Eccentrically Meshuganeh

I Am America Lyrics

2010-07-11T20:08:00.004+02:00

I Am America

Pay no attention to the people in the street,
Crying out for accountability.
Make a joke of what we believe,
Say we don’t matter cause you disagree.

Pretend you’re kings, sit on your throne,
Look down your nose at the peasants below.
I’ve got some news; we’re taking names,
We’re waiting now for the judgment day.

I am America, one voice, united we stand.
I am America, one hope to heal our land.
There is still work that must be done.
I will not rest until we’ve won.

I am America.

You preach your tolerance but lecture me.
Is there no end to your own hypocrisy?
Your god is power, you have no shame,
Your only interest is political gain.

You hide your eyes and refuse to listen.
You play your games and abuse the system.
You stuff your pockets while Rome is burning.
I’ve got a feeling that the tide is turning.

I am America, one voice, united we stand.
I am America, one hope to heal our land.
I will not give up on this fight,
I will not fade into the night.

I am America.

You stuff your pockets while Rome is burning.
I’ve got a feeling that the tide is turning.

I am America, one voice, united we stand.
I am America, one hope to heal our land.
I am America, one voice, united we stand.
I am America, one hope to heal our land.
I will not give up on this fight,
I will not fade into the night.

I am America

Krista Branch

Pastor Mike Branch's comment on You Tube:
"We only ask that you make your point with respect without profanity, vulgarity, talk of violence or personal threats. If you chose to do so we will delete it. This song is stating our disgust with corrupt politicians.

This includes Republicans, Democrats, Independents or any other 3rd party. If they break the law or give in to any form of corruption ALL VOTERS should hold them accountable on election day... (judgement day)"

Ditto.
Kid Sister to a Comedian.

Jazzy Meld

2008-10-05T17:45:00.003+02:00

Caption by: Kid Sister.... Photo from North Shore Animal League

In Memoriam to George Carlin

2008-06-28T07:50:00.020+02:00

Death Be Not Proud

Still reverberating from the stunning loss of the beloved Tim Russert along comes Mr. Death to twist the knife of unanticipated loss and drown us once again in grief.

George Carlin is in the rarefied pantheon of the few, too few, truly great stand-up comedians. Along with Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor, George Carlin embodied the Swiftian, Twainish culturally astute rapier wit and wisdom that every era needs. The love of language the horror, ecstasy and sublime ridiculousness of human behavior along with the sensibility to synthesize psychology and sociology into the unique poetry of joke-telling is the very recipe for comic greatness.

And now immortality...
Good night sweet Prince.

Richard Belzer - June 23, 2008, Huffington Post

My Favorite Comments:
"What Carlin had in common with the pantheon Richard Belzer names is that he was as much (or perhaps more) a cultural observer than a comedian. He made people laugh but he didn't really tell jokes in the classic sense. He seldom if ever tried to act silly for cheap laughs. Instead he'd grab hold of some aspect of our culture or of life and strip it down to the bare bones of its absurdity. He'd make me see things I'd always passed over or never thought about in quite that weird way, and make me wonder why I'd never seen it that way. And even when he did push the silly envelope, his riffs would stay in my mind sometimes for weeks, like tunes I couldn't get rid of.

The first time I heard where is the blue food? I must have spent days trying to think of a natural food that was actually anything near blue. Why my mind insisted on working this absurd problem I don't know, but like so much else he said, the idea was so out there that it just got inside me. I had to know whether this tweaked perception was really true, so I could write him and prove he was wrong. No chance. How many other human beings other than Carlin would actually have been curious and insistent enough to work this out?" -starboymikey

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Well said Belz. Saw you on "Morning Joe" when your dog barfed on Mika and the chaos it created was almost a perfect way to pay tribute to Carlin. You're reaction when they informed you that SNL was going to air the first time he hosted SNL this weekend was raw and real. Belz, you are also a comic's comic and I'm glad you're out there talking so fondly about the iconic Carlin.
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Katie's Comment:

I was shocked to my inner bones when I read that one of my big brothers of comedy was gone - I have not yet recovered...

Still, I will not give up eccentric observationism, nor will I give in to culturally puposeless whims. Thank you, George for clearing the path so the different drummer could follow your example. You were a rare bird, but thankfully, the sacred fool will never be exterminated.

(So there, Orkin Man - go play Old Maid with the Maytag repair guy.)

The foolish will always confound the automated wise.

- Kid Sister to a Comedian

I Corinthians 1:27

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Get On The Bus Already!

2008-06-15T07:24:00.006+02:00

Richard Belzer On Fame:
“...you have to really humiliate yourself early on,
make a fool of yourself… which you probably will any way.
Then you’ll see how bad it is when you look at it again. And you’ll adjust.”
From Belzervision, BeBe

And To Those Who Died For Real Freedom

2008-05-27T17:59:00.005+02:00

Pray For Our Nation....

Memorial Day, May 26, 2008

Which Way to the Front?

2008-05-26T01:37:00.008+02:00

"Another glaring inconsistency regarding the 'war on terror' is the fact that
for some seven years since the 9/11 attacks,
our nation's borders and ports are as open and porous as ever.
These open borders make the argument that "we are fighting them over there,
so we won't have to fight them over here" look...laughable.

...In fact, the last constitutional conflict that the U.S. military fought was World War II.
Virtually every war since has been a U.N. manufactured and manipulated conflict.
The war in Iraq is no different.

...No, my friends. The real war is not a "war on terror." The real war is a war against
constitutional government, personal liberty, and national sovereignty."

-- Open Borders Prove "War On Terror" Is Superficial,
Chuck Baldwin May 23, 2008

('Course he ain't gonna make president, and you might not agree with everything on his website...still an essay worth reading.)

Freedom for Whom?

2008-05-23T01:11:00.006+02:00

"What in the blooming world are freedom fries?"
That's when Bank of America forecloses on your house and builds a McDonald's there."

"Let's all face it (once and for all!): We Americans have been bamboozled; deceived; denied; defaulted; robbed; repossessed; dispossessed and all the rest!"
-Richard Belzer, "It's the Banks, Stupid!"

Has the Fat Lady sung yet??

2008-05-15T21:23:00.004+02:00

( "Is America still free?" "Free of what? The loonies are running for President!")

That's just an opinion.... It could be wrong.

Half & Half

2008-05-13T08:07:00.008+02:00

If you don't know where you are going,
you will probably end up somewhere else.
-- Laurence J. Peter, US Educator & Writer (1919 - 1988)

Ellen, You've Been Pied!

2007-11-11T21:42:00.001+01:00

TOP STORY: CHOCOLATE PIE, YUMMY
Robin Williams pied Ellen Degeneres today after
she walked thru the (Screen) Writer's Guild strike line.

Not really, but he should have...

REAL NEWS ABOUT THE WRITER'S STRIKE

"Law & Order" actors picket New York workplace

Robin and Duchovney on The Picket Line

Richard Belzer walks his Dogs on the Line

Photos: SAG in Solidarity with Writer's Guild

...

NO NEW POSTS TIL STRIKE IS OVER....

Who Needs Terrorists?

2007-10-23T05:05:00.001+02:00

Who Needs Terrorists? by Richard Belzer

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"Munch" seems less and less paranoid. You are not paranoid if they really are out to get you. - dhkelly

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Life IS a Seinfeld episode...

and we are stuck in the Bizarro world... - Halsey

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"Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains,

a pretty violent image there.

I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it,

maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem.

Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash."
-- Jerry Seinfeld

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FYI, the 4.00 Rx aside. Walmart stock (Asda)

is owned by an Arab...
So is Fox News and umpteen

dozen other things like CNN.

I want my Dada...

Personally I don't like harassing anyone, but Bush is a globalist who is slowly giving our country away to NAFTA (NAU) while we're distracted about Iraq. He also supports Rudy.

Yet the main Democratic candidates also scare
the H E Double Toothpick out of me.

I think I'll just go hide in France. - Kid Sister

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General Bonkers for Purrzeedent

2007-10-11T10:00:00.000+02:00

War Prayer by Mark Twain

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"Oh what a tangled web we weave...

when first we practice to deceive."

-- Sir Walter Scott

101 Comedians Part II

2007-05-24T02:19:00.000+02:00

From The Great Movie Comedians by Leonard Maltin.

58. Bob Hope .................. 59. Fatty Arbuckle
60. Buster Keaton .......... 61. Harold Lloyd
62. Charley Chase ......... 63. Raymond Griffith
64. Marie Dressler ......... 65. Will Rogers
66. Joe E. Brown ........... 67. Groucho Marx
68. W. C. Fields ............. 69. Mae West
70. Abbott & Costello ........ 71. Danny Kaye

From Comedy Central

73. Tig ................ 74. Maria Bamford
75. David Spade ............... 76. Brian Regan
77. Belinda Waymouth .... 78. Retta
79. Gary Shapiro .............. 80. Rachel Feinstein
81. Jeff Foxworthy ......... 82. Marina Franklin
83. Ophira Eisenburg ..... 84. Rene Hicks
85. Heather Lawless ....... 86. Kathleen Madigan
87. Rylee Newton .......... 88. Wendi McLendon-Covey
89. Paul Mecurio ............. 90. Melanie Reno
91. Alexandra McHale .... 92. Debbie Shea
93. Tess .................... 94. Jane Edith Wilson
95. Amy Anderson ......... 96. Tami Vernekoff
97. John Caparulo .......... 98. Maz Jabrani
99. Joe Devito ................ 100. Andrew J. Lederer

and

101. Me =^..^=

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Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye (1913 - 1987)

101 Comedians

2007-05-21T01:00:00.000+02:00

Top 13 Actors/Comedians
who influence my life and theatrical talent:
...
1. Jerry Lewis
2. Carol Burnett
3. Richard Belzer (and Harlee McBride)
4. Bill Cosby
5. Sid Caesar
6. Robin Williams
7. Lucille Ball
8. Eddie Izzard
9. Mabel Normand
10. Johnny Carson
11. Red Skelton
12. Mel Brooks
13. George Carlin

And 88 more that I can think of...(in no particular order)

14. Bill Murray ................. 15. John Belushi
16. Gilda Radner ............. 17. Dan Aykroyd
18. Chevy Chase ............ 19. Jane Curtin
20. Laraine Newman ...... 21. Garrett Morris
22. Gene Wilder .............. 23. Richard Pyor
24. Eddie Murphy ............. 25. Bob Newhart
26. Lily Tomlin ................ 27. Eric Bogosian
28. Bill Maher ................ 29. Dennis Miller
30. Burns & Allen ............ 31. Milton Burle
32. Laurel & Hardy .......... 33. Charlie Chaplin
34. Stephen Colbert ....... 35. Jon Stewart
36. Jerry Seinfeld ......... 37. David Letterman
38. Bob Nelson ......... 39. Will Smith
40. Dick Van Dyke ...... 41. Mary Tyler Moore
42. Adam Sandler ........... 43. Joan Rivers
44. Chris Rock ............. 45. Sarah Silverman
46. Steve Martin ......... 47. Ellen Degeneres
48. Flip Wilson ............ 49. Rodney Dangerfield
50. Sue Murphy ...... 51. Dante
52. Tracy Ashley ........ 53. Josh Blue
54. Phyllis Diller ............. 55. Brad Stine
56. Tim Conway ....... 57. The Three Stooges

and Mickey Mouse.

Oh.... that's only 44 more... I'll try again later.

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison, Harper's Monthly, 1932 (1847 - 1931)

Richard Belzer on Maher.

2007-04-30T01:55:00.000+02:00

The Belz Tells It Straight!

Real Time With Bill Maher

April 27, 2007.

http://broadcatching.wordpress.com/2007/04/28/bill-maher-real-time-part-two/

http://broadcatching.wordpress.com/2007/04/28/bill-mahers-real-time-for-april-27th-part-4/

Pie Not Included

2007-02-20T10:36:00.001+01:00

"Some mornings,
it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps."
--Emo Philips

Let's Go UFO

2007-02-18T10:13:00.001+01:00

Art Bell On UFOs
(Coast 2 Coast AM Radio)

Anybody out there, We're looking for E.T. Have you seen him??
He might be lost...
(Didn't your Mommy ever teach you not to talk to strangers??)
.
And Now For The Other Side of the Tail... ahem.... Tale

Aliens R Us

But not you...those other people...

Beauty With Out Cruelty

2007-02-14T00:53:00.000+01:00

(Photo From Brouwer Fall Collection 2005)

Animal Lovers & Fashionphiles eyed each other suspiciously
during the PETA-Sponsored 2007 Marc Bouwer Show.

The cruelty-free collection (not even wool)
brought out Richard Belzer with his little bitty dog (BeBe...),
Marlo Thomas, Vivica Fox, and Oksana Baiul.

(Text taken from fashion article in The Sun Sentinel, 8 February 2007)

Time For Tea

2007-02-01T08:23:00.001+01:00

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“Do jokes somehow address a concern,

a primal concern that we have? Yes, they do.

They deal with things that are almost incomprehensible.
They’re ways of controlling the uncontrollable…
That’s the best thing we can hope for in comedy: honesty.”

-- Richard Belzer from pages 51 & 52
of How To Be A Stand Up Comic
with Larry Charles and Rick Newman. ©1988

Today's Word is Pugilistic

2007-01-04T05:49:00.002+01:00

"With my uncertain, self-conscious motions perceived as character rather than circumstance, I began to increasingly fear all manner of potential misperception. I didn't speak as often as I had, afraid the reaction to my words would be other than I wished; terrified I would communicate something other than I intended.

One night, Richard Belzer, who -- when I first came around the comedy clubs as a teenager -- was very nice to me, reacted to the newly timid me by saying, 'I liked the old, pugilistic Andy better.'

We were standing in the back hallway of the (L.A.) Comedy Store and my reticence to speak must have leapt out...I smiled inside at the notion that I had once been 'pugilistic' and, ever optimistic, assumed I would be again. That was, after all, the 'real me'. "

-- Andrew J. Lederer, Comedian.

Out Of Law & Order...

2006-12-21T10:06:00.003+01:00

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne – US movie actor & director (1907 - 1979)

Never Give up, Never Surrender

2006-10-11T19:29:00.000+02:00

George Nichols (1864 - 1927) / Mabel Normand (1894 - 1930)
Normand as title role in 'Suzanna' (1923), Nichols as Don Fernando.
Directed by F Richard Jones for Mack Sennett Studios. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that--but the really great
make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain, Author & Humorist (1835 - 1910)

Proverbial Sarcasm

2006-09-25T07:09:00.000+02:00

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire.

Always remember that you're unique. Just like everyone else.

Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes.

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Some days you're the bug; some days you're the windshield.

Don’t let anyone get your goat. Move it around every once in a while.

Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me alone.

Everybody seems normal until you get to know them.

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

--Email Pass Around. Author(s) Unknown.
(Proverbs 16:16)

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Comparisons 101

2006-09-11T22:38:00.000+02:00

ATM Transaction: September 11, 2001

Holocaust Cremation Document
(http://shamash.org/holocaust/photos/images/Furn_cap.jpg)

Where's Waldo-Mart?

2006-08-31T05:20:00.000+02:00

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same G-d
who has endowed us with sense, reason,
and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

-Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer & physicist (1564 - 1642)

Belzer Listed in AT&T-Verizon Lawsuit

2006-05-29T01:45:00.000+02:00

ACLU Files Lawsuit in California Court Demanding
End to Privacy Violations by AT&T and Verizon
Author: ACLU - Published on May 27, 2006, 08:14

The California affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union today filed two lawsuits in state court requesting injunctions against telecommunications giants AT&T and Verizon to prevent them from illegally providing the National Security Agency with the personal phone records of millions of California customers.

The lawsuits were filed on behalf of more than 100,000 ACLU members statewide and individual plaintiffs including a former Congressman, a former linguist for the Army Security Agency, a Constitutional law professor, Law & Order actor Richard Belzer, journalists, psychiatrists, attorneys, and a minister.

The ACLU charged that phone records were provided without the consent of their customers and without a warrant, court order or any other legal process."On a massive scale, AT&T and Verizon have violated one of our most precious rights -- the right to privacy guaranteed by our State Constitution," said Dorothy Ehrlich, Executive Director of the ACLU of Northern California.

"In the face of this unprecedented illegal and unconstitutional activity, we call upon the court to order AT&T and Verizon to stop turning over Californian's phone records to the government."

"We do not seek to obstruct legitimate law enforcement activities," added Kevin Keenan, Executive Director of the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties, "but we are determined to stand up for the fundamental privacy and due process rights of people whose telephone records have been divulged without warrant, notice or consent."

According to USA TODAY, shortly after September 11, 2001, AT&T and Verizon unlawfully provided to the NSA the personal calling patterns of millions of California customers, including phone numbers called, and the time, date and direction of the calls without their customer's knowledge, consent, or proper legal process.

Among those whose rights were violated are the following individuals, who all have compelling reasons for why their phone calls must remain private:

+ Tom Campbell, a former member of Congress and a former California State Senator, who objects to the disclosure of his customer calling records without either his consent or without a legal process. His local and long distance residential telephone carrier is AT&T.

+ Robert Scheer, a nationally syndicated columnist and journalist at the San Francisco Chronicle, who writes frequently about the war in Iraq and national security issues. He regularly uses his residential phone to make calls to confidential sources. AT&T is his residential telephone provider.

+ George Main, a computer consultant and former linguist for the Army Security Agency, which reported directly to the National Security Agency (1969-1978). Today, he is president of Sacramento Veterans for Peace and his recent anti-war activity was listed in the Pentagon's secret database. He is a residential customer of AT&T for local and long distance service.

Dr. Robert Jacobson, a technology expert in California who in 1985 helped draft the California Telephone Privacy Act, which was passed with bipartisan support and signed into law by Gov. George Deukmejian."The law is clear and it reflects the fact that privacy is important to the people of this state and its business community," Dr. Jacobson said.

"People expect their private conversations to be private whether they're calling friends, family, church, or business associates. Similarly, business thrives when customers know that their personal information is not being given away without their consent."

Peter Eliasberg, a managing attorney with the ACLU of Southern California, added: "This type of overbroad data collection is especially alarming to doctors, psychiatrists, lawyers, ministers and their clients. Our society protects privacy and respects doctor-patient, lawyer-client, and minister-parishioner confidentiality.

Without a system of checks and balances, the government can monitor any phone call or e-mail it wants, and that abuse of power sends a chilling message to all innocent Americans that our conversations are not our own.

"Nationally, AT&T has 49 million customers and Verizon has 100 million wireless and landline customers in 28 states. In its lawsuit, the ACLU cited two state laws that it said the telephone providers had violated:

+ California Constitutional Right to Privacy Violation. AT&T and Verizon have violated the inalienable right to privacy guaranteed in Article I, Section 1 of the California Constitution. This provision was passed overwhelmingly by California voters in 1972 to protect the privacy rights of all and with the precise purpose of prohibiting data sharing of this type.

+ Consumer Protection Violation. AT&T and Verizon have violated a California law that prohibits a telephone company from making available a residential subscriber's personal calling information to another person or company without first obtaining the subscriber's written consent.

"With the help of AT&T and Verizon, the NSA has assembled the largest database in the world," said Nicole Ozer, Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director of the ACLU of Northern California. "This is much more than data-mining. This has been the systematic strip-mining of the private calls of millions of innocent Americans.

"This week, 20 other ACLU affiliates throughout the country filed complaints with their local Public Utility Commissions or sent letters to state Attorney Generals and other officials demanding investigations into whether local telecommunications companies allowed the NSA to spy on their customers.The ACLU also placed full-page ads in newspapers urging readers to file complaints with Public Utility Commissions at www.aclu.org/dontspy

The ACLU complaint against AT&T is online at http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nsaspying/25684lgl20060526.html

The ACLU complaint against Verizon is online at http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nsaspying/25683lgl20060526.html

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