[Rhodes22-list] Anyone else see this? Is this a true storyor urban legend??

[Steve Alm]

Rummy, I'm sure you're right.  My usual sunny disposition seems to have
failed me.  But I was overdue for a good rant and I was chuckling all the
way.  I feel better now.  :-)
Slim

On 3/14/03 5:26 AM, "John Tonjes" <johntonjes@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Slim,
> I think you are experiencing that phenomonem that's caused by lack of
> sunlight. Summer is just artound the corner.
> 
> Rummy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces@rhodes22.org
> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces@rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Steve Alm
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 5:00 AM
> To: Rhodes
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Anyone else see this? Is this a true storyor
> urban legend??
> 
> 
> Let me get this straight. Here's a celebrity up on his soapbox bitching
> about celebrities who are up on their soapbox?  He calls them pampered and
> overpaid?  Charlie, baby, YOU'RE A MILLIONAIRE!!  How many deli trays and
> cases of champagne were on YOUR contract rider tonight?  What five-star
> hotel are YOU staying at?  What the Hell would you know about an overworked,
> OTR truck driver?  Unless maybe he's working for you, hauling your shit
> around the country day and night.  Gimme a break!  You wouldn't know the
> real world if it bit you in the ass. You live in the dream world of
> Nashville glitz and privileged celebrityhood. How seriously am I supposed to
> take some rich, redneck fiddler who still thinks the South's Gonna Do It
> Again?  Do what, Charlie?  Have another civil war?  Overturn the
> Emancipation Proclamation?  You'd like that, wouldn't you?  I can see you're
> a real patriot.(?)  You've got your cowboy hat on a little too tight there,
> buckaroo.  And why is it that you wear it so low that nobody can ever see
> your eyes?  Hiding something?  We played "The Devil Went Down To Georgia"
> tonight.  Tomorrow night, I'm boycotting you, you hypocrite!!! Yeee frickin'
> haw!
> 
> Slim Chance and the Gamblers
> 
> P.S. Barbara Streisand DOES make more sense than Michael Jackson--she just
> does--it ain't hard!  Get over it!
> 
> On 3/13/03 9:45 PM, "Alex Bell" <alexbell@coastalnet.com> wrote:
> 
>>    When Charlie Daniels gets on his soapbox, a lot of patriotism can
>> come out of him:
>>      
>> 
>>      An Open Letter To The Hollywood Bunch
>>      
>> 
>>     Ok let's just say for a moment you bunch of pampered, overpaid,
>> unrealistic
>>     children had your way and the U.S.A. didn't go into Iraq.
>> 
>>     Let's say that you really get your way and we destroy all our
>> nuclear
>>     weapons and stick daisies in our gun barrels and sit around with
>> some white
>>     wine and cheese and pat ourselves on the back, so proud of what
>> we've done
>>     for world peace.
>> 
>>      Let's say that we cut the military budget to just enough to keep
>> the
>>     National Guard on hand to help out with floods and fires.
>> 
>>     Let's say that we close down our military bases all over the world
>> and bring
>>     the troops home, increase our foreign aid and drop all the trade
>> sanctions
>>     against everybody.
>> 
>>     I suppose that in your fantasy world this would create a utopian
>> world where
>>     everybody would live in peace. After all, the great monster, the
>> United
>>     States of America, the cause of all the world's trouble would have
>> disbanded
>>     its horrible military and certainly all the other countries of the
>> world
>>     would follow suit.
>> 
>>     After all, they only arm themselves to defend their countries from
>> the mean
>>     old U.S.A.
>>      
>> 
>>     Why you bunch of pitiful, hypocritical, idiotic, spoiled mugwumps.
>> Get your
>>     head out of the sand and smell the Trade Towers burning. Do you
>> think that a
>>     trip to Iraq by Sean Penn did anything but encourage a wanton
>> murderer to
>>     think that the people of the U.S.A. didn't have the nerve or the
>> guts to
>>     fight him?
>> 
>>     Barbra Streisand's fanatical and hateful rantings about George
>> Bush makes
>>     about as much sense as Michael Jackson hanging a baby over a
>> railing.
>>      
>> 
>>     You people need to get out of Hollywood once in a while and get
>> out into the
>>     real world. You'd be surprised at the hostility you would find out
>> here.
>>     Stop in at a truck stop and tell an overworked, long distance
>> truck driver
>>     that you don't think Saddam Hussein is doing anything wrong.
>> 
>>     Tell a farmer with a couple of sons in the military that you think
>> the
>>     United States has no right to defend itself.
>> 
>>     Go down to Baxley, Georgia and hold an anti-war rally and see what
>> the folks
>>     down there think about you.
>> 
>>     You people are some of the most disgusting examples of a waste of
>> protoplasm
>>     I've ever had the displeasure to hear about.
>> 
>>     Sean Penn, you're a traitor to the United States of America. You
>> gave aid
>>     and comfort to the enemy. How many American lives will your
>> little, "fact
>>     finding trip" to Iraq cost? You encouraged Saddam to think that we
>> didn't
>>     have the stomach for war.
>> 
>>     You people protect one of the most evil men on the face of this
>> earth and
>>     won't lift a finger to save the life of an unborn baby. Freedom of
>> choice
>>     you say?
>> 
>>     Well I'm going to exercise some freedom of choice of my own. If I
>> see any of
>>     your names on a marquee, I'm going to boycott the movie. I will
>> completely
>>     stop going to movies if I have to. In most cases it certainly
>> wouldn't be
>>     much of a loss.
>> 
>>     You scoff at our military whose boots you're not even worthy to
>> shine. They
>>     go to battle and risk their lives so ingrates like you can live in
>> luxury.
>>     The day of reckoning is coming when you will be faced with the
>> undeniable
>>     truth that the war against Saddam Hussein is the war on terrorism.
>> 
>>     America is in imminent danger. You're either for her or against
>> her. There
>>     is no middle ground.
>> 
>>     I think we all know where you stand.
>>      
>>      
>> 
>>     What do you think?
>>      
>>      
>> 
>>     God Bless America!
>> _________________________________________________
>> Use Rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org, Help? www.rhodes22.org/list
> 
> _________________________________________________
> Use Rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org, Help? www.rhodes22.org/list
> 
> _________________________________________________
> Use Rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org, Help? www.rhodes22.org/list