Posted on 01/04/2011 3:38:47 AM PST by Brian_Baldwin
72-year old elect Governor Jerry (“Moonbeam”) Brown had his inaugural ceremony Monday. I didn’t listen to it. Well actually, I did hear a portion of it by mistake when I was getting up early in the morning to go to the “boys room”, when an outtake from his speech at the ceremony was played on a local radio station.
There was his voice, barking with a rasp as if he is about to lead the soldiers into war:
“California! Here I come! – Right back where I started from!”
I couldn’t believe what I just heard. That includes the clapping that followed this idiotic and odd, laughable moment from those attending, which included former governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gray Davis. Who would actually clap and cheer such an inept war call? It verged on being gauche at best, a misplaced example of bad speech writing on the very face of it.
“California, Here I Come” was the song written for the 1920’s musical Bombo starring Al Jolson. As soon as I heard Brown barking this as if to rally the soldiers, in my mind I saw the old “I Love Lucy” episode from black and white television where Ricky, Lucy, Fred and Ethel are in the old beater driving over the George Washington Bridge, and all four jump into a chorus of “California here I come!” which at one point old Fred sings a solo of the song in Al Jolson style.
Some fool apparently tried to later put the moment in better light by declaring that this song is he official state song of California, but in fact it is not.
California is in big, big trouble. Moonbeam isn’t coming to California – he never left.
So when do the rolling brown outs start happening?
I expect that this will be the final nail in California’s economy’s coffin.
I’d say “would the last one to leave California turn out the lights” But I expect there won’t be any electricty for lights anyway.
(Jim, if we don’t have the FreeRepublic servers in Free America yet can we get backups there?)
He looked like your crazy uncle in the attic.
Don’t you mean “rolling Brown outs”?
Brown is as goofy as the people who voted for him.
They don’t call him Moonbeam for nothing.........
the part of the swearing in oath that they played on the radio I heard the crowd laughing out loud at the “being of sound mind” part.
Aparrently they all know he’s nuts,too...and they don’t care.
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