Enjoy the game today, everyone. I’m kind of torn. It’s hard not to root for Brett Favre to keep his season going, but I’d love to see a Giants-Seahawks NFC Championship game at Qwest Field next week.
This week’s Birds Eye View Contest is still unsolved. I think I have to give a clue since it’s such a tough one. The clue it’s that this town is so plain and conservative that there just weren’t any views that stood out for me to use.
Finally, after way too long of a wait, the third edition of the Crackpiper Chronicles is now posted (as always, keep sending me your favorite stupid comments, although I already have some good material for Part 4).
What time is the Eagle’s game?
I’m going to guess Irvine CA.
@1: Goldy, it’s at 1 PM. On Sunday, August 31, 2008.
Yes, yes, entertain yourself with a game between two for-profit corporations played for the purpose of extracting as much money out of the
fanscommunity as possible. Tell yourself that one of these for profit corporations is your team and cheer them on. And then allow the outcome of the game to affect your mood because this is important. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, George W. Bush is ordering the torture and killing of more human beings-having received his orders from Jesus last night he is compelled to do God’s work. And at the Supreme Court yesterday there was a spectacle.http://www.flickr.com/photos/kcivey/
Go Hawks! Hurrah for Paul Allen! What a guy!
Absolutely amazing Lee-that you can decipher the real meaning to Crackpiper’s rantings. Crackpiper you go to Lee’s site right now and find out what you have been saying.
Good cross-reference to the cracker-piper.
But, as they say, he’s a “target rich environment.”
@4 The 100,000+ GBP stockholders would be interested to know their community-owned team makes a profit, as that would be news to them.
Lee…
Wow! At least you spell my name correctly!
Any chance you’ll publish the Chronicles in hard cover? Say, Morrocan leather-bound, gold embossed title, gold-leaf-edged pages…you know, the whole nine-yards?
If you do, you owe me a comp copy. I can take it to the circles within which I travel, and it will send my approvals through the roof! And show up your thinking as the HA Happy Hoolihalucinations that it is.
Remember the movie Dances With Wolves? If one is ever made of your life, the title could be He Who Chases His Tail.
You do need to get out more. When you do, it is OK to make the occassional right turn…literally and figuratively…to get where you need to go.
Nevertheless, I’ll continue to do my best to bring you enlightenment, draw you away from the dark side, and teach you the difference between wrong and – again, literally, figuratively, and now, politically – RIGHT!
Be well, Lee; someday you’ll make it to Kent, by hook or, if you keep pimpin’ for the druggies, by crook.
Cheers!
The Piper
PS: I still want to see the Pats run the table.
Yes, yes, entertain yourself with a game between two for-profit corporations
Actually, the Green Bay Packers is a non-profit organization operated by and for the citizens of Green Bay.
When the Seahawks wanted a new stadium, they got the government to finance it with a new tax on hotels and restaurants. When the Packers wanted to renovate Lambeau Field, they financed it by selling shares of stock to members of the community.
And, by the way, this kind of tax-increment financing that the Seahawks used is exactly the same method George W. Bush used to get rich by fleecing the fine citizens of Arlington, TX.
PS: I still want to see the Pats run the table.
Typical corporatist. Were you a true populist, you’d wish the Packers go all the way.
@4-5…Stands Condemned Out of His Own Mouth…
I corrected your musical ignorance on another thread, but since you’ve the brains of a rusty bolt, I’ll do it again:
“…you’re…an esthetic dump and cultural illiterate. It’s ‘bagpipe,’ stupid; the instrument is a bagpipe, and only when there are more than one of them is the term ‘bagpipes’ used.
Then again the only ‘pipes’ with which you’re familiar are either the one you undoubtedly use to smoke your dope – only a hallucinated slimeball could say the stuff you do – or the lead one your mother must have used to beat you with as a child. How else to explain these rants that seem to flow from the Charlie Manson Charm School.”
I love how you mock what you obviously don’t understand and secretely envy since you have demonstrated the artistic ability of cobra.
Tell me…what musical instrument do you play? In what fine or performing arts are you proficient or consider yourself a patron?
Pulling wings off flies and self-abuse don’t qualify.
The Piper
@10…DJ…
Corporatist? Nah! I simply admire perfection, since it’s what anyone engaged in an endeavor ought to strive for, and the Pats are close, real close.
Of all the pitchers in all the World Series games played in the 1950’s, which one first and most dramatically comes to mind and why? Instantaneously, it’s NY Yankee, Don Larsen, who pitched a perfect game against the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1956 World Series.
For nine-innings, it was three up and three down, three up and three down; 27-straight outs with the last on a called third strike. Does it get any better than that?
Who can forget the image of Yogi Berra jumping into Larsen’s arms at the end of the game? One of the greatest sports stories of all time.
The Piper
@11: I play several musical instruments (though not all at once), and in a distant past I even got paid regularly for it, and no offense, Piper, but when I think “bagpipes” my first association is with the sound of many cats being tortured. In grad school I had to spend a summer with the school’s bagpipe ensemble practicing under the library window where I had to read source material. It was…traumatic. (That was torture, too.)
As I’ve aged I’ve come to accept that some people consider this sound pleasurable, even beautiful. And that with the dismantling of our social safety net, there appears to be nothing available that can help said affliction. I’m glad you enjoy your passion; I just hope it’s out of earshot.
To be fair, you probably wouldn’t like the CDs of my old punk bands, either.
@13…Geov…
No problem…
There are two types of people: those who appreciate pipe music, and the English. The only thing that prevented your pal Knute Berger from coming after me with a pitchfork one time was his fondness for piping.
Consider:
Q. What’s one thing you never hear people say?
A. Oh, that’s the bagpipe player’s Porsche.
Q: What’s the difference between a Scotsman and a Rolling Stone?
A: A Rolling Stone says “hey you, get off of my cloud!”, while a Scotsman says “Hey McLeod, get off of my ewe!”
Q. How do you get two bagpipes to play a perfect unison?
A. Shoot one.
Q. What’s the definition of a minor second?
A. Two bagpipes playing in unison.
Q. What’s the difference between a bagpipe and an onion?
A. No one cries when you chop up an bagpipe.
Q. What’s the difference between a bagpipe and a trampoline?
A. You take off your shoes when you jump on a trampoline.
Q. Why did the chicken cross the road?
A. To get away from the bagpipe recital.
Q. Why do bagpipers leave their cases on their dashboards?
A. So they can park in handicapped zones.
Q. How can you tell a bagpiper with perfect pitch?
A. He can throw a set into the middle of a pond and not hit any of the ducks.
Q. How is playing a bagpipe like throwing a javelin blindfolded?
A. You don’t have to be very good to get people’s attention.
Q. What’s the difference between the Great Highland and Northumbrian bagpipes?
A. The GHB burns longer [but the Northumbrian burns hotter]
Q. What do you call bagpiper with half a brain?
A. Gifted.
Q. What’s the difference between a lawnmower and a bagpipe?
A. You can tune the lawnmower, and the owner’s neighbors are upset if you borrow the lawnmower and don’t return it.
Q. How many bagpipers does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Five, one to handle the bulb and the other four to contemplate how Bill Livingston would have done it.
Q. How many bagpipers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A. 5-one to do it, and four to criticise his fingering style.
Q. If you were lost in the woods, who would you trust for directions, an in-tune bagpipe player, an out of tune bagpipe player, or Santa Claus?
A. The out of tune bagpipe player. The other two indicate you have been hallucinating.
Q. How do you make a chain saw sound like a bagpipe?
A. Add vibrato.
Q. How many bagpipers does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Five. One to handle the bulb, the other four to tell him how much better they could have done it.
Q. What’s the definition of a gentleman?
A. Someone who knows how to play the bagpipe and doesn’t.
Q. What’s the difference between a dead snake in the road and a dead bagpiper in the road?
A. Skid marks in front of the snake.
Q. What’s the difference between a dead bagpiper in the road and a dead country singer in the road?
A. The country singer may have been on the way to a recording session.
Q. What’s the range of a bagpipe?
A. Twenty yards if you have a good arm.
Q. What do you call someone who hangs around with musicians?
A. A bagpiper.
Q. What did the bagpiper get on his I.Q. test?
A. Drool.
Q. What’s the definition of a quarter tone?
A. A bagpiper tuning his drones.
Q. Why are bagpipers fingers like lightning?
A. They rarely strike the same spot twice.
Q. How can you tell if a bagpipe is out of tune?
A. Someone is blowing into it.
Q. Why is a bagpipe like a Scud missile?
A. Both are offensive and inaccurate.
Q. What do bagpipers use for birth control?
A. Their personalities.
Q. How do you know if a bagpipe band is at your front door?
A. No one knows when to come in.
Q. Why did the bagpiper get mad at the drummer?
A. He moved a drone and wouldn’t tell him which one.
Q. If you took all the bagpipers in the world and laid them end to end– it would be a good idea.
Q. What do you call ten bagpipes at the bottom of the ocean?
A. A start.
Q. If you drop a bagpipe and a watermelon off a tall building, which will hit the ground first?
A. Who cares?
Q. Why do bagpipers walk when they play?
A. To get away from the sound.
Q. How late does the bagpipe band play?
A.Oh, about a half beat behind the drummer.
Q. Why do bagpipers always walk when they play?
A. Moving targets are harder to hit.
Q. What does a bagpiper wear under his kilt?
A. Shoes and socks.
Q. Why do they call it a “kilt”?
A. Because a lot of people got kilt when they called it a skirt.
BAND STRUCTURE OF THE ARGYLL & SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS
Drum Major:
Leaps tall buildings in a single bound
Faster than a speeding bullet
More powerful than a locomotive
Walks on Water
Talks to God
Pipers:
Leaps small buildings with a run-up
Is a crack shot
Pulls railway carriages
Fords rivers
Listens to god
Side Drummers:
Vaults over fences
Is allowed his own sidearm
Can read a railway timetable
Knows how to put on fishing gollashes
Believes in God
Tenor Drummers:
Can open and walk through a door
Knows which is the dangerous end of a gun
Has his own train set
Wears Wellington boots
Talks to himself
Bass Drummers:
Trips over matchsticks
Is NEVER allowed near firearms
Says “Look at CHOO-CHOO”
Plays in puddles
Nobody listens to him
and finally.
THE PIPE MAJOR:
Lifts tall buildings and walks underneath them
Catches bullets in his teeth and chews them
Kicks locomotives off their tracks
Drinks entire oceans
He IS GOD!!!!
Q. What’s the definition of “optimism”
A. A bagpiper with a beeper.
Q. What’s the difference between a bagpiper and a frog?
A. The frog might be getting a gig.
Aside from you and maybe a couple others, a big difference between the HA Happy Hooligans and me is that I can laugh at myself while so many who post here think the sun rises and sets on their POV and that all who fail to share that opinion must be wiped from the face of the earth.
You know the ones…
The Piper
That certainly is an incisive socio-psychoanalysis of Crackpiper by “thehim” on Effin’ Unsound! I believe that I know what the genesis of piper’s insecurity-driven addiction to rightwing political cultism is. Law school tends to be an ego-destroying experience, and the strains and uncertainties of trying to eke a living from the law can shatter the stoutest hearts … but in piper’s case, I think his mother dropped him on his head when he was a baby.
Corporatist? Nah! I simply admire perfection…
You can’t admire something that has yet to be achieved, which leaves the question, why would you wish that the Patriots would achieve it? At this point, corporatism looks like the most likely explanation.
Hmmmm….
Watch 2nd half.
Hit a bucket of balls.
Decisions. Decisions.
35-17. I’m outta’ here.
ACLU Forces Gov’t to Stop Drugging Deportees
A federal lawsuit by the ACLU has forced the Immigration Service to order its agents to stop sedating deportees without a judge’s order, according to the Associated Press.
L”OS ANGELES — U.S. immigration agents must not sedate deportees without a judge’s permission, according to a policy change issued this week.
“Immigration officials have acknowledged that 56 deportees were given psychotropic drugs during a seven-month period in 2006 and 2007 even though most had no history of mental problems. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit over the practice in June.
“An internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) memo issued Wednesday said that, effective immediately, agents must get a court order before administering drugs ‘to facilitate an alien’s removal.’ … To get a sedation order from court, officials must show deportees have a history of physical resistance to being removed or are a danger to themselves.”
Quoted under fair use; for complete story and/or copyright info see http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....ort12.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Another violation of constitutional and human rights brought to you by Republican thugs.
Seahawks are getting their butts kicked by the Packers; it’s 35-17 in the 3rd quarter.
@13 There are two things bagpipes are good for: Funerals, and enabling British troops to retreat with dignity.
It sure doesn’t look good for the Hawks.
So is this going to be it for Holmgren?
Yes, I admit, I don’t follow football too closely.
42 – 20 in 4th quarter
Game just ended, glad to see the Republican QB and the rest of the Seahawks get humiliated.
Now it’s time to tune in the post game show on KIRO and hear Monson snivel.
Life is good.
Packers 42, Seahawks 20, Final
@23 Piper is either a delusional fool or a paid troll, or both.
@14
Aside from you and maybe a couple others, a big difference between the HA Happy Hooligans and me is that I can laugh at myself while so many who post here think the sun rises and sets on their POV and that all who fail to share that opinion must be wiped from the face of the earth.
Why would anyone here want you to be wiped from the face of the earth? We’d just have to find someone else to make fun of.
@22
No D today for the Hawks. I don’t think either the Cowboys or Giants can beat the Pack right now. The Pats, on the other hand…
@26
As I said with Marvin, if someone’s paying him to make an ass of himself here, it’s the best proof we’ve ever had that free markets can be inefficient.
We all know human population growth can’t continue forever … but how many of us think about what would happen in a world of stable or declining human population?
Consumer and labor pools would not expand, so it would be much more difficult for economies and companies to grow.
Stock prices would not rise in a no-growth or reverse-growth world.
All economic models predicated on continuous growth would fail.
All government programs predicated on a growing population and tax base would be in fiscal trouble.
There might be surpluses of infrastructure, factory capacity, housing stock, etc. — leading to abandoned assets and plummeting market values.
Yet — we all know that human population can’t expand forever, don’t we?
Imagine if they built a freeway and nobody came.
@28 That’s what you call “disinvestment.”
@ 27,
The most telling stat in the game: P. Kerney had 0 tackles (tackles let alone sacks). Mark Tauscher, Green Bay’s right tackle, had a pro-bowl game today.
Or is it “dysfunctional investment”?
@32
Totally, they just couldn’t stop the run no matter what.
I’m pleased to report that I’m taking a bath on my investment in Titanium Metals, whose stock is down 25% since early last year.
But my paper loss is nothing compared to the soaking that TIE’s major stockholder, Harold C. Simmons, is taking. I’m only out $1,000; Simmons has eaten almost a billion.
Simmons is a rightwing freak who was a key donor to the Swift Boat Liars. He’s going into the 2008 campaign a bit less flush … which means the Pubbies need to find a new sugar daddy if they want to swift-boat our candidate.
26 – It’s the former. I can’t believe trolling pays much if anything.
However for just the right wingnut, something could be better than nothing.
@21
I wouldn’t be surprised if that was Holmgren’s last game.
Looking of the NFL.com stats page, I was reminded that Marcus Pollard had a lost fumble to go with his 2 big drops. That guy played in domes for too long.
My Dad, who grew up in Wisconsin, was no doubt laughing as he watched the game from wherever he went after he shuffled off this mortal coil.
It seemed rather evident that the Hawks were unprepared to play football in typical January conditions in Green Bay. They’d also be well advised not to enter the Iditarod.
piper….lee is most likely one of those nasty english types, you know, bad food ,bad taste, thick ankles…..
i’ll bet he doesn’t have a drop of scot blood in him.
after all, anyone that makes a post out of what other people say in their posts is beyond “reaching”……any original thought here? nope.
loved the bagpipe jokes by the way…..
my oldest son plays and i always told him that if that whole scientist thing didn’t work out he could always take a cup and stand on the corner……..
That’s what happens when you allow teams with barely better than mediocre records into the playoffs.
I’d rather see a system where, instead of divisional “champions” and wild cards, you select teams with a specific winning percentage, then match them off in an open tournament style. The percentage floor out to be somewhere around 75%, or a 12 – 4 record.
Let the numbers dictate how many are invited. One thing’s for certain, a requirement like this means there won’t be any more dogging of games like what Seattle did against Atlanta.
Play to win, or don’t play at all.
I know…not “fan friendly” and certainly not anything that will generate large TV $$$. But wouldn’t you like just once to see a standard of genuine excellence rewarded and mediocrity and coasting not necessarily punished, but not rewarded?
There’s a lesson in this for politics, too. If you get into a race, get into it to win, not just to put up a good show. Raise enough money to be competitive, organize, go at it with all you’ve got, but don’t engage in vanity runs or those where you’re trying to “make a point.” All they end up doing is making the candidate look vain with the only point being the one shoved up his butt by the voters.
In professional sports and in politics, only winners get the reward. All others are losers.
Hard, but life is hard.
The Piper
piper…keep up the good work. you must be doing something right to get all these panties[waists…or is it wastes considering the company?] in a bunch.and this classic comment…ohmygod what a laugher….
“Lee does a marvelous job dissecting your arguments.”
now that is funny……..
hey lee…do you still want to legalize things like crack and meth? i mean….what about the guy that threw his 4 kids off a bridge?
his wife thought he had traded or SOLD them to get those drugs. and don’t bother to say that IF they were legal it wouldn’t have happened. meth changes your brain. and they might be legalized but they won’t be FREE will they?
he still would have done it……..
@39…CG…
Your son is a piper? Really?
Lee doesn’t bother me any more than does a fly in need of a swat. Remember…this is a guy who couldn’t even get it together to move to Kent! KENT, of all places! I suppose White Center was beyond his reach and Tukwilla beyond his wildest imagination.
Tell me more about your son…Kids and music are way cool! In fact, we spend way too much trying to cram math and science into the minds and hearts of young artists when we ought to demand that science and engineering types study the arts, humanities, literature, and the other fields of study that are the true hallmarks of a civilization.
Does the world need another engineer or scientist? Or does it need another great musician or artist?
The Piper
The Piper
piper……my oldest son plays many instruments. was in the junior high band, high school band, and college band.all three sons play instruments and now they aren’t such “kids’ anymore. they are all in their twenties…time does fly.when the oldest was hired away from college during the dot com boom [mom wasn’t every happy with him over that…] he met me in san fran for dinner and we “discussed” his taking a leave from school. i heard it was his life…blah blah blah….and as we were walking back to the cars we stopped in this great music store and i saw the pipes and told him that i would shut up about the temporary leave if he had a back up plan and i thought it should be that he learn to play the bagpipes [following in his ancestors steps…so to speak] so that he would have a back up plan.
cup on corner plan…that is. LOL.
i never thought he would do it…but he did. gee…i wonder where on earth he gets that extremely stubborn, mule-like streak from?
so it basically started as a bet……
i love the bagpipes and anyone that doesn’t is either an idiot or a nasty englishman…….
how about during WW2? the pipers scared the crap out of the enemy by marching into battle playing the pipes…….ah, the good old days! when traitors were shot, whiners were ignored as the cowards they are, and MEN played the pipes as they went into battle.
KENT?? good god…that is sad.
Come clean headless lucy. You know the stakes.
R U man enough 24/7?
@14: Piper – Enjoyed the jokes (though at least a few are recycled from lawyer jokes, etc.) Fourth one especially.
I’m rather surprised bagpipes were used to scare enemies during war. I’d think it’d minimize your opponents’ fear of death.
Shame about your politics. You start by playing all that loud “music,” and look where it gets you…
I’m looking forward to all the folks who had the Seahawks going to the Super Bowl now turning around and grousing that they didn’t belong on the same field with Green Bay.
Great jokes, Piper. But the greatest music joke of all time is a drummer joke:
Q: What do Ginger Baker and 7-Eleven coffee have in common?
A: They both suck without Cream.
And I almost played an even worse instrument than either drums or pipes. My grandmother went to her grave trying to get me to learn to play grandpa’s accordion. Maybe if this had been around back in the day……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GcZHxXTW90
I’d have actually WANTED to play one! BTW, their drummer is amazing.
@46…Geov…
Actually, there’s only one joke in the world with an infinite number of variations.
The politics were well in place before the music.
You won’t find me among those ragging on the Seahawks after equating them with the Second Coming. Might as well get in trouble now by saying I didn’t think they were playoff material with their record and inconsistent play, and they proved it at Lambeau Field yesterday. Go Pats, who proved they not only belong by beating Jacksonville, but added one more to their undefeated streak.
The Piper
@47…BJ…
Stolen Babies was…uhm…interesting. Sure wouldn’t expect to hear “Lady of Spain” from them anytime soon.
These are more up my alley:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNHbhgnEskY
Jori Chisolm, a Seattle piper, one of the world’s best, and a member of one of the top bands in the world, Simon Fraser University, playing a March/Strathspey/Reel set.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0NXIXG-OMs
SFU World’s Medley – 2004
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Strathclyde Police, my favorite band, playing in 2005
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Field Marshall Montgomery World’s Medley, 2001. I was at Glasgow Green and saw this one. The band I was then in had competed, albeit in Grade 3B (FMM, Strathclyde Cops, and SFU are Grade 1), earlier in the day.
Way cool!
The Piper
#28 Lee says:
I see you still post about trolls. Didn’t take my suggestion about getting some hobbies did you? What about spending some time with real live human people, doesn’t interest you? Life still easier for you hiding behind a keyboard?
It is interesting you still have me on your mind. After that smackdown on sound politics I’m not surprised.
Hey, didn’t you say you were going to make a life for yourself and stop posting in the comments? Maybe like a good dixiecrat you need a government program to do for you??
@52
I see you still post about trolls. Didn’t take my suggestion about getting some hobbies did you?
Why would I care about your suggestions? What’s more fun than making fun of idiots like you, Marvin, and Crackpiper?
What about spending some time with real live human people, doesn’t interest you?
I spend plenty of time with real live human people. You don’t really think it’s all that hard to break down all of this stupidity, do you? Hell, I played in private Texas Hold ‘Em tournament last night.
Life still easier for you hiding behind a keyboard?
If you ever want to talk to me face-to-face, it’s not hard. I’m at the Montlake Ale House nearly every Tuesday night.
It is interesting you still have me on your mind. After that smackdown on sound politics I’m not surprised.
Considering that you’re using a name I don’t recognize, I think someone else is hiding behind their keyboard.
Hey, didn’t you say you were going to make a life for yourself and stop posting in the comments?
My New Years Resolution is to stay out of the comments, but I’ll probably still pop up occasionally. I don’t think you understand how much I enjoy making fun of idiots (and believe me, it doesn’t cut into my time as much as you think, it’s not that hard).
Maybe like a good dixiecrat you need a government program to do for you??
A dixiecrat? Wow, I’ve never been called that, but hey, if all the stupidity had been exhausted, maybe I *could* stop.
@39 Is that the best you can do, ghost? This feeble attempt to psychoanalyze Lee for deconstructing one of HA’s most virulent wingnut blowhards? Although that was probably unnecessary, given how obvious it is that he (and you) are trained parrots.
At least Lee’s commentary contains some actual policy analysis, which is more than you’ve accomplished in your long drawn out wheeze on this site.
42 – 44 = Idiot’s Row interspersed with 1 voice of reason @43.
That should be 42 – 45
@48 “Actually, there’s only one joke in the world with an infinite number of variations.”
You?
@52 Anything posted on Sucky Politics is, by definition, less than a “smackdown.”
@52 More like a sheep bleating in a wilderness where nobody hears.
@41
hey lee…do you still want to legalize things like crack and meth?
Actually, I want to legalize cocaine and amphetamines (two drugs that used to be commonly prescribed to people before being outlawed) so that its bastardized versions disappear.
i mean….what about the guy that threw his 4 kids off a bridge?
What about him?
his wife thought he had traded or SOLD them to get those drugs.
Why do we have a system that ends up with hyper-addictive drugs like meth whose prices are artificially inflated?
and don’t bother to say that IF they were legal it wouldn’t have happened.
Too late, I already did.
meth changes your brain.
You should try it then. What do you have to lose?
and they might be legalized but they won’t be FREE will they?
It depends. If I had to choose between a meth addict being given maintenance doses or worrying about whether he’ll steal my car, I don’t have to think too long on that.
he still would have done it……
Then what’s your point?
a syllogism:
Bush tortures human beings and kills civilians.
Piper knows this yet supports Bush.
Therefore Piper supports and enables torture and the killing of civilians..
Those vids you linked to were great, Piper. I marched many times with great pipe bands when I was in high school back in the 80’s. Just curious, but how long have you been marching? We may have marched at a parade or two when I was in school. Best guesses would be the Rhododendron Festival in Port Townsend and Victoria Day up in Victoria proper……
By the way, I didn’t expect you to get Stolen Babies right away. Challenging, adventurous music is something you just don’t find much of anymore in the pop/rock arena. I always refer to them the kind of band you’d see being the house band for a Tim Burton movie festival. Great sound, strong visual style.