Click, perv.Everything Old Is New Again
words and music by Peter Allen (maybe, probably)
When trumpets were mellow
And every gal only had one fellow
No need to remember when
'Cause everything old is new again
Dancin' at church, Long Island jazzy parties
Waiter bring us some more Baccardi
We'll order now what they ordered then
'Cause everything old is new again
Get out your white suit, your tap shoes and tails
Let's go backwards when forward fails
And movie stars you thought were alone then
Now are framed beside your bed
Don't throw the pa-ast away
You might need it some rainy day
Dreams can come true again
When everything old is new again
Get out your white suit, your tap shoes and tails
Put it on backwards when forward fails
Better leave Greta Garbo alone
Be a movie star on your own
And do-on't throw the past away
You might need it some other rainy day
Dreams can come true again
When everything old is new again
When everything old i-is new-ew a-again
I might fa-all in love wi-ith you again
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VLEEPTRON CONFESSES that we are Very Possessive of the protests against the Vietnam War circa 1967-1973.
They belong to me, the way Roy Rogers and Dale Evans belong to you if you ever posed for a photo with them while you sat in Trigger's saddle.
OUR PROTESTS WERE
* original
* entertaining
* shocking
* awesome (to borrow an expression from subsequent patois)
* thrilling
* fun, anti-Calvinist, antiPuritanical
* vulgar and lewd
* regularly featured totally wild parties featuring Free Love and lots of great drugs
* effective (The Vietnam War finally ended.)
Well, shit. This Iraq War -- YOU GODDAM KIDS ARE STEALING OUR PROTEST STUPH!!! STOP IT! Respect Intellectual Property. Me and My Old Pals own the Copyright (c) 1967-1973 All Rights Reserved.
It's not fair. Protest Fun -- we invented it, you can't have it. I condemn you to Perpetual Appropriate Seriousness. Knock off the nudity crap. That's OURS! Exclusively.
The only way YOU can hope to end the Iraq War is to act and speak and dress and haircut exactly like the women and men of the Bush Administration and the Republican Party.
(These rules do not apply to European antiwar protesters. Like, Dutch and French and German political kids really care what Bob thinks.)
4 comments:
Thats exactly the problem, isn't it. There are no protests. Not one. During the Vietnam war, students were so agressive that Commencement was canceled in 1970 at Boston University. There has been NOT ONE student-led uprising at Boston University.
Where is the public outrage? Where are the dissenters and the fomenters and the drop-outers and the peaceniks of our generation and younger? Where are the people singing of love and peace?
It's not that the students don't care, they do. They care about lots of things. Last year, 475,000 hours worth of community service caring at BU alone. But why aren't there burning cars and burning bras? Is noone paying attention? Or has it gotten so complicated or so risky that everyone is afraid to say that the EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES?
Well, you're dexaggerating. There've been protests, and big 'uns. The website I filched these attractive topless protesters from had aerial shots of the DC Mall, and that was a Metric Bunch of head tops (quite a few bald and gray and white).
I guess I have to remove my Pollyanna mask and speak to The Draft. Universal (giggle) Military Conscription of college-age males during the Vietnam War really was the kerosene that inflamed US campuses.
The Draft ended and was replaced by the All-Volunteer military in 1971.
I shall now take a few moments to roll around on the floor laughing at the government's use of that phrase "All-Volunteer." These are volunteers the way I make a Free Choice to fall Down rather than float Upwards after I leap out a high window.
Nevertheless, today, a guy in college can stay in college for as long as he can financially and academically swing it. He doesn't have the 900-pound gorilla of the Selective Service riding around on his shoulders electronically inspecting his Grade Point Average.
So the question you raise -- well, everyone on campus is ripshit against the Iraq War, but Disorder on Campus apparently historically requires (literally) the slight addition of a gun pointed to your head.
Issues:
1. In Israel, note that Universal Conscription includes Women.
2. HEY U.B.! Is this a True Thing, or a False Myth?
During the Cold War and Divided Germany, if a draft-age male from anywhere in West Germany could live in West Berlin, then he couldn't be drafted in the West Germany military? I've heard that Legend, never have been able to verify it. If True, how did that work?
3. Man-on-the-Ground in the Alps: What's the latest flavor and color of Universal Military Conscription in CH?
The Dragon of the USA Draft was never slain, it's just sleeping and snoring. On every USA male's 18th birthday, he must by law still register with the Selective Service System (with a form available at the post office). Refusing to register with SSS is still a serious federal crime, although I don't know how aggressively the Justice Department prosecutes it. My GUESS is that they trade the threat of prison for ... Ta-Da! the opportunity for the dude to All-Volunteer for the Military!
I don't like a lot of the things the Bush Administration does because they're Toxic and Don't Work.
But refusing even to consider bringing the draft back ... that's Toxic to America, but it WORKS politically. It keeps the campuses quiet.
That's one promise by a president we can trust. As long as Bush keeps our soldiers in Iraq, he ain't ever going to bring back the draft.
And of all the lessons we learned or mis-learned from Vietnam, that's the most pathetic lesson of all. We didn't learn to pick our wars wisely. We learned not to go to war again while there was a military draft.
So (in case some Youth out there is wondering) only the desperate and the poor "choose" to risk their lives in our post-Vietnam wars.
Where are the sons of the wealthy? They were lining up to enlist, or showing up to be drafted, during World War II. Nobody wanted to be left behind in civilian clothes.
The millionaire's son who served in Navy combat in the Pacific was a huge part of how Kennedy beat Nixon in 1960. Nixon, from a relatively poor family, was a Navy officer in the Pacific, too, but supply, no combat.
So as long as the world still tolerates war, it's one fine lesson versus one perverted lesson. If you don't want riots in the streets:
A. Only fight wars that have the overwhelming support of all classes of people.
or
B. Never rely on the draft to meet your military manpower requirement.
Since 1971, our political elite, from both parties, has chosen B. That's so despicable, so vile. Kill the poor kids. Save the kids of the wealthy.
Thank God, a post that didn't scare the pants off me. This is getting to be the scariest blog in the cosmos, Mr. Vleep.
You have to understand after six years of listening to the propaganda, real scientific facts tend to short out the synapses...
Hi Hi Hi Libby I still miss you! Will you cruise up here in Spring or Summer?
Hmmm. Vleeptron is the scariest blog in the blogosphere? I wouldn't have imagined that could have been possible.
I mean -- I'm a Junior Geezer, and most bloggers and blogeusses are Youths, right? That's where the Really Scary blog stuph is.
http://vleeptron.blogspot.com/2006/04/rfid-more-privacy-invisibly-sucked-out.html
Hmmm. Okay, a Deep Subtext Question has been raised. Bob replies as honestly and sincerely as he knows how.
1. It is the duty of the novelist to get to the future first.
(I just wish I knew where the hell this quote came from. It's a real quote, I saw it, I remembered it, but now I can't remember who said it.)
Until I can't get Anywhere anymore, I'm still addicted to seeing as far into the future as I can, as accurately as I can.
And since about 1800, when the Industrial Revolution really gassed up bigtime, yeah, the Future has been pretty consistently scary.
That's why the lady wrote "Frankenstein" in the Swiss castle -- she and her pals couldn't go outside during a freak monsoon season.
Not.
Bob's.
Fault.
2. I think clear and precise news and information are the best protections and defenses against the approach of the Scary Parts of the Future.
If something scary's coming up the pike for us, I think the best chance of getting through it is to know what it is before most people do.
Most of the victims of Saturday Night Live's Land Shark opened their apartment doors (when the Land Shark muttered "Candygram!") because they didn't know Land Sharks existed.
If Land Sharks exist, you'll find out on Vleeptron first, and you won't open your door when they knock.
I do sincerely apologize if the Funny/Scary Balance Control has been out of whack lately.
It's this ghastly, senseless War. It's sucking so much of the Funny out of Earth, and that gets echoed on Vleeptron. The way Earth's been acting the last couple of years has contaminated the peaceful, law-free Utopia of Vleeptron. It leaks through over the Zeta Beam. We're working on installing Filters.
3. I love weird geeky stuph that almost nobody else knows about. (I prefer the Cruelty-Free weird geeky stuph.)
This one I have no high-minded excuse for. I'm just a nosy raccoon. Always have been.
In any case, if I've been accidentally scaring the bejeebers out of anyone, I hope at least they appreciate Vleeptron's originality and quality.
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