Thank you for the reply,

By that logic then most of people born in the mid to late 70's and 80's would be Gen-Y, right?

The thing is that Obama born in '61 has little cultural or social connections with children born in the mid to late 1970's. He would have had a far different experience (had he been raised entirely in the USA) than what are traditionally accepted Gen-Xers.

I am not exactly sure Generation Dynamics has all the answers either, but I do find your posts thought provoking, even if I disagree on some of the conclusions.

Hey Mr. "Generational Dynamics" you're wrong...

"And so watching and listening to the speech on Thursday by the youthful *Gen-Xer* President Barack Obama, I felt a sense of déja vu."

Obama was born in 1961, he's not a Gen-Xer by any stretch, he's a boomer (or Jones-er for those who prefer that title). Don't even try to lump him in with my generation...

Takes one to know one right, Margaret?

Yes, if you look at the facts, the liberty was an accident. But be careful, Bamford is wrong on most things more than he is right. He's no friend of conservatives either. "A Pretext for War" is riddled with his skewed views, and though his more historical books are better (having the benefit of hindsight), he has an agenda.

That's 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Petroglyph. Need to get it right, since we know how well this government is at doing things. Besides the guy at 1 PA. Ave might be a Republican, or an Embassy, and the Gov't goons will not fact check your message (as evidenced by the fact check they did for the stimulus.)

Not to mention that the Irish were sold as slaves (after a raid in Cork) in North Africa in the 19th (!) Century. Thankfully the US Marines did quite a bit to stop that sort of thing.

I hear ya, sadly the "History" Channel is more like the Leftist-Howard-Zinn-History Channel.

They spend hours on Rome, the Vikings, and WWII, why? Because if they actually covered stuff about the Italian City States, the Hansa, or Medieval Urban life they'd have to cover such topics as: Capitalism, Democracy, and the foundations of the Modern Society we live in. That would really go head to head against the Communist Manifesto view of History they push. Besides the fact that they get a great deal of History utterly wrong.

Honestly, in recent years historians have taken a more circumspect view of the Crusades, especially in the "New Medieval Studies" view of history. Previously the attitude (created by Renaissance historians, and then the Victorians) was that the middle ages were full of the unwashed masses, with knights in shining armor rescuing fair maidens from castles.

Nowadays this view has dissolved, and we see that the Knight (or King) wasn't as virtuous, the peasant far cleaner, and the maiden was technically some other Lord's wife. Pirenne is an awesome read, and he, Marc Bloc and the Gies have done yeoman's work on changing attitudes about our medieval ancestors (who as it was, were more like us than we admit).

Its "Insha'allah"... Basically it means something akin to "stuff" happens in a more conventional sense. In a religious sense it means "It is God's will." It is not so much that these things go against God's will as much as God determined they should not happen (there is no concept of "free will" in Islam).

So if you don't blow up the infidel, it was God's will. If you crash a plane into the WTC, again God's will. You as a person really didn't have a choice in the matter. Since you don't have a choice, if it happens, God wanted it to, if it doesn't God didn't want it to happen. It is kind of nifty since you never have to take responsibility for the result, since it was all God's decision anyway...

I hope this makes more sense... Wiki page if anyone cares: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inshallah

So what? We did the same thing in Germany and Japan. Are you advocating we get out of there too?