Monthly Archives: July 2010
Conservative Boston Rag Exposes Palin Gaffes and Ignorance (UPDATED)
Wow, now even the conservative newspapers are pointing out Sarah Palin’s multiple recent gaffes. On Tuesday, the Boston Herald (Enquirer) revealed to its conservative readership that the former ex-quitting half-term Governor of Alaska knows not what she is talking about when it comes to geography, court decisions or New Hampshire legislation. Mind you, this particular newspaper is merely the barely read conservative rag of a tabloid that plays a distant second fiddle to the city’s newspaper of record, The Boston Globe. Nonetheless, it is a good sign when a conservative arm of the media not only recognizes Sarah Palin’s ignorance but exposes it to the public. Kudos to the Boston Herald.
Alaska’s former Quitter-in-Chief waded into the waters of New Hampshire politics (the first presidential primary state) last week when she endorsed Republican Senate hopeful Kelly Ayotte. Predictably, Palin utilized the sophomoric means of communication known as Facebook to publish her ignorance. The Herald (Enquirer), which is usually a trusted ally of anything conservative, reported that Palin, in reference to Alaska’s Kodiac Island, said,
As we work and sightsee on America’s largest island, we’ll get to view more majestic bears, so now is a good time to draw attention to the political equivalent of the species.
Apparently, Palin does not realize that Kodiac is not “America’s largest island”. In fact, America’s largest island is Hawaii. To add insult to injury, the newspaper revealed that Palin should know a little something about Hawaii inasmuch as one of her many sub-par college stints took place there. By that measure, she should also know a little bit about Alaska and Idaho also too.
But that was not Palin’s only mistake. The conservative newspaper reported that Palin “also overlooked some key facts in saying Ayotte ‘battled all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to protect the rights of New Hampshire parents — and won!’“ The Herald pointed out that Palin mentioned the case three times in seven paragraphs, concluding that Ayotte will fight for New Hampshire voters “just as passionately and fearlessly as she fought for you in the highest court of the land.”
Truth be told however, Ayotte (New Hampshire’s Attorney General at the time) never won the case in question. The case was never decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, and the law which she was defending (i.e. a requirement that there be 48 hour parental notification prior to a minor’s abortion) was repealed by the state’s own legislature prior to its enactment. Hence, Sarah Palin once again demonstrated a thorough lack of knowledge of Supreme Court decisions just as she did when she was famously quizzed by Katie Couric. Just for giggles, let’s take a look at that one once again, shall we?
Sarah Palin is a Moran (as that great Tea-Bagger sign once said) and it is nice to see that at least one conservative newspaper in the “lamestream media” is finally revealing that fact to its readers.
UPDATE
CNN now reports that in a blistering Op-Ed on the front page of the ultra-conservative New Hampshire Union-Leader‘s Wednesday edition, publisher Joseph McQuaid writes the former Alaska governor and vice presidential nominee knows little about the Granite State and even less about its residents.
Former Gov. Palin isn’t making these endorsements because, as she claims, she has spent time in New Hampshire and thus knows that the people here are a lot like Alaskans. She spent a few hours here on one day during the 2008 Presidential election. That’s still more time than she spent getting to know Ayotte, but it takes quite a bit longer to know New Hampshire. Don’t fret over what a “Mama Grizzly” from Alaska does, right now, Granite Staters have more to worry about in keeping bears away from bird feeders.
In honor of the troops, please remember to click on the song link below to familiarize yourselves with the tune and to have more fun singing along with today’s song parody which was suggested by regular Blast-Off reader, Ripley in CT.
The Ballad Of Davey Crockett song link: http://www.televisiontunes.com/Davey_Crocket.html
THE BALLAD OF SARAH PALIN
(sung to the television theme song “Ballad Of Davey Crockett”)
Lives in a compound up in Wassilly,
Behind a big fence so Joe can’t see
She got a taste of being “Mavericky”,
So she quit her job as Alaska’s G
Sarah, Sarah Palin, the lipsticked mama bear!
Tea-Baggers follow her where she goes,
Starin’ at their tv’s when she’s on Fox shows
A Palin sighting sets them all aglow,
As she shakes their hands and then takes all their dough
Sarah, Sarah Palin, spreading her hate and fear!
Through Red State woods she’s a marchin’ along,
Makin’ up yarns like her “death panel” song
Her looks are frightenin’ and she smells quite strong,
She’s really just a liar with facts all wrong
Sarah, Sarah Palin, the brain-dead buccaneer!
Letterman said that she dresses like a whore,
Then she screamed so much that her throat got sore
She had money but she needed some more,
Got herself a Greyhound for her book tour
Sarah, Sarah Palin, profiteering pioneer!
She says the Lord is her guiding hand,
And dinosaurs co-existed with man
All those books that disagree should be banned,
That sciencey stuff she don’t understand
Sarah, Sarah Palin, logic she will not hear!
She believes that Congress should go to Hell,
She will send them there by castin’ a witch spell
Palin wants Washington to listen well,
To all those fabrications that she does tell
Sarah, Sarah Palin, the moonbat of the year!
When she goes home her politickin’ done,
Alaskans all will up and run
But Sarah will pick up her trusty gun,
And shoot up all her neighbors just for fun
Sarah, Sarah Palin, her rifle sight is clear!
She moved to Houston an’ Austin so,
To the southern states she just had to go
Tea-Baggers were fightin’ another foe,
And Sarah hates the immigrant Joe
Sarah, Sarah Palin, nativist without peer!
She’s not the smartest but she is dumbest,
Despite six schools could not pass a test
When it comes to being dumb she’s the best,
She should make her home in a cuckoo’s nest
Sarah, Sarah Palin, the lipsticked mama bear!
Tuesday Night Music Byte
Lynnrockets recently watched the film Julie & Julia about a thirty year old New Yorker who decided to cook every dish in one of Julia Childs’ cookbooks and to blog about it. It was a novel idea so we decided to copy it. No, we will not be cooking in the usual sense (that could start a fire). Rather, we will adapt the recipe a day concept to our nightly music bytes. From now to infinity (didn’t somebody else coin that phrase?) we will post a music video and brief description of the artist or song in a sort of alphabetical order as culled from Tom Moon’s wonderful reference book, 1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die (A Listener’s Life List). The book describes both whole albums (remember those) and individual songs from all music genres that are essential listening. Do yourselves a favor and purchase this book. Where the book deals with an individual song, we will post that song, but when an entire album is the subject, we will exercise judicial discretion and post a single song therefrom. So what do you say, let’s get cooking…
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Snooks Eaglin – “Rock Island Line” (1959)
Snooks Eaglin, born Fird Eaglin, Jr. (January 21, 1936 – February 18, 2009), was a guitarist and singer in New Orleans. He was also referred to as Blind Snooks Eaglin in his early years. Eaglin lost his sight not long after his first birthday after being stricken with glaucoma, and spent several years in the hospital with other ailments. Around the age of five Eaglin received a guitar from his father; he taught himself to play by listening to and playing along with the radio. A mischievous youngster, he was given the nickname “Snooks” after a radio character named Baby Snooks.
His vocal style is reminiscent of Ray Charles; indeed, in the 1950s, when he was in his late teens, he would sometimes bill himself as “Little Ray Charles”. Generally regarded as a New Orleans R&B artist, he played a wide range of music: blues, rock and roll, jazz, country, and Latin. In his early years, he also played some straight-ahead acoustic blues.
His ability to play a wide range of songs and make them his own earned him the nickname “the human jukebox.” Eaglin claimed in interviews that his musical repertoire included some 2,500 songs.
At live shows, he did not usually prepare set lists, and was unpredictable, even to his bandmates. He played songs that come to his head, and he also took requests from the audience.
Eaglin died of a heart attack at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans on February 18, 2009. He had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2008 and had been hospitalized for treatment. He was scheduled to make a comeback appearance at the New Orleans Jazz Fest in Spring of 2009.
Please enjoy.
The following is some amateur film footage of Snooks Eaglin’s New Orleans jazz funeral:
Tea Party Brews With Tea(ming) Dissent
Non-Racist Tea-Baggers
Tea Party Nation has circled the wagons and commenced firing. At itself! Lynnrockets’ Blast-Off believes that few things are more satisfying to behold than Tea-Baggers eating their young. Luckily for us, that is precisely what is happening regarding the Tea Party Express and the Tea Party Federation.
On Sunday, Blast-Off reported on Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams and his racist blog posting (it has now been deleted). Williams was so upset at the NAACP’s call for the Tea Party to denounce racism amongst its members, that he penned a letter allegedly from NAACP president Benjamin Jealous to the late President Abraham Lincoln and posted it in his blog. “Dear Mr. Lincoln,” the blog post read, “We [National Association for the Advancement of] Colored People have taken a vote and decided that we don’t cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us [National Association for the Advancement of] Colored People and we demand that it stop!” Williams made several modifications to his blog post after its initial posting, including removing references to bailouts as “big money welfare” that should handed “directly to us coloreds” and Tea Party demands for lower taxes preventing black Americans from getting “a wide-screen TV in every room.”
Not surprisingly, Williams’ racist blog posting infuriated a lot of people, liberal and conservative alike. Not expected however, was the declaration of civil war between factions within the Tea Party movement. The National Tea Party Federation, an organization that seeks to represent the Tea Party political movement around the country, has expelled Williams and his Tea Party Express organization because of the inflammatory blog. Federation spokesperson David Webb said on Sunday afternoon that the blog entry was “clearly offensive” and he added,
We, in the last 24 hours, have expelled Tea Party Express and Mark Williams from the National Tea Party Federation because of the letter that he wrote.
Yesterday, Joe Wierzbicki, coordinator for the Tea Party Express, issued the following statement in response to the Tea Party Federation’s disassociation with the Tea Party Express:
The Tea Party Express with over 400,000 members is by far larger than the Tea Party Federation’s entire membership. Most rank-and-file tea party activists think we’re talking about Star Trek when we try to explain who the “Federation” is. Given the absurdity of the actions by the “Federation,” this is quite fitting, since their conduct is alien to our membership.
Groups trying to say who can or can’t be ‘expelled’ from the tea party movement is arrogant and preposterous. Perhaps this explains why so many tea party groups have left the “Federation” during the past few months. Whatever the reason, most tea party activists are focused on taking back their country and the upcoming 2010 elections and not silly power games being played by individuals such as those in the “Federation.”
To add to the absurdity of the “Federation” they have also informed us that our members can’t participate in something called their “basecamp” communication network, which makes us think that the individuals involved in the “Federation” spend a bit too much time watching science fiction movies and cartoons. We here at the Tea Party Express prefer a focus that is more grounded in the Constitution and electing tea party conservatives to offices of import in these 2010 elections.
Oh, MEOW!!!
Please remember to click on the song link below to familiarize yourselves with the tune and to have more fun singing along with today’s topical song parody.
Tea For Two song link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0zc7x434Aw
TEA PARTY FOR TWO
(sung to the Doris Day version of the song “Tea For Two”)
So funny
Wanna see insanity?
We have no clue, the Tea Party
Its she ‘gin you and you ‘gin me, Marone!
Please don’t get near us, if you do, you’ll fear us
Our friends and relations
Now want vaccinations
They won’t have it known, dear
That we are one of their own, dear.
Vows we’ll take to get a tax break
Spelling mistakes in signs we make
For you to take for Fox nation to see.
One Tea-Bagger family,
Just one branch is our family tree,
All because we inbreed frequently.
(We are few, we’re not many)
(Tea for two and two for tea)
(Me for you and you for me, alone)
(Everyone jeers us, they simply won’t hear us)
(We are a creation of the Fox News station)
(We’re all Glenn Beck clones, dear)
(Brains on loan from Fred Flintstone, dear)
Will day break and bring us awake?
Will we forsake all our mistakes?
Do we partake in more insanity?
We are one crazed family
And devoted fans of Hannity
Oh, can’t you see we hate democracy
(We hate democracy)
Monday Night Music Byte
I. K. Dairo
Lynnrockets recently watched the film Julie & Julia about a thirty year old New Yorker who decided to cook every dish in one of Julia Childs’ cookbooks and to blog about it. It was a novel idea so we decided to copy it. No, we will not be cooking in the usual sense (that could start a fire). Rather, we will adapt the recipe a day concept to our nightly music bytes. From now to infinity (didn’t somebody else coin that phrase?) we will post a music video and brief description of the artist or song in a sort of alphabetical order as culled from Tom Moon’s wonderful reference book, 1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die (A Listener’s Life List). The book describes both whole albums (remember those) and individual songs from all music genres that are essential listening. Do yourselves a favor and purchase this book. Where the book deals with an individual song, we will post that song, but when an entire album is the subject, we will exercise judicial discretion and post a single song therefrom. So what do you say, let’s get cooking…
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I.K. Dairo – “Ta Lo Ba Mi Ri” (1968)
Isaiah Kehinde Dairo (1930) MBE (1930–1996) was a notable Nigerian Jùjú musician.
Bristol and Levi Say, “Let’s Get Real”
Bristol Palin shooting the pilot episode of "Tripp Knows Best"
Lynnrockets’ Blast-Off hopes that all of you regular readers had a happy and healthy weekend. Now, let’s get back back to the fun and juicy stuff, shall we?
A number of media outlets including the Toronto Star, E Online and Scify.com are confirming the rumor that the reunited Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have been trying to shop a reality television series about themselves just like media hog Sarah Palin did. TMZ.com reports that the couple plans to use baby Tripp as an integral part of the show. Gee, using your minor children as publicity props, where did Bristol and Levi ever come up with that novel idea?
Finding a network to air the show might be a problem for the on-again, off-again, on-again lovers, however. The New York post quoted one network executive as saying, “Don’t think we should do it. Neither of them have personalities.” Joy Behar of The View said, “It’s like Romeo and Juliet in Wasilla.”
Even the late night talk show hosts have taken notice of the born again virgin’s reconciliation with the high school drop-out. Jay Leno said,
This week Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston reveal exclusively to Us Weekly – my bible – that they are getting married. Sarah Palin, allegedly, is not happy about this because she feels they barely know each other and they are making a big committment – kind of like when John McCain picked her for vice president. I understand it’s not going to be a traditional wedding. Rumor is that Bristol has asked Levi to wear his camouflage hunting vest – which would be the closest he’s ever come to wearing protection of any kind.
David Letterman quipped,
You guys remember Levi Johnston? He’ll be arriving in at the church tied to Sarah Palin’s pickup.
We can’t wait to hear what Craig Ferguson has to say on the subject.
Please remember to click on the song link below to familiarize yourselves with the tune and to have more fun singing along with today’s topical song parody.
Reunited song link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZOhm7qS-AI
REUNITED
(sung to the Peaches and Herb song “Reunited”)
(Levi’s verse)
Let’s pool our dough and buy a double-wide
When I get home I’ll give you quite a ride
I want you so bad cuz it makes Sarah so mad
I realize I like you when you’re on your back, hey-hey
(Bristol’s verse)
I have my very own Plumber-Joe
Let’s do it with Rush on the radio
If I start to gush we can get help from the Dutch
I know now that I love you though you don’t know much, hey-hey
(Chorus)
Reunited, right here on the hood
Reunited, Levi’s sporting wood
First Dude don’t like it and Sarah’s pitching a fit
We’ll both be extradited cuz we’re reunited, hey-hey
(Levi’s verse)
I got so tired of my blow-up doll
And all the fellas in the men’s room stall
They said I’d go blind if I pulled on what was mine
I did whatever I could just to earn a dime, hey-hey
(Bristol’s verse)
I took a beatin’ honey, every day
Cuz that’s the Sarah Palin lovin’ way
Her voice is a hiss, she has a venomous kiss
Her skin looks like old leather from some deep abyss, hey-hey
(Chorus)
Reunited, this time it’s for good
Reunited, off to Hollywood
We’re a perfect fit, that Sarah she don’t know shit
We hope she gets indicted, we would be excited, hey-hey
(Levi and Bristol’s verse)
Oh,
Holy Mother, we’re so much in love
And Sarah Palin blames the Lord above
We are not gay and we are both white
So we don’t understand why she says its not right, hey-hey
(Chorus)
Reunited, this time it’s for good
Reunited, we’re misunderstood
We’re a perfect fit, that Sarah she don’t know shit
The world is so excited cuz we’re reunited, hey-hey
Sunday Night Music Byte
Lynnrockets recently watched the film Julie & Julia about a thirty year old New Yorker who decided to cook every dish in one of Julia Childs’ cookbooks and to blog about it. It was a novel idea so we decided to copy it. No, we will not be cooking in the usual sense (that could start a fire). Rather, we will adapt the recipe a day concept to our nightly music bytes. From now to infinity (didn’t somebody else coin that phrase?) we will post a music video and brief description of the artist or song in a sort of alphabetical order as culled from Tom Moon’s wonderful reference book, 1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die (A Listener’s Life List). The book describes both whole albums (remember those) and individual songs from all music genres that are essential listening. Do yourselves a favor and purchase this book. Where the book deals with an individual song, we will post that song, but when an entire album is the subject, we will exercise judicial discretion and post a single song therefrom. So what do you say, let’s get cooking…
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Café Tacuba – Eo (2003)
Café Tacuba is a Mexico City quartet whose albums routinely inspire outsized superlatives from the rock press. Conversant in the rich heritages of Mexican folk and Jamaican ska as well as some of rock’s more obscure back pages, they create exploratory music that’s too defiantly danceable for any ivory tower.
Sunday Morning Coffee (or Tea) – 43
Just a few newsworthy events and comments thereon that have been making their way through the political universe this past week. Please ponder and maybe chuckle a bit before enjoying a wondeful day.
BREAKING NEWS: Newly elected nudist Republican Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts has pissed-off Tea-Baggers and Republicans nationwide once again by breaking with the G.O.P. and siding with Democrats by voting in favor of the Financial Reform Bill. The Obama administration can now claim another important legislative victory and this time it can boast of bi-partisan support. Maine’s Republican Senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins joined Brown in supporting the bill. Brown, Snowe and Collins defy their party and side with the Democrats so often on controversial legislation that it is only a matter of time before all three pull an Arlen Specter and switch parties.
THIS JUST IN: Senator David “Diapers” Vitter (R-LA) has stepped in it yet again. during an appearance on Rush Radio 99.5 in New Orleans Friday morning, During which the radio hosts joked about a high school photo of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Vitter said that she only looked like a woman “a long time ago.” This childish remark follows almost immediately on the heels of Vitter’s statement last week which revealed him as a “Birther”. It was also revealed just a few weeks ago that after one of his staffers had pled guilty to attacking a woman with a knife, Vitter failed to terminate the staffer’s employment, and failed to even re-assign the man from his position as legislative assistant for women’s issues. Of course all of these blunders pale in comparison to the revelation a few years ago that Vitter solicited prostitutes while wearing baby diapers. In short, David Vitter is a train wreck.
BREAKING NEWS: This week’s episode of “Let’s call A Spade A Spade” features Tea Party Express spokesman, Mark Williams. Williams was so upset at the NAACP’s call for the Tea Party to denounce racism amongst its members, that he penned a letter allegedly from NAACP president Benjamin Jealous to the late President Abraham Lincoln and posted it in his blog (it has now been removed). “Dear Mr. Lincoln,” the blog post read, “We [National Association for the Advancement of] Colored People have taken a vote and decided that we don’t cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us [National Association for the Advancement of] Colored People and we demand that it stop!” Williams made several modifications to his blog post after its initial posting, including removing references to bailouts as “big money welfare” that should handed “directly to us coloreds” and Tea Party demands for lower taxes preventing black Americans from getting “a wide-screen TV in every room.” So much for the Tea Party’s claim that it does not condone racism.
THIS JUST IN: I just received my invitation to the Bristol Palin/Levi Johnston wedding. The theme of the wedding is “Shotgun”. The ceremony will be performed at Our Lady of the Blessed Travesty Church in Wasilla, Alaska with the reception to follow at Mama Bear’s Buffet (BYOB).
BREAKING NEWS: This week’s episode of “What the Beck Is He Talking About?” features none other than Fox News joke Glenn Beck. In a stunning revelation of the fact that the Bible thumping alcoholic knows absolutely nothing about Christianity, Beck said this on his show last week,
This is kind of complex, because Jesus did identify with the victims. But Jesus was not a victim. He was a conqueror…Jesus conquered death. He wasn’t victimized. He chose to give his life….If he was a victim, and this theology was true, then Jesus would’ve come back from the dead and made the Jews pay for what they did. That’s an abomination.
Would someone please remind the chancellor of Glenn Beck University that the Romans crucified Jesus and not the Jews.
Please remember to click on the song link below to familiarize yourselves with the tune and to have more fun singing along with today’s song parody.
The Fool On The Hill song link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KXrrh74wTs&feature=related
THE FOOL WHO KNOWS NIL
(sung to the Beatles song, “The Fool On The Hill”)
Day after day
He gives us a chill
Glenn Beck is crying again
Let’s watch his eyes start to fill
And nobody wants to know him
They can see that he’s just a fool
And he has not one good answer
Beck’s the fool who knows nil
Nita Dunn took him down
And Glenn’s face grew bright red
As his head spins around
Glenn’s head today,
Filled up with sound
Beck’s head hears a thousand voices
Screaming nonsense so loud
Everybody wants to jeer him
For the weeping that he does fake
Yet Glenn never seems to notice
Beck’s the fool who knows nil
He’s a dim-witted clown
In need of some strong meds
Beck’s off to crazy-town
(musical interlude)
And nobody seems to like him
It looks like he’s back on the booze
Or maybe he’s back drug dealing
Beck’s the fool who knows nil
He’s beginning to drown
And his sponsors have fled
Soon he’ll be not around
Oh, round, an’ round, an’ round, an’ round, an’ round
Nobody listens to him
They know that he’s a fool
They don’t like him
The fool who knows nil
He’s beginning to drown
And his sponsors have fled
Soon he’ll be not around
Oh, round, an’ round, an’ round, an’ round
Oh …
Saturday Night Music Byte
Lynnrockets recently watched the film Julie & Julia about a thirty year old New Yorker who decided to cook every dish in one of Julia Childs’ cookbooks and to blog about it. It was a novel idea so we decided to copy it. No, we will not be cooking in the usual sense (that could start a fire). Rather, we will adapt the recipe a day concept to our nightly music bytes. From now to infinity (didn’t somebody else coin that phrase?) we will post a music video and brief description of the artist or song in a sort of alphabetical order as culled from Tom Moon’s wonderful reference book, 1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die (A Listener’s Life List). The book describes both whole albums (remember those) and individual songs from all music genres that are essential listening. Do yourselves a favor and purchase this book. Where the book deals with an individual song, we will post that song, but when an entire album is the subject, we will exercise judicial discretion and post a single song therefrom. So what do you say, let’s get cooking…
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Baby Huey and the Babysitters – “A Change Is Gonna Come”
Baby Huey (born James Ramey, January 1, 1944 – October 28, 1970) was an American rock and soul singer, born in Richmond, Indiana. He was the frontman for the band Baby Huey & The Babysitters, whose single LP for Curtom Records in 1971 was influential in the development of hip hop music.
A native of Richmond, Indiana, James Ramey moved to Chicago, Illinois at the age of nineteen, and worked with several local bands as a singer. Due to a “glandular disorder”, Ramey was a large man, weighing about 350 pounds (160 kg). His size contributed to his stage presence, but also to health problems. Nevertheless, he made light of his condition, adopting the stage name “Baby Huey” after Paramount Pictures’ giant duckling cartoon character of the same name. In 1963, Ramey, organist/trumpeter Melvin “Deacon” Jones, and guitarist Johnny Ross founded a band called Baby Huey & the Babysitters, which became a popular local act and released several 45 RPM singles, including “Beg Me”, “Monkey Man”, “Messin’ with the Kid” and “Just Being Careful”.
During the late-1960s, the band followed the lead of Sly & the Family Stone and became a psychedelic soul act. Huey began wearing an Afro and donned psychedelic African-inspired robes, and adding sing-song, self-referential rhymes to his live performances. According to his bandmates, Ramey’s rhymes were very similar in style to those later popularized by rappers in hip-hop music. The Babysitters were a popular live act, but never took the time out to record an album.
In 1969, the band’s agent Marv Heiman secured them an audition with Curtom Records arranger Donny Hathaway. Hathaway was impressed by the act, and got Curtom Records head Curtis Mayfield to sign Baby Huey, but not the band. Although the band participated in the recording of Ramey’s debut album, there were feelings of unease among them, and Ross and Jones quit the band during the recording.
By 1970, Ramey had developed an addiction to heroin, and his weight had increased to over 400 pounds. He began regularly missing gigs or turning up late, and, at the insistence of his bandmates, briefly entered rehabilitation in the spring of 1970. James Ramey died of a heart attack on October 28, 1970, at the age of 26, and was found around noon in his hotel bathroom by his manager. His funeral was held on November 1, in his native Richmond, Indiana.
Mitt(wit) Romney Outpaces Failin’ Palin
The Shark and his Prey
Sarah Palin has recently benefited from a lot of speculation, rumors and self promoting innuendo regarding a potential run for President in 2012. She has been making appearances and injecting herself (in the form of endorsements and campaign contributions) in the local politics of early primary states. She is staying active on the conservative word-salad loving speaking speaking tour. She even added fuel to the fire about a possible run with BFF, Sean Hannity of Faux News recently when she said,
I don’t want to hurt the cause. I don’t want to divide the nation. There’s going to be a lot of contemplation and prayer that goes into a decision like that between now and ’12.
Problem is, despite all the buzz, Palin (the former half-term Governor of Alaska) is being demonstratively outpaced in fundraising by Mitt Romney (the former full-term Governor of Massachusetts and 2008 Republican Presidential candidate). While Ms. Quittypants has been busy courting the Tea-Baggers, endorsing radical candidates and making controversial and abrasive remarks via Facebook and Twitter, Mitt(wit) has been quietly going about the business of coordinating an effective campaign by amassing the most important tool in a candidate’s arsenal – money.
CNN reports that Mitt Romney raised $1.8 million during the second fundraising quarter of this year, far outpacing the other Republicans he may face in the next presidential race. He has also devoted considerable money to building an extensive national political network, doling out more than $400,000 to various 2010 candidates through his Free and Strong America political action committee and its state-level affiliates. All told, Romney has collected $3.4 million since the beginning of the year – more than double the roughly $1.3 million that each of his next closest rivals in the money chase, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, raised during the same period. Also, with less than four months until the midterm elections, Romney has nearly $2.2 million left in the bank, giving him the financial muscle necessary to be a power player in Republican politics as November nears.
Conversely, in the second quarter, Palin raised $865,000, according to a report filed with the Federal Election Commission. She spent $87,500 contributing to Republican candidates and has roughly $1 million on hand. Bottom line? Palin is a sprinter that lacks the endurance of marathoner Romney. Palin is a plebian and Romney is a power-broker. Palin is a fad and Romney is a presence.
Despite the fact that Mitt(wit) Romney is a far more credible Presidential candidate (along with many others) than the hollow Palin, don’t you just hope that she throws her hat into the ring for 2012? Imagine all the side-splitting laughs we will have when she is publicly eviscerated (ala Katie Couric) by the serious candidates in the Republican primary debates. Won’t it be a hoot to see her trying to answer a question by means of surreptitiously peeking at her palm-printed crib notes? We can all stare in dumbfounded disbelief as she tries to substitute a flurry of winks, blinks and “Ya Betchas” for coherent responses. Oh, please Run Sarah, Run!
In honor of the troops, please remember to click on the song link below to familiarize yourselves with the tune and to have more fun singing along with today’s song parody.
Y-M-C-A song link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k
2-0-1-2
(sung to the Village People song “Y-M-C-A”)
Sarah, there’s no need to feel down
I said, Sarah, just because you’re a clown
I said, Sarah, a smile isn’t a frown
There’s no need to be unhappy.
Sarah, you lost a race with McCain
I said, Sarah, you flushed him right down the drain
And you messed up all of your interviews
But you’re still on the nightly news
We’ll all laugh at you in 2-0-1-2
We’ll all laugh at you in 2-0-1-2
We’ll have such a good time when you fall on your face,
And we’ll revel in your disgrace…
We’ll all laugh at you in 2-0-1-2
We’ll all laugh at you in 2-0-1-2
You will have SarahPac, and a new running mate
To help spread Politics of Hate…
Sarah, are you listening to me?
I said, Sarah, you’ll have to go on TV
I said, Sarah, I’m sure we’ll laugh till we pee
And you’ve got to know this one thing!
You make a big ass of yourself
Every time that you open your mouth
You give ammo, to our friend Tina Fey
She just repeats the things you say…
We’ll all laugh at you in 2-0-1-2
We’ll all laugh at you in 2-0-1-2
You’ll get all of the votes from the states that are red
But, the G.O.P. is now dead…
We’ll all laugh at you in 2-0-1-2
We’ll all laugh at you in 2-0-1-2
You can wink and then blink, and twit everyone,
But, you’ll need a fork cuz you’re done…
Sarah, you’ll have a case of the blues
I said, Sarah, has no grasp of world views
But that’s OK, cuz she amuses us,
As we throw her under the bus…
That’s when she will realize that,
Her future, is modeling for “Arctic Cat”
Maybe she’ll host a reality show
If they pay her with enough dough.
We’ll all laugh at her in 2-0-1-2
We’ll all laugh at her in 2-0-1-2
She can wink and then blink, and twit everyone,
But, she’ll need a fork cuz she’s done…
2-0-1-2
We’ll all laugh at her in 2-0-1-2
Sarah, Sarah you’ll wear a big frown
Sarah, Sarah to us you are a clown
2-0-1-2
We’ll all laugh at her in 2-0-1-2
Sarah, Sarah you’ll have a case of the blues
Sarah, Sarah I said, why don’t you just go vamoos.
2-0-1-2
The Wonderfully Wacky World Of A Palinbot
Palinbot - Missionary James
Wow, did I recently receive a crash course in the wild, wild, wacky world of the Palinbots. Way back on January 15, 2010 Lynnrockets posted a blog entry titled, “The Parallel Universe of Sarah Palin Supporters” (you can see it here). The post consisted of a list of various comments left by Sarah Palin supporters on different blogs. It was intended to be funny and I think it fulfilled its goal. Never in my wildest dreams however, did I think that seven months later a deranged Palinbot (by the name of “Missionary James“) would find the post and begin leaving an assortment of comments that are simply beyond description. I recommend that you link to the entry and read them for yourselves, but until then, please allow me to entertain you with this sample of comments regarding the subject of slavery. WARNING: you may die of either laughter or disbelief!
Missionary James says:
Lynnrockets,
You Liberal Dems WANTED SLAVERY back in the CIVIL WAR and WE THE PEOPLE stood against your Evil Desires to keep slavery and we defeated you because we were on the side of TRUTH and RIGHTEOUSNESS and we will DEFEAT you again, because SOCIALISM is another word for HUMAN SLAVERY of/by and for the BIG-BROTHER GOVERNMENT/NANNY STATE!…..How about doing an Article on that one LOONEY LYNN.
lynnrockets says:
Yikes. You appear to be a bit unhinged. Please remember that we liberals have gained our power through the voting booth. The simple truth is that more people believe in our philosophy than that of the conservatives. That is why the Democrats control both houses of Congress and the executive branch.
As for the slavery issue, please recall that it was the Republicans that fought tooth and nail to prevent the civil rights laws of the 1960′s from passing. We Democrats in the north had no slaves and we (the North) won the Civil War and preserved the union.
Missionary James says:
Finally, regarding your Revisionist view of Dems in the North is a Revision of the Facts outlined in Historical Documents of the Congressional Records.
Again, you Liberals state whatever you want but NEVER present the Facts to back up what you say. You believe that the ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS. You will say whatever you have to say to stay in Powewr, get Re-Elected and to keep the People in Ignorance and/or Confusion.
HERE IS A TIBID FACT FROM THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
Democrat U. S. House Representative William Yancey (who became a Confederate diplomat to Europe and then a Confederate Senator) similarly complained:
[The North is] united in pronouncing slavery a political and social evil. . . . There exists but one party that, either in spirit or sentiment, manifests any disposition to stand by the South and the Constitution, and that is the Democratic Party. . . . The institution of slavery. . . . exists for the benefit of the South and is its chief source of wealth and power; and now in the hour of its peril – assailed by the great Northern antagonistic force [the Republicans and abolitionists] – it must look to the South alone for protection. . . . The question then, naturally arises, what protection have we against the arbitrary course of the Northern majority? . . . The answer is . . . withdraw from it [i.e., secede]! 27
HERE IS WHAT OUR FOUNDING FATHERS BELIEVED:
http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=92
I need to go to church now and upon my return, I will find the VOTING RECORD of both Dems/Repubs on the ISSUE OF SLAVERY……
lynnrockets says:
It would appear that your reference material supports my position and not yours. Nevertheless, even if the Democratic Party had been more supportive of slavery in the 1860′s, they certainly changed their position in the 20th century when they became the party of civil rights. By that time the tables had turned and it has been the Republicans for the last 80 years that have obstructed civil rights at every opportunity.
Missionary James says:
Sorry, the above LINK is about CIVIL WAR REVISIONISM produced by the Dems/Liberal/Liars regarding the Civil War Truth of what really happened, and the PROOF that they have attempted to REVISE HISTORY and Teach such LIES in our Schools….
HERE IS THE LINK ON WHAT OUR FOUNDING FATHERS BELIEVED ABOUT SLAVERY:
http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=122
Yet, the Dems/Libs/Progressives teach in all our schools that the Founding Fathers were nothing but WHITE RACIST and SUPREMEIST….but the CONGRESSIONAL & HISTORICAL RECORD begs to differ….then, for further proof, we have the DIARIES of many of our Founding Fathers that reveal their stance regarding Slavery!
Again, I will submitt the VOTING RECORD for/against Slavery after church tonight
lynnrockets says:
Did you forget that many of the founding fathers kept slaves of their own? Are you suggesting that because the founding fathers did it, it must be just?
Missionary James says:
Most of the Founding Fathers Inherited Slaves and then set them free. Those Slaves who wanted to remain continued to be employed and paid and Educated and Families could stay together and etc…..
HERE IS THE 124-YEAR CONGRESSIONAL VOTING RECORD OF THE DEMS/REPUBS UNTIL THE LATE 60′s BELOW:
http://www.wallbuilders.com/resources/misc/CivilRightsPlatforms.pdf
The Dems fought to keep slavery and/or White Supremacy until the late 60′s & then to avoid Rioting and to Save Face they Usurped and Stole the Glory from those who really achieved the Civil Rights Bill Passage under PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON. Johnson – a Democrat could not get His Party to PASS THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL and He turned to the Republicans in a Bi-partisan effort to get the Bill passed. The Majority of Dems voted against it.
lynnrockets says:
The founding fathers did not just inherit slaves, they also purchased them and often times impregnated them with bastardized children for whom they took no responsibility or simply sold away. The founding fathers were not the ideals of virtue that you seem to indicate.
As for your factually incorrect analysis of voting on the Civil Rights Act, please remember first and foremost that LBJ was a Democrat and the act was signed into law by him and not a Republican. Furthermore, a higher percentage of Democrats from each area of the country voted in favor of the Act than Republicans. Here is the breakdown:
Note: “Southern”, as used in this section, refers to members of Congress from the eleven states that made up the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. “Northern” refers to members from the other 39 states, regardless of the geographic location of those states.
The original House version:
* Southern Democrats: 7-87 (7%-93%)
* Southern Republicans: 0-10 (0%-100%)
* Northern Democrats: 145-9 (94%-6%)
* Northern Republicans: 138-24 (85%-15%)
The Senate version:
* Southern Democrats: 1-20 (5%-95%)
* Southern Republicans: 0-1 (0%-100%)
* Northern Democrats: 45-1 (98%-2%)
* Northern Republicans: 27-5 (84%-16%)
Missionary James says:
The ONLY REASON the Bill passed was because of the MAJORITY VOTES from Republicans. ALL the DEMS who VOTED FOR IT did not garner enough Votes for it to PASS.
Finally, The BILL that the DEMOCRAT JOHNSON PASSED was DRAFTED BY REPUBLICAN EISENHOWER which was rejected by the DEMS since Eisenhower and even up until JOHNSON…..the ONLY REASON JOHNSON GOT IT PASSED was because HE TURNED TO THE REPUBS and said, “I WILL PUT FORTH THE BILL THAT EISENHOWER DRAFTED”….The MAJORITY of DEMS VOTED AGAINST IT.
My Info comes from the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD…..Your Info comes from REVISIONIST who re-write History to Favor themselves!
Finally, you show your TRUE COLORS once again by a TACIT ADMISSION of guilt/agreement to ALL THE OTHER FACTS I PRESENTED to you, regarding the VOTING RECORD OF DEMS from the CIVIL WAR until JOHNSON…..
lynnrockets says:
Look, I already showed you that a higher percentage of Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act than republicans in each part of the country.
Missionary James says:
YES, You are showing me so called Statistics without PROOF or VERIFICATION or DOCUMENTATION to back up your claims, that are most likely another REVISED piece of information made up by you Loons.
Please Tell me WHERE YOU GOT THE VOTING STATS ABOVE, so that I may Verify such…..
lynnrockets says:
Here you go. # King, Desmond (1995). Separate and Unequal: Black Americans and the US Federal Government. p. 311.
# ^ [|Jeong, Gyung-Ho]; Gary J. Miller, Itai Sened (2009-03-14). “Closing The Deal: Negotiating Civil Rights Legislation”. 67th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association. p. 29. http://polisci.wustl.edu/media/faculty/MidwestJMS.pdf. Retrieved 2009-11-04.
Missionary James says:
Yes, some did purchase them….FROM THE TYRANNICAL DEMS in the SOUTH who BEAT THEIR SLAVES, and BROKE UP THEIR FAMILIES and who WOULD NOT ALLOW SLAVES to be EDUCATED……Our Founding Fathers Bought them and gave them a Better Life, Including FREEDOM if they wanted it…..and MOST STAYED because of their Kindness and Fair treatment of them…..
Many of these Slaves that were bought by our Founding fathers, from the South, became Congressman and VOTED and held MAYORSHIPS and sat as COUNCILMAN and more!!!
HELLO????? YOU WERE NOT TAUGHT THAT ONE, WERE YOU…..WANT PROOF? HERE YA GO:
http://www.wallbuilders.com/resources/Newsletters/BlackHistory03.pdf
WE ALSO HAD BLACK FOUNDING FATHERS:
http://www.wallbuilders.com/resources/Newsletters/BlackHistory04.pdf
lynnrockets says:
You might be interested in some facts about the founding fathers and their slaves.
In 1784, five years before he became president of the United States, George Washington, 52, was nearly toothless. So he hired a dentist to transplant nine teeth into his jaw–having extracted them from the mouths of his slaves.
Jefferson freed his mistress slave Sally Hemings’s children–though not Hemings herself or his approximately 150 other slaves. He also extended slavery to three additional states by means of the Louisiana Purchase.
Richard Henry Lee and Patrick Henry, traded and whipped their slaves.
James Monroe, as governor of Virginia in 1800, after rushed trials, executed nearly 30 slaves after an attempted revolt.
Do you like apples? Then how are them apples?
Missionary James says:
You are Reading Revisionist History, not from the Congressional Record or from HISTORIANS that were THERE at the points in time you are referring to!
Washington Teeth were freely given to Him by ELDER SLAVES and DYING SLAVES who gave them voluntarily because of their love for Washington. He also had Fake Teeth as well..
I don’t like the Wormed and Poison Apples you are passing to the American People to their demise…..You can not win and you will not see this Government overthrown with your Socialist/Big-Brother nanny-State Ideals…..
Tick…Tock
lynnrockets says:
Wow, do you really believe that? If so, did all those abducted children freely give their bodies as sex toys to their captors out of some deep love? I tell you what, my family loves me, but if I could get a needed organ or tooth somewhere else, I would. Heck, I guess those slaves just loved being owned to the degree that they would gladly sacrifice body parts for their captors. Boy, with all that great treatment of slaves it is a wonder that over 90% of African Americans vote Democratic, those ingrates.
Missionary James says:
How come you Progressives prevent the ABOVE Names of these 1st BLACK CONGRESSMAN from being taught in our Schools? How come I did not learn this? How Come Inner City Ghetto Schools are not taught this?
This ought to be AMERICAN HISTORY & GOVENMENT 101….but noooooo…..Instead, what do we get?
PROGRESSIVES TEACH: There was NOTHING GOOD ABOUT THE WHITE RACIST FOUNDERS…..THEY HAD SLAVES and BEAT THEM and BROKE THEIR FAMILIES UP and USED THEM AS SEX TOYS and NO SLAVES WERE EVER EDUCATED or VOTED until ABRAHAM LINCOLN Set them Free and ALL WHITES ARE RACIST TO THIS DAY…..
You Progressives are just plain ole evil and/or Deceived. Once the Slaves gained Freedom, that FREEDOM was not realized by SOUTHERN EX-SLAVES until the 60′s BECAUSE OF THE DEMS refusal to Accept defeat and to obey the Law of the Land.
Instead, they created Laws that prevented Southern Ex-Slaves from VOTING, BEARING ARMS, BEING SCHOOLED, and SEGREGATED THEM FROM PUBLIC PLACES, TRANSPORTATION, PUBLIC SCHOOLS and more!!!
Teach the TRUTH you Bozo’s
lynnrockets says:
Correct, and then LBJ and the progressive northern Democrats turned on their racist southern party members and enacted wide-sweeping civil rights legislation. In acknowledging that there would be a backlash for this action, LBJ said “We (the Democratic Party) have just lost the South for a generation”.
Missionary James says:
So, you are saying that George Washington, John Adams and others used the slaves as SEX-TOYS…..wow!
The slaves of the Founding Fathers did love being owned by them, because THEIR OTHER OWNERS (the DEMS from the South) BEAT THEM, PARTED THEIR FAMILIES and used them as SEX-TOYS.
These Slaves were ALSO FREE TO LEAVE…..some stayed and others left, but before they left, they gained Education from the Founding Fathers and went on to become CONGRESSMAN who voted and owned Property and yes, Bore Arms freely to protect themselves from the DEMS who passed a Law to RECOVER the SLAVES that escaped from the South and went into the NORTH….
Remember the UNDER-GROUND RAILROAD……In case you have not heard yet, and you should have been taught this in Schools, MANY of the FOUNDING FATHERS started ABOLITIONIST ORGANIZATION that risked their Lives to go into the SOUTH and BRING SLAVES OUT alive into the North, then granted them Freedom……These Groups were started by REPUBLICANS and CHRISTIANS and PASTORS and the likes…..There is NO SUCH ABOLITIONIST ORGANIZATION on the Congressional Record
Hmmmmm
lynnrockets says:
You are sick. Do you truly believe “The slaves of the Founding Fathers did love being owned by them”?
As for the sex toy reference, I was merely making an analogy to sex predator captors and their captives.
Missionary James says:
Here ya go: GOOGLE THESE BLACK SLAVES NAMES WHO WENT ON TO BECOME REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN BY THE ASSISTANCE OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS. NONE OF THE BLACK SLAVES EVER BECAME DEMOCRATS UNTIL THE 1960′s:
1) Hyram Revels
2) Benjamin Turner
3) Robert C. Delarge
4) Josiah T. Walls
5) Jefferson H. Long, Joseph H. Rainey
6) Robert Brown Elliot
lynnrockets says:
Your point? One should aspire to being a slave because it is a good way to get elected as a Republican? That sounds workable. Why don’t you suggest that that plank be added to the Republican platform?
YIKES!
Please remember to click on the song link below to familiarize yourselves with the tune and to have more fun singing along with today’s song parody.
It’s My Party song link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsYJyVEUaC4
IT’S OUR TEA PARTY
(sung to the Lesley Gore song “It’s My Party”)
It’s our tea party, and we’ll cry if we want to
Lie if we want to, die if we want to
You would cry too if you were in our zoo
Nobody knows just what planet we’re from
We have all lost our minds
But we will follow the plan
And misspell all of our signs
It’s our tea party, and we’ll cry if we want to
Lie if we want to, die if we want to
You would cry too if you looked like we do
Playin’ the race card because we’re all white
Swastikas define our style
When Glenn Beck’s eyes get teary
That just makes all of us smile
It’s our tea party, and we’ll cry if we want to
Lie if we want to, die if we want to
You would cry too if you were in our zoo
(musical interlude)
Our Sarah Palin behaves just like a whore
She’s a mean ding-a-ling
She tells us nothing but lies
We believe everything
It’s our tea party, and we’ll cry if we want to
Lie if we want to, die if we want to
You would cry too if you looked like we do
Oh, It’s our tea party, and we’ll cry if we want to
Lie if we want to, die if we want to
You would cry too if you were in our zoo
Oh, It’s our tea party, and we’ll cry if we want to
Lie if we want to, die if we want to…
