I Feel Like I Am Fixin To Throw Up

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

[nmh]

I'm a boomer too however I don't share your collective guilt. I was raised to shun liberalism and it's illogical ideology.

What you are suggesting is something like ALL Caucasian people are "bad" so I should categorize myself as "bad" since I am Caucasian.

Hint - don't adopt liberal ideological guilt trips IF your are NOT guilty!

[Alouette]

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

In addition to using the semaphoric signald for N and D for "Nuclear Disarmament" it also represents and anti-Christian upside-down cross or Satan's pitchfork.

[DumpsterDiver]

I'm a boomer (1945)

Cheer up, Eggs. Most sources show the boomers as being born beween 1946 and 1964. Us '45ers can rest easy. ;^)

"...mentally dwell forever in the days of tie-die shirts..."

Perhaps the above was a Freudian slip and the author secretly wishes that those folks actually would've tie-died in those shirts.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[EggsAckley]

Well, I was born at the end of '45, so I went to school among the kids born in '46. My class was ALWAYS the biggest in each school. By the time my class was ready for high school, they had to build a new one.......our class was twice as big as any of the others. Boomers.


But thank you for the reprive! ~</;o)

[stuartcr]

Many recognisable symbols have different meanings...I think the context it is used in, matters most.

[tnlibertarian]

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!

I have a leak in my roof. I believe I will cut around the leak in order to repair it. Thanks for the idea.

[surely_you_jest]

Outstanding screen name there, Flatus! Get many comments on it?

[Trampled by Lambs]

Chiming in from the tail end of the Boomer generation (born 1959)...

I came of age in the 70's admiring the likes of Contry Joe etc. a great deal. We spent the 70's pretending we were hippies, though the Summer of Love, if it ever existed, was long gone. Vietnam ended when I was 14 so we didn't really have much to protest about so we just partied instead.

But our predecessors, the 60's kids, seemed so wise and bold that we emulated them as much as we could. I thought I was a liberal till I was about 30 years old.

But now I see that I didn't have a clue about what was really going on during 'nam and the whole 60's thing that I once admired so much.

Alas, I now observe the same behavior in my son's generation (born 1986). They admire and emulate @ssholes like Moore because they are (for the most part) against what their parents believe, it gives you that "outlaw" feeling and chicks dig that and dammit, they seem so cool!

But most of them don't have much of any real understanding of whats really going on or even of exactly what is at stake.

Oh and by the way, these kids are now voting age and many of them will actually vote because MTV tells them they should.

[Trampled by Lambs]

I should add that until my late 20's, I thought being a liberal meant you stood for smoking a lot of weed and getting laid which was alright with me...

[King Prout]

if you mean the symbol, not the hand-signal, then you may have heard it referred to as "the footprint of the American chicken"

[qam1]

Alas, I now observe the same behavior in my son's generation (born 1986). They admire and emulate @ssholes like Moore because they are (for the most part) against what their parents believe, it gives you that "outlaw" feeling and chicks dig that and dammit, they seem so cool!

Not at all!!!

In fact the opposite. See It’s Morning After in America

[TexasRepublic]

This article nails it! I am sick of the leftist pukes.

[Trampled by Lambs]

Well, I can only report what I see with my own eyes. While my son is not too bad, his peers are card carrying Moore desciples, by and large. This is in Southern Ca.

Try going to a teen blog site like Livejournal.com and randomly sample some postings and you'll see what I mean.

[y2k_free_radical]

i know how you feel as a patriotic baby boomer

[Chewbacca]

The damn liberal hippies killed off most of my generation.
I know I am pissed about it.

[Cowgirl]

We have the public schools to thank for the overthrow of
justice, common sense and decency in America.

[Mr. C]

"...could not comprehend how 'educated' people could so childishly permit themselves to be so badly used..."

You said it yourself, didn't you?

"...numbskulls like themselves..."

[Clioman]

Sorry -- didn't mean to suggest that. What I meant to say, and failed to clearly state, was my contempt for the elists who then felt above any need to serve their country, and who now use their positions in academe, politics, and the professions to continue to undermine legitimate American interests.

[AReaganGirl]

I was shown a pamphlet one time that the peace symbol (chicken foot) was really the broken Cross of Jesus Christ. I don't know if this is true or not...just my 2 cents worth. I have never liked the peace symbol.