national anthem

[FMJeff]

<p>I was listening to the National Anthem today which for some reason was playing on Long Island's equivalent of WPLJ. Made me think of what Francis Scott Key was feeling that night...nationalism, patriotism, exhiliration...I was wondering what he'd say today over the current state of affairs. It seems all the ideals which founded this country are eroding...liberalism, patriotism, freedom...they're such cliches now...or aspersions...</p><p>Do you think the american experiment has failed? Are we not just another colonial era England, exerting influence, invading, controlling, threatening, best weapons, best navy...</p><p>History runs in parallels it seems...</p>

[cougarjake13]

<p>i dont think it has failed... yet&nbsp;&nbsp; there's still plenty of time&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; there's a quote i forget where it's from but it goes something like this</p><p>the next moment&nbsp;is the chance things can turn around</p><p>i know we now live in a global economy and cant just say fuck the rest of the world but sometimes i wish we could</p>

[BoondockSaint]

<p>Hunter S. Thompson wrote something about the end of the American century:</p><p><font size="2">Good news is out of the question in this brutal year of our Lord, 2002. All markets collapsed about 3 days after George Bush moved into the White House....yeah, it was THAT fast. BOOM, presto, welcome to bombs and poverty.<br /><br />The news is <em>bad</em> today, in America and <em>for</em> America.<br />There is <em>nothing</em> good or hopeful about it- except for Nazis, warmongers, and rich greedheads- and it is getting worse and worse in logarithmic progressions since the fateful bombing of the World Trade towers in New York. That will always be a festering low-watermark in this nation's violent history, but it was not the official birthday of the end of the American Century.<br /><br /><strong>No. That occured on the night of the presidential election in the year 2000, when the nexus of power in this country shifted from Washington D.C. to &quot;the ranch&quot; in Crawford, Texas. The most disastrous day in American history was November 7, 2000. That day was when the TAKEOVER happened, when the generals and cops and right-wing Jesus-freaks seized control of the White House, the U.S. Treasury and our law-enforcement machinery.</strong> <br /><br />So long to all that, eh? &quot;<em>Nothing will ever be the same again&quot;</em>, the whorish President said at the time, &quot;<em>as of now we are in the grip of a National Security Emergency that will last for the rest of our lives </em>&quot;.<br /><br />Fuck you, I quit. Mahalo.</font></p>

[A.J.]

Radiohead's &quot;national anthem&quot; kicks Key's national anthem's ass.

[Sheeplovr]

<p>do you mean the whole poem or just the first part thats sung?</p><p><br />
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[FezPaul]

Didn't Ron refer to War's &quot;Low Rider&quot; as the National Anthem?

[Marc with a c]

<strong>FezPaul</strong> wrote:<br />Didn't Ron refer to War's &quot;Low Rider&quot; as the National Anthem? <p>for bronx johnny</p>

[Bulldogcakes]

<p>Want to live in a rising superpower instead of a declining one? </p><p>Learn Chinese. &nbsp;</p>