Those dirty, filthy HIPPIES!

[ThingsGottaChange]

Is this a great pic, or what!?



1970

[LSparkle]

1. Wow -- Bill looks like an old boyfriend of mine ...

I can see why Hillary went after him!

[JuniperLea]

4. See my post #3!!

If you went to Narbonne high... bwaaahahhhahahhahhahahhaa!!!

[karlrschneider]

15. He looks a little like one of mine too!

:D
:D

[graywarrior]

2. Kinda hard to believe Bill didn't inhale.

[JuniperLea]

3. Looks like me and my ex...

In about 1975!

Dig it!

[mzteris]

5. OMG - that is so awesome.

And unlike a lot of the 'hippies' from that time - they stayed pretty liberal.

[durrrty libby]

Wow Fabulous

[Madspirit]

6. GREAT PICTURE!!...n/t

[MO_Dem]

7. And they lived happily ever after!

They looked like happy, healthy people then, and still do! (That's the Democratic way, eh?)

[muntrv]

8. And they're still together.

[bananas]

9. That's a great pic!

Thanks!

[Jed Dilligan]

10. They look like they inhaled,

vigorously, not long before the picture was taken.

on edit: Not that there's anything wrong with that!

[nealmhughes]

11. Man, I know that dude! He travels with a dog and makes friendship bracelets and follows

Widespread! He crashed with his old lady, Sadie, on our futon for a few days after Bonneroo! They're good peeps.

[KoKo]

12. WAIT! I thought DU'ers thought Cindy Sheehan was a Dirty, Filthy Hippie!

Nooooo ...you are talking about the CLINTONS?

[Faygo Kid]

13. Where does the time go? I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

Still truckin', just with artificial hips. Sunrise, sunset. Think I'll put some Tower of Power on the ol' turntable and mellow out.

[FloridaJudy]

14. Just don't put on your stereo head-phones....

I mean it! ---------- Fat Freddy's Cat

[eridani]

21. For those who weren't around then--

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Freddy/'s_Cat

Haven't been able to find the illustrated poem anywhere online.


I'm Fat Freddy's Cat
And I'm mean and tough
And I take no guff
When I strut my stuff

I'm so ornerny
And so full of piss
If I don't like your looks
I'll hit you with THIS! (whirling cat claws)

If you see me coming
Better step aside
A lot of cats wouldn't
And a lot of cats couldn't
Hand a lickin' to a chicken
Or a razzing to a rat
After they finished messing around
With Fat Freddy's Cat!

Heeerre kitty kitty kitty kitty kitty kitty!
(I'm Fat Freddy's CAT and I ain't no KITTY)

Heeerre kitty kitty kitty kitty kitty kitty!
(Don't embarrass me in the middle of the city)

Heeerre kitty kitty kitty kitty kitty kitty!
(I can make it rough on you if you're gonna act shitty)

I'll track your records up with my paws
I'll pop your waterbed with my claws
I'll shed more fur every time you sweep
And I'll sit on your face when you're asleep

I'll shit in your shoe
And I'll pee in your hat
And I'll spray the whole house
With "essence of cat".

Do you wanna eat some Krunchies?
(Do you wanna buy a duck?)
C'mon kitty--eat some Krunchies!
(C'mon Fatty, let's EAT!)

[IndyOp]

16. Or what - definitely. Great pic - no. Or what - yes.

Bill Clinton allowing John Negroponte to stay at the U.N. and allowing U.N. sanctions on Iraq to stand for his ENTIRE presidency contributed to the deaths of 100,000's of the most vulnerable Iraqis - children, sick, elderly, poor.

G.H.W. Bush applied the FIRE - Gulf War devastating roads, schools, bridges, food manufacturers...

Bill Clinton applied the ICE - devastating economic sanctions that he COULD have demanded be lifted.

G.W. Bush is just getting the last punch in - he was free to attack Iraq because he knew they could not fight back -- not after the Gulf War and years of inspections guaranteed they had no way to defend themselves against attack and occupation by the U.S.

Bill Clinton could've been great, but he became just another U.S. Presidential war criminal.

[truedelphi]

22. Bill was telling some news organization a couple of years ago

How very badly he wished that marijuana would be de-criminalized.

The response of the reporter in the story - wasn't he President for eight years??

[IndyOp]

31. I've heard that we spend more money each year prosecuting & punishing

people for marijuana charges than we do for all violent crimes combined. Not to mention the fact that hunting down and punishing people for using marijuana is nothing more than a class/race war.

I very badly wish he'd de-criminalized marijuana, too!

[tandot]

17. and...you know that they both inhaled....

:evilgrin:

[mitchum]

18. Puts me in mind of a certain Ray Davies song (n/t)

[mentalsolstice]

19. One of the bumper stickers on our rear windshield...

"Old Hippies for Peace" Yep, not all baby boomers are bad!

[Blue_In_AK]

20. If Hillary was still that hippie

I might like her better.

[The Straight Story]

23. I would have to agree with you on that

When 'fight the power' becomes 'wield the corporate power' it seems a tad off :)

[rucky]

24. Someday, they're going to be President! n/t

[jose1701]

25. It's a shame they didn't kee their hippie ideals

[pitohui]

26. ha, some people really do get better with age

cool photo

[GreenTea]

27. The hippies were right all along -- we knew that.....

Go ahead, name your movement. Name something good and positive and pro-environment and eco-friendly that's happening in the newly "greening" of America and don't say more guns in Texas or fewer reproductive choices for women because that would defeat the whole point of this perky little column and destroy its naive tone of happy rose-colored optimism. OK?

I'm talking about, say, energy-efficient lightbulbs. I'm looking at organic foods going mainstream. I mean chemical-free cleaning products widely available at Target and I'm talking saving the whales and protecting the dolphins. I mean yoga studios flourishing in every small town, giant boxes of organic cereal at Costco and the Toyota Prius becoming the nation's oddest status symbol. You know, good things.

Look around: We have entire industries devoted to recycled paper, a new generation of cheap solar-power technology and an Oscar for "An Inconvenient Truth." Even the soulless corporate monsters over at famously heartless joints like Wal-Mart are now claiming that they really, really care about saving the environment because, well, "it's the right thing to do" (read: "It's purely economic and all about their bottom line").

There is but one conclusion you can draw from the astonishing pro-environment sea change happening in the culture and (reluctantly, nervously) in the halls of power in D.C., one thing we must all acknowledge in our wary, jaded, globally warmed universe: The hippies had it right all along.

All this hot enthusiasm for healing the planet and eating whole foods and avoiding chemicals and working with nature and developing the self? Came from the hippies. Alternative health? Hippies. Green cotton? Hippies. Reclaimed wood? Recycling? Humane treatment of animals? Medical pot? Alternative energy? Natural childbirth? Non-GMA seeds? It came from the granola types (who, of course, absorbed much of it from ancient cultures), from the alternative worldviews, from the underground and the sidelines and from far off the grid and it's about time the media, the politicians, the culture as a whole sent out a big, hemp-covered apology.

(Much more).

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/02/DDG1UPIHBB1.DTL&hw=morford&sn=029&sc=498
:kick:

[goodgd_yall]

28. History lesson

Well said. I wonder how many realize the impact the now often put-down and derided generation of hippies (and I mean it in the broadest sense: anyone who was part of the tremendous changes in consciousness that occurred in the 60s and early 70s) have had on today's world. And it is all the moreso we need to take the government back from the backlashing and backtracking neocons who have had the power for the past 25 years.

[Stardust]

30. That was beautiful, man...

:smoke: :headbang: :hippie:

[tool_of_the_people]

29. Damn, I miss those days!

:cry:

We had it happening for a while, though.