I Feel Like I Am Fixin To Throw Up

BushCountry.org ^ | 7/1/04 | Tom DeWeese

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[PhiKapMom]

I am a members of this "me, me, me" generation and I would like to barf myself when I see the Clintons, Kerry, the protestors, the media, and rest of the liberals whining. Nothing but a bunch of socialist which BTW, saw an article that said "socialist" is a nice word for "communist!"

[KangarooJacqui]

At least P.J. O'Rourke grew up and learned the error of his ways...

Barf To The Top

[EggsAckley]

I'm a boomer (1945) and witnessed all of what the writer did. And I can testify that he is RIGHT ON. I'm embarrassed to be a boomer and bitterly resent "my" generation for what it has done to our nation.

Thank you for posting this.

[HungarianGypsy]

I wondered if someone could tell me the meaning of the peace sign? I had heard it has another meaning.

[2banana]

Nor did they understand that their actions were helping the communists to sentence millions in Southeast Asia to the gulag. Worse, those baby boomers had no sense of the brutal reality of life under communism. Most still don’t.

Enslavement, reeducation camps, genocide of the Montagnards, the rise of Pol-Pot - yep - they got what they wanted - too bad they could not be there to experience what they demonstrated for. Lenis's "useful idiots"

[Blzbba]

"Nothing but a bunch of socialist.."


agreed - and you know they just LOVE Bush's forced Socialism Medicare program, although they'll never admit it.

[Servant of the 9]

There were lots of us right wing hippies too, Bunkie.
Nothing wrong with Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll for R&R when you weren't in class, at work or serving your time with Uncle Sam.

It was the assumption, then and now, that every longhair was anti war that made them seem a majority.

The lefties were loonie all right, but they did know how to party.

So9

[JesseHousman]

I wondered if someone could tell me the meaning of the peace sign? I had heard it has another meaning.

Yes it does. In Hawaii it means "I'm enjoying two-finger poi."

To someone like Rosie and Hillary, it means something entirely different and unsanitary and disgusting.

[ladtx]

I resent all the crap laid on the baby-boomers. I am one. I've never owned a tie-dyed anything, never smoked pot and never protested anything except the idiot that was in the White House between the Bushes. I served 20 years in the US Army and since retirement have worked steadily in the military-industrial complex. I'm sure there are many many more who feel the same. To let a few loud-mouthed fools paint the majority is reckless and foolishly ill-informed. I would like to hear someone tell Rich Connolly, Dave Seaman and many others who gave their lives in Vietnam while I was there that they were a bunch of whiney baby-boomers. This guy needs to get a grip and realize the world does not revolve around the self-absorbed idiots the media likes to hold up to the rest of us. < /rant>

[Hildy]

I saw the movie "BEYOND BORDERS" last night. I don't recommend it. It's depressing and preposterous. But I think it was honest in its portrayal of what has happened to Cambodia. What a horrible, horrible place. And it could have been so different.

[ServesURight]

Gen-Reagan BUMP here (1972)

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

As a trailing edge boomer, I much prefer the term "Generation W."

[dts32041]

It is sometimes known as the footprint of the american chicken Andy Robinson wore it as a belt buckle in "dirty Harry".

My personnel favorite is the one with a B-52 as the center piece of the peace symbol.

[EggsAckley]

a few loud-mouthed fools

.....a ??FEW?? loud-mouthed fools.......??? What planet do YOU live on?

[Mr. Jeeves]

“My parents were American Communists for some time, but they left the Party because of a lack of democratic positions by the Party,” he naïvely admitted.

Most American Communists seem to believe this - that some form of "Democratic Communism" is possible, and that the totalitarian forms Communism has taken in every country where it has been tried are a result of the cultural ideals of the nation in question, and not any fault of Communism itself.

Somehow it never occurs to them that an ideology based on redistributing wealth at gunpoint just might tend to create a hierarchy controlled by the guys with the biggest guns.

[ladtx]

Compared to the rest of us their are only a few that fit the mold of what many see as "spoiled baby-boomers".

[PhiKapMom]

Give me a break! President Bush did NOT start Medicare!!! The program is going to be around whether you like it or not and he is trying to fix it after being handed the mess!

[SMARTY]

"... got a thrill from protesting... It was just a social event to go down to the local protest, carry a sign, and meet some “groovy chicks.”

I graduated from Kent State University in Ohio. That description is exact. Most of the numbskulls I went to school with had no clue about politics, political philosophy, sociology or anything relevant to the issues of the day and they definitely knew nothing about the political, military or strategic issues about our part in the Vietnam conflict. BUT, they all made it down to the local protest...to score drugs and meet other numbskulls like themselves. To this day, none of them has a clue about how the world works. At the time, and still, I could not comprehend how 'educated' people could so childishly permit themselves to be so badly used...and with out questioning the process at all.