Clannad 'I Will Find You' ~ The Last of the Mohicans

Clannad - I Will Find You... okay, all the lonely people "found" The One, Obama, to make things right for them... well, he's made it worse for them... now, it's OUR turn to "find" The One who will make things right again...

Ace of Base - All That She Wants (Official)

Ace of Base - The Sign (Official)

The Fleetwoods Come Softly To Me . HQ Video -stereo sound

Blondie One Way or Another

Jefferson Airplane -White Rabbit-

Fleetwood Mac - Dreams [with lyrics]

John Lennon - So this is christmas with lyrics

John Lennon - So This Is Christmas... No one can ever know what is in the heart of another person... from his history, Lennon seemed to be a real jerk... yet, some part of his heart produced this song... we want to believe the best of anyone... thinking the best for John today...

Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs - Little Red Riding Hood (HQ)

Tommy Burk & The Counts - Stormy Weather (1962)

The Corsairs - Smokey Places

The Fox (1967) full movie

Wes Montgomery - The Fox

Mason Williams - Classical Gas - ORIGINAL STEREO VERSION

Soulful Strut/Young-Holt Unlimited

Harry Nilsson - Coconut

Harry Nilsson - The Coconut Song... this will be the universal "hold" music you will hear every time you call a doctor after January 1, 2015...

Steve miller Band - Abracadabra

Steve Mills Band - Abracadabra... the only way we will get out from under the yoke of ...well, you know...

Leonard Bernstein performs Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue.wmv

Gershwin - Rhapsody In Blue... the hard work of some give the rest of us a few minutes of getting away from it all...

Loretta Lynn -- You're Lookin At Country

Loretta Lynn - You're Lookin' At Country...

Yes, I admit it... there's some country in me... for instance, what do you do when you 'tree' a 'possm? You climb the tree and shake him to the ground (you don't waste a bullet...not on a 'possum! :)) where he plays "possum" and does not run away. Okay, what's next? You take him home and if you are REALLY poor and REALLY hungry, you skin him and eat him. He's still alive. What do you do?

Answer: You put his belly to the ground, place an axe handel on the back of his nect, grab his hind legs, and pull them with a sharp jerk to break its neck.

I have seen this done. So, what's the point?

Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada has the axe handle on the backs of the Republicans' necks.

Now you get the picture?

Loretta Lynn -- You're Lookin At Country

Loretta Lynn - You're Lookin' At Country...

Yes, I admit it... there's some country in me... for instance, what do you do when you 'tree' a 'possm? You climb the tree and shake him to the ground (you don't waste a bullet...not on a 'possum! :)) where he plays "possum" and does not run away. Okay, what's next? You take him home and if you are REALLY poor and REALLY hungry, you skin him and eat him. He's still alive. What do you do?

Answer: You put his belly to the ground, place an axe handel on the back of his nect, grab his hind legs, and pull them with a sharp jerk to break its neck.

I have seen this done. So, what's the point?

Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada has the axe handle on the backs of the Republicans' necks.

Now you get the picture?

Pete Yorn - Lose you (with lyrics)

Yes, this was a sad episode...

Civil Twilight - Human

Reminder

Reminder: The phrase "trickle down" comes from the statement, "A rising tide lifts all boats." We DO remember who said that. :)

Lou Reed- Walk on the Wild Side

Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side.... So, it is an anti-gay slur for a man to say that he prefers carnal knowledge with a woman and that such carnal knowledge with a man is disgusting?

Amy Dalley - Men Don't Change (Video Music)

BILLY WILLIAMS I'm Gonna Sit Right Down & Write Myself A Letter

THE RAYS SILHOUETTES

Jimmie Rodgers - Honeycomb ( 1957 )

BONNIE GUITAR Dark Moon 1957

Tenn. Ernie Ford - IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ISLAND

Dionne Warwick Do You Know the Way to San Jose 1968 International Smash

Some Velvet Morning -- Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra (in HD)

Donna Summer - No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) (Duet With Barbra Streis...

Percy Faith - This Hotel (from the Warner Bros. film "Hotel")

How Much Is That Doggie In The Window - Patti Page

Patti Page - How Much Is That Doggie In The Window... a much pleasanter doggie song... :)

Dead Puppies Aren't Much Fun

America's theme song...

Bruce Springsteen - I'm on Fire

China's theme song...

Daryl Hall & John Oates - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)

A White House InSINuation

Yesterday, President Obama's Press Secretary said, "This is just another data point the Republicans are using to try to sabotage the Affordable Care Act".

Now, "sabotage" is a pretty strong word. It means that the enemy is blowing up bridges, cutting telephone wires, poisoning water supplies, and so on.

Uh, just what acts of sabotage is he referring to that the Republicans are doing? Last time I looked, the republicans have not been able to do ANYTHING to stop or cripple PPACA. Is the Press Secretary suggesting that the Republican SEAL Team hasinfiltrated those who designed and implemented PPACA?

Seems that Democrats have had total control of PPACA from the beginning until today, by themselves, alone... It's their baby and like all Democrat fathers, they are leaving it fatherless...

Live: Yutu Rover "Jade Rabbit" separates from lander on the Moon

I was looking for an English description of China's moon rover mission. This is one. I looked for some NASA tv coverage and found none on YouTube... Oh, I forgot...NASA is dead...Predident Obama and NASA Asministrator Charlie killed it...not even an eternal flame...

China's first moon rover 'Jade Rabbit' rolls to moon surface

China's moon rover leaves its playform...Why is our news media not covering this wall to wall? Why? Because their degrees are in "physical education", that's why. Their minds are one-track bricks with no curiosity and no imagination. What China is doing is GREAT...I just hope that China truly believes in the Communist Doctrine of "non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries", a doctrine the Soviets proclaimed and ignored.

Launch of Chinese Chang'e 3 Lunar Exploration Rover on Long March 3B

CHINA LANDS ON MOON!! YUTU ROVERS SEND FIRST PICTURES AND VIDEOS TODAY D...

Welll, well, well...so China is now on the moon with a rover... glad to see it...

Rogue Male

Peter O'Toole has passed away.

If you have not seen this movie, "Rogue Male", get it somehow and you will be enriched...

The Rocky Show - Missouri Mish Mash #5 Boris on a Broomstick or The Flyi...

Rocky, Bullwinkle, Boris, Natasha... let's make fun of spies and surveillance... in the '60s no less... :)

Captain Kangaroo - Two Little Magic Words

While American children were learning "Please" and "Thank You", Nazi and Islamic children were learning that "Jews are lower than rats", and Sovietand Democrat Party children were learning "Ready, Aim, Lie!"...

'Twould be better to go back to the one-room schoolhouse with pencil and paper and chalk and blackboard...

Mind blowing speech by Robert Welch in 1958 predicting Insiders plans to...

A clip of Robert Welch on The John Birch Society... Curiously, during my

processing for my job at Kennedy Space Center, I was asked to sign a paper listing a number of subversive groups. Signing it meant that I declared under oath that I had never had any affiliation with any of the groups. This was 1966 and by that time, The John Birch Society was on the list. Later that year during my Army pre-induction physical, I was asked to sign another such listing of subversive groups and The John Birch Society was on that list, too.

I never had any such contact with that group other than supporting Goldwater in 1964 as a helper for the Young Americans for Freedom. Since then, I just watched the Walter Cronkite lies during Vietnam and Sam Donaldson disrespect President Reagan.

I don't know anything about The John Birch Society today nor am I curious. There comes a time when you "just give up on life and just want to be comfortable". (Seinfeld :))...

THE FIREBALLS-"BOTTLE OF WINE" (W/LYRICS)

The Fireballs - Bottle of Wine... Three months ago today, I slipped and fell in the bathtub, landing with my full weight on my ribs. The area is still sore today.

Brings to mind the myth that drunks in car crashes do not get hurt because they are "relaxed". This goes for other accidents, too.

So, perhaps I should henceforth have a few before each and every shower to "protect" myself... :) (Just kidding. :))

The rolling stones-You can't always get what you want

The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want... Maybe the RS should do a song titled, "You Can't Always Keep What You Got"... Who was it who said (paraphrasing), "You'be got a great country...if you can keep it."... Who spies on their own people? Communists, Nazis, Fasciasts, Democrats...

Sheryl Crow Performing "All I Wanna Do" (Official Music Video '94)

Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here

It is to wonder who will be celebrating May Day in 2017... well, maybe not to wonder... North Korea, China, Vietnam, Cuba, Zimbabwe, peru, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Russia..., and, of course, Democrats... yep, the gang's all here...

99 red ballons - Nena

Melanie Safka Together Alone

San Sebastian Strings - The Mud Kids

San Sebastian Strings / Rod McKuen / Anita Kerr - Who Has Touched The Sky

San Sebastian Strings / Rod McKuen / Anita Kerr - Home To The Sea

The San Sebastian Strings feat Rod Mc Kuen - The Tender Earth

Mr. Bojangles - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - [With Lyrics]

Brigitte Bardot in Swimsuits

There is a condition known as the Charles Bonnet Syndrome. This condition results from the severe loss of vision. Such loss of vision can take place over a lifetime until  some threshold is reaches usually in later life when the condition manifests itself.

The visual effect is to 'see' images that are not there even with the eyes open. Such images can take the form of grotesque faces, geometric patterns, predatory animal faces and fangs, and so on.

The question is, why do the images have to take on those characteristics? Why faces that turn into skulls, faces that morph into death masks? Why wide open bear and baboon fangs faces, snake fangs ready to strike?

Instead, why would such images not be Brigette Bardot in a bikini? :)

Southern Nights - Glen Campbell

Short People Randy Newman Lyrics OnScreen

Randy Newman - Short People... see what I mean? :) Thank Goodness for veva la difference... :)

I Am Woman - Helen Reddy (with lyrics)

Helen Reddy - I Am Woman... on the other hand, the United Nations and other feminists LOVED this one.... You know, I could dream about having a baby but it will ever be impossible for me...I just don't have the plumbing for it.... Could be that the source of all our problems is the lack of appreciation for our limitations and then living accordingly.... In other words, if we could all do everything, think how boring it would be! :)

Margaret Whiting - Just Like A Man

Margaret Whiting - Just Like A Man... okay, not exactly a feminist theme song... :)

Peggy Lee - I'm A Woman

Peggy Lee - I'm A Woman... it is a rare person nowadays who knows how it was for women 100 years ago... or for men, either, for that matter...

The Four Lads.Standing on the corner

A published study has determined that men look at women and "objectify" them.

Perhaps the lyrics of this song should be changed to, "Standing on the corner objectifying girls going by"...

I don't know how much this "study" cost, but all they had to do was listen to this song to reach the same conclusion.

Imagine a conversation: A girl says, "What are you looking at?" and the guy says, "Oh, I'm not looking...I'm objectifying." It's fairly obvious that men and women have lost sight of their roles...

LTG Russel Honore: "You're Stuck on STUPID!"

"Stuck on stupid"... I love this clip and the way it was said to reporters in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina at New Orleans. It is also an appropriate remark for some of the comments to blog posts... :)

Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee (Lyrics)

Woodie Guthrie - Workin Hard Blues

Roger Miller King Of the Road

leo Sayer -Long Tall Glasses

George Michael - Careless Whisper

If by Bread, David Gates, w/ Lyrics

House MD - Tribute - Teardrop

While looking for the song "Teardrops", found this tribute to House MD... okay, admit it... we miss House already!!!

Luciano Pavarotti and James Brown - It's a Man's World

James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti - It's A Man's World... I do not know why, but I cannot stop liking this... the contrast fives me chills...

k.d. lang - Constant Craving (Video)

Katharine Hepburn - movie clip "Spitfile"

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Let's see if this link will work... This link goes to a Bing movie clip of the Katharine Hepburn movie "Spitfile"... This is my favorite performance of hers considering the sophisticated parts she plays later... Maybe I like it because of my Hatchie River Bottoms roots... :)

Meiko Kaji - Urami Bushi

Gimme Shelter 1969 - The Rolling Stone

You do not want a Winnie Mandela necklace.

Nelson Mandela - Reality Check

Something of Value (1957) - Trailer

"Something Of Value" - Just in case you might be wondering what it was like when Nelson Mandela  was in his thirties, you should rent or acquire this movie... you will never forget or regret it...

Blackbird - The Beatles

Nelson Mandel died yesterday...

Nicolette Larson - Lotta Love 1978 Video stereo SD widescreen

Lucinda Williams - Are you alright

LUcinda Willians - Are You Alright?... has anyone noticed President Obama's body language lately? Where has the dynamic charisma gone? Where is the light that used to shines behind his eyes? Perhaps he needs to start talking to some different people...

"The Logical Song" (Supertramp) written and composed by Roger Hodgson

Supertramp - The Logical Song... is it "logical" for the national media and NEA teachers to so energetically pursue Isvestia and Pravda status? Do they not remember that the first ones "re-educated" by Pol Pot were the media and teachers? Those who could not be re-educated were turned into piles of skulls.... Who was it who said "We will have a great country if we can hold on to it"? Obviously, we are losing our grip...

HOTEL CALIFORNIA - EAGLES - (1976)

Eagles - Hotel California... Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act... It's the law. It's here to stay. Once you check in, you can never get out.

It's "Let them eat cake" time, is it not?

Words get in the way - Gloria Estefan w/ lyrics

Journey - Who's Crying Now

Journey - Who's Crying Now... uh, I guess we are... yesterday, it was in the low thirties and pretty snow... tonight, we will have 35 below zero wind chills and the pretty snow turns into glass-sharp ice... yeah, we're crying now... :-( 

Taken In by Mike + The Mechanics...with Lyrics

Mike And The Mechanics - Taken In... "If you like your policy, you can keep it, period... If you like your doctor, you can keep him, period... the average family will see their premiums reduced by $2500..."

"I want to believe you but you kno how to lie"

"Taken In" should be the new theme song for America under Obama...

Peter Schilling - Major Tom

Peter Schilling - Major Tom... So, Earth is floating weightless in space, drigting, falling... ...no where to go... what happens when an organism has no where to go?...

Spirit In The Sky Norman Greenbaum

Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky... Dontcha wish? Too bad it's all in our heads...

Rolling Stones-Undercover of the Night (12"extended).

The Rolling Stones - Undercover Of The Night... What's gong on?... The song says it all...

Kraftwerk - Computer Love [The Mix]

loving you minnie riperton

More, More More - Andrea True Connection (HQ Audio)

Astrud Gilberto - 11 - Call Me

Vikki Carr - It Must Be Him (1967)

Blondie - Heart Of Glass

Glass is a kind of stone, you bknow, so, who do you know who has a Heart of Stone?... He also has a Glass Jaw... can't take a punch... :) now who might fit this description?  :)

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit (Grace Slick, Woodstock, aug 17 1969)

Maybe we should go back to this and start over... :) ...only, there would likely not be much dancing, loving, or smoking... very likely, the croed would be quietly texting... the American young people have been successfully passified... (along with the rest of us...cerebral overload...)

Charlie Rich - Every Time You Touch Me (I Get High)

Every time a good memory touches me, I get high... :)

The Cowsills The Rain The Park & Other Things 1960's

Just in case come cheering up is needed... :)

THE LEFT BANKE- " PRETTY BALLERINA" (W/ LYRICS)

Trailer The Mortal Storm

"The Mortal Storm" - TCM aired this movie this morning.  It is a wonder that Democrats can watch this movie and not see themselves in it. What do Democrats do? Try suppression of free speech by means of the IRS and Political Correctness. Also try the corruption of science with Global Warming and Consensus Research. Also try the destruction of capilalism by means of high taxation and politically engineered regulations. Also try the dictatorship now being practiced by the Democrat Party as they move toward ruling our country using only the laws they like and making them up as they go along. Dare anyone disagree? Better not criticize the government or else...

Hail Obama... (as in Heil Hitler). Watch the movie and draw your own comparisons...

Sunrise, Sunset - Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Lowrider War

Speaking of dreams, how many of us wanted to do things like this to a car during our infantile early adulthood?... :) I seem to recall that there was a YouTube video that turned Air Force One into a purple lowrider Presidential plane when Obama was elected... it was cute but disrespectful...

Electric Light Orchestra - Hold on Tight

ELO - Hold On Tight... as things are going, our dreams are becoming slipperier and slipperier (sic) and hard to hold on tight to... maybe we should all go back to the farm and start over...

BLADE RUNNER - I've seen things

"All those moments will be lost in time...like tears in rain." ... Thank you Phillip K. Dick for one of the more memorable lines in movie history.... Human beings have had more "moments' than there are atoms in the known universe...

Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine

Happy Thanksgiving for having known (however short) yesterday's birthday girl...

The Beatles - Across The Universe

Am listening to Robert Heinlein's book "The Number Of The Beast" (frojm Audible.com) where our intrepid bickering heroes travel across the universes and, naturally, this song came to mind... :)

The Fighting Sullivans (Saving Private Ryans origin)

So many, so many, so many...die when some decide to spread the wealth of others around...

Janis Ian - At Seventeen 17 + Lyrics

The ultimate discrimination song... interestingly presented with a blank screen for the invisibles among us...

Maybe (Annie) - Annie (Original Soundtrack)

Maybe... it's time for husbands and fathers to stop running away from their obligations and faithfully love their wives and support their children... Did I leave anything out? Oh, yes, the wives and mothers... what are they supposed to do...

The Minute Waltz by Barbra Streisand

Man In The Wilderness 1971

Richard Harris - "Man In The Wilderness"...if you are one of the 99% who have not seen this movie, it is well worth your time...and speaking of time, say some 200-400 years, life around the world will be like this again... :(

om mani padme hum

And, if you just can't deal with Harry Reid any more, you can sing non-Mormon Christmas Carols, or listen to this...:)

Dusty Springfield / What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life

An all-time favorite song from an all-time favorite singer as we remember that in a hundred years or so, every single one of the seven billion persons alive today will be...well, you know... We can wish that every single person lives the rest of life fulfilled and happy...but, as Dusty also reminds us, "Wishin' and Hopin' won't (make your dreams come true)"

Star Trek Original Series Intro (HQ)

Okay, while we are waxing nostalgic, take note of the line, "...to go where no man has gone before"... yes, the word is "man"... can there be any doubt but that there are differences between men and women?... as my foster granmother would likely have said if she had thought about it, "If God had intended men and women to be the same, He would have left out one or the other." ... She was a wise woman.

BEN CASEY Tribute to Vince Edwards

One of my top favorite tv series...after all, how can anyone NOT be interested in exploring the abnormalities of the brain and all that implies... imagine what it is that converts a normal brain into a Communist brain... just what is it that causes the physiological need to control others?...

Michael Parks - "Long Lonesome Highway"

The ultimate "getting away from it all" and being "off the grid" song...and my favorite short-lived tv series...wishin' I had gotten a Harley and let it take me wherever...good thing I never did...being blind would definately have crimped my ride... :)

Tchaikovsky - Marche Slave

A perfect time for Tchaikovsky's "March of the Slaves"... that's us, you know...

Welcome to Nazi America

What the Democrats did in the U.S. Senate today is equivalent to the Nazi's burning the German Parliament in 1933. Since there was no government, Hitler assumed dictatorial powers soon after.

 

Now, the Senate can confirm ALL of President Obama's judicial and executive nominations with only a simple majority vote, with the sole exception being nominations to the Supreme Court.

 

This is called "packing the court" and it means that whenever a question of law occurs, the decision will always be to Democrat Party desires.

 

Welcome to Nazi America!!!

Michael Buble - Dream When You're Feeling Blue

ing to lose BIG in 2014, they are set on a course of total destruction of the American Dream... I dream that I will not be around when the United States crashes and burns... it's enough to make you feel 'blue'...

"Daisy Girl" Rare 1964 Lyndon Johnson Political Ad -aired only once- 9/7/64

Perhaps Israel could adapt this commercial and run it for what President Obama and Traitor Kerry are about to giver Iran...

Harve Presnell - "They Call The Wind Maria" - Full HQ Stereo

Mariah, blow our Constitution back to us...

The Unicorn Song - The Irish Rovers - Lyrics ,

Chicago (HD) Wishing You Were Here

Challenger Accident Investigation (1986)

This weekend's Science Channel presentation of "The Challenger Disaster" was an interesting exploration of Richard Feynman's role during the investigation. He knew he was dying from cancer and this gave him resolve to follow his whims and intuitions. You tend to do that when you know you have nothing to lose...animals are MOST dangerous when they are cornered...Feynman was 'cornered' by near death...

I was also pleased to know that Sally Ride was secretly instrumental in getting the truth out. I had been having some misgivings about her in recent years for her criticisms of NASA, but I take it all back and resume my utmost respect for her...

Julia Dale performs the National Anthem before Game 6 of the 2013 NBA Fi...

Okay, admit it...our War Anthem!!!

How soon will FaceBook go away?...

Soon... :)

Well, it's been over a month now since FaceBook determined that I am not a real person and no longer allows me to access my
FaceBook account. What a nifty way to censor someone! :) If you do not have a cell phone that receives text messages, you cannot return the code they send you and, thus, you are locked out...

Love at First Bite (1979) - George Hamilton, Susan Saint James, Richard ...

Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert - It happened One Night

Jack Scott - What In The World's Come Over You

Hank Williams - I'm So Lonesome

The Coasters - Searchin'

Sam Cooke - You Send Me

The Face of Obamacare...

Millions have received notice that their health insurance policies will be cancelled effective Jan 1, 2014. Now, who will be the first to die after that date because they had no health insurance? That person will become the face of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, sometimes known as Obamacare. Wonder that Democrats will say about that!

Valse Triste

William Huges Meams - Antigonish

Antigonish [I met a man who wasn't there]
by Hughes Mearns
Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish, I wish he'd go away... When I came home last night at three The man was waiting there for me But when I looked around the hall I couldn't see him there at all! Go away, go away, don't you come back any more! Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door... (slam!) Last night I saw upon the stair A little man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today Oh, how I wish he'd go away...

Del Shannon - My Little Runaway

Now, bho do we know bho continuously runs away from responsibility for his actions?...bho indeed... :)

The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe

For my passionate little Scorpio Twin Sisters...Happy Birthday!!!

Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man

Last night, a Russian rocket was launched to rendezvous with the internation space station. It carried the 2014 Winter Olympic Torch. There are no American rockets. Disgusting. Obamanasa is as dead as Obamacare...and...our current government is as nonsensical as this song...

Gloom, Despair, and Agony On Me :)

What do we see in the United States Senate? Conceit, Deceit, and Chickenceit... (if you get my drift)

Dance scene from "Love At First Bite"

Alicia Bridges - I Love The Night Life

Dance scene from "Frantic"

Grace Jones - I've Seen That Face Before

Tristan Prettyman - Say Anything

Ingrid Michaelson - Be OK

Lenka - I Wanna Be Everything At Once

I wanna be...young again... :)

Sixpence And None The Richer - Christmas Time Is Here

Ok Sweetheart - Before You Go

Frank Sinatra - It Was A Very Good Year

Pete Yorn - Lose You (with lyrics)

Many of us will be singing this song to our health insurance companies soon...


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Mazzy Star - Into Dust

Every great nation eventually sings this song...

Brett Dennen - Ain't No Reason

The scary part of life is that no matter what, we keep singing this song...

The Washington Redsking name...

Much pressure is being brought to bear against the owner of the Washington Redskins football team. The word 'redskins' in the name has been deemed to be offensive to the politically correct practitioners of censorship.

Though the owner is resisting such a thing, perhaps a solution lies in renaming the team. In such a case, the owner must ask himself, "What name would be best?"

Washington Christians?

The leading newspaper in San Francisco has made an editorial decision to never again use the name "Redskins" when referring to the Washington football team. No one knows what they will use instead.

Well, what does "49ers" mean? Is that offensive to anyone? For a moment, let's assume that it is VERY offensive to some group.

So, what name for the San Francisco football team?

san Francisco Atheists?

Can we imagine some future games between these two teams? :)

Let's see how much text can be entered

MOBY DICK; OR, THE WHALE by Herman Melville

  CHAPTER 1

  Loomings

Call me Ishmael.  Some years ago--never mind how long precisely-- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.  It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.  This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.  There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.

There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs--commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right and left, the streets take you waterward.  Its extreme downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by breezes, which a few hours previous were out of sight of land. Look at the crowds of water-gazers there.

Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon.  Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see?--Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks glasses! of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep. But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster-- tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone?  What do they here?

But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and seemingly bound for a dive.  Strange!  Nothing will content them but the extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder warehouses will not suffice.  No. They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in. And there they stand--miles of them--leagues.  Inlanders all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues,-- north, east, south, and west.  Yet here they all unite. Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither?

Once more.  Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it.  Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

But here is an artist.  He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco.  What is the chief element he employs? There stand his trees, each with a hollow trunk, as if a hermit and a crucifix were within; and here sleeps his meadow, and there sleep his cattle; and up from yonder cottage goes a sleepy smoke. Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue.  But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd's head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherd's eye were fixed upon the magic stream before him. Go visit the Prairies in June, when for scores on scores of miles you wade knee-deep among Tiger-lilies--what is the one charm wanting?-- Water there is not a drop of water there!  Were Niagara but a cataract of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to see it? Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach?  Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?  Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy?  Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove?  Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.

Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my lungs, I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger. For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is but a rag unless you have something in it.  Besides, passengers get sea-sick-- grow quarrelsome--don't sleep of nights--do not enjoy themselves much, as a general thing;--no, I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook.  I abandon the glory and distinction of such offices to those who like them.  For my part, I abominate all honorable respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever. It is quite as much as I can do to take care of myself, without taking care of ships, barques, brigs, schooners, and what not. And as for going as cook,--though I confess there is considerable glory in that, a cook being a sort of officer on ship-board--yet, somehow, I never fancied broiling fowls;--though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will. It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bakehouses the pyramids.

No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the fore-castle, aloft there to the royal mast-head. True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump from spar to spar, like a grasshopper in a May meadow. And at first, this sort of thing is unpleasant enough. It touches one's sense of honor, particularly if you come of an old established family in the land, the Van Rensselaers, or Randolphs, or Hardicanutes.  And more than all, if just previous to putting your hand into the tar-pot, you have been lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the tallest boys stand in awe of you.  The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it. But even this wears off in time.

Judy Garland "You Made Me Love You"

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