“I’m not sure why you’d refer to a faithful conservative young catholic Freeper as ‘pathetic’...”
It’s because you are pathetic. You are, also, one hateful person.
I don’t believe you to be a “faithful conservative young catholic”, either.
Why didn’t you capitalize “Catholic”?
“Gosh, I remember real men like Ike.”
How can you remember men like Ike if you are so young?
You totally misconstrued wardaddy’s post, as you usually do with other FReeper’s posts.
“On one hand you say premarital sex is wrong, and on the other, it’s apparently ok. Funny that.”
He said nothing of the kind.
“Though, since you’re a boomer, I can certainly see why this would be the case. ;)”
BOOMER. That is your beef.
If you are so young, I don’t understand how you can remember Ike.
Ike who?
“It’s because you are pathetic.”
I’m not quite sure what you have to base this opinion on. I look around me and I see that the decisions that are being made today are detrimental to my future, and the future of everyone my age.
The high spending, high entitlement age, which I expect to see run out within the next ten years or so. It is not so much that the entitlements and spending is already there - but that we are doubling down and adding to the burden at a furious pace. Am I the only one who sees that the train is headed someplace where we do not want to go? That eventually the track will run out?
My frustration is with the folks who are making the decisions - by and large boomers. Folks who spend my money and my earnings tomorrow for benefits for themselves today.
“I don’t believe you to be a “faithful conservative young catholic”, either.”
I see. What makes you think this?
“How can you remember men like Ike if you are so young?”
Perhaps because I’ve read what they’ve written, read what they said? I studied him in school - and was surprised to see someone who saw things much the way that I did - something I didn’t learn from the boomers, btw. I learned that he had a vision of America and progress that is not often found today. He believed in forging ahead and taking on challenges rather than shrinking from them. His generation won in WWII. The Boomers? Lost in Vietnam. My generation? Won in Iraq and will win in Afghanistan. The only generation to fail to win a war was yours. Not mine. Yours.
“You totally misconstrued wardaddy’s post, as you usually do with other FReeper’s posts.”
I’m told if you’re getting flak, you’re obviously over the target. I stand by what I said. His response speaks volumes to me. He expected to get a ditto about the worthless young folks, worthless young folks, I might add, that are protecting his sorry carcass in Afghanistan and in Iraq. I don’t really have much time for ‘conservatives’ like that who expect people to look back on his generation fondly, the generation from Slick Willy to Barack Obama. What is your legacy? Vietnam? Kerry? The failure of the manned space program? The crash in 2008? The first black, woman, transsexual, whatever to be elected?
“He said nothing of the kind.”
Ahh, he spoke of taking up with the young women that apparently the men of today can’t satisfy. I wonder what his wife thinks of that post.
Did I meet Ike? No. But I do know what he was about by reading Ike and what he had to say. It’s called history. Perhaps Boomers like yourself ought to study it. You would learn something.