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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:13 PM
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Sing the national anthem in whatever language you want. I don't care.
This is not news.

Bush has approved a Dubai takeover of 9 military plants. This is news.
Rove is a target of Fitzgerald. This is news.
Bush cuts funding for alternative energy sources. This is news.
Domestic wiretapping. This is news.
Gasoline price gouging. This is news.
Slaughter in Darfur. This is news.
Nearly 2,400 American soldier have died in Iraq. THIS IS NEWS.

Sing the national anthem in pig latin for all I care. It's not news.

/rant
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:15 PM
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1. It's always been like nails on a chalkboard to me anyway
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Kikosexy2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:24 PM
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5. I'll keep...
playing the Roseanne Barr version over and over for shits & giggles...
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:40 PM
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11. My favorite Roseanne moment...
On SNL, riffing on Prince, she introduces herself as the comedian formerly known as Roseanne. And saying, "This is my symbol," she flips off the audience!

I just love that chick. :D
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cpousnret Donating Member (213 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:15 PM
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2. great post
thank you for liberty,i thought thats what we are about.
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warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:17 PM
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3. Jose can you see????
Very old joke about the immigrant named Jose going to his first baseball game and the whole crowd sang a song for him.
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:20 PM
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4. Now THAT's silly.
But cute. ;)
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Steve55 Donating Member (13 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:25 PM
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6. very old... I had completely forgotten it n/t
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Longhorn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 05:32 PM
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31. Welcome to DU!
:hi:
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:25 PM
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7. I don't care either way, it's a shitty song anyway.
grr
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:26 PM
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8. I agree 100%. It's a lovely diversion & the cable newsies eat it up.
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:31 PM
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9. Republicans in search of a wedge issue strike out
Like you, I really don't care what language it is sung in. It's a free country, at least for now.
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:35 PM
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10. At least for now, indeed.
:(
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cascadiance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:56 PM
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19. They probably don't care because Bush will change the anthem later...
Edited on Fri Apr-28-06 03:59 PM by calipendence
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:41 PM
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12. I think our main song should be left to the American Indian.
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:44 PM
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13. Good idea.
:thumbsup:
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:48 PM
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15. Seems the tune is from an old English drinking song.
Ha, ha...how appropriate for the USA.
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:46 PM
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14. In honor of the May 1st Boycott, I put this on my lobby's
marque.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. Cesar Chavez

and below that:

La terra del libre y del hogar del valente.



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silverweb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:48 PM
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16. Exactly!
This whole business is much ado about nothing.

Some people exist just to stir up controversy and manufacture outrage over nothing issues. These days, it seems that those nothing issues are deliberately designed as distractions to keep us from noticing the real outrages occurring in our nation and the world.
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:49 PM
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17. Amen.
A huge majority of the American people can't even remember the lyrics to the damn song anyway.

People are getting butchered. People are living without food, shelter, clothing, and proper medical care. Let's get our priorities straight.
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951-Riverside Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:52 PM
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18. One reason why I don't attend sporting events....
They require you to stand, take off your hat, etc during the national anthem and if you don't do it be prepared for some asshole to harass you the entire game.
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JackintheGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 04:02 PM
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20. OK... here goes in German....and a 1 and a 2 and a
Buschland Buschland uber alles
Uber alles in der Welt....

Nukes explodierung
uber Iran
Glass' und mutants uberall

Weltkrieg drei, me oh my
Buschland Buschland Sie sind awesome!

Tony Snow, Sie konn' blow
auf unsre grossen Schlong'\


(this is awful...just awful...):)

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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 05:21 PM
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27. Awful, yet well done!
:applause:

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Cronus Protagonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 05:31 PM
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30. that is fucking great!


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emanymton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 04:20 PM
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21. This Ought To Fill 75 News Cycle On Faux Mews
This is really important to no one. No one is excited about this except the Propaganda Ministry at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.


Bush Lied. People Died. Media Cheered.
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 04:26 PM
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22. OK, pig latin anthem you shall get! Here it is.
Ohway aysay ancay ouyay eesay,
ybay ethay awn'sday earlyway ightlay,
atwhay osay oudlypray eway ailedhay,
atway ethay ilight'stway astlay eamingglay?

Osewhay oadbray ipesstray andway ightbray arsstay,
oughthray ethay erilouspay ightfay,
o'erway ethay ampartsray eway atchedway,
ereway osay allantlygay eamingstray.

Andway ethay ocket'sray edray areglay,
ethay ombsbay urstingbay inway airway,
avegay oofpray oughthray ethay ightnay,
atthay ourway agflay asway illstay erethay.

Ohway aysay oesday atthay arstay angledspay annerbay etyay
aveway,
O'erway ethay andlay ofway ethay eefray,
andway ethay omehay ofway ethay avebray.





And right on. There should be nothing on the news except Darfur and our illegal government.
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 04:49 PM
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24. ROTFLMAO!
Oh, good lord! That's great! :rofl: :woohoo: :applause:

Did you do that or is there a pig latin server somewhere out there, on the "Internets?" Either way, good show! :thumbsup:
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 04:54 PM
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25. Two googles, and presto.
I googled "pig latin translator". And of course, in this highly informative age, pig latin translators we shall get.

I have a very high IQ, but I don't know anything about the most average things. I don't know pig latin. I pay zero attention to football. I'm living on my own private planet. There, more than you ever wanted to know about me. (:
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 05:19 PM
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26. I live on a nearby planet.
Hi, neighbor. :hi: Over here, we're almost as smart as you, having been dumbed down only slightly by the brain cells we wasted learning pig latin. Like your people, however, we are clueless about this thing called football. :D
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OnionPatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 04:31 PM
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23. Really. I just can't imagine why the offense?
I saw a poll somewhere today where something like 75% of the people thought it was disrespecful to sing the national anthem in Spanish. :wtf: Are people really as petty as all that? Are they really that small-minded? I was hoping the poll had been freeped. :(
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Nikki Stone 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 05:25 PM
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28. Translate the anthem if you must, but also, transpose it down a 3rd
Nobody can sing that damned high note on "the rocket's red glare".
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 05:27 PM
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29. Good suggestion!
That one always did make my throat hurt.
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Nikki Stone 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 06:11 PM
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32. I always thought the anthem needed to be more democratic
:)
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 06:13 PM
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33. Seems like a weird thing to get upset over.
I can even understand people getting upset over the flag -- but the anthem? Who the hell cares?
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