the irish lass

More Vacation Blogging

When I scheduled this vacation, I didn't realize it was going to be the Kedwards Campaign Rally. But I should have I guess. The target market for Rancho La Puerta is affluent, urban females with a high interest in environmental and health issues. Or women from the blue states. My first week, I was intimidated. But I'm finding my groove. Now when they try and bring up Farenhooey 911, I say you shouldn't believe everything you hear or see. I tell them that I could read books about how Bill Clinton assassinated Ron Brown and others, but I don't. Because I know that you have to have both the prosecution and defense give their arguments before you can evaluate whether a case has merit. Then I tell them about how I read the book Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up ten years ago. And how I'll always believe that Ted Kennedy left that girl alive and just abandoned her with wanton disregard for life. I wish I'd never read it, because perhaps if I'd read a defense I wouldn't believe so strongly that he should be in prison. Since they believe he was guilty also, they give up arguing with me.

Alicia Colon speaks more succinctly

If someone dares to confront me, I'll give them the following facts: Mr. Bush liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled Al Qaeda, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran, and North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist dictator who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people. He may not be glib or articulate, but he's doing a great job.

The economy is booming, unemployment is down, and Mr. Bush wants to make tax cuts permanent. So why on earth would I support Mr. Kerry, who cares more about what the world thinks of us than about what's good for us?

I Love Rock 'n Roll

MICHAEL Moore messed with the wrong rocker when he charged that The Who's Pete Townshend refused to allow his classic hit "Won't Get Fooled Again" to be used in "Fahrenheit 9/11." Biting back on his Web site, Townshend said the reason the song wasn't used was not because he was for the war in Iraq (which he admits he was), but because he doesn't trust Moore's accuracy in reporting and regards Moore as a bully. "When first approached, I knew nothing about the content of his film 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' " Townshend writes. "I had not really been convinced by 'Bowling for Columbine,' and had been worried about its accuracy . . . Once I had an idea what the film was about, I was 90 percent certain my song was not right for them." The rock legend continued, "I greatly resent being bullied and slurred by him in interviews just because he didn't get what he wanted from me. It seems to me that this aspect of his nature is not unlike that of the powerful and willful man at the center of his new documentary . . . [Moore will] have to work very, very hard to convince me that a man with a camera is going to change the world more effectively than a man with a guitar."


The Who
Won'T Get Fooled Again

We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

(small instrumental)

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!

(instrumental)

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?

(instrumental)

There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!

(instrumental)

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss