Where did major league Baseball go? Where did old fashion common decency go? Where did the leaders go that DON’T use fear tactics to get the public to do what they want? Where are the days when you didn’t have to worry about someone jacking you car or invading your home? Where did the days go where we didn’t have child molesters seemingly in every neighborhood? What happen to Television news, radio you couldn’t stop listening to, music that truly moved you, movies with substance, or comedy that was really original? Remember when married couples would have problems and actually work them out and not walk out one each other and destroy the family unit?Remember when a hand shake was a hand shake? Remember when you saw someone who needed a helping hand and you actually lent it? Remember going to school events for your kids? Remember pancake suppers at church to raise funds for something or just a little fellowship?Remember when you could ride your bike without being wrapped in a protective plastic bubble cause you just might fall and get a boo boo?Remember swimming in a lake without worrying about getting sick just from making contact with the water?Remember ponds full of frogs?Remember the local grocery store, gas station, diner, bar, bank, 5& dime.     I just started thinking about all these things this morning and wondered if the world we live in now is really a better one than what I grew up in. Are we making it a better place for our kids? Technology, Science, Medicine, have all been double edged swords that have brought us great advancements but in many cases, horrible consequences. So I’d say that they have all kind of canceled themselves out in the good vs. bad battle.      I don’t mean to come off as a doom and gloomer. Or sound like a John Mellencamp song, but I just sometimes have a hard time looking around and seeing what we are doing as people, and  wonder why we don’t stop once awhile and really look at what we’ve done and what we are about to do.A stimulus package that’s about to be passed that doesn’t stimulate anything?Guess it’s just par for the course these days eh?