Posted on 07/09/2007 3:58:18 AM PDT by Renfield
Heavy metal legend Dave Mustaine and TAS's old friend, Human Events editor Jed Babbin, probably don't share too many overlapping areas of interest. But, as Megadeth's latest offering United Abominations makes clear, the transgressions of a certain international body situated on the Hudson River is one topic over which the guitarist and Inside the Asylum author could have a meeting of the minds.
In a mere five minutes and thirty-seven seconds United Abominations' title track encapsulates a litany of complaints against this "blot on the face of humanity," as Mustaine sneeringly calls it, from its practical indifference to ethnic cleansing and state-sponsored terrorism to the "mire of hypocrisy, bribes, kickbacks and corruption" it mucks around in. "The U.N. is where our so-called allies undermine us, and we pay 22 percent of the tab to host our enemies here at home," Mustaine intones during what is almost certainly the only song this year to name check Kofi Annan's son Kojo ("Held hostage by Oil-For-Food/Yet their own plates are full off the fat of their lands/There's no blood on their hands, right Kojo?") thunders along......
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Megadeth Rocks!!!
Well stated. Hooray Dave Mustaine!
I gave up on this one. Is the George Washington Bridge an International Body?
12th Street pier?
But, as Megadeth's latest offering United Abominations makes clear, the transgressions of a certain international body situated on the Hudson River is one topic over which the guitarist and Inside the Asylum author could have a meeting of the minds.
I gave up on this one. Is the George Washington Bridge an International Body?
He must mean the Little Red Lighthouse....
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