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RIP Pete Seeger

 

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SSS
SSS
January 29, 2014 8:05 pm

“Did you boobs know that Seeger fought in World War II?”
—-Admin

What’s Admin’s definition of “fought”? He gets called on it and asks the bugler to sound retreat. Most pathetic performance by Admin on TBP …… ever.

Seeger served in the U.S. Army in the Pacific. He was trained as an airplane mechanic, but was reassigned to entertain the American troops with music. Later, when people asked him what he did in the war, he always answered “I strummed my banjo.”

Llpoh
Llpoh
January 29, 2014 8:11 pm

Nonamouse could always go off and start a business, put up all the money, assume the legal risk, then give the profits to his employees. But no, he prefers to tell other folks what hey should do with their money. Like so many of his ilk, he is full of great ideas but lacks the intelligence, skill, education and backbone to try out those great ideas themselves. Just another parasite looking to take advantage of other people’s money.

bb
bb
January 29, 2014 8:42 pm

Admin ,I am trying to finish up here at my little business.I will be back.

Mr z, I can be a hard son-of-bitch but then I always regret it because I dont like hurting people and when I do go for the throat admin usually deletes my comments which is good .
As far as ridicule and bullying have you ever been on a football team ?It was nothing but pain,suffering blood and sometimes tears but also a lot of bullying ,making fun of each other and always jokes on each other.I learned to give and take any and all kinds of shit.This is easy compared to those years of
High school football.

Nonanonymous
Nonanonymous
January 29, 2014 8:45 pm

I did, jackass, and then I found something better to do. Why don’t you go fixate on something besides yourself? Still here?

I don’t presume to tell anyone anything, except what I know to be the truth. You should try it sometime, instead of continually relying on personal experience, which is no guarantee of truth, it’s just your opinion.

I’m not sure why we’re having this conversation, except you feel some need to demonstrate your superiority over others. Why would you assume anything about me?

Nonanonymous
Nonanonymous
January 29, 2014 8:46 pm

Oh, and I’ll let the derogative presumption slide, jackass.

Nonanonymous
Nonanonymous
January 29, 2014 8:47 pm

I meant, you fucking prick.

Nonanonymous
Nonanonymous
January 29, 2014 8:51 pm

OK, submit.

Nonanonymous
Nonanonymous
January 29, 2014 8:56 pm

Fuck you, Stucky!

Llpoh
Llpoh
January 29, 2014 9:16 pm

So nonamouse went broke and went to find something better to do. I am shocked, shocked I tell you.

Zarathustra
Zarathustra
January 29, 2014 9:25 pm

bb, I have no issues with you and you are always polite. Carry on.

Nonanonymous
Nonanonymous
January 29, 2014 10:07 pm

LL, wrong again. I found something better to do. Now, why don’t you find something better to do.

SSS
SSS
January 29, 2014 10:50 pm

“I notice no one has addressed the FACT that Stalin was an ally of the U.S. when you people were scorning Seeger for his Stalinist love affair.”
—-Admin

War is, at its basic level, a matter of geography, two subjects in which you are woefully lacking in both knowledge and experience. And I am not.

Stalin was an ally of the U.S. in WWII not by choice, but a matter of geography. Hitler violated his Non-Aggression Pact with Stalin in 1939 and decided to attack the Soviet Union on June 20, 1941 via his Operation Barbarrosa. THAT was the defining moment which led to the downfall of the Third Reich and the eventual victory of the allies in the European Theater.

Did you catch what I just said? Pete “Give Peace a Chance” Seeger’s beloved Josef Stalin had a PEACE TREATY, until he didn’t, with Adolph Hitler. Despite Hitler’s incredible knowledge of Napoleon’s fuckups in invading Russia over a century before, he made the same damn mistakes. And geography caught up with him, just as it had with Napoleon.

It was now a two-front war, by Hitler’s choice. The U.S. jumped at the opportunity and held hands with Uncle Joe. It was a disagreeable alliance of CONVENIENCE, not of friendship or any other such benign motive. All a matter of geography. Look at a fucking map.

Do you need some further tutoring? Let me know.

Seeger was a communist dupe his entire life, much of which was consumed with an admiration of one of the most brutal dictators in history. As I said above, Seeger was just plain stupid. I never said he was a bad person, and he wasn’t, but he WAS one of the dullest tools in the shed.

Zarathustra
Zarathustra
January 29, 2014 11:08 pm

SSS, I’ve about had it with you. When I get around to it, I am going to post about a housewife from Kansas who was very ill and for whom marijuana relieved her symptoms. She, with the aid of her daughter drove to Colorado to buy some pot and bring it back to Kansas, but they were pulled over for speeding and the Copfuks searched her car and found the miniscule amount of marijuana she procured. I will tell you of how she was sent to jail (a holding cell actually, where she lay on the concrete floor) and how the criminal justice system, once she was an inmate, followed all of their procedures which included denying her her medication because it was contained in daily use pills and not the original vials. I am going to tell you that she convulsed and died in that jail. This is a recent event.

You are not at direct fault for her death, but you are indirectly, due to your direct involvement in, and subsequent support of, the “drug” war.

Think about her next time you are out on the links.

PS. Fuck you.

SSS
SSS
January 29, 2014 11:50 pm

Zara

Not sure what that woman in Kansas has to do with this thread about Pete Seeger, but my comments in the past about personal use of marijuana would tell you that I agree with you and her maltreatment of Kansas law enforcement officials. I await further information.

Sorry to hear that you’ve descended to the “I’ve about had it with you” and the “fuck you” level, because when you get off the subject of Jews, your comments can be quite interesting. As for attacking me, you’ve joined many others. I’m not here for a popularity contest.

El Coyote
El Coyote
January 30, 2014 12:05 am

The fuck you’s are not as bad as his ‘fellating in heaven’ comments, this sounds like an entirely different Zar, one who has given up trying to evangelize folks and gone Ironman, ‘killing all the people he once saved’.

I’ve been down that road, it takes a while to accept that you will never convert anyone, the road includes zeal, disappointment, renewed effort, bitterness, hatred, apostasy and hoping everyone goes to hell. Been there, but I left that behind and now you have the new ‘Coyote” who knows the desert and can guide you out if you want to get out.

Otherwise, let the party continue.

eugend66
eugend66
January 30, 2014 7:25 am

LLPOH,
Happy to see you still remember me! 🙂
RE the BP, I visit every day, just don`t comment alot. Oh .. and the thread was about a folk singer.
I live(ed) in a socialist country and folk singers (we had a few even back then) were against war and sometimes they were quite against the rulers of the day (then and now).
I`m with Stucky on this one. Everyone makes mistakes, it`s just harder for them to admit.
Peace.
Because war is bad!

IndenturedServant
IndenturedServant
January 30, 2014 8:14 am

Oh yeah, Howard would be just like peas and carrots with Billy!

Howard always had something intelligent to say. I hope he doesn’t stay away because of that kind of shit but I’d understand it if he did. Nobody needs to hear that shit.
I_S

Stucky
Stucky
January 30, 2014 8:56 am

“Seeger was a communist dupe his entire life” —— SSS ..AGAIN at 10:50

I mean this kindly; why do you continue to spout the same bullshit over and over and over. You have absolutely no proof that what you say is true yet, you continue to say it.

You totally fail to take into account Seeger’s upbringing. His father was a card carrying Commie. What would YOU be is you were raised in similar circumstances?

Yet …. yet …. Seeger overcame his upbringing. And, once again, you totally ignore Seegers OWN TESTIMONY per my post at 3:57. And you completely ignore that Seeger’s communism (small ‘c’) is more akin to that of American Indians rather than Russia. It means nothing to you. Why? Because it doesn’t fit your preordained preconceived notions, that’s why.

One more time, Seeger ———- “So when I was 18, I became a member of the Young Communist League. After the war, I was actually a CARD-CARRYING MEMBER FOR ABOUT FOUR YEARS. However, I drifted out when I moved up to the country. [I am a communist] only in the broadest sense of the word.”

Krist, talking to you about Seeger is like talking to Nonanoymous about religion; “don’t confuse me with facts, my mind is made up.”
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PS; eugend66, nice to see you post. We miss your opinions here!

Stucky
Stucky
January 30, 2014 9:13 am

” … while Pete was toking on a doobey. ” ——— Admin

Thank you so much.

Yes. Yes … that’s it. That explains it all!

Stucky
Stucky
January 30, 2014 10:31 am

Admin

SSS’s silence —- apart from his trivial comments —- is DEAFENING, is it not?

WE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reverse Engineer
Reverse Engineer
January 31, 2014 4:29 am
Zarathustra
Zarathustra
February 1, 2014 12:09 am

I think I related here at one point how I was exposed to the libertarian ideology and Austrian economics, long ago. Because of my public school and university programming, it took me a few years to come around, but three or four years after my introduction to it, by Tonie Nathan, who was the running mate on the first LP ticket in ’72, at the Oregon State Fair in 1980, I walked up to her and said to her, “hi, remember me? You converted me.” She replied, “No. You were born a libertarian and just didn’t know it.” I abandoned the LP many years ago, but I have never abandoned the knowledge that she led me to discover.

That’s what I think about Pete Seeger. He was born a libertarian, but his influences in his early life were all of the totalitarian/collectivist variety. He never had the opportunity to meet a Tonie Nathan to introduce him to another intellectual path that would lead him to view things from another perspective…had it been such I am certain he would have eventually embraced it as a truth that would have remained with him long after any passion for political activism passed. Or maybe not. Perhaps he was just a much stronger person than me to keep lighting the flame of activism long after I decided it was just a complete waste of time. Maybe he was just a professional protestor. Maybe his convictions in the pursuit of justice were simply stronger than most, certainly stronger than mine.

For those who love liberty, Pete Seeger was a kindred spirit. A brother. It was proven time and time again by his works. I couldn’t care less how he described himself.