19, 19, 1968
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"I think we've got a bunch of thugs here, Dan"
The year was 1968. Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In debuted on NBC. The Green Bay Packers won Super Bowl II, making them, for the second year in a row, the only team ever to win a Super Bowl.
1968 was the year of the Battle of Khe Sahn and The Tet Offensive. It is the year Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray, and
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In 1968, the Democratic National Convention was in Chicago. Eight days of protests, struggles with police, and all-around violence are the indelible legacy of the convention that year, which at last saw the nomination of Hubert Humphrey and a general election loss to Richard Milhouse Nixon.
From Gateway Pundit and Michelle Malkin we learn about an antiwar group called Recreate 68, who have it in their heads to get a repeat of the year 1968.
From their site:
We are committed to resisting and overturning a system of violence inflicted daily on people of this country and the world, and against the natural environment, by political and corporate power, in the pursuit of profit. We are resolved that our group will not instigate violence against human beings as a means to end this system of violence and injustice. However, we recognize the right of the people to self-defense and community defense.
Remember, they want to "Recreate 68".
Here's a little 1968 for you, from the Chicago Tribune:
For five days in August, the nation's Democrats assembled in Chicago to nominate a presidential candidate at a convention that would quickly spiral out of control and reflect the domestic chaos of the Vietnam era. Between 10,000 and 15,000 demonstrators were arrayed against 12,000 police and 6,000 National Guard troops, with an international press contingent of more than 1,000 on hand to record events inside the International Amphitheatre and outside at locations from Lincoln Park to Grant Park. Chants of "the whole world is watching" were broadcast as hippies, Yippies and the National Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam (Mobe) clashed with police at dozens of locations. The climax came Wednesday night, as a melee broke out near the Conrad Hilton Hotel across from Grant Park, and police began beating bystanders as well as protesters, using clubs, fists, knees and Mace. Some militants fought back with their own caustic sprays, bottles and concrete chunks, enraging police all the more. Officers pushed people through a plate-glass window and then, according to witnesses, attacked the dazed victims as they lay amid broken glass. A group of police cheered a soldier as he bashed a demonstrator and attacked a photographer who filmed the scene. About an hour later, film of the violence was shown at the Amphitheatre, with the effect of a thunderbolt. Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, at the podium to place Sen. George McGovern's name in nomination, decried the use of "Gestapo tactics." A livid Mayor Daley stood up as TV cameras zoomed in but what he shouted has never been precisely determined. Later that night, as the riots continued, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota easily won the nomination. There were hundreds of injuries, but no deaths.
Also, for sheer viewing pleasure, here's Rather getting a shot to the gut:
Remember, they want to "Recreate 68".
From the Rocky Mountain News:
Denver could face a "dangerous situation" on the first day of the Democratic National Convention, war protesters said Thursday, after losing a coveted permit for Civic Center to the convention host committee.
"When things blow up because the police have to enforce a permit that the Democrats got, don’t blame us for that," said Glenn Spagnuolo, an organizer for the Re-create 68 Alliance.
"Blame the Democrats for trying to silence dissent in the city of Denver."
Their website entreats you, "Join us in the streets of Denver as we resist a two-party system that allows imperialism and racism to continue unrestrained."
In some ways this is an amusing story, in which case you could say they are recreating 68 alright, the debut of Laugh-In. The thought of these old hippies taking breaks from their protesting to visit Starbucks or check their Depends undergarments.
In another way, though, it's a disturbing look inside a diseased cultural mindset that the nation still suffers from. Look at the events of 1968. A not insignificant portion of the population never left that year. Reverend King being assassinated is justification for Reverend Wright's assassination of truth and justice. Richard Nixon is still the President. Watergate is still relevant. It's the Beatles two weeks in a row on American Idol. Iraq is Vietnam. "Recreate 68" they say, and recreate it they do, incessantly. How many times a month do we hear of the My Lai Massacre (68) in reference to our troops?
This group, whether it is small or large, whether it is influential or not, is an extension of the inner will of a vast swath of the left. They are indicative and exemplary of a mindset.
So many on the left want their heyday back. They do want to recreate 1968. In Denver, they may do just that. That they have the strongest female candidate for President in history, that they have their own, personal, Jesus, their fawning media adoration, their ownership of higher learning ... these victories are not what they really want.
These hippies and yippies and greenies and lefties ... 1968 is what they want: Self-righteous anger; Wrath; Conflict ... Fervor.
Perhaps it is their abandonment of God and religion that leaves an aching void they can only fill by indulging religious zeal in their causes every bit as consuming as that of Joan of Arc. Maybe it is a devotion to Communist and Socialist ideals, the compulsion to revolution. Maybe they live in a fantasy world conjured up by endless looping of Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" (see above) amid a bluish wreath of smoke that has them believing they are but an overturned car and burning trash can away from Nirvana. I hope never to know the mind of the left deeply enough to have the answer.
I know one thing for sure. 1968 was a grave and consequential year. It was a violent year. Denver needs to be on the lookout, because the Democrats are coming, and, again and still, they're bringing 1968 along with.
absentee
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That was the best part.
The Dems are in more trouble than they realize. They have a lot of money. But they also picked a very weak candidate who has some very disturbing friends (Tony Rezko, Jeremiah WRONG, Michelle, Al Sharpton...)
Proudly supporting John S. McCain for President (McCain/Romney?)
Back then the riots were upsetting even somewhat traumatic. I had a measure of respect and even regard for the Democratic party. Now its just mild amusement at their potential misfortune.
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Well, there WAS the ABC crew that missed the shots of protesters throwing bricks and rocks at police, who then retrieved some bricks and rocks to hand to the protesters so that they could throw them again -- ON CAMERA!
Ah, wonderful times the '60s. Looking forward to Denver '08!
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have the Sixties on their minds today. It's said that if you remember them, you weren't there. I was there and I do remember them, though some of it admitted through a wreath of blue smoke, but the only reason really to remember the Sixties is so that we NEVER repeat them; it was an awful time - even though I did have a lot of fun back in the halcyon days before sport sex became a blood sport. Those long-haired girls in hip huggers and no bra gave the phrase "stop, drop, and roll" all new meaning.
In Vino Veritas
and still living in Ann Arbor, MI. Every Wednesday, at shortly before noon, a group of aging '60s hippies gather at a little park on Liberty St, armed with protest signs and soapbox, to protest.
What, you might ask, do they protest? Well, it is a different subject each week. Sometimes its the War, sometimes Global Warming. Other times it is Illegal Wiretaps -- or Corporate greed.
The subject really doesn't matter -- it is the protest that matters. They have been doing this Wednesday protest rally since the '60s ended.
Then afterwards, they all go to lunch.
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At that time Kenny was not a wholesome C&W singer. They came out with songs like "Somethin's Burnin" and "I Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In" It is interesting how some folks like Dohrn & Ayres made the transition from then to today without even the slightest worry about carrying any scandalous baggage.
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The Green Bay Packers won Super Bowl II, making them, for the second year in a row, the only team ever to win a Super Bowl.
Oh, man. That's RIGHTEOUS.
1968 was also the year that Chevrolet abandoned the highly successful and fundamentally better, less complicated design of the 1967 Corvette in favor of the Mako Shark-inspired, "coke bottle" design, and in their haste to get it rushed into production ensured that the 1968 Corvette was one of the most high-maintenance 'Vettes ever.
If you rebuild one from the ground up, they're truly the Green Bay Packers won Super Bowl II, making them, for the second year in a row, the only team ever to win a Super Bowl, with cars and vacuum tubes that are psychedelic flashbacks.
;)
1968 is the year that I fundamentally associate with the term:
"Do Not Watch Arc."
However, it is probably Charles Kaiser's favorite year, and he's Robert Kaiser's gay brother. Kaiser is the Assoicate Editor of the Washington Post. None of these people will ever leave 1968-73. They're trapped forever in the Phantom Zone.
If you've ever done any welding, you don't watch the arc because it burns so incandescently that watching it will permanently damage your retinas. 1968 was a lot like that, and a lot of people watched the arc, up close.
a '68 and a 2008. The '68 was the year he was born, and the second one, of course is brand spanking new!
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In every sense of the word it's a very strange device, and could only have been produced in 1968. It was rushed into production with a number of serious engineering flaws, most notably the fact the shape of the body and the small attention paid to engine cooling meant that with big-block engines (the 427's) you would have regular overheating problems just sitting in traffic with the car idling.
It had a fiber-optic system for monitoring the headlights and taillights that is just bizarre, the concealed wiper system is a perfidious lashup, and most egregiously of all the interior of the car is the most cramped of any Corvette before or since -- and that was after the Chief Engineer, Zora Arkus-Duntov, tossed the original door panels and had them redesigned to give another inch or so of shoulder room. Driving the car, you sit in a semi-reclined seat swept back at 26 degrees (IIRC) that has no shoulder belt, facing a large and imposing steering column that will go right through your body if you screw up and crash. And that is more likely than necessary, because you cannot see over the front fender peaks unless you are more than six feet tall. Be careful! There aren't many good ones left!
But if you rebuild one carefully, they are indeed some of the weirdest and most frightening, but sexy and thrillingly unique cars America has ever made. Better to look at than to drive in a lot of circumstances, and incredible taken in small doses. Absolutely gorgeous in profile.
Is a much, much, much better car from an engineering standpoint in every respect. And it's almost as good-looking. Almost. :)
But the fact that they are protesting the Democratic party is evidence both of their limited influence within the party, and just how far to the left they are of most Democratic voters.
Further, Obama's candidacy owes its strength to the message, at least rhetorically, that we are moving beyond reliving the 60's.
... By the fact that he specifically cites the 60s as rationale for overlooking the Wright Reverend's accusations of genocide. Yep, he's definitely moving on, clearly.
absentee
No substance.
Lets play which one is not like the others
Make Love not war
Peace Love and happiness
Tune in turn on drop out
Hope and change
Give peace a chance
Seems I can't pick one.
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That is the understatement of the year! and exactly the problem they have....the emptiness in the core of their being is being filled with hate...something must fill that void.
The loss of brain cells from the drugs and alcohol cannot be making it any better either ;-)
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I believe that is what it's mainly about.
The Baby Boomer generation split in half in 1968.
Those who rejected the traditions of their fathers see that year as the year they gained power. It's associated with feeling empowered and independent and important.
It's when most of the Democrat Baby Boomers entered politics- Watergate then enabled them to seize undue influence in the House of Representatives. It was their heyday.
Then Reagen got elected and the WWII generation was back in charge. They lived with that, but when Clinton won in 1992 it was supposed to be the culmination of their political ascendancy. It's why they over-reached with Hillary Care, gays in the military, ect.
The Baby Boomers who remained loyal to their fathers and traditions mainly entered the workforce and didn't become active in politics until later in life.
Gingrich was the first representative of this group to gain significant power in 1994. This was not merely a rejection of the liberal ideas of Hillary Clinton- but it was the opening round in the old grudge match between the Baby Boomers. (My mother even derisively refers to Democrats as "the cool kids" from highschool in the early seventies). This is the real reason Gingrich was so hated- he represented everything that they had rejected in 1968.
However, Bill Clinton, caring more about power than ideals betrayed the liberal cause and compromised with Gingrich. You might think liberals would be upset- but they were so pleased with Gingrich and the conservative half of the Baby Boomers being brought low that they were willing to overlook it.
It's why they hate Bush so much, and in such an irrational fashion. He represents the conservative half of the Baby Boomers, and so he's an evil traitor to their generation. He must have cheated to gain the Presidency, the power was supposed to belong to them. They are the Baby Boomers who have been active in politics since 1968.
So you can see why they want to go back to 1968. They want to recreate the atmosphere that they saw as giving them power.
Ideology is important to them no doubt- but the emotional frenzy that animates them comes from a lust for power. They feel they have a right to the government, a right of which the Republicans, and George Bush in particular, have robbed them of.
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I (b. 1949) won't deny that there are some common attributes in the Boomer generation, but not more than perhaps a quarter are still stuck in the narcissitic aspects of the 'Sixties and even fewer in the politics of the 'Sixties. If after college you stayed in academia, government, some of the professions if in the "non-profit sector, or in Law particularly, you could make a good living and still have the same stupid ideas you had smoking dope in a college dorm in 1969. Most of us "got mugged by reality" trying to find and keep jobs, raise kids, and pay rent or make house payments in those thrilling days of hyperinflation and stagflation in the Seventies and early-Eighties. Those in the groups I mentioned above were largely insulated from that and it shows in their lifestyle and politics.
In Vino Veritas
Like old generals, always fighting the previous war.
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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.
"Maybe it is a devotion to Communist and Socialist ideals, the compulsion to revolution."
Doubtful. The very few old guard left who participated in the events of 1968 and will be in Denver "Recreating" it are the only ones who will actually be familiar with Communism. The younger generation are more "folk Marxists" for lack of a better term. As Janeane Garofalo has said, most of the people are basically participating because it's the "in" thing to do. Of course, she includes herself in that group.
"They do want to recreate 1968."
Possibly, but they should remember that Richard Nixon, an "evil" Republican did actually win the Presidential race that year. Although hardly conservative, he was not exactly the poster child for hard-left radicalism.
"Reverend King being assassinated is justification for Reverend Wright's assassination of truth and justice."
Which is utterly ridiculous to any rational observer. King, and for that matter, Malcolm X, would have not only "distanced" themselves from Wright (as BHO has), but utterly rejected his disingenous racial warfare intellectual claptrap. Wright's pseudo-Christian rantings are nothing more than separationist, black nationalist idiocy. It is nothing more than a revival of Black Panther ideology (since many of the original Panthers are dead now, having been viciously murdered by free breakfast programs).
"Perhaps it is their abandonment of God and religion that leaves an aching void they can only fill by indulging religious zeal in their causes every bit as consuming as that of Joan of Arc."
On a deeper level for the true Marxists of the bunch, that is probably true. I suspect that most of the "poser Marxists" who comprise the majority of those who will be protesting are just there because "the cool kids are doing it." Let's face it, street theater has a certain appeal to some segments of the population.
"These hippies and yippies and greenies and lefties ... 1968 is what they want: Self-righteous anger; Wrath; Conflict ... Fervor."
In fairness, substitue "hippies," "yippies," "greenies" and "lefties" with "ficons," "neocons," "paleocons," and "socons," and replace 1968 with 1984 and you have a pretty good explanantion of why the GOP is in such a mess today. About 99% of the party still wishes it was 1984 and Ronald Reagan was thumping Walter Mondale in 49 states. We are still trying to resurrect the Gipper's Ghost, rather than formulate a new strategy for the future.
Very nicely done article, btw. The use of Adobe's CS3 was a nice touch. More articles should include true multi-media components, given that we are now twenty years+ past the invention of the term "multi-media" as it is understood today.
In fairness, substitue "hippies," "yippies," "greenies" and "lefties" with "ficons," "neocons," "paleocons," and "socons," and replace 1968 with 1984 and you have a pretty good explanantion of why the GOP is in such a mess today. About 99% of the party still wishes it was 1984 and Ronald Reagan was thumping Walter Mondale in 49 states. We are still trying to resurrect the Gipper's Ghost, rather than formulate a new strategy for the future.
Well I do think there's a clear difference philosophically. You're pointing out the GOP base's desire to return to a positive moment. I'm pointing out the DNC hippie wing's desire to return to one of their most tumultuous. It's not the living in the past per se, although that's part of it. It's much more which past, and why.
absentee
The governor is a democrat, so at least they won't be able to blame any heavy-handed crowd control on the Republicans.
My hope is the fiasco will turn enough moderates against the democrat party that Schaffer will defeat Udall for the open Senate seat. We could make some inroads into other areas as well.
Colorado has been sliding left for some time now. I'm sure that's why the democrats picked Denver for the convention. It would be sweet to see that backfire and set them back.
"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood." -Fred Dalton Thompson
"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood." -Fred Dalton Thompson
The anarchists are already gearing up to disrupt the GOP convention in St. Paul. Apparently, thier idea of democracy includes making sure that the other side can't conduct business.
But not to worry, the Democratic mayor of St. Paul has decreed that having the figure skating championships in the same building this past fall was good practice for the St. Paul police. No, I'm NOT making this up. Apparently, he firures that if his police can handle roving gangs of figure skaters, they're ready to take on the professional demonstrators.
I'm glad I live a half-hour to the east. Wonder if I'll be able to see the fires from here?
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I think whatever money the convention bring in to Denver will be offset by the fires and criminal prosecutions that are going to happen. I'm glad I don't live there!
Tim Schieferecke
D__ned shame, really. Denver was my home for some 20 years, and I love the place. I really hate to see this coming to them.
Is it too late to have them move the convention to Boulder? (aka the "People's Independent Republic of Boulder") The neoComms would feel so much more at home there.
"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood." -Fred Dalton Thompson
unimaginative anarchists too lazy to develop their own cause and too stupid to realize they are actually lemming conformists.
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My take on the 60's "counterculture":
You can't be a nonconformist unless you dress like the rest of us.
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Many times one can tell much about another by whom they hold as heroes. I wonder how & why the new generation of hippie look to those who rioted in 1968 as heroes? I guess there will always be anarchists.
third year in Vietnam as an Army officer (5th Special Forces) during that convention. It is impossible to relate my feelings (and my comrades')as that moronic episode played itself out. Major consequences in the field were felt during and long after that exercise in national self-destruction. Many of the consequences remain to this day, albeit in somewhat different format.
Years later as first an intelligence then counterintelligence operations officer I had many an opportunity to study the inner workings of the national anti-war movement - and particularly, many of the foreign sources of support and manipulation of it. The 'movement' was in no way, self-generated and self-sustaining.
Many of the more radical adherents of that 'movement' are still visible to the public eye today - including our last President; and many others.
Today's anti-war movement is similar to that of the 60s primarily in their doggerel and their sloganeering. But, today's movement is but a flea upon the south end of a north-bound skunk compared to their parent's and grandparents'. Still, they are as contemptuous to me and my cohort as the earlier 'movement'. Their motivations appear to be similar, but their political impetus is not.
For what it is worth to R/S readers, here are two views from and old Cold Warrior about the earlier and now the current anti-war 'movement.'
- I (and almost all the folks in my circle of friends and acquaintances)look upon activists and participants in the anti-war social thuggery as one of the odious prices we must endure to live the way and where we so. They are simply the dross and detritus of our social system and will be swept into the gutter and washed away and down the drain with all the other dog-crap befouling our streets. The very notion that they occupy the higher moral ground because of their antiwar activities is laughable - really. Who among us is not anti-war. We all are. However, this antiwar 'movement' misses the main point just as did their parents: Wars will occur, and when necessary this country will fight them, or perish. And finally on this point: There is no risk to these heroes for bawling and prancing their venom in our streets. One wonders their willingness to attempt their acts n a country like the one containing a Tiannamen (sp?)Square.
"...the quality of the revolutionary is inversely proportionate to the severity of the system he opposes."
- Leopold Tyrmand (paraphrased)
- Second and final point: I'm certain it is clear to most of us that these heroes are mainly playing to the camera, as before. Wish to see the modern antiwar movement shrivel up and blow away? Somehow produce a media blackout. That's pretty much the most effective weapon against those guardians of our national morality.
Oh, and by the way: Thanks, absentee, for this unexpected walk down memory lane. It's just like deja'vu all over again.
Also: You nailed it in your post.
GB
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viele dank
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... and a most Peaceful, most Happy, safe and prosperous Easter to you and yours, as well.
Good to see you still kickin' butt(insky).
GB
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When I was a Poli Sci Major at Vanderbilt (How did we lose to Siena? *&^*&%!), we learned how the producer at the DNC Chicago convention on the outside of the building did a number not only on the America public but amazingly, on the news guys and the candidates inside the chained door building. He ran film clips at intervals of the same paddy wagon loading of hippies, but they were different angles. Again, same occurrence, shown at intervals, from different angles to give the impression that the police had to come 3 times to take the hippies away. This was interpreted by those in the convention as an escalation etc. that the peeps were crying out, now, for the libs to come to their rescue. It wasn't. Since then, VU keeps recordings of every major news show since the media has been proven to have been morally challenged for at least 40 years.
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soon the more narcisstic boomers will come up with "70, the new 20"!
(Did I just run afoul of an absentee blogomatic faux pas? :>)
the sixties radicals never did a damn thing good, ever. Their anti-war protests led to the killing fields and the boat people. Their anti-racism protests led to a racial spoils quota system and more racial distrust and animosity.
Their environmental protests led to abandoning safe nuclear power which would be such a boon to us now if we had more of it.
Their counter-culture gave way to self indulgent drug abuse and the self centered seventies.
Maybe that is why no one wants to be a loud mouthed radical anymore.
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle
You missed a couple of things, like the dumbing down of the educational system, the destruction of the black family and skyrocketing rates of abortions, sexual disease, and illegitimate births throughout the population.
Oh, and the baby boomers can take precisely as much credit for the real breakthroughs in civil rights as they can in the moon landings, which is zero. Those changes were enacted by the WWII generation, they just happened to take place when the boomers were coming of political age.
It turns my stomach when I see those retirement fund ads targeted at the boomers showing pictures of either the moon landings or the freedom marches
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show me a Boomer who was teaching in Ed School in the late Sixties, early seventies when the dumbing down became rampant. The civil rights laws that you applaud in the next pp are primarily responsible for that, along with a certain amount of Weber derived sociology that came into curricula in the fifties. As I recall, there weren't any Boomers on the Warren Court or who decided Roe v. Wade. Last I checked, sexually transmitted diseases have been with us for a very long time and were in fact one of the highest sources of "casualties" in both WWI and WWII. The guy, Patient One, who brought us AIDS may have been a Boomer, don't know, but homosexuals have been having their particular kinds of sex for a very long time.
The Left and "Progressives" have been with us for a very, very long time; don't think there were any Boomers at the Seneca Falls meeting that gave birth to femminism and a whole bunch of other 'isms. What happened in the Sixties was the result of a particular confluence of events fueled by the unprecedented affluence and leisure time in the 'Fifties, brought to critical mass by the Civil Rights upheaval, and detonated by the war in Vietnam. And on that point, you are right; without the draft, the war protesters and "counterculture" would have been merely the "usual suspects," the Communists and Socialists, the Anarchists, and the usual assortment of ne'er do wells and malcontents. Thrown in there somewhere the invention of the birth control pill, and yeah, you're right, it was really, really easy to get laid at a demonstration.
In Vino Veritas
Almost everyone I know who says they were "part of the anti-war movement back in the 60's" has, after further inquiry, to have actually been part of the anti-draft movement. That's why we didn't hear word one from them when North Vietnam invaded Thailand.
Also, every male I've talked to who attended one or more anti-war rallies went there for the specific purpose of getting laid.
The only exception I've met so far is currently my parish preist, and I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt rather than setting myself up for MORE time in pergatory.
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"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich." ~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
job, esp as per their faith void.
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