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The Aging of Aquarius - Boomers can take credit for the 60s (LAUGH ALERT)
Washington Monthly ^ | January/February 2006 | Jamie Malanowski

Posted on 01/15/2006 10:06:43 AM PST by Chi-townChief

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To: laney

We're done here. This discussion, such as it is, is terminated.

Ivan


101 posted on 01/15/2006 1:47:41 PM PST by MadIvan (You underestimate the power of the Dark Side - http://www.sithorder.com/)
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To: laney
Drugs have been around from day one....

I disagree with that. There may have been very isolated drug use in small pockets around the country, but that would have been it.

In 1955 I graduated from the 3rd largest 3 year high school in the country. There were over 900 in my graduating class. No one I knew had ever heard of or considered using drugs. It wasn't until the hippie bastards in the 60's made them popular that we had a problem involving kids.

102 posted on 01/15/2006 1:57:21 PM PST by saminfl (,/i)
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To: CheyennePress
No kidding, the Great Moral Leap Forward, as in Mao's Great Leap Forward. Perfect.

Yeah, the boomers infesting the courts, government in general and academia in particular gave us much. How about for starters, political correctness, reverse discrimination, earth worship to point of not drilling for oil in an arctic wasteland, infanticide and emasculation of our Constitution.
103 posted on 01/15/2006 1:58:41 PM PST by Jacquerie (Democrats soil institutions)
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To: McLynnan

And you don't hear us urging "The Greatest Generation" to exit the planet.
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The Greatest Generation actually accomplished something. Name me something that the Boomers really did that was extraordinary (aside from that really great acid that time at Woodstock).


104 posted on 01/15/2006 2:11:26 PM PST by Appalled but Not Surprised
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To: laney

“But can you imagine every freeper in the same room together talking? YEEGADS!”

I agree that it could be a bit scary to have all of us in the same room actually talking to one another. But then again what would be so bad about that? Emails and postings loose so much in translation. What is said jokingly or sarcastically in an email or post is often taken as a personal offence because it lacks the facial expression or body language that adds so much to what is really being said.

How many times do I wish I could take back an email because it’s meaning was misinterpreted when if I had said it in person, my meaning would have been much clearer.


105 posted on 01/15/2006 2:12:44 PM PST by Caramelgal (I don't have a tag line.... I am a tag line. So tag, you are it.)
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To: Appalled but Not Surprised

Nope!!!! Your a boomer and you just wished your self dead...nice. From a loving genuine gen X.


106 posted on 01/15/2006 2:18:28 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: Appalled but Not Surprised; McLynnan

Mc...dont waste your energy responding. This kid either knows very little or else she is looking for a fight.


107 posted on 01/15/2006 2:19:19 PM PST by wtc911 (see my profile for how to contribute to a pentagon heroes fund)
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To: wtc911

Yes and the generation that continues to quit everything...Vietnam can't respond to posts does not surprise me any. Thank God I am not a boomer. My poor parents are though.


108 posted on 01/15/2006 2:32:09 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: wtc911; MadIvan; laney
I think it's just a difference in definitions.

In my mind, happiness is a transient feeling, having to do with positive circumstances. Joy and contentment, on the other hand, are states of being independent of negative circumstances. I don't believe were made for happiness, but we were made for joy and contentment. Those who live live with joy and contentment do tend to be happy, too.

Many people wouldn't make this distinction.

109 posted on 01/15/2006 2:47:30 PM PST by Chanticleer (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. Lewis)
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To: wtc911; Appalled but Not Surprised

WTC, I'm not doing her/his homework for her/him. I don't have the time or inclination to post 50 years worth of history, not to mention scientific, medical, and technological breakthroughs. But I can't resist mentioning that the achievements of Boomers like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs make it possible for ABNS to post on this forum.


110 posted on 01/15/2006 2:54:38 PM PST by McLynnan
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To: wtc911; Appalled but Not Surprised; Jim Robinson
But I can't resist mentioning that the achievements of Boomers like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs make it possible for ABNS to post on this forum.

Forgive me, I left out great Baby Boomer Jim Robinson whose hard work and dedication gives us this forum.

111 posted on 01/15/2006 2:58:19 PM PST by McLynnan
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To: Appalled but Not Surprised
We are the most over taxed, and overburdened generation in the history of this country.

We were also sold out completely by the JFK/LBJ/Robert McNamara generation in Vietnam.

We are the most lied to, sold out, cheated generation in history even as a big chunk of the a**holes in my generation bought into the "you are so wonderful" bulls**t our elders pushed on us.

You following are the laziuest, most self oriented disinterested bunch of a**wipes to come along.

When we are gone you are well and truly f**cked! Nobody going to buy the swimming pool for you punk!

112 posted on 01/15/2006 3:02:39 PM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Appalled but Not Surprised
DIE ALREADY! WE'RE SICK OF YOU!


113 posted on 01/15/2006 3:02:50 PM PST by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: Caramelgal

Room full of people sharing a conversation? Give me FReepers, anytime!


114 posted on 01/15/2006 3:10:52 PM PST by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

You following are the laziuest, most self oriented disinterested bunch of a**wipes to come along.>>>

I laugh at you. If only you knew.


115 posted on 01/15/2006 3:12:04 PM PST by Appalled but Not Surprised
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To: Chi-townChief
I'm a Boomer, and the best description I've heard is The Destructive Generation.
116 posted on 01/15/2006 3:12:47 PM PST by quadrant
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To: Chi-townChief

I think that our parents made the world better, and that also our children are also doing such.

We Boomers are a spoiled self indulgent lot, and I doubt that writers of the future will deem us as the greatest anything.


117 posted on 01/15/2006 3:31:15 PM PST by Radix (Welcome home 3 ID!)
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To: Arizona Carolyn
The hippies were always a minority, Nixon won reelection in a landslide, his resignation has let liberals rewrite history and make it seem like the vast majority of Americans were antiwar hippies that forced Nixon out of office, and nothing could be further from the truth.
118 posted on 01/15/2006 3:38:03 PM PST by conservative physics
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To: illinoissmith
Boomers did not set up the social security scam, and our generation and the next will put more into that Ponzi scheme than any other.

I see the Xers, the Ysers and whoever follows as being the harbingers of euthanasia as a government institution.
119 posted on 01/15/2006 3:39:20 PM PST by Radix (Welcome home 3 ID!)
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To: laney

OMG a Bo Derek picture.

Thanks for sharing!


120 posted on 01/15/2006 3:43:03 PM PST by Radix (Welcome home 3 ID!)
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