Terrorist Rights Party

What is it that makes an individual place more importance on the "bad science" of global warming than he or she does on the clear and present danger of Islamo-Fascist terror?

Why are Liberal Democrats so determined to destroy our economy with drastically unreasonable curtailments on green house gas emissions ...

But they aren't willing to take even the slightest PRIORITY action against a terroristic threat that promises ... PROMISES ... to destroy us? Why do Liberal Democrats continue to blow-off this clear and present danger to our lives and our way of life? Especially with the hindsight of what those Islamic Fascists did on September, 11th 2001?

Why are Liberal Democrats so ready to shoot down YOUR right to keep and bear arms - a fundamental birthright of all American citizens which is enshrined in the second ammendment of the Bill of Rights but ...

They are unwilling to allow Federal agents to listen in on the phone conversations of terrorists?

Why are Liberal Democrats so willing to take away the right of an oil company to turn a profit ...

Yet they are unwilling to incarcerate terrorists without insisting that they be given the same rights that you or I have?

Why do Liberal Democrats bash George Bush - calling him a liar? Why do they openly hope for the death of the Dick Cheney ...

When they haven't said a DAMN WORD about Osama Bin Laden - the guy who caused this.

Why are Liberal Democrats so intent on renewing the Voting Rights Act here in the United States ...

Yet they won't say a DAMN WORD about the racist President of Iran?

Why are Liberal Democrats constantly telling us what a bad nation we are because Women still aren't equal with men and yet ...

They won't say a DAMN WORD about the abhorrent way women are treated in Islamo-Fascist society?

Why is America so bad? Why are these other guys -- the guys who chop off heads, the guys who say we'll get NO PEACE until we convert to Islam -- the guys who torture and belittle their women -- the guys who are holocaust "deniers" ...

Why are those guys so good?

It's time to call the Liberal Democrats what they really are ...

They're anti-American (the record clearly shows this). They are traitors to Americans, and to the American way of life. The Democratic Party has become the "Terrorist Rights Party". They are the party of "Surrender" and "Defeat".

But here is a message to Liberal Democrats ...

It won't work buds.

This President will not surrender - nor will the next one if he's a Republican. Hillary says that she'll begin an immediate pullout if she's elected President - and that's the only way this is going to happen. It will be a Democrat that consummates the surrender and the defeat folks - it won't be a Republican.

And you can complain about why we shouldn't have been over there in the first place. You can try to blame a "surrender" on the fact that we were wrong about going there. But that is not going to wash in the Laundromat of history. Historians will record ... what happened when we abandoned Iraq. And even if historians condemn us from going to Iraq in the first place (which they won't) - they will certainly no allow that as an excuse for a surrender that leaves the middle-east in a turmoil that eventually ignites the entire world.

That blame - will be placed squarely on the shoulders of the Liberal Democrats.

Yep, I DO Believe She is Playing!

In my last post I talked about Madonna's appearance at the Live Earth concert and all the controversy about whether or not she's really playing that beautiful Les Paul Guitar.

Well, I would just LOVE to report to you that the guitar playing is another product of Madonna "phoneyism" but after reviewing the tape several times ...

I think she's really playing that guitar.

First, before I talk about why I think she's playing it herself ... let me just say that that dress she's wearing is sexier than any of her 80's costumes - no matter how revealing they were. So she's done a good move here with the dress. And the guitar compliments the dress perfectly - so this is another example of Madonna's genius showmanship. You can't take that away from her.

Now ... on the guitar - and by the way I've been a guitar player for many years now - I believe she's playing it alrighty.

First - let's remember that George Harrison turned his guitar completely off one night when he performed a song live, on stage with Carl Perkins. George just said "Carl had it all covered - what part was I going to play? So I turned the volume off!".


No one knew that George's guitar wasn't making a sound that night - so that's evidence that some bad playing, or in George's case - even NON-playing - can be covered by the rest of the musicians in the band.

But I believe that Madonna was turned up - I believe you can hear her guitar - but it's a bit buried. Watch her hand movements - for 90% of the song she's playing two "power chords". Power chords are chords that are played on only two or three strings usually. Madonna's playing is basically a guitar reinforcement of the song's bass line. Listen to it ... two chords and they really don't change ... "Bom, Bom ... Bom, Bom ... Bom, Bom ... Bom, Bom"

So, it's not like she's playing a Jimi Hendrix lead here. Her guitar is not the one in the foreground - it's a backing guitar playing almost elementary rhythm. Even the most primitive 12-bar blues line is many times more sophisticated than what Madonna is playing.

There are a couple of times when she gets a little inventive and "surfs" the fretboard - but it's nothing complicated - it's just typical barre chord stuff - using the basic movable shapes (actually it looks like she's only using ONE shape to me and just sliding it where she needs it). I would estimate, that for what she's doing - if that's all she can do - then she's probably been playing for about 4 to 6 months and most of that time would be spent on finger dexterity and toughening up the fingertips on her left hand. Even though what she's doing is not complicated - there's a physical adjustment you have to get used to and those barre chords - even though simple - do hurt in the beginning.

It's not easy to get your hands to work through a whole song when you first pick up a guitar - so she's been playing. She could have practiced this song ... and only this song ... for a few months to get to this point but I doubt it. She's probably been playing for awhile now and was looking for a simple way to weave her guitar playing into a song. She did a very good job here because only a guitar player can really identify the basic level of playing she's demonstrating.

I would also add that it's clear to me she's been getting instruction - and probably from someone who's a "purist" player in the classical sense. She holds the pick a bit too perfectly and the barre chords look a bit too perfect also. You could contrast the way she's playing with the way Chuck Berry or Keith Richards sloppily moved around on a fretboard - they were very different, mostly because they were self-taught or learned from others who taught themselves. Madonna seems to be using textbook technique here - something that a good instructor would encourage.

The feedback trick she does at the end - is very sexy but it's very easy to do.

So in my opinion - Kudo's to Madonna - she's playing and perhaps we'll see more complicated things coming from her in the future. It's a good performance I think ... you be the judge ...

Is She Really Playing??

I love writing about Madonna. And I just don't know why. I mean, like many young men in the 80's I fell in love with her and her belly-button during her "Borderline" and "Lucky Star" years.

But ...

that all ended sometime around "Like a Virgin" - or maybe even sooner than that - I don't remember. She completely shattered her earlier "boy toy" image that so many of us loved out here. She started to sully herself and her image - by pretending she had some kind of "insight" into life and politics when she's no more intelligent than a New York City cab driver. Difference is - the cab driver doesn't have a "ready made" audience to soak up his political dogma when he feels like spewing it. Madonna has such an audience.

And let's not forget that she was once Shaun Penn's wife. It's really hard to love a woman when you know he's touched her ...

Still ... it's hard to hate her.

She's in the news again ... this time the question is "Is it LIVE - or is it AIR GUITAR!!"

Story from the Telegraph right HERE.

I don't know ... I just found this story and I'll have to review the tape.

That's a Gibson Les Paul Classic she's playing (or maybe not playing) - Jet Black.

Now ... I know that everyone wants to ping on Madonna for "fake" playing this guitar but ... not so fast. Maybe she IS playing it? Theoretically, she should have a lot of time on her hands to learn how to play - and she could have been learning for years. As far as being able to hire a good instructor - I don't think that would be a problem for Madonna. So it's very possible she's playing this.

I'll look it over and post a follow up.