[Rhodes22-list] Re-naming Boats, Music, and yes, Politics

[Brad Haslett]

Pete,

Four months in Vietnam, three on active duty (Kerry), and being asked by
your fellow servicemen to "get the hell out of Dodge" does not impress me.
Five months of guarding a typewriter in Saigon (Gore) does not impress me.
My brother did two full year tours in Nam, mostly "hot", that impresses me.
Having 'nads' big enough just to ride around the pattern in an F-102
impresses me (trust me, I know airplanes).  For your information, Rove is
gone and 2008 is just around the corner.  Grow up (and lighten-up) and find
a new boogie-man!

Brad

On 9/17/07, petelargo <petelauritzen at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
> It's 2007 and we are still continuing with the character assignation
> originated by service dodger ROVE on a veteran who actually volunteered to
> serve our country in Nam? Those of us who were there know why people went
> into the 'guard' with daddy's help, to avoid real active military service.
> Just a suggestion: If you are a vet, always best not to eat your own.
>
>
> Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
> >
> > This is just cruel, but funny.  Brad
> >
> > -----------------------------
> >
> > Lt. Kerry's Lonely Hearts Club Band
> >  By Howie Carr  |   Sunday, September 16, 2007  |
> > http://www.bostonherald.com  |
> > Columnists<http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/>
> >
> > If you thought Scaramouche was a pretentious name for Sen. John Forbes
> > Kerry
> > to give his 42-foot Nantucket gigolo boat, he's gone and topped himself.
> >
> > Liveshot has scuttled the name Scaramouche and rechristened it . . . Let
> > It
> > Be.
> >
> > That's right, the Beatles song. From Freddie Mercury to John Lennon. I'm
> > telling you, you cannot make this stuff up.
> >
> > Why "Let It Be?" My theory is the more appropriate Lennon-McCartney
> titles
> > were taken: "Nowhere Man" and "I'm a Loser." Not to mention "Fool on the
> > Hill."
> >
> > This momentous nautical event happened last November, but apparently
> > nobody
> > noticed the official filing with the Coast Guard until now. The question
> > is,
> > Why change the name? A call to Kerry's Boston office asking if there
> will
> > be
> > an answer (a line from the song, see?) was responded to with a brief
> > e-mail:"I have no idea why he changed the name."
> >
> > But I do. First, though, we must stipulate the junior senator's
> > accomplishments. He is without doubt America's most successful gigolo.
> He
> > has stalked not one but two heiresses worth hundreds of millions. To
> *John
> > Kerry* <http://www.bostonherald.com/search/?topic=John+Kerry> I say with
> > awe: "Baby You're a Rich Man."
> >
> > Thanks to your loaded old gold-digging second wife, that is.
> >
> > "Can't Buy Me Love" indeed. Mama T Heinz Kerry did exactly that. The
> first
> > time Sen. Kerry realized how much dough she had, he began humming, "Got
> to
> > Get You Into My Life." When he saw her standing there, Kerry wanted to
> > hold
> > her hand. Or at least her bank book. When she said yes, he was feeling
> > glad
> > all over.
> >
> > Soon she was singing, "Baby You Can Drive My Car." Or, more precisely,
> her
> > SUVs, all five or six of them, one for every mansion, which are located
> > here
> > there and everywhere. She gave him a ticket to ride - on her $35 million
> > Gulfstream jet. She cut Liveshot in on 19 Louisburg Square on Beacon
> Hill
> > and presented him with that multimillion-dollar painting to call his
> own.
> > And now, with a little help from his (very few) friends, Kerry hangs on
> to
> > this do-nothing job in the Senate. One tune he never has to croon to
> Mrs.
> > Heinz, er Kerry, er, Heinz-Kerry, is "You Never Give Me Your Money."
> >
> > The Scaramouche, a Hinckley power boat that gets less than one mile per
> > gallon of fuel, was just another boytoy toy Mama T bought him in 2002
> with
> > money from her first husband's trust fund. Being John Kerry, he probably
> > decided on the name Scaramouche without doing any research beyond
> hearing
> > the Queen tune on an oldies radio station.
> >
> > Later on, everybody checked out the real definition of Scaramouche.
> Here's
> > one from "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable": "A stock character
> in
> > Italian farce. . . . A braggart and a fool, very valiant in words, but a
> > poltroon."
> >
> >>From "Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia": "A braggart soldier."
> >
> > Well, Liveshot, if the Docksider fits. . .
> >
> > When the 2004 campaign heated up, the Scaramouche was sent to dry dock,
> > the
> > Witness Protection Program of boats. Now it's back and John apparently
> > wanted a lame new name to reflect his latest boring hobby, the acoustic
> > guitar.
> >
> > "While My Guitar Gently Weeps?" Not quite. Those weeping are the poor
> > fools
> > forced to endure a set of John singing those wonderful protest songs of
> > his
> > '60s youth. "Blowing in the Wind," you know, like a wind turbine in
> > Nantucket Sound. Where Have All the Young Men Gone? Mostly to the Sun
> > Belt,
> > to escape the high taxes imposed on them in Massachusetts by the likes
> of
> > John Kerry.
> >
> > But why rename the boat Let It Be? Well, he couldn't take "Yellow
> > Submarine." That's Ted Kennedy's song.
> >
> > "When I'm 64?" No way. I mean, that's how old Kerry will be on his next
> > birthday, Dec. 11.
> >
> > But don't worry, John. Even 64-year-old gigolos are still needed, at
> least
> > as long as they can keep their hands off the younger local talent, if
> you
> > know what I mean. If you ever get caught, though, it'll be
> hello-goodbye,
> > mostly goodbye. One again, you'll be nothing more than a day tripper on
> > the
> > long and winding road, just like after you dumped your first heiress
> wife.
> > What was her name? Julia?
> > Article URL:
> >
> http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1031798
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