Here’s an example of how to sing the song.

Lyrics are here: http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Hoist_the_Colours_(song)

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuKx7AgHLes

Tony Snow, a former Fox News anchorman and White House Press Secretary, passed away this morning after battling cancer, but instead of the somber remembrance and sadness that you would expect upon the death of such an important person, much like with the death of Jesse Helms, the left was far less than apologetic and the only condolonces offered were for themselves, that it was not the President nor Vice President whom had perished.

I begin with the Queen of Lies, Arianna Huffington herself, so-called “former conservative” who now runs what amounts to the virtual equivalent of the five minutes hate. Here’s a few choice comments her readers had to say about Tony Snow’s passing:

gcswift2 | Posted 03:22 PM on 07/12/2008

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“He brought wit, grace, and a great love of country to his work….
Huh?Bush administration he was enjoying “the most exciting, intellectually aerobic job I’m ever going to have.”…
all that lying has to be difficult

if not always a command of the facts _ he became a popular figure around the country to the delight of his White House bosses….
He gave a great “snowjob”

I send my condolences to his family, but I’m happy he’s gone.

moving to Washington in 1987 to become editorial page editor of The Washington Times. Snow left journalism in 1991 to join the administration of the first President Bush…
I would argue he left journalism in 1987.“

Speaking of Helms, here’s one that involves the both of them:

doctorzuma | Posted 02:55 PM on 07/12/2008

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“Helms and Snow in one week-the world is a better place without both of these regressive forces. Sad but true.“

Despite Ms. Huffington desperately trying to prevent such comments from making her look bad while the world is watching, comments like the following are par for the course as far as her website is concerned:

wmbear | Posted 02:43 PM on 07/12/2008

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“We’ll miss ya, Tony…

NOT!!!

My reaction to the death of Tony Snow is about on par with my reaction to William Buckley’s death a few months ago. As J.R.R. Tolkein might have put it, a pernicious influence has passed from the Earth.

Unless you were a personal friend of Tony Snow’s (god help you), what’s to mourn.

(And by the way, I make no apologies for the tone of this post. Do people whose scope has allowed them to do great damage — or in Snow’s case, enable it — deserve our tears?)“

I would quote from the DailyKos and other such leftist sites, but the quotes I found there were far worse and too vitriolic that I dare not post them here. When an established leftist passes away, we are made to hear about them for weeks and their service to America, but when it is an esteemed Republican that passes away, it’s just short of a parade on the left. Our liberal friends are morally and mentally bankrupt, and if you let their masters like Barack Obama into the White House, you’ll be bankrupt too. The only change Obama hopes to create is spare change, and he’ll take that from you too.

Democrat Presidential Candidate Barack Obama has been very vocal about the corruption in Washington and pledged not to take money from so called “special interests”, but he has done exactly that. This comes on top of Obama’s outright lie that he would seek federal campaign money, only to flip-flop on the issue later, arrogantly saying he would not. Obama says he will not support drilling to drive down the price of gas. Obama says he does not support reform of Social Security except to increase the taxes. The list goes on and on.

It seems the only “change” that Barack Obama is talking about is the change in your wallet, and how much he wants it. In truth, he is the King of the Status Quo. He wants to keep Washington the same bureaucratic mess that his Democrat concubines have made it. He wants to keep the border open as it is, and give all illegal immigrants who broke the laws of our nation a free pass to citizenship. He wants to socialize medicine and seize control of the private sector and free market like a modern day Joseph Stalin. He wants to see a return to the failed policies of the Jimmy Carter era, and wants to hand out American lives on a silver platter to anti-American foreign interests, while we beg and plead them to release our people instead of going and getting them ourselves.

Obama believes that terrorists who attack our nation deserve the same rights as the people they viciously murdered, despite that the constitution affords no protection to non-citizens of this nation, especially not to those who attack us. He wants to sit down with countries that have sworn to see our destruction without preconditions. He wants us to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Iraq and let countries like Iran take it over. He wants us to just let the Taliban control Afghanistan and seal ourselves up in an invisible wall and pretend like if we ignore the rest of the world, we’ll be safe.

No matter which way you look at it, Barack Obama is nothing new and nothing different. He offers the same failed policies of his Democrat bretheren and would set America back fifty years economically and technologically.

The Bottom Line: Obama offers high taxes, high gas prices, no technological advancement, the complete destruction and bankrupting of our medical system, giving terrorists rights, letting terrorists go only to let them attack us again, surrender, and defeat.

Update: Hey Boneyard Banter. I had no idea anyone would find this. If anyone is wondering who I am, I’m Capt Lolbeard on the boards, the son of a former East Carolinian sports writer back in the 70’s (known by the nickname Doctor Zee), and a Sophomore Honor Student at ECU. I kept hearing all this talk about expansion so I figured I’d post my analysis about it. Hope you guys liked it.

Summer is a very interesting time of year. It is a time of graduations, longer days, shorter nights, and is also the exact moment when the conference expansion rumor mill starts spinning so fast, it almost flies off its hinges. In the past, expansion rumors were just that, rumors, but all that changed in 2003 when the Atlantic Coast Conference expanded, pillaging and looting their rivals the Big East. This would set off an expansion wildfire that quickly escalated to Conference USA, who refilled its depleted ranks through the MAC and WAC. When the smoke cleared, East Carolina was once again left at the altar, as many teams like South Florida, who didn’t even play football prior to 1997, were admitted into the Big East ahead of them and obtained the much coveted BCS label.

With the resigning of Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese after this year, the expansion wildfire may once again be close at hand. The conflict between the basketball and football members is something that the new commissioner is going to have to deal with, and soon. Depending on who that commissioner may be, the conflict may only get worse from here, resulting in a split along basketball and football members.

Realistically, there is only one choice for the Big East to save itself: either Big East Football expands to have between 9 and 12 teams (10 being preferred,) or the football and basketball schools will be forced to split and form new conferences.

The question remains, if the Big East expands, who are the likely candidates? All kinds of blogs, sports analysts and crazies recommend all kinds of candidates, but are any of them realistic? Out of the possible choices, you can automatically discount schools that have already left once before. Virginia Tech, Miami, Boston College and Temple left for their own reasons and I doubt that within the span of three to five years that they would change their minds. Schools that are already in BCS conferences are equally as unlikely. It doesn’t make sense for an SEC or Big Ten school to abandon all that money just to settle for less.

You can also discount any I-AA football program. Why would the Big East want to take a school that it would have to mold into a I-A program instead of picking one of the many available choices? It’s like going to the grocery store and buying some pumpkin seeds for Halloween instead of a whole pumpkin. Sure, you’ll have the pumpkin down the road, but you won’t have it when you need it and you have no guarantee of how big it’s going to be and how long it’s going to take.

It is even more unlikely that Notre Dame will want to give up its status as an independent in football. Notre Dame has its own television contracts, the ability to schedule who it wants, an automatic shot to the BCS during eligible seasons, and doesn’t have to go through a conference championship to get it.

This leaves a few teams right on the cusp. Of Conference USA, East Carolina and Memphis seem to be the most likely candidates, whereas teams like Central Florida and Marshall can expect heavy protests from sister universities South Florida and West Virginia. It is expected that FedEx will support Memphis in its bid, but the dark horse in this race is Pepsi and its relationship with ECU. Coca-Cola prides itself on being the official soft drink of the ACC, so what happens if East Carolina brings Pepsi along for the ride? Not only will you be establishing television markets in the ACC’s backyard, but you will be bringing along a large corporate sponsor competing directly with an ACC sponsor.

The Big East could try adding teams from the MAC or a transitioning team like Western Kentucky, but my argument about I-AA schools is also applicable here: why build programs when you get obtain established ones with a history of bowl attendance?

In all the madness, one fact remains: the new commissioner is going to have to do something to mend the conference or the sun may finally set on the Big East.

You hear about it on the news: the declining value of the dollar, increased gas prices, lost jobs, lower wages, and what have the Democrats proposed to solve these issues? You hear the words “Windfall profits”, “tax the rich”, “cap and trade”, but you don’t know what they mean. I’ll tell you what they mean. It means tax tax tax tax and tax. The Democrats’ solution to anything is to create a tax for it. The Windfall profits tax is just that: another tax on corporations that will pass it on to the consumer. The “Cap and trade” bill is a monumental cost to the American consumer, without any environmental benefit to it at all might I add, that will shoot energy costs through the proverbial roof. When it comes down to it, a Democrat solution to a problem is to take more of your money and offer nothing useful in return.

The Republicans have offered meaningful, cut to the chase solutions, such as decreasing the price of oil by drilling for more and opening new refineries for processing said oil. They’ve said we have to stop punishing corporations and instead give them benefits for keeping money and jobs in America. We’ve got to stop the Unions, who have gone out of control and become a cartel unto themselves, siphoning the life out of corporations like General Motors, and we have to let the private sector, the free market, figure out how to deal with environmental issues through competition and not through failed government policy. We have to let the free market drive down the costs of prescription drugs and healthcare, not let the government socialize a third of the American economy and threaten to bankrupt our economy like France. We’ve got to protect our borders and send back every illegal alien back to their country of origin. We have to decrease the bloated government bureaucracy and cut government spending. We’ve got to develop new military technologies and send men back to the moon and onward towards Mars.

This is the Republican ideal, no, the Conservative ideal, that America is the greatest country in the world, and we have to fight to keep it that way. The Democrats would have you satisfied with the words of Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter: “Do With Less.” In other words, don’t look for hope, don’t look towards the future with eyes wide open, get your head out of the clouds, close your eyes, bury your head in the sand and look towards your government for the answers; “we keep you safe, we are your hope.”

This is what it boils down to when fighting for your country’s soul: those who want to keep the legacy alive, and those who want to destroy it to seize power for themselves.

http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9917113-57.html

I laughed out loud in real life when I read that Gore was trying to update the speech he gave in “An Inconvinent Truth”. (More like An Incontinent Truth am I right?)

Anyway, this was more or less the exact same as his speech in the movie, except now his predictions have become even more dire in an attempt to spook the average person into believing the lie. As I talked about previously, Gore has dumped a lot of money into a campaign to fight against the scientific truth, because it’s inconvinent for him. Evidence suggests that the sun is largely to blame for increasing global temperatures, and when the global average dropped this year due to the incredibly cold winter, the global warming cultists changed their mantra to “climate change”, encompassing both the theories of global warming and cooling into an amalgamation of pure stupidity.

Of course, Gore has been very vocal about critics of “global climate change”. He likens them to Holocaust deniers, the nutballs that think the Moon landing was staged, and people that believed the Earth was flat. The irony here is that the science is not on his side. Where does he get his scientific evidence from? A few niche scientists whose government grants rely on the theory of global warming to be true. The truth is that the vast majority of scientists believe global warming to be a huge farce, but their speech is ridiculed, they are belittled as corporate shills, and are claimed to be a crazy minority. Similar to the Pluto fiasco, you have a few scientists determining the science of the many. “Science is thusly because we say so.”

The part I found the most hilarious however, was that Gore was using an age-old tactic employed by liberals in speeches when they want to make themselves look like the defenders of the truth. They throw a few people designated as nay-sayers or deniers and make them say crazy, completely off-the-wall things in order to make it look like everyone who disagrees is crazy, then the speaker valiantly continues his or her speech, unperturbed by the raucous dissidents that seek to silence them. This is the scenario that they hope to conjure in the minds of the listeners.

While Gore’s off talking about how the world is going to be combusting, I’m finally enjoying the brief amount of warmth we’re actually getting, before we are plunged right back into the 50’s and 40’s again until summer proper.

I’ve got an article here from the AP that ticked me off:

“Gore Announces Global Warming Effort”

Newt Gingrich is a traitor to the conservative moment. Global warming is a farce, and because it was too obvious a farce, they had to change the name to “global climate change” to anticipate when global warming ends and global cooling begins. I remember when they used to call them SUMMER AND WINTER.

Global warming has become a doomsday cult, with Al Gore as the High Priest. They indoctrinate children by mandating that they watch it in schools, but now they’re not satisfied with that. They have to toss more money into furthering the lie and throwing fear-mongering commercials during American Idol and other popular TV shows. As Mason once said they’re going to “Keep it up until the drones submit.”

There are countless scientists that have already disproven this several times, but you have a lot of scientists who get their paycheck solely on the fact that global warming supposedly exists. They wish to perpetuate the faulty science that attempts to support it in order to keep their research grants. There’s a plethora of evidence suggesting that global warming is a farce, such as the parts-per-million issue, the drop in average global temperature by an entire degree just this winter alone, the issues of corruption in funding, the questionable locations of several monitoring stations, the link between solar output and average global temperature, and “Carbon Credits”, which is just one gigantic ponzi scheme that they hope to use your money to perpetuate (IE: A new tax.)