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August 12, 2005
Raging Grannies Prove That Hippies Aren't Getting Any Younger
As seen on (and fawned over by) NBC, the Raging Grannies — a group of aging kooks with too much time on their hands, not to be mistaken for the relatively tasteful Rabid Grannies — are letting it be known that their sophisticated understanding of world affairs has lead them to disapprove of President Bush and his policies. Their attention-getting gimmicks include wearing large, foolish-looking hats and singing inane protest ditties to the tune of popular songs.
Here's an example of their lyric-writing skills (to the tune of "There's No Business Like Show Business"):
There's no business like war business
The worst business we know
Never mind the homeless and the hungry,
Never mind the people without jobs
Nowhere can you get that special feeling
Than when you're piling up the bombs.There's no business like war business
The best business we know
Multinational profits going through the sky
They multiply while children die
The same amount buys food and clothes
For everyone all over the world.
I don't think I've heard anything this moving and insightful since the Dead Kennedys broke up.
The Raging Grannies of Tucson normally do their part to undermine resistance to terror and the spread of democracy by performing their infantile act on a weekly basis outside a local recruiting office, but they recently escalated their crusade by actually barging into the office and disrupting business, forcing the police to arrest them for trespassing.
If I were their agent, I would recommend they put their show on the road to Crawford. They might grab a slot as the warm-up act for Cindy Sheehan. I'm sure the reviews from the MSM would continue to glow with admiration.
Posted by Van Helsing at August 12, 2005 7:53 PM
Comments
What compulsion drives these socialists to shred any semblance of credibility they MIGHT have and behave like goonie birds in heat?
Does the left really think these antics or other freak show variants draw positive attention to their cause?
Posted by: Mike on Hilton Head Island at August 13, 2005 2:08 AM
Yes, I agree, the left gets more freaky every day. Tell these people to go to New York and put on a concert at "ground zero." I am more convinced every day that the MSM not only is eager to report on this crap and they also may be helping in setting these things up. Let's face it, what's the different between the political views and motivations of these old farts and say the NBC, CBS, or ABC corporate newsrooms.
Posted by: Eneils Bailey at August 13, 2005 9:58 AM
Posted by: V the K at August 13, 2005 11:56 AM
Hilarious. Hippies are so over. More & more young people are turning to conservatism, so you could say that conservatism is progressive.
Posted by: NYgirl at August 13, 2005 3:38 PM
More and more young people are turning to conservatism? Are you serious? Not by a long shot.
Posted by: Rob B. at August 14, 2005 9:24 PM
I have two boys in high school. They refer to environmentalists as "eco-commies" and use "hippie" as a perjorative... a very strong perjorative. The majority of their friends feel the same way.
The hippie leftism of the raging grannies is forty+ years old. Maybe it seemed cool when Meathead was spouting it on All in the Family or Alan Alda in one of those horrible preachy and self-important episodes of M*A*S*H he wrote and directed, but nowadays, the right is the cutting edge of society, conservatism with a South Park edge. The lefties and hippies are basically dysfunctional rejects who take out their frustration with not fitting in by trying to force their idiotic socialism on the society they despise.
Posted by: V the K at August 14, 2005 10:33 PM
And the best part is, the more geezers preach and lecture about the glories of left-liberalism, the more turned off the current generation gets.
Posted by: V the K at August 14, 2005 10:37 PM
A South Park edge? I can imagine guys like Santorum weeping at the mere mention of watching South Park. The right would likely put South Park in the "needs to banned because it's funny" box. The fact that you have burned the cd's in your boys' heads to the tune of conservatism doesn't translate to squat. It is nice, though, that they have disdain already for people who care about our planet. Maybe they can shout the cute monikers out of their respirators one day, if they are not too tired from walking around in a protective suit.
Posted by: Rob B. at August 15, 2005 9:10 AM
VK, congrats on getting your kids to see the clear abject failure of liberalism (as evidenced by elections returns every year) despite any propaganda pushed on them by aging socialists! There's hope for the next generation yet! :)
Posted by: Jonathan at August 15, 2005 9:30 AM
I especially loved the way Robbie proved my point about lectures from aging leftist geezers in the very next post.
Posted by: V the K at August 15, 2005 11:59 AM
I have to agree with Rob B:
"More and more young people are turning to conservatism? Are you serious? Not by a long shot"
NYGirl's statement would be more compelling if she revised it thus:
More and more thinking educated young people with a sense of history and a love for this country and it's freedoms are turning to conservatism. And those numbers are growing everyday as anyone paying attention sees what a three ring circus full fledged left wing freak show is offered as an alternative.
Posted by: Mike on Hilton Head Island at August 16, 2005 2:22 AM
