Thursday, July 26, 2012

Video Thursday, The Exuberance of a Summer Evening in Illinois

 A beautiful July evening in Illinois with my mom, and family.

11 comments:

  1. Who the hell is giving their kids toy guns to play with especially after the massacre in Colorado?

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  2. I played with toy guns when I was a kid and still I know that mowing down dozens of people with an automatic weapon is wrong. The kids are fine. How about all those toy cars they play with? They will probably grow up and run people over.
    BTW, I am totally for much more strict gun controls here in the land of gun nuts.

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  3. You can probably look back into the childhood of the ass that shot all those people and find out he NEVER played with guns, but had other issues. These are healthy happy little boys being boys - let them grow up normal.

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  4. Firstly, as my kids describe me, I'm a huge bleeding heart liberaland I also played with guns! Not my own mind you buecause of course I'm a girl...but the boys in the neighborhood had them. All the boys did. Not one of us is a mass murderer. Second, this little summer fun soire took place BEFORE Colorado so that point that makes it sound like someone here has no empathy is wrong. Thirdly, there are people killed every day with guns in this country. It has nothing to do with toy guns. It has to do with real guns. If anyone is wanting to do something about it, not just be politically correct, I urge you to vote for people who will.put logical gun control in place, pay attention to issues and become active in some way.
    The only other comment I would like to make is isn't it funny the rest of this video didn't make it ... ;)

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  5. Patti, the fun part was making Lisa squirm. I'm not mean enough to actually put it on Youtube.

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  6. Oh come on Alan be a sport, Lisa would love it!

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  7. We must have kismet. I posted about kids in the garden (back yard) too! Kids have so much joy running around in the summertime. I get such a kick out of listening to them.

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  8. Your mom looks great Alan! Hi Lila!

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  9. Love seeing my boys in your video! I appreciate the support for our boys choice in playing with toy guns. I just finished my hunter's safety class for proper gun handling. My boys will both go through the class when we feel they are old enough for the responsibility off handling their own shotguns. I would however like to also remind anyone listening that the video games kids sit inside playing all day are extremely violent. We do not play such games ;-) When we talk about what guns are used for, they know hunting for game food and soldiers protecting our freedom. Xoxo's I'd insert a little peace sign here if I could too :-)

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  10. Totally want to see funny squirming Lisa video too.

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  11. Funny, all I could think of was imagine those 2 boys multiplied by 5 (and their friends) and THAT is what Mom's backyard sounded like when we were kids!!

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