tom watson" wrote in message
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I, like many of you, grew up in a global climate of fear, wherein we
were taught as little children to hide under our desks in response to
the fear of nuclear war.

I, like many of you, grew up listening to the harpies talking about
the Population Bomb.

I, like many of you, grew up thinking that we would never survive the
Silent Spring.

I, like many of you, grew up in a world where the USA made the cars
and everyone else bought them.

I, like you, grew up in a world where Barry Goldwater was a
Conservative and LBJ was a Liberal.

My children are not growing up in a world like you and I grew up in.

It is difficult for me to explain to them that history is often wrong
and that the home team is not always the hero.

When I was younger and smarter I described myself as a "Barry
Goldwater Democrat".

You old guys understand the complexity that underlies such a
statement.

Now I just stick to the old timey, "Fiscal Conservative - Social
Liberal", and live within the stresses that the definition implies.

Global Warming can kiss my ass. I'm a lot more worried about Persia
and Byzantium.


Well, if it weren't for global warming, I'd be sitting here drinking this
beer under 35 feet of ice.
That is, considering that there were 5 or 6 ice ages according to what I was
taught in school.
But then, they don't even teach what I was taught in school anymore.
Technology has proven that 90% of what the so-called scientists of the day
were calling fact was nothing more than the same BS as global warming today.
I wonder if we can ever believe anything we didn't live through.
My grandkids actually buy this crap, because they trust their teachers just
like we did.
They don't realize that the people who got their degrees without passing any
tests because they were minority or from a ghetto are now running the
education system. Because they couldn't cut it anywhere but there or in
politics. They don't even know the history other than the made up history of
today. I wonder if the history we were taught is valid? I doubt it. I do
know my dad was in the Philippines in WWII.
But other than that, I won't swear to anything else I didn't see myself. Of
course, we all saw JFK get shot on tv.

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