Here you go April..

Old guys I saw once. You play this and many of us will show up for counselling. With a little Sinatra thrown in. Hey, my twenty something army son loves Sinatra. Said he plays it in his hootch after a hard day in the sand box.

If this don't wake your afternoon up nothing will.
Now this is rock and roll counselling come together music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Tzmg...

Counseling would be good, IF some open minds are there.

Remembering...things like the pocket calculator is a direct result of the the old guys space program. Pocket calculator lead directly to the xBox, Wii, iPhone today. Great thing to remember today with the moon thing. I still have my first one, 1973. Had to have big pocket, no memory, no square root. And a slide rule.

What the old guys did so you can do what you do today, D-Day, and such. Or you would had to have approval to go places. Like Moscow was, had to have a permit to move between the 5 places of the city.

Watching what you eat....more people try to solve things with a pill today than earlier years. And percentage wise much more kids were skinny in the 50's and 60's. Natural foods and less junk. Wish I remembered less junk when I buy.

I will negotiate...but we made this world worse? Greed in government and other things did it. But You ain't seen what is worse yet the way it's going.

mmmm....remember the song "Celebrity". Sue you dad for spending it all, quitting your job, cashing in the parents retirement.

Ah yes, times before everybody was a victim. If you were approved for it.

Good article April...from an old guy.

LAHightower, thank you.

Catahula, I edited the blog so it is more clearly marked that what is written is from the manifesto, not me. It's not my manifesto. My apologies if that was unclear the first time.

Hahaha the Baby Boomers "divorced" the generation before them...and this generation will be "divorced" by the next one. Blah blah blah: "you messed up our world, we'll do a better job". Yah, the Baby Boomers did soooo good...look at what a great place we are in now. Good luck Generation M, I pray u don't turn into your parents. But u will. They all do.

I went to the manifestos site & I'm confused about what generation this is applying to.....Gen Y is the "me" generation who are only interested in instant gratification & superficial fluff. If it is they who are looking to divorce us Xers then fine, but we get the house, we were here first.

Once again, PLEASE take a deep breath and look again. The Generation M Manifesto is clearly stated at the beginning of the blog as the source of this material. At no point is she plagarizing because she clearly states that this is the sole topic of the blog. She may be paraphrasing the contents, but she is not claiming these ideas as her own. Direct quotes are put in italics and the source is clearly stated.
The only portion of this blog that is clearly just Aprill is the last two paragraphs, in which she makes it clear that she intends this to be a humorous topic or at least something for casual discussion.
I am a journalist, so I well know the seriousness and consequences of plagarism. This is NOT plagarism.

I believe in the core points I originally stated. April is a member of the media, if her blog was intended to be a personal insight it still carried the power of the media? She wanted her manifesto to be truths and facts can be found to prove they are not. There is discrimination and demeaning comments.
For all that took great pleasure in flaming me instead of cooking burgers...why don't you read books and documents about the power of the media and influences and impacts on social and cultural areas.
Final Comments to Detractors:
Rustybucket I don't drink. It destroys brain cells.
I do not wear underwear on my head. Is this a practice in a part of Victoria I don't know about? Or just a practice of yours? Do we need intervention?
LAHightower --plagiarizing words and supporting is okay? She presents them as her manifesto also. Again as a member of the media.... as I said it disturbs me.
Nuclearmothman -- I hope prune juice works well for you --this seems to be an answer instead of eating a correct diet with fiber or acknowledging they may have IBS, or celiac disease or such. Perhaps you should consider a visit to the gastroenterologist. Also those comments are part of the generation beating drums for the current president. They are Kool-Aid comments with no documentation. I will gladly discuss over coffee. Be careful of prefrontal cortex damage.
BigJ I am glad to have been the whipping post instead of you. I only wanted to point out that the so-called statements were not facts and many of the statements were discriminatory. I have never found myself on any side of any discussion with BigJ. I wish we could find a common ground sometimes. I extend my hand to shake yours. I would like to sit with coffee or such and see if we a truly polarized. The same to all of you who made nasty personal comments.
I close on this subject since very few actually grasp the impact of spreading the manifesto as written. Many rallied to protect April instead of really understanding the impact of the manifesto. Maybe you should be asking yourself what was this manifesto written. What perceptions are wrong and how is this going to destroy our country very quickly? Don't you get that?

I direct my posting to those that embrace this ideology, not April. I have not had my prune juice but I am enjoying a Dr. Pepper.

Aprill's post and the comments remind me that there are some observations that are timeless, to wit:

He who is not a socialist at 19, has not heart.
He who is a socialist at 30, has no brain.

Otto von Bismarck (1815-1896)

As a member of the Generation known as X, I find this amusing and predictable. Just because you don’t see, hear, or “feel” us in the traditional sense, does not mean we are not there watching and protecting your backs.

Having studied a little of this “M” generation phenomenon; I would most closely associate it with the character “Forest Gump”. You go on doing the things that you do, without having a true understanding of how you are able to do it.

Don’t burn bridges that you do not know you may need, the future has more in store for your than you think. Until, you diminish our capacity to protect you from yourselves, Generation X and those before will forgive and help where we can, Appling common sense from our lifetime of experiences.

“Remember the long distance runner is only able to travel further and faster, because of those who built the road before him” – John

Each generational accomplishment is owed to the accomplishments of those before; lack of appreciation and acknowledgement simply demonstrates, lack of wisdom and implies immaturity.

But good luck!

Remember to sign next to the X______________ , no hard feelings, its part of growing up and you will learn.

It sounds like someone needs to buy underwear in at least two bigger sizes. Don't be too proud to admit your butt's getting B-I-G-G-E-R. That should take the strain off your tender parts that're painin' you so terribly. Your post sounds too much like another who seems to be always lookin' to pick a fight about. Go have a beer.

Apparently catahula didn't have his prune juice this morning, or his reading glasses. If he did, he'd notice the statements in Aprill's column are not hers specifically, but rather quotations from the "Generation M Manifesto." As for the anti-Obama screed that followed, I have no interest in starting yet another pointless flame war.

catahula,

Please calm down and look again. She's clearly summarizing what is part of someone else's manifesto. This is not from Aprill herself.

Cool, Aprill. I'll sign just as long as there is no alimony or child support involved.

April fell out of chair laughing. Obama is nothing that you described. He is building big government and demanding larger corporations. He is requiring small corporations to roll into big.

1. Micro scale commerce -- Obama buying GM, the banking industry, the medical industry and such is not micro scale commerce. That is Macro.

2. Politics a dirty word --go back in history ever since there has been two people with separate thoughts mud has slung. Don't blame it on just the past generation. Do you realize you said democracy. PLease read what democracy really is and compare it to what Obama is doing. There is no transparancy and all voices are not being heard.

3. You wanted economics for banks not people. You throw "you" around too freely. Economics for banks has NEVER been my choice. So don't throw that on me. And the Fanniemae debacle is from Barney Franks and his boyfriend not my personal bank.

If this is suppose to be funny it is not. Accusations are thrown around carelessly with no source backup at all. And being a member of the press well that should never happen--right? I realize this a blog, but you still have the power of the media behind you.

Shame for using "you" to paint everyone as to what you consider "old" in the same boat. It is that thinking that causes the problems in the world. A closed mind to begin with.

I also resent you discrimenating against age of people whom are older than you. Maybe we need to consider that you need to go back down to the minor leagues and learn how to respect your elders, learn how to be truely democratic because obviously you have not studied the meaning of the word lately, and for pete's sake have to research some of the accusations you carelessly make in public, again because what you say is different as a member of the press. Show a little maturity and not so much wisecracking and being demeaning to older people.

You are a hoot, April. Just sign the papers, but remember to never look back.