Posts Made By: James C Chandler Jr

Here are two songs which explain why true pacifists everywhere should be thankful for large and well-maintained nuclear arsenals--

The Groundhogs, a brit blues group in 1970, "Thank Christ for the Bomb"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1wfoMKd_M4

"In 1914 a war began, a million soldiers lent a hand,
Weren't many planes to give support, hand to hand was the way they fought.

Young men were called up for the cause, for king and country and the cross,
In their naivete they thought it was for glory, so they'd been taught.

In 1939 once again there came the sound of marching men,
Occupying European land, all the way to North French sands,

But, in the final year of that war, two big bangs settled the score,
Against Japan, who'd joined the fight, the rising sun didn't look so bright.

Since that day it's been stalemate, everyone's scared to obliterate,
So it seems for peace we can thank the bomb, so I say thank Christ for the bomb"

The quiet-to-crescendo instrumental section represents a B29 taking off and doing its run.

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In 1995 Ozzy Osbourne released "Thank God for the Bomb" which is more polished but IMO a weaker song, though it carried identical sentiment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLYEy7yqysA

Like moths to a flame
Is man ever gonna change?
Time's seen untold aggression
And infliction of pain
If that's the only thing that's stopping war

Then thank God for the bomb

War is just another game
Tailor made for the insane
But make a threat of their annihilation
And nobody wants to play
If that's the only thing that keeps the peace

Then thank God for the bomb

Today was tommorow, yesterday
It's funny how time can slip away
The face of the doomsday clock
Has launched a thousand wars
As we near the final hour
Time is the only foe we have

When war is obsolete
I'll thank God for war's defeat
But any talk about hell freezing over
Is all said with tongue in cheek
Until the day the war drums beat no more

I'll thank God for the bomb

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But then there is this cheery episode--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bRSHSOOdeQ

Lee Spain said:
What's your take on Obama's UN speech?

Hi Lee. It was one of the best so far from our Comrade In Chief!

Interesting statistics.

A question on a side-issue--

1. Do big tree rings mean WarmAndOrWet weather and little tree rings mean ColdAndOrDry weather?

_a. If so, then does that mean flora PROSPERS in warmer weather?

_b. Is this a feedback mechanism where warmer weather forces a higher rate of natural carbon sequestration?

_c. If this is a negative feedback where warm weather modulates carbon uptake, is anyone studying this? Is this feedback path in the models?

Am not being sarcastic. I just don't follow this topic in detail.

Ron Streetenberger said:

I see that B.H.O. wants to extend the school year for our children. This will give our little ones more time to memorize the songs extolling his wonderful virtues. I'm giddy with excitement awaiting these profound lyrics. Has Joseph Goebles become the new music Czar?

It is a good start, but needs more practice.

This is how it is done, broadway/hollywood style--
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNMVMNmrqJE

Or the real thing done well--
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUDqzUeuyMA
(again, with subtitles (your guess is as good as mine if the translation is accurate))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZl6VLq0Na0

Lefties Don Tin Foil Hats

http://www.elfpressoffice.org/release090409.html

"Earth Liberation Front Topples Radio Station Towers in Snohomish County, WA

Everett, WA: Two radio station towers were torn down early Friday by the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) in the Lord's Hills valley in Snohomish County, WA. The towers, owned by station KRKO, have been a source of controversy for years. A sign left at the scene claimed responsibility by the ELF.

" Due to the health and environmental risks associated with radio waves emitted from the towers, we applaud this act by the ELF," stated Jason Crawford, a spokesperson for the North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office. "When all legal channels of opposition have been exhausted, concerned citizens have to take action into their own hands to protect life and the planet."

For the past eight years, opponents have waged a legal battle against the towers, arguing that AM radio waves cause adverse health affects including a higher rate of cancer, harm to wildlife, and that the signals have been interfering with home phone and intercom lines."

Ultra-long threads are my biggest annoyance. The max number of post titles we can display on a page seems to be 99. When threads grow bigger than 99 posts and folk are still piling on-- The long threads take up all the oxygen.

A possible solution-- If a person is compelled to reply to a 50 message thread-- Such person should make a new forked thread.

For instance if the original thread is titled "NeoCons on Uranus"-- Make a new thread entitled "NeoCons on Uranus (fork 1)". Or whatever.

Maybe there is a better solution, but it would prevent small threads being buried by gigantic dull threads. These huge threads-from-hell are like two semis running 45 MPH side-by-side on the highway, blocking all traffic behind them.

I recall a rash of manufacturer defective accelerator linkages back when I was a kid in the early 1960's. News stories of folk hanging on for dear life on the expressway, going faster and faster til they would end the journey on a bridge abutment or those dangerous chain-link highway fences with the top-pipe. If struck, the fence top-pipes seemed fond of impaling drivers or passengers.

It was all over the news back then, warning folks to just turn off the ignition. At least they had ignition switches. Such a simple solution, easily forgotten in a panic.

Tony, do local wild wolves pose possible hazard to your domesticated wolf hybrids?

The Honorable Illinois Senator Roland W. Burris said that it is Bush's fault that Chicago lost the Olympics!

One way to enforce immigration-- Private enterprise snitches.

Rather than perp-walking employers of illegals (won't happen to wealthy folk)-- Pass law that if a citizen reports an illegal working in USA, the employer must pay 1 year wages to the snitch, pay 1 year wages to the illegal, and pay for the forcible deportation of the illegal to the home nation.

That would make many illegal aliens delighted to be deported home (with seed money in pocket), encourage citizens to locate illegals, and make it just too dern expensive for employers to hire illegals. With minimal expense to the government.