Stupid patriotic song

“Geez, have you heard that stupid patriotic song? The one that starts with Vincent Price talking? (REALLY! Nope, it's not "Thriller." GEEEEEEEEZ -- whose idea was THAT, putting Vincent Price on there?!?!)

I think it's by Tim somebody. Might be titled "Pray for Peace." I really enjoy the lines, "It'll take a lot of time; It'll take a lot of money......" (to apparently do in terrorism while maintaining peace. hmmm....... This song doesn't seem to maintain a straight train of thought to me.)

Anyhoo, sounds like some stupid thing Dubya put together. Another not-quite-so-subliminal plea for more money for armed forces/whatever the hell Ashcroft might need to do his freakin' job. I mean, I heard how Dubya didn't like the "liberal" musical telethon held earlier with all those "liberal" stars.

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I hate that song.”

“You always give the craziest trip reports Lizs.”

“Kewl Trippy Report Liz...
brings ta mind the immortal and operatic classic by John Prine:

While digesting Reader's Digest
In the back of a dirty book store,
A plastic flag, with gum on the back,
Fell out on the floor.
Well, I picked it up and I ran outside
Slapped on my window shield,
And if I could see old Betsy Ross
I tell her how good I feel.

Chorus:
But your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.
They're already overcrowded
From your dirty little war.
Now Jesus don't like killin'
No matter what the reason's for,
And your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.

Well, I went to the bank this morning
And the cashier he said to me,
"If you join the Christmas club
We'll give you ten of them flags for free."
Well, I didn't mess around a bit
I took her up on what he said.
And I stuck them stickers all over my car
And one on my wife's forehead.

Repeat Chorus:

Well, I got my window shield so filled
With flags I couldn't see.
So, I ran the car upside a curb
And right into a tree.
By the time they got a doctor down
I was already dead.
And I'll never understand why the man
Standing in the Pearly Gates said...

But your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.
We're already overcrowded
From your dirty little war.
Now Jesus don't like killin'
No matter what the reason's for,
And your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.”

“Right on!”

“I've heard some crazy things in my day but to try and tie dubya into this song so he can get more money is a monumental show of stupidity...even for you lizs. You probably blame your cramps on ol' George, don't ya? LOL!”

“errr... I don't believe Lizs is seriously advancing the theory that our president had this song written, performed and played on the radio as a fund raiser.”

“We are talking about liberal lizs here though. I know it's humor, YOU know it's humor but does SHE know it's humor?”

“What's nigal doing on the commie thread?

Hey... hold the door!”

“I've felt your pain lizs...

from 1992 - 2000!

Paranoia will destroy ya!”

“Is that Nigal's Nazi Twin?

Pickin' on lizs iz verbotten!”

“Well Nigal... I hafta confess... I have gotten in "deep doodoo" for assuming people were joking when they were absolutely serious. Just because people say ridiculous things doesn't mean they are kidding./

PS: Does this mean Ariel Sharon isn't wittier than Stephen Wright?”

“LOL Nigal!

BTW: I think Lizs is an intelligent woman and shows some genuine common sense. Not that I wouldn't pick on her (again) if if the inspiration struck.”

“"PS: Does this mean Ariel Sharon isn't wittier than Stephen Wright?"

Dang, I hate it when a good biting joke goes over my head!

Tom, as always, I reserve the right to make an a@@ out of myself when ever and where ever I see fit.”

“Any reason to pick on Dubya is a GOOD reason.”

“I really dig Shaun Booger Yellin'champ's new song on the air...Peaceful World.”

“Nigal... mebbe I was clumsy there. Basically, I was saying that:

If being full of BS is enough to make one funny, then Sharon is a comic genius
(for example when he talks about his desire to avoid war).”

“If that were the case hows come I didn't even make top ten on the funniest TTer?”

“neither did I, prolly cuzz they didna consider looks or odor.

Hey Nigal lets say we sue TT! The only contest was unfair to those of us who are humor impaired. The voting process shoulda been done in a way that put us unfunny people on equal footing! My rights have been trangressecuted. I demand that TT be prosletized to the fullest excrement of the law!”

“I don't think it'll fly cause no one voted Pat bauchanan funniest. If we could only find some hanging chads!”

“Hey Budder, you ever hear tell of that Johnny Cooper's cousin Roscoe?”

“Does anyone have the soundtrack album from "Bob Roberts"? *VBG*


This Just In...

$8,000 cover-up for Justice Dept's exposed statue

January 28, 2002 Posted: 9:54 PM EST (0254 GMT)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A cover-up at the U.S. Justice Department?

A Justice Department spokeswoman said Monday about $8,000 has been spent for curtains to conceal two Art Deco aluminum statues of semi-nude figures in the building's Great Hall.

At one end of the stage is a 1930s era female statue representing the
"Spirit of Justice." Though she wears a toga-style garment, one breast is exposed. At the other end of the stage, a male statue represents the "Majesty of Justice," and has a cloth draped by his waist.

Justice Department spokeswoman Barbara Comstock said the decision to install the curtains was made by Attorney General John Ashcroft's aide who handles advance work. "It was done for TV aesthetics," she said.

When Ashcroft November 8 announced plans to restructure the Justice
Department to focus on terrorism after the September 11 hijacked plane attacks, photographers took pictures showing him with the towering female statue in the background.

"He did not know this was being done," Comstock said. "The attorney general has more important things to do than worry about what appears in pictures."

The statues were hidden by curtains on November 20, when President Bush came to the Justice Department to name the building after the assassinated former attorney general, Robert Kennedy.

Those curtains were rented. Comstock said the decision then was made to buy dark-blue curtains and install them because it would be more "cost efficient."

Monday, a day with no public events in the Great Hall, the curtains, with the Justice Department emblem in the center, were placed across the stage,
concealing the statues.

A former Justice Department official e-mailed a copy of an article about the statues to colleagues, adding the caption, "homeland security?"

The most famous picture of the female statue came in the 1980s, when Attorney General Edwin Meese released the final report of his commission on pornography.”

“Is it true that Lizs was the model for that statue? @@”

“Statues all over the world should be outraged!

I say..I say thar Mr.Nigal...ah swear, if Roscoe's brains was money he'd be flat broke... always chaseing them good'ole boy, neverdoin' no harm...tis a cryin' shame.”

“The song sucks is what I'm trying to say! Hasn't anyone heard it??! They're talking about peace and in the same breath saying, well, hell, it's gonna take money to stomp some people so we can have peace. Probably only SEEMS like something Dubya would do. :-)

The part I mentioned about the "liberal telethon" after the attacks needing something more moderate due to the new adminstration is true.

Oh yeah, my statues look much better than those found in the Dept of Justice. :-)”

“Nope! Haven't heard it, which is pretty amazing seeing as how I'm smack dab on the Buckle of the Bible Belt. Vincent Price has been dead since 1993.

I think Ashcroft might have statutory lust in his heart, *G*. He was much less dangerous as a senator.”