I can remember when ...

[Woody]

Yes. Uncle Martin was a good. His antennas just got messed up on occasions.

[Dottie]

The last time I had a doctor make a house call was in the 70's. I had the flu and couldn't even walk, let alone go down a flight of stairs so my mom could get me to the doc's. She called, and he said to bring me in. She told him that I was bigger than she; how was she to carry me down a flight of stairs? He came to the house and gave me the necessary meds. I guess I got better. I survived.

[LifeHiscost]

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I find the newer TV programs disgustingly full of vulgarity, sex, violence, and family relationships with which I'm not in agreement.

While that is true, I'm supposing, since we have a satellite system that has little secular programing except news. However there is one channel that broadcasts Bonanza, a program we watched in an earlier era.

At the time I wasn't much of a practicing Christian and it seemed to be very innocent entertainment. Now when I tune in to that channel in passing, I notice that while God is a normal part of family life, most of the problems that came up were solved at the end of a gun. Helps to understand why the following generations found war as their favorite way of solving problems.

My father use to say if they put all the politicians in a ring and let them duke it out, it would solve most of the problems between countries overnite.

"And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth."Luke 11:2 KJV

God blesses!

[doug yowell]

However there is one channel that broadcasts Bonanza, a program we watched in an earlier era.

At the time I wasn't much of a practicing Christian and it seemed to be very innocent entertainment. Now when I tune in to that channel in passing, I notice that while God is a normal part of family life, most of the problems that came up were solved at the end of a gun. Helps to understand why the following generations found war as their favorite way of solving problems.

Actually, the following generations of those who watched Bonanza have been more reluctant to go to war since the series ended in 1973, the year which ended our active opposition to Communism in Viet Nam.But you are right about the spiritual subtleties of even the most seemingly innocuous TV programs.

[LifeHiscost]

I remember when:

A cancer diagnosis was a death sentence

My birth mother died of pneumonia when I was about 2 1/2 years old. that was about 1937.

I worked in a cigarette-smoke polluted office

My brother died of emphysema at the age of 69, in 2005.

Spousal and child abuse were “private matters”

My present wife spent 18 years in an abusive marriage and didn't leave until advised by a wise pastor lest she be destroyed by her husband. This in a day when divorce was almost considered anathema.

Violent crime was worse than today

The last time the crime rate for serious crime – murder, rape, robbery, assault – fell to these levels, gasoline cost 29 cents a gallon and the average income for a working American was $5,807.

Why police officer deaths rose 37 percent in 2010

Violent crime falls again: why some experts are 'stumped'

Who lives in better neighborhood: rich blacks or working-class whites?

The Christian Science Monitor

That was 1963.

In the past 20 years, for instance, the murder rate in the United States has dropped by almost half, from 9.8 per 100,000 people in 1991 to 5.0 in 2009. Meanwhile, robberies were down 10 percent in 2010 from the year before and 8 percent in 2009.

RECOMMENDED: US crime rate down: six key reasons

The declines are not just a blip, say criminologists. Rather, they are the result of a host of changes that have fundamentally reversed the high-crime trends of the 1980s. And these changes have taken hold to such a degree that the drop in crime continued despite the recent recession.

Because the pattern "transcends cities and US regions, we can safely say crime is down," says James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston. "We are indeed a safer nation than 20 years ago."

He and others give four main reasons for the decline:

Increased incarceration, including longer sentences, that keeps more criminals off the streets.

Improved law enforcement strategies, including advances in computer analysis and innovative technology.

The waning of the crack cocaine epidemic that soared from 1984 to 1990, which made cocaine cheaply available in cities across the US.

The graying of America characterized by the fastest-growing segment of the US population – baby boomers – passing the age of 50.

And thankfully I cannot remember the dark days when most of the world was plunged in the World War that left 50 million dead.

Quoting the incidences of genocide committed around the world in this generation more or less balances the damage done since WWII.

Happily my corner of the world is a better place today.

[doug yowell]

"..he's always on a steady course..."(Mr. Ed)

Do you remember the name of Mr. Ed's owner?

Here's one that a co=worker once asked me (no fair looking up the answer)" Dan Blocker played middle brother nicknamed "Hoss" on Bonanza. What was "Hoss's" real name?

[OzarkWoman]

Originally Posted By: rudywoofs

"..he's always on a steady course..."(Mr. Ed)

Do you remember the name of Mr. Ed's owner?

Here's one that a co=worker once asked me (no fair looking up the answer)" Dan Blocker played middle brother nicknamed "Hoss" on Bonanza. What was "Hoss's" real name?

I know that the restaurant chain called Bonanza was started by him. I think his first name was Eric.

[Doug]

B&WTV

No Internet or email

dial up modems

[doug yowell]

What was "Hoss's" real name?

I think his first name was Eric.

Incredible memory.(You're not cheating are you,OW?)

[JawgeFromJawja]

The last time I had a doctor make a house call was in the 70's. I had the flu and couldn't even walk, let alone go down a flight of stairs so my mom could get me to the doc's. She called, and he said to bring me in. She told him that I was bigger than she; how was she to carry me down a flight of stairs? He came to the house and gave me the necessary meds. I guess I got better. I survived.

I really dunno why many doctors have such a negative attitude about house calls. To me, the logistics alone, not to mention discomfort and even danger, of piling a frail, usually elderly, shut in individual into an ambulance for a non-emergent trip away from home makes such pricey expeditions absurd. The majority of my local medical associates (not all of 'em ole coots like me) made house calls up to the time of my semi-retirement.

Ah, well. Consider the setting. Urban house calls couldn't possibly be as joyful or pleasant as in Rabun County, Georgia. Usually done on a weekend day, I get into my diminutive Toyota Tacoma accompanied by several discs of classical music, and ride into the country. Here in Appalachian Georgia, the route is always on roads set among sweeping vistas of God's sublime mountains, hills that geologists say are the oldest on Earth.

And those road names! So colorful, so unique! One of the furthest, where several shut in patients live, is Slop Bucket Road. If you don't believe it, do a virtual trip there on Google Earth. Despite the name, the area is God's Own

re-creation of Eden.

For Medicare patients,seen at home every six to twelve months, the payment on house calls is relatively much better than office based sessions, so often during such spiritually rewarding trips, I say softly, "Wow! They PAY me to do this!"

In between physicians' visits, home nurses act as the doctors' eyes and ears.

JawgeFromJawja