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• 07Apr

  Remember When…

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  Another Goody For The Oldtimers

  1. My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn’t seem to get food poisoning.
  2. My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in icepack coolers, but I can’t remember getting e.coli .
  3. Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
  4. The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.
  5. We all took gym, not PE… and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked’s (only worn in gym)
     instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can’t recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now..
  6. Flunking gym was not an option… even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.
  7. Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detent ion after school caught all sorts of negative attention.
  8. We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.
  9. I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.
  10. I just can’t recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.
  11. Oh yeah… and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
  12. We played ‘king of the hill’ on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn’t sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.

      Now it’s a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

  13. We didn’t act up at the neighbor’s house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked there and then we got butt spanked again when we got home.
  14. I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.
  15. To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that?

  We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn’t even notice that the entire country wasn’t taking Prozac! How did we ever survive?

  LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA, AND TO ALL WHO DIDN’T- SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN’T TRADE I T FOR ANYTHING
  Pass this to someone (over age 50, of course), and brighten their day by helping them to remember that life’s most simple pleasures are very often the best!

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• 23Mar

  Canadians Voting Again

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  For the 4th time in 7 years Canadians will again be going to the polls. Many Canucks will undoubtedly feel that this is just too much to take. Could this deter many from voting? Will we see the voter count down in parts of the country that already feel unheard in Ottawa. Time will tell I guess.

  I have long felt that there should be an option on the ballot that says “I don’t support any of the issues or any of the politicians, put something on the table for the rest of us”, or something to that effect. Some way to count the dissatisfied portion of the Canadian public.

  There are many Canadians who feel it is senseless to vote as the outcome is decided by the eastern part of the country and the issue has already been resolved by the time votes from the west are counted. I share these feelings. Perhaps an equal number of Parliamentary members from each province would be a better option…perhaps it would lead to more bickering and in-house rivalry but it may be a fairer way to get Canadians heard.

  One leader has finally decided to take the side of the rural Canadian community that is very short on family doctors. Shouldn’t this be the concern of all the members, of all Canadians and so the concern of all parties?

  One province is taking the step to break down the walls between hospitals and medical practitioners making it easier to share medical information. Shouldn’t this be the way the Country goes? Isn’t this something that should be available to all of us?

  We all realize that if we do not vote then we should not complain about the outcome, so I don’t, much or often. But what do we do if we don’t agree with any of them…

  • settle for the one we feel could do the least damage…
  • do an ‘eeny meeny miney mo’…
  • close our eyes and make a choice?

  We may not all realize that ‘destroyed ballots’, those filled in with more than one choice or not x’d in the right spot are actually counted. This could be a way to share our feelings of non-support and get a message to those who are ‘representing our voters’, ‘speaking for the people’ etc. that they are thinking more of their image in Parliament than they are for the ones they speak for.

  If the number of ‘spoiled’ ballots was significantly higher than the number of ‘countable’ ballots would this get the message to them? Could this make it crystal clear that we are not happy with what is happening?

  The present government seems to think that our only concern is the budget…what they will do for us…how they will cut back spending here and increase spending there…but it is not our only concern.

  How can sending fighter bombers to make war be more important that getting Canadians out of the ‘meltdown’?
  Will we wait until one of our own is ‘determined to have contacted radiation poisoning’ before we move them all to safety?

  Politicians charged and found guilty of ‘stealing money’ from the government but still allowed to collect a pension from the backs of the public should be of more importance. $80,000/year could go a long way with other issues like homelessness, unemployment, lack of doctors and other issues. Crooks are crooks and should not be allowed to reap any benefits from our pocketbook.

  A leading party almost found guilty of contempt of it’s own parliament wants to be elected again!

  So here’s my suggestion…Go out and vote…but if you are not in agreement with any of them then make the ballot uncountable…

  If you have ever not voted for one reason or another then it’s time to let your voice be heard, be counted and get the message home that we expect, no, demand more from our politicians!

  Or, is it time to follow the lead from the Arab worlds and begin our own uprising against dishonest, unethical political regimes?

  These statements are of course just my humble opinion and I encourage each Canadian to come their own opinions. But do come to an opinion…let us not be lethargic…state your thoughts loud and clear..let your voice be heard.

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