Slog - Comments on This is What Happens When... http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/this_is_what_happens_when This complete stiff-arming of McCain's dash for some imagined political end-zone, this is what happens when: A) Democrats control both houses of Congress. If Democrats were not in control right now, Harry Reid would not be in a position to torpedo McCain's overtures, and Barney Frank would not have his perch as Chair of the House Financial Services Committee from which to say (with the considerable import of someone who's in charge of shepherding the legislation that McCain is supposedly rushing back to D.C. to help hammer out) the following about McCain's gambit: It’s the longest Hail Mary pass in... Copyright 2008 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:30:55 -0800 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:58:09 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Ali
I just want to try and get the word out about this song - a rewritten Tom Paxton song about the very current events of this past week. Maybe readers here would appreciate?

Paxton says, “you don’t have to invent anything to satirize these people - just quote them”!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3ym-lZ_duU

]]> Ali http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/this_is_what_happens_when#c1149669 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/this_is_what_happens_when#c1149669 2008 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:32:50 -0800 Comment by leek Ali, link to your Minnesota song too! It's an excellent song PLUS you wrote it.

]]> leek http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/this_is_what_happens_when#c1149695 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/this_is_what_happens_when#c1149695 2008 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:46:48 -0800 Comment by Ali oh, okay, if you say so! For the record, I wrote all the verses in this video of "Daily News" also!

but in "Minnesota," the chorus comes from Obama's speech in Minnesota, so I guess I've stolen the chorus' in both songs...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8sPG97GkA

]]> Ali http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/this_is_what_happens_when#c1149701 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/this_is_what_happens_when#c1149701 2008 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:52:39 -0800 Comment by Greg I've said it in the comments to another post, but it bears repeating: it's time to end this farce. And it looks like that's exactly what the Obama campaign is doing.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/this_is_what_happens_when#c1149729 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/this_is_what_happens_when#c1149729 2008 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:05:44 -0800 Comment by ZWBush Minnesota rules. Especially MPLS. And the BWCA. What a ass kicking the Repubs get today. Fuck em!

]]> ZWBush http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/this_is_what_happens_when#c1149946 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/this_is_what_happens_when#c1149946 2008 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:58:09 -0800