tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post2404989467792415675..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: On Not Rising for the National AnthemUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-6522848405325594642017-09-28T08:08:36.432-04:002017-09-28T08:08:36.432-04:00It's much worse than you think. The military ...It's much worse than you think. The military paid the NFL to make the players come out for the anthem and stand. It's all of 8 years old.<br /><br />https://lawnewz.com/high-profile/heres-what-should-really-outrage-you-about-the-nfl-the-national-anthem/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-61960229463322021832017-09-27T00:46:51.150-04:002017-09-27T00:46:51.150-04:00Not gonna defend the lyrics, but the tune, which i...Not gonna defend the lyrics, but the tune, which is a bit difficult with an octave and a half range, is an old British drinking song, and not half bad, (especially if you imagine drunks singing it).john c. halaszhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17176419625607679150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-41950653306684186262017-09-26T11:02:21.261-04:002017-09-26T11:02:21.261-04:00Countries are not holy anymore — no longer one ste...Countries are not holy anymore — no longer one step below God (still one step below God in importance). Not since black and white television. Now we see countries as land and people. That’s your dog run and this is my dog run; and you’d better stay off my dog run. At least that’s the way television hits a lot of us a lot — and most of us at least some. Get me Marshall McLuhan.<br /><br />Do you love your kids? Do you think they are holy? Maybe you do think so, but people who love their kids just as much as you do don’t think they are holy. Alternate ways of looking at the same reality; none really right or wrong.<br /><br />Right now I think my country stinks: disappearance of labor unions. Democracy without labor unions is like a car without gas — it is going nowhere.<br /><br />The players are not objecting to the new introduction of the national anthem before games — never been done before. They are making a complaint about the gap between our high ideals and our sad reality (permanent human condition). I don’t know how the military even gets into it — except conflated by politicians in order to play with us.Denis Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11833367196756465896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-71431789178496682852017-09-25T22:34:29.879-04:002017-09-25T22:34:29.879-04:00Bravo. Completely agree. Maybe we could start th...Bravo. Completely agree. Maybe we could start the games 15 minutes sooner and have one less commercial break if we quit playing the national anthem before every damn sporting event. The games are long enough without all the bad singing. I can remember a day when we didn't regularly play the SSB before sporting events. It seems to me that these public displays of fake patriotism really got rolling during the Reagan years.<br /><br />Another reason not to play the SSB: Francis Scott Key was a racist S.O.B. His son was even worse. But then again, what else should we expect from all those super patriots in Huntsville, AL cheering the SSB after driving to the Trump rally in their pick-up trucks with the Confederate battle flag license plate? Roll Tide.2slugbaitshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14763897441056512506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-27223178110536746412017-09-24T17:12:55.633-04:002017-09-24T17:12:55.633-04:00Also, the SSB is a terrible song, with crappy musi...<i>Also, the SSB is a terrible song, with crappy music and lyrics.</i><br /><br />Totally. I propose instead Billy Ocean's <i>When the going gets tough, the tough get going</i> :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com