Rockbilly, oldnslow;
Welcome to the " Codger's corner "..I turned 71 in Sept...LOL
Yes; most pres candidates have been cagey..although I consider R Reagan to be a cut above any of the others in the last fifty years .
In fact; although not perfect, I consider RR to have been the best f the 20th century, although TR was close.
Yesterday was a busy day for me (all charity work), from 4PM till 10:30 PM worked at our legion post gun raffle fund raising event.
Must have been about 250-300 people there. Funds were for 2 little boys (about six & eight) that have been severely handicapped since birth
and are wearing tracheotomy devices permanently, never having tasted any food or drink or spoken a word.
It did my old heart good to see 2 winners become double winners, by turning their newly won rifles back to be auctioned off on the spot, for he boys.
That 700 BDL and Marlin 336 brought nearly another $1000..
...I doubt there was a liberal in the place, so we really enjoyed ourselves !
The morning I spent helping my son in his ministry with youth, working on a repairs day at the Buffalo (NY) Historical Museum grounds...
I worked on an old iron gate at the site of the Pan-American Exposition, within yards of where Pres McKinley was assassinated, over a hundred years ago.
I could not but wonder what has happened to our great nation since then !
Yes there were scandals many years ago, Tea Pot dome, the Black Sox and Tammany Hall..but noting like the degradation we see today..
Those examples of degradation were perpetrated by greedy, selfish individuals...and were quite rare..
Question for the "codger's corner"..When you were a youngster, how many couples in your neighborhood had been divorced, were "shacking up" or one or the other were "abandoned" ?
Did you ever dream (or have a nightmare) that "shacking up" would become a way of life,... homosexuality would ever be considered "another choice" ...or that 4 letter words would routinely roll of teenager's tongues in public ?..That people would in general, act as crudely as many do today, that schools would refuse to enforce the common standards of decency, or indeed that they would be encouraging sin, disease and problems by handing out so-called contraceptives ?
I submit that this coarsening of our social fabric has come about only since the "sickly sixties"..that values of decency were generally held by all but a few of the uncouth, which have always been with us in very small numbers. Now however, it seems this degradation has begun to permeate almost all of our culture; what a shame !
Although I hesitate to be pessimistic, I must admit that I have to agree with Rockbilly . If this nation does not make some major changes in direction soon, we are doomed as a nation !
Generally speaking; just when we are in greatest need of turning toward God...we are turning away ! HE will not be slighted..
Much of the rot in society today we cannot blame on politicians, power brokers or even Hollyweird...much of this garbage goes on because we the public, allow it to;..by
patronizing movies, businesses or handing "party line" votes to radical liberals who would like to see God...dead ..
Well, I have news for their smug, smarmy, psuedo-intellectualism....
GOD WON'T 'ROLL OVER' FOR THEM ! ....NEVER HAS, NEVER WILL !
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