Lion's Daily Blurb - Thurs., Friday, May 31-June 1

[Lion]

As most of ya know, I live in small town America where they roll up the streets at night. So yea, 99% of the time it's quiet and peaceful. This week we had our very first drive-by shooting. No one was injured fortunately, and the dude is in jail. It's the talk of the town, and will be for at least the next several weeks unless something happens that can top that one. And at one of our local schools, some first grader flipped out and attacked several students with a pair of scissors. Last week at another small town nearby where I live, some dude killed another dude over an argument at a local drinking hole. What ever happened to the good ole' fashion fight with fists, and then shaking hands after it was all over? I don't know...must be something in the drinking water or air. I do know one thing, there sure is a big disregard for life nowadays. Reading the daily newspaper and watching the nightly news confirms to me that much of this world's society has gone bonkers. I dunno, maybe peeps are bored with life in general. If anything, the crazies of this world do provide food for the media, and of course entertainment for the rest of us.

[Mikael Grizzly]

Simple. People don't have moustaches anymore, that's why!

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[Bad_i_BILL]

In your neck of DA woods was it like:

Clop Clop Bang Bang *(Amish style)? :evil:

Seriously, it is a shame that some people have little to no regard for human life.
It seems that some people did not have a father around to take a switch to their :moonie: when they needed it. Easier to be a punk & shoot than to be a man & confront the person.

[zgtrman97]

The Internet has made the world a smaller place. Information is easily accessed these days and that does things to certain people whose thinking patterns lead them to unrealistic conclusions...I mean just the other day I read about a mother who hung her three kids then hung herslf in her own home. They were discovered by the mothers sister and the 8 month old baby was still alive..and he is doing good at last report.
I guess that this is going to become the norm because the media is eating all this up. Unfortunatly they only print one side of the story as does most informational websites.
In the days before Internet life was so much simpler..however these types of things were going on then but we didn't hear about it until way later and it wasn't all at once either.
All this insanity seems to be infecting all cultures and societies and I feel that there is no escape from any of it..it is going to be around us for a long long time before the world decides to step back and say HEY..we need to do something about this.

[allied129]

Man, I remember way back in the 1990s here in Ontario, Canada when it was sooooooo peaceful and people were very nice to each other. There were hardly any shootings either (at least over here). I really hope it all calms down sometime soon since I really loved those days when you didn't have to be afraid or anything bad happening at all.

[berlin88]

In your neck of DA woods was it like:

Clop Clop Bang Bang *(Amish style)? :evil:

Seriously, it is a shame that some people have little to no regard for human life.
It seems that some people did not have a father around to take a switch to their :moonie: when they needed it. Easier to be a punk & shoot than to be a man & confront the person.

Physical punishment is no longer accepted in the USA, thanks to Liberals and Democrats. If Child services or human services even thinks you did somehting like use a switch on a kid, they will take you to court and try to get a jury to convict you of child abuse or neglet.

Any osrt of discipline that involves denial of food (like no dinner), physical punishment, verbal asssaults or psychological stuff is not politically correct in some peoples eyes. They see those things as abuse, neglect or child endangerment, and will try to send you to jail and deprive you of custody of the kids.

50 years ago, it may have been acceptable to spank a kid, but now you can go to jail, simply for trying to discipline a little kid. CHild advocates, liberals and other people would rather you not disicpline them at all, instead of using a form of disicpline that's not politically correct.

The biggest problem America has today, is that we no longer condone forms of discipline that were very effective when used. Instead, we use forms of discipline that do nothing to solve the problem, but are deemed "politically correct". In previous generations, when someone got spanked, they learned very quickly not to repat the offense.

Even the UN has outlawed spanking :(

Machiavelli's phrase of "It is better to be feared than loved", does not seem to mean anything anymore.

[Wrecking Crew]

My generation and the ones before were aware of the adage, "Spare the rod and spoil the child". It is all very well for the do gooders to say we shouldn't spank, verbally abuse or withdraw treats, but not one of them has come up with an alternative except, "talk to the little precious and he/she will be good" It has not, does not and never will work.

My five sons knew the penalties for bad behaviour and turned out pretty good. (Don't tell them I said that :D ) A family should be run as a benelevent dictatorship IMHO. If the Social workers want to do things their way then perhaps they should take responsibility for all the dramas that follows and pay for all the court costs etc.

[NuclearDreams]

My generation and the ones before were aware of the adage, "Spare the rod and spoil the child". It is all very well for the do gooders to say we shouldn't spank, verbally abuse or withdraw treats, but not one of them has come up with an alternative except, "talk to the little precious and he/she will be good" It has not, does not and never will work.

My five sons knew the penalties for bad behaviour and turned out pretty good. (Don't tell them I said that :D ) A family should be run as a benelevent dictatorship IMHO. If the Social workers want to do things their way then perhaps they should take responsibility for all the dramas that follows and pay for all the court costs etc.

I agree. Words from the wise.

[TQ]

I actually thought the overall crime rate in the US has actually decreased over time, but media coverage has skyrocketed, creating a false impression?

Smacking has been banned in New Zealand now, too. Sign of the times. Speaking as someone who's never had kids and has no particular desire to (giving me approximately zero right to talk but I am anyway :p ), it does seem to me that corporal punishment is the least imaginative way to discipline a child. A large part of me wants to believe that it shouldn't be necessary to hit someone in order to make them a good person, though the fact may be that a toddler whose brain is still forming probably can't understand much more than misbehaviour=pain, unfortunately.

[Shadi]

Yeah!Like what the hell is wrong with people these days, THANK GOD we don't have anyone selling guns illegaly around here, the world has changed way too much. During lunch break(2 to 3 days ago) at school, I was walking around with a few friends, all o6f a sudden a girl comes and punches my friend on the face, and runs off.......In the same time two turkish guys come and hit another friend of mine on the teeth (which are now loose) with their elbow and ran off aswell... for no reason....

I was really like "wtf" after what had happened, i've never seen anything like that happen before.

[Mighty BOB!]

Just read the relevant bit of my signature.

[Delta-4]

Well, I live in a town where the worst we get is the occasional elderly person drowning off the coast, so...
I can't comment, as I've no experience with this kind of thing.

[Demeuser]

But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!

[General Al Ramsey]

Sorry to hear about the drive by LION. It does seem that the crazies are moving closer to home. We had a murder-suicide on our street once and the kids from the family ran over to our house after it happened. It was pretty sad to think that life can be treated so cheaply. But this has been going on for a while now. The 20th century had the most deaths by wars and of course murder, than any other period. This is all in a so called "enlightenment era", where we are supposedly getting smarter. When supposedly our sense of reason would take over.

However I think it has more to do with the idea that God is dead. In 1966 Time magazine ran an article that said "Is God Dead". This has been a prevailing thought since then. If there is nothing to fear after death and life isn't worth living now, why not take your life or someone else's. If there is no ultimate fear of God and man is free to act in any manner he feels free to do so. He will! Hence the "No Fear" bumper sticker have become standard slogan for our society.

After all, if there is no God, life is an accident and only the strong survive. This philosophy has filled our universities, our entertainment, and is rampant in the media.

[Daishi]

God doesn't owe us a peaceful, happy world. Who's to say he's dead just because the world takes a turn for the worse?

I agree, but I think that the craziness is all because people in America are more discontent, religion aside. The world seems to be falling apart, nuclear arms still exist throughout the world, the kids aren't doing as well as they should. Add a war/administration that has divided our country and you might be a bit less happy than before. Add the troubles of your own life and you might be driven over the edge to cope.

[General Al Ramsey]

This administration did nothing to divide the country in case you have not noticed we have been divided for some time now.

[Iamrecognized]

For an internet community you guys are disturbingly conservative.

*retch*

Anyway, no violence it not worse than it has been, and I seriously doubt that is much of a difference in the regaurd for human life. When you look back just 60 or so years you see that a large part of the United States (as well as others) found it perfectly fine to lynch people for racial reasons. Back a litte further we used immigrant workers on railroads so inhumanely, that people didn't even wait for them to move to set off exposions. Then there were duels, the old ways people used to fight wars (ie the revolutionary wars) witch hunts, and going back further and further things like human torture and sacrifice. Now really do you think that because gangs have driveby shootings occasionally that means that we are evil and looseing respect for human life? Or is it because less people believe in God? Well thats another bull**** reason, as many people that claimed to believe in God before were only saying it because it was expected of them. If you want to use violence as a scale of what the state of the world is, and then rebuke what causes it, you would have to blame religion as the number one problem. I mean honestly, that is what a large number of wars are over. And then we have the whole thing with the middle east.
To the person who mentioned that we have always been divided, or at least had been for a long time, I pull the BS card again. Back less than ten years ago, Congress members would go out to lunch and discuss thing with each other and whatever, but in the past few years (coughbushadministrationcough) they avoid each other on a party basis; I have heard it described almost as hatred. And its really religion at fault again for big divisions. What is one of the big things right now? Gay marraige. And that is basically the Christians vs. everyone else, and it is a big enough matter to cause extreme division. We have always had division, to a small degree, but this is way worse. In fact it seems to be creating a polarization effect, similar to that which happened in the lead up to the Civil War.

[eLDiablo]

For an internet community you guys are disturbingly conservative.



Dont judge a community on the opinions of five people.

[Iamrecognized]

Dont judge a community on the opinions of five people.

Well, from what I have seen, it is a bit on the conservative side... and if it is 5vs0, then that seems to indicate a slight bias one way.

[eLDiablo]

Well, from what I have seen, it is a bit on the conservative side... and if it is 5vs0, then that seems to indicate a slight bias one way.

I used to post in the's daily blurbs more, but most of the Conservatives on this board are too stubborn to bother with.

So once again, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.