Your Choice

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   BooMan on July 17, 2013 at 10:59 pm

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     Ulysses S Grunt on July 18, 2013 at 12:19 am

     Interesting choice of Streets. Its meaning has really changed over the years, hasn’t it? A song about the AIDS crisis now takes on new resonance with the terrible gun violence of Philly, Chicago and many of our other major cities.

     As for Springsteen vs. the Nuge, well, all I can say is that while Bruce is a man who’s always had an appreciation for poon, he’s also a gentleman, and would never put it so crudely as Mr. I-Shit-My-Pants-to-Avoid-The-Draft.

     By the way, if I may be a bit of a boor myself and plug my recent diary on Springsteen’s “Factory”. From an album that’s often on my mind these past few years of economic crisis.

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       Phil Perspective on July 18, 2013 at 12:57 am

       As for Springsteen vs. the Nuge, well, all I can say is that while Bruce is a man who’s always had an appreciation for poon, he’s also a gentleman, and would never put it so crudely as Mr. I-Shit-My-Pants-to-Avoid-The-Draft.

       Bruce is certainly more of a gentleman.  But he also wrote this:

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         MassCommons on July 18, 2013 at 10:20 pm

         Yes, and furthermore, “I’m On Fire” is the conclusion of what I’ve come to think of as the Domestic Violence Suite on the “Born In the USA” album.

         “Darlington County”, “Working on the Highway”, “Downbound Train” and “I’m On Fire” all have characters whose behavior towards women is at least troubling, and at most, downright murderous.

         (Having said all that…yeah, Bruce.  No contest really.)

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   OldBean on July 18, 2013 at 12:55 am

   Can I choose a song ABOUT Ted Nugent?

   Not specifically about him, of course…

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   c u n d gulag on July 18, 2013 at 6:09 am

   That’s like a choice between a bowl of Ben & Jerry’s finest chocolate ice-cream, and feces.

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   vicki on July 18, 2013 at 6:53 am

   That was just rude.

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   donnah on July 18, 2013 at 7:03 am

   Well, the differences between Springsteen and Nugent are night and day. Springsteen has a musical history of social awareness, civil rights, observations about life on the streets, right vs wrong, and small town heroism.

   Nugent has a musical history of sex and misogyny, with explicit violence and hate.

   Springsteen promotes compassion and Nugent promotes hate.

   I would stand in line to see Springsteen; I wouldn’t step outside to see Nugent.

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   budr on July 18, 2013 at 7:11 am

   That was a rhetorical question, right?

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   DerFarm on July 18, 2013 at 8:53 am

   Nugent should be shot, drawn and quartered for what he did to the Amboy Dukes.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN2VNFpiGWo

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZFq6sqw3PQ

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   rikyrah on July 18, 2013 at 8:55 am

   Published on Jul 16, 2013  

   July 15th, 2013 – 92 year-old Moral Monday arrestee and Civil Rights Veteran Rosa Nell Eaton speaks at the 11th Wave Moral Monday rally at the North Carolina General Assembly.

   http://youtu.be/6yVdvABN3Hk

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   TarheelDem on July 18, 2013 at 10:11 am

   The kangaroo is hopping in the Bradley Manning trial.  The judge refused to throw out the “aiding the enemy” charge.  Well now the New York Times and any other US paper that published information about the specific cables Manning is charged with leaking and that were viewed by Osama bin Laden are now subject to investigation for aiding the enemy.

   We have gone down the rabbithole.

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    ejmw on July 18, 2013 at 10:29 am

    I mean, nobody is going to argue that Ted Nugent isn’t a giant asshole (who should be dead or in jail at this point), but that’s definitely one of his worst songs.

    I don’t like many of his songs, but this is a good one.

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    lamh31 on July 18, 2013 at 11:43 am

    Trayvon Martin’s parents shocked by verdict

    “We felt that the killer of our unarmed child was going to be convicted of the crime he committed,” Trayvon Martin’s dad Tracy said…

    On ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Tracy Martin said he felt the jury did not get a chance to get to know the teen. “They didn’t know him as a human being,” he said.
    Martin’s parents said they still believe Zimmerman, who identifies himself as Hispanic, racially profiled their son.

    “Obviously, any time you have a person that makes an assumption that a person is up to no good, that’s some kind of profiling,” Martin said. “Was he racially profiled? I think if Trayvon had been white, this never would have happened.”

    Martin’s mother said she believes the verdict sends a “terrible message to other little black and brown boys.”

    “They can’t walk fast. They can’t walk slow. So what do they do? How do they get home without people assuming you are doing something wrong?,” Fulton said.

    Oh, and Matt Lauer should never be allowed to interview any damn body.  He had the nerve to ask the Martin will they ever forgive Zimmerman. Trayvon parents had better composure than I would have and Sabrina Fulton (Trayvon Martin’s mother) had a good response to Lauer’s bullshit.

    We sit on the side of the victims… Is this the intent for the justice system to have for victims,” Sybrina Fulton, Martin’s mother, said on the Today show Thursday morning. “Trayvon wasn’t doing anything wrong.”

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    Stephen Stralka on July 18, 2013 at 12:59 pm

    It’s kind of funny, really. Ted Nugent is too dumb to see the basic irony in a white supremacist playing rock and roll.