Posted on 07/06/2009 7:04:33 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
So when you think Independence Day fireworks audio productions do you think of John Mellencamp, Kid Rock, and Neil Diamond as the musical accompaniment? Apparently the City of Chicago did. Either that, or the City of Chicago didn't care enough about the patriotism inherent in an Independence Day fireworks show to make sure that the radio station they farmed the job out to bothered to include any patriotic songs in the program.
Not only were there no patriotic songs in the program (unless you think "R O C K in the USA" is a patriotic song?) but someone forgot to tell the obviously clueless radio station that the William Tell Overture is supposed to serve as the finale of the show, not as the tune that is supposed to start off the display!
The City of Chicago is becoming well known for raping its citizens, but it is also now widely known for doing its level best to ignore the Constitution of the USA with its unconstitutional gun banning laws, its practice of high taxation for little return, its internal, mobbed-up corruption, its high murder rate and now even a casual disregard for patriotism.
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
And the putrifaction has moved into the White House.
I think that's the 1812... Wm.Tell is for The Lone Ranger.
On a much sadder note, a young father of four was killed by a lightning strike while awaiting the fireworks show there. His wife, who apparently was also struck, is still in the hospital, and there are four young children who are now without a father.
May 27, 2008
Communist band opens for Obama
'How many of 75,000 came to hear music?'
A hip rock band that features the Soviet national anthem and communist-inspired lyrics was on stage to open for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama at his record-breaking Portland, Ore., rally that attracted 75,000.
The Decemberists, a Portland-based group with a large local following, also closed the May 18 event.
The Decemberists typically begin their concerts with a Russian-language recording of the USSR's national anthem.
A YouTube video shows the Decemberists beginning an April 31, 2007, concert at Messiah College in Grantham, Pa., with the anthem.
"Decemberists" refers to an uprising at Senate Square in St. Petersburg Dec. 14, 1825, when a group of Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in protest as Nicholas I assumed the throne, after Czar Alexander died without an heir.
The Decemberists have posed for publicity photos in period Russian costumes with the red flag of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 waving behind them.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=65510
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The Soviet National Anthem / Гимн СССР
English translation (of the 1977 version)
Unbreakable Union of freeborn Republics,
Great Russia has welded forever to stand.
Created in struggle by will of the people,
United and mighty, our Soviet land!
Sing to the Motherland, home of the free,
Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong.
O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people,
To Communism's triumph lead us on!
Through tempests the sunrays of freedom have cheered us,
Along the new path where great Lenin did lead.
To a righteous cause he raised up the peoples,
Inspired them to labour and valourous deed.
Sing to the Motherland, home of the free,
Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong.
O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people,
To Communism's triumph lead us on!
In the victory of Communism's immortal ideal,
We see the future of our dear land.
And to her fluttering scarlet banner,
Selflessly true we always shall stand!
Sing to the Motherland, home of the free,
Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong.
O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people,
To Communism's triumph lead us on!
http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/sounds/lyrics/anthem.htm
From the Decemberists' website:
See May 16, 2008, "Decemberists to play Obama rally in Portland"
http://www.decemberists.com/news.aspx
YouTube video of Decemberists concert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCCTe87IxfU
The William Tell Overture?!? I’m guessing the author meant the “1812 Overture” unless of course the Lone Ranger and Tonto represent American independence for the author.
That in itself is a strange custom because the 1812 Overture celebrates the British victory over Napolean and has nothing to do with America's independence.
I certainly agree with the Sousa marches though. Nothing says America like The Stars and Stripes Forever!!
The city that never stops giving----- the way to ????
Yes, you’re right. The critic of the critic needed a critique.
Beethoven wrote a musical commemoration of Wellington’s victory over Napoleon. Like the 1812, it includes firearms (muskets and field artillery) as “musical instruments”.
Wait, I was wrong, there was a band that did play the SSB before the fireworks.
I’d much rather have the Lone Ranger and Tonto in the WH than what’s there now.
You are right! I know the Lone Ranger has a better grasp of the benefits of capitalism.
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