Rants of a Mad Okie
Neighborhood Bully
Bob Dylan - Infidels (1983)
Well, the neighborhood bully, he’s just one man,
His enemies say he’s on their land.
They got him outnumbered about a million to one,
He got no place to escape to, no place to run.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,
He’s criticized and condemned for being alive.
He’s not supposed to fight back, he’s supposed to have thick skin,
He’s supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,
He’s wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,
He’s always on trial for just being born.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he’ll live by the rules that the world makes for him,
’Cause there’s a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
He got no allies to really speak of.
What he gets he must pay for, he don’t get it out of love.
He buys obsolete weapons and he won’t be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Well, he’s surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Now, they wouldn’t hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Every empire that’s enslaved him is gone,
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon.
He’s made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,
In bed with nobody, under no one’s command.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Now his holiest books have been trampled upon,
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
What’s anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin’, they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Running out the clock, time standing still,
Neighborhood bully.
So they want to give the Gov't more power over our retirement money
"Why do we need the Retirement USA Initiative?
Because the system we have now has failed most Americans."
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted
among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
— That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and
organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely
to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate
that Governments long established should not be changed for light and
transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that
mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to
right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably
the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute
Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such
Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
2nd paragraph, Declaration of Independence, 1774
"The harsh fact of the matter is when you’re going to pass legislation
that will cover 300 [million] American people in different ways it
takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to
be taken to put the legislation together to control the people."
"Representative" Dingell, March 23, 2010
An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said ok, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism.
All
grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so
no one would fail and no one would receive an A.
After the first test
the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied
hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. But, as
the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had
studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a
free ride too; so they studied little.
The scores never increased as bickering, blame, and name calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great; but when government takes all the reward away; no one will try or want to succeed.
What is the Senate's incentive to approve the Houses reconciliation bill at that point anyway? They got what they wanted!
Heard this on KFAQ yesterday morning, and it not only applies to the Catholic church but all churches and liberalism as a whole
So it seems Obama will not campaign for any Democrat who votes against Obamacare... Is that supposed to be some sort of threat? Considering how well his campaigning did in Virginia, NJ, and Massachusetts, I would be threatening to campaign FOR those that vote against Obamacare...
"Et tu, brute? Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow"
Julius Ceasar - March 15th 44BC
its been 5 years since I started this blog, seems longer, there have been 2 mayoral contests, multiple other municipal elections, one presidential election. I have moved from one side of the city to the other and have seen the scope of my postings change. So here we are, 5 years and 1030 posts later, and I want to thank all my readers for making this such a fun ride.
The deals are non stop,
they are going fast,
and there is no sign of it slowing down!
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