Black XVI: "The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends..." (BLOW AWAY, HUSSEIN!!!)

MUD's Nubile Mind ^ | Mudboy Slim

[FBD]

"Regarding the rummage sale appearance of the Mudcave Annex, has anyone here ever FReeped the song "I've Got FRiends in Low Places"?? If not, maybe I'll give it a try."

Geez, Sultan, you know how to hit hard, don't you? :^D

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Speaking of country songs, how about one of these?

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Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth 'Cause I'm Kissing You Goodbye.

I Still Miss You, Baby, But My Aim's Gettin' Better.

I've Got Tears In My Ears From Lyin' On My Back and Cryin' Over You.

My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend And I Sure Do Miss Him.

She's Actin' Single and I'm Drinkin' Doubles.

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FRegards!

[Mudboy Slim]

Thanks, my FRiend...

"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!! This 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


200 posted on 09/24/2001 6:25 PM EDT by Mudboy Slim


37 posted on 03/03/2003 1:11 PM EST by Mudboy Slim

[FBD]

..."think about it, 3/3/03, Let the Liberation of Iraq BEGIN!!"

We're gettin' close...days, maybe hours...I hear most embassies are closing up shop, as we speak.

Anti-War intellectuals ?

[Mudboy Slim]

"Not Yours To Give"
Col. David Crockett
US Representative from Tennessee

Originally published in "The Life of Colonel David Crockett," by Edward Sylvester Ellis.

One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose:

"Mr. Speaker--I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living, if there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member on this floor knows it.

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I ever heard that the government was in arrears to him.

"Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks."

He took his seat. Nobody replied. The bill was put upon its passage, and, instead of passing unanimously, as was generally supposed, and as, no doubt, it would, but for that speech, it received but few votes, and, of course, was lost.

Later, when asked by a friend why he had opposed the appropriation, Crockett gave this explanation:

"Several years ago I was one evening standing on the steps of the Capitol with some members of Congress, when our attention was attracted by a great light over in Georgetown. It was evidently a large fire. We jumped into a hack and drove over as fast as we could. In spite of all that could be done, many houses were burned and many families made houseless, and besides, some of them had lost all but the clothes they had on. The weather was very cold, and when I saw so many children suffering, I felt that something ought to be done for them. The next morning a bill was introduced appropriating $20,000 for their relief. We put aside all other business and rushed it through as soon as it could be done.

"The next summer, when it began to be time to think about election, I concluded I would take a scout around among the boys of my district. I had no opposition there but, as the election was some time off, I did not know what might turn up. When riding one day in a part of my district in which I was more of a stranger than any other, I saw a man in a field plowing and coming toward the road. I gauged my gait so that we should meet as he came up, I spoke to the man. He replied politely, but as I thought, rather coldly.

"I began: 'Well friend, I am one of those unfortunate beings called candidates and---

"Yes I know you; you are Colonel Crockett. I have seen you once before, and voted for you the last time you were elected. I suppose you are out electioneering now, but you had better not waste your time or mine, I shall not vote for you again."

"This was a sockdolger...I begged him tell me what was the matter.

"Well Colonel, it is hardly worthwhile to waste time or words upon it. I do not see how it can be mended, but you gave a vote last winter which shows that either you have not capacity to understand the Constitution, or that you are wanting in the honesty and firmness to be guided by it. In either case you are not the man to represent me. But I beg your pardon for expressing it that way. I did not intend to avail myself of the privilege of the constituent to speak plainly to a candidate for the purpose of insulting you or wounding you.'

"I intend by it only to say that your understanding of the constitution is very different from mine; and I will say to you what but for my rudeness, I should not have said, that I believe you to be honest.

But an understanding of the constitution different from mine I cannot overlook, because the Constitution, to be worth anything, must be held sacred, and rigidly observed in all its provisions. The man who wields power and misinterprets it is the more dangerous the honest he is.'

" 'I admit the truth of all you say, but there must be some mistake. Though I live in the backwoods and seldom go from home, I take the papers from Washington and read very carefully all the proceedings of Congress. My papers say you voted for a bill to appropriate $20,000 to some sufferers by fire in Georgetown. Is that true?

"Well my friend; I may as well own up. You have got me there. But certainly nobody will complain that a great and rich country like ours should give the insignificant sum of $20,000 to relieve its suffering women and children, particularly with a full and overflowing treasury, and I am sure, if you had been there, you would have done just the same as I did.'

"It is not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of; it is the principle. In the first place, the government ought to have in the Treasury no more than enough for its legitimate purposes. But that has nothing with the question. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue by a tariff, which reaches every man in the country, no matter how poor he may be, and the poorer he is the more he pays in proportion to his means.

What is worse, it presses upon him without his knowledge where the weight centers, for there is not a man in the United States who can ever guess how much he pays to the government. So you see, that while you are contributing to relieve one, you are drawing it from thousands who are even worse off than he. If you had the right to give anything, the amount was simply a matter of discretion with you, and you had as much right to give $20,000,000 as $20,000.

If you have the right to give at all; and as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity and to any amount you may think proper. You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other. 'No, Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity.'

"'Individual members may give as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a dollar of the public money for that purpose. If twice as many houses had been burned in this country as in Georgetown, neither you nor any other member of Congress would have Thought of appropriating a dollar for our relief. There are about two hundred and forty members of Congress. If they had shown their sympathy for the sufferers by contributing each one week's pay, it would have made over $13,000. There are plenty of wealthy men around Washington who could have given $20,000 without depriving themselves of even a luxury of life.'

"The congressmen chose to keep their own money, which, if reports be true, some of them spend not very creditably; and the people about Washington, no doubt, applauded you for relieving them from necessity of giving what was not yours to give. The people have delegated to Congress, by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneys, and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation, and a violation of the Constitution.'

"'So you see, Colonel, you have violated the Constitution in what I consider a vital point. It is a precedent fraught with danger to the country, for when Congress once begins to stretch its power beyond the limits of the Constitution, there is no limit to it, and no security for the people. I have no doubt you acted honestly, but that does not make it any better, except as far as you are personally concerned, and you see that I cannot vote for you.'

"I tell you I felt streaked. I saw if I should have opposition, and this man should go to talking and in that district I was a gone fawn-skin. I could not answer him, and the fact is, I was so fully convinced that he was right, I did not want to. But I must satisfy him, and I said to him:

"Well, my friend, you hit the nail upon the head when you said I had not sense enough to understand the Constitution. I intended to be guided by it, and thought I had studied it fully. I have heard many speeches in Congress about the powers of Congress, but what you have said here at your plow has got more hard, sound sense in it than all the fine speeches I ever heard. If I had ever taken the view of it that you have, I would have put my head into the fire before I would have given that vote; and if you will forgive me and vote for me again, if I ever vote for another unconstitutional law I wish I may be shot.'

"He laughingly replied; 'Yes, Colonel, you have sworn to that once before, but I will trust you again upon one condition. You are convinced that your vote was wrong. Your acknowledgment of it will do more good than beating you for it. If, as you go around the district, you will tell people about this vote, and that you are satisfied it was wrong, I will not only vote for you, but will do what I can to keep down opposition, and perhaps, I may exert some little influence in that way.'

"If I don't, said I, 'I wish I may be shot; and to convince you that I am in earnest in what I say I will come back this way in a week or ten days, and if you will get up a gathering of people, I will make a speech to them. Get up a barbecue, and I will pay for it.'

"No, Colonel, we are not rich people in this section but we have plenty of provisions to contribute for a barbecue, and some to spare for those who have none. The push of crops will be over in a few days, and we can then afford a day for a barbecue. 'This Thursday; I will see to getting it up on Saturday week. Come to my house on Friday, and we will go together, and I promise you a very respectable crowd to see and hear you.

"'Well I will be here. But one thing more before I say good-bye. I must know your name."

"'My name is Bunce.'

"'Not Horatio Bunce?'

"'Yes

"'Well, Mr. Bunce, I never saw you before, though you say you have seen me, but I know you very well. I am glad I have met you, and very proud that I may hope to have you for my FRiend.'
"It was one of the luckiest hits of my life that I met him. He mingled but little with the public, but was widely known for his remarkable intelligence, and for a heart brim-full and running over with kindness and benevolence, which showed themselves not only in words but in acts. He was the oracle of the whole country around him, and his fame had extended far beyond the circle of his immediate acquaintance. Though I had never met him, before, I had heard much of him, and but for this meeting it is very likely I should have had opposition, and had been beaten. One thing is very certain, no man could now stand up in that district under such a vote.

"At the appointed time I was at his house, having told our conversation to every crowd I had met, and to every man I stayed all night with, and I found that it gave the people an interest and confidence in me stronger than I had ever seen manifested before.

"Though I was considerably fatigued when I reached his house, and, under ordinary circumstances, should have gone early to bed, I kept him up until midnight talking about the principles and affairs of government, and got more real, true knowledge of them than I had got all my life before."

"I have known and seen much of him since, for I respect him - no, that is not the word - I reverence and love him more than any living man, and I go to see him two or three times every year; and I will tell you, sir, if every one who professes to be a Christian lived and acted and enjoyed it as he does, the religion of Christ would take the world by storm.

"But to return to my story. The next morning we went to the barbecue and, to my surprise, found about a thousand men there. I met a good many whom I had not known before, and they and my friend introduced me around until I had got pretty well acquainted - at least, they all knew me.

"In due time notice was given that I would speak to them. They gathered up around a stand that had been erected. I opened my speech by saying:

"Fellow-citizens - I present myself before you today feeling like a new man. My eyes have lately been opened to truths which ignorance or prejudice or both, had heretofore hidden from my view. I feel that I can today offer you the ability to render you more valuable service than I have ever been able to render before. I am here today more for the purpose of acknowledging my error than to seek your votes. That I should make this acknowledgment is due to myself as well as to you. Whether you will vote for me is a matter for your consideration only."

"I went on to tell them about the fire and my vote for the appropriation and then told them why I was satisfied it was wrong. I closed by saying:

"And now, fellow-citizens, it remains only for me to tell you that the most of the speech you have listened to with so much interest was simply a repetition of the arguments by which your neighbor, Mr. Bunce, convinced me of my error.

"It is the best speech I ever made in my life, but he is entitled to the credit for it. And now I hope he is satisfied with his convert and that he will get up here and tell you so.'

"He came up to the stand and said:

"Fellow-citizens - it affords me great pleasure to comply with the request of Colonel Crockett. I have always considered him a thoroughly honest man, and I am satisfied that he will faithfully perform all that he has promised you today.'

"He went down, and there went up from that crowd such a shout for Davy Crockett as his name never called forth before.'

"I am not much given to tears, but I was taken with a choking then and felt some big drops rolling down my cheeks. And I tell you now that the remembrance of those few words spoken by such a man, and the honest, hearty shout they produced, is worth more to me than all the honors I have received and all the reputation I have ever made, or ever shall make, as a member of Congress.'

"Now, sir," concluded Crockett, "you know why I made that speech yesterday. "There is one thing which I will call your attention, "you remember that I proposed to give a week's pay. There are in that House many very wealthy men - men who think nothing of spending a week's pay, or a dozen of them, for a dinner or a wine party when they have something to accomplish by it. Some of those same men made beautiful speeches upon the great debt of gratitude which the country owed the deceased--a debt which could not be paid by money--and the insignificance and worthlessness of money, particularly so insignificant a sum as $20,000 when weighed against the honor of the nation. Yet not one of them responded to my proposition. Money with them is nothing but trash when it is to come out of the people. But it is the one great thing for which most of them are striving, and many of them sacrifice honor, integrity, and justice to obtain it."

Good History, mi amigo...MUD


156 posted on 09/24/2001 3:00 AM EDT by Mudboy Slim (Where ya been, ol' timer?!)

[FBD]

Wow...

Thanks for posting that to me, Mud. Powerful stuff.
(Crockett's letter)

I'm going to print that, and give it to my dad. He may be a Democrat, but he actually has great respect for common sense, and decency. Crockett's letter might actually hold some sway with him.

BTW, We had a family dinner last night, and as usual, my liberal bro'in law started in about the pending war with Iraq, and it being all about US oil interests, blah,blah,blah...

That's when my dad brought up the points that I had talked with him about - French, German, and Russian oil interests. He had just finished reading "Saddam's Bombmaker", by Dr. Hamza.
My dad actually came out on my side of the argument, in the war with Iraq! That was a FIRST!

FRegards,
FBD

PS. - I was serious about sending you one of Nugent's books, bud...but I'll need an address to mail it to. Don't you have a PO Box or somthing to send it to?

[Mudboy Slim]

Fight the fight fer FReedom...help force Clinton down...
Righteous Lord shall guide us through...PROSECUTION NOW!!!
RIGHT must fight fer FReedom...tear Left's Stonewall down...
Countrymen, Right calls on you...DEMAND JUSTICE NOW!!!!

FReegards...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"Stand!!"
(To be sung to Jewel's "Hands")

If I could tell the World just one thing...
It would be...that "We'll be OKAY!!"
Don't get discouraged 'cuz Courage is Vital...
And priceless in times like these...WE MUST EXACT JUSTICE!!

We shan't stop with bin Laden's head!!
We must gather ourselves around our Faith...
Fer Right's what the [Med'yuh/Fascists/Leftists/Lib'rals/Cowards/Nazis/Commies] most fear!!

My hands are gnarled and rough...
But they're not yers...nor what they've sown.
Yes, we're...the Right!! This is OUR home...
And we shall not be broken!!

Zealotry...felled the Silver Twins...
We must remove Left's cancer!!

Yes...heartache came to visit me...
But I KNEW WHAT I WUZ DOIN' AFTER!!!
We'll fight...we know we're Right!!
For someone must stand up 'gainst Left's blight.
'Cuz where there's a man who has no voice...
There OURS shall go singin'!!

My hands are gnarled and rough...
But they're not yers...nor what I've grown!!
It's Justice Time...you've bombed my home!!
Now, you've...gone provoked US!!!!

In the End, only the Truth matters...
In the End, only Justice matters!!
I will get down on my knees, and I will pray...
You should get down on yer knees...yes, you should pray!!
Allah? The planes went down...four buildings...soul-lessly razed!!

My hands are gnarled and rough...
But they're not yers...nor what I've smoked.
Now you've riled us...attacked our home!!
Folks, we shall not be broken!!
Right shall not be broken!!!

We are God's eyes...God's hands...God's mind.
We are God's eyes...God's hands...Allah's heart.
We are God's eyes...God's hands...God's eyes...
We are God's hands... RIGHT...MAKE YER STAND!!!

Mudboy Slim (9/18/01)


5 posted on 09/18/2001 5:11 PM EDT by Mudboy Slim (Ev'rythang happens in 3's!!! Ever notice that?)

[Lindykim]

Thanks for the invitation. I'm not too familiar with Richmond though. Where is the Red Door, is it a restaurant? And which Tuesday and what time?

[Mudboy Slim]

"We can make CD #3 modern rock. #2 should be classic rock, IMHO."

Werks fer me...how's CD #1 coming along?! Also, when's the next CosmicBox CD gonna be ready fer purchase?!

FReegards...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

Check out #551...LOL!!

FReegards...MUD

[jla]

Check out #551

Very good! hehehe

[sultan88]

To: Poohbah
Seriously, my FRiend, I have no beef with you...sure, I've been gettin' a lotta FReepMails from folks sayin' fer me to be careful in dealin' with ya, 'cuz on account of "Keep yer distance from Poohbah, he's a BallBreaker!!" and "Poohbah's the Leader of the MODS!!" LOL!!! And of course my response was, "POOHBAH'S A DUDE?!!!"

So how you and Poohbah gettin' along these days??

[sultan88]

"I've Got FRiends in Low Places" A purr-fect Black Greaser song to FReep, IMHO

So, I guess now is a good time to start working on this. Could be about Hillary. Saddam was found in a low place. See where this could go?

[Mudboy Slim]

"Projecting forwards, FR should have at least 150,000 by Election 2004, maybe closer to 175,000, or more as growth tends to be non-linear."

I've got a fund-raiser suggestion...the FReeperIntern Program!! I say monthly donors deserve more FReeper Rights than Lurkers and FReepLoaders, so each $10/monther gets to Intern a new FReeper each month ($5/monthers git one every two months). It could be yer spouse, yer crazy Lib'ral Uncle, or El Rushbo hisself, but you gotta know the person in Real-Life and their email address, but then you are sorta responsible fer helpin' that fledgling FReeper along fer a month while they are on FReeper probation...LOL!! When you select yer FReeperInternCandidate, you will be able to download a SpecialFReeperInternCertificate that you can frame and give to yer new FRiend as a cherished gift...then introduce them around. Like I said, only MonthlyDonors are allowed this new privilege, and if you keep bringin' in deadbeats, we'll revoke yer InternPrivileges!!

There's more to this than I have time to git into, but I figger we can add 12 new FReepers fer every $10/monther and 6 new FReepers fer every $5/monther, annually, and so on...and so on...and so on....MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"When I read the “all knowing machine’s” posts; I feel like I’m reading a damn Book of Cliché’s."

OWWWWCHHHH...that hadta hurt, Landru...Mye-Gaaaawwwd, are you gonna just SIT THERE AND TAKE IT?! Oh man, you ain't the Guy you pretend to be, dude, not if'n you don't respond to that!! I mean, that hurt me fer ya, dude...you KNOW how cliche'd you can be at times!

LOL...MUD

BTW...flick 'im with the edible thong undies, dude...that'll show him!!

[FBD]

RE:
>"OWWWWCHHHH...that hadta hurt, Landru...Mye-Gaaaawwwd, are you gonna just SIT THERE AND TAKE IT?! Oh man, you ain't the Guy you pretend to be, dude, not if'n you don't respond to that!! I mean, that hurt me fer ya, dude...you KNOW how cliche'd you can be at times!"


- Oww. Mud...why did ya hafta bring up that old post?
I was in the wrong for attacking our FRiend Landru!
Besides...I felt so bad, I Freeped him flowers after that post to apologize!
;^)

[Mudboy Slim]

Just tryin' to stir up ol' 'Dru...I know y'all have become buddies since...LOL!!

FReegards...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"Mudboy"
(To be sung to Jewel's "Fatboy")

Mudboy...ain't nobody's fool...
Sits there reflectin'...contemplates what to do...
MUD feels anger inside...yet filled with pride.
No...Slim's no Saint...but not the ONE to blame.

Mudboy...goes about his day...
Tryin' to think of FReepin' words to say...
Like..."This is just a game I play..."
And..."All shall be okay."
Ohhhh...silent rage...why won't folks fan the flames?!

Must FReep...must think...can't sleep...

MUD's Daddy's little boy...
MUD's Mama's pride and joy...
MUD's kids...they love him!!
But MUD's Missuz...she holds him!!!

Mudboy says, "Wouldn't it be nice...
If we could sing...fer Truth and Life?!"
Then, outrun Left's spin...and INDICT Ol' Slick?!!
Ohhh-oh-oh-oh...Truth Shall Reign!!
Someday, you'll feel the same...

Mudboy Slim (9/18/01)

[Mudboy Slim]

"General Aschroft is being a great Attorney General."

IMHO, yer BLATANTLY WRONG ON THIS ISSUE...Ashcroft's either a Clueless Ineffectual DOLT and/or scair't of his own shaddow...in either event, he'll NEVER do what's Right vis a vis ClintonJustice!! Never!!!...EVER!!!!

Evidence to the contrary appreciated and shall be respectfully considered...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"I turned around and said: 'Look, for a start, I'm not opposed to a war on Iraq. And there's no way I'm going up to sing in support of your anti-US administration rally. Because, that's what it is. If you were really interested in peace, and human rights, you'd support the removal of Saddam. Got it?'."

Got it...great job!!

FReegards...MUD