Posted on 09/29/2005 6:19:24 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
"It was the age of selfishness. It was the age of self-indulgence. It was the age of anti-authority. It was an age in which people did all kinds of wrong things."
- Ed Meese III, U.S. Attorney General, Reagan Administration
"It was absolutely exhilarating. It was the greatest time to be alive ever, for sure."
- Charles Kaiser, Author/Historian
In my little Californian college, we had a small circle of (wanna-be) hippies. Whenever we walked past their little circle on the grass, we could smell...grass.
They were the only ones who regularly wore the hippy uniforms. Even in college, I still wore dresses every day of school.
In high school we still had dress codes which forbid pants on girls...anyone else remember that? The wanna-be-hippies in high school (I think we had 3) had to work around the no-pants rule. snicker...
I remember the first night LaughIn was on. I couldn't BELIEVE what they were doing! It wasn't porn; but it pushed the envelope!
The only things that sucked in the 70's were Disco and Carter....otherwise the 70's and 80's were a pretty good era to grow-up in, especially after Ronnie became President...
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I don't see one thing progressive about them because nothing has changed for them since the 60s with any of their ideas.
damn, better hold on when that one comes on line... 8^)
i never had a bottle fed anything cause i liked to play on the streets but i road in one a few times and it was impressive to say the least!!! i wish you the best of luck and hope you beat him.
i guess i just like the simple life and hate having to turn high revs like a turbo or have to deal with all that extra compression of the bottle rockets to make horse power.
my 94 Z/28 has very few modifications but will stand up even to a LOT of Corvettes cause the owners are either afraid of hurting it or getting it dirty...
Cheers,
CSG
It was an absolutely horrible time to be alive, if you loved your country and had an ingrained morality. I loathe the superannuated hippies that wax nostalgic about that era. They are beyond pathetic.
It's kind of funny watching elderly hippies triumph their salad days as if there was something inherently special about their generation, and the 1960s, that never before existed, and never will again. All we're seeing here is the first mass media generation triumph the glory days of their youth, nothing more, nothing less. Ward Cleaver used to bore Wally and the Beave talking about his youth on the farm---no difference here.
The stupid hippie generation is so pathetically self-absorbed they think they discovered and developed something new: as if what they discovered hadn't been discovered by every human generation since the dawn of man. It's fun to watch them make fools of themselves.
I REMEMBER THAT!!!!!! I was like 5 or 6 when that happened!! (I grew up in and around Houston) and I remember how my mother almost didnt let me go trick or treating because of that!!!
What an idiotic statement.
I am hoping that in the future, the Vietnam era will be a reminder as to why it was such a bad idea to press people into military service. I didnt realize this until I started reading Patrick O'Brian's books about the Royal Navy in the first part of the 19th century a certain bit of American history, and that was how that the American navy was specifically noted to be a navy that did NOT go around the country side rounding up men and forcing them into military service, that the American navy was all voluntary at the time...and how O'Brian expressed admiration of this through his main character, a British naval captain. A lot of grudging respect for the American volunteerism was expressed in his books. I think keeping that in mind will continue to make America special.
I remember the sixties. I remember the first grade doing a duck and cover drill. I remember my parents and older brothers talking about nuclear destruction. I remember being afraid a lot. I remember a teacher in 68 saying that Nixon was a three time loser and would not win the Presidency. There were some good things I remember, but I mostly remember the news of race riots, anti-war riots, things like that. I remember my brother disappearing - that's how it felt - and doing time in VietNam. He came back alive and healthy. I grew up in a single parent, dysfunctional family, yet I never bought into the peace, love, drugs, and rock and roll.
I know it's BBC but here is a recap of the incident. I know now why I remember it... my old swim coach was going down to the Mexico City Olympics as an assistant coach and was intimidated by the riots.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/2/newsid_3548000/3548680.
What most people "fondly" remeber as the 60's (music, culture, protests, etc), didn't really atart until the 1967 summer DNC Convention, and ended with Nixon's resignation (and disco) in the summer of 1974.
Most of the "60's" occurred in the 70s.
Cheers,
CSG
Oops. typo. The DNC convention was in 1968 not 1967.
"Progressives" are what American Communists called themselves in the 1930s and what the far Left calls itself today. Progressive Insurance Co., co-funder with George Soros of MoveOn.org and other neo-Commie causes, was founded in the 30s.
Your comment reminds me of George Will's wonderful comment about the far Left being "on the cutting edge of the 1930s."
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