Posted on 02/20/2007 3:23:59 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Ping!
Yeah. I'm positively floored. How very un-PC of him.
I wonder what it'd take to get the rest of the aging hippie faction to take on a communist monster - besides free cheese, of course.
I'm from Maine, and grew up in the same town where Paul Stookey raised his family... went to school with his daughters Anna and Kate, been to his home, etc. He was never that much of a radical anti-American (like the idiot Chomsky); however, he certainly has spoken out on the side of the peace movement. Glad to hear he's speaking out for real justice this time.
However,that child molester (pardoned by Jimmah),Yarrow is,IIRC,still active in a far leftist organization to combat US hegemony (or something like that) that was organized by one of the grandkids of.....Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
But then,Stookey can't be held responsible for the actions (or attitudes) of others.
He became a born-again Christian years ago, attempting to witness to the other two, with no visible success so far. He is at very least middle-of-the-road these days.
Once while channel surfing (an activity to be avoided) I happened to catch him on Jim Bakker's old PTL Club. He was very gracious and did his hit "Wedding Song". I bet his trendy-set friends gave him a tough time when the PTL scandal hit the big news.
Saw PP&M back in the sixties. Stookey had the best "impression" of a toilet flushing, using a microphone, that I have ever heard. heh, heh
Stookey's done several wonderful faithful albums, but has never achieved the success or profitability he has when he is on stage as part of the trio. This one is my favorite:
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My Father's House - Noel Paul Stookey
The way to my Father's house when I was just a boy
Lay through fields of innocence
Near bubbling springs of joy
And when I'd lay me down to sleep
I'd pray the Lord my soul to keep
The road was never very steep
On the way to my Father's house
The way to my Father's house when I turned seventeen
Wandered through inviting hills
Beside a tumbling stream
Sometimes in prayer upon my knees
I would feel a distant breeze
The road was winding now through trees
On the way to my Father's house
The way to my Father's house at the age of twenty-nine
Led over a mountain that
I would seldom climb
Except in times of great despair
When I'd be looking everywhere
And then one morning He was there
On the way to my Father's house
Glory! What a refreshing story
I was so blind before He
Opened my eyes restoring me to
The way to my Father's house at the age of thirty-one
Was a ride on a rainbow;
My new life had begun
And every evening I could look
Through the pages of His book
And recognize the paths I took
On the way, on the way ...
I go to my Father's house in these troubled days
The Spirit is moving in
Mysterious ways
Reminded when old doubts appear
That perfect love casts out all fear
In thanks, I tend the garden here
On the way, on the way...
On the way to my Father's house
See Elani the film made of Nicolas Gage's book of the same title about his mother who was murdered by Communists for having saved her son from kidnapping. They would steal Greek children and move them to Albania for indoctrination as communists.
The harm wreaked by Marx and Engels is incalculable.
Nice of him to bring attention to this.
Unfortunately, he's, "" holding out hope that somewhere in an automobile in North Korea, Kim Jong-Il is listening to the radio and thinks of his own family," 69-year-old Stookey said"
> The harm wreaked by Marx and Engels is incalculable.
While I share your perspective and fully concur with your remarks, the past tense of "wreak" is "wrought", not "wreaked".
...brought to you by your local grammar police.
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My view on grammar: Whom cares?
What? Someone not singing about the evils of America?! How refreshing.
Now lets see if the Dixie Chicks and John Mayer will write sing something about the horrors of Saddam Hussein, Ahminadinejad, Hamas, Castro or various terrorists/despots.
Not holding breath.
> My view on grammar: Whom cares?
Your leftist opponents care. They will grasp at any uneven surface to portray you as a knuckle-dragging, pie-eyed, mouth-breathing drooler.
The less ammo we give them, the better.
So buck up, friend, and utilize the best articulation of your worthy thoughts that you can muster.
A good articulation adds power to the point being made.
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You're welcome.
"Usage note ... The past tense and past participle of wreak is wreaked, not wrought, which is an alternative past tense and past participle of work." ...American Heritage Dictionary, Third Edition, 1992 p 2060
I stand very humbly corrected!
Did somebody change the language behind my back?
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