Posted On: Monday - November 17th 2025 9:09AM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Music US Feral Government The Neocons
Ask not for whom
... the extended mourn-porn* in the Lyin' Press for our Dowager ex-King, Bush I. Look, he died, I! GET! THAT!Mourn-porn! Yeah, I'm gonna use that again.
Soon after, we posted The Shutdown and the Flags, speculating that, though we didn't know who the flags had been lowered for, we did know who lowered them. That would be the government workers who, not being paid on-time temporarily, might not be raising the flags back up when they were supposed to have been. Ha, I'm sure there've been a few more rants since then, with our best solution being that government offices and business just ought to purchase flag-poles that are half of the normal length to begin with. There you go. Cut out the work being done by highly-paid government workers.
I have now seen the American flag staying at half-mast for at least a week, maybe 2. Who died this time? Anyone important? All I could come up with is the NeoCon of NeoCons, Dick Cheney. He was important, but so is George Soros - will the flags be lowered for him when he is taken down to the abyss?
This is not even mourn- porn. This is the deliberate memorialization of a destructive lying NeoCon warmongering bastard. That is, if the flags have really been lowered for Dick Cheney.
I won't even ask, then. I will go to my happy place and believe otherwise. I am so glad the US Gov't made the effort to memorialize a great artist who died recently. If not a big influence in American politics, he had a great influence on partying and Rocking & Rolling. We're talking Mr. Ace Frehley from the 1970s New York City rock band KISS. He died one month and a day ago. Let's keep the flags at half-mast all night, and e-ver-ee day!
You people shout it, you people shout it...!
KISS:
They all sang. Otherwise here's the true basic R&R instrument set-up:
Ace Frehley - lead guitar
Paul Stanley - rhythm guitar
Gene Simmons - bass guitar
Peter Chris - drums
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Moderator
Tuesday - November 18th 2025 7:03PM MST
PS: Alfred Noyes, huh? That was one intense poem, SafeNow. I may or may not have read it in high school, but I'm sure I wouldn't have appreciated it as much as I just did, or as much as the teachers wanted us to.
SafeNow
Monday - November 17th 2025 6:08PM MST
PS
I myself haven’t gotten past BESS…
“A highwayman comes riding—
Riding—riding—
A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.
….
He whistles a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord’s black-eyed daughter,
Bess, the landlord’s daughter”
Maybe for our respective New Year’s resolutions, Alarmist can get past Beth, and I can get past Bess. But seriously, Alarmist got me thinking about how, besides getting past ACTUAL people, one can be haunted by a fictitious character portrayed in a song. Ot in a poem, a movie, or a tv series.
I myself haven’t gotten past BESS…
“A highwayman comes riding—
Riding—riding—
A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.
….
He whistles a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord’s black-eyed daughter,
Bess, the landlord’s daughter”
Maybe for our respective New Year’s resolutions, Alarmist can get past Beth, and I can get past Bess. But seriously, Alarmist got me thinking about how, besides getting past ACTUAL people, one can be haunted by a fictitious character portrayed in a song. Ot in a poem, a movie, or a tv series.
Moderator
Monday - November 17th 2025 2:19PM MST
PS: Well, there's always "Detroit, Rock City" I don't know how anyone could not like that one. I think you should get past "Beth", Alarmist. ;-}
I never noticed when the flags first went back to half-mast. I thought it might be they were still down due to laziness after the last guy died.
I never noticed when the flags first went back to half-mast. I thought it might be they were still down due to laziness after the last guy died.
The Alarmist
Monday - November 17th 2025 1:35PM MST
PS
Forgot to mention it, but when I rolled into the parking lot for my first US meeting week before last, I noticed the flag at half staff, and the news on the radio immediately informed me that Lord Cheney had passed, and I thought, “So that is why I felt a great disturbance in the farce.”
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Forgot to mention it, but when I rolled into the parking lot for my first US meeting week before last, I noticed the flag at half staff, and the news on the radio immediately informed me that Lord Cheney had passed, and I thought, “So that is why I felt a great disturbance in the farce.”
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The Alarmist
Monday - November 17th 2025 1:13PM MST
PS
I dunno … I never quite got past “Beth.” Then again, Alice Cooper did “You & Me,” and I got over that.
I dunno … I never quite got past “Beth.” Then again, Alice Cooper did “You & Me,” and I got over that.