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   Ricky said on 6/6/2006 @ 2:48am PT: [Permalink]

   "We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
   – Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002

   "Iraq’s search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
   – Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002

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   Ricky said on 6/6/2006 @ 2:52am PT: [Permalink]

   Just thought I would give you some lyrics for the next song.

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   czaragorn said on 6/6/2006 @ 3:10am PT: [Permalink]

   Thanks, Brad and Justin! Sweet indeed! And icky, let’s have the whole tune, please!

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   JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 6/6/2006 @ 4:04am PT: [Permalink]

   #1,2 richard head – Run along now . . . . . Play in traffic. . .

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   Joan said on 6/6/2006 @ 4:08am PT: [Permalink]

   That was GREAT!!!
   I love the second comment, too:
   "If Gore were any hotter, he’d be global warming"!!

   Ok, gee…I guess this is the perfect thread to post these new lyrics for ‘Simpy Irresistible’ (a song I blast when I’m alone in the car, for which my children rib me mercilessly).

   I sent them to a few band-related people hoping somebody’d actually record it because I’d really love to hear it belted out proper…but since my delusions of grandeur have failed to materialize, here you go…with apologies to Robert Palmer:

   ‘Tell Me They’re Impeachable’

   How can it be permissable
   They compromised our principles
   This kind of crime is mythical
   It’s anything but typical

   They’re all crazy of course
   They’re a powerful force
   We’re obliged to conform
   They say there’s no other course
   Incarceration sounds good to me!
   You gotta tell me

   Tell me they’re impeachable
   Tell me they’re impeachable

   They think that they’re so powerful
   They think we’re all exploitable
   This trend ain’t irreversible
   These clowns are not invincible

   Thumb their nose at the law, thought they’d leave us
   in awe
   We got probable cause, we won’t surrender because
   Yeah prison sounds good to me
   You gotta tell me

   Tell me they’re impeachable
   They gotta be impeachable

   (Tell me they’re impeachable)
   So much crime, there’s no tellin’ where the money went
   (Tell me they’re impeachable)
   They’ll do time, there’s no other way to go

   It’s unavoidable, we’re backed against the wall
   They make me crazy like I never felt before
   They’re breaking promises, they’re breakin’ every law
   Prison’s too GOOD for them
   You GOTTA tell me
   Tell me they’re impeachable

   (Tell me they’re impeachable)
   So much crime, there’s no tellin’ where the money went
   (Tell me they’re impeachable)
   Honey, they’ll do time, there’s no other way to go

   Their methods are inscrutable
   The proof is irrefutable
   They gotta be indictable
   This fight’s completely fightable

   They’re all crazy of course
   They’re a powerful force
   We’re obliged to conform
   They say there’s no other course
   Yeah, prison sounds good to me
   You gotta tell me

   Tell me they’re impeachable
   I KNOW they are impeachable!

   (Tell me they’re impeachable)
   So much crime, there’s no tellin’ where the money went
   (Tell me they’re impeachable)
   Oh honey, they’ll do time, there’s
   no other way to go

   Baby, they’re impeachable!

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   Joan said on 6/6/2006 @ 4:10am PT: [Permalink]

   Oh dear, that’s SIMPLY, not simpy 🙂

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   Floridiot said on 6/6/2006 @ 5:00am PT: [Permalink]

   Seems that global warming just might be hidden from us by Bushco (as if we didn’t already know) Link

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   Dredd said on 6/6/2006 @ 5:53am PT: [Permalink]

   According to the NYT, the majority of americans are in danger of becoming "conspiracy buffs" (link here).

   That is the way it always is in dictatorships.

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   NeilDeal said on 6/6/2006 @ 7:58am PT: [Permalink]

   Awesome song lyrics!
   That should be Gore’s campaign song. (HINT HINT MR GORE!!!!)

   Yea sure Ricky, I wonder who fed Gore that bad intelligence?

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    des said on 6/6/2006 @ 9:46am PT: [Permalink]

    oh, ricky, ricky, ricky…. read this and think about it for a moment:

    "Gardiner believes that this formulation, which first entered the official vernacular a week after the invasion began, was a skillful execution of a classic propaganda technique known as the “excluded middle.” The excluded middle is premised on the idea that people, provided with incomplete but suggestive information, will draw false assumptions — in this case that Saddam Hussein had ties to terrorism and therefore to Al Qaeda (a connection that administration officials actively pushed during the run-up to the war).

    …..

    Arraf’s observation reveals an interesting dimension of this war: it has become, in part, a contest over the framing of reality, and thus a hall of mirrors for the press."
    (http://www.cjr.org/issues/2006/3/schulman.asp)

    the Gore statements you quote above do not have the effect you wish — Gore’s credibility remains intact, since intelligent folks are able to distinguish between the lies advanced by the deceptive, pro-war criminals at BushCo and the public statements of someone like Gore, who was no longer in public office at the time and therefore no longer privy to the real and factual information coming out of the CIA that proved Saddam did NOT possess WMDs, was NOT a threat, NOT involved in 9/11 in any way, and NOT allied with Al Q in any way whatsoever.

    Gore, like many people, believed the professional crooks at BushCo when they said they had conclusive, although "secret", information that proved their case to go to war (the ‘excluded middle’), that we had to just ‘trust’ them.

    too late, we now know the only real WMDs were the "Dubya MDs", like the song says.

    now we all know that BushCo lied through their teeth, and now over 100,000 people and counting are dead, Iraq is experiencing its deadliest month for innocent civilians yet, directly as a result of those lies — lies that you gleefully perpetuate, ricky, every day.

    it sucks being a tool of war criminals, ricky. their propaganda campaign has worked exceptionally well on you. it is a shame that you can’t tell the difference, and even more of a shame that many more people will be maimed and killed, and countless families will be decimated, as the repercussions of this war of lies reverberate throughout the world for decades to come.

    how many people will die before you stop and think for yourself, ricky? are you really okay with that?

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    Jerry O'Riordan said on 6/6/2006 @ 7:18pm PT: [Permalink]

    Can we send Ann Coulter to the North Pole???
    She’s so cold that maybe she can keep the polar ice caps from melting! Help Ann help!

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    Larry Bergan said on 6/7/2006 @ 1:51pm PT: [Permalink]

    Joan:

    This is weird. A couple of weeks ago I was thinking about lyrics for that same song by Robert Palmer concerning global warming. I even got on the internet to see if I could find something. The video used to be on You-Tube, but apparently somebody forced them to take it down.

    Anyway, I was going to call mine, "Simply Unsustainable".

    I think Pink Floyd’s best album is "Animals". What a band!

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    Newhope said on 6/8/2006 @ 2:55pm PT: [Permalink]

    Excellent use of a Great Song! 🙂 🙂