M2RB: Bruce Springsteen & The "E-Street Band"
No cannonballs did fly
No rifles cut us down
No bombs fell from the sky
No blood soaked the ground
No powder flash blinded the eye
No deafening thunder sounded
But, just as sure as the hand of god
They brought death to my hometown
They brought death to my hometown
So listen up, my Sonny boy!
Be ready, for when they come
For they’ll be returning sure as the rising sun...
Nah, not the Fascists, the Communists, Maoists, Authoritarians,Totalitarians, or even the Islamic 12th'ers!!! THE PROGRESSIVES...But then I repeat myself.
By Robert Stacey McCain
GAHANNA, Ohio -- Late Tuesday night, the pundits on TV began
jabbering incomprehensibly along the lines of, "What does it
mean?"
The American people -- or, at the very least, a sufficient
plurality of them -- decided that they want another four years of
clumsy policy failures and vengeful "progressivism," as Democrats
nowadays describe their agenda for wrecking what remains of our
constitutional republic. Even before the unmitigated political
disaster of November 6, 2012, a date that will live in infamy, the
prospects of salvaging the United States were not particularly
hopeful. Now, however, we are permanently and irretrievably
screwed.
Let's not mince words, eh? It was one thing, obviously, for the
electorate to choose Barack Obama in 2008, when Bush-era "brand
damage" was still a fresh irritant in the wounds of a war-weary
nation. Four years ago, Obama was untested and enshrouded in the
glowing mantle of Hope. No intelligent person could possibly
believe that "Lightworker" crap anymore, but then again, it's been
a long time since any intelligent person believed anything a
Democrat said. The cretins and dimwits have become an effective
governing majority, and the question for conservatives at this
point is perhaps not, "What does it mean?" but rather, "Why should
we bother ourselves resisting it any longer?"
Alas, as always, the duty of the Right is to manfully endure, to
survive the defeat and stubbornly oppose the vaunting foe, and so
this brutal shock, this electoral catastrophe, must be absorbed and
digested. At some point next week or next month or next year, then,
we shall recover our morale and plot some new stratagem for the
future. In the immediate aftermath of Tuesday's debacle, however,
it is difficult to see any glimmer of light amid the encroaching
gloom. Surely, there are many Americans who now sympathize with
that New York infantryman who, in the bleak winter of 1862, when
the Union's Army of the Potomac was under the incompetent command
of Gen. Ambrose Burnside, wrote home in forlorn complaint: "Mother,
do not wonder that my loyalty is growing weak.… I am sick and tired
of the disaster and the fools that bring disaster upon us."
The search for scapegoats always attends political defeat, and
Republicans have no shortage of candidates for the role, beginning
with Todd Akin, whose ill-considered remarks about "legitimate
rape" during an August interview set off a nationwide demand that
he quit as the GOP nominee against Sen. Claire McCaskill in
Missouri. Akin went down to ignominious defeat Tuesday, as did
Indiana's Richard Mourdock, who upset Republican Sen. Richard Lugar
in the primary but then imploded after making Akin-esque comments
about rape and abortion. Perhaps pro-life groups should sponsor a
training session for political candidates, teaching them how to
answer "gotcha" questions without either ceding anything to the
abortion lobby or offending voters with off-the-cuff comments about
rape. But Akin and Mourdock were just two names on a long list of
bloodbaths for GOP Senate candidates, a massacre that also defeated
Republican candidates in Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Maine,
Massachusetts and elsewhere.
Speaketh With Forked Tongue:
They claim everything is "for the children," but, in reality their Casus Belli was always, is, and always will be to murder as many unborn children, as humanly (Note: I didn't say 'humanely') possible. It is the "Body of Christ" in the Progressive liturgy.
The list of fools who have brought this disaster upon us
certainly also will include New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the
gelatinous clown who (a) hogged up a prime time spot at the
Republican convention to sing his own praises; (b) embraced Obama
as the hero of Hurricane Sandy; and (c) then refused to appear at
campaign events in support of Romney's presidential campaign. Good
luck with the remainder of your political future, governor. It is
unlikely Republicans shall soon forget your perfidious
betrayal.
Well, then, what shall we say of Mitt Romney himself? He did not
run a bad campaign. He excited the party's conservative base with
his choice of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate, and Romney's
stunning victory in the first presidential debate Oct. 3 ignited a
surge of momentum that seemed destined to carry him all the way to
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. I fondly recall the night after the
debate when, in Fisherville, Virginia, a crowd twice the size of
the town turned out to cheer Romney
and Ryan at a jubilant rally. A few minutes before 1 a.m. this
morning, the TV networks called Obama the winner in Virginia, a
result that seemed impossible a month ago. The margin of Romney's
defeat in Virginia -- as in the other major battleground states of
Florida and Ohio -- was quite slender, but it was a defeat
nonetheless.
Romney's campaign staff furiously challenged the fact of their
defeat, so that the loser's concession speech was postponed until
the wee hours of the morning. One can scarcely blame them for
refusing to admit such a grim reality, but the reality could not be
escaped. When Romney finally took the stage in Boston, he
graciously said, "I pray that the president will be successful in
guiding our nation." Prayers notwithstanding, the only success the
current president is likely to have is in guiding our nation
straight toward a destination that proverbially waits at the end of
a road paved with good intentions.
What is left to hope for? That the American people will soon
regret their choice? That another four years of economic stagnation
and escalating debt will cure them of their insane appetite for
charismatic liberals? If four years of endless failure have not rid
them of this madness, the disease may well be terminal. Perhaps
others will still see some cause for hope, and in another few weeks
my friends may persuade me to see it, too. But today I will hear no
such talk, and I doubt I'll be in a better mood tomorrow. At the
moment, I am convinced America is doomed beyond all hope of
redemption, and any talk of the future fills me with dread and
horror.
Death To My Hometown - Bruce Springsteen
No cannonballs did fly
No rifles cut us down
No bombs fell from the sky
No blood soaked the ground
No powder flash blinded the eye
No deafening thunder sounded
But just as sure as the hand of god
They brought death to my hometown
They brought death to my hometown
No shells ripped the evening sky
No cities burning down
No armies stormed the shores for which we’d die
No dictators were crowned
High off on a quiet night
I never heard a sound
The marauders raided in the dark and brought death to my hometown, boys
Death to my hometown
They destroyed our families’ factories and they took our homes
They left our bodies on the plains
The vultures picked our bones
So listen up, my Sonny boy
Be ready for when they come
For they’ll be returning sure as the rising sun
Now get yourself a song to sing and sing it ’til you’re done
Yeah, sing it hard and sing it well
Send the robber baron’s straight to hell
The greedy thieves that came around
And ate the flesh of everything they’ve found
Whose crimes have gone unpunished now
Walk the streets as free men now
And they brought death to our hometown, boys
Death to our hometown, boys
Death to our hometown, boys
Death to our hometown
Obama has compared himself to Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Baines Johnson, John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, JayZ, Nelson Mandela, the Argentine footballer Lionel Andrés Messi, Jesus Christ, Margaret Thatcher, the Miami Heats (sic), Dwight David Eisenhower, Joshua from the Old Testament, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George H W Bush, San Francisco Giants' Ace Tim Lincecum, and even George W Bush, but he NEVER compared himself to Napoleon.
Good grief! Can we exile him to Saint Helena?
Listen up, Frum, I am a lot younger than you. I am not a Republican, especially one of those Progressives "because is it so fun to be progressivy and all that like the more smarter people, ya know." (h/t to the Rich Man's Snooki, Meggie McCain) I am not a Conservative, especially one of those ridiculous "Compassionate" ones. I am not even a big Romney person. I am a libertarian and not the nutter Ron Paul/Alex Jones kind.
But, getting back to the recent election, I live in a deep blue state so my vote doesn't even really count...BUT,
I have been waiting for 4 years to cast my vote against "MrSocial-Justice/When-We-Spread-The-Wealth-Around/At-Some-Point-You've-Made-Enough-Money/Take-The-Pain-Pill/Bumps-In-The-Road/The-Future-Must-Not-Belong-To-Those-Who-Slander-The-Prophet-Mohammed/Allahu-Ahkbar=Workplace-Violence/You-Didn't-Build-That"and I would have crawled over broken glass if I have to in order to do so. In fact, I couldn't wait!
I voted my lady smarts, not my lady parts! One would have thought that the Feminist Movement would have been more than reducing women to the sum of their sexual organs. Thank my Festivus Pole that my mum was the crazy bra burner.
BTW: I have absolutely NOTHING against LEGAL IMMIGRATION. After all, I came to the United States, LEGALLY, and became a naturalised American.
I had to wait in line and play by the rules to become an American. There are many behind me doing the same thing. Screw playing by the rules.
Let’s start importing illegals from the former Eastern Bloc, Russia, Cuba, and other former Communist countries and tell them that Democrats are just commies/socialists/totalitarians in velvet gloves. Men and women went to prison for just reading Hayek’s Road to Serfdom and Milton Freidman’s Free to Choose was a blockbuster in the Eastern Bloc.
Many former Soviet Countries have flat tax rates, low regulation, encourage start-up, better test scores, and higher freedom indices. The people are much better educated than the people sneaking across the border.
Let’s encourage some illegal immigration that can really help American for a change and won’t be a drain. Let's slap visas on the diplomas of graduates in the maths, sciences, medicines, computers, technology. Let them bring over their families; provided, they have the ability to support themselves here.
I don't have anything against Mexicans AT ALL, but we have to understand something on a geopolitical level. The average salary in China is less than $5000 a year. We aren't going to be able to beat China manufacturing solar panels. We need an educated and talented workforce. Given the choice of Czech mathematician or a Salvadoran fruit picker, I'm going with the Czech. Sorry, that's just how the Chinese Cookie crumbles.
And, one more thing that should make hearts sing across America in ways that Babs, Bruce, and Madonna can't:
I even happily accept the fact that I will always be a second-class American...since I can never run for President, which makes all of us happy...I am QUITE sure. I wouldn't want the job and you wouldn't want me to have it. They don't make axes large enough for what I would need to take to the Federal budget.
Frummy, you might also take a look at the faces of some of the governors. You be Paleface.
"They're Coming To Take Me Away"- NAPOLEON XIV
Remember when you ran away
And I got on my knees
And begged you not to leave
Because I'd go beserk
Well you left me anyhow
And then the days got worse and worse
And now you see I've gone
Completely out of my mind
And they're coming to take me away ha-haaa
They're coming to take me away ho ho hee hee ha haaa
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see those nice young men
In their clean white coats
And they're coming to take me away ha haaa
You thought it was a joke
And so you laughed
You laughed when I said
That losing you would make me flip my lid
Right? You know you laughed
I heard you laugh. You laughed
You laughed and laughed and then you left
But now you know I'm utterly mad
And they're coming to take me away ha haaa
They're coming to take me away ho ho hee hee ha haaa
To the happy home with trees and flowers and chirping birds
And basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes
And they're coming to take me away ha haaa
I cooked your food
I cleaned your house
And this is how you pay me back
For all my kind unselfish, loving deeds
Ha! Well you just wait
They'll find you yet and when they do
They'll put you in the A.S.P.C.A.
You mangy mutt
And they're coming to take me away ha haaa
They're coming to take me away ha haaa ho ho hee hee
To the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see those nice young men
In their clean white coats
And they're coming to take me away
To the happy home with trees and flowers and chirping birds
And basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes
And they're coming to take me away ha haaa!