Vents: Random Acts of Venting!

[me]

Oh Joy! 

Madison County has resurrected the wheel tax. . . 

All I have to say is they had better get out and fill all these potholes and be mighty damned quick about it. 

You got that right.  My daughter knows someone who hit one, it was dark out, and lost an entire wheel.  He took pics, called the cops out, and did a police report. 

[me]

� Being Green

�Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.


�The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."

�The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

�She was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in its day.

�Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over.
�So they really were recycled.

�But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.

�Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings.

�Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.


�But too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then.
�We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.

But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
�But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

�But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

�We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

�But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

�Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

�But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?

�Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person...

�We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off... especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.

[Palehorse]

Speed limit = 55 mph

(What blue hairs see) = 40 mph.

Why does Indiana have so many blue hairs? And why must so many of them go to the casino? 

[The Troll]

Speed limit = 55 mph

(What blue hairs see) = 40 mph.

Why does Indiana have so many blue hairs? And why must so many of them go to the casino? 

  Really we are lucky here in Indiana, just go to Florida.  Even the squirrels have walkers.     

[The Troll]

                                                 

  If you want to see something really cruel, just go to You Tube and watch a killer group of cops kill a homeless man camping behind a rock.  Not only shooting him in the back with a high power rifle, letting a police dog chew on him, handcuff him, bean bag him with a shot gun AFTER HE IS ALREADY.   

  Watch it if you can and if you don't call it MURDER and crime where these cops need to be put in prison, KISS MY Butt.   

  These bastards are PURE YELLOW and they try to call themselves PEACE OFFICERS.      PURE YELLOW MURDERS.   

[Exterminator]

Welcome to the end of democracy.

[Palehorse]

Welcome to the end of democracy.

Dude! I was JUST going to post about this!

Now, money will buy legislation and our votes are now worth LESS than toilet paper! 

[Henry Hawk]

I heard this said: The First Amendment doesn't guarantee a level playing field—just the equal opportunity to speak, associate, and engage in political activity.  THAT is what the court correctly ruled upon.

[Exterminator]

You can't fix stupid.   

[Henry Hawk]

You can't fix stupid.   

That is obvious....

[Exterminator]

That is obvious....

Indeed.

[Henry Hawk]

Indeed.

Spot on

[Exterminator]

So it's your opinion that big money should have absolute control of our government?  If not, how do you think this doesn't provide them with that access?

[Henry Hawk]

So it's your opinion that big money should have absolute control of our government?  If not, how do you think this doesn't provide them with that access?

Didn't say I did.....Let me ask you is it your opinion that our government gets to decide how we spend our money?

[Exterminator]

Didn't say I did.....Let me ask you is it your opinion that our government gets to decide how we spend our money?

You tell me.  Should I be able to spend my money on meth or heroin if I want to?  How about on an underage prostitute?  Should I be able to buy a slave?  How about pay someone to assassinate someone I don't like?

Of course not and the reason we allow the government to decide how we spend our money in such cases is because we, as a society, see these things as morally reprehensible.  I would submit that allowing people to spend their money to buy influence in the political process that allows them to get legislation passed that benefits only them and to the detriment of the rest of society rises to that same level.