Black XXIII: "Dubyuh's Stand!!"

The MudCave (Festive Holiday Edition) | 25 December 2003 | Mudboy Slim

[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

[sultan88]

"Well, I've gotta do something while I'm sitting here in Hampton."

I'm an old Newport News'er myself.

[FBD]

Howdy guys,

Just got back from a week-end ski trip. It took me 4 hrs to go 40 miles over the mountain pass. 2 feet of snow in 12 hours, wrecks everywhere, bumper to bumper lunacy.

Just checkin' in to see what had transpired over the weekend, and say hi.

[Mudboy Slim]

A Soldiers Poem...

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS,
THEY LIVED ALL ALONE,
IN A ONE BEDROOM HOUSE MADE OF
PLASTER AND STONE.

I HAD COME DOWN THE CHIMNEY
WITH PRESENTS TO GIVE,
AND TO SEE JUST WHO
IN THIS HOME DID LIVE.

I LOOKED ALL ABOUT,
A STRANGE SIGHT I DID SEE,
NO TINSEL, NO PRESENTS,
NOT EVEN A TREE.

NO STOCKING BY MANTLE,
JUST BOOTS FILLED WITH SAND,
ON THE WALL HUNG PICTURES
OF FAR DISTANT LANDS.

WITH MEDALS AND BADGES,
AWARDS OF ALL KINDS,
A SOBER THOUGHT
CAME THROUGH MY MIND.

FOR THIS HOUSE WAS DIFFERENT,
IT WAS DARK AND DREARY,
I FOUND THE HOME OF A SOLDIER,
ONCE I COULD SEE CLEARLY.

THE SOLDIER LAY SLEEPING,
SILENT, ALONE,
CURLED UP ON THE FLOOR
IN THIS ONE BEDROOM HOME.

THE FACE WAS SO GENTLE,
THE ROOM IN SUCH DISORDER,
NOT HOW I PICTURED
A UNITED STATES SOLDIER.

WAS THIS THE HERO
OF WHOM I'D JUST READ?
CURLED UP ON A PONCHO,
THE FLOOR FOR A BED?

I REALIZED THE FAMILIES
THAT I SAW THIS NIGHT,
OWED THEIR LIVES TO THESE SOLDIERS
WHO WERE WILLING TO FIGHT.

SOON ROUND THE WORLD,
THE CHILDREN WOULD PLAY,
AND GROWNUPS WOULD CELEBRATE
A BRIGHT CHRISTMAS DAY.

THEY ALL ENJOYED FREEDOM
EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR,
BECAUSE OF THE SOLDIERS,
LIKE THE ONE LYING HERE.

I COULDN'T HELP WONDER
HOW MANY LAY ALONE,
ON A COLD CHRISTMAS EVE
IN A LAND FAR FROM HOME.

THE VERY THOUGHT
BROUGHT A TEAR TO MY EYE,
I DROPPED TO MY KNEES
AND STARTED TO CRY.

THE SOLDIER AWAKENED
AND I HEARD A ROUGH VOICE,
"SANTA DON'T CRY,
THIS LIFE IS MY CHOICE;

I FIGHT FOR FREEDOM,
I DON'T ASK FOR MORE,
MY LIFE IS MY GOD,
MY COUNTRY, MY CORPS."

THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER
AND DRIFTED TO SLEEP,
I COULDN'T CONTROL IT,
I CONTINUED TO WEEP.

I KEPT WATCH FOR HOURS,
SO SILENT AND STILL
AND WE BOTH SHIVERED
FROM THE COLD NIGHT'S CHILL.

I DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE
ON THAT COLD, DARK, NIGHT,
THIS GUARDIAN OF HONOR
SO WILLING TO FIGHT.

THEN THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER,
WITH A VOICE SOFT AND PURE,
WHISPERED, "CARRY ON SANTA,
IT'S CHRISTMAS DAY, ALL IS SECURE."

ONE LOOK AT MY WATCH,
AND I KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
"MERRY CHRISTMAS MY FRIEND,
AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT,"

This poem is a reworked version from the original which was written by Lance Corporal James M. Schmidt stationed in Washington DC in 1986.

[FBD]

"Congrats on the Packers!!"

Yep, the Vikes choked. How 'bout Mud's deadskins? I recall Mud had such high hopes for them at the beginning of the season, and now it appears that Steve Spurrier may resign?
Huh...oh well.
Anyway;
GO PACK GO! GO PACK GO! GO PACK GO!

:)

[Mudboy Slim]

"How 'bout Mud's deadskins? I recall Mud had such high hopes for them at the beginning of the season..."

Fer good reason, I believed, but we just didn't have what it takes. We'll have a high pick in the draft, though, and git ourselves a stud defensive lineman and a running back, and we'll be back!!

"...it appears that Steve Spurrier may resign?"

Naww, the Ol' BallCoach will be around fer at least one more season, although we'll have a new defensive coordinator and OL coach.

FReegards...MUD

[sultan88]

Hoping the Steelers get Eli Manning!!

[Mudboy Slim]

Hoping the Skins get a big nasty Defensive Lineman who can rush the QB and stuff the run...MUD

[FBD]

"Hoping the Steelers get Eli Manning!!"

Isn't that Peyton's younger brother?

[FBD]

Spurrier didn't look at all happy the other night. I didn't have the volume up, but his face looked...chagrined?

Anyway...keep yer hopes up fer a big ol nasty defensive lineman! ( You'll need at least two, PLUS a def. coordinator.)

[Mudboy Slim]

"...a big ol nasty defensive lineman! You'll need at least two"

We're gonna git that Darrell Russell dude in fightin' shape, then draft a rookie.

"PLUS a def. coordinator"

Yep...we get a new defensive coordinator EVERY year...LOL!!

FReegards...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"Hidden paths that run West of the moon, East of the Sun"
Ross Mackenzie (archive)
December 17, 2003

In monumental scope, the big screen is introducing many to J. R. R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings." The movie versions of "The Fellowship of the Ring" (vol. I) and "The Two Towers" (vol. II) were overwhelming, and generous representations of the book. As movies go, they chalked up some of the biggest global box-office sales ever.

Tolkien groupies picked nits about the "Fellowship" and "The Two Towers" (as they will about vol. III "The Return of the King"), but by and large rejoice in the films. Others, some deeming the work science-fiction, won't see the Tolkien movies, let alone read the books, because they are not into fantasy, the unreal, or - darkly - the occult. So the debate goes hotly on, as it has since the book "The Lord of the Rings" first appeared in 1954, as to what the story really is.

Tolkien, of course, knew. Yet others have had great trouble resolving whether it is allegory, myth, fable, heroic legend, creative fantasy or epic religious tale.

A British professor of philology, Tolkien's first love was linguistics, words and the study of cultures through their languages and literatures. His particular area of interest was Anglo-Saxon history. As one who read deeply in fable, legend and myth, Tolkien was well aware of ring-quest tales predating even the pyramids and Babylon. He read Pliny, who wrote of the blood feud over a ring between Drusus and Caepio that led to the Social Wars, which ended in the Roman republic's collapse.

Profoundly religious (he was instrumental in the 1931 conversion of his friend C. S. Lewis from atheism to Christianity), Tolkien was steeped in biblical tales such as, tellingly, Solomon's ring. He read extensively in Norse mythology (Odin, Sigurd, the Volsunga saga), and drew heavily from Arthurian and Carolingian legend and German romance. He understood Wagner's effort to restate the German "Volk" identity through German ring-quest legends (Siegfried), yet resented the distortions in Wagner's linking of art and myth - distorted further by Hitler at about the time (1937) Tolkien began "The Lord of the Rings."

There was something else. As Tolkien authority David Day has noted:

"Although the Celts were the older civilization in Britain, it was the Anglo-Saxons who were the dominant race from whom the British inherited most of their language and consequently most of their culture. ... ([A professor of Anglo-Saxon,) Tolkien frequently expressed his desire to restore the mythology and literature of Anglo-Saxon Britain between the time of the Roman retreat in 419 and the Norman Conquest in 1066. With the notable exception of 'Beowulf' and a handful of poem fragments, the ruthless obliteration of Anglo-Saxon culture by the Norman conquerors was nearly absolute."

So Tolkien set out to capture Britain's lost Anglo-Saxon mythology. He created an epic struggle between good and evil (the dark lord/wizard Sauron vs. the white wizard Gandalf). The story draws from Odin, Arthur, Charlemagne and Sigfried. It hints at the quest for the Holy Grail. It has magic swords, some of them broken - and maybe Christ, and a host of others.

Yet the last are first - in keeping with Tolkien's acknowledgment that "The Lord of the Rings" is, "of course, fundamentally religious." Hobbits (of the Shire - the English) are unlikely heroes, yet they perform most of the heroic acts: Hobbits find the ring, cause (in "The Hobbit") the destruction of a dragon, kill the leader of corrupted men (the Nazgul), defeat a voracious spider (Shelob), and ultimately - through noble purpose and merciful spirit - end the cycle of the one ring's power by delivering it into the volcano where it was forged. Ordinary Hobbits ("the last") do extraordinary things, and render themselves "the first."

Is it allegory? "I think," wrote Tolkien, "that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader and the other in the purposed domination of the author." He preferred applicability.

He also wrote ("On Fairy-Stories") that fairy stories have three faces: "the mystical toward the supernatural, the magical toward nature and the mirror of scorn and pity toward man." And: They offer, "in a peculiar degree or mode, these things: fantasy, recovery, escape, (and) consolation ... (all with) an inner consistency of reality." And finally: "All tales may come true; and yet, at the last, redeemed, they may be as like and as unlike the forms that we give them as man, finally redeemed, will be like and unlike the fallen that we know."

"The Lord of the Rings" has it all. Good vs. evil, resolute moral purpose, the single persistent message that power to dominate ever and always corrupts - and, peripherally, that the hunger for power affects least the truly humble (Hobbits, as opposed to men).

Maybe Tolkien has given the Brits their lost Anglo-Saxon legends and thereby recovered their heritage. His stories ring true with a distinct "inner consistency," and who will ever prove they are not real? The Brits may even think so: Several polls in 1997 found the British public deemed the Tolkien trilogy the top novel of the 20th century; in one poll they named it the greatest book of all time.

Tolkien's is an epic tale (indeed, as Day notes, "the most complex and detailed invented world in all literature"), with marvelous words such as Westerness (the place of the last good men) and Rivendell (where weariness falls away and "time doesn't seem to pass, it just is"). With insightful prose: "There is more of good in you than you know, child of the kindly West - some courage and good blended in measure."

And with poetry, and song...

The road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began,
Where it goes I cannot say,
But I must follow if I can...
Around the corner there may wait,
A new road, or a secret gate,
And though I oft have passed them by,
A day may come at last when I
Take the hidden paths that run
West of the moon, east of the sun.

Local boy makes good...MUD

[sultan88]

"Local boy makes good..."

I missed something. Who's the local boy?

[Mudboy Slim]

Local boy's Ross MacKenzie, editor of the RTD...MUD

[sultan88]

Yes, I know. But he wrote the article, not starred in it. I guess you're saying it's big cuz he got published outside of the RTD??

[Mudboy Slim]

Yep...just thought it was interestin' to see him published outside of the RTD editorial page...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"The Times They Are A'Changin'"
(To be sung to Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'")

Come gather round, Sheeple...in office and home...
And admit that corruption in DeeCee has grown!!
Then, demand that Slick's TREASON shall not be condoned!!
WE MUST FIGHT!! The Nation's worth savin'!!
Country, better stop sleepin' or yer souls Left will own...
Folks, the times they are a'changin'...

Come, blow-dried twit Networks who tyrannize with your "spin"...
Our Prez'dent has spied...WE MUST NOW INDICT HIM!!
And CONVICT Bill's goons...then WE'LL IMPRISON SLICK!!
Yes, Limbaugh's sellin' TRUTH 'bout Slick's TREASON!!
Left's poltroons, y'know, we'll be FReepin' the Net!!
Press, the times they are a'changin'...

Come Senators, Congressmen, please heed our call...
Please stand up fer Justice...please tear down Slick's walls!!
Folks, watch how you vote...'cuz we're watchin' y'all!!
Battle fer hearts and minds rages...
We'll soon FReep yer meetings and clatter yer halls...
Pols, the times they are a'changin'...

Come mothers and fathers throughout the Land...
Look in yer kids' eyes...they are yer Scottish Clan...
Yer sons and yer daughters...look to you, MAKE YER STAND!!!
Left's Cold War has moved to this Nation!!
Please get out and help us...AIN'T PATRIOTISM GRAND?!!
Parents, the times they are a'changin'...

(Excellent harp jammin')

The line has been drawn...foundation's been cast!!
WE'LL GIT T-Mack NOW...THEN IMPRISON SLICK LAST!!
Welcome Prez'dent Bush...Ashcroft, get off yer A$$...
New World Order is rapidly fadin'!!
And the People's Power'll be returned at last...
Ohhh, the times they are a'changin'!!

FReegards...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"What's the Truth?!"
(To be sung to Johnny Cash's "What is Truth?")

Rush Limbaugh's talkin' on the Rad-ee-oh...
Sayin', "Where did our sense of Justice go?
Slick sure seems to be inventin' new ways...
Of keepin' the Truth from gettin' airplay!!"
Said, "They're crooks, you see, and their motives're Vile!!"
Still, the Medyuh says, "Bill's OUR Flower Child!!"
Country, can't you see thru these Lyin' Boys?
We gotta FIGHT to be heard o'er their LeftWing Noise!!
While the Lonely Voice of Youth cries..."What's the Truth?!"

My little boy of five, playin' in the yard,
Looks up and says, "Daddy, who's Ken Starr?" [yeah, it's an old song, circa 4/99...I'll fix it.]
"Son, he's trackin' bad men who Cheat and Lie!!"
Little man of five says, "Slick Ain't Right!!"
Young men of seventeen killin' kids at school,
As Courts outlaw the Golden Rule...
No prayer in school, teachers puttin' Faith down,
While Slick Willie jokes, "Let's pass a Joint aroun'!"
Can you blame the Voice of Youth fer askin' "What's the Truth?!"

EX-Prez'dent's sittin' on the Witness Stand,
The man with TheBook says, "Raise yer hand...
Repeat after me, 'I solemnly swear...' "
Yet the Nation said, "We just don't care."
'Cuz although Clinton solemnly swore,
Nobody really trusted Slick no more.
Culture's got so sleazy that America's unaware...
That EX-Prez'dent sold China missiles that're aimed at Bel Air!!
Still the RightWing's called uncouth fer askin', "What's the Truth?!"

Young girl internin' with the White House Sleaze...
Doin' Bill's job while on her knees!!
FReepers protest in the Public Square,
While fightin' 'gainst this Lib'ral Nightmare!!
Yeah, these young'uns that yer callin' "WILD"...
Are gonna be yer Leaders in a little while!!
The Whole World's Wakin' to FReedom today,
And I solemnly swear that it'll be OUR way!!
We gotta help our Voiceless Youth find, "What is True?!"
'Cuz the future needs more Youth askin', "What's the Truth?!!"

A little Johnny Cash never hurt anyone...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"Walk On The VILE Side!!"
(To be sung to Lou Reed's "Walk On the Wild Side!!")

Willie came from Little Rock, A-R-K...
Politicked his way across the U-S-A.
RAPED some women on the way...
Killed his "friends" 'cuz he was the Prez - Slick said:
"Hey Knaves, take a walk on the Vile Side!!"
Said "Hey Country, take a walk on the Vile Side!!"

John Huang came from Beijing in Red China.
In Slick's White House, Illegal Funds he laundered!!
But Huang never lost the Prez...
'Cuz Slick's TREASON required bread - Huang said...
"Hey Bill, sell yer NUKES to the Chi-Coms!!"
Said, "Hey Willie, Sell the Rope to hang yer side!!"
And Left's MedyuhShills go, "doo dodoo doo dodoo doo dodoo doo dodoo doo dodoo doo dodoo doo dodoo..."

Tobackky Al never once gave it away,
Chi-Com monks hadta pay and pay!!
Corruption here fer some TREASON there...
Clinton's White House is the place where they said:
"Hey kids, take a walk on the VileSide!!"
Said "Waco kids, we'll send tanks to make YOU FRY!!"

BourbonBirch Teddy picked up Mary Jo...
Looking for some lovin' from his two-bit HO!!
Drove into the Chappaquiddick, drowned his date then split the scene - Ted said:
"Hey Bobby, Kennedy's can't commit crimes..."
Said, "Hey Jack, DemonRATS...Ain't We ALL Vile?!!"

HildaBeast's just fading away,
Thought she was VeePee in her day.
Lib'ral Wretch, she covets cash,
Prison's where RAT BI+C#'ll breathe her last - she said:
"Hey Hubbell, thanks fer sirin' my only child!!"
MUD Said, "NooYawkers, Don't Y'all Got Any Pride?!"
And the DemonRATS go, "doo dodoo doo dodoo doo dodoo doo dodoo doo dodoo doo dodoo doo dodoo..."

Mudboy Slim...first FReeped 20 July 1997 (re-FReeped 18 February 2003)

[Mudboy Slim]

"Today's Military: Right, Republican And Principled!!"

"The 2003 Military Times Poll reveals a military more conservative, more Republican, and one that considers itself to be morally superior to the nation its serves. The figures add fuel to a debate, ongoing since at least the end of the Vietnam War, over whether there is a gap in attitudes between America and its military and whether that is a cause for concern. Especially troubling, some observers say, are indications that military members do not believe the nation’s civilian leadership has their best interests at heart.

The poll found:
*About half described their political views as conservative or very conservative; four in 10 called themselves moderate; and only 7 percent called themselves liberal.
*More than half called themselves Republicans, and just 13 percent said they are Democrats. Recent polls of the general public show the nation evenly split, with Democrats, Republicans and independents making up about a third of the population each.
*Two-thirds said they think military members have higher moral standards than the nation they serve. More than 60 percent called the country’s moral standards only fair or poor.

In follow-up interviews, service members repeatedly said the choice to serve, by itself, demonstrates moral quality above most civilians. Once in the military, many said, members are wrapped in a culture that values honor and morality.

FReegards...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"Spurrier to Resign As Skins' Coach!!"

"Steve Spurrier has told his assistant coaches that he intends to resign as head coach of the Washington Redskins, sources said today. Spurrier, reached today on his cell phone, said he would comment later on his status. "I don't have time to talk about that stuff right now," Spurrier said. Sources said there will be no buyout of Spurrier's contract, which still has three years remaining at $5 million a season. Spurrier went 12-20 in two seasons as Redskins coach. The Redskins will give him some money to cover some of his expenses, sources said."

WOW!!! I didn't figger Spurrier'd walk away from $15 Million, he must really be miserable!!

Oh well, time to begin yet another rebuilding effort...MUD