OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER - (breathtaking...fabulous piece by an old timer; American history ALERT!)

PVBR.COM ^ | JUNE 30, 2005 | PHIL BRENNAN

[CHARLITE]

"We treated the defeated populations of Germany and Japan far better than we treated our fellow Americans below the Mason-Dixon line. There was no Marshall Plan for them. They got reconstruction and occupation by a victorious army instead. And of course, carpet baggers - a specie that disappeared until Hillary Clinton, following in the footsteps of another non-New Yorker Robert Kennedy, ran for the Senate in a state in which she had never lived (sorry, I couldn't resist that urge).

"I am also old enough to remember the times when New Yorkers would have run her out of town on a rail had she been rash enough to plunk herself down in their midst and announce that she was going to run for a Senate seat as if she were one of them. Tammany Hall was still around and must have been enraged - after all, in those days you had to earn the right to seek to represent the sovereign state of New York in the U. S. Senate - and of course, it goes without saying that you had to be a real New Yorker.

"Today's New Yorkers are less discriminating."

[nothingnew]

(breathtaking...fabulous piece by an old timer; American history SLERT!)

I always enjoy your SLERTS!

FMCDH(BITS)

[orionblamblam]

"Slert?"

[CHARLITE]

A million pardons to EVERYONE for the utterly STUPID typo that I made in my enthusiastic haste to get this article to all of you!

I hope that you will "forgive and forget" and that the GREAT MODERATORS will fix the "SLERT!"

I should be zotted for such an atrocious lack of "final inspection" before posting!

Char (:

[nothingnew]

I should be zotted for such an atrocious lack of "final inspection" before posting!

Never! Never by me!

We have too much history dealing with true zottable material....heh heh heh...

FMCDH(BITS)

[Theresawithanh]

Good post! Imagine remembering your grandmother telling you that she heard about Lincoln being shot from a kid shouting it out while running across her lawn!

[NO_2_CORZINE]

Happy 1 year (tomarrow) On FR!

[SittinYonder]

ping to a good read

[brytlea]

Thanks for posting, this was a really wonderful read!
susie

[SmithL]

I like your slerts, and I doubt that the Mods can fix all of the ones that keep popping up all over this thread.

; )

[CHARLITE]

Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is also a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.

[Theresawithanh]

No zot for you! Slert may become a new word in the FR lexicon, though! ;)

[mware]

I am old enough to remember, my grandmother telling me she was old enough to vote for Teddy Roosevelt, (and would have), but women were not allowed to vote in presidential election then.

I am old enough to remember the Philadelphia Bulletin, the only decent newspaper Phila. ever had.

[King Prout]

It struck me, yesterday, that there are at least a few enormous definable differences between my generation (born in 1970) and the one which follows:
1. I am old enough to remember living under the shadow of nuclear war with the USSR
2. I am old enough to remember the disastrous malaise which gripped (and, as I grow older and -I hope- wiser, what seems to me more and more like to have nearly killed) my nation during the late Seventies
3. I am old enough to remember and feel deeply grateful for the rise of the man and movement which resuscitated my nation: Ronald Reagan and Political Conservatism
4. I am just barely old enough to recall the meaning of freedom before PC and the Nanny State grew out of all control.
5. I am old enough to recall the predictions of the enviro-weenies concerning first an incipient ice-age, followed by their cries of nuclear winter, and now global warming... and able to follow the names and grants suggesting it is all agenda - no science.

[King Prout]

lexicon ping: "Slert"

[An Old Marine]

Well I'm not as old as Mr. Brennan but I think we could get along just fine over a beer.

[nothingnew]

Hey...it's your 1st anniversary tomorrow!........Welcome, newbie!

(I'm just messin' with ya...if I can't mess with you, who can I mess with?)

FMCDH(BITS)

[billbears]

We treated the defeated populations of Germany and Japan far better than we treated our fellow Americans below the Mason-Dixon line. There was no Marshall Plan for them. They got reconstruction and occupation by a victorious army instead. And of course, carpet baggers

Dixie bump. At least somebody admits it

[Dr.Zoidberg]

No, no. All is well.

Now if it had been a Res Slert, there might be trouble.

Hehehe

[Kirkwood]

Slert is short for a slut alert. Similar in meaning to a bimbo eruption.