[Rhodes22-list] Re-naming Boats, Music, and yes, Politics

Tue Sep 18 13:36:07 EDT 2007

Pete,

I understand that you can hear the 'black helicopters' approaching in
Roswell, NM better than anywhere else!

Brad

On 9/18/07, petelargo <petelauritzen at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
> My motto is: I can't wait for 2008. If we work hard enough over the next
> year
> I think we can spin a way to blame Bushes high crimes on Bill Clinton. As
> for me, I do not wish to 'evaluate' the level of involvement of those who
> actually showed up with those who didn't.
>
>
> Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
> >
> > Pete,
> >
> > Four months in Vietnam, three on active duty (Kerry), and being asked by
> > your fellow servicemen to "get the hell out of Dodge" does not impress
> me.
> > Five months of guarding a typewriter in Saigon (Gore) does not impress
> me.
> > My brother did two full year tours in Nam, mostly "hot", that impresses
> > me.
> > Having 'nads' big enough just to ride around the pattern in an F-102
> > impresses me (trust me, I know airplanes).  For your information, Rove
> is
> > gone and 2008 is just around the corner.  Grow up (and lighten-up) and
> > find
> > a new boogie-man!
> >
> > Brad
> >
> > On 9/17/07, petelargo <petelauritzen at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> It's 2007 and we are still continuing with the character assignation
> >> originated by service dodger ROVE on a veteran who actually volunteered
> >> to
> >> serve our country in Nam? Those of us who were there know why people
> went
> >> into the 'guard' with daddy's help, to avoid real active military
> >> service.
> >> Just a suggestion: If you are a vet, always best not to eat your own.
> >>
> >>
> >> Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
> >> >
> >> > This is just cruel, but funny.  Brad
> >> >
> >> > -----------------------------
> >> >
> >> > Lt. Kerry's Lonely Hearts Club Band
> >> >  By Howie Carr  |   Sunday, September 16, 2007  |
> >> > http://www.bostonherald.com  |
> >> > Columnists<http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/>
> >> >
> >> > If you thought Scaramouche was a pretentious name for Sen. John
> Forbes
> >> > Kerry
> >> > to give his 42-foot Nantucket gigolo boat, he's gone and topped
> >> himself.
> >> >
> >> > Liveshot has scuttled the name Scaramouche and rechristened it . . .
> >> Let
> >> > It
> >> > Be.
> >> >
> >> > That's right, the Beatles song. From Freddie Mercury to John Lennon.
> >> I'm
> >> > telling you, you cannot make this stuff up.
> >> >
> >> > Why "Let It Be?" My theory is the more appropriate Lennon-McCartney
> >> titles
> >> > were taken: "Nowhere Man" and "I'm a Loser." Not to mention "Fool on
> >> the
> >> > Hill."
> >> >
> >> > This momentous nautical event happened last November, but apparently
> >> > nobody
> >> > noticed the official filing with the Coast Guard until now. The
> >> question
> >> > is,
> >> > Why change the name? A call to Kerry's Boston office asking if there
> >> will
> >> > be
> >> > an answer (a line from the song, see?) was responded to with a brief
> >> > e-mail:"I have no idea why he changed the name."
> >> >
> >> > But I do. First, though, we must stipulate the junior senator's
> >> > accomplishments. He is without doubt America's most successful
> gigolo.
> >> He
> >> > has stalked not one but two heiresses worth hundreds of millions. To
> >> *John
> >> > Kerry* <http://www.bostonherald.com/search/?topic=John+Kerry> I say
> >> with
> >> > awe: "Baby You're a Rich Man."
> >> >
> >> > Thanks to your loaded old gold-digging second wife, that is.
> >> >
> >> > "Can't Buy Me Love" indeed. Mama T Heinz Kerry did exactly that. The
> >> first
> >> > time Sen. Kerry realized how much dough she had, he began humming,
> "Got
> >> to
> >> > Get You Into My Life." When he saw her standing there, Kerry wanted
> to
> >> > hold
> >> > her hand. Or at least her bank book. When she said yes, he was
> feeling
> >> > glad
> >> > all over.
> >> >
> >> > Soon she was singing, "Baby You Can Drive My Car." Or, more
> precisely,
> >> her
> >> > SUVs, all five or six of them, one for every mansion, which are
> located
> >> > here
> >> > there and everywhere. She gave him a ticket to ride - on her $35
> >> million
> >> > Gulfstream jet. She cut Liveshot in on 19 Louisburg Square on Beacon
> >> Hill
> >> > and presented him with that multimillion-dollar painting to call his
> >> own.
> >> > And now, with a little help from his (very few) friends, Kerry hangs
> on
> >> to
> >> > this do-nothing job in the Senate. One tune he never has to croon to
> >> Mrs.
> >> > Heinz, er Kerry, er, Heinz-Kerry, is "You Never Give Me Your Money."
> >> >
> >> > The Scaramouche, a Hinckley power boat that gets less than one mile
> per
> >> > gallon of fuel, was just another boytoy toy Mama T bought him in 2002
> >> with
> >> > money from her first husband's trust fund. Being John Kerry, he
> >> probably
> >> > decided on the name Scaramouche without doing any research beyond
> >> hearing
> >> > the Queen tune on an oldies radio station.
> >> >
> >> > Later on, everybody checked out the real definition of Scaramouche.
> >> Here's
> >> > one from "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable": "A stock
> character
> >> in
> >> > Italian farce. . . . A braggart and a fool, very valiant in words,
> but
> >> a
> >> > poltroon."
> >> >
> >> >>From "Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia": "A braggart soldier."
> >> >
> >> > Well, Liveshot, if the Docksider fits. . .
> >> >
> >> > When the 2004 campaign heated up, the Scaramouche was sent to dry
> dock,
> >> > the
> >> > Witness Protection Program of boats. Now it's back and John
> apparently
> >> > wanted a lame new name to reflect his latest boring hobby, the
> acoustic
> >> > guitar.
> >> >
> >> > "While My Guitar Gently Weeps?" Not quite. Those weeping are the poor
> >> > fools
> >> > forced to endure a set of John singing those wonderful protest songs
> of
> >> > his
> >> > '60s youth. "Blowing in the Wind," you know, like a wind turbine in
> >> > Nantucket Sound. Where Have All the Young Men Gone? Mostly to the Sun
> >> > Belt,
> >> > to escape the high taxes imposed on them in Massachusetts by the
> likes
> >> of
> >> > John Kerry.
> >> >
> >> > But why rename the boat Let It Be? Well, he couldn't take "Yellow
> >> > Submarine." That's Ted Kennedy's song.
> >> >
> >> > "When I'm 64?" No way. I mean, that's how old Kerry will be on his
> next
> >> > birthday, Dec. 11.
> >> >
> >> > But don't worry, John. Even 64-year-old gigolos are still needed, at
> >> least
> >> > as long as they can keep their hands off the younger local talent, if
> >> you
> >> > know what I mean. If you ever get caught, though, it'll be
> >> hello-goodbye,
> >> > mostly goodbye. One again, you'll be nothing more than a day tripper
> on
> >> > the
> >> > long and winding road, just like after you dumped your first heiress
> >> wife.
> >> > What was her name? Julia?
> >> > Article URL:
> >> >
> >>
> http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1031798
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