Hum-y hum-y hum-y hum.
Hum-y hum hum hum
Close your eyes and look at me
Soon I will be there
Hum hummy.
Hummity hum hum hum.
This whole time I thought
I was Canadian
And nothing, whoa, nothing is going right.
Think again and I'm American
And the sky above you turns dark
And full of clouds
Hum-y hum-y hum-y-hum
Humty hum hum hum
Keep you head together and call my name out loud
James Taylor, and I am a merry-cun.
35 comments:
Schmendrik told me it was Eurocentric of Taylor to sing You've Got A Friend to the French, when he could've sung that great liberal anthem, Aybah Spoda Hep.
I like Taylor and his music and I'm sure he is a nice guy but I have to ask - would he do this if all of this happened while Bush or Romney were president? I doubt it.
I suspect the production is less of a show of support for France than it is an opportunity for lefty celebrity to honor and support leftwing politicians.
Taylor simply doesn't realize that a fool he is for showing up and singing this song.
When you're learning how to fingerpick, James Taylor's style is one of the ones they say you ought to know how to play.
Maybe I got that far in the teach-yourself course.
I can't remember.
Has anyone in the media defended this fiasco? I don't pay a whole lot of attention to such things (e.g., MSNBC).
BBC mocked the embodiment of "soft power".
wut
Lem:
No, really?
The BBC mocked John Kerry?
He must be crushed.
If NPR turns on him, he shouldn't be left alone.
He's turned into Raffi.
I agree that this is a horrid choice of action. This is what happens when the likes of John Kerry get to--you know--actually propose and then implement--you know--*things." (James Taylor is just a side-note, and any smart, savvy person ought know that.)
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But then, again, you guys here just love rich people, mega-rich people in particular. Rich people are the producers. Right? By definition, people with money must be producers. I wonder: Do you ever consider whether producers, these days, end up with money? I am skeptical, on account of the copious, enormous amounts of bullshit one can read all over the internet, if one chooses to do research--but in fact, most "ones" don't.
Including too many "ones" here.
WTF?
Make no mistake: I am calling out all of you. Could you, can you pass the test (the one I learned from you all).
On a different, separate subject:
What ignorance I have seen displayed, with regard to H-1B visas, not to mention corrupt, self-serving justification[s], among some of you, from a number of you.
I have to say, it's hilarious, what some of you say. I can only imagine that you are unable to effectively think, in terms of implications which, make no mistake about it, matter.
Man, o-day, how come you guys think that you should still be IN control? I say: You should not be. All you do is to make it harder for those of us in our mid-50s. (IF WE AGREE THAT WE'RE OBLIGATED TO SUPPORT YOU NO MATTER WHAT, CAN YOU STOP NATTERING ON ABOUT CARING ABOUT YOUR CHILDREN, MUCH LESS YOUR GRANDCHILDREN & ETC.)
It's not what you natter on about, it's what you do--not to mention what you have done (and did).
Not to mention what you truly do support and what you do not.
And, also, whom you attack, without differentiation.
Like it or not, you guys, neither my husband nor I, much less our son, our takers.
My husband and I have paid property taxes and social security taxes, for just a couple of examples, for a long time, even well before our son was born and thereafter onward ho, of course. Yet, we have provided for his education, individually apart from the system, from the very start and continuing to this very day, in various ways. So, we are among the double-payers. Does that matter to you? Probably not, I'm guessing, because most of you are more interested in political cant and political theater than noticing those who just do what needs to be done.
What you all say people should do!
LOL.
I, for one, say: You don't actually believe what you say.
At the very least, you actually do not and will not support people who are doing that in which you supposedly believe.
I can only guess it's because you require "pleasing" over "doing."
We also have provided, and are continuing to provide, for our own retirement. (Our retirement planning, for the record, entirely excludes potential Social Security payments; unlike others before us, we have taken to heart that we ought not assume those payments will exist, and, also, to the degree that those monies are still available, they get first to go to those older than we.) Instead of only bitching over the last couple of decades, we also put dollars aside. And settled for less in so many other areas.
It's an entirely bull-shitty thing that Kerry "drug over" Taylor to France to sing some sort of old anthem to some old-ass notion of friendship, which wasn't the case then and isn't the case now. No one believes in all of that nowadays, and, honestly, nor did anyone back then, either. Then, as now, it was all for show. Only the silly thought otherwise, much less trusted people (especially those who were the must untrustworthy of all).
And the Lefties can't understand how Dubya beat Lurch?
I'm going to assume that there's some way to make sense of all that, and to identify a reasonable complaint, but I couldn't do it.
Eric, there must be a pony in there somewhere.
I'm most puzzled how mockery of Kerry and Taylor became an issue about paying taxes. I think. Or class.
Plus, I've been called out. But for what?
I can divine there is much anger in the posts. Anger at non-liberals, I'd guess. Opaque, tangential, fuming.
Not sure I understood one word.
I love me some rich people. I wish I was one of them.
I'm sorry, but I must have missed the test. Will there be another one?
I every second Wednesday I receive a Soc Sec check for a little over $1,400. I'm glad I paid in all of those years. In 1967 when I was in the Army and made a little over $1,600 that year, I paid $141 to Soc Sec.
Reader - what are you ranting about?
Plenty of us here oppose the HB1 Visa program because it is a ruse used by plutocrats like the Facebook owner to import cheap labor and based on the lie that they can't find qualified techies here.
And don't fault me if I get schaudenfruede watching the 2004 Dem President candidate, Kerry, perpetuating my view that he is an incompetent, dopey, haughty ass.
James Taylor qualifies as rich. So does Kerry.....They say behind every great fortune there lies a great crime. I don't think James Taylor's music is all that bad. And Kerry's marriage, no matter what people here say, is not a crime against nature.
Oh, dear, AJ Lynch, do you actually think that the H1-B scam has only benefited such plutocrats, such so-called techies as Facebook 'n' such execs?
What a mistake.
You've just made my point. Alas.
As it happens, had I thought about it in advance--which I did not, but had I--you would have not even made my list of people who might or might not understand how things have changed. I suppose that I always assumed you were someone who got things, all the way around, I guess.
Hmmm.
H1-B has been an issue, on-going and going on, for at least 15 years and arguably 20ish years. I can only think that people haven't been, weren't, paying attention because it never affected them, personally, ever, in any sort of direct way that forced attention (much less competing with/against).
*Now*, it matters, politically.
But not otherwise, when it would have mattered, for example, for the likes of us. Still we soldiered on.
And it still doesn't matter, for the likes of those who don't "get it."
It's still about the politics, always the politics, no matter how they shift from party to party, much less philosophy to philosophy, no matter how *that* shifts, as well.
The reason that I say "what bullshit" is that we still keep goin' on, doing what we must do, all of that aside; in other words: espite.
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My point from the start.
Watch the state of the union speech tomorrow, won't you? I'd like you all to watch and fisk it. Use snark, if you must. That said, most important to me would be how you'd fisk it: What details you note, and what details you do not note. What things you care about, and what things you do not care about. What details will affect people with no choice, and what details will affect people with choice. Also, who pays, and who does not. Directly, specifically, indirectly, precisely, and/or generally.
AllenS:
I do not, in any way, shape or form, begrudge you your bit.
I do, however, take great exception to your knee-jerk, unthoughtful status as someone who's never taken a single minute to consider the situations of others not exactly like you. Including those who are--sorry, but it's true--paying your way, at this point.
No matter what you *think,* AllenS, in fact your old dollars are NOT paying your way, much less the way of any one else. You are being paid for. I think it's a terrible thing, how the system has worked out. Still: It's true.
Putting things in dollars, 'n' all.
As a post-script, AJ Lynch, what is it that you are NOT ranting about?
Because I remember *when*, as well, my friend.
rcommal, I have news for you. We are not all alike. This may come as a surprise to you, but I didn't write the rules. I've had to spend my life trying to weave my way through all of the laws that quite frankly, made life difficult.
I had a steady job, apartment, car and a pretty girlfriend when I was drafted into the Army. I lost all of it. Once I was out, I had to start my life all over again.
Fuck off.
Fair enough! Indeed, that is how it works.
Maybe this was in the comments already (haven't read y ou all yet ...) but this Kerry thing>
For all the halfbaked support for George W Bush we find on the conservative side, can we all please thank God (and W) for delivering us from a President Gore and a President Kerry. Not to mention a President Edwards.
I know I am thankful from the deepest part of my heart.
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