Led Zep Terrorist Club
April 5th, 2006 - 3:02 pm
You better watch what music you listen to in taxis in Great Britain. You wouldn’t want to listen to the wrong thing and be labeled a terrorist. So what are the wrong things to listen to? Apparently the Clash and Led Zeppelin.
“It turned out the taxi driver alerted someone when I arrived at the airport and had spoken about my music. He didn’t like Led Zep or The Clash but there was no need to tell the police.”
So they hauled him off the plane, questioned him for a few hours under the Terrorism Act, and then well after he missed his flight determined he was, in fact, not a threat at all.
I’d love to rant about this. I really would. I am finding myself in that weird state between speechless and spewing nothing but profanity. Instead of trying to rant about how ridiculous “security” is getting these days, I think I’ll just link to Viking Kittens (Flash and music warning). Now we can all listen to Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song and join the Led Zeppelin Terrorist Club. 
A message to the people of the world:
STOP BEING SUCH FRIGHTENED PUSSIES!!!
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Talk dirty to us Orb!!!
And, of course, this hilarious news item: http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/04/05/D8GQ5KPG1.html
I flew to California this past week, the first flight I’ve been on since before this whole mess began, and the new industry was playing out its role in what was once our modern, comfortable SunPort. One bunch of Americans in uniforms bothering another bunch of Americans in street clothes. What some Abdul is expected to do with a little 737, I can’t fathom.
I think the reason government employees act on unfounded information is because most of what they do day to day is based on similar malarkey, since most of the job positions are mere patronage payoffs.
As for cowardliness of Americans, consider that only one of eight men under age 50 has any kind of military training, mostly peacetime, and mostly Navy and Air Force, and nowadays, mostly part-time, and it’s a wonder the whole country isn’t cowering in the closet. And this is the primary reason the Arabs will never surrender.
In my lifetime I went to three of Led Zeppelin concerts going all the way back to John Bonham and was even back stage at one and I still listen to their music. Already being a member in the senior citizen club I guess this would make me a member of the “Senior Citizen Led Zep Terrorist Clubâ€. Typical of the world at large.
I hadn’t considered what the effect of not ever having been in the military on majority opinion or society … probably because most of the men I know personally have been in the military (because, well, they are mostly older). I know that Lin’s time in the Air Force preparing to blow up the world during the cold war definitely colors his actions and perceptions of things going on in the world today.
Wildman: I discovered Led Zep late. We only got something like three radio stations in my hometown when I was growing up, and none of them would have played anything like that (country, polkas, and oldies is what I listened to as a kid). One of my first college sweethearts was really into them, and I fell in love with the group then. Didn’t think about them much in the intervening years, but then I met Lin who is a huge fan. Compared to some of the stuff Lin and I listen to, LZ is tame, I tell you.
I think everyone, male & female, should have to serve in the military or the Peace Corp for 2 years. It just may cut down on the number of people who bitch about everything, the me firsters/what’s in it for me kind. But I somehow doubt if that thought ever entered their minds. To somehow give back to their country/community which affords them the freedoms they are always bitching about. Kind of sounds like a bunch of spoiled rotten brats.
I wanted to do the Peace Corps, but it just didn’t work out, so I did a lot of volunteer work (still do when I can). I watched about 5 minutes of a show yesterday called Survival of the Richest. It’s some new “reality” show in which a bunch of yoing adults, some very wealthy and some not, live together and have to do things like clean toilets and serve food at homeless shelters and other really “normal” stuff (normal for us normal folks). This one rich chick was crying about having to clean public toilets at a race track. Crying. The restrooms they were cleaning weren’t even really icky or anything. Just a normal public restroom at a well-run public establishment. The sort of place that when I was working as a maid wouldn’t have even made me bat an eyelash, yet here were some rich brats having fits about having to clean it. If it didn’t piss me off to watch people acting like that, it would have been funny. It’s like they don’t even realize that there are people every day that clean public restrooms that they have used to poop in (and those folks don’t get to go home to a huge house and bank account when it’s over). The sad fact is this isn’t just rich brats either … a whole bunch of middle class brats would act just as bad.
Admittedly, I didn’t have to do many chores when I was a kid. My job was to get good grades and finish high school (something of a rarity in my family — mostly dropped out young to start working). Still, I wasn’t sheltered from the fact that toilets need cleaning and that chores had to be done whether you wanted to or not. You either had to be rich enough to pay someone to do them, or you were going to have to do them yourself … and you better know how to do them, because you never know what you might have to do in the future to get by. I guess when you have millions (or billions) in the bank, you just don’t think about things like … what would I do if I had to clean my own toilet or someone else’s.
Know whay you mean Orb. when I was growing up we had an acre of land and every year it was planted in veggies. we also gathered Blackberries, wild Plums, and Pecans not mention hog killing time, hunting and fishing. We worked hard at not having to buy our food in a store. Most people now days wouldn’y know where to start. Even now I do our house cleaning, iorning, yardwork for us and my mother in law plus babysit a 1yr old grandson. Kudos to Jocko about the military I served and was a better person for it. At the time our locol PD gave me a choice of going to jail or signing up and if not for that choice I would have been dead or in jail. Nade a big difference for me and I know it would for everyone.