What do subjects like gun control, abortion, gay marriage and even immigration have to do with most Americans' quality of life, their financial security and the issues that will actually affect their futures?
Presidential Candidates/Blowhards: please talk about issues that means something to us!
What are your plans for creating new jobs and retraining citizens from old industries?
Will you develop a genuine foreign policy, maybe before we go to war next time?
If you want to dismantle Obamacare, what is your alternative to keep serious health problems from bankrupting otherwise responsible, hard-working Americans?
If you don't have answers to the questions above, please keep your mouths shut. Better yet, drop out of the race. AND keep your mouths shut. Thank you.
(The Female Curmudgeon paid for and approved this rant)
Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Very old revelation
Hey, kids, you know the idea of tying a yellow ribbon around something...do you realize all our yellow, pink and black
ribbon gestures actually emanated from a song? I used to think it was about a
guy returning from war. It's not. It's about a guy returning from
serving time in prison.
http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/t/tony_orlando/tie_a_yellow_ribbon.html
Makes you wonder what he was serving time for.
http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/t/tony_orlando/tie_a_yellow_ribbon.html
Makes you wonder what he was serving time for.
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Ribbon MisRepresentation
Warning: Half baked theorizing ahead.
I heard a very old song the other day during aqua aerobics..."Tie A Yellow Ribbon." Remember it? It's about a guy coming home to his sweetheart after a long time away, having written a letter hoping that she will be waiting for him. And she is. Awww.
And as a result of this song, we have ribbons and, subsequently, car magnets and lapel pins that help us express our feelings for those causes and people we feel so strongly about, like soldiers, diseases and death. All good, right?
Until you listen closely to the lyrics, it could be reasonably assumed that the man is returning from fighting a war. But not so fast. The guy was actually in prison. And he was returning from serving time, not his country. [See/hear the lyrics here: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/franksinatra/tieayellowribbonaroundtheoleoaktree.html]
We don't know what this guy did wrong but he could have dodged the draft, given someone a disease or even killed a person. And now there's a ribbon for it. How's that for irony?! (Pretty good, actually.)
I heard a very old song the other day during aqua aerobics..."Tie A Yellow Ribbon." Remember it? It's about a guy coming home to his sweetheart after a long time away, having written a letter hoping that she will be waiting for him. And she is. Awww.
And as a result of this song, we have ribbons and, subsequently, car magnets and lapel pins that help us express our feelings for those causes and people we feel so strongly about, like soldiers, diseases and death. All good, right?
Until you listen closely to the lyrics, it could be reasonably assumed that the man is returning from fighting a war. But not so fast. The guy was actually in prison. And he was returning from serving time, not his country. [See/hear the lyrics here: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/franksinatra/tieayellowribbonaroundtheoleoaktree.html]
We don't know what this guy did wrong but he could have dodged the draft, given someone a disease or even killed a person. And now there's a ribbon for it. How's that for irony?! (Pretty good, actually.)
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