As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. --
William O. Douglas
Monday, May 14, 2007
The City of New Orleans - Willie Nelson
The City of New Orleans by Steve Goodman
Riding on the City of New Orleans, Illinois Central Monday morning rail Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders, Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail. All along the southbound odyssey The train pulls out at Kankakee And rolls along past houses, farms and fields. Passin' trains that have no names, Freight yards full of old black men And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.
CHORUS: Good morning America how are you? Say, don't you know me I'm your native son, I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans, I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.
Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car. Penny a point - ain't no one keepin' score. Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor. And the sons of pullman porters And the sons of engineers Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel. Mothers with their babes asleep, Are rockin' to the gentle beat And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.
CHORUS
Nighttime on The City of New Orleans, Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee. Half way home, we'll be there by morning Through the Mississippi darkness Rolling down to the sea. But all the towns and people seem To fade into a bad dream And the steel rails still ain't heard the news. The conductor sings his song again, "The passengers will please refrain This train's got the disappearing railroad blues."
Good night, America, how are you? Say, don't you know me I'm your native son, I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans, I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.
All I know Is everything is not as it's sold but the more I grow the less I know And I have lived so many lives Though I'm not old And the more I see, the less I grow The fewer the seeds the more I sow
Then I see you standing there Wanting more from me And all I can do is try Then I see you standing there Wanting more from me And all I can do is try Try I wish I hadn't seen all of the realness And all the real people are really not real at all The more I learn, the more I learn The more I cry, the more I cry As I say goodbye to the way of life I thought I had designed for me
Then I see you standing there Wanting more from me And all I can do is try Then I see you standing there I'm all I'll ever be But all I can do is try Try All of the moments that already passed We'll try to go back and make them last All of the things we want each other to be We never will be And that's wonderful, and that's life And that's you, baby This is me, baby And we are, we are, we are, we are Free In our love We are free in our love
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said Friday that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is paying an eternal and deserved punishment for his brutal life's work.
"You sure wouldn't want to be where Saddam Hussein is, where we helped put him," Giuliani said during a campaign stop in eastern Iowa in which he praised President Bush's war on terrorism but acknowledged that mistakes have been made in Iraq.
Considering Adultry and Murder are two of the Ten Commandments... I wonder what Rudy's ex-wives think about his newly found righteousness.
Giuliani met local television personalityDonna Hanover sometime in 1982, and they began dating when she was working in Miami.[105] Giuliani filed for legal separation from Peruggi on August 12, 1982.[104] Giuliani and Hanover started living together later that year in Washington, D.C.[105] The Giuliani-Peruggi marriage was ended in two ways: a civil divorce was issued by the end of the 1982,[106] while a Roman Catholic Church annulment of the Giuliani-Peruggi marriage was granted at the end of 1983[104], according to Giuliani, because he discovered after fourteen years that he and his wife were second cousins[107] and they did not have the Church dispensation thus needed.[108]
Giuliani and Hanover then married in a Catholic ceremony at St. Monica's Church in New York on April 15, 1984.[109][104] They had two children, son Andrew (born January 30, 1986) and daughter Caroline (born 1989). Andrew first became a familiar sight by misbehaving at Giuliani's first mayoral inaguration, then with his father at New York Yankees games, of whom Rudy Giuliani is an enthusiastic fan; Andrew also was an accomplished junior golfer.
Beginning in 1996, Giuliani and Hanover's public relationship became distant, with Hanover appearing at few public events.[110] In 1997, a Vanity Fair article report that Giuliani had a romantic relationship with Cristyne Lategano, the mayor's communications director.[111] The mayor and Lategano denied the allegations.
In May 2000, the New York Daily News broke news of Giuliani's extramarital relationship with Judith Nathan, a sales manager for a pharmaceutical company. Giuliani then called a press conference to announce that he intended to separate from Hanover.[112][113][114] Hanover, however, had not been told about his plans before his press conference[115], an omission for which Giuliani was widely criticized[116]. Previously, Giuliani had hinted at the relationship by referring to Nathan as his "very good friend." Giuliani now went on to praise Nathan as a "very, very fine woman", and said about his marriage with Hanover, that "over the course of some period of time in many ways, we've grown to live independent and separate lives." Hours later Hanover said, "I had hoped that we could keep this marriage together. For several years, it was difficult to participate in Rudy's public life because of his relationship with one staff member," a reference to Lategano.
Well at least we know that Rudy prefers cheating on his wives rather than killing. How nice that he can pick and choose which of the Ten Commandments he can ignore and still consider himself a good Catholic.
Hmm, I wonder how the Lord is going to treat the adultrous ex-New York City Mayor...
My bet is that "Booty Call Rudy" has a better chance of getting into the Whitehouse.
Despite his religiosity, I am certain he will never be President.
I am not annoying at all. In fact most people come to me for advice. Of course they annoy the hell out of me. But what can I do? I am smarter than most people.
