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I can't believe that I've lived to see...

Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 01:42:44 AM PDT

Neil Armstrong stepping onto the freaking moon

Martin Luther King, Jr. lead a movement that truely began the era of equality of the races in our divisive culture.

JFK, RFK and MLK, all lost to the insanity of lone gunmen.

The deaths of Elvis, and John Lennon, true giants in their field.

Cell phones.

Cell phones shrink from the size of a middle-school backpack, to the size of a peanut.

Electric Cars.

The Internet.  What kinda link do you use for this one???

Flat screen TVs.  Cable and satellite TV.

E-books that can contain an entire library in the mass of a paperback.

Another televised WAR.  I thought we, as a people, including the republicans, learned something from the Vietnam debacle.

George Carlin's seven words cut down to just one (or is it still two?) no longer allowed on television.

Surrogate birth.

HIV and AIDs.

The Federal Government of the United States failed to rescue it's own citizens from a natural disaster of historic scope.

Graft, fraud and out-right theft of the public treasury in a fashion not seen since the Teapot Dome scandal of the early 20th century.

The Meth plague that is still in full-swing in many cities.  Remember when weed was best known as Reefer Madness and Meth wasn't even anyone's pipe-dream yet? (Pun definitely intended).

Computers.  Laptop computers.

Plastic shoes for grown-ups, even plastic work shoes for grown-ups.

A (in my own opinion) bad B-movie actor elected to both a Governorship and then the Presidency of the US.

What is it that you can't believe you've lived to see?

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