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  1. Adobe Walls permalink
    03 July 2010 @ 19:55 19:55

    Ah Patriotism.

    • bobbelvedere permalink*
      04 July 2010 @ 20:42 20:42

      Happy Independence Day, Adobe.

  2. DJMoore permalink
    04 July 2010 @ 11:43 11:43

    Thanks, Bob, for the link to my percussive maintenance video post ; I’m pleased by the lovely company.

    Have a loud and colorful Independence Day!

  3. Maggie M. Thornton permalink
    04 July 2010 @ 14:34 14:34

    Now that’s a celebration! No one better than Abigail to be speaking of you in polite company. I understand she always got what she wanted, with the exception of her advice to John to be generous to the women of the new country. That took a while longer.

    Happy Independence Day, Humble Dispatcher Extraordinaire. Your Extravaganza is a masterpiece!

    • bobbelvedere permalink*
      04 July 2010 @ 20:32 20:32

      I always had a thing for Abigail, but, I must admit, Alex Hamilton’s wife was really hot.

      Happy Independence Day, Dame Maggie.

  4. Red permalink
    04 July 2010 @ 19:54 19:54

    Is that ‘patriotism’ you’re wearing? It’s one of my favorite colognes next to ‘Oust’. I think my verbiage is rubbing off on you: “his country stands for and we’re not going to allow some spoiled douche nozzles destroy her…”
    Happy Independence Day Belve-dear!

  5. Adobe Walls permalink
    04 July 2010 @ 23:02 23:02

    Caught the last three quarters or so of 1776 on TMC this afternoon.

    • bobbelvedere permalink*
      04 July 2010 @ 23:43 23:43

      Great stuff – uplifts the spirits.

  6. Ran / Si Vis Pacem permalink
    05 July 2010 @ 00:07 00:07

    Gotta ask: Where did you score the poster of Oz 2? ‘sThat your beastie?

    • bobbelvedere permalink*
      05 July 2010 @ 00:42 00:42

      I found it somewhere last year in The Ether. I wish I could remember the site I got it from so I could have given him credit. I’m not that good….yet.

  7. Reaganite Republican permalink
    05 July 2010 @ 11:28 11:28

    A truly epic post- looks like a week’s work in this one.

    Bob Belvedere is an unstoppable machine-

    And is that Andy Kaufman in the ‘lude ad…? Looks like him

    • bobbelvedere permalink*
      05 July 2010 @ 13:51 13:51

      It does…or Count Floyd from SCTV [which would explain a lot].

  8. Mrs. Kissell permalink
    05 July 2010 @ 14:59 14:59

    Just praise from the gallery, my compliments! A genuine work of art.

    Some observations:

    1- As no doubt all savants here present are aware, the now-polite derivation of “doodle” is not entirely accurate, … or better, precise, … or perhaps, forthcoming. While having a perfectly natural and productive function, and also intended as delightful, doodling — perhaps of Gaelic origin — as referenced in *Yankee Doodle Dandy* was meant as an obscene insult for which both *feather* and *macaroni* are euphemisms for a doodle … something like an 18th Century anti-Colonial version of the more modern “He who was born with a [doodle] in his mouth.” Or, in contemporary argot, a *[doodle]head.*

    2- Honey blonde with syfy sword a relation?

    3- Every great movement — political, religious, economic, social, moral — is carried on the wings of a song, sometimes several songs, but always one in particular. This song reaches into the depths, de profundis, and brings to ecstatic expression that which it is there. Examples abound. A movement’s song is its carrying wave, its power in being. Without a song a movement shrivels.

    The Constitution/Liberty movement needs a theme-song, something that fills the function of *For What It’s Worth* (Stephen Stills, 1967, debuted by Buffalo Springfield) in today’s context, but with multi-generational impact, and fresh and forward, pretty and thrilling, not brooding, cynical or melancholy.

    It has to be singable a cappella. Instrumentals must be non-essential. It has to work a cappella spontaneously. It has to start easily by a group extempore. And it has to breath, to exercise the lungs, make them work, fill and refill to their depths, which is the glory of the German Chorale and slightly less so the French Metrical Psalm, which together bore the power of the Reformation. *The Star-Spangled Banner* and *Ein’ Feste Burg* fit this description. But something fresh is needed, and uncorrupted by mangling at sporting events, all of which are blood sports.

    Breath is Life. Life is Breath. The glory of the bagpipe and the pipe organ is their breathing, their great volumes of air sustainment.

    The Constitution/Liberty movement needs such a song written this century or late in the last. We need a theme-song, one that makes us breathe. Ladies and gentlemen, get busy. Or listen/see about one and write it down. Don’t talk about it, write it. The basis is the lyric, the poem. The tune is secondary and arrives to match the lyric.

    4- Anyone who doesn’t know that the poisonous presence in American society is its system of education doesn’t know a damn thing worth knowing. So here’s a proposed policy goal of the Constitutional/Liberty movement, along the lines of expanding liberty:

    a- Reverse the economics of the system of education: instead of students/parents paying teachers/schools for a student’s education, have teachers/schools pay students/parents for a student’s education, to include the full cost of supporting the student and the learning process they undergo.

    The customer is always right. Today, students/parents are customers, buying and extorting, and schools/teachers are retailers, selling and fleecing. Both are entropic. In classical education, a teacher supports their students entirely while they are students. The teacher, being the “customer,” is in the power position, which is as it should be. The student has to learn or be gone.

    This reduces the number of students — a good thing — causes them to work hard at learning, a task for which they have this one chance in life, and one chance only, no matter what the nature of the system of education. The result is concentrated learning and multiplied creativity, which, with love, is the goal of education per se.

    b- Task parents with homeschooling their children through age nine (9), to include reading, writing, arithmetic and self-driven adventures. Require of parents homeschooling sufficient for their child to begin the schooled study of philosophy, theology, science and mathematics at age ten (10) followed by either classical liberal arts or classical vocational training starting at age twelve (12).

    Include for students past age nine (9) opportunities (i) to jump ahead in the ordinary age-to-content expansion and (ii) to change, once, from one track to the other at age fifteen (15) or sooner should the student desire or their teachers commend and the student accept it.

    c- Remove the compulsion of schooled education past age nine (9), that is, past the obligation of parents to homeschool their children in reading, writing, arithmetic and self-driven adventures.

    d- Make all schools/teachers (except homeschooling parents) not employed by a private school institutions/employees of a state government, paid by taxes on all citizens who have no offspring or whose offspring are not currently enrolled at a state or private school. Eliminate school districts.

    e- Close the federal DOE and end federal funding of education except for the National Service Academies, which must be maintained and continuously modernized. Let current academic R&R be taken over by private investment or cease.

    There’s a policy agenda for the Constitution/Liberty movement, expanding liberty at the root of tyranny: academe. Get that done and the rest will self-correct and self-heal.

    Then the country will be rid of smug pricks and smugger [see you next Tuesdays], “guilty as sin, free as a bird” and “you are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.” At least until the next delusional generation’s self-destruct.

    The Constitution/Liberty movement can build freshly what descendants recall in poetry, sound and sight as *They Don’t Make ‘Em Like That Anymore.* It has to or fold. A new song and a reverse economics of education.

    • bobbelvedere permalink*
      05 July 2010 @ 16:01 16:01

      Some thoughts on what you wrote:

      1) Yes, I knew the origin. Of course, the term, like ‘Tory’ and ‘Capitalist’ in modern usage, is an insult that, in a grand bit of psychological irony, was embraced by the insultees, thus rendering the insult moot [the Right seems forever tasked to have to perform this duty].

      2) Sadly, she is not a relation…or, perhaps, that fact is not such a thing to be regretted as the temptations of lust might cause some disruptions to my marital bliss.

      3) Agreed. We need a theme song.

      4) Very interesting ideas there. I think within them may be the nucleus of a grand plan.

      SIDENOTE: I felt compelled to edit one of your [understandably] expressed vulgarities because it is the one word that really upsets the ladies.

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