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

Tue Sep 18 15:33:17 EDT 2007

I like the sound of helicopters much better than the continual high decibel
pitch of the 'neocon propaganda machines'.

Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
> 
> Pete,
> 
> I understand that you can hear the 'black helicopters' approaching in
> Roswell, NM better than anywhere else!
> 
> Brad
> 
> On 9/18/07, petelargo <petelauritzen at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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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