GOP Hootenany 2004 speaker

I was in Books-A-Million tonight passing the time while the wife shopped. On the way out, I noticed a book by Zell Miller, the Democratic Senator that spoke at the 2004 GOP convention, slamming his party. This was an interesting quote that was on the back of the dust jacket:

"There have been ten generations of Americans since this nation was founded….Each left this nation in a little better condition than they had inherited it from their parents. This is the first generation at risk of doing the opposite. Why? I have come to believe that it is because we failed to acknowledge and discipline ourselves with the spiritual truths that have made us great for these two hundred years—faith, family, country, values. This book is about how one man thinks they may be restored and yet save this great civilization from itself."

Now, I haven't read this, so I'm not sure what Generation he is talking about. Who the hell does he think he is, to pass any judgement on a generation. This guy started public service in the Sixties. I can almost definitivley state that any surpassed generation says the same things about the currently ascended generation. Those kids and thier Jazz music. Those beatniks with the long goatee's. Them hippies with their marijuana and free love. Those statanic heavy metal rockers. Those kids with their rap crap music, spraying grafiti and selling drugs.

Decency is in the eye of the beholder.
I think the problem now is that the boomers, as they decline into the surpassed generation, are becoming hesitant to relinquish beholder status. The problem is that the boomers will still out number us, not accepting their diminished generational currency.

If you don't like it, sit on your porch and yell at kids for walking on your lawn. There is no such thing as the "Good Old Days". Time erases the bad old days. The low crime, white bread, better living through chemistry, decent america is a myth, and it always has been. There was less crime because blacks and hispanics were oppressed through legilated discrimination. The chemistry that improved life thinned the egg shells of condors and bald eagles. Decent America had their cross dressing J Edgar Hoovers and just as many homosexuals (albeit more were closeted).

I don't know why all of a sudden there is this culture war between fundies and the rest of us non-zealots. Fundies have a specific forum for their religiously masturbatory ideologues. It is called a Church. Leave the government to the secular humanists, just as the secular humanists leave the Church to the fundies. The first amendment protects the fundies from any restrictions on religious practices. Perhaps there needs to be a new book in the bible that prohibits fundies from imposing on those that choose to live differently.