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

[Just bent]

Pete,
I think loyalty to any group makes you blind to corruption & incompetance.
The military, the catholic church, the police, fire & teachers unions just
to name a few. Just a suggestion: If you are a vet and served honorably, be
proud of it but don't assume all vets serve honorably just because they
volunteer.

Jb



petelargo 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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