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2008-04-16 Home Front: Politix

Obama would ask his AG to "immediately review" potential of crimes in Bush White House

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Posted by Steve White 2008-04-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Freaky. I was just discussing politix yesterday with a friend, and we agreed that the subpoenas would start flowing even before the end of the last inaugural ball of a Donk presidency.

Posted by Seafarious 2008-04-16 00:35|| 2008-04-16 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Nice bit of alliteration there, Steve. Seems like you could've worked Nancy (Pelosi) in there, somewhere...

Posted by Bobby 2008-04-16 06:25|| 2008-04-16 06:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Deval Patrick is probably writing up the paperwork right now during his breaks from writing his autobiography. Because that's the job I think he expects from his buddy Barack.

Posted by tu3031 2008-04-16 08:54|| 2008-04-16 08:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Wikipedia - Stagger Lee?
The crime

A story appearing in the St. Louis, Missouri Globe-Democrat in 1895 says:

William Lyons, 25, a levee hand, was shot in the abdomen yesterday evening at 10 o'clock in the saloon of Bill Curtis, at Eleventh and Morgan Streets, by Lee Sheldon, a carriage driver. Lyons and Sheldon were friends and were talking together. Both parties, it seems, had been drinking and were feeling in exuberant spirits. The discussion drifted to politics, and an argument was started, the conclusion of which was that Lyons snatched Sheldon's hat from his head. The latter indignantly demanded its return. Lyons refused, and Sheldon withdrew his revolver and shot Lyons in the abdomen. When his victim fell to the floor Sheldon took his hat from the hand of the wounded man and coolly walked away. He was subsequently arrested and locked up at the Chestnut Street Station. Lyons was taken to the Dispensary, where his wounds were pronounced serious. Lee Sheldon is also known as 'Stag' Lee.[1]

Lyons eventually died of his injuries. Sheldon was tried, convicted, and served prison time for this crime. This otherwise unmemorable crime is remembered in a song. In some older versions of the song, the name of the other party is given as "Billy Deslile" or "De Lion".

[edit] Stagger Lee as archetype

Immortalized in song, Stagger Lee has become an archetype, the embodiment of a tough-guy black man -- one who is sly, streetwise, cool, lawless, amoral, potentially violent, and who defies often white authority.[3]

Author and music critic Greil Marcus explicitly ties the Stagger Lee archetype to Sly Stone and his album There's a Riot Goin' On in his book Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music.
There is speculation that "Stag O Lee" songs predated even the 1895 incident, and Lee Sheldon may have gotten his nickname from earlier folk songs. Other sources say that black roustabouts on Mississippi River docks were called "stack o lees" as they would stack cargo on the lee side of the docks. The first published version of the song was done by folklorist John Lomax in 1910. The song was well known in African American communities along the lower Mississippi River by the 1910s.

A 1959 variation, credited as "traditional", as originally recorded and performed by Lloyd Price, goes:

(intro) The night was clear, and the moon was yellow
And the leaves came tumblin' down. . .

I was standing on a corner
When I heard my bull dog bark
He was barking at the two men
Who were gambling in the dark

It was Stagger Lee and Billy
Two men who gambled late
Stagger Lee threw a seven
Billy swore that he threw eight

Stagger Lee told Billy
"I can't let you go with that
You won all o' my money
And my brand new Stetson hat."

Stagger Lee started off goin'
Down that railroad track
He said "I can't get you Billy but
Don't be here when I come back"

(bridge)

Stagger Lee, he went home
And he got his forty-four
Said "I'm going down to the barroom
Just to pay that debt I owe"

Stagger Lee went to the barroom
And he stood across the barroom door
He said "Nobody move"
And he pulled his forty-four

Then Billy he cried "Stag, oh Stag,
Please don't take my life
I got three little children
And a very sickly wife"

Stagger Lee... shot Billy
Oh, he shot that poor boy so bad
Till the bullet came through Billy
And it broke the bartender's glass.

Posted by 3dc 2008-04-16 09:33|| 2008-04-16 09:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Gee I thought that after the ~~2002~~ ~~2004~~ ~~2006~~ ?2008? elections that the entire administration would be indicted? Actually it would kind of fun to watch Dick Cheney dissect a Donk AG that drank too much KooAid. Picture Condi (verbally) bitch slapping Deval Patrick?

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2008-04-16 12:47|| 2008-04-16 12:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Note to the Star Trek Enterprise producers: Obama looks at this point like a far closer match to V'Las then GWB.

Posted by Korora">Korora 2008-04-16 16:11|| 2008-04-16 16:11|| Front Page Top

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