How Times Have Changed

Comment #4

sully16 — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 02:19:31 GMT

You haven't lived until you've been there in person, This is business as usual all over the metro Detroit area.

Comment #3

time*treat — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 19:01:38 GMT

It's part of the latest trash reality t.v. trend. <br />We've gone from trading junk stocks, to trading junk houses (flip this house, etc. Yeah, I've got their "flip" right here), now we're down to just trading ... junk (antique-pickers-this, pawn-storage-that). Just another less-than-zero-sum-game way of separating newbies from their money. <br />A lot of product/service placement and some no-list actors finally getting paid, though.

Comment #2

Tenaj — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:35:04 GMT

I don't think religion and the Constitution ever left, He's still God. Morality changes with whom and what is governing the people. History shows us that. But I agree with John Adams that we are incapable of contending with human passions and that the Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.

Comment #1

sully16 — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:06:14 GMT

Don't ever wonder why I am worn out.

Original Blog Entry: How Times Have Changed

time*treat — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:08:53 GMT

How Times Have Changed

by Walter E. Williams

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Much of what's accepted today would have been seen as bizarre and lowdown yesteryear. Out-of-wedlock childbirth was a disgrace and surely wouldn't have occasioned a baby shower. Popular TV shows such as The Jerry Springer Show and Maury feature guests who openly discuss despicable acts in their personal lives, often to the applause of the audience. Shame is going the way of the dinosaur.

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[A] society's first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions and moral values. These behavioral norms transmitted by example, word of mouth, religious teachings, rules of etiquette and manners represent a body of wisdom distilled over the ages through experience and trial and error. They include important legal thou-shalt-nots such as shalt not murder, steal, lie or cheat but they also include all those civilities one might call ladylike or gentlemanly behavior.

Police officers and courts can never replace these social restraints on personal conduct. At best, laws, police and the criminal justice system are a society's last desperate line of defense.

http://lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams135.html

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Because we have no government, armed with power, capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. -- John Adams

Which left first, religion morality or the Constitution?

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