Now I’m from the generation that most of you think destroyed America. I was educated by the National Defense Education Act and did Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n Roll in the ’60s. I left college as a dope-smoking, FM radio listening, liberal Democrat. Then I met Life.
But no matter what many of you think of people of my generation, I pretty much did it right. After a period of youthful adventure and excess, I got married, settled down, raised a kid, and made payments; every American’s duty. I did what I was ’sposed to do for 17 years. Though I was no angel and lived on the road a lot, I always came home and her cut always came off the top. But, women of the ’60s being as they are, she needed “more space,” a euphemism for body parts unknown, so she took off and left me as a single father of a teenaged daughter. Life gets real tough with that kind of unrelenting responsibility.
So, I was single, had a nice house, nice car, and a good income; ‘course I did have that kid. For a while if they weren’t under 25 and didn’t have a belly I could bounce a quarter on, I wasn’t interested, but then I figured out that I did kinda miss talking to them, and I started dating “older” women. That means, you’re dating her past; boyfriends and husbands, kids usually, and a whole lot of attitude, but they do know what goes where and why. And that’s when I learned a vital lesson. Women often run from marriages or relationships and seek “comfort” where they can find it. That isn’t as sexist as it sounds; women need a reason, men usually just need a place. And, I entered the world of separated and divorced women. Not coincidentally, the single largest demographic that supported Comrade Obama.
Now I gotta’ admit, a recently separated or divorced woman is a lot of fun. She’s either looking to make up for everything she thinks she was missing or she’s trying to rub her ex-to-be’s nose in what she’s doing. Either way it’s fun so long as you don’t think about it too much.
So, America had a fairly long period of responsible adulthood from Reagan through Bush I. It had a fling on the side with that dashing and charming Slick Willie; you could just hear all of them saying, “I can change him; he wouldn’t cheat on me.” But then they came back to dull, responsible life with GWB for awhile. But after eight years, they needed “more space.” This adulthood crap with all of its limitations and responsibility just sucks! And there was all this adventure and hope and change out there just waiting if you only just soaped up that ring and got out there. And so they did; ring in the pocket, marriage vows forgotten; time to have a little “change.”
And what us old guys who’d been through this understood was you had to be really, really careful with somebody looking for a little “change.’ So, America went out and got a little “change,” and maybe has just discovered that it ain’t much different and maybe is worse. What you always had to worry about when you’d just been that “change” was she’d get herself a whole bunch of guilty conscience and go home to ex-to-be and confess all. That’s when he and his friends Smith and Wesson came looking for YOU.
The cuckholded husband and his friends just went out looking for Comrade Obama tonight. A lot of people didn’t like the hard, narrow path of personal responsibilty and the difficult duty of seeing our way through a war in a barbarous land. They thought all they had to do was go out and get themselves a little “change.” It has one Helluva price.
That is the best analogy for all of this
Leopard1996 Wednesday, November 4th at 4:56AM EST (link)That I have read or heard all night, and probably will be the best that I will read or hear for the next few days.
“The accumluated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, “Save Us!”….and I’ll look down and whisper, “No”…The Watchmen
Good points, but one difference
bk Wednesday, November 4th at 5:01AM EST (link)If you break up with someone you’re dating - whether a recently separated or divorced person or not - you’re not stuck with the sort of alimony payments like Obama’s deficits will leave us taxpayers.
unless you dated a con artist
LJ "Beaglescout" Miller Saturday, November 7th at 12:18AM EST (link)One who got into your bank accounts, credit cards, and IRA. The world is full of suckers. Apparently America was 52% suckers last Nov 4.
“Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.”
In my little world of analogies
Deskpilot Wednesday, November 4th at 5:11AM EST (link)this would be called a “Liamism.”
In your case however, a perfect parable of political life in America.
If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can still read it in English, You’re Welcome
Deskpilot, AM(H)1 (AW), USN (Ret)
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~65 knots is STILL takeoff speed for a Cessna 152 right?
OccamsRazor Wednesday, November 4th at 5:33AM EST (link)50-60 KIAS, depending on load and altitude.
Achance Saturday, November 7th at 9:38PM EST (link)So, yeah, ~65 kts.
I’ve actually never even been in a 152. Spent the night on the ice of the Yukon River somewhere between Marshall and St. Mary’s, Alaska in a wheeled 172 one time though. Ceiling just went to Hell and it was a land on the river and spend the night or chance flying into the ground thing; easy choice. It was about forty below, so it was sleep in shifts and start the engine every four hours or so. I was with a lady pilot that I knew real well but situations like that demonstrate that the old joke about “f#$k or freeze” is just that, a joke; when you really might freeze, all you think about is not freezing. Long, long night, but I’m still here to tell the story. Lady pilot got killed a year or so later; the most common Alaska epitaph - Controlled flight into terrain. She was a good one!
In Vino Veritas
With my skill...
OccamsRazor Thursday, November 12th at 12:48AM EST (link)I wouldn’t be able to handle the wind (forget skis and tail dragging). Though, maybe one day.
Was that the NTSB report?
OccamsRazor Thursday, November 12th at 1:12AM EST (link)I sometimes doubt the veracity of the NTSB because of the political tendrils that sliver into their ranks. They blame EVERYthing on pilot error.
Anyway, belated Sorry for that news.
very appropriate analogy Achance
kyle8 Wednesday, November 4th at 7:13AM EST (link)I have always thought that liberals were just college students who refused to grow up.
Their arguments are devoid of any thought about past experiences,
They never question their assumptions.
They all want a free lunch, and they all want to rebel against the “man”.
Except when they are the man. Then, like the older frat brothers, they expect blind obedience.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
Yeah, I do mostly blame your generation, but
The_Gadfly Wednesday, November 4th at 8:03AM EST (link)not necessarily all the people in that generation. Mostly I just don’t want to hear any crap about how they are the most moral generation in history because they stood up to The Man and took him down (by which they mean losing Vietnam and booting Nixon). I don’t get that from you. You’re right that when you met Life you got it.
What concerns me most about that, and this seems to apply to all generations including mine, is that because we made it through the mess created by those bad decisions, so many people assume that somehow we will always come through any other messes. Unfortunately, there are still some messes you can’t make it through, and they are best avoided.
Good post as usual.
We’ve been called racists enough now that it shouldn’t bother us any more.
-AChance, http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/11/03/what-men-may-do-we-have-done/#comment-24463
If NY23 was a beat down for Conservatives, what do you call what happened to Progressives in NJ and VA?
inspired by ColdWarrior, http://www.redstate.com/hooah_mac/2009/11/04/ny-23-the-agony-of-defeat-not-so-much/#comment-156
To some extent, it the Toaring 20's babies screwed the pooch for the rest of us
aesthete Wednesday, November 4th at 10:39AM EST (link)They were the ones who elected FDR, not the boomers. If anything, I’d credit the boomers for electing Reagan and his cohort: the “greatest generation” certainly didn’t have a problem with LBJ, FDR, Hoover, and the rest of those statists. (Of course, you can go all the way back to Lincoln or Wilson if you want to see how the leviathan has grown, but FDR and Hoover, to me, represent the first time the statist agenda was specifically voted for in the US.)
Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
-Ayn Rand
“I am a freeman in a free state!”
-Last words of Dumnorix, chieftan of the Aedui, 54 BC
Whoops, that should be "Roaring 20s" nt
aesthete Wednesday, November 4th at 10:39AM EST (link)Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
-Ayn Rand
“I am a freeman in a free state!”
-Last words of Dumnorix, chieftan of the Aedui, 54 BC
There's no agreement on a definition for "Boomers" other
Achance Wednesday, November 4th at 11:35AM EST (link)than having been born in ‘46 or later. Some say ‘46 - ‘58, some say ‘46 - ‘64. Many of those born in the early Boomer period couldn’t vote until they were 21. The first election that all 18 year olds could vote in was 72, won in a landslide by Nixon. The first election that all Boomers could vote in was ‘84, won in a landslide by Ronald Reagan. So, since all Boomers have been able to vote in federal elections, the Democrats have held the Presidency for 9 years, the Republicans took control of the Congress for the first time in 40 years and held it for 12 years. The Republicans controled both the Congress and the White House for the first time since before FDR. And by the way, Boomers didn’t give majority support to Comrade Obama, the single largest demographic was single and never married women without regard to age followed by voters under 30.
Boomers were born into a World in which the left, often avowed communists, already had firm control of academia, the media, education, and much of the federal and some state governments. What’s most remarkable is that we held back the leftist takeover of the United States; it took more enlighten, educated, and responsible younger folks to elect a practicing communist to the Presidency.
In Vino Veritas
More like a mid-life crisis.
itrytobenice Wednesday, November 4th at 11:41AM EST (link)Yeah, America is the man in my scenario. BO is a 20 y/o secretary. Responsible, adult decisions and voting is America’s wife.
He’s been doing his job, paying his taxes, supporting his wife and 2.5 kids for 20 years. Suddenly he realizes, there’s gotta be more to life than this.
Along comes that 20 year old secretary. She demands nothing. No responsibility, just excitement. Whatever he wants, whenever he wants it. And if he dumps the responsibilities weighing him down, he can get a good car to tool around in with her.
So he does. Then he finds out she was not exactly what he was expecting. She’s really kind of a whore, he discovers. She’s not loyal to him, she’s wasting his money like it grows on trees and doesn’t seem to think there is anything he’d rather spend it on than cute little baubles for her. She’s whiny and acts like a baby when she doesn’t get her way.
Yeah, she looks fancy, and all his friends (European allies) think he’s got the coolest woman of them all. They kinda envy his good luck, but he’s beginning to realize, the wife wasn’t all that bad. She was sensible and took care of his business. This goofy tart he’s got is a child in an adult’s body and he’s trying to figure out just how he can get her controlled until he can make his life right again.
Responsibility isn’t looking so bad right now. Too bad she maxed out his credit cards and he’s stuck with that *very* expensive sports car.
The problem with America is stupidity. I’m not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don’t we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
Yeah, that analogy works too;
Achance Wednesday, November 4th at 11:51AM EST (link)it’s just an experience I pretty much avoided. I did have the red Porsche, but I stayed with Wife 1.0 while I had it.
In Vino Veritas
TMI dude
Read Chesterton in New Improved Jersey Wednesday, November 4th at 11:51AM EST (link)Did we? Can we really say that - knowing that we handed our kids over to the state education system that, after flushing the 1st Amendment down the toilet, realized it could flush anything down the toilet, including the gradebooks?
“Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can be proud of her beauty, since we have the same father; but she has no authority over us; we have to admire, but not to imitate.” - G. K. Chesterton, “Orthodoxy,” Chapter VIII.
Good analogy........
makemyday Friday, November 6th at 11:08AM EST (link)and we are more alike than different in the epiphany’s in our lives. The one difference between us is I still have my bride. I was a raving radical in the sixties (Ann Arbor, MI), was drafted and rode a gunboat (another story), came home got a job, married, raised a family, progressed in my career and started a business. Somewhere along the line I went from resistance through realizing that the system is not wrong and worth keeping. Now I find my self back at the beginning again - resistance. The difference in my resistance now and the one at the beginning is the former was from a point of view that was not my own, one that had no basis of life experiences. The latter is based on a lifetime of experiences of trial and error of what is right or wrong, what works and what doesn’t, what is worthwhile and what can be disposed of.
The politicians of the sixties rightly feared or embraced us because of our fervor and numbers. The politicians of today better fear or embrace us because of our fervor and our experience.
When all else fails…….. Shoot!
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” –American author Mark Twain (1835-1910)
“We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.” –George Washington, letter to Philip Schuyler, 1777