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by: Going Greek Active Indicator LED Icon 15 OP 
~ 7 years ago   Nov 15, '16 7:44am  
Who remembers "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood"?I was just thinking about how crazy & distant America has become as a whole from when I was young(er)...used to watch this as well as Captain Kangaroo with Mr. Green Jeans.https://youtu.be/_4nI7AgUKwk 4951
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donnatella Active Indicator LED Icon 13 Forum Moderator
~ 7 years ago   Nov 15, '16 7:46am  
Good times. 4951
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Burnsway Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 7 years ago   Nov 15, '16 8:05am  
America and the world was just as crazy then as it is now....we just didnt have media pointing it out daily....in our face.
 
Peewee herman
Charles manson
School shootings
 
And numerouse other things. Crazy stuff...just not shoved down our throats 24/7....over and over and OVER.
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ProblemAgain Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 7 years ago   Nov 15, '16 9:16am  
America and the world was just as crazy then as it is now....we just didnt have media pointing it out daily....in our face.
 
Peewee herman
Charles manson
School shootings
 
And numerouse other things. Crazy stuff...just not shoved down our throats 24/7....over and over and OVER.
 
@Burnsway:
it isn't shoved down your throat. your tv has a channel selector and an on/off switch. if you choose to immerse yourself in crazy stuff 24/7, own it. you can change the station to watch petticoat junction or my mother the car or pretty much anything that has been on the tube for 50 years  4951
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Burnsway Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 7 years ago   Nov 15, '16 9:40am  

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>> America and the world was just as crazy then as it is now....we just didnt have media pointing it out daily....in our face.
 
Peewee herman
Charles manson
School shootings
 
And numerouse other things. Crazy stuff...just not shoved down our throats 24/7....over and over and OVER.
 
@Burnsway:
it isn't shoved down your throat. your tv has a channel selector and an on/off switch. if you choose to immerse yourself in crazy stuff 24/7, own it. you can change the station to watch petticoat junction or my mother the car or pretty much anything that has been on the tube for 50 years 
 
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My TV is off 20 out of 24 hours. I was making a generalized statement that bad things happened then just as they do now but now we hear about it...whether it be tv...social media...forums...yappy neigbor...friends ....school....and so fourth.
 
I choose not to live in a bubble...if you want to...go for it. I * immerse myself in a good life* not a crazy one.
 
Carry on
 
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mdizzle Active Indicator LED Icon 5
~ 7 years ago   Nov 15, '16 12:04pm  
Peewee herman
Charles manson
School shootings
 
And numerouse other things.
 
@Burnsway: Awe, leave Pee Wee alone.  Not like he was one of the 250 priests molesting young boys in the catholic church scandals.  @Going Greek: We named our cat Henrietta after the cat in the Land of Make Believe
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Burnsway Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 7 years ago   Nov 15, '16 12:42pm  

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>> Peewee herman
Charles manson
School shootings
 
And numerouse other things.
 
@Burnsway: Awe, leave Pee Wee alone.  Not like he was one of the 250 priests molesting young boys in the catholic church scandals.  @Going Greek: We named our cat Henrietta after the cat in the Land of Make Believe
 
@mdizzle:
 
My point was there was crap happening then too...and yes Im sure preachers and priest were molesting our kids then too. And weird cults and crap everywhere!
 
Lets not forget jim jones.....😱
 
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ProblemAgain Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 7 years ago   Nov 15, '16 12:50pm  

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>> Peewee herman
Charles manson
School shootings
 
And numerouse other things.
 
@Burnsway: Awe, leave Pee Wee alone.  Not like he was one of the 250 priests molesting young boys in the catholic church scandals.  @Going Greek: We named our cat Henrietta after the cat in the Land of Make Believe
 
@mdizzle:
 
My point was there was crap happening then too...and yes Im sure preachers and priest were molesting our kids then too. And weird cults and crap everywhere!
 
Lets not forget jim jones.....😱
 
 
@Burnsway:
or the mobs attacking the mormons and forcing them out of illinois for the long trek to utah...there is a long list..never underestimate the stupidity of people in large groups 4951
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Jherron Active Indicator LED Icon
~ 7 years ago   Nov 15, '16 12:55pm  
The world was worse then than it is now. It wasn't covered as well, shared as easily and we were younger and unaware. 4951
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~ 7 years ago   Nov 15, '16 12:57pm  
America and the world was just as crazy then as it is now....we just didnt have media pointing it out daily....in our face.
 
Peewee herman
Charles manson
School shootings
 
And numerouse other things. Crazy stuff...just not shoved down our throats 24/7....over and over and OVER.
 
@Burnsway:
 
Grand dad walked out of the peewee movie at the theater. We didn't ask him why. I used the opportunity to play video games. 4951
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donnatella Active Indicator LED Icon 13 Forum Moderator
~ 7 years ago   Nov 15, '16 12:57pm  
Back when the news cycle wasn't on a 24 hour rotation, people actually waited to hear and watch the news at the end of the day. Now, to keep viewers tuned in, the media feeds into the news with over-hype and over-exaggeration. Instead of reporting the news, most of the time they are manipulating, creating or adding to the news. 4951
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~ 7 years ago   Nov 15, '16 1:05pm  
Survivor recalls 1959 Houston school blast that killed 6The bombing at Poe Elementary50 years ago, sounds of play were silenced by a blastBy Allan Turner Published 5:30 am, Monday, September 14, 2009 1     Photo: Michael Paulsen, ChronicleEarl Fogler returns to the school where, as a second-grader playing outside during recess, he lost his leg to the Poe Elementary blast.First came the explosion, ripping through the playground with a sound like every school locker on earth slamming shut at once. Then came the carnage — six people killed, half of them children, and almost a score injured. Finally, like a lingering aftershock, came sorrow, anger and the struggle to come to grips with an act senseless and evil.Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Poe Elementary School bombing, paradoxically one of the most horrendous events to mar the city's history and — except in the minds of its aging victims — one of the seemingly least remembered.While schools have been named for Jennie Kolter and James Montgomery, a teacher and custodian killed in the blast, no monuments memorialize the other victims: students William Haws and John Fitch, and Dusty Orgeron, son of the bomber, Paul Orgeron.http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/heights-news/article/Survivor-recalls-1959-Houston-school-blast-that-1732461.php 4951
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~ 7 years ago   Nov 15, '16 1:06pm  
Bath School disasterThe Bath School disaster, sometimes known as the Bath School massacre, was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoeon May 18, 1927, in Bath Township, Michigan, that killed 38 elementary schoolchildren and 6 adults and injured at least 58 other people.[Note 1] Kehoe killed his wife and firebombed his farm, then detonated an explosion in the Bath Consolidated School, before committing suicide by detonating a final device in his truck. It is the deadliest mass murder to take place at a school in United States history.[1][2]Andrew Kehoe, the 55-year-old school board treasurer, was angered by increased taxes and his defeat in the Spring 1926 election for township clerk. He was thought to have planned his "murderous revenge" after that public defeat. He had a reputation for difficulty on the school board and in personal dealings. In addition, in June 1926, he was notified that his mortgage was going to be foreclosed.[3] For much of the next year, a neighbor noticed Kehoe had stopped working on his farm and thought he might be planning suicide. During that period, Kehoe purchased explosives and discreetly planted them on his property and under the school.Kehoe's wife was ill with tuberculosis, he had stopped making mortgage payments, and he was under pressure for foreclosure. Some time between May 16 and the morning of May 18, 1927, Kehoe murdered his wife. Then on the morning of May 18 at about 8:45 a.m., he set off various incendiary devices on his homestead that caused the house and other farm buildings to be destroyed by the explosives' blasts and their subsequent fires.Almost simultaneously, an explosion devastated the north wing of the school building, killing 36 schoolchildren and two teachers. Kehoe had used a timed detonator to ignite hundreds of pounds of dynamite and incendiary pyrotol, which he had secretly planted inside the school over the course of many months. As rescuers began working at the school, Kehoe drove up, stopped, and used a rifle to detonate dynamite inside his shrapnel-filled truck, killing himself, the school superintendent, and several others nearby, as well as injuring more bystanders. During rescue efforts at the school, searchers discovered an additional 500 pounds (230 kg) of unexploded dynamite and pyrotol connected to a timing device set to detonate at the same time as the first explosions; the material was hidden throughout the basement of the south wing. Kehoe had apparently intended to blow up and destroy the entire school. 4951
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Going Greek Active Indicator LED Icon 15 OP 
~ 7 years ago   Nov 15, '16 1:42pm  
I didn't mean for the thread to go this direction. I'm sorry. I was just reflecting on the days when I knew EVERY neighbor on my block, doors where ALWAYS unlocked until sundown, you weren't greeted with a possible firearm when you rang someones doorbell, ice cream trucks that weren't driven by creepy people. Etc. 4951
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~ 7 years ago   Nov 15, '16 1:45pm  
I didn't mean for the thread to go this direction. I'm sorry. I was just reflecting on the days when I knew EVERY neighbor on my block, doors where ALWAYS unlocked until sundown, you weren't greeted with a possible firearm when you rang someones doorbell, ice cream trucks that weren't driven by creepy people. Etc.
 
@Going Greek: Oh just stop it!.....ice cream trucks have always been driven by creepy people!
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Going Greek Active Indicator LED Icon 15 OP 
~ 7 years ago   Nov 15, '16 1:51pm  
Just checkin' to see if you guys are paying attention... 4951
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