We Are The Champions

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We Are The Champions

Post by Lightning Rod » July 7th, 2005, 11:01 am

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"I'm gonna ride that thaing, if it's the last thing I do."

We Are The Champions
for release 07-07-05
Washington D.C.

This weekend I watched millions of people worldwide gather to make their voices heard concerning the topic of hunger in the world. I have to assume that the large turnout was more for the cause of Live 8 rather than to see the geriatric rock stars who were performing. Roger Waters and Pink Floyd were inspiring and Joss Stone is a bright gleam on the horizon, but for the most part, the acts were disposable.

It's hard to tell pop culture from politics. Actors and wrestlers are governors, there have been enough rock stars knighted to fill a round table, and the President of the United States wants to be Lance Armstrong (if he could just stay on his bicycle.)

It was a stroke of genius on the part of Bob Geldorf to combine a pop culture event with a demonstration. The sad part about it is that the demonstration will be dismissed by the eight most powerful men in the world just as it was by the major television networks. They will have their lofty meeting cloistered on the links in Scotland and give nary a care to the plight of the starving in Sudan or the AIDS orphans in South Africa. Nice try, Bob.

The Big Eight will pay lip service to global warming and hunger and trade imbalances, but no concrete action will result. Perhaps the million pounds sterling that was spent on the chain-link fence that is protecting the eight most powerful men in the world from protesters could have been better spent on aid to Africa.

I'm wondering, when the Big Eight play golf, do they play in an eightsome or in two foursomes? What do they talk about between the driver and the putter? Will Chirac ride in the same golf cart as Blair, will they share lunches? English food or French?

Of course our Liar in Chief will have his mind on other things than starvation and global warming. He has a vacant Supreme Court seat to fill. What fun. Shall he appoint his lap dog, Mr. Torture is Ok and the Geneva Conventions are 'quaint' Gonzales? Or maybe Jerry Falwell would make a good Justice. No, we probably need a woman jurist to fill the robes of Sandra Day O'Conner. How about Ann Coulter? Karl Rove may be looking for a job soon.

Yes, it must be a bewildering choice, George. You want to please your base on the religious right and also avoid a massacre in the Senate over confirmation of your nominee. Quite a dilemma. I'm sure Putin will have some advice on the seventeenth green. "Fire them all and put your boys in there."

I have a solution, Mr. President. The perfect replacement for Sandra Day O'Connor is Tom Cruise. It's the best of all possible worlds. Cruise is a religious fanatic of dubious sexuality, he just says no to drugs and he does great at the box office. What's not to like?

Mr. President, we need someone on the Supreme Court who is not afraid to jump up and down on Oprah's couch. Yes, we need a glazed-eyed, cradle robbing cultist who is lovable in his fanaticism. Tom Cruise is your man.


I’ve paid my dues -
Time after time -
I’ve done my sentence
But committed no crime -
And bad mistakes
I’ve made a few
I’ve had my share of sand kicked in my face -
But I’ve come through

We are the champions - my friends
And we’ll keep on fighting - till the end -
We are the champions -
We are the champions
No time for losers
’cause we are the champions - of the world --
Queen
"These words don't make me a poet, these Eyes make me a poet."

The Poet's Eye

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Post by stilltrucking » July 8th, 2005, 9:52 am

There are so many things I dislike about Sanato, maybe the number one thing is the local Hearse Newspaper. How did I ever get so old. It used to be that the first thing I would look at was the comic pages. Now I go right to the editorial page. What a desert it is. Starved for food for thought. But there is always a feast on The Poets Eye. Have you noticed that creepy chuckle our Dear Leader of Lies uses when he makes a pronuncement. A sinister snicker. Makes we wonder about his sanity.

thanks

You have no idea how much I admire you. A hero to me, but that don't keep me from being a grouchy old man and kicking sand in your face. Good days and bad days, I appologize for that.

Speaking of world trade. I heard this line on NPR today. "tomatoes from the Gaza strip, deep red and sweet like tomatoes used to be in the United States"

ramble ramble
They found thousands and thousands of cunieform tablets in Mesoptamia, ninety nine point nine percent were records of commercial transactions, and a precious few were literary, like the Epic Of Gilgamesh. I guess it has always been about business. Ever since civilization began.
Diamonds are still a girl's best friend
I suppose
Men are so stoopid
Women started this civilization bullshit
I am counting on them to take it back again
Same old story,
Priests, Profits and the bottom line
John Galt makes the sacred sign of the $ sign.
All is well
Jesus wants us all to be rich
Christian profits pile up
"war, famine, pestilence, good growing weather for the House Of Morgan" dos Pasos
Why does it always seem to be blamed on an international conspiracy of Jewish bankers? Seems like it is the white boys who make the most.

Meanwhile we are on the edge of destruction, nothing new,situation normal. Snafu. A little birdie could shit on it all. Back to the fourteenth century when a third of the population dead in the black Plagues (Jews had a pretty good survival rate, maybe that is why so many were murdered during that time) Now bird flu spreads to wild fowl. Yeah an interesting time. Whatever happened to Red China. Now they own us. The bird flu could be our macbre messiah, a couple billion dead, that would take the pressure off. Man I am in a black black funk today. Nothing but cheerful thoughts

sitting here waiting for the mail. nothing to do except another ramble.

Insurgents my ass, we all use that word like it describes the situation. He who names it owns it.

Main Entry: in·sur·rec·tion
Pronunciation: "in(t)-s&-'rek-sh&n
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Late Latin insurrection-, insurrectio, from insurgere
: an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government

Yes the established government of Iraq. God dam the pusher man, We be parots speaking words they push on us.

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Post by e_dog » July 8th, 2005, 2:11 pm

stilltruckin,

i'm not sure i got your point about "insurgents"?

what do you mean?

is it that the sp-called Iraqi government is a puppet government and therefore not really "established" as "civil authority"? or what else did you mean?

it seems to me that "insurgents" is a much better term -- because more value-neutral -- for journalists to use instead of the ideologically laden term "terrorists" which is often used in connection with the war in Iraq.
I don't think 'Therefore, I am.' Therefore, I am.

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