BS: Is Cindy McCain a 'Replicant'???

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cindy McCain a 'Replicant'???
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 06:08 PM

Sockpuppet - A self made "straw" man

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cindy McCain a 'Replicant'???
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 06:10 PM

It seems likely that someone is not posting under a consistent handle.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cindy McCain a 'Replicant'???
From: Bobert
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 07:34 PM

Normal, Jack... Like with GUESTs who the heck knows but some certainly have perfected their little juvinilistic games...

BTW, I read the op-ed piece by Michael "Head up Bush's Butt" Gerson and would like to nominate Cindy McCain as "Woman of the Century" and have written the Pope to see what it would take to get her sainted...

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cindy McCain a 'Replicant'???
From: SharonA
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 07:41 PM

Whoever Wiley C really was on 23 Jul 08 - 05:36 p.m., I thank him/her for introducing us to The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre. What a hoot! (Of course, "hoot" must be pronounced "huit" or however the Scottish would spell it phonetically.)

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cindy McCain a 'Replicant'???
From: GUEST,WileyC
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 08:32 PM

Yes, I've spent endless minutes with them. Had them book marked for quite awhile with no one to share them with, so you can imagine how pleased I was when the opportunity presented itself here.

My "lead" to them was through the Al Green one, which I linked to first. I really enjoy that one too.

As to the bluegrass sock puppet performance, well. It certainly is on topic for a folk music forum, now isn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cindy McCain a 'Replicant'???
From: Bobert
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 09:00 PM

No... Bluegrass sucks... lol...

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cindy McCain a 'Replicant'???
From: SharonA
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 10:16 PM

No, bluegrass socks. (They needed a third sock for the 3-part harmonies, though)

Re SFSPTheatre: The guy's dialogue is quite clever. I watched their version of MacBeth. Loved the part where Lady MacB (a.k.a. "Mrs. The Scottish Play") says "Out, out, damn spot" and MacB corrects her Scottish accent so that she says "Oot, oot, damn spoot!"

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cindy McCain a 'Replicant'???
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 07:26 PM

I've gotta say this (Well, actually, I don't have to, but I wanna), does anyone else find one phrase that Ms.McCain used just a trifle unbelievable? She said that she "remembers stepping over the decomposing body of a child".

I cannot picture that. Wartime, poverty, violence all around- none of that validates that. Why would not the body of a child have been picked up? Why would a person step over it? Why would not a person say something like: Hey! Somebody show a little respect here!

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cindy McCain a 'Replicant'???
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 09:18 PM

It reminds me irrepressibly of remembering coming under fire. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cindy McCain a 'Replicant'???
From: DougR
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 01:23 AM

Amos, your first post in this thread: I suspect Bobert meant "Republican" but he didn't know how to spell it. :>)

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cindy McCain a 'Replicant'???
From: SharonA
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 07:32 PM

The full quote to which Ebbie refers ia from a Washington Post article. Here's the context:

Arriving across the border [from Rwanda in 1994] in Goma, in what is now Congo, McCain found cholera victims stacked beside the road "like highway barriers." "I remember having to step over the decomposing body of an infant, covered with white powder, lime I guess, to get into one building." The field hospital covered four acres. McCain's team provided primary care for sick and frightened refugees, many of them suffering from dehydration. For nearly a month, McCain organized deliveries of food and water for the operation, collecting supplies at the Goma airport.

Still not an explanation why the body was not moved, but when there's that much death (and that many bodies), I imagine that one becomes hardened to the sight of it and saves one's respect for the living. Also, when one is visiting in another country, I'd think it would be presumptuous to assume that another culture would have the same ideas/beliefs about "respecting the dead" that one holds in one's own country.

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cindy McCain a 'Replicant'???
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 07:34 PM

Was that thread title 'Replicant' or 'Repellant'?

My eyes ain't what they used to be, they used to be my ears...

Subject: RE: BS: Is Cindy McCain a 'Replicant'???
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 09:33 PM

Ebbie I thought I was a skeptic but I think I will need to mail my trophy collection to you.

Yes, I admit that the thought occurred to me on the first reading, and so did the "running from sniper fire" incident come to mind.

But come on, we can't give voice to that until there is something to go on. Can we? . . . . Can we? No, I don't think so . . . .