tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post1617624534917182913..comments2024-03-27T12:30:52.619-04:00Comments on Lost in the Bozone: Boomers - Then & NowMRMacrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01414173517957120477noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-35831486388862697792010-04-10T21:21:41.414-04:002010-04-10T21:21:41.414-04:00I last saw 60 a few years ago and I remember well ...I last saw 60 a few years ago and I remember well enough that out of that numerically vast generation only a small percentage dropped out. I didn't like the selfish egotistical a^*holes then any more than I'd claim to be one with them now.susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747450215034568033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-73021736586246411912010-04-07T00:26:28.426-04:002010-04-07T00:26:28.426-04:00Damn it Mike, if you meant to or not, you made me ...Damn it Mike, if you meant to or not, you made me feel better about the world at large.<br /><br />The spirit and drive of the hippies isn't lost on me even though I was born at the tail end of it. They sought to right wrongs and to turn back injustice when they found it. I don't think that spirit has died. Morphed, changed, or lies dormant, but it ain't dead. Those who once banded together to help us all, who preached inclusion and open mindedness haven't warped into selfish bastards of the worst sort. Not all of them anyway. There is still some of that alive and well. Utah Savage is a fine example.<br /><br />The Freak Flag still flys but it is often hard to see through the upraised hands who shout "Give me mine! Give me mine!"<br /><br />Thomas Jefferson was asked to write the section on religious freedoms Virginia's constitution. When asked about his views on different religions taking hold in the great state of Virginia, he was quoted as saying, "It neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket." I am under the impression these Boomers feel like they are getting their pockets picked.<br /><br />Well f*ck 'em. If they can't see that giving a poor man $50 worth of medicine for $5 is going to get him back to work faster so he can pay more taxes, make him a better wage earner so he can put his kid through school, keep him from being tempted to enter into crime to provide for his most basic needs, well f*ck 'em.<br /><br />Maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick and it won't be the first time or the last, but making a better, more healthy citizenry seems like a noble and worth wile pursuit.<br /><br />But just to be on the safe side, BBC & I are looking into a new shotgun.<br /><br />Thanks Mike. I'll sleep a little better tonight.<br /><br />DocDochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16979621370660001312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-5626934466160344182010-04-06T23:18:41.177-04:002010-04-06T23:18:41.177-04:00Only anarchy can cure humanity of it's insanit...<b>Only anarchy can cure humanity of it's insanity.</b><br /><br />I wouldn't take any bets on that, but it's worth a shot and may be fun. <br /><br />I'd better get more serious about another gun.BBChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323188240580782454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-85340599902999131462010-04-06T23:15:53.520-04:002010-04-06T23:15:53.520-04:00I want single-payer health care.
I want someone t...<b>I want single-payer health care.</b><br /><br />I want someone to explain to me what she said. Just exactly what is single-payer health care? <br /><br />Is it pay for your own health care without help from a social system?<br /><br />And if you can't afford to pay your own way you die?BBChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323188240580782454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-89147607627972913332010-04-06T23:10:36.793-04:002010-04-06T23:10:36.793-04:00Boomers, unhappy idiots no matter how much they ha...Boomers, unhappy idiots no matter how much they have. Myself being one of the exceptions. <br /><br />Not that I'm not unhappy, but it's not because I don't have all the shit everyone else has. <br /><br /><b>Now you kids get off my lawn you'll wreck the grass!</b><br /><br />Come over to my place kids, I don't like mowing that shit anyway. <br /><br />But if your mommies don't want you learning salty things stay out of my fucking yard. <br /><br />Come to think of it, just stay out of my fucking yard anyway, I don't have much use for kids.BBChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323188240580782454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-77692461866162797242010-04-06T18:36:07.351-04:002010-04-06T18:36:07.351-04:00Physically I'm 52. Mentally I'm 16 on a go...Physically I'm 52. Mentally I'm 16 on a good day - ie a normal male.<br /><br />Only anarchy can cure humanity of it's insanity.<br /><br />We aren't a life form, we're a virus.<br /><br />Mother nature will take us down one day and good riddance (er...providing I'm already dead and gone of course)...;-)DILLIGAFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16520650650468676361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-89564984542005246762010-04-06T13:39:31.204-04:002010-04-06T13:39:31.204-04:00What, so you don't think homers should be segr...What, so you don't think homers should be segregated and the womenfolk should be making my teabag? <br /><br />A shame what the corrupting power of the invisible hippie mind control ray can do to a man.Randal Graveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08728992897551848531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-41884860326092826432010-04-05T20:32:49.104-04:002010-04-05T20:32:49.104-04:00For many Boomers, there is no fire, no passion abo...<i>For many Boomers, there is no fire, no passion about anything but the material aspects of their lives or the prospects of change on those material aspects in the future.</i><br /><br />While there are huge exception I'm afraid that to get the country back on track moving toward "the more perfect Union" again all the old farts that I include myself are going to have to die and be swept away by a younger more open-minded generation.Commander Zaiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11000824454124236774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-3029902521861880472010-04-05T15:55:39.732-04:002010-04-05T15:55:39.732-04:00I'm all for social change, don't want to g...I'm all for social change, don't want to go back to the dark ages like Reich-WingNuts would have us go. <br />I would like the tax code to be made more fair for those who are actually making the products or providing the services. Unearned income should be taxed at a much higher rate than earned income.<br /> <br /><br />When it comes to things like electronics, I wait until they have worked most of the bugs out of them(I hope!!). Also after they sell a bunch and have production up to speed the price usually comes down.Kulkurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09198195648066700925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-67269104586458942172010-04-05T14:46:18.956-04:002010-04-05T14:46:18.956-04:00The only good revolution was the one we won. Anyt...The only good revolution was the one we won. Anything else is counter revolutionary and must be crushed. Whatever gains accrued from the '60's are enough. "Now shut up and go away and quit bothering us with your radical ideas. I'm alright and if you aren't, it is your own fault". <br /><br />They say that the young are socialist or have no heart and the old are capitalist or have no brain. I must have been built backwards as I was pretty much a redneck as a youth. The older I get and the more of the world I see, the more of a radical socialist I become. When my time comes at age 90 or so, I will likely be angry enough to go and blow something up just to make a social statement.The Blog Fodderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441978691701289074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-35938581557257569812010-04-05T14:00:16.766-04:002010-04-05T14:00:16.766-04:00I'm 65 and I still have the hippy urge for soc...I'm 65 and I still have the hippy urge for social change-I want an end to the wars we're engaged in. I want single-payer health care. I want a tax code that doesn't favor the very rich. I want banking reform and very tough regulation of the financial institutions that are "too big to fail." I want strong labor unions that help to protect workers.<br /><br />And I don't want anything to do with the people I knew when I was young- they always piss me off with their selfish, smug ignorance.<br /><br />I also have a problem with people under 35 who don't know anything about history or current political events, who don't vote, who know fuck-all. So, you kids, get your ignorant asses off my grass.Utah Savagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16385093247915560752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9728880.post-76753887630676834682010-04-05T13:25:19.646-04:002010-04-05T13:25:19.646-04:00Maybe it's a natural process of aging that nar...Maybe it's a natural process of aging that narrowing of view. It requires effort and energy to even understand a debated issue. <br />Those of us over 50 understand that there are only so many solutions to a given problem. We have the benefit of experience and history on our side but alas not the energy or motivation. That may be just an aspect of aging, a natural part of life. I couldn't say for sure.<br /><br />Now you kids get off my lawn you'll wreck the grass!Demeurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01935263659097273535noreply@blogger.com