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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josef
October 23rd, 2011
6:07 pm
midori
@ 6:04
Midori
October 23rd, 2011
6:07 pm
Hi Soot Baby!!
Recon (2nd.and 3rd.)
October 23rd, 2011
6:08 pm
Jm@6:00, Now you know there isn’t any fairness toward conservative bloggers here. The pets get a pass and always will.
Midori
October 23rd, 2011
6:08 pm
Hi Josef
wanna guess who that is dedicated to?
Soothsayer
October 23rd, 2011
6:09 pm
Midori my one and only girl!
getalife
October 23rd, 2011
6:10 pm
Winning wars, protests against the 1 % controlling governments around the world, freedom in the ME, and a competent President with a brain.
It does not get any better than this
Four more years.
josef
October 23rd, 2011
6:11 pm
DELL
I wouldn’t say that…he has let GLL slide on some of the most scurrilous garbage I’ve ever seen posted here up to and including personal attacks on one of the few gentlemen ever to come here…
midori
The list would run w-a-a-y long!
Midori
October 23rd, 2011
6:11 pm
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s320×320/297113_2378333410192_1006349716_2682824_1324289492_n.jpg
Jm
October 23rd, 2011
6:12 pm
Getalife
Less than 1% protesting
Liberal lefty resorting to spreading hate
Liberals losing and r desperate
Recon (2nd.and 3rd.)
October 23rd, 2011
6:13 pm
josef,
I won’t name names or blog handles but you’ve got to be kidding me.
josef
October 23rd, 2011
6:14 pm
midori
and another
josef
October 23rd, 2011
6:17 pm
DELL
Seriously…I’ve never been able to get a handle on just who, why and when he gets in a snit…but there are some on the right who get a free pass and some on the left who get him in a dither…I will admit, though, that in the balance, the conservatives get it with more frequency…of course, it is Jay’s playground and he does have a liberal bias…
wet wiccan
October 23rd, 2011
6:20 pm
Well, I am certainly glad the world did not end last Friday! But wait … 11/11/11 is just around the corner!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FxgdNmaTvA
HAHAHA!!
getalife
October 23rd, 2011
6:20 pm
All we need to do is recover the 15 million jobs w lost and balance our budget again.
Then stop the gop from ever destroying our country again.
We can do this again.
Stop voting gop is the key for a stable country.
Jm
October 23rd, 2011
6:23 pm
“Stop voting gop is the key for a stable country.”
Yep, a “stable”, no growth, high unemployment country
Pardon me, I’ll take the GOP over Obama
josef
October 23rd, 2011
6:23 pm
wiccan
11/11/11? Granddaddy always said he found it strange that the Alm-ghty had the Julian Calendar in mind when H- created the universe and planned its destruction…
Recon (2nd.and 3rd.)
October 23rd, 2011
6:25 pm
josef,
I understand that and shrug it off. He’s never proven his problems with me and when I’ve challenged he either declines to answer the challenge or re-arranges his original accusations essentially taking the discourse out of its original context. It hasn’t occurred that frequently, so to me it’s no big deal.
Jm
October 23rd, 2011
6:26 pm
Getalife
U hit the nail on the head
Liberals are scared of volatility
Without volatility you can’t have growth
You want “stability”, but stability is impossible and an illusion
Conservatives can see reality, liberals can’t
Recon (2nd.and 3rd.)
October 23rd, 2011
6:27 pm
Okay…need to go cook. Maybe later.
wet wiccan
October 23rd, 2011
6:27 pm
josef
That is a coincidence, isn’t it? (smile)
josef
October 23rd, 2011
6:28 pm
DELL
Agreed on that point…he can parse with the best of them..up to and including rearranging a simple subject-predicate-complement statement when called on it! I like him, though, even if he is an orthodox arch conservative in his interpretations of certain events in history…
Jm
October 23rd, 2011
6:32 pm
“F sides. Right now we need a little solidarity.”
Amen. We need growth. Obama should put his agenda and campaign down and work with republicans to get growth going.
josef
October 23rd, 2011
6:59 pm
jm
@ 6:32
And what should the Republicans do?
Midori
October 23rd, 2011
7:06 pm
that’s a d*mn good question, Josef………..
Thulsa Doom
October 23rd, 2011
7:09 pm
Spreading the hate of Jesus? Good grief. Is there a full moon or something? Some of the loons have gotten really crazy today but saying Jesus was a spreader of hate is off the charts loony. They must be having a howling at the moon contest to see who can say the craziest thing.
josef
October 23rd, 2011
7:19 pm
midori
And one I really would like an answer to…
Thulsa
The boy has deep psychological problems stemming back from early childhood is all I can figure…
Jm
October 23rd, 2011
7:34 pm
Josef
Same thing
Pass infrastructure spending Obama wants, offset by other spending reductions
1811/0311
October 23rd, 2011
7:39 pm
Let me see if I have this right.
1) You libs. say Gingrich was an adulterer and therefore he for that alone would not make a good president.
2) Bill Clinton was an adulterer and yet you say he made a fine president as far as your liberal policies are concerned ……….. and I assume you would include Kennedy and Johnson.
Jm
October 23rd, 2011
7:50 pm
Josef
Though I should say Obama hardly has a mandate given the house was wholesale turned over to the GOP by Americans
josef
October 23rd, 2011
7:50 pm
Jm
Agreed on the infrastructural spending. That’s the place to put the focus, IMO…
Scout
The difference? Clinton left a pretty good political record. Newt did not. Clinton didn’t posture as some paragon of morality. Newt did. Both are moral scumbags. Both are liars. One is a pious ass. The other is just an ass..
Thulsa Doom
October 23rd, 2011
7:54 pm
1811,
You trying to reason with the unreasonabel on the Clinton/Gingrich adulteries? I tried it. It don’t work.
Midori
October 23rd, 2011
7:59 pm
just saw Bush throwing out the ball at the World Series.
Almost didn’t recognize him without his flight suit
1811/0311
October 23rd, 2011
8:01 pm
Thulsa:
I know ……….. it just amuses me.
Thulsa Doom
October 23rd, 2011
8:02 pm
josef,
Clinton left a pretty good political record but Newt didn’t? Newt led the House which forced Clinton into the balanced budget deal.People forget that a large part of this balanced budget deal was because the Newt led Congress pushed Clinton into it. The reality is that they worked together to get things done. And as far as being scumbags yes they are serial adulterers and both left office under a cloud- Clinton with the lying under oath and Gingrich with the ethics probe over something about a history course that he taught at a small college. Not that we need to get into a misstress count but Newt was a one or 2 time adulterer while Clinton supposedly had affairs with 7 or more women that we know of. Yet mysteriously Newt is the one that is labeled the adulterer. I just think that Clinton gets a little more fair shake than Newt does. But you know in the media some folks are more equal than other folks.
1811/0311
October 23rd, 2011
8:02 pm
Midori:
Every try to learn to fly a military fighter jet aircraft ?
Midori
October 23rd, 2011
8:04 pm
Scout,
ever learn to stay out of other people’s genitalia?
josef
October 23rd, 2011
8:07 pm
Thulsa
Newt? Don’t forget, I’m gay…he can fade into wel deserved oblivion IMO
1811/0311
October 23rd, 2011
8:13 pm
Midori:
Nope …………… they often hide evidence there ………. you know weapons, illegal drugs, counterfeit money, stolen U.S. Treasury checks, etc.
It’s called “search incident to an arrest”.
In their stupidity they actually think you won’t find it.
Alas, they were always wrong.
Midori
October 23rd, 2011
8:21 pm
weak.
very weak.
even for you.
Columbo’s on!!
Jm
October 23rd, 2011
8:21 pm
Josef
Ready to get the government out of the marriage biz?
TaxPayer
October 23rd, 2011
8:29 pm
11/11/11 looks like a good day for Armaggedon at first glance but when you expand the date to 11/11/2011 it just doesn’t balance out as well. I think we’re going to have to wait for something like 10/20/3040 or something like that. Too bad 10/20/2010 has already passed because that one would have worked too. Then again, there is 11/20/2011. Uh oh! That one is getting close.
TaxPayer
October 23rd, 2011
8:30 pm
Ready to get the government out of the marriage biz?
That may require getting Republicans out of government.
josef
October 23rd, 2011
8:31 pm
Jm
Yep. The state is in the civil union business…get the word marriage out of it…
Jm
October 23rd, 2011
8:32 pm
Armaggeddon day is a joke
Let’s fix the here and now by growing the economy and make it possible for people to get useful jobs
Jm
October 23rd, 2011
8:33 pm
Taxpayer
Can’t pick and choose
Government is in all kinds of things it shouldn’t be
TaxPayer
October 23rd, 2011
8:33 pm
Let’s fix the here and now by growing the economy and make it possible for people to get useful jobs
I’m in favor of getting rid of Republicans for that too.
1811/0311
October 23rd, 2011
8:57 pm
Headline: “WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran should not misread the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq as affecting the U.S. commitment to the fledgling democracy, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday.”
Hummmm …………… heard that one before in 1972. Three years later, in spite of promises from the President and the Paris Peace Treaty, the United States Congress turned its back on South Viet Nam.
getalife
October 23rd, 2011
8:59 pm
Sick of the gop getting a free pass for attacking our President and obstructing fixing their collapse.
It end on this blog now.
getalife
October 23rd, 2011
10:28 pm
Wow, it worked.
1811/0311
October 23rd, 2011
10:41 pm
That’s what YOU think !
TAPS !
Jm
October 23rd, 2011
10:46 pm
Obama is a AA president at best. America demands AAA
New president 2012
Jm
October 23rd, 2011
10:59 pm
Occupy getting arrested everywhere
They are breaking the law
getalife
October 23rd, 2011
11:02 pm
Saints win.
This kid from Texas can pitch.
2-2.
w did not jinx them this game.
Acer706
October 23rd, 2011
11:25 pm
Kid does have an arm!
Does the Occupy crowd see the World Series as a Field of 1%ers? What do they see?
bman
October 24th, 2011
12:06 am
I like the occupy crowd staying in the park. Put a fence around the park and people can take their kids to the troy davis zoo
getalife
October 24th, 2011
12:08 am
They see a field of the American dream and want all Americans to have a shot at the American dream not just the 1 %.
bman
October 24th, 2011
12:40 am
getalife….what is their definition of the American dream? What’s yours?
Normal
October 24th, 2011
6:38 am
Grand Monday morning to all y’all…Ain’t it great to be alive? Life is good and gettin’ better
http://history.icanhascheezburger.com/2011/10/22/funny-pictures-history-idealized-country/
http://history.icanhascheezburger.com/2011/10/23/funny-pictures-history-root-shootin-christmas/
Granny Godzilla
October 24th, 2011
7:17 am
MMMMMM
Friday we saw this posted:
“Thank you Mr. President for abiding by the deal that was struck by your predecessor in 2008.”
Over the weekend we heard GOP candidates say Obama lost the war in Iraq and in fact it was an astonishing failure.
So following the logic…ipso facto…voile….
Thank you Mr. President for abiding by the deal that was struck by your predecessor George W. Bush in 2008 that planned for and succeeded in causing an astonshing failure and loss in the war in Iraq.
Can I get a great big WOW?
Normal
October 24th, 2011
7:24 am
Granny g.
You get TWO big WOW’S from me!
stands for decibels
October 24th, 2011
7:29 am
Mornin’.
Good AJC piece on the place religious faith is playing in the OWS movement.
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/religion-claims-its-place-1208614.html
Religion might not fit into the movement seamlessly, but activist Dan Sieradski, who’s helped organize Jewish services and events at Occupy Wall Street, said it must fit somewhere.
“We’re a country full of religious people,” he said. “Faith communities do need to be present and need to be welcomed in order for this to be an all-encompassing movement that embraces all sectors of society.”
Religious imagery and events have been common since the protests began. In New York, clergy carried an Old Testament-style golden calf in the shape of the Wall Street bull to decry the false idol of greed. Sieradski organized a Yom Kippur service. About 70 Muslims kneeled to pray toward Mecca at a prayer service Friday.
[...]
Clergy who support the protests say they are a natural fit with many faiths, because they share traditional concerns about economic injustice. They also point to history, including the civil rights movement and abolition.
stands for decibels
October 24th, 2011
7:30 am
(oops. *AP* piece above, not AJC piece, although it’s published in the ajc. my bad.)
stands for decibels
October 24th, 2011
7:43 am
Meet Mitt Romney’s Radical, Right-wing, Sharia-phobe Foreign Policy Advisor
the [Walid] Phares selection may be a dog-whistle to a particular group of conservatives that Romney has, until now, hardly attempted to court: anti-Sharia zealots, who happen to enjoy a strong base of support in Iowa. While the anti-Sharia crowd cares little for impeccable credentials or decades-old foreign conflicts, it cares a great deal about the threat of Sharia law. By tapping Phares, Romney could get in the good graces of this group and inoculate himself against the possibility of being labeled “soft on Sharia.”
Because the GOP base really is *that* stupid.
Normal
October 24th, 2011
7:47 am
“Because the GOP base really is *that* stupid.”
Ain’t it the truth…?
stands for decibels
October 24th, 2011
7:56 am
Normal, for me the seminal work on this lunatic strain of the GOP base is from 2007, really worth a read if/when you have the time.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/13/2499
a wee taste…
The “European races” i.e., white people – “are too self-absorbed to breed,” but the Muslims are multiplying quickly. The inevitable result will be ” large-scale evacuation operations circa 2015″ as Europe is ceded to al Qaeda and “Greater France remorselessly evolve[s] into Greater Bosnia.”
He offers a light smearing of dubious demographic figures – he needs to turn 20 million European Muslims into more than 150 million in nine years, which is a lot of humping.
[...]
Over breakfast, I forgot myself and said I was considering setting out to find a local street kid who would show me round the barrios — the real Mexico. They gaped. “Do you want to die?” one asked.
The Reviewers confine their Mexican jaunt to covered markets and walled-off private fortresses like the private Nikki Beach. Here, as ever, they want Mexico to be a dispenser of cheap consumer goods and lush sands – not a place populated by (uck) Mexicans.
Midori
October 24th, 2011
8:01 am
speaking of stupid: I like the occupy crowd staying in the park. Put a fence around the park and people can take their kids to the troy davis zoo
that ranked 1000 on the Midori Stupid-Meter
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 24th, 2011
8:07 am
I bet the Midori Stupid-Meter can stay pegged at 1,000 most of the day thanks to most of the right wingnuts
stands for decibels
October 24th, 2011
8:12 am
On the other hand, “Soft on Sharia” could be an excellent band name.
stands for decibels
October 24th, 2011
8:14 am
A headline to begin your week on a bright note.
stands for decibels
October 24th, 2011
8:20 am
Ga. legislators suc sheets.
Midori
October 24th, 2011
8:39 am
ain’t that the truth, Keep
bman
October 24th, 2011
10:11 am
kayaker..I do know that the Gov’t needs to sell their stake in GM @50+ per share to break even. It seems I remember reading where we were going to actually make money on this deal….
liberalefty
October 24th, 2011
2:18 pm
hey RECON, again i ask u; ” if u want an american military presence in iraq why dont u get together with your republican chickenhawks and form a private army to “defend” iraq. junkie LIMBAUGH can be y’alls general. u SUPADUPAPATRIOT U