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

[petelargo]

My motto is: I can't wait for 2008. If we work hard enough over the next year
I think we can spin a way to blame Bushes high crimes on Bill Clinton. As
for me, I do not wish to 'evaluate' the level of involvement of those who
actually showed up with those who didn't.   


Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
> 
> 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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