Star Spangled Banner -- keep your hand over your heart

Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing-- keep your hand over your wallet

To every leftist, turn turn turn...

and I mean that in reference to Obama's tax policy

I remember learning this frigging song in the first grade from a racist teacher. I love the fact that "every" isn't even spelled right.

It's a new world for the democrats. Next up: the gay national anthem? [but don't call them unpatriotic]

The Star Spangled Banner is held widely in contempt by the Left. Has been for 100 years.

yep. One of my coworkers was there and was "raving" about how great it was that this woman was so public with her "message." And on a slightly unrelated topic, BO is in Colo Springs meeting with Peace Corps/Americorps volunteers trying to rally the "service" community.

Moonbats in the audience felt a tingle in their legs

This is America. If you dont like it, leave.

I wonder if Obama would have placed his hand over his heart for this?

re: #1 Shug

lmao

Well, that's an obnoxious thing to do. Making it worse was the fact she wasn't called on it.

Her version of Leonard Cohen's Suzanne, in Bolero tempo, was so pompous that I thought I saw dry ice wafting from the kitchen. Would Faith HIll sing, "Dixie?"

When it comes to race in America, everybody's brain turns to mush.

Someone over on the HA thread mentioned waiting with bated breath for Zombie's pics from the Convention. All I can say is "Me Too!" If, that is, The Great and Powerful Z is planning on making the trip (not sure if you announce your plans beforehand, Zombie, but I hope you go :)

Just remember, you shouldn't question their patriotism.

/

re: #9 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

This is America. If you dont like it, leave.

Sounds like you're QUESTIONING HER PATRIOTISM! You dirty bastard.

They redefine patriotism, the want to change the Constitution should this even surprise anyone?

Instances like this tend to (I suspect/hope) alienate a lot of moderate voters. Keep it up Dems.

re: #10 Iron Fist

I wonder if Obama would have placed his hand over his heart for this?

Obama would wear a Confederate flag pin, if he thought there were enough votes in it.

re: #17 Peacekeeper

Sounds like you're QUESTIONING HER PATRIOTISM! You dirty bastard.

You're God damn right I am.

I get a tingle in my spine ev'ry time I hear that song...

re: #18 DoubleU

They redefine patriotism, the want to change the Constitution should this even surprise anyone?

It's all about CHANGE!. CHANGE! for you, CHANGE! for me, CHANGE! for all. All with less CHANGE! in my pocket.

Isn't that racist? oh wait ...

Democrate, the national party of perpetual grievance.

Welcome to the America of the Democratic Party and Barack: Up is down and down is up, left is right and right is left, etc.

Current Poll results at the denver post ;

"alternate anthem"

Loved it 6.772 %
Liked it 2.328 %
Neutral 6.455 %
Didn't like it 16.29 %
Hated it 68.14 %

re: #27 Shug

Current Poll results at the denver post ;

"alternate anthem"

Loved it 6.772 %
Liked it 2.328 %
Neutral 6.455 %
Didn't like it 16.29 %
Hated it 68.14 %

Bus toss in 5... 4... 3... 2...

This is how it's supposed to be sung, okay?

Wow. No shame or honor. Go figure.

re: #21 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Well, glad we've settled that.

Change!

Hope?

AntiAmericanism in Denver? The just-so-happen host city of this year's DNC? Coincidence?hmmmm.......

party of Eisenhower and Truman my ass....

Just another liberal trying to get attention. I hope they didn't pay her for this shameless act. And wasn't there anyone around to give the authority to cut her mike?

At some point (the TIPPING POINT) Americans will stop humoring the dems and their attempts to turn America left. It's just more of these kinds of things that can (and will) turn the tide.

At one time in the 2004 elections I was convinced that Kerry was going to win. All the media believed it, all the pollsters, etc. Bush was doomed. I almost didn't vote.

A National Anthem for all ethnic groups!

Let the healing begin!

I was never very good at geography, so perhaps you all can help me with this. Will someone please point to me where the "Black" nation is? I'm trying to figure out which country the "Black National Anthem" is honoring.

re: #20 Peacekeeper
Hey PK! You are, of course, absolutely right. When running in the primaries, Obama played to what I HOPE and pray is the far, far left wing activists of his Party.
Now that he's running in the general election, he has to CHANGE his M.O.

All in all it's just another brick in the wall.

Lift ev'ry voice and sing,
'Til earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on 'til victory is won.
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chast'ning rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
'Til now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee,
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand,
May we forever stand,
True to our God,
True to our native land.

this is america. we only need one national anthem.

re: #27 Shug

Current Poll results at the denver post ;

"alternate anthem"

Loved it 6.772 %
Liked it 2.328 %
Neutral 6.455 %
Didn't like it 16.29 %
Hated it 68.14 %

That ought to say everything. But then again, maybe Barak will just throw this new anthem under the bus. [that's not the anthem I knew...]

re: #38 realwest

Hey PK! You are, of course, absolutely right. When running in the primaries, Obama played to what I HOPE and pray is the far, far left wing activists of his Party.
Now that he's running in the general election, he has to CHANGE his M.O.

Obama is a power whore. He'll do whatever it takes to get it and keep it.

re: #19 Yashmak

Instances like this tend to (I suspect/hope) alienate a lot of moderate voters. Keep it up Dems.

What they said and I would like to add that I have never heard of this song. In school we learned the National Anthem and God Bless America. That is what my child is going to learn and if he comes home with anything different I am going to have some ass on a silver plate!

re: #33 paxnhymn

AntiAmericanism in Denver? The just-so-happen host city of this year's DNC? Coincidence?hmmmm.......

party of Eisenhower and Truman my ass....

Ike was a Republican, not a Democrat.

The Democratic convention is going to be very entertaining. I think the DNC is going to be preoccupied stamping out fires just like this. I don't think even the MSM will be able to resist fanning the flames.

re: #33 paxnhymn
Um, Eisenhower was a Republican.

re: #15 hindmost

I'm still waiting for someone to book a block of rooms for LGFers. What location could be better for our first meet and greet?

re: #23 Honorary Yooper

It's all about CHANGE!. CHANGE! for you, CHANGE! for me, CHANGE! for all. All with less CHANGE! in my pocket.

I thought people voted for change in 2006? You know and we got it the democrats took over Congress and we now have high gas price, housing prices falling, stocks falling, etc. How much more change can we take?

This is the first time I've heard of a black national anthem. Is there one for every sub group of grievance hustlers in the place?

re: #42 Golem Akbar

That ought to say everything. But then again, maybe Barak will just throw this new anthem under the bus. [that's not the anthem I knew...]

o.O GMTA (#28)

re: #45 Honorary Yooper

Ike was a Republican, not a Democrat.

I knew that. Deededee moment. As prior service I'm ashamed. sorry.

I think this Anthem should only be sung by Rev sharpton singing into a bull horn

re: #47 realwest

Um, Eisenhower was a Republican.

see my 52 and y'all try not to embarrass me too much, ok?

:-D

re: #37 JennSierra If you look it up in Wikki, Congress recognized it as the "African-American Independence Song - it wasn't until people with black skin who never came from Africa (e.g., the Caribbean Islands) that African-American became Black-American.

This is not about patriotism. This is about another self-absorbed liberal getting their fifteen minutes.

I mean most of them aren't going to be famous for actually accomplishing something worthwhile.

Last I heard about the DNC is that they can't decide what color the food is going to be for the convention. They also can't find ballons made by a co-op of unionized earth mother organic lesbians.

re: #40 Ringo the Gringo

"Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chast'ning rod"

Sounds like a Pauly Shore movie.

She should have been thrown out of that Council room on the spot.

re: #53 Shug

I think this Anthem should only be sung by Rev sharpton singing into a bull horn

Duet with Rev. Wright.

"Hick speech"?

re: #49 DoubleU

I thought people voted for change in 2006? You know and we got it the democrats took over Congress and we now have high gas price, housing prices falling, stocks falling, etc. How much more change can we take?

No idea, but I do know with gas prices the way they are, I have less change in my pocket than before the Dems took over Congress.

Separate anthem, but equal?

Never thought I'd see the National Anthem being thrown under the bus.

re: #43 Peacekeeper
"Obama is a power whore. He'll do whatever it takes to get it and keep it."
Y'all coulda just said "Obama's a Democrat" and it woulda said the same thing, but with fewer words!

Lift Ev'ry Voice is a fine piece, but it's not the National Anthem. This is the United States, not the States of Various Races.

Speaking of which, has anybody heard from OR lately?

Here's the whole thing on youtube.

How about next time, instead of a song, everyone just joins together and chants "God DAMN America" in unison for a while? But obviously I'm not questioning anyone's patriotism.

re: #54 paxnhymn Sorry!

Here is the Black Liberation flag which is a common sight at most of the big anti-war demonstrations.

Is this what trillions of dollars for decades of the Great Society and Affirmative Action gets us? A permanent grievance class?

re: #61 ploome hineni

/Michelle, is that you?

Actually, sounds a lot like BHO, too,.......... in Dreams From My Father.

re: #44 Tilly

Might be more than a bit gamey...

re: #72 rawmuse

Is this what trillions of dollars for decades of the Great Society and Affirmative Action gets us? A permanent grievance class?

Yes.

re: #74 ploome hineni

so many people are using letters, like OR to refer to somthing

I, for one, have no idea what you mean

Can we call you PH?

It made Marcus Garvey proud.

re: #74 ploome hineni

Occasional Reader, who is approaching 35k comments, and misses no opportunity to throw sand in my crankcase.

re: #57 Peacekeeper
Seriously, the DNC has BANNED any fried food at the convention - no fried chicken, no chicken-fried Steak, no French Fries, etc. etc.
The party of the Nanny State - yep, the Dems!

re: #72 rawmuse

Is this what trillions of dollars for decades of the Great Society and Affirmative Action gets us? A permanent grievance class?

A well-financed permanent grievance class.

re: #70 realwest

Sorry!

naw hell, I'm the one who's embarrassed. no problemmo. Sharmuta had to correct me about the phrase "endowed by their Creator" not being in the Constitution...I've been on a roll lately.

re: #41 nyc redneck

this is america. we only need one national anthem.

and the current one needs changing.

/moonbat

re: #80 realwest

Wait till they discover what a huge carbon footprint Christmas has...

re: #61 ploome hineni
Hey ploomie - if she's so ashamed, think she'll give up her right to vote or at least not vote?! LOL!

"She said she meant no disrespect of any kind and that her song was in no way intended to be a political statement. "

No, of course not.

re: #74 ploome hineni

This isn't text messaging.

re: #61 ploome hineni

/Michelle, is that you?

For the first time in my adult life, I'm ashamed of Denver.

re: #68 Peacekeeper
He was on the Dead Thread for a bit and also on the prior thread, but he said on the DT that he'd be really busy today and that that would leave him less time to post on LGF.

Well, I guess it beats one alternative....

re: #86 realwest

Hey ploomie - if she's so ashamed, think she'll give up her right to vote or at least not vote?! LOL!

shit. Her performance wasn't even mediocre either. If you're gonna stir up controversy, at least do it to your best ability. That sucked!

re: #61 ploome hineni

She explained that she decided months ago to switch the lyrics because she will no longer sing the national anthem... she realized that as an African-American she at times feels like a foreigner in her home country.

But then after her performance:

She explained her song was an artistic expression of her love for her country. She said she meant no disrespect of any kind and that her song was in no way intended to be a political statement.

I believe that may actually be the biggest load of bullsh*t ever dumped.

Oh Jesus Christ! These people will stop at nothing to cause division.

Next, it'll be The Internationale: [Link: www.hymn.ru...]

“black national anthem.”

I like big butts and I cannot lie?

Are we going to have olympic athletes having this sham of an anthem at the Beijing games? What a crock.

re: #95 Last Mohican

she was "recalibrating her position"...

//

Now, I know this is stating the obvious, and shared sentiment 'round these parts, but, OHMAGOD! Does no one else see the correlation between the separation, and really somewhat of an insubordination, from this community or group of like minded thinkers and what is fanning the flames of racism in this country? The left are the new oppresors of this country, and by encouraging this kind of behavior they force us to, and going beyond never forgetting the heinous acts commited by slave owners, accept THEIR unacceptance of the socially progressive society that we are becoming. By insisting that we must cling to America's rough, shall we say adolescence, is ironic even, as it stalls their ability to achieve this utopian society that they relentlessly drag on about - oh and one that yes, we must get with the program and accept, of course ::rolls eyes::

re: #61 ploome hineni

From the article:

Hickenlooper said he had talked to Marie about the situation after her performance.

"She was very apologetic," the mayor said. "She meant no disrespect, and she was singing an artistic expression she thought represented love and hope for her country."

Bullsh*t.

"That whole 'national' concept is so blase, darling. Each according to his ethnicity, each according to his creed".

/elitist leftard

re: #36 FreakyBoy

A National Anthem for all ethnic groups!

Let the healing begin!

re: #72 rawmuse

Yes, and what do you expect? Nothing produces resentment more than taking away autonomy, and then asking people to be grateful.

Solving the Oil Crisis - Make the 4th of July Energy Independance Day

In a recent video Newt Gingrich outlines 3 ways to lower gas prices. Touching upon the three main causes that contribute to the rising costs of “black gold”, this video is a must see.

re: #80 realwest

Seriously, the DNC has BANNED any fried food at the convention - no fried chicken, no chicken-fried Steak, no French Fries, etc. etc.
The party of the Nanny State - yep, the Dems!

i hope this gets a lot of attention. it is such a slap in the face to regular decent clingers.
fcking dems trying to look sophisticated and superior to people who have cast iron skillets on their stoves and have for generations.
elitist creeps. think jon cary.

re: #96 TS

Oh Jesus Christ! These people will stop at nothing to cause division.

I promise you, He had nothing to do with this....

re: #95 Last Mohican
Ah, I think that the biggest load will be if they actually do nominate Obama (and it is STILL a question in my mind; his trying to move to the center has REALLY PISSED OFF many of his early supporters like KOS).

Wow. A little taste of what we can expect at the Democratic Convention

In all fairness (or as much as I can muster), this doesn't really have anything to do with the Democratic Convention, other than that it happened in Denver.

re: #44 Tilly

What they said and I would like to add that I have never heard of this song.

The song is more than 100 years old. It's been around a long time and has a fairly interesting history.

The spelling of "ev'ry" is a a poetic elision. It's not unusual, at least in the past, for poets to drop syllables to force a line into a particular rhythm. Other examples are ne'er (for never), o'er (for over). I'm sure there are others.

Seems like the choice of this song was made by the singer w/o any discussion w/ anyone in authority. Am not sure this one singer's choice has much to do with the Democratic Convention.

re: #95 Last Mohican

Looks like we had the same thought, but I'm a bit slower on the keyboard. :)

re: #69 Last Mohican

Here's the whole thing on youtube.

Hands over hearts I see. Wow!

re: #106 Lumpy

Thanks for the link.

Can I add a quick plug for setamericafree.org?

Well the dye is cast and the players have entered the arena. When they turn loose the lions who will be standing with the Christians and who will be watching.

After an extended stay in the middle east you can count me in with the Christians but damn if I am going to be empty handed.

Feed the Ravens

Remember to VOTE.

re: #102 Atoz

From the article:
Hickenlooper said he had talked to Marie about the situation after her performance.

"She was very apologetic," the mayor said. "She meant no disrespect, and she was singing an artistic expression she thought represented love and hope for her country."

Bullsh*t.

Oh, I'm sure she was VERY apologetic....

After the mayor threatened not to pay her for the performance...

re: #107 nyc redneck
NO! Even though you are a friend, I will NOT think of John Kerry! LOL!

re: #16 Honorary Yooper

It would take an electron microscope to find their patriotism before you could question it.

re: #61 ploome hineni

She said that she made the decision after a Russian broadcaster interviewed her and asked her what it was like to be an American.

I guess being an American is alot like being a Comrade w/o a country...
...wait a minute...

"And I was going to correct her," Marie said. "And I realized I didn't feel like an American, and that bothered me a great deal."

Some people in America, who are Americans, I guess don't feel like being Americans. Perhaps they should find some other occupation or renounce their citizenship in favor of .....Hey! Zimbabwe sounds like a neat place.

re: #117 CIA Reject

Oh, I'm sure she was VERY apologetic....

After the mayor threatened not to pay her for the performance...

I really wanna know if she has any ties to the Obamessiah....they probably sat in the same pew for twnty years and never noticed each other...

:-D

OT: Koran distributed to residents in Houston
[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

Ignore if I'm late on this.

This sh*t has to stop.
If the Obamanation wins, just look out!

Democrat Party, 2008 - Divide and Conquer

They're always sorry after they've been caught.

re: #123 paxnhymn

I really wanna know if she has any ties to the Obamessiah....they probably sat in the same pew for twnty years and never noticed each other...

:-D

Indeed!

re: #46 angst

The Democratic convention is going to be very entertaining. I think the DNC is going to be preoccupied stamping out fires just like this. I don't think even the MSM will be able to resist fanning the flames.

I don't believe that they are going to perceive this one as a fire.

#23

All with less Less ONLY CHANGE! in my pocket

/fixed that for you

This anthem thing is seriously 'effed up.

The Democratic Convention Motto:

Divided We Stand, United We Fall

What is wrong with these people?

re: #120 ploome hineni

ah

view from her ass is here

/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

you mean justmyskew?

What an annoying woman.

re: #124 dirkgntly

OT: Koran distributed to residents in Houston
[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

Ignore if I'm late on this.

Save it for winter, save money on kindling.

Sorry to go OT y'all but this is just too precious to pass up:

GOP senator: McCain roughed up Nicaraguan
"WASHINGTON - One of John McCain's Republican colleagues says he saw the presumed GOP presidential nominee roughly grab an associate of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and lift him out of his chair during a diplomatic mission to the Central American nation in 1987.

Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., said he saw McCain, who has a reputation for being hot tempered, rough up an Ortega associate during a trip to Nicaragua led by former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan.

"McCain was down at the end of the table and we were talking to the head of the guerrilla group here at this end of the table and I don't know what attracted my attention," Cochran said in an interview with the Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss. "But I saw some kind of quick movement at the bottom of the table and I looked down there and John had reached over and grabbed this guy by the shirt collar and had snatched him up like he was throwing him up out of the chair to tell him what he thought about him or whatever ...

"I don't know what he was telling him but I thought, 'Good grief, everybody around here has got guns and we were there on a diplomatic mission.' I don't know what had happened to provoke John, but he obviously got mad at the guy ... and he just reached over there and snatched ... him."

Cochran, who has complained about McCain's temper before, said only a handful of senators took part in the trip, including former Sen. Steve Symms of Idaho. He said he didn't know who the man McCain grabbed was except that he was an associate of Ortega.
[Link: enews.earthlink.net...]
With "colleagues" like these, who needs enemies?
1987!

re: #111 Occasional Reader

In all fairness (or as much as I can muster), this doesn't really have anything to do with the Democratic Convention, other than that it happened in Denver.

Nobody is saying how the state of the city speech went..
Must a been a little awkward there at first..

/This is Denver right?

re: #121 kostya lotz

Some people in America, who are Americans, I guess don't feel like being Americans. Perhaps they should find some other occupation or renounce their citizenship in favor of .....Hey! Zimbabwe sounds like a neat place.

How many swore they were moving to Canada after the 2004 election? Thousands, including movie stars and people I work with. And how many actually went? Liberals are bull-shitters.

re: #124 dirkgntly

Free scratch pads, packing paper, etc.

re: #131 ploome hineni

these people need to be given Bibles to see what the culture and majority is all about

It would be an interesting exercise to take the free Quran, highlight all the jihadi-friendly passages, and re-deliver it to a mosque.

"And I was going to correct her," Marie said. "And I realized I didn't feel like an American, and that bothered me a great deal."

And where would you feel at home, you ungrateful bitch? Which African nation do you think would grant you more civil liberties than you have in the United States? Which one would afford you a higher standard of living?

re: #44 Tilly

Go for the Gold. Plate, that is.

re: #136 paxnhymn

you mean justmyskew?

I thought it was justmyspew?

re: #142 Carolyn

Free scratch pads, packing paper, etc.

compost . .

re: #120 ploome hineni

ah

view from her ass is here

/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

So much potential snark available from your post.

Try this one on for size. I've seen it dozens of times and get a chill every time.

re: #138 VegasRick

I have a copy of the kookran. It's what I set my Bible ON TOP OF...

re: #124 dirkgntly

OT: Koran distributed to residents in Houston
[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

Ignore if I'm late on this.

Seething to start in 5,4,3,2,1:

Some Houston residents are upset after Korans were left on the doorsteps of hundreds of homes in their neighborhood as part of a campaign to educate people about Islam.

If Obama plays his cards right and can extract enough CHANGE; his bank account will grow proportionately.

re: #125 Carolyn

This sh*t has to stop.
If the Obamanation wins, just look out!

I was in NYC when moonbat David Dinkins held office for 4 years. Nothing was accomplished, bankruptcy loomed. It was horrible. Finally, Giuliani saved the city from him. Maybe he'll need do it again?

Shameful.

re: #135 looking closely
What is wrong with these people is that they will do anything to gain power. Lie, distort, spread rumors, START talking about racial issues and blame the Republicans for being racists, you name it.
They are today's "activist" Democrats.

re: #124 dirkgntly

"If we went into a Muslim country and left a Bible, we would be in prison and then decapitated a few years later," Sue Ann Pieri, a resident who chose not to destroy the book, as other neighbors did, told MyFOXHouston.com.

Naturally, nobody's going to admit to destroying one when their name's going out on the national media. But I'll bet a lot of 4th of July barbecues in Texas are going to have some interesting kindling.

Brief in-out during my lunch break. I posted my two cents on this story earlier today.

re: #150 jamgarr

How dare you try to get me to cry this time of day. How dare you!

re: #152 Beobachter

Good doorstop.

re: #128 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

They're always sorry after they've been caught.

And shocked, shocked that anybody could possibly object.

They really have no clue.

Let's give them a state.

re: #139 realwest

Can I hold his coat?

re: #157 ploome hineni

yes, suggest a trade

you read mine, I read yours

No, I am going to give them Dianetics.

re: #139 realwest

Could McCain have physically performed that action? It sounds made-up, anyway, but I'm suspicious of the description.

OT

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re: #151 paxnhymn

I have a copy of the kookran. It's what I set my Bible ON TOP OF...

The really big ones make nice ottomans.

re: #138 VegasRick
The money quote from your link: ""If we went into a Muslim country and left a Bible, we would be in prison and then decapitated a few years later," Sue Ann Pieri, a resident who chose not to destroy the book, as other neighbors did, told MyFOXHouston.com."

re: #163 Ben Hur

Let's give them a state.

Which one? California?

re: #139 realwest

Good grief.

re: #158 JamesTKirk

Naturally, nobody's going to admit to destroying one when their name's going out on the national media. But I'll bet a lot of 4th of July barbecues in Texas are going to have some interesting kindling.

Gonna make the meat taste funny. Wait until you've finished cooking.

/Seriously, a Quran on my doorstep is not offensive. Asking me to buy one on my doorstep, maybe.

re: #166 Dianna

Could McCain have physically performed that action? It sounds made-up, anyway, but I'm suspicious of the description.

good question!

re: #10 Iron Fist

I wonder if Obama would have placed his hand over his heart for this?

No, he would have raised his fist in the Black Power salute.

[Link: www.debbieschlussel.com...]

more information about separatist anthem at Debbie Schlussel's site

re: #141 Roentgen

Johnny Depp (no Bullsh*t-great actor, dumb as a box o' rocks)

re: #29 aunursa

The American National Anthem brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it. It makes me want to stand up and put my hand on my heart and I'm Canadian.

I disagree so strongly with what Rene Marie did that, for the first time, I wanted to ding down the article: not because I disagreed with Charles for posting it, but because I couldn't ding the Denver Post article!

I'm imagining myself at that convention, pointing an unplugged computer mouse (with dangling cord) at the singer and clicking madly while saying, "I'm dinging you down! I'm dinging you down!" (Like the Kids in the Hall character who squished heads.)

Virtual boos for Rene Marie and her exclusion of non-black people from her replacement anthem.

Obama has made his campaign all about race. He thinks white people are too stupid to understand what he's done but people know when they're being alienated.

/I guess that makes me a racist in Big O's World.

re: #160 Roentgen

How dare you try to get me to cry this time of day. How dare you!

Guilty as charged.

re: #170 Beobachter

Which one? California?

Minnesota - only one to go for Mondale in '84.

re: #40 Ringo the Gringo

Lift ev'ry voice and sing,
'Til earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on 'til victory is won.
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chast'ning rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
'Til now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee,
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand,
May we forever stand,
True to our God,
True to our native land.

You know, there's nothing really wrong with the song per se.

There's nothing racist about it, just some references to the "dark past", and the "blood of the slaughtered". I don't find that offensive at all.

But putting it IN PLACE OF the national anthem is just wrong.

re: #3 Shug

and I mean that in reference to Obama's tax policy

Of course that's what you meant; no need to clarify. I'm sick of tiptoeing around self-perceived "victims." If they want to spend their lives looking for reasons to have their feelings hurt, fuck 'em.

re: #170 Beobachter

Give them your home first.

Keep digging dems, I'll send you a shovel.

re: #10 Iron Fist

I wonder if Obama would have placed his hand over his heart for this?

He certainly be torn, wouldn't know what to do, as some of the white folks present had their hand over their heart.

re: #183 Dianna

Give them your home first.

I can't. Full of illegal Mexicans. Both parties endorse this. Next!

re: #139 realwest

Now, see, that is the kind of spirit that lets people/terrorists/Mr. Dinnerjacket know that America will not be eff'd around with! I mean, that was a BOLD move - nobody was killed, right? Clearly, McCain knew what he was dealing with, took a risk, and I would hope evaluated the situation so that he somehow knew he'd get away with that action. Whatever. I'd rather have a Hot tempered, bold guy in the white house than some wet blanket that wants to have tea parties and play house with terrorists....

re: #169 realwest

The money quote from your link: ""If we went into a Muslim country and left a Bible, we would be in prison and then decapitated a few years later," Sue Ann Pieri, a resident who chose not to destroy the book, as other neighbors did, told MyFOXHouston.com."

I would throw it back on their doorstep.

re: #139 realwest

Sorry to go OT y'all but this is just too precious to pass up:

GOP senator: McCain roughed up Nicaraguan
"WASHINGTON - One of John McCain's Republican colleagues says he saw the presumed GOP presidential nominee roughly grab an associate of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and lift him out of his chair during a diplomatic mission to the Central American nation in 1987.

Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., said he saw McCain, who has a reputation for being hot tempered, rough up an Ortega associate during a trip to Nicaragua led by former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan.

"McCain was down at the end of the table and we were talking to the head of the guerrilla group here at this end of the table and I don't know what attracted my attention," Cochran said in an interview with the Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss. "But I saw some kind of quick movement at the bottom of the table and I looked down there and John had reached over and grabbed this guy by the shirt collar and had snatched him up like he was throwing him up out of the chair to tell him what he thought about him or whatever ...

"I don't know what he was telling him but I thought, 'Good grief, everybody around here has got guns and we were there on a diplomatic mission.' I don't know what had happened to provoke John, but he obviously got mad at the guy ... and he just reached over there and snatched ... him."

Cochran, who has complained about McCain's temper before, said only a handful of senators took part in the trip, including former Sen. Steve Symms of Idaho. He said he didn't know who the man McCain grabbed was except that he was an associate of Ortega.
[Link: enews.earthlink.net...]
With "colleagues" like these, who needs enemies?
1987!

Now that's a reason to actually vote for McCain!

re: #154 unrealizedviewpoint I was in NYC then too - and am ashamed to admit that I voted for Dinkins first time around, hoping that, if nothing else, his election would smooth over racial divides.
Instead it exacerbated them when Blacks bashed a Korean owned deli/grocery store, then boycotted it and Mayor Dinkins said and did: Not a damned thing.
Vote Giuliani the second time around and was gifted by him with a safer and cleaner city.

re: #182 David Simon

Of course that's what you meant; no need to clarify. I'm sick of tiptoeing around self-perceived "victims." If they want to spend their lives looking for reasons to have their feelings hurt, fuck 'em.

I agree but this is not my blog and I am trying to be aware of how things are taken out of context.
So I made the clarification

re: #157 ploome hineni

yes, suggest a trade

you read mine, I read yours

well..theirs would be in arabic, and the imam would be outraged that his "holy Book" had been blasphemed against by being translated into another language, and then he'd have to try and honor kill you to avenge the blasphemy, then he'd be arrested, and the community would seeth and burn cars that were basically peices of shit anyway..

see what kind trouble your starting ploome?

:-D

re: #187 Born_to_lose

Now, see, that is the kind of spirit that lets people/terrorists/Mr. Dinnerjacket know that America will not be eff'd around with! I mean, that was a BOLD move - nobody was killed, right? Clearly, McCain knew what he was dealing with, took a risk, and I would hope evaluated the situation so that he somehow knew he'd get away with that action. Whatever. I'd rather have a Hot tempered, bold guy in the white house than some wet blanket that wants to have tea parties and play house with terrorists....

Hey...tea parties can be deadly. I saw Arsenic and Old Lace.

re: #188 VegasRick

I would throw it back on their doorstep.

Me too...with a bacon bookmark.

Coming soon to a press conferenece near you...
singer Rene Marie to perform the “black national anthem.”
Under the bus.....

Developing.....

re: #5 Golem Akbar

It's a new world for the democrats. Next up: the gay national anthem? [but don't call them unpatriotic]

It's raining men?

re: #27 Shug

Current Poll results at the denver post ;

"alternate anthem"

Loved it 6.772 %
Liked it 2.328 %
Neutral 6.455 %
Didn't like it 16.29 %
Hated it 68.14 %

Thanks for the post. I went over there and voted.

re: #158 JamesTKirk

Naturally, nobody's going to admit to destroying one when their name's going out on the national media. But I'll bet a lot of 4th of July barbecues in Texas are going to have some interesting kindling.

I would never desecrate a grill by burning a Koran in it.

re: #181 Izzy Dunne

Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

RACISTS!

/

re: #195 kostya lotz

Coming soon to a press conferenece near you...
singer Rene Marie to perform the “black national anthem.”
Under the bus.....

Developing.....

There's got to be a way to adapt "Under the Boardwalk" to "Under the Big Bus".

Did anyone see pictures from obambi's visit to Independence Missouri?

1000 tickets given away

re: #187 Born_to_lose

Do you really think it happened?

She must not know her history very well:

"During and after the American Civil Rights Movement, the song experienced a rebirth, and by the 1970's was often sung immediately after The Star Spangled Banner at public events and performances across the United States where the event had a significant African-American population."

Who was at this meeting in Denver and why did not one American stand up and shout down this act?

re: #164 rawmuse Sorry, I already have it. Mind you this asshat Republican picks NOW to tell the story of what happened in 1987, more than 20 years ago.
Hope that mofo is up for re-election this year.

re: #194 NJDhockeyfan

Me too...with a bacon bookmark.

Picture of "Rebel" to really make em seeethe.

re: #166 Dianna

Could McCain have physically performed that action? It sounds made-up, anyway, but I'm suspicious of the description.

As someone with an arm in a sling I have to agree with you on this.

re: #204 Thorfin

Who was at this meeting in Denver and why did not one American stand up and shout down this act?

Not being a Code Pinker, I would say that I would be embarrassed to shout/demonstrate at a public meeting.

It could have been worse.

They could have invited Rev Wright to sing his classic "God Damn America".

re: #196 CyanSnowHawk

oooohhhhhhh,

I feel a little george tekai..."oh my!"

re: #166 Dianna Yeah, I think he could have (mind you this happened MORE THAN 20 years ago and while Daniel Ortega, commie leader of Nicaragua was in charge). They supposedly have video of it.

re: #204 Thorfin

Who was at this meeting in Denver and why did not one American stand up and shout down this act?

One councilman said he thought she was going to sing the real National Anthem after it. He said he was giving her a chance. But he was angry afterward.

re: #209 Opinionated

It could have been worse.

They could have invited Rev Wright to sing his classic "God Damn America".

Land that I loathe
Cast aside her
And deride her

etc. etc.

re: #204 Thorfin

Who was at this meeting in Denver and why did not one American stand up and shout down this act?

Politeness?

re: #139 realwest

Sorry to go OT y'all but this is just too precious to pass up:

GOP senator: McCain roughed up Nicaraguan
"WASHINGTON - One of John McCain's Republican colleagues says he saw the presumed GOP presidential nominee roughly grab an associate of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and lift him out of his chair during a diplomatic mission to the Central American nation in 1987.

Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., said he saw McCain, who has a reputation for being hot tempered, rough up an Ortega associate during a trip to Nicaragua led by former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan.

"McCain was down at the end of the table and we were talking to the head of the guerrilla group here at this end of the table and I don't know what attracted my attention," Cochran said in an interview with the Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss. "But I saw some kind of quick movement at the bottom of the table and I looked down there and John had reached over and grabbed this guy by the shirt collar and had snatched him up like he was throwing him up out of the chair to tell him what he thought about him or whatever ...

"I don't know what he was telling him but I thought, 'Good grief, everybody around here has got guns and we were there on a diplomatic mission.' I don't know what had happened to provoke John, but he obviously got mad at the guy ... and he just reached over there and snatched ... him."

Cochran, who has complained about McCain's temper before, said only a handful of senators took part in the trip, including former Sen. Steve Symms of Idaho. He said he didn't know who the man McCain grabbed was except that he was an associate of Ortega.
[Link: enews.earthlink.net...]
With "colleagues" like these, who needs enemies?
1987!

* * *
LOVE IT! And McCain's arms are broken, yet he's feisty enough to tell a Sandinista where to go.

Take that, Hugo Thuggo! Wham, Pineapple face Noriega! Shazamm, Ahmadinejad!

Remember during a visit to Chile or Colombia recently, President Bush turned around to grab & rescue one of his bodyguards from a clutch of Bananarepublican praetorian guards holding the guy back from our President?

Bwahahah

re: #201 Typicalwhitey

Did anyone see pictures from obambi's visit to Independence Missouri?

1000 tickets given away

Whoa. So few showed up that they couldn't even disguise that w/ the usual bunching techniques. Heh.

re: #204 Thorfin

Who was at this meeting in Denver and why did not one American stand up and shout down this act?

Or at least stand up and start singing the REAL national anthem. I'm sure a lot of folks would have joined in and the result would have been impressive.

re: #27 Shug

Current Poll results at the denver post ;

"alternate anthem"

Loved it 6.772 %
Liked it 2.328 %
Neutral 6.455 %
Didn't like it 16.29 %
Hated it 68.14 %

Thanks for the post. I went over there and voted.

Same here!

re: #181 Izzy Dunne
Not to mention wth the song means in it's last line - true to which nation? Hmmm?

re: #173 OldLineTexan

/Seriously, a Quran on my doorstep is not offensive.

It's trespassing and littering.

I don't even want the damned phone books they leave out there for me to trip on; I haven't used one of those things in years if not decades. Don't leave crap on my lawn, especially if you're thereby obligating me (on pain of seething and/or death) to treat the crap in certain specific respectful ways only.

re: #215 MandyManners

Politeness?

I'd guess most were trying to figure out what the heck was happening. The song sounded at first like a long, improvised "lead-in" to the Anthem; so, yeah, out of politeness probably most smiled and waited.

I will never question the patriotism of Democrats these days because they don't have any. How can you question something that doesn't exist? Has anybody seen any patriotism from them lately? I haven't. Besides, there's no question in my mind the Democrat party is run by and supported by un-patriotic, America hating commie fools so what's to question?

If anybody sees a Democrat doing something patriotic, please let us know so we can question it. Thanks in advance!

(sarcasm switch to stand-by)

re: #204 Thorfin

People froze. For one thing, they were at City Hall; for another, they were expecting the National Anthem; and third, if you weren't aware of the implications - and I'll bet all those folks standing with their hands over their hearts weren't - it sounds like a nice hymn.

Usually, there's a sense of utter confusion in a situation like that.

re: #217 wolfie

Whoa. So few showed up that they couldn't even disguise that w/ the usual bunching techniques. Heh.

I am a Missourian.
We will go McCain, you can bet on it!
We believe in "show me" NOT "tell me" lol

re: #210 kostya lotz

oooohhhhhhh,

I feel a little george tekai..."oh my!"

You can't feel him anymore. He's getting married.

re: #215 MandyManners

Because real American patriots will allow each other their 5 min. of stupidity. Only the lefty fringe jumps to shout-downs. Check-out any campus conservative lecture.

Just wanna say this from my little patch of this world:
if anybody here in Wales were going to replace our National Anthem with something else - don't even think about it! We'd be so angry, there'd be no guarantee for the safety of that person - even the sheep would come off the hills and pitch in!

National Anthems express the soul and longing of the people - you do not, ever, play around with them, ever!

O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us as a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause. it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

re: #117 CIA Reject

Sounds like fraud on her part. Agreeing to sing one song while knowing that she had absolutely no intention of doing so.

re: #204 Thorfin

Who was at this meeting in Denver and why did not one American stand up and shout down this act?

THAT is the question. We live in a country of over 300 million people. It's hardly surprising that we have all sorts of goofball extremists. The problem is that the leftists and too many centrists accept this bull.

re: #181 Izzy Dunne

You know, there's nothing really wrong with the song per se.

There's nothing racist about it, just some references to the "dark past", and the "blood of the slaughtered". I don't find that offensive at all.

But putting it IN PLACE OF the national anthem is just wrong.

No...there is a problem with it. She was to sing the National Anthem. There is only one nation here....and only one anthem. I am amazed that no one stepped forward and sang the actual anthem. I know I would have and not let them move forward till I was finished. I don't believe in useless confrontation. But I do think it is time to draw the line. And this was a slap in the face of every American...black and white...because there is only ONE ANTHEM...despite what those with an agenda believe.

And if she is not proud of America, maybe she should be there with Mugabe as he takes office again and sing another anthem other then the authorized version....do you think she would be returning to the US and breathing at the same time?

Enough is enough.

re: #211 realwest

Then let's see it. Until I see it, I take leave to doubt it.

I don't recall hearing anything about it back in 1987, though I was in school and working, so I could easily have missed it.

re: #190 realwest

I was in NYC then too - and am ashamed to admit that I voted for Dinkins first time around, hoping that, if nothing else, his election would smooth over racial divides.
Instead it exacerbated them when Blacks bashed a Korean owned deli/grocery store, then boycotted it and Mayor Dinkins said and did: Not a damned thing.
Vote Giuliani the second time around and was gifted by him with a safer and cleaner city.

Wow! I hadn't thought of that Korean grocer in years. I pierced the picket line in support of the grocer - Bought a big bottle of baby formula and found a neighborhood mommy to give it to.
IIRC the Korean grocer was simply protecting his store from shoplifters and it got all out of hand. The blacks at the time hated the outsiders coming-in, stealing business, the money, and leaving. Never mind the fact that without them there'd have been nobody providing product to the community. It was major-major dangerous to just walk those streets back then. Nobody but the Koreans would consider risking their lives day and night as they did/do.

Great work, Marie. You took a song that many considered lovely and poignant and have turned into yet ANOTHER polarizing issue that pits Americans against each other. Way to go, you idiot. I hope you're proud of yourself for your self-indulgent act.

Would it have killed you to just sing our traditional National Anthem and unify us all instead of acting like a spoiled brat?

re: #172 ploome hineni

Ditto......

re: #196 CyanSnowHawk

It's raining men?

Not that, my friends, is a keen sense of wit

re: #231 wolfie

THAT is the question. We live in a country of over 300 million people. It's hardly surprising that we have all sorts of goofball extremists. The problem is that the leftists and too many centrists accept promote this bull.

more accurate

re: #199 Occasional Reader Hey O.R.! Did you ever connect to PK? He was looking for you before in this thread!

re: #226 JamesTKirk

Warped factor "shake yer booty", Mr. Sulu!

re: #203 jaydub

She must not know her history very well:

"During and after the American Civil Rights Movement, the song experienced a rebirth, and by the 1970's was often sung immediately after The Star Spangled Banner at public events and performances across the United States where the event had a significant African-American population."

A leftie who doesnt know history? What are the odds?

Well, pretty good actually I guess.

re: #29 aunursa

This is how it's supposed to be sung, okay?

And this is how it's not supposed to be sung!

LOL!

Offensive puppy postcard claim dismissed

CLAIMS THAT a promotional police postcard featuring a puppy is offensive to members of the Islamic community have been dismissed by one of Dundee’s leading Muslims.

I guess the key phrase here is "one of."

re: #204 Thorfin According to the Dem mayor, everyone present thought she'd sing the American National Anthem afterwards - it wasn't until she left that folks realized what she'd done..........according to the DEM mayor of Denver.

re: #202 Dianna

Not sure, but if he did, more power to him. AND, I am going to maintain that stance especially when the media tries to spin it and cast it under a negative light....I can see the headlines now:

"McCain: Ironfisted Diplomacy?"

"When Push comes to Shove: how McCain Strong arms to prove points"

"Too fiesty for the White House? An analysis of McCain and that pesky little Nicaraguean"

Oh, shoot. I am probably giving them fodder for the cannon....

re: #124 dirkgntly

Is it the real Quran or an edited for the US version? If the real thing, then yes, it could be a real education into the real islam. Unintended consequences anyone?

re: #235 princetrumpet

Hear! Hear! well spoken.

re: #196 CyanSnowHawk

It's raining men?

I just spit my fruit salad all over my desk.

re: #244 realwest

According to the Dem mayor, everyone present thought she'd sing the American National Anthem afterwards - it wasn't until she left that folks realized what she'd done..........according to the DEM mayor of Denver.

How many Dems in Denver even know what the national anthem is? Maybe they just assumed that was the national anthem...

re: #221 JamesTKirk

It's trespassing

Generally, no. IIRC there's a common law assumption that you give implicit consent to people reasonably approaching your front door and knocking, unless it's fenced off or posted to the contrary.

That "song" has helped a lot of people over the years and should not be taken lightly. We still have a lot of men and women in harms way that are protecting people so that they can have their "stupid act" but it does not mean that we have to like it or accept it.

re: #61 ploome hineni

"She said that she made the decision after a Russian
broadcaster interviewed her and asked her what it was
like to be an American.
At that moment, she said, she realized that as an
African-American she at times feels like a foreigner in her
home country. "

I can relate. As a 'White-American' more and more I feel like a foreigner in MY home country!

High as the listening skies

That is a singularly inept metaphor.

Rush gets $400 million.

Good on him.

If anybody sees a Democrat doing something patriotic, please let us know so we can question it. Thanks in advance!

(sarcasm switch to stand-by)

/ you didn't know they support the troops?

re: #250 Occasional Reader

Generally, no. IIRC there's a common law assumption that you give implicit consent to people reasonably approaching your front door and knocking, unless it's fenced off or posted to the contrary.

But are they allowed to dump anything they want on my property?

Will I be charge with a hate crime if I dump Bibles on their doorsteps?

re: #209 Opinionated

Oh lord...I LOL'd...

re: #190 realwest

I was in NYC then too - and am ashamed to admit that I voted for Dinkins first time around, hoping that, if nothing else, his election would smooth over racial divides.
Instead it exacerbated them when Blacks bashed a Korean owned deli/grocery store, then boycotted it and Mayor Dinkins said and did: Not a damned thing.
Vote Giuliani the second time around and was gifted by him with a safer and cleaner city.

* * *
Realwest, you had the best of intentions no doubt, as the Clinton administration did when they bragged their administration would "LOOK LIKE AMERICA", though they acted hormonally challenged teens.

However, it's clear from Zimbabwe's example, it's better to address society's problems directly--be they hunger or rampant crime, like Rudy Giuliani did--by attacking the problem, not putting on different makeup.

Remember Giuliani's BROKEN WINDOW theory--you stop crime in its tracks, remove the graffiti, replace the broken window.

re: #250 Occasional Reader

Generally, no. IIRC there's a common law assumption that you give implicit consent to people reasonably approaching your front door and knocking, unless it's fenced off or posted to the contrary.

What if you have a sign with a big skull and crossbones that says "Achtung! Minen!" in your front yard?

re: #226 JamesTKirk

He's been married for a while--to some dude.
Captain, you spent a lot of time with him. You must know him pretty well. Where did you guys hang out?
/

re: #253 ContraJihadi

High as the listening skies

That is a singularly inept metaphor.

Tongue-tied and twisted
Just an earth-bound misfit - I

re: #230 FamHistoryGuy

Sounds like fraud on her part. Agreeing to sing one song while knowing that she had absolutely no intention of doing so.

I'm sure the terms "breach of contract" and "lawsuit" featured prominently in her soul-searching decision to "apologize".

re: #256 JamesTKirk

But are they allowed to dump anything they want on my property?

Will I be charge with a hate crime if I dump Bibles on their doorsteps?

Yes. If the fatwa don't getcha first.

re: #233 Dianna Just reporting what they said in the link, Dianna - please don't shoot the messenger! LOL!

And meanwhile, back in the very religiously oriented Obama camp, he pursues a vigorous agenda of supporting social services via faith-based outreach programs.

What a crock.

re: #250 Occasional Reader

Generally, no. IIRC there's a common law assumption that you give implicit consent to people reasonably approaching your front door and knocking, unless it's fenced off or posted to the contrary.

Put up a sign:

POSTED - No trespassers carrying Korans or phone books, others permitted.

re: #4 daddycrack

I remember learning this frigging song in the first grade from a racist teacher. I love the fact that "every" isn't even spelled right.

It's not a spelling error, it's a contraction meant to force a three syllable word into two syllables to better fit the music. It's an extremely common songwriting trick, and deserves no scorn. Actually, the lyrics are rather beautiful and spiritual. Not surprising since it was written in 1899, before the civil rights movement was completely co-opted by the revenge seeking angry blacks. Despite that, there is nothing really American or Patriotic about it. As a national anthem, it fails miserably.

re: #12 Dark_Falcon

Well, that's an obnoxious thing to do. Making it worse was the fact she wasn't called on it.

"Hickenlooper said in a statement: "We were as surprised as anyone that jazz singer René Marie did not sing our national anthem at Tuesday's State of the City ceremony, as our staff had requested. As I listened to her sing, I assumed she would eventually move into the traditional Star Spangled Banner. I called her personally this (Tuesday) afternoon to understand what happened. She explained her song was an artistic expression of her love for her country. She said she meant no disrespect of any kind and that her song was in no way intended to be a political statement. She apologized for any problems she may have created."

Overt acts of bigotry and racism have become a significant hallmark of the Obama campaign. I can only imagine the problems to come were he to be elected president.