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Hippies' proud legacy: peace, love, activism
Baltimore Sun ^
| June 21, 2007
| Larry Atkins
Posted on 06/21/2007 7:30:11 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding? That's the question that we should be asking in light of the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love.
Hippie values and culture have been taking a beating over the past few years. However, while the hippie movement had its flaws, there is much about it that should be honored, cherished and celebrated.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cartman; counterculture; hippies; showerchallenged
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
After all is was Maynard G. Krebs who was allergic to the word “work” and he was a beatnik, not a hippie.
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posted on
06/21/2007 7:32:38 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
One of my favorite South Park Episodes.
“Just as i thought mam. You’ve got a hippie infestation.”
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posted on
06/21/2007 7:33:55 PM PDT
by
hawkboy
(Duncan Hunter '08!)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Young people believed that they could change the world for the better. And by and large, they succeeded in making the world so much worse.
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posted on
06/21/2007 7:34:23 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Progressives like to keep doing the things that didn't work in the past.)
To: Paladin2
Hippies are the reason for all of our problems today.
To: hawkboy
These aren't the exact lines but here goes:
Officer Barbrady: "Eric you can't lock up 67 people in your basement."
Eric Cartman: "They are not people, they are hippies."
To: ClearCase_guy
If only the Islamists would convert to Buddhism, all would be well now.
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posted on
06/21/2007 7:36:22 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
To: BuffaloJack
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posted on
06/21/2007 7:37:00 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding? Enslavement, STDs, and they don't understand.
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posted on
06/21/2007 7:37:47 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
I thoguht it was Peace, Pot, and Microdot...
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posted on
06/21/2007 7:39:01 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
To: Paladin2
Somebody that us old hippies just dream about.
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posted on
06/21/2007 7:39:01 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Fred Thompson '08)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
...while the hippie movement had its flaws... Rampant venereal disease, unwanted pregnancies, abortion, AIDS, drug addiction, moral decay...flaws, yeah...that's the ticket...flaws....
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posted on
06/21/2007 7:39:18 PM PDT
by
Reaganesque
(Romney 2008)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
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posted on
06/21/2007 7:40:09 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?That hippies selectively practice such "virtues"?
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posted on
06/21/2007 7:40:43 PM PDT
by
GOP_Raider
(FReepmail me to join the FR Idaho Ping List.)
To: BuffaloJack
Hippies are the reason for all of our problems today. How insane do you have to be to think it's really that easy?
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posted on
06/21/2007 7:41:12 PM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
"Hippies' proud legacy:"1. Children on drugs.
2. Schools transformed into indoctrination pens.
3. Proliferation for a variety of filthy STD's
4. The Clintons
5. Creeping socialism
Hell, there isn't enough time to list them all.
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posted on
06/21/2007 7:42:33 PM PDT
by
VR-21
To: Reaganesque
Cheeees, and I thought I was having fun, back in the day.
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posted on
06/21/2007 7:42:40 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Fred Thompson '08)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
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posted on
06/21/2007 7:43:51 PM PDT
by
gotribe
("Truly, America is my favorite slave." - King Fahd Bin Abdul-Aziz, Jeddeh 1993)
To: doc1019
Try lots of wine with your Cheeeees. ;-)
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posted on
06/21/2007 7:44:02 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
To: Paladin2
Did, back in the day. ;-) LOL!
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posted on
06/21/2007 7:45:42 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Fred Thompson '08)
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