The way we were.

Above is one of the best known portraits of the revered father of the nation and America's first president, George Washington.

He is also the latest to fall casualty to America's modern  madness of political correctness as observed below.

 

All of this at a recent Martin Luther King rally where George Washington was put behind a screen "to avoid embarrassing anyone."

Well, if they could put the Son of God on a cross, I suppose George got off lightly.

 

Ian

The way we were.

How about this for a photo: a family outing to the market, taken around 1890.
A trip to market was always an exciting event. Time for the ladies to get dressed up, a day spent shopping and visiting with friends, an hour or so leisurely ride home in the evening and  to bed just after sundown.
 Contrast with the latest 2011 Tim Horton's Coffee Shop drive through sign:

2011 and we are off to market pulled, not by a bullock but by a 120 horse power car. Our maximum wait time for our drive- through coffee and do-nut is two minutes, guaranteed.

My how we have progressed.

Is there a few seconds for God in our slick, well oiled, brave new world?

Ian

The way we were.

Some where in the rear of this "Ban the Bomb" protest march may have been my sister Anne.
There were several marches on the American base at Aldermarston in England in the late nineteen-fifties and sixties and she was a convert to the cause.

Some of the devotees actually chained themselves to the perimeter fence and were dragged away, pieces of fence and all, to be put in the police vans.

If results were anything to go by "Ban the Bombers" failed to stop a single bomb being banned.

For the next 50 years nuclear stockpiles have increased and the atomic club has grown from the original members of USA, Russia, China, UK and France to include India, Israel, Pakistan and, who knows? Iran.

Enough concentrated TNT to blow up the earth a thousand times over.

 I used to smile when I heard of my sister's ardent forays, but maybe, just maybe, this:





is preferable to this:



Ian

The way we were!

This week we are looking at the evolution of worthy causes.
A couple of posters from then and now may help underscore the point.
The dour ladies from 1919 helped bring about a brief period in U.S. history called "The prohibition".






The young beauty queens helped sponsor the 2010 drive for MADD (Mothers against drunk driving).

Basically the cause remains unaltered, but the methods of promoting it have certainly changed in the past 90 years.

Twenty two thousand people died in the U.S.A. last year through alcohol related accidents.

If you don't like the old ladies take it from the young ones:

DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE !

Ian