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"Are the times a changing" they way Boomers said?

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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/interracial-couples-increasingly-common--but-many-aren-t-marrying--u-s--census-shows-183656799.html "That's because "many older Americans, especially whites, are still uneasy about interracial marriage."  According to a 2009 study by the Pew Research Center, just half of white respondents aged 50 to 64 said they would be fine with one of their relatives marrying someone of any other race or ethnicity. Whatever the case, it's clear some Americans still are uncomfortable with seeing racially mixed couples." http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/quebec-mosque-vandalized-debate-over-pq-values-charter-190126553.html Boomers, boomers, boomers give peace a chance. Could any of you remember that like the "twist", the dream, and the "summer of love"? OK you are the first and best generation now get over it and work with X, Y, Z it's 50 years later already " beatnik hippie yuppies" You mean all th

Bronze the Fonz Milwaukee 2006 Pt 1

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One of the best days of my life was meeting Henry Winkler The Fonz of Happy Days! (Henry Winkler receives a Bronze the Fonz statue in Milwaukee Harbourfront)

Annette Funicello original Mouseketeer MS sufferer in lawsuit over fire

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TMZ reports.. http://www.tmz.com/2012/09/08/annette-funicello-mickey-mouse-club-house-fire-neighbor-lawsuit/ W5 Lifts Curtain in World Exclusive: Reclusive Hollywood Legend and MS Sufferer Annette Funicello , Oct. 6 on CTV - Channel Canada After what seems like forever since Annette Funicello last graced the photo lens. For The Tough Generation those born around, now, she was as popular and talented as Christina Aguilera, who also was a former Mouseketeer. I recall going to see her last motion picture with Frankie Avalon, I was a tween always fascinated and had respect and appreciation for many of the entertainers that still had it in them melt into the contemporary trends of the era. The story, of their characters twisting apart after 15 years. The 60s were way gone for the first Boomer wave into what appears to be their early mid forties. The silliness of second guessing what it takes to stay monogamous and in love in 1983. Annette looking tantalisingly radiant and can we