Posted on 10/16/2011 5:14:06 AM PDT by vrwc54
This is literally Spirit Fingers from the movie Bring it On.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTSkvAabm0k&feature=related
I’m a 63 year old Vietnam vet and I remember this radical street theater only too well. Why it’s back again must be due to the dirty foulmouthed radicals of the late sixties having long since become the tenured college faculty of today. They have successfully filled enough young skulls full of mush (El Rushbo’s term) with the same vitriolic hatred of the same free enterprise system that gave today’s same disaffected youts’ their privileged middle class lifestyle that has always been the envy of the world.
By the way, I rejoined the Army after Vietnam which gave me not only the privilege of retiring only this year at age 62 but getting deployed and not only serving alongside the very finest among our young people, but watching the welcome they get when they come back to “the world”. Quite a change from Vietnam days believe me.
Anyway, we should keep in mind that the OWS has class enemies which are far more numerous than “Wall Street bankers” (code for “Jew”) but includes us “bitter clingers” out here in flyover country.
Some of us “BC’ers” have been qualifying on the M-16 for forty years now, just sayin’.
Why are we racist for publishing pics of Obama marching with the New Black Panthers, but Obama is NOT racist for throwing in his lot with the Nazis and CPUSA? And ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL? ESPN owes Hank Williams Jr an apology. A so called “Nazi sympathizer” is nothing but a Nazi too cowardly to get his own hands bloody. That’s Barack Hussein* Obama.
*reminds me of another Hussein who started out as a Nazi
Nichelle and that dress. I thought those were flames before, but they arent.
At Occupy Portland, they used a different name for “down twinkle”: “puppy dog”.
Great post, and thank you for your service.
I agree with your point about the sixties radicals now being the teachers. Long ago I recall a woman who talked about how in her college class she was often the ONLY student attending, and the professors always marked those out protesting as ‘present’ because “I can’t get them kicked out of school, they could be drafted.”
This woman was in college for teaching. She was one of the few conservative Republicans in our town, and she kept tabs on her fellow classmates, who got the same degree she got, without actually going to class for it.
Thanks. I appreciate that.
But you know, it’s bad enough that I’m seeing this uh, stuff forty years after the original sixties garbage. However, I think that the wandering shreds of human debris as El Rushbo calls them that we now see infesting city streets all over the country are sending an unintended warning to the rest of us:
Mainly, that when TSHTF and the balloon goes up and it’s Panic in Year Zero (atomic aftermath flick, look it up) and each of us is defending ourselves and our loved ones, this is what the zombie rabble will look like and they won’t be stopped by any rational argument but only by what you know what I mean will stop them once and for good.
Time to head for the range and train to make those life or death decisions.
I own the DVD of PANIC IN YEAR ZERO. I’m a huge fan of post-apocalypse flicks and books, and have even sold more than one such story under my real name.
One aspect of the OWS thing that will help defeat them is that the Tea Party took action that directly impacted an election, while these folks are just kinda out there. The Tea Partiers were not ‘joiners’ so to speak, and were a NEW faction to be dealt with.
What will the OWS folks do? Start yet another leftist website when they all, 100% of em I guarantee, already belong to DU and Moveon?
I think they are serving the public by reminding the average voter that this is indeed Obama’s constituency, and his vocal support for them is stirring the same feelings as his first run. People who recall that feeling yet who gave Obama the benefit of the doubt will now realize they’re being set up for the last three years to be rerun. And they will vote accordingly.
Heh, heh, so you dig post-atomic futuramas like I do! “The Day the Earth Caught Fire” is similar but they’re all worth watching for their depiction of mass panic and breakdown of law & order. “The Last Man on Earth” was to me Vincent Price’s scariest horror flick; `what if that were me’ is what you ask when you watch it.
‘Course, I wsa there as a kid to see “Alas Babylon” on Playhouse 90, and to witness the great fallout shelter building craze (superb article in Smithsonian magazine on what they’re used for now) and several Twilight Zone episodes touched on nuclear aftermath. In a way it was fun because we knew the Soviets weren’t that stupid (atheists don’t do jihad all that well).
Anyway, I hope you’re right about the post-Obama swing voters having buyer’s remorse. Sounds like a solid conservative Republican will get their support and it’s the Dems who will have to try to seduce them a second time.
Last Man On Earth is OK,Omega Man, too but the book they’re based on—I Am Legend by Richard Matheson—is better. (Matheson wrote the screenplay for Last Man... thinking it was for another, better-financed company, and put his pseudonym on it when it came out, much changed, as Last man...
BTW, Matheson wrote many of the best Twilight Zone episodes.
Alas, Babylon is a great book, as is Earth Abides. Both are far better than on the Beach, imho. You owe it to yourself to read A Canticle For Leibowitz if you haven’t. It’s one of the few examples of this I call literature.
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