A Week Left, A WEAK Left

USE YOUR BRAIN
VOTE for McCAIN!

We know their policies are weak. Let's hope their numbers aren't as advertised. People just don't have a healthy fear or knowledge of Marxism. God help us from turning Obama into the next Castro! With a week left, let's hope we have a weak left.

A Marxist Tradition...

Fidel Castro came into power in Cuba as an agent of much needed change. Sound familiar?
Castro's first act as the good Catholic he CLAIMED to be was to bulldoze all Roman Catholic cemeteries because his "administration" believed it was a waste of land. Today, citizens cannot possess meat. That's for the tourists. There is no criticizing Castro in Cuba, just as it criticism wasn't tolerated in the Soviet Union and we ALL know about Tienaman Square.
Barack Obama is a Marxist and does not tolerate other opinion. Neither do his supporters as evidenced in the above picture.

Like the Internal Organ He's Named After

Colin Powell put out some political rhetoric that would grow excellent tomatoes, but has no basis whatsoever in truth. Racism in the election? His words pretty much prove that.
It's also not true as is said over and over again, that Obama is the first black man to run for President. He IS the first to get his party's nod. And for all the libs who want to pull the race card out of THEIR internal organ, I fully supported Alan Keyes for President in the past two elections over George W Bush and against Obama in his Senatorial bid. So the racism card may fly, but look to Colin Powell for that!
Powell SHOULD be able to recognize a Marxist when he sees one or at least have enough sense not to support one!

Karaoke Always Suffers

If it's not a karaoke host who would be run off stage at Charlie Goodnights with his "comedy," a karaoke host who fancies himself Sir Mixalot, or one that always shows up late, karaoke suffers from not being a priority. It already suffers an inaccurate image as portrayed on television and motion pictures. Believe it or not, it's not ALL tone-deaf yuppies displaying their lack of talent. At least around here, there are those who actually have some talent.On a good night the tone-deaf factor is minimized.
But you let a holiday come by or some special occasion and owners or planners for these events make karaoke their last priority. First of all, if you're going to advertise karaoke, let it be that...karaoke. If you're going to have some guy playing music who's a legend in his own mind, have at it, but advertise it as such. If you're going to have karaoke on a set night, be consistent and have it on that night.
We're entering a season I dispise where holidays come and karaoke takes a back seat. October 31st is Halloween and one venue is having a contest for the sexiest costume, etc. The advertising doesn't mention karaoke and describes the karaoke host as a "deejay." The use of that term is quite debatable as I've covered in previous blog entries.
So, here we go again. Have a ball, people, but don't expect to look around and see me and a lot of a lot of folks who enjoy singing to be there. We'll be at some other venue or taking the night off!

(The picture is from Halloween '07 with Jason Ward as a devilish figure at Locked & Loaded)

Success

Often one person will pay for another's success. This Friday night in keeping with trying to widen the view of a generation that moves to the same ole drum, I pulled out a Beatle album cut for my first song, "I'm Only Sleeping." It was on the American version album "Yesterday and Today."It's a more "artsie" song than many Beatle tunes.
Last night a friend gave me his review of the performance. He thought a woman was there singing and came and made a funny face at me. Most of the crowd seemed to really like it, especially Beatle effionatos.
I kept trying to refine my friend's remarks, because he has been known to say, "Man, you can sing ANYTHING!" Now he was making comments like "You don't need to be doing THAT song."
So I began to question him. "Have you ever heard the song?"
"I told you've I've heard it."
"Well, then, did it not sound authentic?"
"It sounded just like the Beatles, but you just don't need to do that song!"
I guess my friend found a Beatle song he doesn't like, but didn't know how to say it.
My friend, Cookie, asked me, "What's the song that says 'I get by with a little help from my friends?' "
I told him, "'A Little Help From My Friends'" So we did that song as a duet. Friday was a busy night with a lot of singers and amazingly, very few tone-deaf entries. One guy who is know to "recite" the same song, he sort of talks it without a melody week after week after week, didn't do so. That was a relief. As usual, karaoke started late. It's supposed to start at ten. Tony, the host, sang the first song and I was second, but at 12:30 I asked Tony if he could give me an idea of how long it would be before the rotation repeated. He said, "It's only going to be five or six more songs."
Then he announced same over the system. I tabbed out and headed for another venue. On the way out the door, Tony said, "Sorry, Man."
I said, "Tony, don't apologize for success. It's a good thing, but I want to sing. Up the street in an hour I can do three or four songs." Off I went.

(The picture is of Cookie and me at Locked & Loaded)

I STILL Like to Hear It!

Except for the "if I was to close my eyes" part, I love it when someone thinks I duplicate Elvis' incomparable voice. I've got sense enough to know no one can. The boy's been off to see Gladys (his Mom) now, for what is it? Thirty-one years and he's bigger in Rock'n'Roll Heaven than he was the scant twenty-two years of his earthly career.
If EP could tear himself away from leading the real Praise & Worship up there with Mom &Dad long enough, he'd probably look down and characteristically say, "Bunch of weirdos, Man! Never ceases to amaze me."
The picture is the summer of '64 or five at the Wright Brothers Memorial and I was in full Elvis mode. "I-I-I don't know, Man. I've been lucky. I-I-I've been real lucky. I happened to come along at a time when there was no set trend in the music business and I-I-I was lucky...I hope I never awake from this wonderful dream!"

Not Original with Me and the First Time I'd Heard It

A friend of mine suggested that members of Congress and Senators be required to wear coveralls, much like NASCAR drivers with sponsors on them to show what corporations and special interest groups have bribed, er uh, given financial support to them!
Great idea, me thinks!

Would Be Terminator of a Democratic Republic!

About Mom

Annabelle, Annabelle,
She was bound for Heaven,
But I put her through such hell.

Annabelle, Annabelle,
Serenaded me at night,
When I wasn't feeling well.

Annabelle, Annabelle,
She's the one who'd pick me up,
The many times I fell.

Annabelle, Annabelle,
Savoring aromas,
From the kitchen I could smell.

Annabelle, Annabelle,
I was the world's worst student,
Though she tried to teach me well.

Annabelle, oh Annabelle,
In a Place I want to go,
And there forever dwell!

--John Roebuck

copyright 2008 John H Roebuck

Financial Terrorism?

The Christian Rock song first recorded by Matthew Ward and later by Mylon & Broken Heart, *"It's Alright," warned
"You know the MONEY SYSTEM's on it's way."
Mike Huckabee said on Geraldo on FoxNews Channel this evening that it is quite possible that what we're experiencing is financial terrorism. He's onto something, me thinks.
Incidentally, a Yellow Dog Dem friend of mine accused me of getting all my information from said network. This is not true at ALL. (By the way, they have really had the opportunity to vote for some yellow dogs in the past century and have, including the clueless Jimmy Peanut Brain Carter and just when we thought it couldn't get worst, Bill Cigar Clinton.) Often, FoxNews Channel has the only coverage I can trust.
While people on the left and on the right need to stop this business of thinking those who disagree haven't put any thought into their positions, liberals, though are the KINGS of having a condescending attitude in that regard!

*"Well, you better be careful when you hear them say,
That it's all right, woo, you know it's all right,
You know the money system's on its way,
And it's all right, yeah, I said it's all right.
They say peace is gonna come some day, look out!
And it's all right, try to tell you that it's all right.

Be careful when you hear them say that it's all right, all right
Peace is gonna come some day and it's all right, all right,
Money system's on it's way and it's all right, all right,
Try to tell you that it's all right.
Yeah yeah, right

Be careful when they say to you that it's all right, all right,
Try to put the mark on you and it's all right, all right,
The mark will send you into doom but it's all right, all right
It's all right.

Babylon is fallin' fallin' fallin'
Babylon is fallin' fallin' fallin'
Oh, Babylon is fallin' fallin' fallin'
Babylon is fallin' fallin'
I'm so glad!

The devil wants the woman dead and it's all right, all right,
Moon is turnin' dark and red and it's all right, all right,
Beast has raised his wounded head and it's all right, all right
It's all right!"

People's Republic?

I have LONG said that this election, once again is a case of choosing from the lesser of two evils. It was the case between George Bush and Al Gore and it was with the case between George Bush and John Kerry. To revisit those elections I remain convinced that Bush would be better than either of the Democrat clowns who ran against him.
Now our "choices" are a Marxist Barack Obama or a mamby pamby John McCain. While an Obama "presidency" would be a giant step backward into the direction of socialism from the status quo, a McCain Administration may not be a great deal better, but at least McCain is not a Marxist and the Dems would not dominate all three branches of the Federal Government.
Yesterday, McCain said that people should not fear an Obama administration. This statement alone, MAY show that McCain himself is not fit to serve.
When people get to the place that they do not fear socialism and specifically Obama's brand of Chicago-style crooked Marxist socialism, this nation is going to crumble and crumble fast.
Contrary to the indoctrination of soviet style, so called "public" schools, there are some absolutes in this world. Socialism and particularly Marxist collectivism is the worst type of a system that promises falsely to redistribute wealth.
The way I like to put it is, we cannot tax and spend our way into prosperity. John McCain needs to heed the advise of his supporters and gain some intestinal fortitude with regard to dealing with the threat to us all of left wing Barack Obama.
James Earl Carter, the precursor to Slick Willie, in terms of being a pig in a poke didn't hesitate to accuse Ronald Reagan of being a "right wing extremist" in his unsuccessful bid to remain in the White House. Yellow Dog Democrats will also pull that meaningless type of bunk out of their hip pocket when they have no arguments against reason. Do not be scared. Stand strong. Edwin Burke was right when he warned that, "The only thing that is necessary for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing."
Mr McCain, you said, "Fight with me." Sir, you must get up and LEAD that fight, Otherwise, the USA will become no better than Communist Cuba! Get up champ. FIGHT!

A Marxist President

So many unanswered questions and so much evidence that Barack Obama is in fact a left wing radical Marxist. And yet many people, chief among them YELLOW DOG Democrats hide their heads in the sand and refuse to believe that their party would nominate such a detestable human being. They think it can't be true.
You'll hear some point to Obama's oratory skills and alleged "brilliance." In less than two years, with the likes of Harry Reid at the helm of the Senate and Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker, the economy is in a shambles.
The only bright light in this Presidential campaign is coming from a very belittled Sarah Palin, Alasaka's Governor. She shines that light and the Obama cockroaches scatter for cover, which they receive as Dinosaur media outlets give them cover.
She points out that Obama has his "coming out party" politically at the home of William Ayers, an unrepentant, domestic terrorist. She reveals that Obama worked FOR Ayers in an attempt to radicalize school children in Detroit.
At this point Allan Colmes is known to drown out guests who dare to make reference to this abomonation by continuously saying "How did they....how did they...how did they," a long held leftist tactic of silencing the truth.
The plan was to teach disrespect for authority...all authority straight out of the Marxist playbook. Challenging parental authority, even attempting to undermine it. This, dear one, is Barack Obama and what he stands for.
If you want a picture of what kind of President Barack Obama would be, look no farther than the Communist Island of Cuba.
And finally, a yellow dog friend of mine had the audacity to say that THAT island, with its dictator Castro would not be so bad if the US had not stopped trade with it. What a distorted view! It just shows you how well the Marxists have infiltrated the party of Democrats for such nonsense to be uttered. A woman with family in Cuba told me that citizens there...SUBJECTS, I should say, are not allowed to own meat. "Meat is for the tourists," she said. Being caught with it can result in inprisonment and even DEATH.
Get used to treatment like that. If you vote for Barack Obama, you'll be getting what YOU deserve for having done so. The trouble is, the rest of us will have to suffer along WITH you. This is one guy who will not fail to say, I TOLD YOU SO!

The Buck is BACK!

My lack of internet savvy wound up deleting not only my blog, but Email address as well.
Look for more of my words of wit in the coming days. You may not find them, but I WILL be writing things from time to time.