Tonight, travelin’ music that is very well-traveled indeed
I posted a more traditional, sedate version of this much-traveled song earlier, in the post about the coming end of U.S. military involvement in Iraq. It began its life as “Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye,” an early 19th-century Irish folksong that bewails the fate of Irishmen lured into fighting on Britain’s behalf overseas.
From there it became a favorite song of the U.S. Civil War, insinuating itself into the American military tradition as “When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again.” As kids, we used to sing our own playground parody of the song, in that case about ants that go “marching down, to the ground, to get out of the rain….”
And here, with their own much-different version, the great English band the Clash, from 1979:
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getalife
October 22nd, 2011
10:07 pm
Midori,
You know, you have to wonder what kind of American sits on a lib blog to lie for the 1 %.
Who are these people
moonbat betty
October 22nd, 2011
10:08 pm
Hi Midori,
great post at 10:06!
Kamchak
October 22nd, 2011
10:08 pm
Midori
Same thing happened next door at CT’s.
Probably the same trolls.
bman
October 22nd, 2011
10:08 pm
Kamchak …I can assure you that I post under this name only. Why would I (or anyone) post under numerous names? Maybe the people who disagree with you are is in reality a single person posting under various names?
moonbat betty
October 22nd, 2011
10:08 pm
I am the 1%.
moonbat betty
October 22nd, 2011
10:10 pm
bman, don’t argue with these fools.
just smile and move along.
Midori
October 22nd, 2011
10:10 pm
K and G – they wouldn’t be so annoying if they weren’t so ignorant.
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
10:11 pm
You are a moonbat
Are you a fighter with cauliflower ears
moonbat betty
October 22nd, 2011
10:13 pm
excuse me, getalife?
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
10:14 pm
moonbat,
daffy was the 1 % too.
Kamchak
October 22nd, 2011
10:15 pm
I can assure you that I post under this name only.
Your assurance and $0.99 gets me a Jr. bacon cheeseburger at Wendy’s.
moonbat betty 1%
October 22nd, 2011
10:16 pm
mano y mano.
bman
October 22nd, 2011
10:16 pm
moon….i’m not arguing. I read this blog every night after i get home from work. Lots of people have some interesting things to say here. Many are entertaining. “getalife” is probably the one who makes me laugh the most. I don’t mean that in a sarcastic way….his messages are always short and to the point…plus I like how he calls everyone “son”.
He hits a bit below the belt sometimes tho lol
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
10:20 pm
I don’t call everybody son.
Just those who ask for my help.
It’s a line from “True Grit”.
bman
October 22nd, 2011
10:26 pm
“Your assurance and $0.99 gets me a Jr. bacon cheeseburger at Wendy’s”
They don’t offer that anymore. Bacon got too expensive.
Mick
October 22nd, 2011
10:30 pm
Everybody ready for the holiday mode? It’s coming fast, buckle your seat belts-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBSkM-NTWOo&feature=related
moonbat betty
October 22nd, 2011
10:36 pm
What would you do if I sang out of tune?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xJWxPE8G2c
1811/0311
October 22nd, 2011
10:40 pm
ISLAMABAD — “Afghanistan would support Pakistan in case of military conflict between Pakistan and the United States, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in an interview to a private Pakistani TV channel broadcast on Saturday.”
Well, there you go …………….. maybe you libs. would back an “Arab Spring” for Karzai ???
1811/0311
October 22nd, 2011
10:41 pm
Mick:
What Holiday mode?
Thanksgiving and Christmas are just made up “Christian” things aren’t they ??
getalife
October 22nd, 2011
10:42 pm
Mick,
Thanksgiving is a huge party at moonbat’s mansion and bman is serving the food.
Scout,
Just like Iraq with Syria.
moonbat betty
October 22nd, 2011
10:43 pm
There is no holiday.
There is no “break”
FU
We will kill and track these trolls to the end.
The END.
1811/0311
October 22nd, 2011
10:46 pm
Trouble in paradise ……………….
Headline: “The not-so-celebrity president”
“When President Barack Obama raised a glass to South Korean President Lee Myung-bak at a state dinner last week, he did so in the opulently decorated East Room, packed with tables of business leaders, lawmakers and foreign dignitaries. But one of the president’s key constituencies was noticeably absent: Hollywood.
Gone were the Beyonce’s and Streisand’s of the world who have created buzz at other Obama state dinners. The closest thing to a celebrity was Billie Jean King, the onetime tennis champ, and John Cho, the not quite A-list actor from the movie “Harold and Kumar.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66624.html#ixzz1bZLnBska
moonbat betty
October 22nd, 2011
10:46 pm
it’s a great party, get, and of course you’re invited!
You’re the main entry!
bman
October 22nd, 2011
10:51 pm
maybe Mr. Bookman would have a Christmas party for all of his supporters here and hire me as the caterer : )
moonbat betty
October 22nd, 2011
10:54 pm
bman, of course he will!
bman
October 22nd, 2011
10:56 pm
Moonbat…nah, he wouldn’t. He is too cheap…held on to the same car for how many years? It was foreign made, by the way
: )
moonbat betty
October 22nd, 2011
10:57 pm
Good work 1811
moonbat betty
October 22nd, 2011
10:59 pm
U da man
bman
Mick
October 23rd, 2011
8:32 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1icujSV4o0&feature=related
Recon (2nd.and 3rd.)
October 23rd, 2011
8:47 am
In the latest Obama administration foreign policy failure Hamid Karzai announces that he would side with Pakistan in a conflict with the U.S. A great job of controlling that corrupt little weasel. Last week Obama announces that all troops will vacate Iraq by E.O.Y. as a result of his failure to negotiate with Iraq’s nuri al- Malaki a continued force presence in Iraq that our military commanders have recommended. Prior to that he orders our military to assist the Libyan rebels in finally killing Qaddafi but allows another murderous dictator Bashar al-Assad to continue the slaughter of his own people out of his fear of Iran. Outstanding job Mr. president.
carlosgvv
October 23rd, 2011
8:54 am
Scout – 10:40 Recon (2nd.and 3rd) – 8:47
Imagine all the soldiers who served in Iraq and their families reading this disgusting revelation. Then, imagine all the grieving families and friends who lost their loved ones in this useless war reading this. If it makes me mad as hell to learn this, I can only try to imagine their reaction.
TaxPayer
October 23rd, 2011
9:12 am
It is so refreshing to see that after spending ten years fighting the failed neocon war in Iraq and wasting US soldier’s lives and killing innocent Iraqi civilians and spending a trillion dollars of taxpayer money, we are finally getting out of Iraq. Thank you, President Obama, for putting an end to another Bush disaster. Now, we just need to make the neocons pay for it.
It sure is a lovely day.
Power to the People.
Mick
October 23rd, 2011
9:26 am
recon
Which president was it who created karzai? By the way, the writing is on the wall for afghanistan, we will be leaving there next and all politics are local, so why wouldn’t he try to cozy up to pakistan? You really have no grasp of reality just denigrate obama. Well, if it feels good – do it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cj6zHzTumE
Recon (2nd.and 3rd.)
October 23rd, 2011
9:36 am
Mick,
If you prefer to view the actions and no-actions of this administration with ideological subjectivity you’re obviously free to do so. In my own view there have been too many lives lost and limbs lost by our military to find this administrations strange behavior acceptable.
Mick
October 23rd, 2011
9:46 am
Ideological subjectivity?
Do you realize that the iraq war left 30k seriously wounded that will need care for the rest of their lives? The debacle of that war has hit us hard in the treasury and lets not forget the war profiteers. I think halliburton should get a special little war tax to help our wounded and recovering vets. Reminder: Who started these wars? What was the exit strategy? Obama will wrap all this up, at least the next guy won’t have that albatross…
Mick
October 23rd, 2011
9:50 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1KNlrXUb5k&feature=related
1811/0311
October 23rd, 2011
9:57 am
carlosgvv :
I agree with you in part and here’s why:
Headline: “Islamist party poised to win Tunisian elections…”
“THIS” is the “Arab Spring” ……….. Islamist governments ……… and it is only just starting. Why would Karzai support Pakistan after everything we have done for him and his country?
Because Islam is not just a religion ………. it is a religious, political, economic, cultural, educational and even military entity and we continue to ignore that fact at our peril.
MightyRighty
October 23rd, 2011
10:05 am
It is funny to hear the unemployed welefare Democrats say the employed tax paying Republicans should pay for something. LOL.
carlosgvv
October 23rd, 2011
10:07 am
Scout, sometime ago I said that it was just a matter of time before we would either have to wage all out war with Islam or be forced to bow down to Allah. Some here said I was crazy to think that way. I hope I’m wrong but in about 20 years I’m afraid I’ll be proven right. What do you think?
Mick
October 23rd, 2011
10:08 am
1811
Tunisia does not strike fear into this american’s heart. The middle east & africa is muslim, has been for centuries. Leave the hornets nest be and they will focus on their own internal rivalry’s. We need to rebuild from within, globalization has diminished our standard of living, bring back a degree of mercantilism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukUL_I14GPw&feature=related
1811/0311
October 23rd, 2011
10:14 am
Mick:
Muslim vs. Muslim “state” ………… two different things.
carlosgvv:
You are correct and it’s just starting to rear it’s head in this country. CAIR is the ACLU of Islam.
I fear for my grandchildren.
TaxPayer
October 23rd, 2011
10:21 am
Did someone type “employed Republican”. Now that’s funny. I mean, to think that burger flipping constitutes “employment”.
TaxPayer
October 23rd, 2011
10:22 am
I see poor scout is skeered again this fine morning. Stick your head back under the covers. I know that sunlight must burn bad.
TaxPayer
October 23rd, 2011
10:26 am
I see Muslims and US war veterans marching side by side in the Occupy Wall Street videos. Good for them. Power to the unskeered people.
carlosgvv
October 23rd, 2011
10:29 am
TaxPayer
I know you think it’s nice to live in a fastasyland world of denial but when cold hard reality comes up and bites your rearend, you will scream and cry like a frightned child.
getalife
October 23rd, 2011
10:47 am
Islamist party is their con party.
Just a different religion.
Why are they scared of a religious con party when they belong to one here?
Again, it does not pass the common sense test.
bman
October 23rd, 2011
10:54 am
Taxpayer ….you don’t think “burger flipping” is a job? That way of thinking is part of the problem with a lot of people. People are unemployed and complaining, but refuse to take a job that is beneath them.
How many people out of work? Don’t have fun at them. But flipping burgers? What a joke…..that’s not a job
TaxPayer
October 23rd, 2011
11:04 am
Don’t be skeered like other neocons, carlos. And, bman, I hear Alabama and Georgia — both fine examples of majority Republican states, are looking for workers but just cannot seem to get anyone to do those jobs now that the Republicans have run off all the Hispanics. The work must be beneath them.
bman
October 23rd, 2011
11:12 am
Taxpayer …you make little to no sense.
getalife
October 23rd, 2011
11:15 am
burgerman,
cain fan?
bman
October 23rd, 2011
11:17 am
getalife….nah – he’s funny, but I don’t like him much.
getalife
October 23rd, 2011
11:19 am
jindal won without a radical immigrant plan.
My friend Nungresser lost because cons are scared of fighters and change.
Voter turn out was extremely low.
Mick
October 23rd, 2011
11:20 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnLCvpgPD_s
getalife
October 23rd, 2011
11:22 am
burgerman,
You can run for office too with your experience.
Just don’t come out with a plan.
bman
October 23rd, 2011
11:24 am
getalife…that’s true. Obama did it.
All i need are some LSU pom-poms
Mick
October 23rd, 2011
11:26 am
We’ve lost the art of the two minute song-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-lF10HMjdw&feature=related
Paulo977
October 23rd, 2011
11:28 am
carlosgvv
re: “forced to bow down to Allah”
Thought we do that here now ….
http://www.godallah.com/
Mick
October 23rd, 2011
11:30 am
Who cares about the two minute song anyway? Time to get out and tackle the yard, have a great day mighty word players-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h59mDlBSt7o
getalife
October 23rd, 2011
11:31 am
burgerman,
Our President plans were to clean up w’s disasters.
So far so good.
Too bad that is not good enough for you cons and you want your party to finish off our country.
The Dude
October 23rd, 2011
11:40 am
Getalife 10:07pm
We r the 99%
The Dude
October 23rd, 2011
11:42 am
I hate Illinois Nazi’s
Jake
October 23rd, 2011
11:44 am
John Lee Hooker is the man
Obama. Not so much.
getalife
October 23rd, 2011
11:49 am
The Dude,
Yes, we are all the 99 % except moonbat betty .
She is filthy rich.
Lives in a shiny mansion on that hill called American exceptionalism.
The Dude
October 23rd, 2011
11:51 am
We, the 99%, do not want Obama as president anymore
Too inexperienced
carlosgvv
October 23rd, 2011
11:52 am
Paulo977 – 11:28
I went to that site and that is just plain scary. In our Country, which is dumbing down more each and every day, that kind of superstitious nonsense might just appeal to those who need such a crutch to get thru life. Looks like the time is soon comming when we will all stand up or bow down.
getalife
October 23rd, 2011
11:54 am
The Dude,
Who do you want then oh wise one?
JamVet
October 23rd, 2011
11:57 am
Apparently somebody is so deluded that they don’t think that working class Republicans have also paid a horrific price for being in the middle class over the past thirty plus years.
No sirree, no Republicans have lost their jobs – and entire industries for that matter – and are desperately trying to find new work. It’s all Democrats and other non-Republicans..
And none of them have been participants in our record number of personal bankruptcies, catastrophic medical expenses and loss of their homes through foreclosures. It’s all Democrats and other non-Republicans.
None of them have seen their wages effectively flat-lined since Reagan. It’s all Democrats and and other non-Republicans.
Yep, everything is hunky dory in GOPland. Which explains the almost complete lack of outrage at what has been done to them, their families, their neighborhoods and their communities. (Notwithstanding the Tea Party’s correct efforts to reign in out of control government spending. What they wont talk about is the matching out of control lack of income – heavily due to massive corporate welfare and tax avoidance. To the point where Big Business brazenly no longer pays anywhere near their fair share to Uncle Sam. Though they used to.)
What it doesn’t explain, however, is how the so many of the more reactionary in the right wing use endless ad hominem attacks to vilify these growing protests. From sea to shining sea. Hundreds of thousands of angry American people, from all walks of life, who are beyond fed up with this contrived, counter-productive income disparity and burgeoning plutocracy.
And at long last we the silent are finally speaking truth to power – in a big way – to make our just grievances known.
Middle class Americans need a long overdue hand up, not a hand out.
Open your clenched fists and join them.
Paulo977
October 23rd, 2011
11:57 am
carlosgvv
The point is ALLAH is not some ‘demon’ as you guys like to characterize Him , He is God the Creator of the universe by another name!!!!!
The Dude
October 23rd, 2011
11:58 am
Romney will do better
carlosgvv
October 23rd, 2011
12:07 pm
Paulo977
And, of course, you can furnish us all with hard irrefutible scientific evidence of this?
TaxPayer
October 23rd, 2011
12:18 pm
And, of course, you can furnish us all with hard irrefutible scientific evidence of this?
Of course. It’s right there on the library shelf along with the irrefutable scientific proof of the existence of all Gods. It’s global warming that you gotta have faith in. Every Republican knows that.
Jake
October 23rd, 2011
12:19 pm
Looks like the blog is out of gas
Cam
October 23rd, 2011
12:19 pm
Open your clenched fists and join them.
a href=”http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44955899/ns/world_news-europe/t/weve-lost-everything-violent–day-strike-shuts-down-greece/”>Or grab yourself an incendiary device?
Dependent on government is no way to go through life. Society’s losers have nowhere to turn but to violence.
Cam
October 23rd, 2011
12:21 pm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44955899/ns/world_news-europe/t/weve-lost-everything-violent–day-strike-shuts-down-greece/
getalife
October 23rd, 2011
12:25 pm
This blog is not out of gas.
cons are running on empty.
They got nothing so we just laugh.
Jake
October 23rd, 2011
12:25 pm
Cam
Commies, Nazi’s, and Socialists suck
getalife
October 23rd, 2011
12:28 pm
jake,
nein, nein, nein.
Yeah, that does suk.
Jake
October 23rd, 2011
12:29 pm
Getalife
Fill’er up then
1811/0311
October 23rd, 2011
12:30 pm
.carlosgvv :
Me thinks TaxPayer has never been to an Islamic “State” country. I have.
Matti's Rapture Time?
October 23rd, 2011
12:31 pm
getalife,
Was that your Tigers that walloped my Tigers last night?
Jake
October 23rd, 2011
12:32 pm
Where can I get four fried chickens and a coke?
carlosgvv
October 23rd, 2011
12:32 pm
TaxPayer
In the Republican language of Newspeak, hard scientific evidence is nothing more than simple faith believed by deluded liberals while pure religious faith, especially Christian, is absolute hard fact.
getalife
October 23rd, 2011
12:33 pm
Okay jake,
willard vs perry.
Two libs beating each other to a bloody pulp.
Giving our President all the ammunition to crush the winner.
The 99 % move our country center left.
Life is good.
1811/0311
October 23rd, 2011
12:35 pm
Paulo977
@ 11:57 am
“The point is ALLAH is not some ‘demon’ as you guys like to characterize Him , He is God the Creator of the universe by another name!!!!!”
……………. and that would be wrong. For your edification here it is:
Yeshua Ha’Mashiach
Joshua the Messiah
Jesus the Christ
“Except you believe in Me you are dead in your sins.”
“He that believes in Me is not condemned but he that believes not is condemned already because he has not believed …………. “
Jake
October 23rd, 2011
12:36 pm
I don’t think perry’s a lib getalife. Yeah he changed parties for political expediency
But he’s just crazy and into cronyism
If romney’s a liberal u should love him
Jake
October 23rd, 2011
12:38 pm
Getalife
99% not tuning in until general election
Romney is on a mission from god for the common good and America
getalife
October 23rd, 2011
12:39 pm
Matti,
I started to feel sorry for your guys running back the kickoffs
Then Bama did not play well in their game the first half.
I feel good about LSU winning this year.
Even jindal had a good line in his victory speech.
He said when he runs for governor, our Tigers win the National Championship.
Jake
October 23rd, 2011
12:42 pm
Jindal is a McKinsey redneck
But a smart one
getalife
October 23rd, 2011
12:42 pm
jm,
Just one name.
You look silly wearing that magic underwear.
Joe Smith is a false prophet and the cons will not vote for a Mormon.
Matti's Rapture Time?
October 23rd, 2011
12:44 pm
getalife,
It looks like LSU will take the trophy this year. The way the season is going (and with CBS’s constant, two-month hyping of it) I think the entire country will grind to a halt on Nov 5 to watch the LSU-Bama game!
getalife
October 23rd, 2011
12:44 pm
scout,
Will you vote for a Mormon?
JamVet
October 23rd, 2011
12:45 pm
Attempts at reasonable discourse on this forum are sometimes co-opted by the childish crazies and modern-day McCarthys.
And at 12:19, so it goes again.
Jake
October 23rd, 2011
12:46 pm
Getalife
Magic underwear is great
You only need one name when you’re on a mission from god
getalife
October 23rd, 2011
12:46 pm
Matti,
I hope it is as good as that Wisconsin vs Michigan State game.
Talk about a war.
That was awesome.
1811/0311
October 23rd, 2011
12:47 pm
getalife:
Absolutely …………. especially against Obama. Just because I believe he is wrong theologically, or supports the wrong football team or likes turkey burgers has nothing to do with his high moral standards and political viewpoints.
There is no religious test for political office in this country nor should there be.
1811/0311
October 23rd, 2011
12:48 pm
getalife:
Did he really cross that goaline?
Jake
October 23rd, 2011
12:49 pm
Scout knows what is good for America
Thulsa Doom
October 23rd, 2011
12:51 pm
Best line of the weekend was when the Auburn offense was going backwards against LSU with sacks and penalties. Announcer Gary Danielson then exclaimed “Auburn is running the Barack Obama offense. Nothing is working”. I just about fell out of my chair laughing.
getalife
October 23rd, 2011
12:52 pm
scout,
Not a real Christian are you.
I did not think he crossed the line but both teams left everything they had on the field like it should be.
Jake
October 23rd, 2011
12:53 pm
Thulsa