Klarinet Archive - Posting 000325.txt from 2006/01

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Trust but verify (This is completely off topic)
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:44:19 -0500

The lyrics aren't bad, but what's the melody? Can I play it on a Bb? 8-)

Oliver

At 12:21 PM 1/31/2006, you wrote:
>Its funny, but even though I am 47, been in the Navy suffered a nervous
>breakdown from the abuse and harrassment of my fellow "shipmates" (probably
>becasue I was in the wrong rate and in at the wrong time [76-79]) I still
>beleive that Buber said it right, and he my friends lived through the most
>horrific of times, the Holocaust.
>
>While Ronny Ray-gun was playing cowboy on the silver screen. And let's not
>forget that Mr. Reagan's regulations led us into the quagmire of low-paying
>jobs and off-shore and out-sourced jobs today, of the decline of american
>industry through the dissolution of the union and an ethical working wage.
>And let us not forget how close we truly did come to nuclear annihilation in
>1982 and 1983 when Mr. Reagan was so loose and haphazzard with his words as
>to say (thinking the microphones to be off) "ok boys, we start dropping the
>nukes on Moscow in five minutes" or something like that. What a diplomat,
>what patriot, what an utter beginning to the real declination in American
>values and ethics. For from Reagan rose Enron, from his regegulation rose
>corporate giants like Wal-Mart and Interstate Bank which gobbled up the mom
>and pop little guys. From Reagan came people like Jack Abrahmoff the most
>unethical Jew since Shylock. And a man who makes me ashamed to be a Jew,
>but proud that I am an ethical and hopeful Jew, not a cynical one.
>
>I might be mentally ill dear friends, but I have a great deal of learning
>beween these ears of mine and I have lived through Carter, Reagan, two
>Bush's, a Clinton and hopefully another Clinton. And I tell you, I'd rather
>that Jimmy Carter return to the White House than have what's in there now,
>for there was and is a man of ethical courage.
>
>I am sorry for this diatribe, but the santification of Ronald Reagan bothers
>the heck out of me, especially when you consider that he did more the create
>and distance the poverty gap in this country and dismantle the mental health
>system. It took Bill Clinton and the work of Tipper Gore to bring the
>emphasis of mental illness awareness back to the forefront in the 1990's,
>and let's not forget that.
>
>I am a 100% service connected disabled veteran, I was ready and willing to
>die for this country at a time when it was the worst thing to do, and my
>only sibling my brother was killed in Vietnam, and my father was a WWII
>veteran, so you can't say I'm not patriotic. I have seen life from the
>inside, and it ain't all that grand, especially aboard ship, and with a
>bunch of guys who had the choice of either going to jail or going into the
>service. And its no wonder the Veterans Medical Centers are overburdened.
>
>Rafi Miller
>Baltimore, MD

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