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

[Ron Singerman]

Pete,

Bravo

>>Ron<<
Ronald N Singerman, D.M.D.
COL, US Army (Ret)


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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