Emails are forwarded about what it was like to grow up in the 60s and 70s, but I have to add my own small retrospect about when we didn't have to wear seatbelts; anyone could smoke a cigarette; fireworks came in strengths that could blow your hands off and we all knew someone who had done that; and spin-the-bottle JUST got a kiss, and THAT felt like a delicious taboo. Boys could carry a pocket knife and I could take a flare to show and tell without the ATF surrounding my parents' trailer afterward. Lawsuits were rare and colas were a dime, but they tasted different, and better, I swear they did!
I'm afraid of losing my freedom, the thing I was born into and came very happily to take for granted. They're going to put an obesity tax on that cola; cigarettes are effectively outlawed; and OK, so they are a hazard, but so is life, it's 100% fatal (OK 99.9999999%) We won't be able to sell our houses without updating them to Green standards. I can't drive my Ford Expedition because it's a guzzler, how about the fact that it can haul 9 people? Does that count? I can't shoot a wolf if it's killing my kittens. Everything about me is going to be measured, weighed and what privileges I have or what I pay for them will be meted out according to someone else's rigorous standard.
I thought only crazy little men with funny mustaches and a penchant for throwing up a hand while saying "heil!" cared about a Master Race and total control.
We're being cinched like fish in a net and we will NOT be able to move away from the filet knife. The unborn aren't safe, the elderly aren't safe, the infirm and disabled are surely a "drain on the system."
Well, that's enough trouble for one day. By the way, I LIKE Sarah Palin and I get what she did ENTIRELY. OK, so it wasn't enough for one day after all.
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Of course, I sadly have to admit that while I am aching for a woman president who has the polish of Margaret Thatcher--I fear Mrs. Palin is not what I have in mind. My mother says, "so what she wrote in her hand? Lot's of people write in their hands." She's leaning in on that last agonal gasp of hope in a mother-of-a-retarded-child as a world leader. That's well and good. Sarah holds an olde worlde ethic. It's charming like my Family Christmas Letters of the 1980's. HOWEVER we need to focus on more than fossil fuels and she's just too "Gidget Does DC." Sigh.
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