Posted on 10/28/2004 11:00:58 AM PDT by Mudboy Slim
"Don't Surrender!!"
(To be sung to Bruce Springsteen's "No Surrender")
Yeah, Dem Lib'rals got no class...RATS' tyranny's built fer fools...
We learn more from the FReepublic Forum, Nation, then we ever learned in school!!
We'll fight Left's fear...our neighborhoods're standin' proud...
Singin' from our hearts...we're singin' loud!!
We shan't git tired...our goal must be EXPOSE Left's LIES!!
So git up and FReep now...
Dutch Reagan's promise lives on in all who remember...
Yer Effete, Kerry, you'll surrender!!
We're soldiers in a Righteous fight...it's our Peace we'll defend...
RATS retreat, Kerry, you'll surrender!!
DemRAT faces are mad and cold...
Left's schemes are weak and olde...
We abhor Big Guv'ment and Medyuh Spin...
And Right's ready to stand tall again!!
We hear the Lib'rals voices cheerin' fer John...
DemRATS, they ain't too smart!!
Well maybe we could give Libs a place of their own...
Send Dem Lib-uh-rulls to Mars!!
Folks, George Dubyuh's promise since that sad day in September...
"No retreat...Dubyuh won't surrender!!"
George Dubyuh, he will do what's Right...our Country he'll defend!!
Don't retreat, Nation, don't surrender!!
Folks, hit the streets to fight fer Right...we'll win!!
We're armed with the TRUTH 'gainst Lib'ral spin...
Culture War's the fight we're wagin'...
RATS say the fault's ours fer the war we're winnin'...
I wanna FReep Elites...Peacenik's LIE...damn the Lib'rals' dread!!
Fer our wide open country we shall fight...we got heroic dreams in our head!!
Folks, George Dubyuh's promise since that sad day in September...
"No retreat, Country won't surrender!!"
George Dubyuh, he will do what's Right...our Country he'll defend!!
Boldly FReep, Nation don't surrender!!
Mudboy Slim
Are we still on for the RTM tomorrow? And just exactly where is El Paso?
I've got a couple of strategery items to talk about.
I haven't really heard much about today's RTM...El Paso is at 19 N. 18th Street, but we need a count of who's gonna be able to make it today.
FReegards...MUD
Hi Mud,
We did it!!!! LOL
I forgot all about the RTM. I have a sick kid home and won't be there. Mommy 1st and everything else 2nd. I'm sure everyone understands.
Please update us who can't attnd.
Have a great time!!!
I won't be there either.
I'll be there. I need to see some normal conservative people since I was in the heart of darkness earlier in the week.
If we're on, I'll be there. 11:30 right?
11:30 it is.
Hate to do it, but I'm not gonna be able to make it. Having to do some creative damage control this morning because someone was too lazy to take care of something...
Check yer freepmail in a second.
Peggy Noonan writes about the decline of the MSM.
By the way, joanie f's essays remind me of Peggy Noonan. Peggy, is that you?
;^D
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110005844
FReegards...MUD
FreeRepublic.com may not have been mentioned directly, but Ms. Noonan was certainly talking about us...MUD
That was surprisingly good and cheap food, sorry you missed it. Surely outranks the overpriced Sine's. Great to meet you Nick!
The perils of working in the field of Higher Education...LOL!!
FReegards...MUD
>"FreeRepublic.com may not have been mentioned directly, but Ms. Noonan was certainly talking about us...MUD"<
- Yes, she was.
By the way, do you think you could find this Jane Smiley piece Limbaugh read today? (regarding how stupid left-wingers think the red states are)
I didn't get there until the RTMers had already finished eating, but we missed y'all...MUD
We're sorry you weren't able to be there either.
We thought you took the afternoon off since it is a gorgeous day.
Isn't that the truth?! It's probably contributing to my high blood pressure.
Jane Smiley's "I say forget introspection. It's time to be honest about our antagonists. My predecessors in this conversation are thoughtful men, and I honor their ideas, but let's try something else. I grew up in Missouri and most of my family voted for Bush, so I am going to be the one to say it: The election results reflect the decision of the right wing to cultivate and exploit ignorance in the citizenry. I suppose the good news is that 55 million Americans have evaded the ignorance-inducing machine. But 58 million have not. (Well, almost 58 million—my relatives are not ignorant, they are just greedy and full of classic Republican feelings of superiority.)
Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states. There used to be a kind of hand-to-hand fight on the frontier called a "knock-down-drag-out," where any kind of gouging, biting, or maiming was considered fair. The ancestors of today's red-state voters used to stand around cheering and betting on these fights. When the forces of red and blue encountered one another head-on for the first time in Kansas Territory in 1856, the red forces from Missouri, who had been coveting Indian land across the Missouri River since 1820, entered Kansas and stole the territorial election. The red news media of the day made a practice of inflammatory lying—declaring that the blue folks had shot and killed red folks whom everyone knew were walking around. The worst civilian massacre in American history took place in Lawrence, Kan., in 1862—Quantrill's raid. The red forces, known then as the slave-power, pulled 265 unarmed men from their beds on a Sunday morning and slaughtered them in front of their wives and children. The error that progressives have consistently committed over the years is to underestimate the vitality of ignorance in America. Listen to what the red state citizens say about themselves, the songs they write, and the sermons they flock to. They know who they are—they are full of original sin and they have a taste for violence. The blue state citizens make the Rousseauvian mistake of thinking humans are essentially good, and so they never realize when they are about to be slugged from behind.
Here is how ignorance works: First, they put the fear of God into you—if you don't believe in the literal word of the Bible, you will burn in hell. Of course, the literal word of the Bible is tremendously contradictory, and so you must abdicate all critical thinking, and accept a simple but logical system of belief that is dangerous to question. A corollary to this point is that they make sure you understand that Satan resides in the toils and snares of complex thought and so it is best not try it.
Next, they tell you that you are the best of a bad lot (humans, that is) and that as bad as you are, if you stick with them, you are among the chosen. This is flattering and reassuring, and also encourages you to imagine the terrible fates of those you envy and resent. American politicians ALWAYS operate by a similar sort of flattery, and so Americans are never induced to question themselves. That's what happened to Jimmy Carter—he asked Americans to take responsibility for their profligate ways, and promptly lost to Ronald Reagan, who told them once again that they could do anything they wanted. The history of the last four years shows that red state types, above all, do not want to be told what to do—they prefer to be ignorant. As a result, they are virtually unteachable.
Third, and most important, when life grows difficult or fearsome, they (politicians, preachers, pundits) encourage you to cling to your ignorance with even more fervor. But by this time you don't need much encouragement—you've put all your eggs into the ignorance basket, and really, some kind of miraculous fruition (preferably accompanied by the torment of your enemies, and the ignorant always have plenty of enemies) is your only hope. If you are sufficiently ignorant, you won't even know how dangerous your policies are until they have destroyed you, and then you can always blame others."
ROFLMAO...talk about a SORE LOSER...MUD
If I'd been able to take the afternoon off, I'd have definitely begun the weekend with a nice meal with my fellow FReepers...MUD
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