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Title: "The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiendz..."
Source: Black XVI
URL Source: https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/849830/posts
Published: Oct 18, 2021
Author: Mudboy Slim
Post Date: 2021-10-18 10:24:42 by Mudboy Slim
Keywords: None
Views: 353274
Comments: 4422

"The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends..."
(To be sung to Bob Dylan's "Blowin' In the Wind")

How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?
How many Dreams must each Tyrant kill before he's forced outta Power?
How many Lives must Dem Socialists kill, before RATZ are forever banned?!!

The A.N.S.W.E.R, my FRiends, is Lib'ralismz DEAD!!!
The A.N.S.W.E.R. is fightin' 'gainst RATZ Spin!!

How many Fears must the Networks create before RATZ're quashed by the FRee?
How many years can RAT-sheeple persist that Mass-Murder's just peachy- keen?!!
How many times can RATZ Hearts trick their Heads, pretending Slick's blacker than me?!

The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends, is helping FReep RATZ pigs,
The A.N.S.W.E.R. is blowin' out the Ditz's!!!

How many times must Lib'rals be duped before they will see RATZ LIE?
How many victims must Sosh'lists have before Dem Rapists hear OUR cries?
How many deaths will it take 'till World knows that Central Bureaucracies are VILE?!!

The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends, is Fightin' 'Gainst RATZ Spin...
The A.N.S.W.E.R. is taking down BIDEN. (gettin' outta the UN?!)

Mudboy Slim

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#2227. To: All (#2225)

Regards...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-12   13:22:59 ET  (8 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2228. To: All (#2220)

"They Are Doing Their Best To Provoke a Nuclear War With Russia"
By Michael Snyder
June 6, 2023

Even though most Americans aren’t paying much attention at this point, the way that the war in Ukraine is evolving should greatly concern all of us. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his generals very clearly understand that they are in very big trouble unless they can draw the U.S. and other NATO powers directly into the conflict. All of Bakhmut is now under Russian control, and the Ukrainians continue to lose troops at a staggering pace. They are holding a losing hand, but if Ukrainian leaders can find a way to get the Russians to use tactical nukes or other weapons of mass destruction, that would change everything. Western powers would feel compelled to respond in kind, and then we really would have a truly apocalyptic conflict on our hands.

In recent days, there has been a tremendous amount of hype about the coming “counter-offensive” that the Ukrainians have supposedly been planning… Kyiv renewed its plea for operational silence around the long-awaited counter-offensive against Russian forces with a clip of heavily-armed soldiers pressing their fingers to their lips. The sleekly-produced footage features masked front-line troops gesturing for silence amid the distant rumble of artillery and gunfire. It ends with images of soaring F-16 fighter jets – long coveted by Kyiv as it seeks to boost its air defence against Russian missiles and drones.

But instead of trying to retake Bakhmut or any of the other areas of Ukraine that the Russians have captured, the Ukrainians have been focusing their attacks on Russia itself. Long-range drones have been hitting targets very deep inside Russia, and on one occasion that even included the Kremlin. And Ukrainian artillery has been relentlessly pounding Russian territory. The shelling has been particularly brutal in the Belgorod region…

Ukrainian forces continued to shell Russia’s border region of Belgorod overnight into Sunday after two people were killed the previous night and hundreds of children were evacuated away from the border, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. “Overnight, it was quite restless,” Gladkov said on the Telegram channel, adding that the Shebekino and Volokonovsky districts had suffered “lots” of damage from the latest shelling. Shelling civilian targets in Russian territory is going to do nothing to help the Ukrainians regain lost territory. But it is putting enormous pressure on Russian leaders.

Just imagine how we would feel if U.S. territory was being shelled. We would be calling on the White House to nuke the living daylights out of whoever was shelling us. Well, that is exactly how millions upon millions of Russian citizens feel right now. And what makes things even worse is that small “militia groups” have begun crossing the Russian border to conduct attacks on nearby cities…

The New York Times wrote on Saturday that “Shebekino, a town of 40,000 six miles from the border, has effectively become a new part of the front line as Ukraine has intensified attacks inside Russia, including on residential areas near its own borders.” This is all upending the lives of residents in the border region, akin to what already happened long ago on the Ukrainian side of the border. “The spate of assaults, most recently by militia groups aligned against Moscow, has sparked the largest military evacuation effort in Russia in decades,” the report underscored. The past days have witnessed area residents move into temporary shelters, including the large Belgorod arena in the oblast capital.

The “militia groups” that are performing these raids are actually using equipment that has been provided by the U.S. and Poland… The Russian fighters aligned against Moscow who launched a cross-border raid from Ukraine into the Belgorod region of Russia last week used at least four tactical vehicles originally given to Ukraine by the United States and Poland, U.S. officials said, raising questions about the unintended use of NATO-provided equipment and Kyiv’s commitments to secure materiel supplied by its supporters.

Three of the Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, also known as MRAPs, taken into Russia by the fighters were provided by the United States and the fourth was from Poland, according to people familiar with the U.S. intelligence finding, which has not previously been reported. Those people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue. And it is being reported that Polish fighters are among those that have been going across the border during these raids…

The Polish Volunteer Corps has published pictures, confirming it participated in the first armed raid into the Belgorod region, Russia, together with the Russian Volunteer Corps. Russian soldiers claimed earlier they heard some of the enemies communicating in Polish.

This war has reached such a dangerous stage.

The Russians aren’t stupid. They know that foreign fighters now make up a very significant percentage of the forces that they are facing. And if Russian cities continue to get shelled and raided, it is only a matter of time before Russian leaders lose their temper. If the Russians decide to use tactical nukes, it really will be the beginning of the end. So let us pray that cooler heads will prevail.

Meanwhile, things with China continue to get even more tense. On Saturday, a Chinese warship and an American warship almost slammed directly into one another in the Taiwan Strait… This is the astonishing moment a Chinese warship comes within 150 yards of an American destroyer in Taiwan Strait, just days after the Pentagon said it would not stand for ‘bullying’ by Beijing. Footage obtained by Global News, shows a People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) warship cut across the bow of a U.S. guided-missile destroyer on Saturday while it was transiting the Taiwan Strait. USS Chung Hoon and HMCS Montreal had also been transiting the strait on a rare joint mission when a PLAN warhsip cut across the bow of Chung-Hoon.

We really are living during a time of “wars and rumors of wars”, but most of us in the western world are focused on other things. Even though our leaders have clearly demonstrated how incompetent they are over and over again, most of us just assume that they will be able to keep us out of a nuclear war. Unfortunately, both sides just continue to escalate matters, and it appears that it is just a matter of time before someone crosses a line that will never be able to be uncrossed."

Reprinted with NO permission from The Economic Collapse...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-12   13:33:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2229. To: All (#2227)

Regards...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-13   10:35:02 ET  (8 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2230. To: All (#2226)

"Black XIII"

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
"Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
"Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness,
For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
"Blessed are you when {people} insult you and persecute you,
And falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.
"Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great;
For in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
(Matthew 5:3-12)

Amen...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-13   10:44:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2231. To: All (#2229)


We're watching you, TraitorJOE...

Regards...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-13   10:51:38 ET  (8 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2232. To: conservativemusician, Landru, FreeTheHostages, jla, sneakypete, sultan88, Ragtime Cowgirl, summer (#2226)

"Link"

"Dem Lib'rals' Fate!!"
(To be sung to the Eagles' "The Sad Cafe")

We're from the RighteousRight...RATZ Reign's finally stallin'...
Facts are not FRiends of Socialists...RATZ Lies are steeped in HATE!!
Out of the TrueBlueRight, Left's past came softly calling...
And MUD remembers the times we spent, decidin' DemLib'rals' Fate!!

Ohhhh, it seemed like a holy place protected by RATZ HATE of Race...
Slim would sing Right out loud those things we could not say!!
MUD knows we can change this World...with words like "Love" and "FReedom!!"
And we were part of that heroic crowd who sealed the RATScum's FATE!!

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh...we do what is Right!!
We would meet on that beautiful shore in the sweet by and by

(acoustic solo)

Some of our dreams came true and some just passed away
And some just stayed behind inside the Sad Café

The clouds roll in
Hid that shore
Now that glory train

DemRATZ're a Greedy WHORE'd!!

Now I look at the years gone by and wonder at the powers that be
I don't know why fortune smiles on some and lets the rest go free
And baby now that time has drawn the faces I recall
But things in this life change very slowly if they ever change at all
There's no use in asking why, it just turned out that way
So meet me at midnight baby inside the Sad Café
Why don't you meet me at midnight baby inside the Sad Café

Mid...MUD

276 posted on 12/27/2002, 4:40:00 PM by Mudboy Slim

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-13   11:02:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2233. To: All (#2231)

Regards...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-13   11:09:13 ET  (9 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2234. To: All (#2232)

"Link"

"T.B.D."
(To be sung to Ozzy Osborne's "Crazy Train...LIVE!!")

Crazy Train, I thought we were gonna get wild tonight!
All right everybody stick their hands in the air!
We love you!

Crazy, but that's how it goes
Millions of people living as foes
Maybe yeah, yeah, it's not too late
To learn how to love
And forget how to hate
Mental wounds not healing
Driving me insane
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
Everybody clap your hands now come on!

I've listened to preachers
I've listened to fools
I've watched all the dropouts
Who make their own rules
One person conditioned
To rule and control
The media sells it and you live the role

Mental wounds not healing
Who and what's to blame?
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train

I know that things are going wrong for me
You gotta listen to my words...Yeah-h!!

(guitar solo)

Heirs of a cold war
That's what we've become
Inheriting troubles I'm mentally numb

Crazy, but what do I care
I'm living with something,
I don't want to share
Mental wounds not healing
Who and what's to blame
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train

Thank you! Okay!
It's what rock n roll's about!

Pre...MUD

347 posted on 12/30/2002, 1:12:28 PM by Mudboy Slim

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-13   11:17:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2235. To: Mudboy Slim (#2231)

LOL !!!

Si vis pacem, para bellum

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." (Will Rogers)

"No one ever rescues an old dog. They lay in a cage until they die. PLEASE save one. None of us wants to die cold and alone... --Dennis Olson "

People that say money can't buy you happiness, have never paid an adoption fee

Stoner  posted on  2023-06-13   14:23:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2236. To: Stoner (#2235)

Good to see you, Stoner...

Regards...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-14   10:34:42 ET  (7 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2237. To: Jack Black, TraitorJOE Biden (#2234)

"Black XIV"

"Neighborhood Bully"
(To be sung to "Neighborhood Bully" by Bob Dylan)

Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man,
His enemies say he's on their land.
They got him outnumbered about a million to one,
He got no place to escape to, no place to run.
He's the neighborhood bully.

The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,
He's criticized and condemned for being alive.
He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin,
He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.
He's the neighborhood bully.

The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,
He's wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,
He's always on trial for just being born.
He's the neighborhood bully.

Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He's the neighborhood bully.

Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him,
'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.
He's the neighborhood bully.

He got no allies to really speak of.
What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love.
He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.
He's the neighborhood bully.

Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
He's the neighborhood bully.

Every empire that's enslaved him is gone,
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon.
He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,
In bed with nobody, under no one's command.
He's the neighborhood bully.

Now his holiest books have been trampled upon,
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He's the neighborhood bully.

What's anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin', they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
He's the neighborhood bully.

What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Running out the clock, time standing still,
Neighborhood bully.

Copyright © 1983 Special Rider Music

19 posted on 01/25/2003 11:13 AM EST by Jack Black

Pre...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-14   10:43:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2238. To: All (#2236)

Regards...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-14   10:50:37 ET  (7 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2239. To: jla, conservativemusician, Cyber-Band, Clinton's a liar, sultan88 (#2237)

"Link"

"I'm A Lonesome Fugitive"
(As sung by Merle Haggard)

(Picking solo - see below)

Down every road there's always one more city
I'm on the run, the highway is my home
I raised a lot of cane back in my younger days
While Mama used to pray my crops would fail
Now I'm a hunted fugitive with just two ways
Outrun the law or spend my life in jail

CHORUS
I'd like to settle down but they won't let me
A fugitive must be a rolling stone
Down every road there's always one more city
I'm on the run, the highway is my home

(Guitar Solo)

I'm lonely but I can't afford the luxury
Of having one I love to come along
She'd only slow me down and they'd catch up with me
For he who travels fastest goes alone

CHORUS
I'd like to settle down but they won't let me
A fugitive must be a rolling stone
Down every road there's always one more city
I'm on the run, the highway is my home
I'm on the run, the highway is my home

(Guitar solo - see below) REPEAT AND FADE

Pre...MUD

267 posted on 2/2/2003, 10:25:58 AM by Mudboy Slim
(Merle Haggard ROCKS...MUD)

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-14   10:59:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2240. To: All (#2238) (Edited)

MegaMAGA 2024...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-14   11:07:47 ET  (7 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2241. To: Cyber-Band, Taxman, A Navy Vet, The Captain (#2239)

Happy Father's Day!!

"Black XVI"

"He Was From Kansas..."
(To be sung to Jimmy Buffet's "He Went to Paris")

He was from Kansas...in FlyOver Country...
Where Dorothy chased her rainbow.
He was impressive...the Senior Class President...
In Dover town he did grow.
Slopped hogs, fed chickens...just full of the dickens...
"What a fine boy," folks would say.
'Cuz he was a winner, his life just beginnin'...
And eighteen blessed years slipped away.

He went to college, then joined the Navy...
And married a teacher named Sue.
They had a fine life...she was a good wife...
And bore him four sons...what a crew!!
That man coached some football...and he camped with Weeb'los...
While defending his Country each day!
'Cuz he was a patriot...promoted to Captain...
An aircraft carrier he did sail!!

Went to war with the Navy...while Sue loved his babies...
Traded audiotapes ev'ry week.
'Cuz he knew what mattered, the Old World was shatterin'...
And Socialists SLAUGHTER the meek!!
While the bombs were a'fallin', he was recallin'...
His kin and his li'l town.
And he fought fer his Nation, secured the oceans...
Returned to Norfolk and cheerin' crowds.

(Mudboy on harp...)

Now he lives near the beach, man...golfs on the weekends...
And starts cheerin' his Redskins each May.
Tracin' his kin's roots, buyin' up Richmond,
With his many grandkids he'd play.
Through sixty-odd years of perpetual motion...
Ask this sailor and he'll smile and he'll say,
"Son, my life's been magic...not much has been tragic...
And I look forward to every day!!"

He is from Kansas...where Honor still matters...
And Dorothy found her rainbow!!

Mudboy Slim

1 Posted on 06/19/2000 01:57:34 PDT by Mudboy Slim
(Good parents are the Real Heroes!!)

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-16   10:10:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2242. To: All (#2240)

Regards...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-16   10:17:50 ET  (9 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2243. To: All (#4) (Edited)

"The Commercial Real Estate Tsunami Just Shifted Into Another Gear"
By Michael Snyder
June 15, 2023

What is going to happen to our banking system as trillions of dollars worth of commercial real estate loans go bad? Many months ago, I warned that the greatest commercial real estate crisis in U.S. history was coming. At the time, a lot of people didn’t believe me and that was fine. As with so many other things, all I needed to do to be proven right was to wait. Sadly, a commercial real estate tsunami is now here, and it appears to be accelerating even faster than many of the experts had been anticipating. Just within the past few weeks, there have been several more high profile defaults, and San Francisco has become the epicenter of this crisis.

On Monday, we learned that Westfield has decided to purposely default on a 558 million dollar loan on the San Francisco Centre mall… Shopping center giant Westfield is walking away from its San Francisco Centre mall, becoming the latest major company to leave the California city amid rampant crime problems. Westfield confirmed to FOX Business Monday that the company and partner Brookfield Properties earlier this month stopped making payments on a $558 million loan securing the San Francisco Centre property.

Do you remember in 2008 when millions of Americans that were underwater on their mortgages simply walked away from them? Well, now the same thing is happening, except that instead of homes we are talking about shopping malls and office buildings. The San Francisco Centre mall was the most important retail destination in downtown San Francisco. But sales have been declining for some time, and just like Park Hotels & Resorts, Westfield is identifying rapidly deteriorating conditions in the downtown area as one of the primary reasons for leaving the city…

“Given the challenging operating conditions in downtown San Francisco, which have led to declines in sales, occupancy and foot traffic, we have made the difficult decision to begin the process to transfer management of the shopping center to our lender to allow them to appoint a receiver to operate the property going forward.”

Westfield’s move comes less than a week after Park Hotels & Resorts announced it had handed two prominent hotels back to the bank. The real estate investment trust said it was abandoning the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55, saying the city’s streets are unsafe and expressing doubts about the area’s ability to recover.

San Francisco was once such a beautiful city. But now one of the wealthiest cities in the entire world is being systematically transformed into a hellhole, and it is all thanks to the “progressive” policies of the city’s leaders… Westfield’s struggles will pile fresh pressure on city leaders, after multiple retailers and hotels shuttered in downtown San Francisco as it continues to battle soaring crime, open drug use and homelessness. The famously progressive city has been condemned for its ‘harm reduction’ policies, which critics say have effectively legalized drug taking. Meanwhile, its police department remains short-staffed after woke lawmakers called for defunding in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.

Even Twitter has decided to walk away. The company has not been paying rent on “Twitter headquarters” for months, and Elon Musk has confirmed that there is no plan to ever restart payments… Twitter ceased paying its rent in November, the report says, and CEO Elon Musk has said he doesn’t intend on restarting payments. Those payments would go to Columbia Property, a REIT that Goldman has lent $1.7 billion to, in a consortium with (of course) Deutsche Bank. Sadly, this is only just the beginning.

As retailers and businesses leave the downtown areas of our major cities, a lot more defaults will inevitably happen. In New York City, the office occupancy rate was close to 100 percent before the pandemic. Now it is hovering around 50 percent.

Of course this commercial real estate tsunami is not the only crisis that we are facing. The residential real estate bubble has also started to burst, and sales have been falling all over the nation for months. Higher interest rates will continue to put downward pressure on home prices, and many analysts are extremely concerned that foreclosure filings have begun to surge… May foreclosure-related filings, which include default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions, were up 7% from April and up 14% from a year ago, to 35,196 properties, according to the real estate data group ATTOM.

Meanwhile, large companies all over America continue to conduct mass layoffs. As I discussed in a previous article, the number of announced job cuts in the United States during the first five months of this year was 315 percent higher than the number of announced job cuts during the same period last year. And we are being told that the number of media industry layoffs so far this year is the largest figure ever recorded… The media industry has announced at least 17,436 job cuts so far this year, marking the highest year-to-date level of cuts on record, according to a new report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Despite everything that I just shared with you, many of the “experts” in the mainstream media continue to insist that the economy is in fine shape. I honestly do not know how they can say that with a straight face. But they are saying it. Just like in 2008, they simply do not want to believe what is happening right in front of their eyes, and they aren’t interested in ominous warnings about our long-term future either.

In the short-term, our economic problems are going to continue to intensify in the months ahead. In the long-term, we are going to have a real nightmare on our hands. But for now, millions upon millions of Americans continue to trust those that are telling them that brighter days are ahead, and so they are doing nothing to prepare for the great storm that is rapidly approaching.

Reprinted with NO permission from "The Economic Collapse."

Regards...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-16   10:31:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2244. To: All (#2242)

Regards...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-16   10:41:48 ET  (9 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2245. To: The Boss (#2241)

"Link"

"Billy, King from Arkansas"
(To be sung to Bruce Springsteen's "Mary, Queen of Arkansas")

Billy, King from Arkansas, it's not tooo early fer leavin'...
The Country's grown tired of yer scumbag style...
And yer Outlaw "Charm"'s become unseemly!!
Billy, Left's King, your Untruths are revilin'...
No, yer not too great to denigrate, the Nation's just realizin'...

Well, I'm just a lone EX-DemocRAT [not really], home-building's my trade...
But I've been sickened by your scand'lous acts,
You're a Danger to the State!!
Willie, VILE King, your blows 'gainst FReedom are missin'!!
No-o-o, you're not Man enough for me to hate, so wisen up and listen!!

No, the White House ain't fer TRAITORS...
You're supposed to be PROTECTIN' our borders!
Yeah...while your close friends serve as martyrs,
You're the one who's givin' the orders!!
No, Left cannot go on livin' this LIE...
And you're not fit fer leadin'!!
Ohhh...you let the Red Chinese infiltrate...
While Lady Justice's bleedin'....

Billy, King from Arkansas. your vile spin is deceivin'...
And your schtick's so great, I took the bait,
And you almost had me believin'.
But in your face, Willie, I can see a likeness to the Juice!!
No, I don't know how you can look me in the eye,
While obstructin' the goddamn truth!!

But I know a place where you can go, Willie,
Where you can get a new job and start all over again, "clean"!!
Ohhh, you got contacts deep in China, boy...
Where Tyrants slaughter folks like me....!!

Mudboy Slim (9/9/99)

18 Posted on 08/27/2001 07:04:51 PDT by Mudboy Slim

FReegards...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-16   10:48:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2246. To: All (#2244)

Regards...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-16   10:57:01 ET  (9 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2247. To: Happygal, palo verde, goldilucky (#2245)

"Link"

"Sounds of Silence"
(By Simon and Garfunkel)

H[Am]ello darkness my old fri[G]end,
I've come to talk with you ag[Am]ain.
Because a vi[C]sion softl[F]y creep[C]
Left it's seed while I w[F]as sleep[C]ing,
And the vis[F]ion that was planted in my br[C]ain
Still rem[Am]ains
Wit[C]hin the s[G]ounds of si[Am]lence.

In restless dreams I walked alone,
Narrow streets of cobble stone.
'Neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp,
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sounds of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never shared,
And no one dared
Disturb the sounds of silence.

"Fools!" said I, "you do not know,
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you."
But my words like silent raindrops fell...
And echoed in the wells of silence.

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon gods they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming,
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls."
And whispered in the sounds of silence.

Pre...MUD

104 posted on 2/24/2003, 5:08:11 AM by Mudboy Slim

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Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-16   11:04:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2248. To: All (#2246)


TraitorJOEZ Doing Beijing's Bidding...

Regards...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-16   11:15:52 ET  (12 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2249. To: sultan88, Landru, Taxman, Doctor Raoul, stand watie, ironman, tgslTakoma, sauropod, Angelwood (#2247)

"Link"

"FReepers, Git Ready!!"
(To be sung to the Impression's "People Git Ready")

People get ready, JusticeTrain's a'comin'...
We don't need RATS' baggage, you must git on board!!
All you need is strength to see the Demon SwampRATZ!!
Don't need no DrugWar, you just Thank yer Lord!!

Guitar break #1:

GoodPeople get ready fer the Jihad 'gainst Clinton!!
Right's sendin' out messengers from coast to coast!
TRUTH is the key!! Reject RATZ WHORE'D...Ignore 'em!!
There's hope for all among those loved the most.

Guitar break #2 (w/key change to D):

TRUTH's Been Exhumed...Slick's a hopeless sinner...
Who would hurt all mankind just to save his own!!
Seek Justice fer those whose TREASON kills children...
For there's no hotter place than where Bill Clinton's goin'!!

[repeat verse 1 in D]:

So FReepers, git ready!! JusticeTrain's a'comin'...
Folks don't need BigGuv'ment, must REJECT RATZ Whore'd!!
All you need is Truth to see DemocRATZ Love Tyrants!!
Clinton can STICK IT--in Slick's CellMate's hole!!

Mudboy Slim

743 posted on 3/1/2003, 3:50:55 AM by Mudboy Slim

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Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-16   11:28:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2250. To: pookie18 (#2248) (Edited)

22 FITTY!!

Pookies Toons ROCK...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-20   10:17:12 ET  (10 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2251. To: All (#2249)

"Black XX"

"Thunderous Thighs"
(To be sung to the Rolling Stones' "Faraway Eyes")

I wuz drivin' home, early Sunday mornin', thru DeeCeeVille...
List'nin' to Ol' Mick Jagger on the AM radio station...
And the DeeJay said, "You know you always got the Left by your side!"
And I wuz so pleased to be informed of this...
That I drove thru Slick's Whore House with my four-wheel!!
Thank ya, Clinton!! Thank ya, Gore!!

Slick had an arrangement to meet a girl...
Another intern date...
But Bill thought by the time he got there...
She'd be off, she'd be doin' the nearest Senator she could find!!
Much to his surprise, there she wuz...pickin' at her thong-wear...
Big Mo' Lewinsky, blue beret on her head...
Justa girl...with thunderous thighs!!

So if Ol' Hell'ry won't suck...
'Cuz the First Beach don't do guys...
Find a girl with thunderous thighs!!
And if you're horny and dusty...
'Cuz your wife don't do the jam...
Getta girl with thunderous thighs!!
Well...

Well, the Lib'rals keep right on sayin'...
That all you need to do is send more tax money to the...
"Sacred" DeeCee Whores of Guv'ment...
Located somewhere in downtown District of Columbia!!

But next week, they'll play my songs on the ray-dee-oh...
And all Right's dreams will come true!!
Libs're dead...and next week, Lord hear my prayer...
Hear me, world...folks, you know what kinda lies Slick spouts...
But I'll tell ya...

So now Slick's down on his luck...
'Cuz Ol' Hell'ry don't do guys...
Hired a girl...with thunderous thighs!!
Now, if you're downright disgusted...
And you're tired of Slick's scam...
Hire a girl to prove that Slick lies!
Yes, now Bill's down on his luck...
In jail, Ol' Slick'll soon reside...
He'll be the "girl" with pasty white thighs!!

Mudboy Slim

97 Posted on 09/29/2000 08:37:21 PDT by Mudboy Slim

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Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-20   10:27:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2252. To: All (#2250)


AbsoLUTEly AGREE...

Regards...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-20   10:39:12 ET  (11 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2253. To: sultan88, conservativemusician, Paul Cruce, dead, stand watie, Taxman, sauropod, sneakypete (#2251)

"Link"

"What Good Am I?!"
(To be sung to Bob Dylan's "What Good Am I?")

What good am I...if I'm like all the rest?
If I just turn away...while JOEZ enslavin' kids...
If I shut myself off...sit 'n' bitch, moan, and whine...
What...good...am...I?!

Why, tell me why...won't the Press tell the Truth?
'Bout JOEZ deal with Beijing...'bout Dem F.B.I. crooks?
Should I just drink my beer...forget RATZ TREASON and Left's LIES?!
Whose...FOOL...am...I?!

What good am I...if I fail to FReep?!
Should I lay down in bed...try to restlessly sleep?
When I've seen Hunter's pictures...Bidenistas did SPY!!
What...good...am...I?!

Do I tell my kids...that Dad failed the FRee?!
FOLKS, WE MUST MAKE OUR STAND...LET'S DETHRONE JOEY!!!
Prosecute all his crimes...let's send RATZ to Prison!!
Soon, JOE'll RESIGN...or we'll IMPEACH!!!

What good am I...if I bless foolish things?
If I cower in the face of...Vile Tyranny?!
Shall I just turn my back...while our Liberties die?!
I...would...rather...die!!

Mudboy Slim

1 Posted on 08/03/2000 08:21:55 PDT by Mudboy Slim

Updated today...MUD

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Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-20   10:53:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2254. To: All (#2252)

Regards...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-20   11:05:02 ET  (10 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2255. To: All (#2253)

My favorite PinkFloyd song EVER has got to be...

"Link"

Pink Floyd's "Time"

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then the one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older
And shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation in the English way
The time is gone the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.

Haunting tune, IMHO...MUD

507 posted on 7/19/2003, 10:07:25 PM by Mudboy Slim

Pre...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-20   11:12:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2256. To: All (#2254)


Indisputedly TRUE...

Regards...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-20   11:24:37 ET  (9 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2257. To: All (#2255)

"Link"

"Paint It Black"
{by the The Rolling Stones}

[Fm]I see a red door and I [C7]want it painted black
[Fm]No colours anymore I [C7]want them to turn black
[Fm]I [Eb]see the [Ab]girls walk by dressed [Fm]in their summer clothes
I [Eb]have to [Ab]turn my h[Eb]ead un[Bb]til my darkness goes

[Fm]I see a line of cars and [C7]they're all painted black
[Fm]With flowers and my love both [C7]never to come back
[Fm]I see [Eb]people [Ab]turn their heads and [Fm]quickly look away
Like a [Eb]new born [Ab]baby [Eb]it just [Bb]happens every day

[Fm]I look inside myself and [C7]see my heart is black
[Fm]I see my red door and I [C7]want it painted black
[Fm]Maybe [Eb]then I'll [Ab]fade away and [Fm]not have to face the facts
It's not [Eb]easy [Ab]facing [Eb]up when [Bb]your whole world is black

[Fm]No more will my green sea go [C7]turn a deeper blue
[Fm]I could not foresee this thing [C7]happening to you
[Fm] If [Eb]I look [Ab]hard en[Eb]ough in[Fm]to the setting sun
My [Eb]love will [Ab]laugh with [Eb]me be[Bb]fore the morning [C7]comes

I wanna see your [Fm]face painted black, [C7]black as night
I [Fm]wanna see the sun blotted [C7]out from the sky
I wanna see it [Fm]painted, painted, painted, painted bl[C7]ack,
[Fm]yeah

Seems to be ripe fer FReepin'...

558 posted on 8/12/2003, 10:18:39 PM by Mudboy Slim

Pre...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-20   11:30:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2258. To: All (#2236)

Regards...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-21   10:41:03 ET  (7 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2259. To: sultan88, Landru, cherry_bomb88, FBD, goldilucky, jla, AdSimp, MeeknMing, conservativemusician (#2257) (Edited)


"Black XXI"

"Lib'rals!!"
(To be sung to the Rolling Stones' "Some Girls")

Lib'rals steal yer money...Lib'rals steal yer souls!!
Lib'rals just crave Power...o'er lives that ain't their own!!
Lib'rals love their "Programs"...Lib'rals love to TAX!!
Lib'rals, we give most our bread to...We won't ever git it back!!

Lib'rals they LOATHE Liberty...DemRATZ, They Love POWER!!
Lib'rals hide behind children...each time they beg fer MORE!!

So give'em all YER money...Do Just What Yer Told!!
Left takes more'n half of what I own...
But it's Right who's doin' the Chores!!
BigGuv'ment takes yer money...Leftists Corrupt Yer Souls!!
Lib'rals tax the shirt off yer back...and tell ya "You a selfish louse!!"

Lib'rals, they love JessieJay...Sharpton, they're UncleToms!!
American Left wants everything in the World...They're all TAKE and Never GIVE!!
Medyuh Whore'd...They're ALL Sissies...I can't stand 'em on TeeVee no mo'!!
Sometimes I venture over to CNN fer just a look...but I end up barfin' in the stall!!

White RATZ, they're pretty funny...They think that 'Life's Soooo Sad!!'
Black Libs...they just wanna blame the damned Right!!
Self-reliance, they can't Stand!!
Chi-Com Spies are so subtle...They got Slick on his knees!!
But the Right knows 'bout what Left's cookin'...
They're all Enemies of the FREE!!
Give Libs all YER money...Give Libs all YER Gold!!
Bought me a house outside the City...I'll educate MY kids in my Home!!
Yeah...gonna VOTE Dem Leftists home...

LeftWing spreads manure...Lib'rals Are Corrupt!!
Lib'rals warp their children...look at Chelsea, she's such a DUNCE!!
Give Slick half YER money...we'll put Slick behind bars...
Re-Impeach Left's Boy, I say...
WE'll CONVICT the Left's Biggest Star...then Laugh!!
Make Slick his cellmate's "honey"...make'im a Prison 'HO!!
Let's CONVICT Left's Evil, FReepers...
First step's to VOTE Conservative...Let's Roll!!

Mudboy Slim

615 posted on 09/23/2002 1:52 PM EDT by Mudboy Slim

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-21   10:47:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2260. To: All (#2258)


Pure propoganda by the DeeCeeSwamp (including the RAT-media)...

Regards...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-21   10:56:51 ET  (9 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2261. To: stand watie, Taxman, Landru (#2259)

"Link"

"What's the Truth?!"
(To be sung to Johnny Cash's "What is Truth?")

Rush Limbaugh's talkin' on the Rad-ee-oh...
Sayin', "Where did our sense of Justice go?
Slick sure seems to be inventin' new ways...
Of keepin' the Truth from gettin' airplay!!"
Said, "They're crooks, you see, and their motives're Vile!!"
Still, the Medyuh says, "Bill's OUR Flower Child!!"
Country, can't you see thru these Lyin' Boys?
We gotta FIGHT to be heard o'er their LeftWing Noise!!
While the Lonely Voice of Youth cries..."What's the Truth?!"

My little boy of five, playin' in the yard,
Looks up and says, "Daddy, who's Ken Starr?"
[yeah, it's an old song, circa 4/99...I'll fix it.]
"Son, he's trackin' bad men who Cheat and Lie!!"
Little man of five says, "Slick Ain't Right!!"
Young men of seventeen killin' kids at school,
As Courts outlaw the Golden Rule...
No prayer in school, teachers puttin' Faith down,
While Slick Willie jokes, "Let's pass a Joint aroun'!"
Can you blame the Voice of Youth fer askin' "What's the Truth?!"

EX-Prez'dent's sittin' on the Witness Stand,
The man with the Book says, "Raise yer hand...
Repeat after me, 'I solemnly swear...' "
Yet the Nation said, "We just don't care."
'Cuz although Clinton solemnly swore,
Nobody really trusted Slick no more.
Culture's got so sleazy that America's unaware...
That EX-Prez'dent sold China missiles that're aimed at Bel Air!!
Still the RightWing's called uncouth fer askin', "What's the Truth?!"

Young girl internin' with the White House Sleaze...
Doin' Bill's job while on her knees!!
FReepers protest in the Public Square,
While fightin' 'gainst this Lib'ral Nightmare!!
Yeah, these young'uns that yer callin' "WILD"...
Are gonna be yer Leaders in a little while!!
The Whole World's Wakin' to FReedom today,
And I solemnly swear that it'll be OUR way!!
We gotta help our Voiceless Youth find, "What is True?!"
'Cuz the future needs more Youth askin', "What's the Truth?!!"

A little Johnny Cash never hurt anyone...MUD

39 posted on 9/12/2003, 10:54:23 PM by Mudboy Slim
(RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-21   11:05:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2262. To: All (#2260)

Regards...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-21   11:11:18 ET  (7 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2263. To: All (#1799)

"It’s Not Just the FBI: The IRS goes into ‘Beast Mode’"
By Clarice Feldman
June 18, 2023

We have seen for some time how off-the-rails the FBI has become, a danger to a free society. More and more evidence now shows it’s not just the FBI. Every federal employee with a badge and gun seems to think he’s a law unto himself. This week the spotlight is on the IRS, and the Congress has to step up and rein the agency in.

While Matt Taibbi was testifying before Congress on the administration’s extensive censoring of social media content, the IRS appeared at his door, ostensibly to question him about his taxes, but obviously to intimidate him for showing up government censorship.

Mr. Taibbi has told Mr. Jordan’s committee that an IRS agent showed up at his personal residence in New Jersey on March 9. That happens to be the same day Mr. Taibbi testified before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government about what he learned about Twitter. The taxman left a note instructing Mr. Taibbi to call the IRS four days later. Mr. Taibbi was told in a call with the agent that both his 2018 and 2021 tax returns had been rejected owing to concerns over identity theft.

Mr. Taibbi has provided the committee with documentation showing his 2018 return had been electronically accepted, and he says the IRS never notified him or his accountants of a problem after he filed that 2018 return more than four-and-a-half years ago.

He says the IRS initially rejected his 2021 return, which he later refiled, and it was rejected again -- even though Mr. Taibbi says his accountants refiled it with an IRS-provided pin number. Mr. Taibbi notes that in neither case was the issue “monetary,” and that the IRS owes him a “considerable” sum.

The bigger question is when did the IRS start to dispatch agents for surprise house calls? Typically, when the IRS challenges some part of a tax return, it sends a dunning letter. Or it might seek more information from the taxpayer or tax preparer. If the IRS wants to audit a return, it schedules a meeting at the agent’s office. It doesn’t drop by unannounced.

But that was just the beginning of a series of outrageous actions. As Congressman Jim Jordan detailed in a letter to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel this week:

We have recently received allegations that an Internal Revenue Service Agent provided a false name to an Ohio taxpayer as part of a deception to gain entry into the taxpayer’s home to confront her about delinquent tax filings. When the taxpayer rightfully objected to the agent’s tactics, the IRS agent insisted that he “can …go into anyone’s house at any time” as an IRS agent.”

The Wall Street Journal provides more details of this civil rights intrusion. The taxpayer was a fiduciary for an estate:

Mr. Haus claimed she had not properly filled out estate forms and owed the IRS “a substantial amount.” Only when the taxpayer presented proof of paying all taxes on the estate did the agent reveal that his visit wasn’t about the estate at all. It was about several supposed delinquent tax returns related to the decedent of the estate.

The letter says the taxpayer called her attorney, who insisted Mr. Haus leave the house, only to be told by Mr. Haus: “I am an IRS agent, I can be at and go into anyone’s house at any time I want to be.” Mr. Haus finally left, but not before threatening to freeze the taxpayer’s assets and put a lien on her house if she didn’t satisfy the balance in a week. Fearing a scam, she called the local police, who ran Mr. Haus’s license plate to verify his identity.

When an officer called Mr. Haus, Mr. Haus identified himself as an IRS agent but said Haus wasn’t his real name. He had used an alias. The officer, also suspecting a scam, warned that if he returned to the taxpayer’s home he’d be arrested. Mr. Haus then filed a complaint against the Marion police officer with the Treasury Department inspector general.

The House letter says the taxpayer on May 4 spoke with Mr. Haus’s supervisor, who clarified that she owed nothing and said -- in the understatement of the year -- that “things never should have gotten this far.” Yet the following day, the taxpayer received a letter -- addressed to the decedent -- stating that the decedent was delinquent on several 1040 filings. This was the first and only mail notification the taxpayer received. The taxpayer was again told by the supervisor that nothing was owed and was notified on May 30 that the case was closed.

If true, this is something else. An agent of the Treasury, wielding the power of tax enforcement, shows up unannounced at a taxpayer’s home. He lies about his identity and his purpose to get inside, then threatens the taxpayer with punishment if she doesn’t pay a tax bill that she doesn’t owe. The IRS agent leaves only after an intervention by her lawyer, and when local police call the agent, he sics the Treasury Department on the officer.

The overreach by armed IRS agents didn’t stop after these two incidents. Twenty armed IRS agents raided a gun store in Great Falls, Montana, earlier this week. The owner reports that these agents confiscated all the 4473 forms, none of which contain any financial information. David Paulides tweeted: “20 armed IRS agents raided his store in Great Falls earlier this week. Tom [the shop owner] informed me that these agents confiscated all the 4473 forms, none of which contain any financial information; instead, the IRS now has access to these forms with sensitive personal details of every customer who purchased a firearm from Highwood Creek Outfitters.”

Does any of this bother you? The debt deal on the Inflation Reduction Act did cut $21 billion out of the IRS’ $80 billion budget, but did not reduce or eliminate the Administration’s plan to hire 87,000 more of these armed, over-the-top Fearless Fosdicks. Forbes dismissed the objections to retaining this expense.

“The Inflation Reduction Act past [sic] last year, gave the IRS billions to go into what the Wall Street Journal at the time called “beast mode.” That law was doling out about $80 billion to the IRS for increased enforcement, operational improvements, customer service, and systems modernization. That stands at more than six times the 2022 annual IRS budget of $12.6 billion. Of the $80 billion, a whopping $45.6 billion was for enforcement. Earlier reports had suggested that the IRS would hire 87,000 new agents. Unfortunately, the ‘87,000 new IRS agents’ line because [sic] a rallying cry for some groups, and some of those lines may resurface again now.”

You can bet those massive new hires will remain a rallying cry.

Sheeesh...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-22   10:31:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2264. To: All (#2262)


IKE was Right!!

Regards...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-22   10:37:16 ET  (9 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2265. To: Landru, jla, conservativemusician, leadpenny, FreeTheHostages, goldilucky, stand watie (#2261) (Edited)

"Black XXII"

"Bill Clinton"
(To be sung to the Allman Brother Band's "Melissa")

RATZ HO's seem to come and go...yeah!
Slick Willie LIES from coast to coast,
Rapin' many...trustin' none!!
Killing children, 'cuz it's fun...
But Right knows Slick's Commie SCUM,
Let's Git Bill Clinton!!
Ummmm...Hmmmmmm...

Left stains, DemRATZ think Slick's sane...RATZ LOVE Hussein!!
Justice knows Bill Clinton RAPES!!
Still, Bubba fears Slim's lonely fight...
There Shall Be Justice 'cuz Slick LIED!!
Good Patriots FReep RATS' Chi-Com spies...
Let's FReep Bill Clinton!!
Uhhhmmmmm...hmmmmmmmm...

My FRiends, a new morning dawns...
Yeah, Slick he's on the run...
MUD keeps fightin' 'cuz he cares...
Care enough to DO YER SHARE!!
Reject Left's Fear and Judge'im...Roll on...Roll on!!

RAT-whore'd, will Libs ever let Slick go?!! Lord knows...
Shall more DIE while Clinton Rolls?!
Will RATZ see Slick's feet of clay?!
Wellstone's Spirit stole away!!
But MUD knows that Slick Shall Pay...We'll Git Bill Clinton!!
Yes, I know that Right holds sway...Truth'll Git Bill Clinton!!
Oh yeah...ummmmmmmm...
Folks, I know that Slick Shall Pay...FReepers, GIT Bill Clinton!!!

FReegards...MUD

243 posted on 11/02/2002 9:45 AM EST by Mudboy Slim

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-22   10:47:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2266. To: All (#2264)


Beijing OWNS TraitorJOE!!

Regards...MUD

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-22   10:58:57 ET  (8 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2267. To: All (#2265)

"Link"

"Young Elian's Daydreamin'"
(To be sung to Jimmy Buffett's "Havana Daydreamin'")

Fussed and cussed that Reno whore...
"Butch" storm-trooped his new home!
Sent him back to Ol' Castro...
To help her pal, Gore.
Wishin' he'd been older then...
So he wouldda had some rights.
Thinkin' 'bout how sweet FReedom did taste...
Fer his Liberty, he'd fight!!

Young Elian's daydreamin'...
'Bout when his FReedom was swiped away.....

Papa played Ol' Fidel's game...
'Else his own ma'd be dead!
Elian knows the Ultimate Villain...
Was America's Tyrant, Slick!
Couldda stood up strong and bold...
Instead kissed Castro's A$$...
'Cuz Lib'rals believe that real FReedom's obscene...
Said, "Enslave that young lad!!"

Young Elian's daydreamin'...
Lord, he's just schemin' his return to the States!!

(Soothin' guitar/piano reprise)

Greggie Craig, consigliere...
Clinton's private whore...
Fought the case against Liberty...
JUSTICE?! Ain't parta his World!
Sheeple, why should we be resigned...
To accept this Leftist BILE?!!
Let's sing and yell...let's give them Hell!!
We'll be groovin' 'cuz Right's back in style!!

Else young Elian'll be leavin'...
Folks, we'll be stealin' his rights away...
Come on, all you FReepers...
Folks, it's all 'bout FReedom...Elian must stay!!

Doo doo doo dooo doooo...
Doo doo doo dooo dooooooo...

MargaritaVille FReegards...MUD

77 Posted on 06/25/2000 08:53:51 PDT by Mudboy Slim

"NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!"

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2023-06-22   11:04:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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