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18 Mar 2015, 12:20 pm

this thread is getting heated.

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18 Mar 2015, 12:35 pm

Girlwithaspergers wrote:

this thread is getting heated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjzXlRzM6PQ

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18 Mar 2015, 1:52 pm

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Everyone knows it's Elvis Presley "King of Rock and Roll." Us Americans love our music!

elvis would never allow himself to be termed "the king" as he thought that was a sacrilege. he was a religious man.

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18 Mar 2015, 3:23 pm

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You seem to think that I am suggesting using force. No so. Only words and having governments drop religious tax breaks as all churches and mosques, priests and imams do, --- is lie to us continually.

That's a completely different thing than what I thought you were suggesting.

I can think of a better reason to drop all religious tax breaks than to stop religion (albeit it won't happen in the middle-east where separation of church and state is non-sequitur based on sharia) - religion is supposed to be able to criticize government, a state religion becomes a government lap dog and government can twist theology any time it wants, give a church enough tax breaks and it's only different from a state church by degree. I have no problem with church groups meeting at state facilities or state groups even meeting at church facilities sometimes (good examples - precinct elections at a church gymnasium or event hall) but I like as much church and state autonomy as possible, otherwise the wedding and welding of both institutions one to the other sours equally both ways.

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18 Mar 2015, 3:50 pm

auntblabby wrote:

Girlwithaspergers wrote:

Everyone knows it's Elvis Presley "King of Rock and Roll." Us Americans love our music!

elvis would never allow himself to be termed "the king" as he thought that was a sacrilege. he was a religious man.

An outdated photos - as is should be now "44 presidents" but it's context still stands

I know of one incident where someone in the audience called "King!" and Elvis shouted back something along the lines of that there was only one king, and that was Jesus Christ. When he was named king in the media all the time (he was called "King of Rock 'n' Roll" in the media in his heyday and that stuck, so he was never a self-named "King" unlike, what I've been told, Michael Jackson) he never bothered phoning them up and saying "Listen friends, please don't call me king", but then again he never read the trade magazines as they were "trash" (as he stated on stage) but he was a subscriber to his two local newspapers in Memphis and to Newsweek and Time.

But here is the king's crown (which he got from an audience member at a charity concert beamed live via satelite and viewed by more than a billion people in 1973)

(and yes - Elvis is my "special interest" :wink:

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18 Mar 2015, 4:08 pm

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Do you think the American oligarchy can be turned back into a real democracy

The US never was a democracy, it's a Constitutional Republic.

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18 Mar 2015, 5:08 pm

Mr. Powers wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

Girlwithaspergers wrote:

Everyone knows it's Elvis Presley "King of Rock and Roll." Us Americans love our music!

elvis would never allow himself to be termed "the king" as he thought that was a sacrilege. he was a religious man.

An outdated photos - as is should be now "44 presidents" but it's context still stands

(and yes - Elvis is my "special interest" :wink:

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Thank you.

Thank you very much!

Springsteen was "the Boss", Sinatra was "the Chairman of the Board", Both James Brown, and Chuck Brown were "Godfathers".

But there was only one actual "King"!

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18 Mar 2015, 5:13 pm

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But there was only one actual "King"!

I keep having this odd thought- remember that photo taken with elvis and Nixon in the oval office? I keep picturing that scene with the roles reversed, with Nixon dressed in the white jumpsuit and big hair, and elvis dressed like the banker. :alien:

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18 Mar 2015, 6:11 pm

ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:

naturalplastic wrote:

ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:

Right now Iran is fighting ISIL. I wonder who Israel considers worse, Iran or ISIL?

Don't know about Israel as a whole, but Mr. Netanyahu spoke about that very choice in his recent notorious speech to the US Congress-and made his pov very clear. He said "the US should NOT be fighting ISIL because ISIL is fighting Iran".

So he is obviously a lot more afraid of Iran than of ISIL.

Whatever we do in that area always turns into a big fat mess.

No argument there!

And doing nothing would probably also yield a big fat mess.

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18 Mar 2015, 6:24 pm

auntblabby wrote:

naturalplastic wrote:

But there was only one actual "King"!

"Let me make one thing perrrrrfectly clear.... I am all shook up!"

That is a hard thing for me to envision.

Though it is true that Nixon, and his crew, were known for having "suspicious minds".

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18 Mar 2015, 6:30 pm

and there was a "burnin' love" happenin' between Nixon and bebe rebozo, "way down" deep in their hearts.

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18 Mar 2015, 7:05 pm

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and there was a "burnin' love" happenin' between Nixon and bebe rebozo, "way down" deep in their hearts.

Oh gawd!

Just because he was a misfit, and Bebe was the only person who enjoyed his company-you have to go implying that Nixon was gay (not that being gay is bad mind you)!

Lol!

But Elvis's maudlin hit "Old Shep" could have been used as the soundtrack of Nixon's "Checkers Speech".

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18 Mar 2015, 7:10 pm

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auntblabby wrote:

and there was a "burnin' love" happenin' between Nixon and bebe rebozo, "way down" deep in their hearts.

Oh gawd! Just because he was a misfit, and Bebe was the only person who enjoyed his company-you have to go implying that Nixon was gay (not that being gay is bad mind you)! Lol! But Elvis's maudlin hit "Old Shep" could have been used as the soundtrack of Nixon's "Checkers Speech".

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... e-1.997960
it would appear that tricky king Richie had lots of secrets.

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18 Mar 2015, 7:38 pm

Interesting.

Boozer, and a wifebeater, too!

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18 Mar 2015, 7:41 pm

Kennedy had the same woman mistress as a mobster, but Nixon was lovers with an actual mobster!

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18 Mar 2015, 7:42 pm

for his loyalists, a proper king for America - king Richard.

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