There is no shortage of Gen X douche bags either. If you scroll down a few articles, there are all those froots and nuts in that protest pic, and our worthy posters advocating water canons and lots of soap. You ask me, I think that’s a waste of good water and soap and the cops should use the guns instead.
Our generation is going to be as divided, contentious, fractious and plain stupid as our parents were. One day we will all be old geezers and having the young ones laugh at us too.
What mistakes are we going to make? How many kids will we kill, how many lives will we ruin as we play politics with the issues of our day?
There but for the grace of God go I, and may He have mercy on us all.
When the last hippie is strangled by the entrails of the last marxist…
Rick McGinnis, if you’re reading this: I miss your Boomer Deathwatch site something fierce.
We are wrinkled alright, but “we” are the ones with the money. The day we stop spending is the day you will be scratching your head saying: “Duhhh, who`s gonna by that used SUV, (or CD, or Lincoln Town Car.) Enjoy your stay at the Sally Ann.
Thanks for ruining dinner.
She’s a mediocre talented Freakazoid with a penchant for gaudy publicity.
I’ve never thought of Madonna as other than a MTV Gen-X performer. She may be of boomer age but her appeal was always to those younger than her. Any of the self-respecting boomers I know saw her for what she was – an opportunistic, self-promoting media whore.
As John V above pointed out she’s still sleazy. And her latest tour would make Al Gore proud. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2606734/Madonnas-carbon-footprint-under-scrutiny.html
The emissions generated by the singer’s 45 date tour is the equivalent to that created by 160 Britons in an entire year.
According to website Carbonfootprint.com, her 250 staff would generate 1,080 tons flying on commercial planes, while there would be 460 tons of carbon from her heavy cargo.
While I truly envy the likes of Madonna the vocal talent she ( or her male fellow artists possess) or enjoy, I know I have reached a state of ethereal understanding on this plane of understanding she can only hope for at this state of her being, despite her current worldly fame and wealth.
There is hope for Madonna!
News flash GenXers!!
Madonna is no boomer. Never was. Just delicious GenX skank..d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s!
The Stones or the Grateful Dead….now those are boomers!!
Wow, touchy subject.
yuk , sort of a blonde version of maggie trudeau , mother to two of our lieberals favoured sons. the studio 54 picture au natural makes you wonder how they ever located their spawn on the birthing chair.
realistic; you are the ones with the money,but just remember the govt of the day can confiscate your money and your property.If you dont think that it can happen,remember the jews of Germany or the Japanese of Canada.
I think old cone tatas is 50 so she is a boomer, all be it a late one. If anyone thought that her political rants and sleazy raunch was something new then they must be in mushroom land. Some people have a bit of talent and then try anything to stay in the spotlight… the Vogue Girl is one of them.
Now if you want to see classy and sexy boomer I’d suggest seeing Tina Turner, although I think she is retired from the road. Watched her concert on her 60th birthday and I was tired just watching her.
Trust me, Madonna is not the music we baby boommers did or do listen to. See what yoga can do to you, not to mention the “look at me” personality type. Kinda reminds me of story of the old silent screen star that never adjusted to talkies.
The mean, gnarly, grizzly old Phantom is two (2) years older than Madonna and has done WAY less drugs. Something to consider while thinking about going to see her in concert. Don’t sit in the front row, unless you WANT to see skinlike ostrich leather cowboy boots.
That ain’t no cougar, that’s a smilodon. She looks like an escapee from the La Brea tar pits. Next thing you know she’ll be touring wearing hockey tape like Cher. [shudder]
You wanna make yourself popular, stand up in the back row and start screaming “Put it back on! For the love of all that’s good and holy, PUT IT BACK ON!!!!”
I mean, its nice that she can still kick over her head and everything, but I don’t want to see the TENDONS sticking out, thanks.
News flash GenXers!!
Madonna is no boomer. Never was. Just delicious GenX skank..d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s!
The Stones or the Grateful Dead….now those are boomers!!”
Sorry! Generation X is defined as those who were born between 1964 and 1971. Madonna was born in 1958, which makes her a boomer (not to mention someone who personifies everything that is wrong with the “me” generation).
and the housing coh-laps was largely due to liberals lending standards
and the likes of Mad-donna and most entertainers are liberals as well
and I DO like the stones (on record, as they suck live) and other such “boomer” music
I have an ex sister-in-law who reminds me of Madonna. You think you find her disgusting?
My thoughts on the Denver convention and the protests:
The kids are from a liberal mix of dark blue collar bread winners and upper middle class backgrounds. Like “Dumpster Muffin” (the gingerbread child from Berkeley who’s marks were so bad in her first term that she retreated to a tree), she’s been told all of her life how special she is from not only Mom and Dad, but from Pappa and Mammy – aunts and uncles.
Showered with praise since she could remember, being lazy or over-rated can be devastating.
Lots of kids in this up and coming generation are focused and ambitious and will create wealth and often times, as single individuals, actually create the resources to right a wrong when someone weaker in their “orbit” or beyond is being wronged.
Too many of today’s spawn are so confused and guilty about not being able to live up to Mammy and Papa’s expectations. After high school???
These eyeballs end up at university and crave for praise. When they can’t get it because they’re too lazy or inept and their marks explore the Kelvin scale, they head for the trees and obsfucate the reason as to why they’ve decided to live in a tree.
Mr. X.
I have an ex sister-in-law who reminds me of Madonna. You think you find her disgusting?
My thoughts on the Denver convention and the protests:
The kids are from a liberal mix of dark blue collar bread winners and upper middle class backgrounds. Like “Dumpster Muffin” (the gingerbread child from Berkeley who’s marks were so bad in her first term that she retreated to a tree), she’s been told all of her life how special she is from not only Mom and Dad, but from Pappa and Mammy – aunts and uncles.
Showered with praise since she could remember, being lazy or over-rated can be devastating.
Lots of kids in this up and coming generation are focused and ambitious and will create wealth and often times, as single individuals, actually create the resources to right a wrong when someone weaker in their “orbit” or beyond is being wronged.
Too many of today’s spawn are so confused and guilty about not being able to live up to Mammy and Papa’s expectations. After high school???
These eyeballs end up at university and crave for praise. When they can’t get it because they’re too lazy or inept and their marks explore the Kelvin scale, they head for the trees and obsfucate the reason as to why they’ve decided to live in a tree.
Mr. X.
Three X’s and you’re out.
Gawd thats like looking at Borat with a thong bathing suit! Yuck.
Like a trainwreck that I cant stop looking at.
Madonna – the epitomy of SKANK!!! Who gives a good god damned?
Oh yay, another pic of Madonna with her legs spread. That’s why I can’t stand her.
“Madonna is not the music we baby boommers did or do listen to.”
Well, I like a few songs: Get Into The Groove, Live To Tell, and a couple of others.
But I’ll take the Four Seasons, the Bee Gees, the Moody Blues, Genesis, or the Smiths anyday.
I suppose it’ll take a few years, but eventually you thirty-somethings will realize that every generation thinks it’s more enlightened than it’s predecessor. Personally, I think you thirty-somethings are about the most useless generation in recent history. I know you’d like to blame the boomers for everything, but you need to take some of the blame yourselves.
Boomers had to mature very quickly because we were a little short on role models. We were a very independent generation. We pretty well changed the way people think in America.
Thirty-somethings grew up listening to their parents bitch about hippies, and war protestors, and rock and roll. Their parents were too young for Korea, and too old to get drafted to Vietnam. Their parents were a bunch of tools, who were pampered by their parents(who survived the depression).
Now you thirty-somethings are in the same time warp as your parents were. I actually feel sorry for you, you don’t have any way to define yourselves.
Speaking of tools, check out james love’s link. I rest my case on that one.
No role models? Weren’t the boomers’ parents those who survived the Great Depression AND World War II? What more could you want?
Boomers took the best of humanity that survived the first half of the 20th century and squandered it, spoiled brats that we were. Gen-Xers and the thirty and 20 somethings have no idea of the legacy their parents failed to pass on to them.
Obama is the pinnacle of that failure: empty, vacuous, smug, and absolutely clueless.
Madonna just doesn’t know when to hang it up with grace. Skank she may be, but she is one of the savviest females to make it on the world stage.
Umm, dp, I hate to break this to you, but you say that our (30-somethings) parents were “… bitch[ing] about hippies, and war protestors, and rock and roll. Their parents were too young for Korea, and too old to get drafted to Vietnam. Their parents were a bunch of tools, who were pampered by their parents(who survived the depression).
Those parents, by definition, are boomers.
As the kids today say, whatever their generation: Oh, snap.
Hold on there Skippy. Just what did I squander? I’m still working, trying to put food on my table. Lord knows I didn’t get rich serving Queen and country. I resent the implication that I haven’t passed on a legacy(such as it is) to my children’s generation.
This is what I’m hoping will be posted on the link of this subject thread: (BTW, Madonna might be a boomer like me with only 1 year my senior but I never listened to her stuff and like someone said above, consider her music to be for the younger generation):
I’m a late boomer (59)…Yes my generation made mistakes but the upcoming generations are no better…A bunch of shaky nintendo freaks with no vocabulary/opinions or ingaging dialogue. Lazy, super selfish and rude. Must have everything at the very beginning fresh out of school and ultra materialistic/narcissistic.
Of course the rebuttal will be: “Well it’s the boomer parents fault we are like that”, proving that one thing never changes: Blaming ones parents for ones weaknesses.
As far as the music scene goes: I’m a heavy metal fan…Last week I went to the “Masters of Metal” concert featuring: Testament, Motorhead, Heaven & Hell (Black Sabbath with Dio) & Judas Priest. All bands 20 year old or more with most performers over 40 and some in their 60’s. The 20,000 seats were sold out and the age group was 55 all the way down to 14. Most were under 25…Let me see: Our music stinks but for the first time music among generational groups come together?
Today’s new music sucks like hell…Many kids will tell you that.
Now you kids go to work, we did’nt build your wealth and prosperity so you can just destroy it with your constant bitching and your idiocies like global warming.
There is no such thing as a generation. It’s a concept about as useful as “progressive” or “right wing”. What nonsense. About 40% of early “Boomers” vote Republican. And that’s voting Republican with George Bush on offer. Even more voted for Reagan, who actually exhibited characteristics that might be loosely termed conservative. Thinking about people in groups like this is collectivist, dehumanizing balderdash. It doesn’t lead anywhere good.
dp
“We pretty well changed the way people think in America.”
This is why we hate you. You wrecked the western world and we’re watching it bleed out.
Writing a comment in a hurry, late at night, at my advanced age is a bad idea. I seem to have lost ten years somewhere.
So “you” hate “us” do you warwick? That’s a fairly dumb thing to say. What would you have done differently?
Skip
I agree with you.
T.C.
Sorry Tex but it is the boomer generation that squandered the work of past generations. How? Greed!
Your generation took every bribe that the government could offer to buy your votes at the expense of things like the military and infrastructure to pay for government programs, handouts for interest groups, family allowances and on and on. This is how your generation failed us, the legacy you left behind: a bankrupt healthcare system, no retirement payments for future generations, broken homes, a mockery of a criminal justice system, the feminization of society, falling bridges ect…
All while some of your brag about how much wealth your generation has made!
The ultimate failure of the Boomers is their selfishness. Too busy to have kids and be parents; the boomers have in fact attempted to commit societal suicide.
None of the above speaks to the moral failures of the “Know-it-alls” who saw fit to raise kids in single parent homes out of convenience, or that your tampering with the criminal justice system has made it a mockery.The future threat from the Boomers is their disproportionate numbers which gives them a large amount of political clout. The Boomers can and will suck our country dry through what they will consider entitlements. Thanks guys!
Grind a Grit
C’mon now, everyone knows it was Heavy Metal from the 80’s that was the final dagger in the Rock & Roll coffin. One could argue that a few groups still make good rock (ie foo & chili’s) but that is a stretch. You guys look like ho’mo’s with your make-up and hair-spray.
WRT Madonna, she reminds me of the women from the Bruce Willis movie “Death Becomes Her”.
If the boomers changed the west for the worse, then I guess you guys better get right busy fixing it. What’s that? You want us to do it for you? I thought you wanted us to hurry up and die.
dp,
When the boomers hurry up and die the following generations will be left with the power.
Since your gen raised ours, most of ours is just as broken and some more so.
Civilization is beyond redemption. It’s like the year 400 all over again – here comes the barbarians!
“Grind a Grit
C’mon now, everyone knows it was Heavy Metal from the 80’s that was the final dagger in the Rock & Roll coffin. One could argue that a few groups still make good rock (ie foo & chili’s) but that is a stretch. You guys look like ho’mo’s with your make-up and hair-spray.”
Indiana Gomez
Look Gomer, get yer metal straight buddy…The bands I mentioned are all early to late 70’s bands except for Testament which was one of the rare 80’s band who were not hair metal/synthesizer cringing fluff with make- up…And secondly I did mention that nothing good is coming out anymore…So before you call me an eyeliner homo do your homework Indianut and read the posts more carefully.
There was lots of good stuff in the ’80s. They just didn’t play it on the radio.
If you listened to the radio (and my condolances if you did,) you’d have a choice between Madonna and Michael Jackson on one hand and Men who look like Women on the other.
Grit
Are you saying you didn’t crimp or back comb your hair in the 80’s?
I have found the old rock crowd to be hyper-sensitive WRT their music and their dated hair styles. That being said, I was just poking fun.
Warwick
Oh no you didn’t!
Did you dis MJ? Do you realize that Eminem was banned from BET for poking fun at the King of POP. If my daughter caught wind of this, she would track you down and talk your ear off until you apologized, or admitted you are wrong about MJ. You are on very thin ice now!
U R right WRT radio! As a rap listener in the 80’s – 90’s there were NO options for me on the FM radio. At least we have AM Talk Radio.
My mothers always said the boomers would take the country to hell in a hand-basket. She’s obviously correct although I followed their example by working hard to make a life. My parents were depression era and they provided me a solid ethical and moral foundation. This didn’t happen with all the boomers but it did with many. The same can’t be said for boomer parenting. I didn’t have kids so I am blameless. Because of my upbringing, I saw the writing on the wall and chose Corvettes and Cadillacs over kids. It was a very good choice. Plus anyone who doesn’t like the Stones is a Loser, notice the capital “L.” The Stones were only one of dozens of incredible artists we enjoyed. Those with parents with broad musical interests also were able to appreciate the Big Bands, classic country along with Dvorak, Prokofief and my favorite chestnut, Tchaikovsky, et al. Gen Xs and Ys, you’re going to be my age before you know what hit you. Better grow up before life passes you by.
When a friend of mine told me he hated the Stones, I could feel my jaw hitting the floor.
And she is still SLEAZY too.
There is no shortage of Gen X douche bags either. If you scroll down a few articles, there are all those froots and nuts in that protest pic, and our worthy posters advocating water canons and lots of soap. You ask me, I think that’s a waste of good water and soap and the cops should use the guns instead.
Our generation is going to be as divided, contentious, fractious and plain stupid as our parents were. One day we will all be old geezers and having the young ones laugh at us too.
What mistakes are we going to make? How many kids will we kill, how many lives will we ruin as we play politics with the issues of our day?
There but for the grace of God go I, and may He have mercy on us all.
When the last hippie is strangled by the entrails of the last marxist…
Rick McGinnis, if you’re reading this: I miss your Boomer Deathwatch site something fierce.
We are wrinkled alright, but “we” are the ones with the money. The day we stop spending is the day you will be scratching your head saying: “Duhhh, who`s gonna by that used SUV, (or CD, or Lincoln Town Car.) Enjoy your stay at the Sally Ann.
Thanks for ruining dinner.
She’s a mediocre talented Freakazoid with a penchant for gaudy publicity.
I’ve never thought of Madonna as other than a MTV Gen-X performer. She may be of boomer age but her appeal was always to those younger than her. Any of the self-respecting boomers I know saw her for what she was – an opportunistic, self-promoting media whore.
As John V above pointed out she’s still sleazy. And her latest tour would make Al Gore proud.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2606734/Madonnas-carbon-footprint-under-scrutiny.html
The emissions generated by the singer’s 45 date tour is the equivalent to that created by 160 Britons in an entire year.
According to website Carbonfootprint.com, her 250 staff would generate 1,080 tons flying on commercial planes, while there would be 460 tons of carbon from her heavy cargo.
While I truly envy the likes of Madonna the vocal talent she ( or her male fellow artists possess) or enjoy, I know I have reached a state of ethereal understanding on this plane of understanding she can only hope for at this state of her being, despite her current worldly fame and wealth.
There is hope for Madonna!
News flash GenXers!!
Madonna is no boomer. Never was. Just delicious GenX skank..d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s!
The Stones or the Grateful Dead….now those are boomers!!
Wow, touchy subject.
yuk , sort of a blonde version of maggie trudeau , mother to two of our lieberals favoured sons. the studio 54 picture au natural makes you wonder how they ever located their spawn on the birthing chair.
realistic; you are the ones with the money,but just remember the govt of the day can confiscate your money and your property.If you dont think that it can happen,remember the jews of Germany or the Japanese of Canada.
I think old cone tatas is 50 so she is a boomer, all be it a late one. If anyone thought that her political rants and sleazy raunch was something new then they must be in mushroom land. Some people have a bit of talent and then try anything to stay in the spotlight… the Vogue Girl is one of them.
Now if you want to see classy and sexy boomer I’d suggest seeing Tina Turner, although I think she is retired from the road. Watched her concert on her 60th birthday and I was tired just watching her.
Trust me, Madonna is not the music we baby boommers did or do listen to. See what yoga can do to you, not to mention the “look at me” personality type. Kinda reminds me of story of the old silent screen star that never adjusted to talkies.
The mean, gnarly, grizzly old Phantom is two (2) years older than Madonna and has done WAY less drugs. Something to consider while thinking about going to see her in concert. Don’t sit in the front row, unless you WANT to see skinlike ostrich leather cowboy boots.
That ain’t no cougar, that’s a smilodon. She looks like an escapee from the La Brea tar pits. Next thing you know she’ll be touring wearing hockey tape like Cher. [shudder]
You wanna make yourself popular, stand up in the back row and start screaming “Put it back on! For the love of all that’s good and holy, PUT IT BACK ON!!!!”
I mean, its nice that she can still kick over her head and everything, but I don’t want to see the TENDONS sticking out, thanks.
News flash GenXers!!
Madonna is no boomer. Never was. Just delicious GenX skank..d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s!
The Stones or the Grateful Dead….now those are boomers!!”
Sorry! Generation X is defined as those who were born between 1964 and 1971. Madonna was born in 1958, which makes her a boomer (not to mention someone who personifies everything that is wrong with the “me” generation).
and the housing coh-laps was largely due to liberals lending standards
and the likes of Mad-donna and most entertainers are liberals as well
and I DO like the stones (on record, as they suck live) and other such “boomer” music
I have an ex sister-in-law who reminds me of Madonna. You think you find her disgusting?
My thoughts on the Denver convention and the protests:
The kids are from a liberal mix of dark blue collar bread winners and upper middle class backgrounds. Like “Dumpster Muffin” (the gingerbread child from Berkeley who’s marks were so bad in her first term that she retreated to a tree), she’s been told all of her life how special she is from not only Mom and Dad, but from Pappa and Mammy – aunts and uncles.
Showered with praise since she could remember, being lazy or over-rated can be devastating.
Lots of kids in this up and coming generation are focused and ambitious and will create wealth and often times, as single individuals, actually create the resources to right a wrong when someone weaker in their “orbit” or beyond is being wronged.
Too many of today’s spawn are so confused and guilty about not being able to live up to Mammy and Papa’s expectations. After high school???
These eyeballs end up at university and crave for praise. When they can’t get it because they’re too lazy or inept and their marks explore the Kelvin scale, they head for the trees and obsfucate the reason as to why they’ve decided to live in a tree.
Mr. X.
I have an ex sister-in-law who reminds me of Madonna. You think you find her disgusting?
My thoughts on the Denver convention and the protests:
The kids are from a liberal mix of dark blue collar bread winners and upper middle class backgrounds. Like “Dumpster Muffin” (the gingerbread child from Berkeley who’s marks were so bad in her first term that she retreated to a tree), she’s been told all of her life how special she is from not only Mom and Dad, but from Pappa and Mammy – aunts and uncles.
Showered with praise since she could remember, being lazy or over-rated can be devastating.
Lots of kids in this up and coming generation are focused and ambitious and will create wealth and often times, as single individuals, actually create the resources to right a wrong when someone weaker in their “orbit” or beyond is being wronged.
Too many of today’s spawn are so confused and guilty about not being able to live up to Mammy and Papa’s expectations. After high school???
These eyeballs end up at university and crave for praise. When they can’t get it because they’re too lazy or inept and their marks explore the Kelvin scale, they head for the trees and obsfucate the reason as to why they’ve decided to live in a tree.
Mr. X.
Three X’s and you’re out.
Gawd thats like looking at Borat with a thong bathing suit! Yuck.
Like a trainwreck that I cant stop looking at.
Madonna – the epitomy of SKANK!!! Who gives a good god damned?
Oh yay, another pic of Madonna with her legs spread. That’s why I can’t stand her.
Check out my boomer death counter. http://www.boomerdeathcounter.com
Madonna’s number will come up one day.
“Madonna is not the music we baby boommers did or do listen to.”
Well, I like a few songs: Get Into The Groove, Live To Tell, and a couple of others.
But I’ll take the Four Seasons, the Bee Gees, the Moody Blues, Genesis, or the Smiths anyday.
I suppose it’ll take a few years, but eventually you thirty-somethings will realize that every generation thinks it’s more enlightened than it’s predecessor. Personally, I think you thirty-somethings are about the most useless generation in recent history. I know you’d like to blame the boomers for everything, but you need to take some of the blame yourselves.
Boomers had to mature very quickly because we were a little short on role models. We were a very independent generation. We pretty well changed the way people think in America.
Thirty-somethings grew up listening to their parents bitch about hippies, and war protestors, and rock and roll. Their parents were too young for Korea, and too old to get drafted to Vietnam. Their parents were a bunch of tools, who were pampered by their parents(who survived the depression).
Now you thirty-somethings are in the same time warp as your parents were. I actually feel sorry for you, you don’t have any way to define yourselves.
Speaking of tools, check out james love’s link. I rest my case on that one.
No role models? Weren’t the boomers’ parents those who survived the Great Depression AND World War II? What more could you want?
Boomers took the best of humanity that survived the first half of the 20th century and squandered it, spoiled brats that we were. Gen-Xers and the thirty and 20 somethings have no idea of the legacy their parents failed to pass on to them.
Obama is the pinnacle of that failure: empty, vacuous, smug, and absolutely clueless.
Madonna just doesn’t know when to hang it up with grace. Skank she may be, but she is one of the savviest females to make it on the world stage.
Umm, dp, I hate to break this to you, but you say that our (30-somethings) parents were “… bitch[ing] about hippies, and war protestors, and rock and roll. Their parents were too young for Korea, and too old to get drafted to Vietnam. Their parents were a bunch of tools, who were pampered by their parents(who survived the depression).
Those parents, by definition, are boomers.
As the kids today say, whatever their generation: Oh, snap.
Hold on there Skippy. Just what did I squander? I’m still working, trying to put food on my table. Lord knows I didn’t get rich serving Queen and country. I resent the implication that I haven’t passed on a legacy(such as it is) to my children’s generation.
This is what I’m hoping will be posted on the link of this subject thread: (BTW, Madonna might be a boomer like me with only 1 year my senior but I never listened to her stuff and like someone said above, consider her music to be for the younger generation):
I’m a late boomer (59)…Yes my generation made mistakes but the upcoming generations are no better…A bunch of shaky nintendo freaks with no vocabulary/opinions or ingaging dialogue. Lazy, super selfish and rude. Must have everything at the very beginning fresh out of school and ultra materialistic/narcissistic.
Of course the rebuttal will be: “Well it’s the boomer parents fault we are like that”, proving that one thing never changes: Blaming ones parents for ones weaknesses.
As far as the music scene goes: I’m a heavy metal fan…Last week I went to the “Masters of Metal” concert featuring: Testament, Motorhead, Heaven & Hell (Black Sabbath with Dio) & Judas Priest. All bands 20 year old or more with most performers over 40 and some in their 60’s. The 20,000 seats were sold out and the age group was 55 all the way down to 14. Most were under 25…Let me see: Our music stinks but for the first time music among generational groups come together?
Today’s new music sucks like hell…Many kids will tell you that.
Now you kids go to work, we did’nt build your wealth and prosperity so you can just destroy it with your constant bitching and your idiocies like global warming.
There is no such thing as a generation. It’s a concept about as useful as “progressive” or “right wing”. What nonsense. About 40% of early “Boomers” vote Republican. And that’s voting Republican with George Bush on offer. Even more voted for Reagan, who actually exhibited characteristics that might be loosely termed conservative. Thinking about people in groups like this is collectivist, dehumanizing balderdash. It doesn’t lead anywhere good.
dp
“We pretty well changed the way people think in America.”
This is why we hate you. You wrecked the western world and we’re watching it bleed out.
Writing a comment in a hurry, late at night, at my advanced age is a bad idea. I seem to have lost ten years somewhere.
So “you” hate “us” do you warwick? That’s a fairly dumb thing to say. What would you have done differently?
Skip
I agree with you.
T.C.
Sorry Tex but it is the boomer generation that squandered the work of past generations. How? Greed!
Your generation took every bribe that the government could offer to buy your votes at the expense of things like the military and infrastructure to pay for government programs, handouts for interest groups, family allowances and on and on. This is how your generation failed us, the legacy you left behind: a bankrupt healthcare system, no retirement payments for future generations, broken homes, a mockery of a criminal justice system, the feminization of society, falling bridges ect…
All while some of your brag about how much wealth your generation has made!
The ultimate failure of the Boomers is their selfishness. Too busy to have kids and be parents; the boomers have in fact attempted to commit societal suicide.
None of the above speaks to the moral failures of the “Know-it-alls” who saw fit to raise kids in single parent homes out of convenience, or that your tampering with the criminal justice system has made it a mockery.The future threat from the Boomers is their disproportionate numbers which gives them a large amount of political clout. The Boomers can and will suck our country dry through what they will consider entitlements. Thanks guys!
Grind a Grit
C’mon now, everyone knows it was Heavy Metal from the 80’s that was the final dagger in the Rock & Roll coffin. One could argue that a few groups still make good rock (ie foo & chili’s) but that is a stretch. You guys look like ho’mo’s with your make-up and hair-spray.
WRT Madonna, she reminds me of the women from the Bruce Willis movie “Death Becomes Her”.
If the boomers changed the west for the worse, then I guess you guys better get right busy fixing it. What’s that? You want us to do it for you? I thought you wanted us to hurry up and die.
dp,
When the boomers hurry up and die the following generations will be left with the power.
Since your gen raised ours, most of ours is just as broken and some more so.
Civilization is beyond redemption. It’s like the year 400 all over again – here comes the barbarians!
“Grind a Grit
C’mon now, everyone knows it was Heavy Metal from the 80’s that was the final dagger in the Rock & Roll coffin. One could argue that a few groups still make good rock (ie foo & chili’s) but that is a stretch. You guys look like ho’mo’s with your make-up and hair-spray.”
Indiana Gomez
Look Gomer, get yer metal straight buddy…The bands I mentioned are all early to late 70’s bands except for Testament which was one of the rare 80’s band who were not hair metal/synthesizer cringing fluff with make- up…And secondly I did mention that nothing good is coming out anymore…So before you call me an eyeliner homo do your homework Indianut and read the posts more carefully.
There was lots of good stuff in the ’80s. They just didn’t play it on the radio.
If you listened to the radio (and my condolances if you did,) you’d have a choice between Madonna and Michael Jackson on one hand and Men who look like Women on the other.
Grit
Are you saying you didn’t crimp or back comb your hair in the 80’s?
I have found the old rock crowd to be hyper-sensitive WRT their music and their dated hair styles. That being said, I was just poking fun.
Warwick
Oh no you didn’t!
Did you dis MJ? Do you realize that Eminem was banned from BET for poking fun at the King of POP. If my daughter caught wind of this, she would track you down and talk your ear off until you apologized, or admitted you are wrong about MJ. You are on very thin ice now!
U R right WRT radio! As a rap listener in the 80’s – 90’s there were NO options for me on the FM radio. At least we have AM Talk Radio.
My mothers always said the boomers would take the country to hell in a hand-basket. She’s obviously correct although I followed their example by working hard to make a life. My parents were depression era and they provided me a solid ethical and moral foundation. This didn’t happen with all the boomers but it did with many. The same can’t be said for boomer parenting. I didn’t have kids so I am blameless. Because of my upbringing, I saw the writing on the wall and chose Corvettes and Cadillacs over kids. It was a very good choice. Plus anyone who doesn’t like the Stones is a Loser, notice the capital “L.” The Stones were only one of dozens of incredible artists we enjoyed. Those with parents with broad musical interests also were able to appreciate the Big Bands, classic country along with Dvorak, Prokofief and my favorite chestnut, Tchaikovsky, et al. Gen Xs and Ys, you’re going to be my age before you know what hit you. Better grow up before life passes you by.
When a friend of mine told me he hated the Stones, I could feel my jaw hitting the floor.