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Poll shows Americans 'generally in a funk'
USA Today ^ | 6/21/2005 | Richard Benedetto and Judy Keen

Posted on 06/21/2005 7:18:04 AM PDT by Mike Bates

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To: visagoth
What is the number one song? Black-eyed Peas, "Don't Funk wit' my Heart?

Like their music or not a party seems to constantly break out around these guy.

41 posted on 06/21/2005 7:46:52 AM PDT by oyez (¡Qué viva la revolución de Reagan!)
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To: Tulane
Hahaha...the economy is strong, jobs are up, unemployment down, many have made killing in real estate, but WE'RE DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!

No, we're BOOOOOOOOOOOOOORED! Bush's fault.
42 posted on 06/21/2005 7:47:36 AM PDT by Ticonderoga34
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To: Mike Bates

Those people look like that have been spending their last few days on a life boat.


43 posted on 06/21/2005 7:48:11 AM PDT by oyez (¡Qué viva la revolución de Reagan!)
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To: zarf
Fewer Americans fear a terrorist attack on the USA in the next several weeks than at any time since 9/11....The public has lost confidence in the Bush administration's ability to protect the nation from terrorist attacks

About as stupid as this s***!

44 posted on 06/21/2005 7:49:25 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Mike Bates
>do we need another terrorist attack to shake us out of our funk?



































































































































GUENEVERE

What do the simple folk do
To help them escape when they're blue?
The shepard who is ailing, the milkmaid who is glum
The cobbler who is wailing from nailing his thumb
When they're beset and besieged
The folk not noblessly obliged
However do they manage to shed their weary lot?
Oh, what do simple folk do we do not?


ARTHUR

I have been informed by those who know them well
They find relief in quite a clever way
When they're sorely pressed, they whistle for a spell
And whistling seems to brighten up their day
And that's what simple folk do
So they say


GUENEVERE

They whistle?


ARTHUR

So they say

(they whistle for a while)


GUENEVERE

What else do the simple folk do
To pluck up the heart and get through?
The wee folk and the grown folk
Who wander to and fro
Have ways known to their own folk
We throne folk don't know
When all the doldrums begin
What keeps each of them in his skin?
What ancient native custom provides the needed glow?
Oh, what do simple folk do?
Do you know?


ARTHUR

Once, upon the road, I came upon a lad
Singing in a voice three times his size
When I asked him why, he told me he was sad
And singing always made his spirits rise
And that's what simple folk do
I surmise


GUENEVERE

They sing?


ARTHUR

I surmise


BOTH

Arise, my love, arise, my love
Apollo's lighting the skies, my love
The meadows shine with columbine
And daffodils blossom away
Hear Venus call to one and all
And taste delight while you may
The world is bright and all is right
And life is merry and gay


GUENEVERE

What else do the simple folk do?
They must have a system or two
They obviously outshine us at turning tears to mirth
And tricks a royal highness is minus from birth
What, then, I wonder, do they
To chase all the goblins away?
They have some tribal sorcery you haven't mentioned yet
Oh, what do simple folk do to forget?


ARTHUR

Often, I am told, they dance a fiery dance
And whirl 'till they're completely uncontrolled
Soon the mind is blank and oh, they're in a trance
A violent trance astounding to behold
And that's what simple folk do
So I'm told


GUENEVERE

They dance?


ARTHUR
So I'm told


(they dance)


GUENEVERE

What else do the simple folk do
To help them escape when they're blue?


ARTHUR

They sit around and wonder what royal folk would do
And that's what simple folk do


GUENEVERE (spoken)

Oh, no, really?


ARTHUR

I have it on the best authority.


BOTH (sung)

Yes, that's what simple folk do

45 posted on 06/21/2005 7:49:57 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: oyez
Those people look like that have been spending their last few days on a life boat.

They're probably on one - headed to Cuba.

46 posted on 06/21/2005 7:50:47 AM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Mike Bates
They're probably on one - headed to Cuba.

If only that were true.

47 posted on 06/21/2005 8:02:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (Flush Newsweek!)
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To: roses of sharon

Well, who's to say. It may be a left wing media induced funk, otoh we only know there IS a funk because the lwm tells us there is. So maybe there isn't. The only thing we really get from the media is confused.

Like the famous short attention span. It's not necessarily the american people with the short attention span, it's the lwm. The American people just keep going to work every day trying to make things better for their families.


48 posted on 06/21/2005 8:03:38 AM PDT by johnb838 (In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.)
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To: RexBeach

Never had to deal with adversity. A real war or a stiff recession would frankly be good for this country right now.


49 posted on 06/21/2005 8:05:27 AM PDT by johnb838 (In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.)
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To: Mike Bates

I think we are feeling a frustration with stagnation. We expended so much energy in the November elections and now we are confronted with obstructionism from the Dems at every turn. Even idiot Harry Reid admitted this, although he tried to blame it on us, of course. As in, leave my friend, poor Dick Durbin, alone and let's get down to business. Yes, let's, Harry! Stop the bs. Confirm Bolton. Offer some ideas instead of personal attacks. Get off your whining butts and do something.


50 posted on 06/21/2005 8:08:48 AM PDT by sageb1
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To: Mike Bates

Yusef Islam? Remember when we thought that meant he had gone "religious" or something, like a swami or a hare krishna or some crap? Instead of a woman hating satan worshipper who would like to cut our heads off?


51 posted on 06/21/2005 8:09:19 AM PDT by johnb838 (In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.)
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To: Mike Bates

Let's see, according to this poll, fewer Americans expect a terrorist attack than at any time since 9/11, but Americans have lost confidence in the Bush administration's ability to fight the war on terror. Sounds like a disconnect to me, or maybe simply the effects of a push-poll.


52 posted on 06/21/2005 8:10:25 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: LAURENTIJ

Really?

My co-worker is in a funk, but that's because he's letting himself be jerked around by a woman, and he knows it.

If people are in a funk its because of all the crap going on in DC, and the dems, with the willing assistance of their co-horts in the media, are trying to do it. They want people to feel like everything is doomed DOOMED I say so they will vote dem in 2006.

Gas prices are where they've been for months now.

I must be blind to this palpaple unhappiness. Maybe I thought it was the humidity?


53 posted on 06/21/2005 8:19:09 AM PDT by eyespysomething ( A penny saved is a government oversight)
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To: freedomson
Funk costume.

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54 posted on 06/21/2005 8:20:54 AM PDT by No Blue States
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To: Mike Bates

Drats!. There's a rut in my quagmire.


55 posted on 06/21/2005 8:23:17 AM PDT by auboy
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To: Mike Bates

I would be in a funk, too, if I read USA Today and watched CNN.


56 posted on 06/21/2005 8:41:23 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
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To: visagoth

A 'FUNKED' out American if ever I saw one! Send him to Illinois!


57 posted on 06/21/2005 8:42:51 AM PDT by Eighth Square
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To: RexBeach

The media are our real ememy, always have been.


58 posted on 06/21/2005 8:49:13 AM PDT by Eighth Square
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To: No Blue States
>

Gotta make a move to a
Town that's right for me
Town to keep me movin'
Keep me gvoovin' with some
en-er-gy.

Well, I
Talk about it,
Talk about it,
Talk about it,
Talk about it,
Talk about,
Talk about,
Talk about movin' . . .

Gotta move on.
Gotta move on.
Gotta move on.

Won't you take me to
Funkytown . . .
Won't you take me to
Funkytown . . .
Won't you take me to
Funkytown . . .
Won't you take me to
Funkytown . . .

59 posted on 06/21/2005 1:03:55 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: theFIRMbss
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60 posted on 06/21/2005 1:24:18 PM PDT by No Blue States
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