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2009-02-03 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Change #19846: No "Hail to the Chief" for The One

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Posted by Sherry 2009-02-03 12:04|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 "Desert Rose"? You mean that Sting song that they pretty much stopped playing after 9/11 because of the Arabic chanting in it? (Disclosure....I actually liked the song. It was great to speed along the highway in a Corvette with it blaring on the speakers. Not that I ever did that.)

I think we can come up with some other appropriate songs to play. My nomination is "Send in the Clowns".

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-02-03 12:10|| 2009-02-03 12:10|| Front Page Top

#2 "You're So Vain"

Posted by DoDo 2009-02-03 12:38|| 2009-02-03 12:38|| Front Page Top

#3 The Day the Music Died

Posted by Claque White8043 2009-02-03 12:47|| 2009-02-03 12:47|| Front Page Top

#4 "U.S. Marine Band"

Could that be the problem? His dislike for the military is showing.

Posted by Lagom 2009-02-03 12:52|| 2009-02-03 12:52|| Front Page Top

#5 "He's not a 'Pomp and Circumstance' kind of guy," says press secretary Robert Gibbs of the new president.

Not much into American tradition either I can see. I keep wondering when he'll come up with a new design for Old Glory.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-02-03 13:02|| 2009-02-03 13:02|| Front Page Top

#6 wonder if the new flag will have a crescent moon on it?

Posted by rabid whitetail 2009-02-03 13:17|| 2009-02-03 13:17|| Front Page Top

#7 "U.S. Marine Band"

Could that be the problem?

Maybe his Mum was scared by a harmonica while she was pregnant with the future POTUS fetus.

Posted by SteveS 2009-02-03 13:26|| 2009-02-03 13:26|| Front Page Top

#8 The Marine Band is indisposed rehearsing L'Internationale.

Posted by ed 2009-02-03 13:26|| 2009-02-03 13:26|| Front Page Top

#9 With all the sabre rattling going on, I suspect we'll be seeing the new flag very soon. My guess is it will be white on a field of white. Or possibly solid red on a field of red.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-02-03 13:39|| 2009-02-03 13:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Wiki cc Cole Porter:
He did not register for the draft, yet loved to tell the press that he had joined the French Foreign Legion. In reality, he went to work for the Duryea Relief Fund and maintained a closet full of various tailormade military uniforms that he wore when the mood suited him. The French Foreign Legion, however, claims Porter as an enlistee and displays his portrait in its museum in Aubagne.

So, the President of the United States has muzak played for him - how common. Appalled he is not having played the piano classics of Scott Joplin; you know like The Entertainer or Fig Leaf Rag.

Sting - isn't he the guy who tried to kill moaddib?

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-02-03 14:43|| 2009-02-03 14:43|| Front Page Top

#11 "He's not a 'Pomp and Circumstance' kind of guy,"
Music is haram.

Posted by Darrell 2009-02-03 15:37|| 2009-02-03 15:37|| Front Page Top

#12 Can the Marine guy play "Jump Around" on that piano?

Posted by tu3031 2009-02-03 15:46|| 2009-02-03 15:46|| Front Page Top

#13 I'd suggest "Cult of Personality" by In Living Color.

Posted by Mike 2009-02-03 15:48|| 2009-02-03 15:48|| Front Page Top

#14 The Kenyan national anthem?

Posted by Iblis 2009-02-03 16:08|| 2009-02-03 16:08|| Front Page Top

#15 These things will catch up. Just watch how pissed he will become when people start treating him like "Joe the Plumber" instead of the president. There was a reason pomp and circumstance is used.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2009-02-03 17:21|| 2009-02-03 17:21|| Front Page Top

#16 Mike beat me to it.

Posted by no mo uro 2009-02-03 17:49|| 2009-02-03 17:49|| Front Page Top

#17 How about playing The Entertainer on piano, you know the theme song from the movie, "The Sting."

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-02-03 21:15|| 2009-02-03 21:15|| Front Page Top

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