You bring a knife, we bring a gun. You put one of our guys in the hospital? We'll put one of yours in the morgue.

You bus in a couple hundred shills over the border? We'll show you what a home grown explosion for freedom and justice looks like.

How do you like it?

I cannot tell you how happy this makes me. Look at those people. God bless them. They're on the right side of history, and some motherfuckers better start recognizing that, or George's fat fire of freedom is going to burn them bad.

Great moment. Right here, right now.

You know, it's funny, thought pretty much the exact same thing. I was looking through some of the photos of these rallies round the web, and just knew I needed to be listening to some anthemy rock while I was doing so. Personally, I've settled in on U2's 'Beautiful Day' and set it on repeat. 'Pride' is also nice, though a different theme, the feeling it generates is just dead solid perfect. Anyway.

I let myself get up too high or low over this stuff (last weeks dem's were almost painful to me) but today, I'm on a mountain. Just incredible stuff and I hope the media gives the attention it deserves.

"Beautiful Day"? Please.

I still say that until we get something better (though I can't imagine how that could be), we stick with Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It.

I'm very upset about the mass demonstrations in Lebanon.

They get Protest Babes with Lebanese flags painted on their faces, and we get 80 year Communists carrying Big Paper-Mache Heads.

That does it. I'm moving to Beirut.

I've taken to calling this phenomenon "the Lebanese cleavage of FREEDOM." There's just something so musical about that phrase.

Better song:



"That's great

It starts with an earthquake

Birds, snakes and aeroplanes

Lenny Bruce is not afraid..."

Okay, maybe with 'Beautiful Day' was coming into the house a little soft, but "We're not gonna take it?" Really? Do you even understand the point of these rallies? Sure, finally putting Democracy into actual practice is nice and all, getting all pumped up, but 'Twisted Sister?

How's that gonna help you get over on the chick with the sunglasses, the other big breasted hotties on shoulders? 'Dee Snyder?' That'll get 'em hot-n-bothered. Hey, then when you're done singing that to 'em, why not unload another D&D 'inside baseball' top ten on 'em. Then maybe suggest she meet up with you in the basement for a little post rally 'debriefs-ing?' Mom won't be back from Bingo til eight. Good thinking man.

Get your game together.

The *right* sort of girl will respond to Twisted Sister.

Yeah, that's right Midge, show them how sensitive you are with "Beautiful Day." Girls really dig sensitive men. There's nothing more appealing to a chick than a man who's not afraid to show his inner v@gina.

Once you get done braiding each other's hair, writing slam books about the other girls who think they're "all that," and putting together photo-collages of hot guys from the pages of Cosmpolitan, then what?

I guess Cirby has the answer: then you can listen to some good R.E.M. and cry together.

Forget this panzie shit.
Your want the Beastie Boys
"You gotta Fight for your Right to PAAAARTAY!"
Because when you get right down to it, that's our core belief.

"I've taken to calling this phenomenon "the Lebanese cleavage of FREEDOM." There's just something so musical about that phrase."

You know who would slide nicely into the LEBANESE CLEAVAGE OF FREEDOM? I won't say, but he also dresses in caps and is probably doing yardwork for Jeff G. at this very moment.

Yeah, laugh at my hair braiding thing, but it works. Where will your hands be tonight? I mean after you've tuckered yourself out on "Magic: The Gathering" (b/t/w did you win that 'monty python skit of doom' card you were hoping for? You did? SWEET! Ro xorz! (or however you all spell that shit)

No, seriously Get your game together.

Lord a-mighty, I've got tears rollin' down my face (great big manly tears, mind you, from laughin')
at the Nugent reference...
But how about some Allman Brothers 'Trouble No More'?
Among the lyrics..."Some day baby, you ain't gonna trouble poor me anymore..."
as well as
"I know you're leavin'
if you call that gone..."
Perfect for the current Syrian "We're withdrawing...kinda..." position.

Ace! You snipped out the Braveheart quote behind her. Loose shit.

Freedom! Whiskey! Sexy!

If I may...

Siince the Blogtower is known for two things (Beatallica and obsessive compulsive Dylan references) may I offer the following song in regards to the Hot Lebanese Chicks/Freedom Marchers!

"Chimes of Freedom".

Why?

Because of the refrain: "And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing".

And, damn, those Lebanese chicks got some mighty nice chimes.

The two most inspiring symbols of freedom in the middle east. May they hang proud, may they hang FREE!

Nothin says freedom like large, partially exposed breasts!

Except for large, fully exposed breasts.

Ace:


You can diss REM all you want for their other stuff, but if you can't enjoy TEOTWAWKI, you're trying too hard.


Especially since so many people are having their worlds end in such a satisfying manner...

What the hell is Courtney Love doing at a Lebanese independence rally?

Ace - I'm surprised by your surprise that us lefties are thrilled by the demonstrations in Beruit, and earlier in Kiev. Man, we live for this shit. The people in the street, taking it to the man while buxom babes chant whatever. You are making the mistake that because you are for the overthrow of the status quo in Lebanon and Ukraine, that the left MUST be against it. Sorry, looks like a damn good time, wish I was there.

When did the beastie boys become non-pansie? I must have missed the memo.

But damn, I'd like to be there.

PUSSY POWER!

Interesting debate going here on music selection.

Back in the o'l college days, my roommates and I were in the habit of blasting Pantera, Sepulchre, and Megadeth at every party we threw.

Toward spring quarter we noticed a disturbingly negative trend in the desired guy/girl partygoer ratio. An emergency house meeting was called to discuss the issue.

One pragmatic faction of the house wanted to replace the metal with more girl-friendly Bill Joel and the like. The other faction clung firmly to their ideals and won out.

I voted with the idealists.

And the moral of the story is that, just like the two debators here, it didn't really matter because I wasn't getting laid either way.

I may be a jerk-off, but I ain't no sell-out.

As for me, I'll put on the 'AM Mellow Gold,' if that's what it takes. Hell, I'll smile and sing along with Stevie Nicks then earnestly debate who was better, the young, slim Stevie, or the old, fat Stevie (word to the wise, 'Why, they're BOTH incredible, Susan. Don't make me pick!'). Whatever the job F'n takes, man. Congrats on keeping it hard core though, but, every now and then... I mean guys like you and Ace... don't you even wonder what a boobie feels like?

Is it my imagination, or does the woman in the first picture look a lot like Courtney Love?

"I've got to say I'm finally becoming more comfortable with having given women the vote."

It's gratifying to know there still are others who have some doubt about the prudence of that. It's hard to imagine our being so top-heavy with such budget-busters as Social Security and Medicare, having so much nanny-state regulation added annually, having spent 30 years sweetly coddling the Middle East and scolding Israel to be good, or having such feminized male politicians, had women not been allowed into politics.

Scytale,

i've known a few women who say the same thing.

The Cedar Revolution reminds me of a different Jesus Jones song (that I just finished listening to):

International Bright Young Thing

please introduce yourself
let's shock the world with what we know
squeeze the world
'til it's small enough to join us heel to toe (heel to toe)

international bright young thing
now you know for sure that you make the world swing
international bright young thing
make it swing

high in the air between here and there
somewhere anywhere (anywhere but here)
i feel that i'm always home and i'm
never in love (never in love with fun) (??)
[the line is ";that i'm... never alone"; according to the liner notes, but he
says something after that, too]

international bright young thing
now you know for sure that you make the world swing
international bright young thing
make it swing

{????? for this next section}
asking dragons wishes while...
sun is making wishes while...
i know he's out there somewhere
i can ___ you, yeah

i'm so tired i can hardly think
so i feel instead and let you loose
inside my head (inside my head)
i hear you yelling it to me
spelling it out to me
when i thought i came from nowhere i came from
everywhere instead (everywhere instead)

international bright young thing
now you know for sure that you make the world swing
international bright young thing
make it swing

Ray...

Dude..I know where you are coming from, but c'mon!

Young, thin, "snorting cocaine of the toilet seat in the Hollywood Bowl" Stevie was way better than Old, fat, "desperately clinging to Sheryl Crow tributes for relevancy" Stevie.

I mean it's: Landslide, Gold Dust Woman,Gypsy, the Bella Donna album vs........Rooms of Fire.

You might as well make the claim that "young thin late 70's era Blondie Debby Harry" was as good as "old, beefy, 2000 era Blondie Debby Harry". Give the chicks some credit: they can see through lies as obvious as these.

I wouldn't mind having me some democracy right now.

Must be the domino effect.

In reference to those beautiful Lebanese women, especially the 2nd...
As I emailed my list via the words of Adam Sandler -

Defnitely NOT a Muslim......