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Don't mean a thing just lock your doors
And drive around.
One more murder in this town,
Don't worry the rain will
Wash the chalk marks from the ground.
Saturday night, shots ring out,
Add one to the body count.
You come alive to see another's end.
Plead it to a lessor count,
D.A. says without a doubt,
In 3-5 you're on the street's again
One more murder in this town
Don't mean a thing
You get accustomed to the sound
One more murder in this town
Block off the street
Wrap the crime scene tape around.
Hosanna! Hosanna!
I can't feel a thing at all!
Hosanna! Hosanna!
I can't feel a thing!
I can't feel a thing at all!
Saturday night you're going out
Parking lot, a figure come about
Feel a piece click against your head.
Pleading to his sympathy,
"Take the car, I got a family"
You head a laugh,
"It don't mean shit to me."
One more murder in this town
huh. i do not hear that at all.
but, i do love BTE. so much fun to see live. nice guys, too.
You lucky duck. I wish I could have seen them live too!
Very Bonoesque,if it hasnāt been said beforeš§
huh. i do not hear that at all.
but, i do love BTE. so much fun to see live. nice guys, too.
Especially after the song it followed, which sadly i cannot recall.
BTE were pretty solid across all their albums. All enjoyable but only a few really stand out. This being one of them.
Especially after the song it followed, which sadly i cannot recall.
The problems of society lie far deeper and could benefit from a little (but preferably a lot) of research
Yes! I came here to say the same thing. I still have that soundtrack - it's a great slice of 90s music.
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But the song is about hate and killing people just for ignorance of their life.
So that is what they discuss!
Tell Bill not to play it and rate it a one.
Ok..name one well armed nation that a gov't decioded to take control of and force millions do death chambers? If something like that was to occur, who is more likely to be going into "re-education", the unarmed, or those who refuse to be helpless sots? Hitler , the Junta in Burma, the VC, all disarm the populace for a reason ,and crime is not it.
Funny. but those libs and leftists are the loudest about revolutions and oppression of even non-existing rights yet think being disarmed is the way to go..
very short sighted.....but to be expected of any leftist.
Sorry but the Nazis were quite popular with the German public before the war started, so Hitler had no reason to fear a popular armed uprising. And remember that Hitler dramatically militarized Germany in preparation for war, so he did arm and train normal, non-Nazi German men to fight and kill. Again, hardly something a leader fearing revolt from below would do.
As for the Germans, their awareness of concentration camps and the inhabitants of those camps: recent research indicates that average Germans could not have been ignorant about of them because there were far, far more camps than we thought. Average Germans were aware and approved.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/sunday-review/the-holocaust-just-got-more-shocking.html?pagewanted=all
"When the research began in 2000, Dr. Megargee said he expected to find perhaps 7,000 Nazi camps and ghettos, based on postwar estimates. But the numbers kept climbing — first to 11,500, then 20,000, then 30,000, and now 42,500."
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"Dr. Dean, a co-researcher, said the findings left no doubt in his mind that many German citizens, despite the frequent claims of ignorance after the war, must have known about the widespread existence of the Nazi camps at the time.
“You literally could not go anywhere in Germany without running into forced labor camps, P.O.W. camps, concentration camps,” he said. “They were everywhere.” "
You might want to read this article, jpfueler, since it debunks some notions I think you have about Nazi Germany.
https://www.salon.com/2013/01/11/stop_talking_about_hitler/
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"University of Chicago law professor Bernard Harcourt explored this myth (that Hitler widely confiscated citizens' weapons with a 1938 law) in depth in a 2004 article published in the Fordham Law Review. As it turns out, the Weimar Republic, the German government that immediately preceded Hitler’s, actually had tougher gun laws than the Nazi regime. After its defeat in World War I, and agreeing to the harsh surrender terms laid out in the Treaty of Versailles, the German legislature in 1919 passed a law that effectively banned all private firearm possession, leading the government to confiscate guns already in circulation. In 1928, the Reichstag relaxed the regulation a bit, but put in place a strict registration regime that required citizens to acquire separate permits to own guns, sell them or carry them.
The 1938 law signed by Hitler that (NRA head) LaPierre mentions in his book basically does the opposite of what he says it did. “The 1938 revisions completely deregulated the acquisition and transfer of rifles and shotguns, as well as ammunition,” Harcourt wrote. Meanwhile, many more categories of people, including Nazi party members, were exempted from gun ownership regulations altogether, while the legal age of purchase was lowered from 20 to 18, and permit lengths were extended from one year to three years."
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"Besides, Omer Bartov, a historian at Brown University who studies the Third Reich, notes that the Jews probably wouldn’t have had much success fighting back. “Just imagine the Jews of Germany exercising the right to bear arms and fighting the SA, SS and the Wehrmacht. The Red Army lost 7 million men fighting the Wehrmacht, despite its tanks and planes and artillery. The Jews with pistols and shotguns would have done better?” he told Salon."
I was thinking along the same lines - I thought this was U2 until I checked!
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if you find it insulting, stop trying to be as ignorant of the real world as possible and life gets easier and far less "insulting". Conversely why is it only a place for leftist lying claptrap?
You have no right to assume that I'm "trying to be as ignorant of the real world as possible" because you know nothing about me. That you ASSUME things just proves that you either lack the mental capacity to see things from someone else's perspective or are willfully blind to the fact that there are as many different opinions as there are people.
What I find insulting is your lack of regard for anyone else's opinion and you lumping every single liberal or progressive into the same category. I grew up on a highly wooded farm and hunted. I enjoy target shooting and at one point in my life, I was a pretty decent shot. I am also insulted that viewpoints that differ from yours are considered "leftist lying claptrap."
My objections were also aimed at your list of "facts" about it being the "dems" that own guns because Chicago is controlled by "dems." That sentiment would imply that everyone believes exactly what the people in power believe. Your own subsequent arguments highlight the fallacy of that statement. All your other statements are simply that, statements. If you can show some proof of your statements, then I might be swayed into thinking that those opinions were actually formed from rational thought and not force fed to you by the right wing media. (And when I say proof, I'd like to see it from an actual unbiased source not some propaganda machine like Fixed News).
One last comment because I've wasted enough time on you... There are very few Democrats that want to take your guns from you. The vast majority are not pushing for any kind of gun control with the exception of things like assault weapons bans and thoughtful regulation about who you sell guns too. Yes, guns don't kill people, people do. However, is it really wise to sell guns to mentally unstable people? What about to former convicts who committed violent crimes? One only has to look as far as Denver to see that nutty people shouldn't have guns. We clearly can't always trust gun sellers to make smart choices about whom they sell their products to, so someone has to force the issue. It's a shame that it has to be government, but I don't see the gun lobby or the NRA talking about how dangerous guns are and how they should be kept from the hands of the mentally questionable.
if you find it insulting, stop trying to be as ignorant of the real world as possible and life gets easier and far less "insulting". Conversely why is it only a place for leftist lying claptrap?
It's not, though to you it's plainly a place for libel and cliché. Did you know what 'claptrap' meant when you scribbled the above? F*ck me, I'm glad I don't live in the 'land of the free'
if you find it insulting, stop trying to be as ignorant of the real world as possible and life gets easier and far less "insulting". Conversely why is it only a place for leftist lying claptrap?
In my opinion, the USA will not solve its problems of violence until its actions and words coincide. The sad reality is metastatic hypocrisy:
- A constitution of liberty and equality framed by slavers.
- Respect for property rights on land taken from the natives by armed robbery.
- World cops keeping the peace worldwide with wars of conquest.
- Freedom of ("American") thought.
- Free market capitalism with state controlled money supply.
- Freedom of choice among "uncontrolled substances".
- Freedom of speech for all who own a network.
- Justice for all who own a judge.
- Plenty more ...
Of course that schizophrenia can resolve either way; towards honestly doing what is said, or honestly saying what is done.
As one of those "lib types" I wanted to thank you for reinforcing my opinion that political opinion and intelligence have nothing to do with each other. If you have to be insulting, do it somewhere else, this is not the place for your right wing slanted and factually vacant bile.
if you find it insulting, stop trying to be as ignorant of the real world as possible and life gets easier and far less "insulting". Conversely why is it only a place for leftist lying claptrap?
I think I've been on the roots of that tree. Is it one of the many in Audubon Park?
Yep, Hitler/Nazis did what they did because they took Germans' guns away from them. Soon to be corrected in all the history books.
Hey Elmer Fudd: try to get a grip on reality.
Ok..name one well armed nation that a gov't decioded to take control of and force millions do death chambers? If something like that was to occur, who is more likely to be going into "re-education", the unarmed, or those who refuse to be helpless sots? Hitler , the Junta in Burma, the VC, all disarm the populace for a reason ,and crime is not it.
Funny. but those libs and leftists are the loudest about revolutions and oppression of even non-existing rights yet think being disarmed is the way to go..
very short sighted.....but to be expected of any leftist.
... REMEMBER HITLER? Well, after he started his reign of terror, he confiscated all guns from the non military population. ...
Yep, Hitler/Nazis did what they did because they took Germans' guns away from them. Soon to be corrected in all the history books.
Hey Elmer Fudd: try to get a grip on reality.
too bad those are not sold to them. Hey I got a grand Idea...the murders are mostly of drug deals so what we really need to do is make that illegal.....oh, wait....
Frisco and DC, and Chicago.....can't really get a gun there but gee willikers they got a ton of gun murders too. At least those in DC can try now, Chicago is only the politically connected (and dems control the city so it is dems owning the guns....heh) and San Fran is typical of lib cities with restrictions out the whazoo...don';t work, won't work. Criminals care little about your laws, that is why they be Criminals.
Funny the lib types claim Conservatives are repressive folk yet conservatives and of course Libertairians are the ones fighting to keep guns in the hands of those supposed repressed folks.
Of course dems have a long history of gun control. They used it to control blacks in the south after emancipation.
As one of those "lib types" I wanted to thank you for reinforcing my opinion that political opinion and intelligence have nothing to do with each other. If you have to be insulting, do it somewhere else, this is not the place for your right wing slanted and factually vacant bile.
too bad those are not sold to them. Hey I got a grand Idea...the murders are mostly of drug deals so what we really need to do is make that illegal.....oh, wait....
Frisco and DC, and Chicago.....can't really get a gun there but gee willikers they got a ton of gun murders too. At least those in DC can try now, Chicago is only the politically connected (and dems control the city so it is dems owning the guns....heh) and San Fran is typical of lib cities with restrictions out the whazoo...don';t work, won't work. Criminals care little about your laws, that is why they be Criminals.
Funny the lib types claim Conservatives are repressive folk yet conservatives and of course Libertairians are the ones fighting to keep guns in the hands of those supposed repressed folks.
Of course dems have a long history of gun control. They used it to control blacks in the south after emancipation.
The point is that they would have been happy to sell us a Glock 9mm for under $1000.00 cash (no idea if that's a good deal) and they didn't even want our names. Not that I wanted one, and if it turned up while going through customs it could cause problems, but it seemed that there was nothing stopping me from taking him up on his offer. He knew we weren't US citizens, but he felt that there shouldn't be barriers between people and 'security'. We found it a very strange and memorable experience.
if one is a legal resident of the US (citizen or not, just here legally and able to pass background) you can be sold a gun, legally. A coWorker has his CCW and is from Mexico.
No that is not a good deal, and you should have reported them(Glocks are $400 new so he was looking to make a 300-400% profit there He sure didn't pay full retail for a used one). likely he has sold others to folks who likely had no rights to get them. Though honestly, most crooks get their the same way they get most everything else. Theft or from the drug supplier. 99+% of dealers are not going to risk the hassle of an illegal sale, I'd suspect the gun might be a touch warm too. We hear all the time how there is no gun crime in places like Canada and the UK but there is plenty, and it has gone up since the banning or restrictions placed on ownership. Folks in Canukistan can get pistols, it is just a huge damned hassle, and oddly enough only the politically connected tend to get them with any regularity.
If y'all are snowbirding and are here you should be able to get a pistol legally, but I'm not sure about that. You'd of course likely be forced to leave it here.
I've likely rode a bicycle over those roots.
Bzzzt! Godwin's Law wins. Now then, about the music, is this the dog's bollox, or what? Again, thanks to RP for introducting me to a band I'd never have heard (of) otherwise. 8 from the Nottingham jurry.
Didn't see that one, but it sticks out in my mind from the X-Files movie soundtrack.
feels like it somedays
They are one of my favorite bands for a reason. Great lyrics andĀ great voice. Deluxe, Closer,Ā How Does Your Garden Grow? and Artifakt are the must-have albums...in that order, me thinks. I dunnoā hard to judge. MUST have songs: "Silly Fool," "Closer," "Breathless," "At the Stars," "Porcelain," "This Time of Year," "Beautiful Mistake,"Ā "Live Again,"Ā "Sincerely, Me"...better stop there. I could go on.
Very Bonoesque,if it hasnāt been said beforeš§
Very. Maybe one was borrowing vocal stylings from the other...