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Hum I thought it was called “Cookie Cutter Individualism”

“the flight suit”

Do you really think a “business suit” would work on a S-3 Viking?
Where would you plug it in?

How much would a “one of a kind” business suit cost compared with a standard flight/G suit?

“and the “glorious ideal” of the carrier landing”

What? “glorious ideal”? We do carrier landings all the time, have been for decades

“by fighter jet”

Actually the landing was done by the pilot, not the bird.

And the S-3 Viking is NOT a fighter plane, It’s primary role is/was ASW anti-submarine/Surface Ship warfare.

Hint: if it were a FIGHTER, it would have been named F-XX
if it were an ATTACK plane it would have been named A-XX
if it were an ELECTRONIC Warfare plane would have been named E-XX

This bird was an S-3 belonging to VS-35 Blue Wolves NAS North Island.
VS-35 is /was an ASW squadron.

“The difference, I’d contend,”

Contend on what? You don’t have a single fact straight, and your ignorance about What you were seeing is astounding.
Your opinion is based of false info, meaning your conclusion is baseless.

Try again, get a clue first.

It reminds me of Pink Floyd’s, “The Wall”…

I haven’t had the stomach to watch it since Obama became “president elect”.

nemo239 on November 14, 2008 at 8:12 PM

I used to listen to Floyd but then discovered that it left me terribly depressed. Now I listen to Bach.

Point being, if there’s a dress code and well known formula to your non-conformity, you probably aren’t a non-conformist. You’re probably just a giant tool.

JadeNYU on November 14, 2008 at 3:28 PM

Great quote from House. I’ve argued your point many times with a variant. “Stop trying to make yourself different. Instead, find out who the creator intended you to be. Each creation of his is an original work of art. Unfortunately we try to make ourselves the artist rather than let him complete His work in us. Let him conform us to the image of His Son.”

For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things. For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself. – Philippians 3:18-21

JadeNYU on November 14, 2008 at 6:55 PM

That’s the stuff, all right. The most self-righteously hip people I knew in the ’60s always had trust funds, led by Michael Nesmith, whose mother invented Liquid Paper, and another hipster-scenemaker “musician” whose mother owns Heavenly Ski resort.

The worst of it is that this crap filtered (unquestioned) down to the middle class, where we’ve now seen generation after generation of suburban wannabes. I’ll always believe that rich kids were the source of “white guilt”. Little Billy Ayers was/is a pristine example of the type.

The salient characteristic of the hipsters has always been that it’s never their ass on the line, is it?

warbaby on November 14, 2008 at 4:54 PM

I had a friend in college who was from a very wealthy family.

He got an apartment in the East Village with all of us. We split the rent equally. His father offered to buy an apartment building and set us up in a nice apartment where we could continue paying the same rent we were now for more space and luxury.

He turned his dad down because he thought it was more cool and legit to be in the East Village.

That may have been admirable if he was paying his own way. Only thing is that his dad was still paying his rent for him. He just thought it was hip to play at being poor. I never could get him to understand that the rest of us at ramen noodles every day because that’s all we could afford not because we were making some sort of statement.

The woman with the sunglasses is the prototypical Obama supporter: when asked why she likes him she says something like “he’s a change, he’s positive, YOU KNOW, like a change for something different”. She puts in the you know subconsciously, as in, come on, you have to see it! It’s obvious!

I’ve never seen this degree idolatry of a leader in this country, and it’s really frightening. I hear all these people “inspired” to do something with their lives because of Obama, and it makes me gag. My grandfather lived in Spain under (and fought in the Spanish civil war against) Franco and he wanted change because it was the right thing to do, and the rational thing to do, not because he worshiped some leader of the opposition or something. A lot of people in the US have lost their drive, and claiming Obama is spurring them into action makes me gag.

My collie says:

Right after he saves the people by driving out their conservative and libertarian demons, sending them into a herd of swine.

Congress wants my demons? I thought they had already stampeded themselves off of a cliff when they passed the mother of all bailouts (MOAB).

[i]Where’s my Little Red Book?[/i]

This really is a cult of the Dear Leader.

Bruno Strozek on November 14, 2008 at 4:50 PM

I’ve seen more signs and bumper stickers since he won.