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Toys of Yesteryear Some of you have seen these. Simple, beautiful toys. Played on the living room carpet. Sometimes on our knees. Some right on an oil clothed kitchen table. No hang ups about the sexuality of girls and boys. In those days, we were all considered equal and able. This is prior to Priscilla PC and Sammy SMART, When parents did not call the SWAT team when you dared play with a dart! There where wooden Chinese checkers, oh,how UN-PC! Try Russian nestling dolls. Surely, designed by Oligarchs, To overthrow the next presidency! How about a pair of Scottie dog magnets, one black, one white? Reverend Al and Jesse would declare them a national blight! Maybe a pair of balsa wood gliders? Oh, no! Not those. They'd be instructing us to be war mongers. Old Maid Card game, well how about that? No way, women's' liberation will have none of that. Funny, we never went around hurting or shooting each other. We actually read books and respected each other as sisters and brothers. You don't need me to tell you the vicious video games kids play today. The saddest part is, if it's computerized, it's automatically O.K. The children don't realize they are brainwashed into an AI nation. We adults need to see their games have some human coordination. The children see us stuck to devices day and night. Our pasty white faces, must give them a fright. Hardly a "Silent Night!" Nobody in the house talking! Each glued to a screen. To many, this is just awesome. For me, this loss in humanity, is beyond anything, I have ever seen! November 27, 2019 ~~Merry Christmas~~ ** no category for toys. This is about toys.
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