Klarinet Archive - Posting 000326.txt from 2006/01

From: "Rommel John (Rafi Jochanan) Miller" <rjmiller@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Trust but verify (This is completely off topic)
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:49:33 -0500

It's more a violin piece, one of those tiny little violins, that go with
bleeding hearts. ;-)

Rafi

----- Original Message -----
From: "Oliver Seely" <oseely@-----.edu>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Trust but verify (This is completely off topic)

> 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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