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Black XXIII: "Dubyuh's Stand!!"
The MudCave (Festive Holiday Edition) | 25 December 2003 | Mudboy Slim

Posted on 12/25/2003 10:05:29 PM PST by Mudboy Slim

"Dubyuh's Stand!!"
(To be sung to Bruce Springsteen's "Jungleland")

(Mudboy on pie-anny...somebody strokin' the fiddle....gently!!)

Our soldiers'll have their Homecoming...in DeeCee, 'cuz it's Right!!
And the DemonRats'll queue their DeanMachine...but we're ready fer the Fight!!
Braindead Libs frettin' 'gainst what's Good and our God...
Left promotes Fear...their loss's the Country's gain!!
The Rats fight 'gainst our own...seditious stance...
Dem Lib'rals, they lust fer Power like Ol' France...
But can't escape Bill Clinton's scum stain!!

Well, that Ashcroft Lawman runs 'bout "flamin'" not chasing the RATS or Ol' Slick Willie!!
And the Libs round here look just like shadows...always scair't of takin' stands!!
FReep the churches...give RATS Hell!! FReedom is the A.N.S.W.E.R. fer the World!!
Patriots, join our band...Join in Dubyuh's Stand!!

The FReeper gang's assembled...Forum's a rendezvous fer the Right!!
They'll meet `neath that giant Exxon sign that brings this fair DeeCee's blight!!
Folks, there's an opera out on the Turnpike
Fer less Guv'ment, we in the RightWing shall rally!!
Then the Limbaugh troops--DittoHeads--join our holy fight!!
The street's alive as secret debts are paid
Contacts made, they vanished unseen
Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades hustling for the record machine
The hungry and the hunted...explode into rock'n'roll bands
That face off against each other out in the street
...Join George Dubyuh's Stand!!

(Guitar jammin')

In Left's Medyuh Pit, the luminaries fret 'cuz they ain't the rage.
My FRiends, the "Hate Bush" dweebs are out there...but their Hatred is the Brain-Dead Way!!
Power-hungry Lib'rals struggle 'gainst our Country...
Desperate as the Right moves on...RATS're kooks but they'll splinter, then they're gone!!

(Big Man on saxaphone)

In DeeCee City, Bold Hearts FReep...
Soul engines running through a night so tender
in a bedroom locked In whispers of soft...refusal and then surrender
in the tunnels uptown The Rat's own dream guns him down
as shots echo down them hallways in the night
No one watches when the ambulance pulls away
Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light
Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz
Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
and the poets down here Don't write nothing at all,
they just stand back and let it all be
And in the quick of a knife they reach for their moment
And try to make an honest stand

Left'll wind up wounded...BigGuv'ment's DEAD!!
The Right is Dubyuh's Land!!

HOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOO....woah-ah-woaaah...woah-ah-woaaaahhh...

FReegards...MUD


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To: Landru
"Mud?...get a life. :o)"

Sez YOU...where ya been ol' timer?! Bitin' that tongue of yers as Dubyuh sells US conservatives out to the Lib'ral ninnies?!

Good to see ya...MUD

141 posted on 01/07/2004 2:40:24 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: goldilucky
"That is totally outrageous of the SS office to be assigning babies numbers."

We're being tracked, my FRiend...but the worst part about this is that illegal immigrants are gonna be rewarded fer breaking American laws if Dubyuh's policy proposal passes.

Simply incomprehensible...MUD

142 posted on 01/07/2004 2:42:53 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Cyber-Band
"Bush Plan Would Give 20 Million Criminals Legal Status!!"

"President Bush will propose today an overhaul of immigration laws that would grant temporary legal status to millions of undocumented workers in the United States and their families as long as the workers can prove they are employed, a senior administration official said last night. In a White House speech, the president will ask Congress to create a new temporary worker program -- open to undocumented workers now in the United States and to foreigners who want to come -- that would give them legal status for three years, renewable for a yet-to-be-determined number of times, the official said."

SHEEEESH...what is wrong with Dubyuh?!

STOOOOPID proposal...MUD

143 posted on 01/07/2004 2:52:50 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Mudboy Slim
"Sez YOU..."

Yea me. (said in my belligerent best)
Y'know another "Landru"? (keyrissssst, I hope not. :o) )

"where ya been ol' timer?!"

Around.
Here & there.
Mainly there.

"Bitin' that tongue of yers as Dubyuh sells US conservatives out to the Lib'ral ninnies?!"

Yea, something like that.
But then again when I voted for the guy [read: hired], I did so with the understanding he run the nation as he saw fit; &, at that time I *assumed* I knew pretty much what that'd mean, what I could expect from a "conservative" administration.
>doink!<
Mebad.

How 'bout a song!??!
"What a *surprise*!!
A look of terminal shock in your eyes!
Now things aren't really what they seem.
Noooooo, this is no bad dream!"

(~go on, guess *whoooo*)

~eh? {g}

Damned thing is, when we were saddled with Clinoccio we got -- albeit begrudgingly -- "Welfare Reform," "NAFTA," "GATT"...well you know Mud, clearly "conservative" act(s) one would think only a Republican w/could be responsible for authoring from a Liberal-Socialist Demo-Rat.

Now with this Republican POTUS, we get an "all new" cabinet level bureacracy (to do the work the FBICIDCIANSAUSMUSINS used to do), continued $$ aid to the godless UN for the purpose of "population control" [read: abortions], *free* PRx for our sweet elderly (but soon to *everyone* including Pedro & his family in Nogales) & the immigration boondoggleS, (further or maintained) restrictions on our 2nd Amendmend, an end-around on our the 1st Amendment visa vi CFR, & a curious -- but consistent -- inability to get our [read: conservative] appointed judicial nominees OUT of "committee" (whateverinthehellthatmeans) so they may be confirmed & put on the bench to *try* to stall the outrageous judicial activism so rampant, even though we've majorities all way around.

So, you see my predicament.

At this point all I can -- possibly -- think of is how fortunate we all are today Gore wasn't elected; and, of course *anxiously* looking forward to another 4 years, of what?

This guy's brand of "conservatism"?

~Oy vey.

...my head hurts so. :o)

144 posted on 01/07/2004 3:18:07 PM PST by Landru (Tagline Schmagline...just a drag on my line.)
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To: Mudboy Slim
I don't care what the media or Bush calls it, it is still amnesty and it's illegal!


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145 posted on 01/07/2004 6:10:49 PM PST by goldilucky
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To: Landru
"...when I voted for the guy [read: hired], I did so with the understanding he run the nation as he saw fit; &, at that time I *assumed* I knew pretty much what that'd mean, what I could expect from a "conservative" administration. >doink!< Mebad."

This ain't what I bargained fer when I voted fer Dubyuh...the Right's being taken fer granted.

"Damned thing is, when we were saddled with Clinoccio we got -- albeit begrudgingly -- "Welfare Reform," "NAFTA," "GATT"...well you know Mud, clearly "conservative" act(s) one would think only a Republican w/could be responsible for authoring from a Liberal-Socialist Demo-Rat. Now with this Republican POTUS, we get an "all new" cabinet level bureacracy (to do the work the FBICIDCIANSAUSMUSINS used to do), continued $$ aid to the godless UN for the purpose of "population control" [read: abortions], *free* PRx for our sweet elderly (but soon to *everyone* including Pedro & his family in Nogales) & the immigration boondoggleS, (further or maintained) restrictions on our 2nd Amendmend, an end-around on our the 1st Amendment visa vi CFR, & a curious -- but consistent -- inability to get our [read: conservative] appointed judicial nominees OUT of "committee" (whateverinthehellthatmeans) so they may be confirmed & put on the bench to *try* to stall the outrageous judicial activism so rampant, even though we've majorities all way around. So, you see my predicament."

It's all of our predicament...regarding this immigration reform package Dubyuh's proposing, it's almost as if Bush expects it to be killed in Congress and he thinks he'll get the kudos from the Hispanics just fer proposing it, without ever having to sign it into law. That ain't leadership, it's gutless posturing. Folks like to blame it on Rove, but Bush oughtta be ashamed, too!!

"At this point all I can -- possibly -- think of is how fortunate we all are today Gore wasn't elected; and, of course *anxiously* looking forward to another 4 years, of what? This guy's brand of "conservatism"?"

Dubyuh ain't earned my vote yet...MUD

146 posted on 01/07/2004 8:12:43 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Mudboy Slim; scholar
"It's all of our predicament...regarding this immigration reform package Dubyuh's proposing..."

Muddy boy, I'm not in a snit over *just* the IR matter, I'm pissed off over all the things this administration's done, the sum of the parts.

Just want to make sure you understand I'm not a person who sees life as "My way or the highway".
I truly believe in the power of compromise if one's going to make a honest, fair attempt to meet most of the people's wants & needs & our Republic.

But there comes a point & this man passed my point already, a couple of boondoggles ago.
See?

"...it's almost as if Bush expects it to be killed in Congress and he thinks he'll get the kudos from the Hispanics just fer proposing it, without ever having to sign it into law."

I have no idea -- whatsoever -- what's going through this guy's head. None. Nada.
Know why?
Because he ain't saying; and, as before with any one of the issues I listed previously, he's going to do what he pleases & to hell with those of my like mind.
Not my anger speaking either, Mud; rather, his track record.

"That ain't leadership, it's gutless posturing."

Maybe it is but unless one's psychic who really knows for sure what the *reasoning* -- if any -- there is behind this guy.
If it's anything like the "strategy" that made him sign CFR, then no thank you.
What I know for a fact is that what he's doing is unbelievably risky to his political future as well as the GOP.

It's maddening when ya think of it, kid.
We are attacked by Islamifanatics & he responds with the proverbial "El Kabong!" in both Afganistan *&* Iraq, routing the primary supporters of that kind of bullshit & for that he earns many people's love, admiration & trust.
His numbers are high, re-election almost guarenteed & the 'Rats are left to literally *invent* issues to try & derail Bush's juggernaut-size momentum & what does he do?
Makes every attempt -- he possibly can -- to derail himself with his base, people like you & I, & insodoing do the 'Rat's work, for them?
What's wrong with that picture.

Well, he's in for a rude surprise as far as this voter's concerned; because, me & my conservative voting neighbors?
We're talking.
A lot.
~& it ain't good.

"Dubyuh ain't earned my vote yet...MUD"

Nor mine, far fraom it.
And to those who'd try laying a guilt trip on those of us who're poised to either abstain from voting *or* cast our vote for the Libertarian/Constitution Party -- as our only avenue to protest to express our outrage -- possibly putting a 'Rat in the WH?
I say, "Go straight to hell! It's my vote & I'll do what I goddam please with it. I must live with myself & do what I deem is 'right' even IF [you] seem *challenged* by the concept."

In fact I once said conservatives outa invade the 'Rat Party in an attempt to change, influence the Liberal-Socialist to change their left-leaning ways, remember?
Well I'll tell ya Mud, if the 'Rats are reading the tea leaves properly?
Take ONE guess what they're going to [subtley] do with their political plank(s) in an effort to pick up just enough dissatisfied conservative voters to regain power?
Yea, move right while this POTUS -- appears -- to move left & for the same reason.
It's the 'Rat's only viable chance to pull off the upset of the millenium & it can work.
How ironic is that?

This POTUS had better damned well understand how periously close to winding up a one termer -- like his daddy -- he really is, given the razor thin margin that put him where he is?

He's really messed with the primal forces of nature Son, & I for one?

...will have no qualms a'tall sending him straight back to Texas.

147 posted on 01/08/2004 6:39:16 AM PST by Landru (Tagline Schmagline...just a drag on my line.)
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To: sultan88; jla
"Yes, I heard Larissa, too. A complete NUTCASE! Rush handled her so well!"

So, one of jla's old flames, huh??"

Don't know Sultan...jla hasn't responded yet. But I think it's a good chance that it was. I mean, how many liberal Larissa's can there be in NY? :)

148 posted on 01/08/2004 8:10:24 AM PST by FBD (Where is Global Warming when we really need it?)
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To: Landru
"Well, he's in for a rude surprise as far as this voter's concerned; because, me & my conservative voting neighbors?"
We're talking.
A lot.
~& it ain't good.

"Dubyuh ain't earned my vote yet...MUD"

Mud, Lan... Here's an idea that may get the President back on track; abstain from voting for him in the primary, while voting for all other measures, and candidates.
. If there is enough undervote, his political strategists MAY get the mesage. From what I'm reading, hearing and seeing, the White House phone lines are lit up with upset supporters over this immigration debacle.

"& I for one?
...will have no qualms a'tall sending him straight back to Texas."

I shudder to think what will happen if we get a Dem. in the White House, while we are at war with the Islamofascists... In my opinion, it will make the Iranian hostage situation pale in comparison. Dems are like children in this area (among other areas.)
We can't afford for this country to have Dean in power, while we are basicaly fighting WWIII, IMO. So we need to set Bush straight, for our own welfare and saftey, not so much for his political benefit.

149 posted on 01/08/2004 8:24:35 AM PST by FBD (Where is Global Warming when we really need it?)
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To: FBD; sultan88
"Yes, I heard Larissa, too. A complete NUTCASE! Rush handled her so well!"

So, one of jla's old flames, huh??"

Don't know Sultan...jla hasn't responded yet. But I think it's a good chance that it was. I mean, how many liberal Larissa's can there be in NY?

Ya know, I was wondering if I had put The Comedians in the 'To:' bar if this post wouild have still been directed to you two!
By the way, she's in New Jersey, she never was, nor ever will be, my 'girl', and just recently she referred to me as a "Neanderthal conservative pig" who could "kiss her a$$".

Liberal women are so dang cute, aren't they! LOL

150 posted on 01/08/2004 9:10:58 AM PST by jla
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To: jla; sultan88
Ya know, I was wondering if I had put The Comedians in the 'To:' bar if this post wouild have still been directed to you two!

Sultan and I are always ready to be of help to you, FRiend! :)

"Liberal women are so dang cute, aren't they! LOL"

Yup... cute as a wolverine! :)

...she never was, nor ever will be, my 'girl', and just recently she referred to me as a "Neanderthal conservative pig" who could "kiss her a$$".

WOW...she likes you...alot! :^D

Btw, after you two make up, ask Larissa if that was her on Rush's show on Tuesday! If it was, than ask her how she enjoyed the verbal spanking that Rush gave her! LOL That should be the start of a whole new litany of name calling abuse for ya, jla! :)

151 posted on 01/08/2004 10:33:11 AM PST by FBD (Where is Global Warming when we really need it?)
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To: FBD
jla: Did you phone in and get on the air with Rush Limbaugh this past Tuesday?

Larissa: No. I honestly can`t listen to Limbaugh for more than 3 minutes without getting a headache, and at this point, I wouldn`t even have known what day he was on, what station, or the number to call. Why?

152 posted on 01/08/2004 11:55:25 AM PST by jla
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To: Cyber-Band
"What is Wrong with Dubyuh's New GuestWorker Plan?!!"

"Proposals for a massive new "guestworker" program would:
threaten homeland security grant amnesty for law-breakers, a step overwhelmingly opposed by the American public establish a back door immigration program threaten the jobs and wages of American workers. The politicians pushing a guestworker amnesty know that Americans staunchly oppose amnesty, and so they shy away from calling it what it really is, instead cloaking it in terms like "earned legalization" or "normalization of status." They are deliberately misleading the American public.
THEY SAY that the overwhelming majority of people entering the country illegally pose no threat to our country and that if we allow them enter in a lawful manner, we will enhance our homeland security.
THE TRUTH is that there are an estimated 8-11 million illegal aliens in the United States, and it only took 19 to perpetrate the attacks of September 11. Our immigration system has become overburdened and unmanageable due to mass illegal immigration. As a result, there is little reason to feel confident that, absent a massive infusion of new resources, which is highly unlikely given current fiscal realities, anything approaching thorough background checks can be conducted on applicants for a guestworker program. Even without the added burden of an amnesty, people like Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric who masterminded the first World Trade Center bombing, and Mohammed Atta, the leader of the September 11 attacks, managed to slip through the screening process. There is every reason to believe that adding new responsibilities to an overtaxed system will make us less safe."

FReegards...MUD

153 posted on 01/08/2004 1:22:06 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Cyber-Band
"What is Wrong with Dubyuh's New GuestWorker Plan?!!"

"Proposals for a massive new "guestworker" program would:
threaten homeland security grant amnesty for law-breakers, a step overwhelmingly opposed by the American public establish a back door immigration program threaten the jobs and wages of American workers. The politicians pushing a guestworker amnesty know that Americans staunchly oppose amnesty, and so they shy away from calling it what it really is, instead cloaking it in terms like "earned legalization" or "normalization of status." They are deliberately misleading the American public.
THEY SAY that the overwhelming majority of people entering the country illegally pose no threat to our country and that if we allow them enter in a lawful manner, we will enhance our homeland security.
THE TRUTH is that there are an estimated 8-11 million illegal aliens in the United States, and it only took 19 to perpetrate the attacks of September 11. Our immigration system has become overburdened and unmanageable due to mass illegal immigration. As a result, there is little reason to feel confident that, absent a massive infusion of new resources, which is highly unlikely given current fiscal realities, anything approaching thorough background checks can be conducted on applicants for a guestworker program. Even without the added burden of an amnesty, people like Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric who masterminded the first World Trade Center bombing, and Mohammed Atta, the leader of the September 11 attacks, managed to slip through the screening process. There is every reason to believe that adding new responsibilities to an overtaxed system will make us less safe."

FReegards...MUD

154 posted on 01/08/2004 1:22:16 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: jla
"...at this point, I wouldn`t even have known what day he was on, what station, or the number to call."

M-F...12-3...WRVA-1140...1(800)282-2882...MUD

155 posted on 01/08/2004 1:29:34 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: FBD
"Here's an idea that may get the President back on track; abstain from voting for him in the primary, while voting for all other measures, and candidates. If there is enough undervote, his political strategists MAY get the mesage. From what I'm reading, hearing and seeing, the White House phone lines are lit up with upset supporters over this immigration debacle."

We've gotta get his attention somehow, but I'm starting to believe he's every bit as much a Milquetoast Moderate as his daddy, and he and his advisors apparently believe the GOP's conservative base is expendable.

"I shudder to think what will happen if we get a Dem. in the White House, while we are at war with the Islamofascists... In my opinion, it will make the Iranian hostage situation pale in comparison. Dems are like children in this area (among other areas.) We can't afford for this country to have Dean in power, while we are basicaly fighting WWIII, IMO. So we need to set Bush straight, for our own welfare and safety, not so much for his political benefit."

My biggest concern is another RAT as Commander-in-Chief, too, so I share yer preference to get Dubyuh back on track before next November as well. But he's gotta meet the Right halfway, imho, and all I see is him continuing to slip-slide to the Left in a quest for votes from those who do not share our desire fer a limited Federal Leviathan.

FReegards...MUD

156 posted on 01/08/2004 1:59:21 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Landru
"...he's going to do what he pleases & to hell with those of my like mind."

Yep...The Right's Been Fergotten!!

"What I know for a fact is that what he's doing is unbelievably risky to his political future as well as the GOP. It's maddening when ya think of it, kid. We are attacked by Islamifanatics & he responds with the proverbial "El Kabong!" in both Afganistan *&* Iraq, routing the primary supporters of that kind of bullshit & for that he earns many people's love, admiration & trust. His numbers are high, re-election almost guarenteed & the 'Rats are left to literally *invent* issues to try & derail Bush's juggernaut-size momentum & what does he do? Makes every attempt -- he possibly can -- to derail himself with his base, people like you & I, & insodoing do the 'Rat's work, for them?"

It's a different version of DerSchleekMeister's "Triangulation Strategy", imho, as he thinks those of us on the Right have already been appeased and have nowhere else to go. Of course I ain't never gonna vote fer a RAT, but he's making a third-party vote seem that much more appealing.

"...me & my conservative voting neighbors? We're talking. A lot. ~& it ain't good."

Mine, too...MUD

BTW..."...if the 'Rats are reading the tea leaves properly? Take ONE guess what they're going to [subtley] do with their political plank(s) in an effort to pick up just enough dissatisfied conservative voters to regain power? Yea, move right while this POTUS -- appears -- to move left & for the same reason."

It'll never happen...the RATS are Lefter than ever.

"This POTUS had better damned well understand how periously close to winding up a one termer -- like his daddy -- he really is, given the razor thin margin that put him where he is? He's really messed with the primal forces of nature Son, & I for one? ...will have no qualms a'tall sending him straight back to Texas."

More and more folks are feelin' yer pain, dude.

157 posted on 01/08/2004 2:10:34 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Mudboy Slim
Thursday, January 8, 2004

By David Aldridge
ESPN.com

So, I'm up late Tuesday in my hotel room, after seeing the 'Wolves smoke the Lakers in Minneapolis, and I get on the web, and I'm checking my old paper, The Washington Post, just to see what's going on, when I up and read that the 'Skins are talking about bringing Joe Gibbs back.

See, I don't think you realize what this means to my hometown.

I've written and said it a million times -- D.C. is a basketball town. The love extends from the playgrounds at Turkey Thicket, to Run 'N Shoot in Takoma, to Spingarn, Dunbar and DeMatha High, over to Georgetown and the Terps' new house, Comcast Center, to MCI, where the Wizards are well on the way to their 900th straight appearance in the Lottery, but the folks keep coming back. Baseball? An increasingly distant memory when the Senators played on the regular. Hockey? Doesn't register at all except for the 12,000 or so that go see the Caps. There is a rumor that there are not only one, but two, professional soccer teams in town. And we couldn't care less about football. No real tradition at the high school or college level, though the Fridge is trying to change that over in College Park. In Chocolate City, there's no interest at all in that thing called Number One that caused dyspepsia and angst in Baton Rouge and Norman and South Central L.A. It's not in the local nexus, this obsession with two-deep charts and whether this Jones kid can sling it like his pappy used to. Don't get it. Don't want to get it.
Joe Gibbs holds the Vince Lombardi trophy after winning Super Bowl XVII.
But.

But.

The 'Skins don't count.

The 'Skins are deep in the marrow.

The 'Skins are a culture.

The 'Skins are home.

The 'Skins are the cutters at the barber shop on Georgia Avenue, the ones that have to put up with the loudmouth Cowboys fans who've been talking junk.

The 'Skins are the bus drivers who wear burgundy and gold scarves over their blue shirts on cold mornings, when they drive the early shift to work.

The 'Skins are the secretaries at the law firms and the janitors in the government buildings, who would get to work late on Monday mornings because there were 500 field level tickets (hey, let's be real, they were folding chairs) usually available at 9 a.m. for next Sunday's game at RFK, and maybe, just maybe ...

The 'Skins are the mom and pop stores in Anacostia, the ones with the faded posters of Riggins and Monk and Doug Williams on the walls.

The 'Skins were Theismann and Rypien and Coleman and Clark and the Hogs and the Fun Bunch and Dexter, but more than anything, the 'Skins were Joe Jackson Gibbs.

You are not supposed to acknowledge these things when you are in my business, because we are supposed to be objective and not care about who wins and who loses, but you know, I cover basketball, and I'm plenty objective about the Wizards. (Ask them.) Can I write that the 'Skins have been my team since I was five? Is that okay? Even though, on occasion, I have to go to Ashburn and do a story on them? Can I have one freakin' team to root for, the team of my youth, the team of my city?

Because... on New Year's Eve, 1972, Charley Taylor burned Mark Washington like a stove with a bad pilot light, and it was Washington 26, Dallas 3, and when you're seven, and your team goes to the Super Bowl for the first time, that's a big deal.

Because... Monday nights were for Monday Night Football, but they were mainly for "Redskins Sidelines," the local recap show, and when you got a chance to sit in the studio audience, well ...

Because... you had a 'Skins hat, and gloves, and poncho, and lunchbox, and helmet, and jacket before puberty hit.

Because... your friends went for the Cowboys, or the Steelers, who were going to Super Bowls every other year, and you didn't.

Because... at the Kennedy Center, the National Symphony Orchestra would end its Christmas concert with a rousing rendition of Hail to the Redskins that brought the house down.

But mostly, because Joe Gibbs did something that mayors and city councilmen and senators and preachers and presidents didn't have a prayer of doing, and that's bring my city together. In my city, you're Republican or Democrat (mostly Democrat, by 9 to 1, at last count), you live in Ward 3, where the rich folks are, or in Ward 8, where the poor folks are, you go to public schools or the private ones that dot the landscape, you live in nice neighborhoods or in the projects, you drive in the HOV 3 lane or you take the Metro. Every day, there are divisions, hundreds of them, that keep people apart from one another in D.C. But during the '80s, when Coach Gibbs talked about needing "all you great fans" at RFK next Sunday, and you didn't have a ticket, and didn't know the first thing about how to get a ticket, and were planning to watch on TV, you thought he was talking to you anyway.

The 'Skins were always prepared, always disciplined, always physical, but always intelligent, too. They won big under J.J. Gibbs, who seemed to treat football like chess, and like the prodigies of the chessboard, he always seemed to be three steps ahead of the opposition. Nobody made better adjustments. How many times did Washington trail by seven, or 10, at the half, and you thought to yourself, 'ah, Gibbs'll come up with something.' And he'd come out with some exotic four-receiver set, or a throwback, and Richie Petitbon's defense would contract, and come up with a couple of turnovers, and then they'd give the ball to Riggins nine straight times, and that was that.

See, Joe J. Gibbs gave Washington an identity of its own, if you know what I'm saying. Most of the country, most of the world, thought of Washington as the federal government, which was true, but that wasn't the city, that was a few buildings down on Capitol Hill. Those political folks didn't have anything to do with the city, the city you grew up in. The White House might as well have been on Mars, for all it had to do with your life. But the 'Skins, they were yours. From guys like Mike Nelms, Clarence Harmon, Dave Butz, Russ Grimm and Ricky Sanders, to Charles Mann, Curtis Jordan, Brad Edwards and Charlie Brown, they were yours.

And when Riggins broke Don McNeal's tackle in Pasadena, and went 43 yards down the sideline in Supe XVII, well, your neighbors claim they heard you through the closed door, and the walls, and the yard, and you didn't believe them, but, well ...

For black folks in D.C., this was a big deal. See, the 'Skins weren't always ours. The 'Skins were the last team in the NFL to integrate, when the owner was a cuss named George Preston Marshall, who fought tooth and nail to keep black men from playing for his team, and lots of black folks rooted for somebody else, anybody else, for a long time because of that. But the owner changed, and the attitudes changed, and then the coach changed, and Joe Gibbs came to town, and he hugged black kids in church, and when he not only won a Super Bowl, but won one with Doug Williams as his starting quarterback, well, you simply have no idea how big a deal that was in my hometown.

So, when Doug had the 15 minutes of his life in San Diego, and some kid named Timmy Smith ran the ball like, well, Riggins, and Washington put up 35 -- 35!! -- in the second quarter against the Broncos to salt away the 22nd world championship of professional football, and you had to explain to your girlfriend why the newborn at the party was christened the Redskin Baby, well, it kind of made sense.

And when the '91 squad got out of the gate 11-0, and everyone knew that Mr. Gibbs had the best team in the NFL, it was like a three-month parade that couldn't end any other way than with the Old Man, the Squire of Middleburg, Jack Kent Cooke, holding up some more hardware and talking about "the best bloody coach in the world," and boy, this could go on for a while, and then, suddenly, Joe Gibbs was gone. Burned out. Retired. Sick of football.

And you felt... strange. Because now, your job -- your job!! -- was to go to Ashburn every day and be a beat reporter covering the team of your youth, for the paper you'd read every day for as long as you could remember (was there another eight-year-old whose heroes were Woodward and Bernstein?), and so you put all the memories in a box somewhere in your mind, because you couldn't be a fan anymore, because that wouldn't be right, or fair. You had the luck of covering the 'Skins the year after Joe Gibbs left, when the head coach was Good Ol' Bone, the loyal lieutenant who'd waited so long for his chance, and when the 'Skins crushed Dallas on Monday Night to open the '93 season, it seemed like things were just the same, but you soon figured out that wasn't so, the Skins had nothing left in the tank, and no genius around to figure something out. And you had to cover the Fall of Ashburn.

And the Old Man had to get rid of Good Ol' Bone, 'cause it wasn't working, and that was sad, but you had to do your job, and that was to cover the new guy, the guy who was going to make everybody forget about Coach Gibbs, the new, hot young assistant coach.

Who was... from Dallas.

And of course, that didn't mean anything.

Except, it sort of did.

You could tell, the way everyone would ask, 'Well, what is he like? I mean, it's hard to root for them now. 'Cause, you know, he's from Dallas.' And you'd try to tell them that Norv Turner was a good guy, but they weren't really listening.

And it's never easy to cover a team that loses, and boy, did the 'Skins lose during the '90s. They lost by margins big and small, to teams good and bad, and Norv would come out after every game, and talk about how hard his guys were playing (which was true), and how much they'd fought (true, again), and how close they were to turning this thing around (well, not so true), and it was a long, long way from Joe Gibbs.

And then, because most reporters don't cover one thing forever, you went on and covered something else, and you'd been gone for a while when this guy Snyder bought the team. Snyder's checkbook spends as well as anyone's, and he's brought in some good players here and there, but it hasn't gone well for Snyder when it comes to coaches. He tried the status quo, and that didn't work, and so he brought in a discipline guy and gave him total control, and that didn't work, and so he took more control of the team, and hired the coach of his dreams, his very own Joe Gibbs.

Who was... from college.

Except this guy wasn't Joe Gibbs.

He wasn't Marla Gibbs.

What he was, was a disaster.

Dan Snyder seemed like the worst kind of owner -- the one who didn't know what he didn't know. And the 'Skins were a national joke.

But then Tuesday night came, and the word got out. Coach Gibbs, back in town on a charger, to bring back the tradition, the pride. To a city that has gone through so much. A mayor smoking crack on camera. Madmen flying planes into our buildings. Madmen putting anthrax into our mail. Madmen shooting at everyone from parked cars, under cover of darkness, in broad daylight. There haven't been a lot of laughs here lately.

Got home Wednesday and everyone in town was... giddy. With excitement. With hope. See, Marbury is going home to play with the Knicks, and I know that's a big deal in New York, 'cause he's probably the best player to ever come out of that basketball-mad town. But he'd never won a championship as a pro there. This? This is Chuck Noll going back to the Steelers, Ice Cube going back to NWA, Dick Van Dyke hooking up with Mary Tyler Moore again. Everything old is new again.

I know. We ask sports to do so much, too much. What 11 men do on a football field has nothing to do with feeding your kids, or taking care of your grandma, or paying the rent. But in my hometown, the 'Skins make a difference. Joe Gibbs, a good and decent man -- and a great football coach -- is back in town.

I guess this means I renew my season tickets.

158 posted on 01/08/2004 2:25:30 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: dead; jla; MeeknMing; Grampa Dave; Landru; sultan88; kristinn; JohnHuang2; FBD
"FRiends of Slick Willie"
(To be sung to the Grateful Dead's "Friend of the Devil")

We abhor Butch Reno...and we'll take Slick Willie down.
Honor 'tis to FReep fer Right till Big Guv'ment's not around.
Ya think I'm funnin' as I make my rhymes...
But friends of Slick Willie ain't no FRiends of mine!!
Leftist HO's defend Slick's Blight...
TREASON's why we FReep tonigh-ight!!

Clinton is Pure Evil, knaves...Slick snowed Dem-Medyuh shills!!
Cowed the Right from action...let's be Brave and DETHRONE Bill!!
Future's Sunny, but we'll first smite Slime...
No friend of Bill Clinton is a FRiend of mine!!
Leftists know Clinton's not Right...
Justice's why we FReep...tonigh-ight!!

I drove on up to DeeCee...brain-dead Lib'rals fought me there.
Took my hard-earned dollar bill but I vanquished their PUNK, Terry.
Think I'm funnin' but I know what's Right...
DemFriends of Bill Clinton shall be Doin' Time!!
I set goals...ain't 'fraid ta Fight...
Justice's why I FReep tonigh-ight!!!

Got two reasons why I stay awake each lonely night.
The first one's named Sweet Liberty and she's my heart's delight.
Second one is Justice, Willie, Ol' Mudboy's on yer tail!!
And when MUD catches up with you, you'll spend yer life in jail!!

Gotta wife and children, Slick, but yer thugs shan't cow me!!!
Broaddrick says Slick raped her, Tom, but Brokaw said, "BITE ME!!!"
Lib'rals' Love Him, but I think Slick's SLIME!!
No friend of Slick Willie shall be FRiends o' mine.
I set goals, ain't 'fraid ta fight...Justice's why MUD FReeps tonight!!!

(BigMan on guitar, Fireman John on mandolin...justa cookin'!!)

Got two reasons why I FReep away each doggone night.
The first one's named Sweet Liberty, my God, I know I'm Right!!
Second one is Justice, Terry, MUD knows yer Sordid Tale...
And when Truth catches up with you, you'll spend yer life in jail!!

Gotta wife and children, Bill, and you got Hillary...
Chelsea knows she's not yer child, Webb Hubbell's genes flow free.
Think I'm funnin' but Slick's arse is mine!!
No friend of Bill Clinton, boy, Justice Be Thine!!
Bill can roam...but Slick can't hide!!
Justice makes MUD FReep fer Righ-ight!!

Mudboy Slim

159 posted on 01/08/2004 4:02:10 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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To: Mudboy Slim
Hey, Mud !

The Texas Dodocrat:

Remap could create an endangered species -
Texas' white Democratic Reps struggle for survival


160 posted on 01/08/2004 4:12:06 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (Howie Dean in the South !!: http://Richard.Meek.home.comcast.net/IowaRatsLastMealNewDeal.JPG)
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