That’s commie talk! Everyone knows the Railroad was built by hard working, freeberty loving Americans (and a handful of Chinese immigrants, maybe. Only a little.)
It’s the old folk too. Most Boomers got soft after the sixties and never reclaimed their spines.
You know it’s true.
It means we have become so risk adverse as a people we couldn’t settle a playground unless somebody else does the fighting for us.
Wait. Is the ground around the swing sets covered with rubberized mats? Do the steps up to the top of the slide have sure-grip coatings on them? (Did the city even allow for a slide to be installed?) Safety swing seats? With plastic coating the chains at least 6 feet up? And that playground had better not have a jungle gym with monkey bars!!
TommyLucchese:Ah, shake fist kids these days stuff. Great.
It’s the old folk too. Most Boomers got soft after the sixties and never reclaimed their spines.
that’s funny.
WuWei:It means we have become so risk adverse as a people we couldn’t settle a playground unless somebody else does the fighting for us.
Wait. Is the ground around the swing sets covered with rubberized mats? Do the steps up to the top of the slide have sure-grip coatings on them? (Did the city even allow for a slide to be installed?) Safety swing seats? With plastic coating the chains at least 6 feet up? And that playground had better not have a jungle gym with monkey bars!!
Yep.
I have a better one in a book.
It means we have become so risk adverse as a people we couldn’t settle a playground unless somebody else does the fighting for us.
How many people you know could move into Comanche country and live in a stick hut with no agents of the state to protect them? Not a one.
Our enemy changed, and so did our men. You can’t win a world war with cowboys.
It’s December 8th, 1941. Do you need rebels who refuse to obey blackout and radio silence? Or do you need smart, cooperative men who will pool their skills to make the greatest war machine on the planet?
It’s December 8th, 1941. Do you need rebels who refuse to obey blackout and radio silence? Or do you need smart, cooperative men who will pool their skills to make the greatest war machine on the planet?
We would have defeated the Japanese much sooner if people back then were devoted more individualism than the collective good.
Know who did emphasize the collective over the individual back then? The Japanese. And they LOST.
We have turn from the “lets roll” strength after 9/11 to “lets roll up into a ball” and hide with this virus. It’s sad really.
You’ve used that already in another thread…
WuWei:It means we have become so risk adverse as a people we couldn’t settle a playground unless somebody else does the fighting for us.
Wait. Is the ground around the swing sets covered with rubberized mats? Do the steps up to the top of the slide have sure-grip coatings on them? (Did the city even allow for a slide to be installed?) Safety swing seats? With plastic coating the chains at least 6 feet up? And that playground had better not have a jungle gym with monkey bars!!
Yeah, it’s funny how ridiculously dangerous our playgrounds were. That has been a very welcome change.
it means that culturally we have moved light years away from a pioneering spirit. OBVIOUSLY
Yeah, it’s funny how ridiculously dangerous our playgrounds were. That has been a very welcome change.
If the kids can’t get tetanus, are they even playing?
you make a good point but you seem to ignore the transcontinental railroad was started in 1862 under Lincoln which the OP mentioned as a progressive. so not near as clever a comment as you intended.
TommyLucchese: bootz:If our government today wants to preach safety how far have we strayed form the culture of our forebears?
What in the world does this even mean.
It means we have become so risk adverse as a people we couldn’t settle a playground unless somebody else does the fighting for us.
How many people you know could move into Comanche country and live in a stick hut with no agents of the state to protect them? Not a one.
Why would we want to?
WuWei: TommyLucchese: bootz:If our government today wants to preach safety how far have we strayed form the culture of our forebears?
What in the world does this even mean.
It means we have become so risk adverse as a people we couldn’t settle a playground unless somebody else does the fighting for us.
How many people you know could move into Comanche country and live in a stick hut with no agents of the state to protect them? Not a one.
Why would we want to?
Yeah, why are we taking Comanche land?
WuWei:It means we have become so risk adverse as a people we couldn’t settle a playground unless somebody else does the fighting for us.
How many people you know could move into Comanche country and live in a stick hut with no agents of the state to protect them? Not a one.
Our enemy changed, and so did our men. You can’t win a world war with cowboys.
It’s December 8th, 1941. Do you need rebels who refuse to obey blackout and radio silence? Or do you need smart, cooperative men who will pool their skills to make the greatest war machine on the planet?
And yet cowboys and rednecks have won every war we’ve ever fought.
yeah man, why work?
good question, I am sure there were never tribal wars until Europeans brought war culture to the indians
man did you see the size of the wave the Al Qaeda fighters used in Afghanistan.