My views on politics, life, death, the army, and other things too miscellaneous to mention here. This is a personal blog. This blog is 100% factual.
Bill Duckwing
Poet, Author, Journalist
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"There are some myths and untruths surrounding the role God plays in our daily lives. To say that religion and politics do not mix, is certainly a myth, unless you ask a liberal. Anything that affects a Christian (and voting is one of them) — enters into the religious realm. Trying to separate the two is like trying to separate oil from a glass of water, it's impossible to do. "
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Tuesday, September 30, 2003
A Round and a Bout
Due to a prolonged (somewhat) sabbatical, I've decided to condense all of the news/views down to numbered bullet points.
1.) White House: I can't imagine what's it's like to be a White House staffer right now, man. It's a bad lot to come back from vacation to, if you know what I mean. Still, I find it hard to pin this thing on Bush himself, cause only a self-appointed God-Complex suffering asshole would approve of outing covert CIA agents in the line of duty to Robert Novak, of all people. What the hell was wrong with Richard Cohen?! It's all speculation, of course, so I'm not really going to draw any conclusions as to who leaked, and even less on who (if anyone) approved of the leak. I'll just sit and watch this one get swept under the cover.
2.) California Recall: Arnold's going to win, of course. I like the guy -he's seems like a nice guy that holds a lot of progressive values, and has an extremely perverse sense of humor (the thing against women, notwithstanding, which I will defend, because I think the whole T3 toliet bowl quote would have been way way too stupid a thing to say in public if he really meant it). He will be a Bush lackey in office, but how well Bush does in Cali next year will be completely dependant on how well Arnold does as Governor. Bet on Arnold, and wait for the coming disaster.
3.) Baseball: Yankees over Twins in 5, Cubs over Atlanta in 4, Giants over Marlins in 4, Sox over A's in 5.
-duckwing, at 9:50 PM
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Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Ted Nugent, Deceased, Uber Alles
This post has actually been incubating for a few years now, since college, when I chanced upon a song on my car stereo played by some AOR radio station by Ted Nugent. It was already in heavy rotation, and it was a vague polemic to the numerous Nugent bashers out there called “Kiss My Ass,” and for some reason it pissed me off enough at the time that I decided to write my own song, a retort, if you will, called “Kill Ted Nugent,” which I though was appropriately out of line for most Americans at the time.
I wasn’t actually in a band at the time, but I had some friends who played various instruments with enough talent to form a pretty competent punk band. In a burst of sheer insight, I decided to christen this almost-band “Pigeonfuck,” which I felt was brainless enough to warrant some interest.
But my bass player had a better name, one thought up by a keyboard player friend of his named “Freak,” and is truly the best, but also the most terrible, evil name I’ve ever heard for a band ever. Really. Not only is this name so heinous that it would never receive radio airplay, it will never, ever, be mentioned in print or on a public forum in my lifetime. I’ll just give you the initials –“VCF” –and leave it at that, as that is the only thing this band could ever be known as.
Anyway, I did come up with a chorus for “Kill Ted Nugent” which was:
“Kill Ted Nugent!
With a powered assault rifle…
Kill Ted Nugent!”
Kinda sung to the chorus of “Cat Scratch Fever,” actually.
So it didn’t work out, since nothing really rhymes with Ted Nugent, but at the time I thought the title was kinda funny, especially when you combine it with the famous power chords that end “Cat Scratch Fever.”
Anyway, something made me remember that, so I decided to write something, this time called “Kill the Nuge,” sung to the tune of “Kill the Poor” by the Dead Kennedys.
The Critters in the forests will be safe once again
Now that we know where you have been
And the NRA won’t put up a fight!
They say “We’ve getting tired of celeb-rit-ty”
“We want to lobby in a-non-im-it-ty!”
“With Ted Nugent dead there’ll be no more Michael Moores!”
With no more idiots taking pay
We’ll keep Washingtonions in our sway
By holding their feet to the fire with our political might!
We’ll tell the media that it’s quite a shame
That the liberals in America only have themselves to blame
By inciting reclusive personalities to put up a fight!
Oh, Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the Nuge
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the Nuge
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the Nuge, tonight…
Before we’re shipped off to Guantanamo Bay
Convince John Ashcroft that it’s okay
The 2nd Amendment gives us True Americans the right!
And etc. I guess you’re probably asking “What’s your point?”
There’s absolutely no point to this. I got off my Ted Nugent kick about 5 years ago, and I’m actually probably more frightened by the AARP’s political power in Washington that the NRA’s.
I’d also like to the point out that what started as a liberal diatribe in taking out Ted Nugent (keeping the critters safe, and such), actually turned into a diatribe from the NRA making the case taking out one of it’s most annoying proponents. You can read whatever you want into that.
I’d like to conclude by saying that if there is no band named VCF in America right now (and there isn’t), there should be.
PS -Dial up really, really, sucks. I'm getting DSL this week, so I should be posting more often next week. I'm tired of getting booted off the net ever five or ten minutes, but really I'm just too impatient to wait around on connections to look for links, which is the biggest point for having a blog rather than just writing for the hell of it. Cross-referencing, guys. It's what makes the big ol' World Wide Web go round. Just to show that it really is a small world after all... :)
-duckwing, at 9:56 PM
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Monday, September 15, 2003
On Beating the Bush with the DLC
I'm annoyed.
This is an old article, from the DLC website, where they bash Dean and his followers. The suggestion, now invalidated by the recent month's surge in polling and money raised for Dean, was that Dean's boost could only be attributed to liberal activists and populists who have no finger on the current pulse of American politics.
The DLC, who decided to go mute during the bang-up that was the 2002 elections, who, sorry, but it's true, couldn't have fought just a leetle bit harder on the 2000 Bush-Gore thing, who have now decided to stay mute despite the growing chinks in the Bush armor.
Who apperently have no ideas, goals, or purpose, since losing their Grand Ol' Poobah to public speaking events (ie Bill Clinton). Except to beat up on Howard Dean. And to call Bush a "miserable failure." Not just a failure. A Miserable One, at that.
I'm sorry. Just everything about the DLC annoys me in some way. Even the "miserable failure" thing. Oh yeah, it's strong language, but what policies are you going to enforce to back that assertion up, given:
1.) You guys have voted in lockstep with almost anything controversial that Bush has endorsed.
2.) Your own suggestions for change sound pretty fucking wishy-washy given your voting records.
So, what's the big problem with Bush, DLC? Do you just not like the guy? Is it a personal issue? His hygiene?
Maybe you guys shouldn't be in politics if you're going to take it all so personally...
The DLC's big issue, the one they really care about, seems to be not getting the base too excited about who's running for President. Or apperently anyone else, for that matter.
It's kinda like "school" for these guys. We're going to sit these independent "Swing" voters down, and then lecture to them on the merits of the New (Old) Democratic party. So we'll get into issues, then a platform, if one exists at that point, and maybe even some suggestions for change, if any change should/could/would be made. We'll try not get this "Swing Voter" too riled up about any problems that might be going on at home or abroad, just *rubs eyes* convince him/her/it to go to their local polling booth and *yawn* pull the right lever.
Well, screw that. I think we need to tell the DLC that their approach is foolish. If you can't produce a candidate capable of keeping the voters awake enough to go vote for, then go do something else with your life. Start your own business, go lobby some Republicans, whatever. Just don't knock your own base, and your frontrunner. I knock Clinton, but he was an amazing candidate. Maybe not an amazing President, but a good enough candidate to give the reigns to the DLC to run the Democratic party for 12 years. But I can't imagine any of the other DLC Candidates, like Gephardt, Kerry, Edwards, and Lieberman, pulling off a Clinton.
Dean is like McGovern in one way -he, like McGovern, is engaging in a power grab to take leadership of the Democratic party, but he is also directing his energy towards an actual platform and a goal. Just like the DLC did with Bill Clinton 12 years ago. Nothing new here -when a political party fails as badly as the Democratic party did in 2002 (and in 2000, and in 1994 -the "Republican Revolution"), a little house cleaning is in order.
-duckwing, at 4:46 PM
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Tuesday, September 09, 2003
Don't Believe the Hype
I will be back to blogging again very soon. Probably a nice long post tomorrow, as soon as I can get online at home. A couple of reasons for the 2 week delay:
1.) Broken ankle.
2.) Crutches.
3.) No high speed internet access.
4.) No phone line.
Crikey. But I will be getting phone service tomorrow, so my next post should be nice and sweaty. I've had almost two weeks to think about it.
Take it easy with a nice cup of coffee and some toast,
Bill
-duckwing, at 11:27 AM
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