DUmmie FUnnies 05-21-08 (Obama Music Band In Portland Often Opens With Soviet National Anthem)

DUmmie FUnnies ^ | May 21, 2008 | PJ-Comix

[PJ-Comix]

Looking for more info about The Decemberists.

[PJ-Comix]

PING!

[Ronaldus Magnus Reagan]

First In?

[Old Sarge]

THREE?

[pogo101]

Just starting points ... beware, Wiki is unreliable:

The band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decembrists

The historical Decembrist Revolt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_revolt

[Ronaldus Magnus Reagan]

Ha! Bow to Ronaldus. You all are mere pikers today in the PJ Comix fan club!

[PJ-Comix]

Part of that is the fault of ignoramus band leader Colin Meloy who thought the Decembrist revolt in Russia (when Karl Marx was about 12 years old) was somehow a Communist revolt.

[Billthedrill]

Well, let's face it, any band naming itself the "Decemberists" knows perfectly well what it's about. I'd guess maybe 5% of Obama's crowd would recognize the reference, and 5% of those, the song.

It's mostly tribal nonsense, the same way a college student will wear a Che t-shirt knowing only that it's a vague expression of rebellion guaranteed to irritate his class enemies. A real Che would have blown that kid's brains out in La Cabaña. Whether Obama has any real Decemberists working for him - ay, there's the rub.

[mrsmel]

It doesn’t matter what he does, his supporters are as hypnotised by him as the followers of Jim Jones were, right down to the point when he made them drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid. And they are going to try to guilt other Americans into voting for him. The whole rest of the world is salivating at the prospect of America joining them in the socialist globalist sewer-misery loves company. And the alternative is only marginally better, except on national defense (admiitedly a huge exception. But even he plans to flood the country with illegal immigrants).

I’m so over this election. I’d almost like to do whatever I can to get “off the grid” and go somewhere and be forgotten, so that the coming destruction won’t affect me for a while at any rate. The politicians on both sides have managed to create an impossible situation as far as we the people having much voice in our government. Amnesty is the clearest example-they just don’t quit, because they know that sooner rather than later, they’re going to get it shoved down our throats, no matter what a majority of Americans say they want.

[Incorrigible]

Yeah 10!

[PJ-Comix]

The Decembrists were a revolt by Czarist officers long before the Bolshevik Revolution. It took place around 1825.

[JRios1968]

Top 20

[word_warrior_bob]

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/artsfun/afterhours/3628.html

Here’s some info where the bassist calls Bush a “War Criminal”

[Billthedrill]

Thanks - I did actually know that. They aren’t the first of a long line of Russian revolutionaries but are by far the most romantic, glorified by old Herzen while Nicholas trembled in his castle. Marx was referring to them when he said “revolutions are the locomotives of history.”

[BunnySlippers]

The only thing about the band I know isthey have great tee-shirts!

[HoosierHawk]

But our CDs sell at Walmart, and Walmart’s horrible, but I’m not going to say don’t say to sell our record at Walmart, though maybe I should. I don’t know. I think there are bigger battles to be fought right now.

Ah, but they do appear to be noble and conscience socialists.

[mylife]

It's mostly tribal nonsense, the same way a college student will wear a Che t-shirt knowing only that it's a vague expression of rebellion guaranteed to irritate his class enemies. A real Che would have blown that kid's brains out in La Cabaña. Whether Obama has any real Decemberists working for him - ay, there's the rub.

The Decemberists

The Sporting Life

[Jet Jaguar]

[El Gato]

The worst countries have the best National Anthems.

Look for the French National Anthem, la Marseillaise, sung by their equivalent to Kate Smith (but better looking!), Mireille Mathieu (from 1989). (audio only is here)Lyrics are even nastier than the later verses of the Star Bangled Banner.

English translation of Lyrics.

For reference full lyrics of the Star Spangled Banner are Here.

Compare:

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion, A home and a country should leave us no more! Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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To arms citizens Form your battalions March, march Let impure blood Water our furrows

You have to recall that the French Revolution was in some degree, fairly large degree, inspired by our own, and that the Star Spangled Banner and la Marseillaise were actually written about the same time, sort of, but la Marseillaise was written first, 1792 actually during the Revolution, while ours was written during the War of 1812. Although interestingly it was originally a Loyalist song (a supporter of Louis XVI and army engineer, but adopted by the Revolutionaries. Sort of like "Yankee Doodle".

[Loud Mime]

There’s another edition of this song in the movie “The Hunt for Red October.”

Captain, I thought I heard singing....