It does explain a few things.....

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"Try and fathom the hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured, but not everyone must prove they are a citizen".

Hmmm. I never considered you to be the spit into the wind James Dean type. You were out of control! What else don't we know about your reckless past? One of those cards could have popped loose and took out an eye.

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As I grow older, I grow wiser. The wiser I become, the more I understand how little I know. sunwestdog
Life isn't fair. But people should be. sunwestdog
I reject your reality and substitute my own. Adam Savage

So give over, SWD, what reckless things did you survive as a child?

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"Try and fathom the hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured, but not everyone must prove they are a citizen".

Huh. I once took a 12 foot long pool skimmer and held it up toward the sky during a lightning storm just to freak everyone out. I still haven't heard the end of. You would think after a week, everyone would have let it go.

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As I grow older, I grow wiser. The wiser I become, the more I understand how little I know. sunwestdog
Life isn't fair. But people should be. sunwestdog
I reject your reality and substitute my own. Adam Savage

By God, it's friggin Ben Franklin......

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Courtesy of Swissman

A gun in the hands of a free man frightens and angers the autocrat, not because he fears the power of the gun, but, rather, the spirit of the man who holds it.

ANONYMOUS

These people would have freaked out over our home made mini-bikes and go-carts. The only brakes we had were our feet if you didn't slide it sideways right.

We had an old car hood that we'd wax up and go sledding on. We'd pile 6-8 kids at a time and go flying down the hill behind our house, trying to push each other off as we went.

We also built our own go-carts and coasted them down powerline roads with 50' drop-offs on one side.

One year they built a powerline through our property and we spent the next couple years seeing who could climb the highest before they got scared.

We used to make apple bazookas: Hollow out the end of an apple and stuff it full of firecrackers. We had a piece of pipe with a screw-on cap on one end that we'd drilled a hole through. If I have to explain to you what happened next, then you are one of the kids that are no longer allowed to play dodgeball.

We built model cars and then blew them up with firecrackers. Then we'd take the pieces that were left and melt them together to make more cars to blow up.

We'd walk the two miles to the grocery store along lonely country roads through the woods, picking up pop/beer bottles along the way for money for candy.

The only two places we weren't allowed to play were the guy's fields down the road from us (who was a pedophile, but everyone knew about it and stayed away from him) and the old gravel pit (because it was used as a firing range and the ground was literally covered with shattered glass).

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

Leftists and very small children don't seem to be able to understand that the Government isn't there to "fix" the economy, anymore than a tick is there to fix your dog.~Oftencold

And see, you grew up okay.

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"Try and fathom the hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured, but not everyone must prove they are a citizen".

Mike, I know you don't talk about it much, but I know you have done a lot of daring things and could probably challenge Evel Knievel for broken bones. You were a crazy kid!

LOL yeah dodge ball was not on top of my list of worries for injuries.