Whatever Happened To…?

Isn’t Barack Bin Osama running for president?

Now that SMU has rejected (or is at least considering rejecting) the Bush library, they might instead put up the “Stupidest and most dangerous phrases of all times, museum.” Cut in stone across the front of the building will be the phrase “Axis of Evil.” Inside will contain everything W has ever uttered, along with some other classics like; we will begin bombing in 15 minutes, trees cause pollution, and cutting taxes is the only way to cut the deficit.

That was sure my understanding, Dale. It was the Anti-Comintern Pact and those three nations were the signatories. For the youth amongst us, the Comintern was the Communist International, led by Moscow into the forties, when it was disbanded by Stalin during the war.

SeatteDan–my problem was that I thought “Axis” was a plural of “Axi.” (in SAT Speak, that Ally: Allies as Axi: Axis). This may have been the same school essay in which I discussed the Knotsies.

I’m not sure what kind of media bias this reflects, but fresh off the Weekend Edition webpage:

“Conversatives Seek a Standard Bearer”

Don’t remember what I thought an axis was at the time. I was a wee tad as the WW Twice shit was really flying out of the fan (actually, I was still a bun in the oven when those crafty Nipponese bombed Pearl Harbor - my brother was born when the Knotsies rolled over the Polskis). Main thing I remember was the ditty “Whistle while you work, Hitler was a jerk, Mussolini bit his wienie, and then it wouldn’t work.” What can I say, this is what we were chanting on the schoolground at recess when I was in first or second grade, just as the Korean War was getting in gear. We were always a little behind in Florida back then.

Thought Bush’s reference was typical braindead sabre rattling.

I think Iran has basically won the Iraq War. We have certainly rid them of two hostile neighboring governments and raised their stock in the Middle East, all the while taking ours down to the point that only the bondholders will collect anything on their holdings. Iraq is now the black hole of discretionary federal dollars. Pyongyang is the new Hollywood wannabee?

Dale, I think we were meant for each other. I always thought that “misled” was the past tense of “misle” (pron. my-zle), which coincidentally meant the same thing as “mislead.”

I was born too late for WWII songs, but I do remember a few tunes from the Vietnam era. If they can rhyme “givadamn” with “Vietnam,” I’m sure we can do something with “Fallujah.”

Harold, that’s brilliant! But can we dance to it?

We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
‘Cause your friends don’t dance and if they don’t dance
Well they’re no friends of mine
I say, we can go where we want to
A place where they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world
Leave the real one far behind
And we can dance

-With many apologies to the one hit wonder Men Without Hats, and to the FanAppers who have to endure the silliness

Commence Lurking

Life might not be the party we imagined it would be, but yes, we can still dance, and as Harold so beguilingly put it, we can dance to any song we wish, m’lords and ladies.

Down in Fallujah
they don’t say hallelujah
for the USA

Cooper -

I just read that article and was coming over here to post it!

Scary stuff.

Katie

p.s. Thanks. Now I’ll be humming “Safety Dance” all afternoon…..

Very good, Dave M.

After I had logged off the other night, I realized what was wrong with dee’s version of the “Colonel Bogey” lyrics. The version I learned had different first 2 lines, which went

Hitler has only half a ball,
Goering has two but they are small…

I think my first line scans better than dee’s, as the major emphasis (and the high note) lands on the word “half” - in hers, it’s on “got”.

And a very sad farewell to Molly Ivins. What a woman. There are people who speak truth to power, and there are funny people, but she was both, and that’s priceless. She gave me my favorite insult, which she originated about some nameless Texas politico: “If his IQ was any lower, we’d have to water him twice a week.”