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13 years 10 months ago #6543 by BUILDING MY SASS
Times change... was created by BUILDING MY SASS
I got this from a friend...being the age I am...I thought it made alot of sense....things and times have changed...and not all for the best...hope you like it....
BMS....




HIGH SCHOOL -- 1958 vs. 2010
Scenario 1:
Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack.
1958 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2010 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

Scenario 2:
Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1958 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2010 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it.


Scenario 3:
Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students.
1958 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2010 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The school gets extra money from the state because Jeffrey has a disability.



Scenario 4:
Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt. Billy must do chores to earn the money to pay for the window.
1958 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college and becomes a responsible, successful businessman.
2010 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist.


Scenario 5:
Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1958 - Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking dock.
2010 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario 6:
Pedro fails high school English.
1958 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and goes to college.
2010 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against the state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English is then banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.


Scenario 7: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up a red ant bed.
1958 - Ants die.
2010- ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents -- and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.



Scenario 8: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1958 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2010 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy
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This should hit every email inbox to show just how stupid we have become!!
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13 years 6 months ago #7615 by edritchey
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I guess I'm old enough to agree with you but I don't think things are quite that bad at least not in my neck of the woods. I'm going to be fifty in a couple weeks, I wonder what my grandparents would think about the way things are now it they were still here. I know they would be shocked to hear about things that would go on in the schools when I was a kid and that was nothing like the things you hear about today.

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13 years 6 months ago #7623 by silver78
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Yes Times do change - have you seen what happened to the Ant and Grasshopper story?

The Ant and the Grasshopper

Old Version:

The ant worked hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thought the ant was a fool and laughed and danced and played the summer away.

Come winter, the ant was warm and well fed.

The grasshopper had no food or shelter, so he died out in the cold.

Moral of the story: Be responsible for yourself!

Modern Version:

The ant worked hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thought the ant was a fool and laughed and danced and played the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper called a press conference and demanded to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others were cold and starving.

CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC showed up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

America was stunned by the sharp contrast.

How could this be in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper was allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appeared on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cried when they sang, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'

Acorn staged a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations filmed the group singing, ‘We shall overcome’.

Jeremiah Wright then had the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid exclaimed in an interview with Larry King the ant had got rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both called for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafted the Economic Equity and Anti - Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant was fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home was confiscated by the government Green Czar.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ants food while the government house he was in, which just happened to be the ant's old house, crumbled around him because he did not maintain it.

The ant had disappeared in the snow.

The grasshopper was found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, was taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorized the once peaceful neighborhood.

Moral of the story: Be careful how you vote

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13 years 6 months ago #7627 by BUILDING MY SASS
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That Ain't No SH@T EITHER...that is the way it has become...I and my wife see it everyday...but I won't get on my "SOAP BOX"....I might Offend someone... :angry: :evil:
GREAT POST ...AND THE MORALE AS WELL...

BMS

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13 years 6 months ago #7629 by edritchey
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That was a truly awesome post.

Funny and depressing at the same time.

Awesome!!!


:laugh:

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13 years 6 months ago #7633 by Akai
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Think the ant should have used his AR-10 and took care of the Grasshopper and the hole darn bunch just to make an example of them!

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13 years 6 months ago #7639 by Akai
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it."

-- Abraham Lincoln, 4 April 1861

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13 years 1 month ago #9209 by Redscout02
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So is it me or do those Occupy protester's remind anyone elese od ZOMBIE'S? Just asking ??

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13 years 1 month ago #9212 by silver78
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The OWS people do not remind me of Zombies - they remind me of Grasshoppers as explained in my prior post above.

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13 years 1 month ago #9213 by Todeemax
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One of pet peeves is "Why do we let so many illegals here, pay their bills, feed them, give them hospitalization, make their illegal kids citizens, when there are so many poor naturalized Americans who can hardly make it, or get jobs?
Hope I'm not too political, but it is a real issue in Houston, a sanctuary city.

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