Rickie Lee Jones
Tell Somebody (Repeal The Patriot Act)
The Evening Of My Best Day
(2003)

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Dirktooth
Jun 15, 2004 - 22:44
Glad to see an artist not taking the safe path....anyone worth listening to has taken risks. Last I heard, being well known didn't mean giving up your right to express your own personal convictions.

ANNE_MARIE
May 28, 2004 - 09:16
I have a new respect for her....

thanks so much for playing this!

DBCinCA
May 25, 2004 - 00:14
namesbenny wrote:

Sometimes a choice is clear when you know what you don't want. I'd vote for a doorstop, a cherry danish or an agar plate before I'd support the direction Bush is taking the US and the world.


Count me in on the doorstop and the cherry danish, but undecided about agar plate. Maybe as slimy as W.

8~)

MrSpaz
May 20, 2004 - 11:17
Is it just me, or does it sound like she has a stuffy nose, and she's trying to sing and breathe through her mouth at the same time?

samiyam
May 14, 2004 - 23:35
srbarry wrote:

Barf. Two days in a row with this whinny crap. Enuf already.

If the music had any merit it might be different - but to give this air time just for the politics is a waste of good RP quality time.


Relax, jerkoff. They'll get back to three-chord rock'n'roll in a few minutes and you can go back to sleep again.


toastee
May 07, 2004 - 07:34
This set needs a Dixie Chicks song.

bigpomp
May 07, 2004 - 07:32
ncmtnbiker wrote:
What a pantload! When are we ever going to hear a song from the Right? How about some Toby Keith?


Hilarious. Toby Keith, yeah. Laughing at my desk. I believe the humor in this post was too subtle for some. The right! Ha!

srbarry
May 04, 2004 - 15:39

Barf. Two days in a row with this whinny crap. Enuf already.

If the music had any merit it might be different - but to give this air time just for the politics is a waste of good RP quality time.

Blackjack
May 03, 2004 - 15:45
What a pantload! When are we ever going to hear a song from the Right? How about some Toby Keith?


When Toby Keith turns out something worth listening to, maybe it'll get played.

I, for one, could live the rest of my life without having to hear Keith's "love it or leave it" crap. It's exactly that attitude that damns the level of discourse in this country to the Ann Coulter/Michael Moore idiocy that abounds.


rascal420
May 03, 2004 - 15:40
What do all these political rants have to do with this crummy song?

srbarry
May 03, 2004 - 15:40

Another proof of the maxim that musicians should stick to music.

Major buzzkill.

veegez
Apr 24, 2004 - 09:47
eyewall wrote:
namesbenny wrote:
ft
Apr 24, 2004 - 09:26
Excellent music to pack for the upcoming Women's March (tomorrow!) to... keep the thread going :-)

Monkeysdad
Apr 21, 2004 - 17:52
smellody wrote:


That is some of the most hysterical pot head rantings I've seen in a long time. By yourself a case of kleenex because there is no way Kerry is going to win


There HAS to be a Forum for this stuff folks, take it there,......GET A ROOM!


eyewall
Apr 21, 2004 - 05:19
smellody wrote:


That is some of the most hysterical pot head rantings I've seen in a long time. By yourself a case of kleenex because there is no way Kerry is going to win


Pot head? I havent smoked that stuff since before you were born.

Who cares if Bush OR Kerry win? They are both the same thing. Globalists. Communists. Stop shoving that false "Left - Right" paradigm into your veins.They all voted the patriot act and they all want to keep and expand it.The true political spectrum is Total State on the left and total Fredom on the right. Both Bush and Kerry represent the LEFT.

smellody
Apr 20, 2004 - 20:29
eyewall wrote:
namesbenny wrote:
eyewall
Apr 20, 2004 - 19:04
namesbenny wrote:
No? Well if you're not happy about the direction Bush is taking us, would you be happy supporting the direction Islamic Terrorists are taking the world? .

"Islamic Terrorists?!?" puuHHleaAase.....Try "agents of the military-industrial complex....and the 'corporate media whores " who breathlessly repeat the Big Lie.
Bin Laden is GOLDSTEIN. Bin Laden is CIA
. Bin Laden is a Bush PARTNER.....Always WAS , always WILL BE.

Turn your television off.
Its a lie.
Problem-reaction-solution...attack...public fear....loss of freedom
Reichstag fire.

Type this in your Google and smoke it. "bush and Bin Laden partners in Carlyle Group."
when youre done smoking that ,smoke this search... " Bush Sr met Bin Ladens Ritz Carlton 911"
heres a couple more..."Operation Northwoods" ....."operation MOCKINGBIRD"
and "Bush aided 911"

You cant HANDLE the truth. Go back to sleep. Less you think I am your standard Bush hater , they all , those communist bastard scum , all voted the "Patriot" act. Governments' sole reason for existance is the theft of your liberty and as much of the contents of your wallets as they can have.
Dempublican , Republocrat ...KLEPTOCRAT
we live in a KLEPTOCRACY and the last official act of a corrupt government is to loot the country,.
Fear the politician who fears your gun
Fear the politician who invokes Children
Fear the politician who invokes God.

bc
Apr 11, 2004 - 14:50
veegez wrote:


Nothing like igoring facts and rewritting history and flat out lying and taking sides in the matter to sell a book (aka Richard "Dick" Clarke), much to the pleasure of our enemies in North Korea and Iran and Syria etc., and all in the name of making sure the Blue team wins the election. We might as well pull the plug on this thing called Democracy. We're goin down in flames if we can't be on the same page when it comes to defending ourselves.


We already are in flames if TRUTH is less important than which party is speaking it. Why people stick to party lines when such evidence is laid out in front of them boggles the mind. Clarke is not merely selling a book. He's serving his country. Without the truth, democracy cannot function. Clarke served Reagan, Bush 1 and Bush 2. He is a registered Republican. His story lines up perfectly with other Republican members of the staff who have come forward to say that this president is dangerously inept. O'Neill is another conservative who told the same story.

They chose the book form because it's a much more efficient method to get the message out than walking around telling people in person or posting on RP. Perhaps you can suggest a better one that wouldn't bring such scorn from people who refuse to look at truth?


bc
Apr 11, 2004 - 14:33
veegez wrote:
namesbenny wrote:
veegez
Apr 08, 2004 - 07:17
namesbenny wrote:
No? Well if you're not happy about the direction Bush is taking us, would you be happy supporting the direction Islamic Terrorists are taking the world? .

As someone else has already noted, the choice is not so black and white. Voting Bush out doesn't mean one supports terrorism (though his ads would suggest as much). It means there may be other approaches to the problem. I feel US military aggression is flaming the fire in the Islamic world, and I'd like to see the US generally promote peace instead. There may be a need to fight at times, but lets make that the final option instead of the standard response. I see Bush and company always challenging the Arab world as a spiral leading downward to more death and destruction.



Well, the Arab world has kind of challenged us, in case you've forgotten. I'm afraid people on the left want to pretend Clinton did a "Great" job on terrorism, and Bush was "complicit" in the 9/11 attacks and that something like that probably won't happen again, so let's pull out of Iraq since they were "Never" a threat to the US or any of our allies or were "never" connected with Al Qaida in the first place. Nothing like igoring facts and rewritting history and flat out lying and taking sides in the matter to sell a book (aka Richard "Dick" Clarke), much to the pleasure of our enemies in North Korea and Iran and Syria etc., and all in the name of making sure the Blue team wins the election. We might as well pull the plug on this thing called Democracy. We're goin down in flames if we can't be on the same page when it comes to defending ourselves.

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