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2008-03-31 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Steve White 2008-03-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Why do the Millenials get only nine years, when the Baby Boomers got three decades?

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-03-31 07:36|| 2008-03-31 07:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Look at the boomer extraordinaires, Hill and Bill: neither have the foggiest notion of when to shut up and leave the stage, and even less of an idea of why anyone would want them to...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-03-31 07:50|| 2008-03-31 07:50|| Front Page Top

#3 "We were completely surprised. There has been a faulty portrayal of millennials by the media -- television, films, news, blogs, everything."

Depends on which blogs you are reading.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-03-31 08:47|| 2008-03-31 08:47|| Front Page Top

#4 I had occasion to sit with some of the kids from my oldest boy's high school a few weeks ago. They were telling about one of their teachers, who was spouting the standard Code Pink propaganda line on Iraq in class. The kids argued back, and (as they tell it) the teacher had a meltdown and was reduced to screaming at them about "how stupid you kids today are" and threatening them with a screening of farenheit 9/11. One of the other parents and one of the other teachers resolved to have a word with her about her unprofessionalism.*

To quote The Who, the kids are all right.

My son's not in that particular class, so I don't have standing to complain.

Posted by Mike 2008-03-31 10:51|| 2008-03-31 10:51|| Front Page Top

#5 I only recognize the Boomers as being 45-55 (i.e. those wh owere subject to the draft for Vietnam).

Someone born in 1959 was still playing with toy trucks when Tet hit, and was too busy getting his drivers license when Saigon fell, and was more into the Sex Pistols than the stones.

The spread of "Boomer" to cover them is stupid.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-03-31 13:15|| 2008-03-31 13:15|| Front Page Top

#6 That's more of the "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" generation. Hardly boomers at all - served with lots of them, far more conservative and traditional than the selfish old hippies that the real boomers are.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-03-31 13:16|| 2008-03-31 13:16|| Front Page Top

#7 I was born in '59. Never thought of myself as a boomer

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-03-31 13:30|| 2008-03-31 13:30|| Front Page Top

#8 I was born in '60. Love the Stones (the Dead even more). While true about playing with trucks during Tet, I was attentive to the news of the war during and after it was over. My contemporaries, at least where I grew up and then where I went to high school tend to be conservative with respect to the metrics cited in the article.

My nephews who've recently graduated college or are doing so this year are quite conservative. Neither went into the military, which I regret. Neither did I, which I regret far more.

Posted by Remoteman 2008-03-31 14:22|| 2008-03-31 14:22|| Front Page Top

#9 So basically, a new poll of 21-29 year-olds surprises liberal elites at the nation's largest advertising agency. Liberal elites who would otherwise have us believe that they have their finger on the pulse of trends in young adult America.

I'm shocked, I tell you. Just shocked.

Posted by eltoroverde 2008-03-31 15:23|| 2008-03-31 15:23|| Front Page Top

#10 maybe the younger ones see the wreckage that the boomers leave in their wake and are disgusted by the spoiled, entitled brats.

Posted by Woodrow Slusorong7967 2008-03-31 15:29|| 2008-03-31 15:29|| Front Page Top

#11 Born in '60. Never thought of myself as a ~~booger~~ Boomer either. We had to contend with all the crap the boomers left behind.

Dont call me a boomer.

Leftists and the media would like to claim that the 'younger generation' is more liberal then they really are. The 'young americans' are not stupid - they see what is going on.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-03-31 16:05|| 2008-03-31 16:05|| Front Page Top

#12 Hey, guys --

leave a little room for the good Boomers, okay? Like GEN Petraeus and LTG Odierno. And like Master Fred of Rantburg.

And like my husband who served in the military during the tough Clinton years and contributed directly to the downfall of the Soviets.

and like me .....

Oh - and PLEASE don't lump Pelosi, Reid, Murtha, Kerry etc. in with the Boomers. They were born earlier.

TIA y'all ....

Posted by lotp 2008-03-31 16:15|| 2008-03-31 16:15|| Front Page Top

#13 but by all means diss the hippies. I never was very impressed by them.

Posted by lotp 2008-03-31 16:16|| 2008-03-31 16:16|| Front Page Top

#14 PS: Mr. Lotp & I are coming up on our 34th wedding anniversay, in case that counts in our favor. ;-)

Posted by lotp 2008-03-31 16:18|| 2008-03-31 16:18|| Front Page Top

#15 Cool lotp; Mrs Ret and I have the 35th in our view mirror.......(if you take away the 12 year equivalent for sea duty would it only be 23?)

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-03-31 17:14|| 2008-03-31 17:14|| Front Page Top

#16 I only recognize the Boomers as being 45-55 (i.e. those wh owere subject to the draft for Vietnam).

heh - thought you meant age 45-55 - but now think you meant those born from 1945 - 1955. Agree that those born after that time have a different outlook because they saw the mess the boomers left behind with their stupid ideas.

Yes - many good boomers, but unless we get a good president this time, that group may well have spent the inheritance left to us by our forefathers.

Posted by Woodrow Slusorong7967 2008-03-31 18:07|| 2008-03-31 18:07|| Front Page Top

#17 I'm beginning to have more and more hope for the next generations coming behind us (and I'm only mid 30's) with my parents being just before the 'boom (born in 1940 and 1943 respectively).

Hearing a local story from Neal Boortz made me grin. Ends up a teacher at one of the "better" Gwinnett County schools (suburb of Atlanta) asked her class to write a paper defending a "controversial subject". One of the kids picked the Fair Tax (this school is smack dab in the middle of Rep. John Linder's district, who's the main sponsor of the Fair Tax) and told teach that. The teacher BANNED him from using either of Neal Boortz's books on the Fair Tax, but suggested he use a 3-year old NY Times hit piece on the Fair Tax. Kid immediately called Neal's show, and if you know Neal, the rest is history. This lady's name is MUD now in that community.

I see more and more of these stories every year, especially kids standing up to LLL moonbat ~~teachers~~ indoctrinators. Add to it the decrease in premarital sex, the drop in teen pregnancy rates, drops in drug use, etc. and I hold out hope for these kids behind me to uphold the America we know and love. I think them realizing the effects the self-centered, Dr. Spock lovin', hippies that came before them is NO true way to live shines through. They want MORE. They want MEANING, and you don't find that it thinking the same way everyone else does (or how the TV and MSM tell you to think). In a strange sort of irony, their phrase (like the hippies) could be "Question Authority", but they're rebelling against the hippies. For every Klebold and Harris (Columbine shooters), you have a Cassie Bernall (who said YES when they asked if she believed in God before shooting her in the head).

If only we survive another terrorist attack and/or the illegal immigrant invasion, then this up and coming generation can SHINE. I just pray they get a chance to.

Posted by BA 2008-03-31 22:06|| 2008-03-31 22:06|| Front Page Top

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