[qam1]

I only wish the baby boomers would just keep shopping and get out of politics.

Typical self absorbtion. He doesn't he doesn't even mention if his daughters actually want him to "save" them

[raloxk]

"While the NRA can claim people from many walks of life, it's safe to generalize that the bulk of its membership is male and white and probably not too lean on cash flow."

in other words dumb

[qam1]

Xer Ping

Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social aspects that directly effects Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1980) including all the spending previous generations (i.e. The Baby Boomers) are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.

[Pikachu_Dad]

So if they are worried about more than the Supreme Court, what is it they are worried about now?

[roylene]

They need our urgency, and right now, lest we leave them with the spoils of our failures.
I agree with this statement, which is why we must reelect GW Bush!

[dead]

Don't worry too much about his activism.

I'm sure by the time he finished typing this, he forgot what he was saying and just turned on Survivor.

[TheBigB]

progressives communists.

[concerned about politics]

Uh......why not let the people themselves decide what they want America to be? Why try to "force" them into voting for liberalism? Why act like a fascist liberal if you don't want to?
Vote Republican. We're nicer people. We don't break your arms.

[dead]

One of ours was "Teach Your Children Well," by Crosby, Stills and Nash. It is our time to ponder the wise words of that song, "Their father's health will slowly go by." We were the children when the song was first heard. As our fathers and mothers, the builders, pass on, we are left to guide the way.

God, that song is lame.

Celine Dion's got more balls than CSN.

[qam1]

It's been my contention that most of this generation got what it needed during the tumultuous '60s and '70s

Jimmy Carter??

[thinktwice]

Still, their urgency is directed at their beloved guns and the perceived conspiracy to rip them out of their hands.

Wrong! The urgency among NRA members is the prevention of governmental abuse within America.

[goodnesswins]

YEAH, right....

Vote Dem.....so our military can get decimated.
Vote Dem.....so you can pay for MY Retirement.
Vote Dem.....so you can pay for our Health Care, even more.
Vote Dem.....so the terrorists can know they can attack.
Vote Dem.....so you pay MORE in income taxes.
Vote Dem.....so you can aspire to a SOCIALIST life.
Vote Dem.....so you can live under an elitist system where those with the "contacts and money" get the "goods", i.e. medical care, etc.
Vote Dem.....so you can work until you are 80 in order to eat.
Vote Dem.....so you can pay for someone else's mistakes.
Vote Dem.....so you can pay for others NOT to work.
Vote Dem.....so we can continue the decimation of what's left of our education "system."
Vote Dem.....so the borders are opened wide and large.
Vote Dem.....so the Diversity Industry can continue to grow.
Vote Dem.....so the Victim Industry can continue to grow.
Vote Dem.....so every American is ripped of his/her right to defend her home and family.
Vote Dem.....so all of our freedoms are destroyed, because we are just too powerful in this world.
Vote Dem.....to be nice.....

I'm sure others can add to this list.

[Fintan]

...view the future from the perspective of those young people we had brought into the world.

I wonder if "progressives and liberals" such as ol' Bill ever view the futures lost by babies aborted because  "progressives and liberals" decide an unexpected pregnancy might interfere with their oh-so-busy lifestyles?

[CSM]

"It's been my contention that most of this generation got what it needed during the tumultuous '60s and '70s and then either stopped caring or just gave up."

No, they got what they needed and then they were satisfied. You progressives are selfish, lazy persons that are more than willing to be progressive when it is funded by the productive.

Scratch a progressive and the awful odor that hits your nose is socialism!

[RunningJoke]

It is kind of funny, I read the opposite of this in the late 60's. Although the young of that age is now the middle aged writer of this piece. It seems he has something in common with his early years in that he never grew up! Here are the thoughts of the then young of the 60's:

"What strikes one about the activist young is their lack of zest. Their obscenities are wooden, their insolence without sparkle, and even their violence is trancelike. They dissipate without pleasure and are vain without a purpose. The revolution of the young is not against regimentation but against effort, against growth and, above all, against apprenticeship. They want to teach before they learn, want to retire before they work, want to rot before they ripen. They equate freedom with effortlessness, and power with instant gratification."

"Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults. A society that takes it solemn adolescents seriously is headed for serious trouble. How humorless and laughable the solemn young! One realizes that one of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does. There is a link between seriousness and dehumanization. Is there anything more serious than a cow grazing in a pasture? The nonhuman cosmos is immersed in an ocean of seriousness. Man alone can smile and laugh."

"We are told that the young have a special talent for diagnosing the ills of our age. I doubt whether this is true. The young have a genius for discovering imagined grievances. It goes without saying that imagined grievances cannot be cured but they enable the young to evade those aspects of reality which do not minister to their self-importance. "The imagined ills" says Lauren Van Der Post, "enable them to avoid the proper burden that life lays on all of us."

"It is true that present-day young are idealistic. But theirs is the easy idealism that condemns abuses and pushes aside any thought that would reveal the difficulties and complexities inherent in righting wrongs. They are not willing to do the hard work by which alone the world can be improved. Hearing what they say, and seeing what they do, one suspects that one of the main functions of the young's idealism is finding good reasons for doing bad things."

"One has the impression that the young do not want to, or perhaps cannot, grow up. Our campuses have become dour, playless nurseries echoing with doctrinaire baby talk. You see six-foot babies clamoring for power and protesting against universities not having adequate arrangements for child care."

"Never has youth been face to face with more breathtaking opportunities and more deadly influences, and never before has character been so decisive a factor in the survival of the young. Nowadays a ten year-old must be possessed of a strong character in order not to get irrevocably flawed and blemished. The road from boyhood to manhood has become sievelike: those without the right size of character slip into pitfalls and traps. The society of the young is at present almost as subject to the laws of sheer survival as any animal society. In the Bay Area you can see the young preyed upon by dope pushers, pimps, perverts and thugs. The supposedly most sheltered generation is actually the most exposed."

[qam1]

we were in the same room as a man named Byron Kunisawa spoke to conservationists from around the country about diversity. It's a topic well worth the listening for conservationists, too, because we're woefully lacking in diversity. Kunisawa, who owns a company called Cultural Solutions, hit a home run on the topic

On a side note look at this guy's company website

http://www.byronkunisawa.com/index.html

Nice program for corporations

Diversity 101 establishes the basic understanding of issues and assumptions regarding the impact of changing demographics and cultural differences on private corporations and public institutions.

Examples of these issues/assumptions include:

1.) A NEW PROGRAM created to replace Affirmative Action.
2.) Another program concerned with the issues of every group except white males.
3.) A basic understanding emphasizing the importance of cultural requirements and organizational success.
4.) Establishing an awareness and sensitivity program to address cultural differences in the workplace.

Companies actually pay this joker to come speak to them, No wonder we are starting to lose to other countries.

[sergeantdave]

progressives = communists, socialists, Marxists, Troskyites. Maoists, etc.

We were on our way to a weeklong conservation meeting = We are on our way to figure out various ways to impose fascist state control of private property.

spoke ...about diversity = plot ways to divide people by race, sex, religion, income as outlined by our hero Marx.

owns a company called Cultural Solutions = a welfare hippy bum that lives off government grants paid for by real working people, who are robbed at the point of a socialist government gun.

"The baby boomers made social change, but then they decided to go shopping." = Some people got smart and stopped waving Mao's Little Red Book and left the socialist utopian movement.

Now is our time to be urgent again = Daddy finally kicked me out of the house after 55 years, I can't buy enough drugs from welfare payments, so I need to find a bunch of suckers to support my habit,,,,uh, new utopian society

lest we leave them with the spoils of our failures = WAAAHHHHH! I NEED CASH!!.

[commish]

What a bunch of friggin morons losers. What is it with whiney ass Liberals and "For the Children" -- I swear that phrase is like catnip for the stupid suckers.

I swear I could get a Liberal to run Naked through Times Square proclaiming George Bush is God if all I told them was they needed to "Do it for the children"