Posted on 01/15/2006 10:06:43 AM PST by Chi-townChief
My pet project to save the world is to make the government a virtual Internet reality. Then the old goats would be governing for the right reasons and the kids would have to get a real job sooner.
Hi, Appalled:
I doubt very, very, very much doubt that George Clooney could have offered any sort of useful opposition to the 3,000,000 vote mandate that "W" enjoyed.
But, hey! This is Clooney after all. Pissant Moon Bat par excellence.
Jack.
that does have to be the stupidest line I have seen written in a long time. Aside from the literature, those of us born before about `1950 are still hearing about the Depression , if we have parents still alive---
Boomer and PROUD of it!
I suspect that line about Brokaw is sarcastic.
Sorry dude or dudettte! YOU IS A BABY BOOMER!
Gen X starts in 1965!
I will take credit for the end of the cold war and the fall of the Berlin Wall -- I voted for Reagan in 1984.
This is nothing more than a Baby Boomer leftist screed that does nothing but advance the GenX/Y position that Boomers are, essentially, a waste of skin.
rather than waste newsprint and bandwidth "socializing" the notion of downplaying the effects of the Baby Boom generation, why not leave that to history?
One of the things that struck me the most was the fact that the artcle focused solely on the liberal agenda and the 60s as the era of social progress, while ignoring everything else. Most astonishingly, the author (ptrobably a Gen X or Yer) and most others fail to give boomers credit for doing anything of note - such as developing the Internet, to name but one of our accomplishments.
It is unfortunate that so many people feel obligated to bash the boomer generation and tar us all with the same brush. While many boomers might have been "working on growing their sideburns", the rest of us were working hard to make the American dream a reality for ourselves and our fellow Americans.
I'll close by quoting the lyrics from Mike and the Mechanics' Song "The Living Years"
Every generation blames the one before
And all of their frustrations come beating on your door
I know that I'm a prisoner to all my father held so dear
I know that I'm a hostage to all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years
More crumpled bits of paper filled with imperfect thoughts
Stilted conversations, I'm afraid that's all we've got
You say you just don't see it, he says it's perfect sense
You lust can't get agreement in this present tense
We all talk a different language, talking in defense
Say it loud, say it clear, you can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die to admit we don't see eye to eye
So we open up a quarrel between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future, it's the bitterness that lasts
So don't yield to the fortunes you sometimes see as fate
It may have a new perspective on a different date
And if you don't give up and don't give in you may just be okay
Say it loud, say it clear, you can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die to admit we don't see eye to eye
I wasn't there that morning when my father passed away
I didn't get to tell him all the things I had to say
But I think I caught its spirit later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo in my baby's newborn tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years
Say it loud, say it clear, you can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die to admit we don't see eye to eye
What I get a big kick out of is how the so-called progressives of our generation now sit in their $650,000 homes with their kids in private schools or going for advanced degrees, and drive around in their Lexus and Acuras still saying to anyone who will listen,
America just f**ks you over, man - it really just f**ks you over!
Me too! I love being a Baby Boomer! would not be who I am today if it wasn't for my experiences being a Boomer!
Firehat had some hilarious comments on it--Firehat, are you out there?
Uh, gee thanks, but I think I'll stick around for a while.
I was born in '61 also and I never considered myself a boomer.
Since '80 was the first election I was old enough to vote in I consider myself part of Generation R (Regan.
And I hate Hippies!
My first presidential election was 1984. That clears us of both the 60s and the 70s, right?
You don't have to be responsible but you were a part of!
As a kid also in the 60's I did not have to worry about being Kidnapped and ending up on America's Most Wanted.
Lived in a Neigborhood where neighbors were like extended family members.
As a Kid we learned how to be creative making our own gadgets and toys without expecting Mom to by ther latest 200.00 computer game.
We were not a bunch of FAT KIDS because we were outside running around, playing Hide n Seek, Climbing trees, riding down hills on Sting Ray Bikes.
We did not worry about being gunned down, Plain Ol' fashioned fist fights happened then you were made to make up.
And of course we had the BEST ROCK ROLL MUSIC ever to happen!
GEEZ, The Baby Boomer Generation was not all about Politics and negative expereinces for heaven's sake.
So true. Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane. :-)
Notice how it wasn't the 'Greatest Generation' who came up with that title - it was the later grateful generations who did - the WWII generation was simply doing their duty and would not think of such self-promotion....
compare that with all of the 'Boomer' bloviating...the only person who is a 'Boomer' is one who is idiotic enough to identify himself as such...the rest of us merely have birthdates and refuse to be lumped into any categories...
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