tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post8635304988880063819..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: “Just In Case”Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-48313569178708211282018-07-01T23:11:55.985-04:002018-07-01T23:11:55.985-04:00"... no one sends an unaccompanied ten-year-o..."... no one sends an unaccompanied ten-year-old down to the corner store for a pound of cheese any more."<br /><br />I remember when I was about twelve years old and I was helping a neighbor blast stumps. We came upon one that was particularly tough. We expended the last of our dynamite on it and needed more.<br /><br />The neighbor, a quiet old farmer of German extraction, wrote me a note which I took to the local General Store. I rode my bike the two miles or so to the store and returned with six sticks of "stump repellent'. <br /><br />Try that nowadays!<br /><br />Those WERE the good ol' days.Oldfarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08723282658199062459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-2552930165080380352018-07-01T16:47:42.720-04:002018-07-01T16:47:42.720-04:00In the corner?
Hardly. I'm on the retail end ...In the corner?<br />Hardly. I'm on the retail end of tire iron storage and miscellany, inc. <br /><br />I can scarcely walk across the living room to the front door to yell out to the immediate world to "get the hell off my lawn" without stepping on yet another tire iron.<br /><br />I can tell you this: if there is a tire that needs to be changed- and we all know there's one running off its rim right now- I'm more than willing (and able) to do it.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16814221321483154946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-14997739596308007762018-07-01T15:55:49.613-04:002018-07-01T15:55:49.613-04:00The line about 60 minutes camera crew struck a ner...The line about 60 minutes camera crew struck a nerve in me as I remember a few decades ago the company I worked for had an unpleasant encounter with 60 minutes. The company was portrayed as evil because they were associated with several retirement organizations thru which they mailed their ads for insurance marketed specifically for older citizens. These organizations mailed the ads free of charge because they were non-profit. 60 minutes felt this was an unfair advantage and made the company look like they were evil, greedy and only interested in making a profit. Truth be told the mailing arrangement was not illegal just a good business idea. Didn't matter, the episode aired and made the company out to be villains. Business dropped and many good workers lost their jobs. 60 minutes did a follow up several months later admitting the company had not done anything illegal but it was already too late. I have detested 60 minutes ever since.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10900076950275247791noreply@blogger.com