OT When I was about 12, my WHITE friend had a cap pistol

[John Kuthe]

And when A WHITE Police Officer came up to us on foot in lilly WHITE Crestwood MO, he pulled it out and fired several shots at the officer.

We walked away ALIVE! The officer was of course scared, but calmly walked over, grabbed the cap pistol and threw it very far away. Then read us the Riot Act!

Not so if one is BLACK:

https://www.pbs.org/video/talk-race-america-talk-race-america/

Now THIS is The PROBLEM!

John Kuthe, Climate Anarchist and 100% Vegetarian

[dsi1]

When we lived on the mainland, my son and the kids in the condo would run all over the place with plastic guns pretending to shoot each other. It was the darnedest thing. The kids there were practicing to be little criminals. I didn't much care for those kids.

My son even said a new phrase that he learned, "slimy cunt muscle." Hoo boy, that was the most awful thing that I heard come out of his mouth at the time and ever since. I told him he couldn't say that because it was a bad thing to say and he never did. Those kids on the mainland were a bad influence!

[Bruce]

On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 18:53:56 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 <dsi...@hawaiiantel.net>
wrote:

>On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 3:39:42 PM UTC-10, John Kuthe wrote:
>> And when A WHITE Police Officer came up to us on foot in lilly WHITE Crestwood MO, he pulled it out and fired several shots at the officer.
>>
>> We walked away ALIVE! The officer was of course scared, but calmly walked over, grabbed the cap pistol and threw it very far away. Then read us the Riot Act!
>>
>> Not so if one is BLACK:
>>
>> https://www.pbs.org/video/talk-race-america-talk-race-america/
>>
>> Now THIS is The PROBLEM!
>>
>> John Kuthe, Climate Anarchist and 100% Vegetarian
>
>When we lived on the mainland, my son and the kids in the condo would run all over the place with plastic guns pretending to shoot each other. It was the darnedest thing. The kids there were practicing to be little criminals. I didn't much care for those kids.

Well adapted American kids, I'd say.

[Alex]

Times have changed.  The snowflakes are upset with anything remotely
"politically incorrect".

[John Kuthe]

Ya think much? WHITE Alex? BULLSHIT!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till

John Kuthe...

[Christ...@deathtochristianity.pl]

Well john when you were 12 it was like 1895 or around there somewhere
and race was an issue.

all this crap that is happening now has nothing to do with race it has
to do with stupidity and a lack of education.

The only racist actions were the idiots painting black lives matter on
the street and naming that plaza black lives matter plaza.
People are SO FUCKING STUPID.

The black people want to scream "racist" for whatever their agenda is
and not all black people are like that. I am just talking about the
idiots that are painting the damn street and those that support that
crap

--

____/~~~sine qua non~~~\____

[Bruce]

On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 03:32:45 -0500, Sqwertz <sqwe...@gmail.invalid>
wrote:

>On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 18:53:56 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 wrote:
>
>> When we lived on the mainland, my son and the kids in the condo
>> would run all over the place with plastic guns pretending to
>> shoot each other. It was the darnedest thing. The kids there were
>> practicing to be little criminals. I didn't much care for those
>> kids.
>>
>> My son even said a new phrase that he learned, "slimy cunt
>> muscle." Hoo boy, that was the most awful thing that I heard come
>> out of his mouth at the time and ever since. I told him he
>> couldn't say that because it was a bad thing to say and he never
>> did. Those kids on the mainland were a bad influence!
>

>Isn't 'the mainland', for you at least, Japan?
>
>Otherwise, I think Bruce would give you an A+ for anti-American
>trolling.

What? I despise anti-American trolling. America's my favourite
superpower!

[Cindy Hamilton]

On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 9:54:00 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 3:39:42 PM UTC-10, John Kuthe wrote:
> > And when A WHITE Police Officer came up to us on foot in lilly WHITE Crestwood MO, he pulled it out and fired several shots at the officer.
> >
> > We walked away ALIVE! The officer was of course scared, but calmly walked over, grabbed the cap pistol and threw it very far away. Then read us the Riot Act!
> >
> > Not so if one is BLACK:
> >
> > https://www.pbs.org/video/talk-race-america-talk-race-america/
> >
> > Now THIS is The PROBLEM!
> >
> > John Kuthe, Climate Anarchist and 100% Vegetarian
>
> When we lived on the mainland, my son and the kids in the condo would run all over the place with plastic guns pretending to shoot each other. It was the darnedest thing. The kids there were practicing to be little criminals. I didn't much care for those kids.

When I was a kid we all had toy guns and pretended to shoot each other.
None of us became criminals.

What did you do as a kid? Meditate?

Cindy Hamilton

[John Kuthe]

On Sunday, June 7, 2020 at 1:56:47 AM UTC-5, Christ...@deathtochristianity.pl wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 18:39:39 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe
> <johnk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >And when A WHITE Police Officer came up to us on foot in lilly WHITE Crestwood MO, he pulled it out and fired several shots at the officer.
> >
> >We walked away ALIVE! The officer was of course scared, but calmly walked over, grabbed the cap pistol and threw it very far away. Then read us the Riot Act!
> >
> >Not so if one is BLACK:
> >
> >https://www.pbs.org/video/talk-race-america-talk-race-america/
> >
> >Now THIS is The PROBLEM!
> >
> >John Kuthe, Climate Anarchist and 100% Vegetarian
>
> Well john when you were 12 it was like 1895 or around there somewhere
> and race was an issue.

It was 1972 and race has always been an issue.

> all this crap that is happening now has nothing to do with race it has
> to do with stupidity and a lack of education.

No, it is still about race, because Homo sapiens are stupid.

> The only racist actions were the idiots painting black lives matter on
> the street and naming that plaza black lives matter plaza.
> People are SO FUCKING STUPID.

WHITE people are particulaly stupid. White SUPREMACISTS immune to the race issues.

> The black people want to scream "racist" for whatever their agenda is
> and not all black people are like that. I am just talking about the
> idiots that are painting the damn street and those that support that
> crap

"Their agenda" is to STOP the White Suprermacist Police killing of people of color, but YOU are too White Supremacist to see that!


Dipshit! :-(

[Dave Smith]

As did we. We also had access to my father's workshop, lumber and
various scraps of steel and copper and made toy guns

[Gary]

Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> When I was a kid we all had toy guns and pretended to shoot each other.
> None of us became criminals.

When I was a kid, all boys played "Army." Those war hero guys
in the movies were our heros.
Many young years too. Our fake guns looked real and us lucky
kids got REAL army surplus equipment for Christmas.

I still have a few surplus things. Either from WW2 or maybe
the Korean war.

- a weird helmet with ear flaps. I suspect that was for
soldiers firing large cannons.

- also a cool ammo belt and a canteen hooked on it.

None of those war games turned us into criminals.

[sockmo...@comcast.net]

I played with my cowboy guns more than dolls when I was growing up. I’m now an ultra liberal, 70 year old white woman with a concealed carry license. Go figure.

Denise in NH

[Sheldon Martin]

We all wore full cowboy clothes outfits with holsters that held two
six shooter cap pistols, Somewhere I still have my Hopalong Cassidy
lunch box.

[Sheldon Martin]

On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 01:56:42 -0500,
Christ...@deathtochristianity.pl wrote:

>On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 18:39:39 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe
><johnk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>And when A WHITE Police Officer came up to us on foot in lilly WHITE Crestwood MO, he pulled it out and fired several shots at the officer.
>>
>>We walked away ALIVE! The officer was of course scared, but calmly walked over, grabbed the cap pistol and threw it very far away. Then read us the Riot Act!
>>
>>Not so if one is BLACK:
>>
>>https://www.pbs.org/video/talk-race-america-talk-race-america/
>>
>>Now THIS is The PROBLEM!
>>
>>John Kuthe, Climate Anarchist and 100% Vegetarian
>
>Well john when you were 12 it was like 1895 or around there somewhere
>and race was an issue.
>
>all this crap that is happening now has nothing to do with race it has
>to do with stupidity and a lack of education.

And you don't think stipidity and uneducated don't have all to do with
race... check out the minority parents... the acorn doesn't fall far
from the tree. In the US there is no reason why anyone can't get an
education, libraries are free. Growing up I put more time and effort
into public libraries than into classrooms. Even now when people tell
me their family couldn't afford college, I ask them to show me their
library card... very few can.

[graham]

On 2020-06-07 10:29 a.m., sockmo...@comcast.net wrote:
> I played with my cowboy guns more than dolls when I was growing up. I’m now an ultra liberal, 70 year old white woman with a concealed carry license. Go figure.
>

To defend yourself against the RW knuckle-draggers?

[dsi1]

I understand that kids on the mainland have toy guns and pretend to shoot each other. You think that's natural, I don't. Well okay.

[Cindy Hamilton]

Before kids had toy guns they had toy swords. Or a stick that
they used as a sword or a gun.

So, what did you do as a kid? In addition to playing war and
cowboys and Indians, we played baseball, built forts, played
football, built model cars, rode our bikes. Just a ton of
stuff. Playing at guns was only a small part of it.

Cindy Hamilton

[dsi1]

We played with matches.

[Cindy Hamilton]

Oh, we did that too. And firecrackers, when we could get them.

Cindy Hamilton

[Dave Smith]

On 2020-06-07 12:59 p.m., Sheldon Martin wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 01:56:42 -0500,

>> all this crap that is happening now has nothing to do with race it has
>> to do with stupidity and a lack of education.
>
> And you don't think stipidity and uneducated don't have all to do with
> race... check out the minority parents... the acorn doesn't fall far
> from the tree. In the US there is no reason why anyone can't get an
> education, libraries are free. Growing up I put more time and effort
> into public libraries than into classrooms. Even now when people tell
> me their family couldn't afford college, I ask them to show me their
> library card... very few can.
>

A lot of people seem hell bent on viewing the situation among black and
native Americans as being a direct result of racism and so many of their
problems as rooted in poverty. It is interesting to note the average
income if Americans by race. Whites are not at the top of the list. It
is not as if racists are terribly selective about their bigotry, do that
makes it difficult to explain why some non-whites do better than whites,
or why those from various countries do better or worse than those from
other countries in the same region.


Income and work ethic are major factors. People who see value in
education and who work hard and study hard tend to do much better than
others. Blacks and natives seem to reject "white values" as the values
of their oppressors, or just aren't willing to try because they assume
that prejudice is going to screw them anyway, so they don't even try.




Education is a major factor.

[Hank Rogers]

Popeye, I thought yoose spent all yoose time humping relatives?

Must be like the drinking ... One week yoose yaking about crystal
palace bought in cases ... Next week yoose claim yoose don't drink.

Popeye, yoose a *Liar* and *Faggot*

[GM]

Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> So, what did you do as a kid? In addition to playing war and
> cowboys and Indians, we played baseball, built forts, played
> football, built model cars, rode our bikes. Just a ton of
> stuff. Playing at guns was only a small part of it.

I did the car and bike things, also went out to a place under a big tree and spent many happy hours alone building a "Space City", my fave show at the time was the UK "Fireball XL-5" and they had a "Space City" in that show...at that time I was obsessed with three characters and would drive my classmates NUTZ doing imitations of them. These were Zoonie the Lazoon (the mischievious 'space pet' from XL-5), Edie Adams (Muriel Cigars ads}, and Phyllis Diller. (I was obsessed also with the shows 'The Outer Limits' and 'Burke's Law'):

https://gerryanderson.fandom.com/wiki/Space_City_Special

"Space City Special

Air date
23 June 1963

"Space City Special is the 38th produced episode and the 35th Broadcast episode of the series Fireball XL5

Venus is returning to Space City aboard one of the new supersonic airliners with General Rossiter. Major Todd, the pilot, has been brainwashed by Subterrains and tries to crash the plane. Steve Zodiac and Professor Matic in Fireball Junior manage to talk Venus down, and she is able to land the airliner safely. Back at Space City, Steve is given his award as Astronaut of the Year and Venus and the Professor are given special awards for their bravery..."

At that time I was obsessed with three characters and would drive my classmates NUTZ doing imitations of them. These were Zoonie the Lazoon, Edie Adam's (Muriel Cigars ads}, and Phyllis Diller"

Zoonie the Lazoon

https://gerryanderson.fandom.com/wiki/Zoonie

"Loonie the Lazoon is a character from the series Fireball XL5. He is the pet of Dr. Venus. Much like the name of his species implies, he is a very lazy creature and thus possesses little motivation to do anything. Given the opportunity however, he is known to fiddle with machinery he does not understand, which predictably leads to misfortune for those around him.

Like many Lazoons, Zoonie has empathetic abilities, such as sensing electromagnetic disturbance (See Last Of The Zanadus), and sensing the emotions of others (See The Sun Temple). In addition, Zoonie is also a mimic, able to imitate human speech as well as other creature noises (See Space Monster). Although he seems lazy and even idiotic at times, his intelligence has saved lives on more than one occasion..."


Edie Adams:

https://www.citizensvoice.com/arts-living/kingston-s-edie-adams-made-smoking-sexy-and-fashionable-in-the-50s-and-60s-1.1120305

"For more than a decade, Edie Adams appeared in magazine ads and television commercials as the pitch-lady for Muriel cigars. Clad in a sequined, low-cut dress, the blonde temptress taunted men with her scintillating come-on line, "Why don't you pick one up and smoke it sometime?" More popular was the commercial in which Adams pitched the 10-cent cigars by breathily singing, "Hey, big spender, spend a little dime with me."

At a time when consumerism was booming across the nation, the advertising industry persuaded Americans to purchase new products as a sign of status. Smoking was considered "sexy" and "fashionable," and the sensual Adams used television to propel her career as a singer, Broadway, television and film actress and comedienne..."

This is my fave ad, Edie plays triplets, "Edith, Editha and Edie"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfsqx3dmWpU


And I LOVED Phyllis Diller, especially her cackling laff:

Phyllis Diller on her trademark laugh - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1DxitJzVrw


Phyllis Diller was a really GREAT lady:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Diller

"...After moving to Alameda, California, Diller began working in broadcasting in 1952 at KROW radio in Oakland, California. In November of that year, she filmed several 15-minute segments for the Bay Area television series 'Phyllis Dillis, the Homely Friendmaker' — dressed in a housecoat to offer absurd "advice" to homemakers. Diller also worked as a copywriter at KSFO radio in San Francisco and a vocalist for a music-review TV show called Pop Club, hosted by Don Sherwood.

With the encouragement of her husband, Diller made her debut as a stand-up comedian at age 37 in the basement of the San Francisco North Beach club, The Purple Onion, on March 7, 1955. Up until then, she had only tried out her jokes for fellow PTA moms at nearby Edison Elementary School. Her first professional show was a success and the two-week booking stretched out to 89 consecutive weeks. Diller had found her calling and eventual financial success while her husband's business career failed. She explained, "I became a stand-up comedienne because I had a sit-down husband."

In a 1986 NPR interview, Diller said she had no idea what she was doing when she started playing clubs and in the beginning, she never saw another woman on the comedy circuit. With no female role models in a male-dominated industry, she initially used props and drew from her educational and work background as a basis for satire, spoofing classical music concerts and advice columns. She wrote her own material and kept a file cabinet full of her gags, honing her nightclub act. Sid Caesar, Milton Berle, and Jonathan Winters were early influences, but Diller developed a singular comedic persona — a surreal version of femininity. This absurd caricature with garish baggy dresses and gigantic, clownish hair made fun of her lack of sex appeal while brandishing a cigarette holder (with a wooden cigarette because she didn't smoke), punctuating the humor with a hearty cackle to show she was in on the joke. At the time, Diller said, "They had no idea what I was. It was like — 'Get a stick and kill it before it multiplies!'"

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[sockmo...@comcast.net]

No, to defend myself against home intruders. A few years ago my house was burglarized while I was out for just an hour or two. They stole thousands of dollars worth of jewelry and abused my two small dogs. A few houses in town had home invasions while women were home alone and it got kind of scary. Although we own various shotguns, I figured a little .38 revolver would be easier for me to handle. New Hampshire has a very bad drug problem so I feel better knowing I’d have a fighting chance. I’ve got no beef with right wing knuckle draggers, they have a right to their beliefs, (even though they’re wrong), but I wouldn’t shoot one.

Denise in N.H.

[GM]

In the country we burned our trash in a 55 gallon barrel...I used to throw aerosol cans of hair spray, deo and such into the fire, then back away and watch it EXPLODE...once I set the adjacent cornfield on fire (was October and all left was dry corn stubble)...

--
Best
Greg

[GM]

sockmo...@comcast.net wrote:

> No, to defend myself against home intruders. A few years ago my house was burglarized while I was out for just an hour or two. They stole thousands of dollars worth of jewelry and abused my two small dogs. A few houses in town had home invasions while women were home alone and it got kind of scary. Although we own various shotguns, I figured a little .38 revolver would be easier for me to handle. New Hampshire has a very bad drug problem so I feel better knowing I’d have a fighting chance. I’ve got no beef with right wing knuckle draggers, they have a right to their beliefs, (even though they’re wrong), but I wouldn’t shoot one.
>

Yer a smart cookie, Denise...in the rural farm area of Illannoy where I grew up drug - fueled crime is RAMPANT...a far cry from 50 years ago when we did not even lock our doors. Now most all peeps have alarm systems, guns, etc...very sad...now with all the civil disturbances gun and ammo sales are THROUGH THE ROOF. Here ya go:

https://fee.org/articles/guns-prevent-thousands-of-crimes-every-day-research-show/

Guns Prevent Thousands of Crimes Every Day, Research Shows
How many lives are actually saved by gun ownership?

Friday, August 23, 2019

"It never fails. A split-second after a mass shooting occurs, grandstanders and ideologues issue statements demanding new gun controls—even if the laws already on the books failed or the laws they want would have made no difference. Case in point: the tragic incidents in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, in early August 2019.

The message is clear: Guns cause violence. Tax them, take them, ban them, regulate them. Do something, maybe anything! Such knee-jerk, emotional responses are dangerous, writes Charles W. Cooke in National Review, “for when a nation sets up a direct pipeline between its emotions and its laws, it does not keep its liberty for long.”

Guns Don't Kill People, They Save Them

Liberty isn’t the only thing likely to be lost when gun laws are passed to appease emotions over reason, evidence, logic, and rights. Lives will most assuredly be lost, too. Lots of them.

This raises a point amplified in another context almost two centuries ago by Frederic Bastiat in his famous essay with a title that sums it up, “That Which is Seen and That Which is Not Seen.”

How many lives are actually saved by gun ownership? This is a supremely important question that the grandstanders and ideologues usually—and conveniently—ignore. It’s a matter that came immediately to my mind when I learned of an incident here in my own town of Newnan, Georgia, a few days ago. The headline in the Newnan Times-Herald read, “Man Hospitalized After Being Shot Outside Bar.”

A little after 1:00 a.m. on Saturday morning, August 17, police arrived at Fat Boys Bar & Grill to respond to a shooting. A customer had threatened other patrons, prompting the establishment’s security to forcibly remove him. Enraged at being kicked out, he declared he was going to get a gun “and shoot the place up.”

This very angry (and possibly intoxicated) man then busted the window out of a friend’s car in the parking lot, grabbed a .40 caliber handgun from inside the car, and began firing in the air. In the meantime, Ben McCoy, a man who witnessed all of this from inside his own vehicle, happened to have his rifle with him. Before he could use it, he was shot four times by the man wielding the .40 caliber handgun, who then fled into the woods.

Fortunately, despite being hit in the chest, stomach, left arm and right thigh, McCoy is recuperating, and the assailant was quickly apprehended. No one was killed, but the situation would likely have been tragically different if Ben McCoy and his rifle hadn’t distracted the gunman.

Of course, in this particular incident it’s most unfortunate that an innocent man was shot. Don’t lose sight of the fact that his very presence, with a rifle, still prevented what could have been a bloodbath that might have even killed him too. What’s far more common is innocent gun owners using or brandishing a weapon and saving lives without any injuries at all except sometimes for the assailant. I chose this example because it was local and I wanted to express appreciation to Mr. McCoy.

Gun Effectiveness

I checked online and found some fascinating numbers. A good website with footnotes and references to authoritative sources is GunFacts.info. There I learned the following:

Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year, or 6,849 every day. Most often, the gun is never fired, and no blood (including the criminal’s) is shed.
Every year, 400,000 life-threatening violent crimes are prevented using firearms.

60 percent of convicted felons admitted that they avoided committing crimes when they knew the victim was armed. Forty percent of convicted felons admitted that they avoided committing crimes when they thought the victim might be armed.

Felons report that they avoid entering houses where people are at home because they fear being shot.

Fewer than 1 percent of firearms are used in the commission of a crime.
If you doubt the objectivity of the site above, it’s worth pointing out that the Center for Disease Control, in a report ordered by President Obama in 2012 following the Sandy Hook Massacre, estimated that the number of crimes prevented by guns could be even higher—as many as 3 million annually, or some 8,200 every day.

Another excellent source of information on this topic (and many more current issues) is the Gun Control page at JustFacts.org. (Full disclosure: I serve on the board of directors of JustFacts because I believe in the organization’s objectiveness, accuracy, and integrity.)

Defensive Gun Use

In “Defensive Gun Use is More Than Shooting Bad Guys,” James Agresti, founder and president of JustFacts, provided overwhelming evidence from multiple sources showing that defensive gun use is more common and effective than anti-gun fanatics like The New York Times suggest or will admit. Agresti says that “people who use a gun for defense rarely harm (much less kill) criminals. This is because criminals often back off when they discover their targets are armed.”

John Lott, author of the book, “More Guns, Less Crime,” is president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, another outstanding source for info on this subject. He writes:

By 66 percent to 32 percent, economists and criminologists answer that gun-free zones are “more likely to attract criminals than they are to deter them.” A 60 percent to 40 percent margin thinks that guns in the home do not increase suicides. And a 62 percent to 35 percent spread says that guns are used in self-defense to stop crime more often than in the commission of crime.

This may explain why even The New York Times hasn’t yet put a billboard up by its offices that screams, “This is a Gun-Free Zone. There are No Guns Here.”

If we can just confiscate the estimated 350 million guns in the country, you might ask, then won’t we eliminate the offensive use of firearms, so we won’t need any of those many defensive uses? Good luck with that. Is there any reason to believe that such a war on guns would be any more successful than the government’s war on drugs? Even a fifth-grader could tell you that it would be largely the innocent who would be disarmed. Criminals would have no problem keeping their guns or getting replacements on a thriving black market.

So that leaves me with gratitude for the Ben McCoys of the world, the law-abiding gun owners who are every bit as important as the cops—and likely even more so—in the effort to keep the innocent safe and sound..."

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[John Kuthe]

I had a chemistry set as a kid, and was in Chemistry Club in high school. We had access to the chemical supply room, and one of our chemistry teachers loved to do a little demo using a small pile of sugar onto which he sprinkled a small about of a chemical known as Sodium PERoxide or Na2O2, a very powerful oxidizer. And when he sprinked a little water on the dry pile it would burst into flames! And I thought "Wow, what an adjuct oxidider to add to our gunpowder we were making at home!" So we started playing with it and loading it into metal pipe segments until one BLEW UP while filling, blowing a small piece of the metal pipe into my friend Bob's thigh and giving me powder burns on one hand and blowing out my left eardrum which eventually grew back.

But that's when we STOPPED playing with explosives!

;-)

John Kuthe...

[Hank Rogers]

Damn! So that's what happened to you. You're lucky it didn't do
more serious damage.

[John Kuthe]

On Sunday, June 7, 2020 at 9:10:24 PM UTC-5, Hank Rogers wrote:
> John Kuthe wrote:
...

> > I had a chemistry set as a kid, and was in Chemistry Club in high school. We had access to the chemical supply room, and one of our chemistry teachers loved to do a little demo using a small pile of sugar onto which he sprinkled a small about of a chemical known as Sodium PERoxide or Na2O2, a very powerful oxidizer. And when he sprinked a little water on the dry pile it would burst into flames! And I thought "Wow, what an adjuct oxidider to add to our gunpowder we were making at home!" So we started playing with it and loading it into metal pipe segments until one BLEW UP while filling, blowing a small piece of the metal pipe into my friend Bob's thigh and giving me powder burns on one hand and blowing out my left eardrum which eventually grew back.
> >
> > But that's when we STOPPED playing with explosives!
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> > John Kuthe...
> >
>
> Damn! So that's what happened to you. You're lucky it didn't do
> more serious damage.

Fuck OFF Sock Puppet! Go stalk someone else.

John Kuthe...

[Sheldon Martin]

A lot depends on what age kids... at 5 years old most every TV show
was about cowboys and indians warring, robbing stage coaches and
banks, cheating at cards, shoot em ups, rustling cattle/horses,
hangings, and even cartoons were pretty violent. Wasn't long most
every TV show featured some iconic dog who saved thye day. By 12, 13,
kids found the Discovery Channel so stopped watching the 25 cartoons
at the matinee and discovered why boys and girls were built
differently and the value of a charlot russe. By 14,15 the girl's
moms would protect their daughter's virginity, or so they thought, by
playing house with the 14,15 year old boys. Back then young moms
didn't work outside the home, and didn't drive. Their husbands were
always away and tired from working long hours, what else did those 28
year old moms have to do for entertainment... they taught the young
neighborhood boys all about playing house and didn't mind sharing the
wealth with the other deprived moms, often their sister who couldn't
become pregnant with her husband and suddenly did.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Monday, June 8, 2020 at 11:13:08 AM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
>
> A lot depends on what age kids... at 5 years old most every TV show
> was about cowboys and indians warring, robbing stage coaches and
> banks, cheating at cards, shoot em ups, rustling cattle/horses,
> hangings, and even cartoons were pretty violent. Wasn't long most
> every TV show featured some iconic dog who saved thye day. By 12, 13,
> kids found the Discovery Channel so stopped watching the 25 cartoons
> at the matinee and discovered why boys and girls were built
> differently and the value of a charlot russe. By 14,15 the girl's
> moms would protect their daughter's virginity, or so they thought, by
> playing house with the 14,15 year old boys. Back then young moms
> didn't work outside the home, and didn't drive. Their husbands were
> always away and tired from working long hours, what else did those 28
> year old moms have to do for entertainment... they taught the young
> neighborhood boys all about playing house and didn't mind sharing the
> wealth with the other deprived moms, often their sister who couldn't
> become pregnant with her husband and suddenly did.
>

I dunno, maybe your mom participated in this type of activity but my mom
spent the day cleaning and dusting and sewing. During the summer a lot
of her time was spent canning fruits and vegetables not to mention washing
clothes and cooking.

[Hank Rogers]

The world according to Popeye.

[John Kuthe]

MY mother washed WALLS! She was Scrubby Dutch! :-)

John Kuthe...

[Sheldon Martin]

Hehe, your mom had you convinced. Odds are you never met your daddy.

[Alex]

John Kuthe wrote:

> On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 10:46:38 PM UTC-5, Alex wrote:
>> John Kuthe wrote:
>>> And when A WHITE Police Officer came up to us on foot in lilly WHITE Crestwood MO, he pulled it out and fired several shots at the officer.
>>>
>>> We walked away ALIVE! The officer was of course scared, but calmly walked over, grabbed the cap pistol and threw it very far away. Then read us the Riot Act!
>>>
>>> Not so if one is BLACK:
>>>
>>> https://www.pbs.org/video/talk-race-america-talk-race-america/
>>>
>>> Now THIS is The PROBLEM!
>>>
>>> John Kuthe, Climate Anarchist and 100% Vegetarian

>> Times have changed.  The snowflakes are upset with anything remotely
>> "politically incorrect".
> Ya think much? WHITE Alex? BULLSHIT!!
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
>
> John Kuthe...

Better than you, I see.

[Alex]

John Kuthe wrote:
> On Sunday, June 7, 2020 at 1:56:47 AM UTC-5, Christ...@deathtochristianity.pl wrote:

>> On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 18:39:39 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe
>> <johnk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> And when A WHITE Police Officer came up to us on foot in lilly WHITE Crestwood MO, he pulled it out and fired several shots at the officer.
>>>
>>> We walked away ALIVE! The officer was of course scared, but calmly walked over, grabbed the cap pistol and threw it very far away. Then read us the Riot Act!
>>>
>>> Not so if one is BLACK:
>>>
>>> https://www.pbs.org/video/talk-race-america-talk-race-america/
>>>
>>> Now THIS is The PROBLEM!
>>>
>>> John Kuthe, Climate Anarchist and 100% Vegetarian

>> Well john when you were 12 it was like 1895 or around there somewhere
>> and race was an issue.

> It was 1972 and race has always been an issue.

>
>
>
>> all this crap that is happening now has nothing to do with race it has
>> to do with stupidity and a lack of education.

> No, it is still about race, because Homo sapiens are stupid.
>
>> The only racist actions were the idiots painting black lives matter on
>> the street and naming that plaza black lives matter plaza.
>> People are SO FUCKING STUPID.
> WHITE people are particulaly stupid. White SUPREMACISTS immune to the race issues.
>
>> The black people want to scream "racist" for whatever their agenda is
>> and not all black people are like that. I am just talking about the
>> idiots that are painting the damn street and those that support that
>> crap
> "Their agenda" is to STOP the White Suprermacist Police killing of people of color, but YOU are too White Supremacist to see that!
>
>
> Dipshit! :-(

>
> John Kuthe, Climate Anarchist and 100% Vegetarian

Race issues calmed down until the internet and MSM made it an issue
again.  When I was in college in the late 80's there were zero racial
problems on campus that I heard or read about.

[Cindy Hamilton]

On Monday, June 8, 2020 at 8:08:06 PM UTC-4, Alex wrote:

> Race issues calmed down until the internet and MSM made it an issue
> again.  When I was in college in the late 80's there were zero racial
> problems on campus that I heard or read about.

The racial problems weren't on campus. They were everywhere
else. My memory flips up the card that says "Stop Apartheid!"
when I think about the 1980s on campus.

I found this article interesting, somewhat anecdotal, and
a trifle long. Still...

<https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-tale-of-two-suburbs/>

You're not wrong about the Internet and MSM (including Fox News).
They represent a big, synergistic echo chamber where people's
existing biases are reinforced over and over.

Cindy Hamilton