This Is A Rant: We Couldn't Buy Your Magazines If We Wanted To (Which - Surprise! - We Don't!)

Mickey Kaus links to Slate's Jack Shafer column - about Tina Brown's "new" Newsweek - saying of the Leftist/feminist rag:

This is a meal that a homeless person would walk away from.

Now that's funny, considering all the people who are, or will soon be, homeless out there! (We happen to be using the phrase "homeless" in two ways - in the traditional sense, and to represent Generation Jones, those of us who aren't Boomers and never bought into the prevailing Boomer mindset.) Considering the Right is currently doing the exact same thing the Left is, this got us to thinking:

What else are we "homeless" walking - or running - away from?

In a world where the rich and celebrated are destroying our institutions while hanging out with killers and pedophiles, the president's a baldfaced liar (and delusional as he blows our money) and won't support freedom, doctors are quacks who give out fake excuses to miss work, a college degree is worthless (unless you want to see a woman get off for $50,000 or support a dictator) older people sleep with guns because their daughter's done well, organizations we support take us for granted and are anti-semetic, what's a true blue "homeless" American not to like?

Our answer is "everything". This isn't a case of a few "bad apples" - with some, like Glenn Reynolds, representing the good guys - but of a despicable culture, eating itself alive, in order for the rest of us not to have a meal. The Left and the Right are strangling the middle, in every way possible, and daring those of us closest to the bottom to say a word about it.

Oh, they don't mind if we scream, because they're no more likely to publicize it than their brothers in the mainstream media or the dictatorships they claim to despise. As a matter of fact, to let any accurate criticism of them get out is their worst nightmare, because they have no interest in fixing anything - they only want power as badly as the so-called "bad guys". They speak for those who can "buy now" - not for those who can't buy anything because of long-standing cultural and political policies they've supported, that have made them rich, but that made the rest of us "homeless", both in the financial sense and ideologically.

There is no outlet for those that dislike what they're all doing.

So yes - when it comes to what we "homeless" desire from those in the Boomer set - yes, yes, yes:

Considering what you've made, we'd rather break your plate than eat from it.

Kids, Until You Get Pissed, Nothing Will Change

"The status quo cannot hold.

Even if it does for another couple of months or years.

The Baby Boom generation has screwed my generation. Royally."

-- Monday, apparently just getting a clue - and resolving to just keep talking about it - because, apparently, that's what it means to be the Monday Morning Clacker.

Look, I feel compelled to say this:

I am not a member of the Baby Boom, above - I am a member of the Baby Boom's little brother, AKA Generation Jones (Find the tag). I am the one who got to watch the Baby Boomers make all their mistakes - and vowed not to repeat them. I am not a hippie. I am not spiritual. I honored the wisdom of my post-slavery/Civil Rights-era foster parents, and (using their good sense) I did not vote for Obama. The color of a man's skin can not sway me, because that would be racism, and I love my country too much not to be able to see through that stupid obsession. You feel me?

I think it's important for the young people of today to stop such foolishness - all of it - NOW. You have been handed a tremendous burden, but it's not insurmountable if you are prepared to act. You have been handed a different kind of 9/11. Your battle is against those who think they are clever. Your job is to stop the charlatans, stop the NewAgers (that would be people like Oprah and Shirley MacLaine) kick the Democrats out of office and, if necessary, impeach Obama for crimes against the state - really, crimes against you - but, ultimately, crimes against the United States of America.

Obama's crime? Believing as the twisted Baby Boomers have. He, too, is a member of Generation Jones. He was supposed to be different. He was supposed to have led us away from the Boomer's world view, but he never had any intention of doing so. It was all lies. I know: As their little brother, I was kept at arms length as they did what they wanted to do. I saw the whole thing - and it was wrong.

So, I beg you, gather yourselves, gather your courage, and gather your strength. It's finally time to stand up and be counted. Don't be deterred by calls to be peaceful. That is a ruse to keep you complacent. Don't be deterred by calls to be "open-minded". That is a ruse to mean anything still goes. You must be determined to get this country back on track. You must know - and this is still true - that you live in The Greatest Country On Earth and it's worth saving. Along with your bank accounts.

But you must also accept that it has been ran now, for decades, by idiots. Idiots who doubted this country's greatness from the moment they were born. They looked to the French, or to India, or the Canadians, or gurus. Anyone but the people who actually built this place and made it into the nation they inherited.

Don't be like them. You must vow not be stupid, but to be proud. You must vow not be ironic, but to be straight-forward. You, too, are Americans - and that is our way. This is your country and, more importantly, this is your future. And you, now, are what this political battle is all about. Sincerely, nobody's told you, but you have been all along.

And that's the truth.

I'm with you.

CMC

FUCK YEA! I'M NOT A BABY BOOMER!!!!

I'd never heard of this before - "Generation Jones" - but it fits perfectly: I'm the same age as Barack Obama, don't feel like a Boomer (at all) and can't even start to see the world as others do - not even these examples of other "Jonesers" - or even Obama for that matter. I think this is a brilliant observation!

Wow - I feel so much better now! Like it explains everything!! Hey Boomers: "Don't let the Jones's get you down!" (Just shut up and get out of the fucking way!)

A HUGE SHOUT OUT to "Society Observer" for turning me on to this: you've made my day! My week! My month! My year! My life!

I'm NOT a fucking BOOMER!!! Hooray!!!!

To me, this information is it's own reward, but it's not enough for: