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Born between 1946 and 1964? Congratulations! You're a Baby Boomer! Perhaps the most idealistic, unrealistic generation ever born. Raised in relative affluence, we were weaned on TV and rock 'n roll and forged by the Cold War, the Sexual Revolution and Vietnam. We were beatniks and hippies, protesters, yippies and yuppies. We know what ducktails and beehives are. We wore love beads and go-go boots. We said things like "cool" and "groovy" and "far out". We never cut the grass and didn't trust anyone over thirty.Whether you're looking for a little nostalgia from the '50s and '60s or want to read about what concerns Boomers today, you've come to the right place. That's what the Boomers Pages are all about.
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Published March 6, 2009 by AlterNet -- www.alternet.org
Is the Future Going Down the Drain? Baby Boomers Going Bust
By Alexander Zaitchik
Millions of boomers born into the dawn of the largest economic expansion in history are being forced to re-imagine their retirement futures.
It all happened faster than you can say “senior discount.”
Millions of baby boomers born into the dawn of the most spectacular economic expansion in history are being forced to re-imagine their retirement futures. Few news outlets have failed to seize upon the low-hanging pun: the boomers have gone bust.
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Published December 11, 2008 by the guardian.co.uk
The dumbest generation
Those born at the tail of the baby boom have been labelled 'the dumbest generation'. Just don't tell Barack Obama
John McQuaid
Barack Obama has been hailed as a transformational figure in large part for what he isn't: a baby boomer. Born in August 1961, Obama was a child during the upheavals of the 1960s. He was too young to be drafted and sent to Vietnam or directly experience the era's political traumas and self-indulgent excesses. This much is true, and it promises some modest abatement of America's culture wars. Great. But I (b. April 1961) say: Pity the Obama generation! We have spent our lives caught in a kind of demographic and cultural void, defying easy classification, denied even the community-building cliché of a generational identity.
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Posted by Virge on Saturday, December 13 @ 13:28:25 CST (206 reads)
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Published August 22, 2008 by CounterPunch--www.counterpunch.com
Goodbye and Get Lost!
The Devolution of the Baby Boom Generation
By JOHN F. MIGLIO
Some people say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
-- John Lennon
Although Albert Camus died before baby boomers took charge of the world and placed their redoubtable imprimatur on the political scene, he foreshadowed their eventual devolution in this prescient statement: "Conformity is one of the nihilistic temptations of rebellion which dominate a large part of our intellectual history. It demonstrates how the rebel who takes to action is tempted to succumb, if he forgets his origins, to the most absolute conformity. And so explains the twentieth century."
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Incandescent light bulbs, black and white TV with rabbit ears, Skittle Bowl, Lincoln Logs, Erector Sets and piles of gift wrap that reached the ceiling, I never think back in terms of bright festive colors, yet my memories of Christmas as a young boy are are always warm and safe.
Man, I can remember the excitement leading up to Christmas, "What was Santa going to bring!". One year he brought me a Daisy BB Gun, that was the best present ever, I spent my whole Christmas break from school shooting milk bottles and anything else that move.
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Posted by dude on Tuesday, December 25 @ 06:39:39 CST (475 reads)
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Cars we Old Farts Like to Drive (OR) Boomer Cars!
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Ed Note: This came from Car and Driver Magazine. Hope you like it. However, since C&D is managed and to an extent, written by, Boomers, we thought it would be appropriate to publish.
Uh ... only problem is, Morty doesn't particularly agree with it. I used to drive for SAAB when I bought my first SAAB 96. Boomers will remember that the SAAB 96 was a three cylinder, two stroke-engined automobile. It was a little Boomer on it's own. Never mind Boomers having owned it.
My 96 had Weber carbs and Abarth exhaust. I loved that car so much, I wish I had it right now. It was that good. Too bad. I should have kept it.
See how many cars you can name. Starting with my favorite to your right. See the rest at the end of this essay!
Morty
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Retirement Rides
Grand rides for your golden years.
By JARED HOLSTEIN, PHOTOS BY KILEY, CAIOZZO
You start a Chevy man, work up to an Oldsmobile, snag a managerial title and a Buick, and after putting in your 40 years, retire with a Cadillac. A Caddy in the driveway is the capstone to the greatest American generation's definition of the American dream. Those pre-HMO years were times of strong unions and reliable retirement plans.
Now, though, according to the Administration on Aging, over a quarter of seniors reported less than $10,000 in income in 2004, with a median income of just over $15,000. Seniors have seen pension funds looted or crumble and are left to battle an ailing Social Security system and prescription drug costs unrivaled the world over. Goodbye, retirement, golden years, and chromed metal grille; hello, Mr. Part-Time-with-No-Benefits Wal-Mart greeter and plastic-chromed econobox.
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Posted by morty on Monday, October 08 @ 02:06:33 CDT (1790 reads)
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Ed Note: Now HERE is a piece I can relate to ... uh ... make that ... 'to which I can relate!' Gotta make sure my old English teacher is happy in his schoolroom up there in the sky. Mr. Calabash, where-ever you are.
Ah, but you gotta be a Boomer to know who said that. Meanwhile, Jilleeann has it right on the money.
Thanks, Darlin.' 'Bout time somebody agrees with Morty. Things are not the way they were when I was growing up in the Bronx, which in 1943 was REALLY the country. Honest.
Anyway, "Gone are the days, my friend. We hoped they'd never end ... "
Morty writ that. And Jilleeann writ this:
Gone are the days of playing outside without supervision til the street lamp came on.
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Posted by Jileeann on Friday, August 03 @ 02:37:27 CDT (636 reads)
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Published July 25, 2007 by The Globe and Mail--www.theglobeandmail.com
Safe sex for seniors
KAREN MATTHEWS
Associated Press
NEW YORK — As volunteers in hairnets served Styrofoam cups of Jell-O to the lunch crowd at a senior centre in Queens, another group of volunteers was distributing something that didn't quite fit in amid the card games and daily gossip: condoms.
"You're giving out condoms," said a wistful Rose Crescenzo, 82, "but who's going to give us a guy?"
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Posted by virge on Saturday, July 28 @ 13:36:40 CDT (656 reads)
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Digging Up Tulsa's History
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It's an event 50 years in the making, and you can see if live on the News On 6 and KOTV.com. It's Tulsarama!
Watch the unveiling of the 1957 Belvedere as it happens! "The Buried Car and What's Inside" live on the web at kotv.com or live on The News On 6 at 7:00-8:00PM Friday, June 15.
A 1957 Plymouth Belvedere Sport Coupe will be unearthed from a time capsule buried exactly 50 years earlier. The now classic, white and gold car was mounted on steel skids, and wrapped in a protective covering to help preserve it before it was put in the ground on the southeast corner of the Tulsa County Courthouse lawn, approximately 100 feet north of the intersection of 6th Street and Denver Avenue.
The car was seen as a way to show 21st century citizens a suitable representation of 1957. And according to event chairman, Lewis Roberts Sr., the Plymouth was chosen because it was "an advanced product of American industrial ingenuity with the kind of lasting appeal that will still be in style 50 years from now."
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 11 @ 11:32:10 CDT (1094 reads)
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Remember When? No? Well then read this ...
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Ed Note: I'm publishing this because it all brings back so many wonderful memories to me. And dammit, these days are not the greatest in the world for many of us.
In Morty's family, we're on a death watch. A wonderful and loved relative is on the way out. And heck, let's face it, we of my generation are all getting older than dirt. Sometimes it seems that way.
I have neither the time nor the desire to post the pictures that Ron Schulte gave us to go with the piece. Too darn much to do, manage, handle. Those of you who really know me understand.
So use your imagination when you read it. You can see those wax bottle, those gas stations and that box of Oxydol better through the mirror of your mind than in a picture.
Because that's the way you were brought up. To use your imagination. Most of us never had a Television until after we were maybe 8 to ten years old. Late forties, you know? So when we LISTENED to "The Shadow" we SAW The Shadow better than we saw him on that motion picture a few years ago.
It was, as I predicted, a major flop. But then so was DUNE.
Ah the stink of it.
Morty
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DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?
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Posted by Morty on Friday, June 01 @ 18:21:37 CDT (686 reads)
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Another huge Porn piece ... this one's terrific and FILTHY!
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Ed Note: Another wonderful piece from Terry Jeglum. Every time I publish one if Terry's posts, I get the chills.
Maybe ... just maybe ... it's the DT's. Hey, you never know!
Morty
PS: Ain't it great, I mean these come on's!?
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Morty Here is another Goody For You Old-timers
My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, and we didn't get food poisoning.
My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting ecoli.
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Posted by morty on Wednesday, March 14 @ 02:37:45 CDT (2633 reads)
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