A Christmas Wish

Lowaicue

Lowaicue

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John Lennon was murdered in New York thirty years ago. I have just listened, again, to 'Happy Christmas (War is Over)'.

Do you remember that? Happy Christmas. A celebration, for in our vain hearted wishes for the season, stood large the belief that one day, one day soon, war would be over.

Ironic then that the one country that has never taken that message seriously is the same one that killed the Beatle.

We must have been pretty dumb back then, flowers in rifle muzzles, wishes for peace, hopes for the, yet unborn, generations to come.

Now its 2010. Ten years into the century of the future. Our lives packed solid with goodies and gizmos and more to come.

Well, here's my wish for this Christmas.

This is specially for George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, Blair, Osama Bin Laden, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Shimon Perez, and every last mothers son (and daughter) who elected them (or allowed them to take power)
May everything you have ever wished upon those you often mistake for your enemies be brought back to you - in spades.

We, who appreciate a well managed peaceful planet, have more in common with each other, irrespective of colour or creed, than we have with our own leaders who take us blind to death in the name of whatever can of beans are being promoted at the moment.

To those peaceful people we raise a glass with the fervent hope that people like us will eventually prevail.
 
Why do liberals always throw out John Lennon's name? Like we should all strive to be like him; these so called compassionate liberals are the same type that are keeping Mark David Chapman, Lennon's killer from being paroled.

And why no mention of Obama' name, who is still keeping the war going?

Another confused liberal......
 
Lowaicue said:
John Lennon was murdered in New York thirty years ago. I have just listened, again, to 'Happy Christmas (War is Over)'.

Do you remember that? Happy Christmas. A celebration, for in our vain hearted wishes for the season, stood large the belief that one day, one day soon, war would be over.

Ironic then that the one country that has never taken that message seriously is the same one that killed the Beatle.

We must have been pretty dumb back then, flowers in rifle muzzles, wishes for peace, hopes for the, yet unborn, generations to come.

Now its 2010. Ten years into the century of the future. Our lives packed solid with goodies and gizmos and more to come.

Well, here's my wish for this Christmas.

This is specially for George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, Blair, Osama Bin Laden, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Shimon Perez, and every last mothers son (and daughter) who elected them (or allowed them to take power)
May everything you have ever wished upon those you often mistake for your enemies be brought back to you - in spades.

We, who appreciate a well managed peaceful planet, have more in common with each other, irrespective of colour or creed, than we have with our own leaders who take us blind to death in the name of whatever can of beans are being promoted at the moment.

To those peaceful people we raise a glass with the fervent hope that people like us will eventually prevail.
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I raise my glass to you, dear man, Merry Christmas!
 
webbway said:
Why do liberals always throw out John Lennon's name? Like we should all strive to be like him; these so called compassionate liberals are the same type that are keeping Mark David Chapman, Lennon's killer from being paroled.

And why no mention of Obama' name, who is still keeping the war going?

Another confused liberal......
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Sorry old bean. Not yank therefore not liberal (according to your definition)
Why Lennon? No reason save that it happened to be an anniversary that received considerable publicity on your side of the water and the irony attached. Why not Obama? What wars has he caused? What torture has he instigated/agreed with? Tell me and perhaps we'll put him on the list.
May your personal Christmas be in accordance with my first post.
 
Lowaicue said:
Sorry old bean. Not yank therefore not liberal (according to your definition)
Why Lennon? No reason save that it happened to be an anniversary that received considerable publicity on your side of the water and the irony attached. Why not Obama? What wars has he caused? What torture has he instigated/agreed with? Tell me and perhaps we'll put him on the list.
May your personal Christmas be in accordance with my first post.
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John Lennon was a man of peace, and thanks again, for reminding me.
 
Rana said:
John Lennon was a man of peace, and thanks again, for reminding me.
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I was reading something the other day where John Lennon was apparently going on about the high cost of living in the US and somebody quoted the words from Imagine, "imagine no possessions" and John said angrily it was just a song. Don't know how true that was, but there is another story that Yoko had rented another apartment in the Dakota, after John's death, just to keep all her furs in an air conditioned environment.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/john-by-cynthia-lennon-509685.html
 
tom prendergast said:
I was reading something the other day where John Lennon was apparently going on about the high cost of living in the US and somebody quoted the words from Imagine, "imagine no possessions" and John said angrily it was just a song. Don't know how true that was, but there is another story that Yoko had rented another apartment in the Dakota, after John's death, just to keep all her furs in an air conditioned environment.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/john-by-cynthia-lennon-509685.html
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Yes, materialism get us all after a while.
 
tom prendergast said:
I was reading something the other day where John Lennon was apparently going on about the high cost of living in the US and somebody quoted the words from Imagine, "imagine no possessions" and John said angrily it was just a song. Don't know how true that was, but there is another story that Yoko had rented another apartment in the Dakota, after John's death, just to keep all her furs in an air conditioned environment.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/john-by-cynthia-lennon-509685.html
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According to members of my family who knew him through Cynthia and their Art College days, he was like many other people. Good and bad. My wife, who worked at a L'Pool club in which they were appearing recounts a tale of the Beatles being forcibly ejected due to Lennons drunken behaviour.
He turned his back on many of his friends and treated his first wife rather shoddily.
Yoko has become something of a hate figure in some quarters.
But it was the sixties. We were all a bit wild I guess.
 
Lowaicue said:
John Lennon was murdered in New York thirty years ago. I have just listened, again, to 'Happy Christmas (War is Over)'.

Do you remember that? Happy Christmas. A celebration, for in our vain hearted wishes for the season, stood large the belief that one day, one day soon, war would be over.

Ironic then that the one country that has never taken that message seriously is the same one that killed the Beatle.

We must have been pretty dumb back then, flowers in rifle muzzles, wishes for peace, hopes for the, yet unborn, generations to come.

Now its 2010. Ten years into the century of the future. Our lives packed solid with goodies and gizmos and more to come.

Well, here's my wish for this Christmas.

This is specially for George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, Blair, Osama Bin Laden, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Shimon Perez, and every last mothers son (and daughter) who elected them (or allowed them to take power)
May everything you have ever wished upon those you often mistake for your enemies be brought back to you - in spades.

We, who appreciate a well managed peaceful planet, have more in common with each other, irrespective of colour or creed, than we have with our own leaders who take us blind to death in the name of whatever can of beans are being promoted at the moment.

To those peaceful people we raise a glass with the fervent hope that people like us will eventually prevail.
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Hear, hear. :clink:
 
Lowaicue said:
According to members of my family who knew him through Cynthia and their Art College days, he was like many other people. Good and bad. My wife, who worked at a L'Pool club in which they were appearing recounts a tale of the Beatles being forcibly ejected due to Lennons drunken behaviour.
He turned his back on many of his friends and treated his first wife rather shoddily.
Yoko has become something of a hate figure in some quarters.
But it was the sixties. We were all a bit wild I guess.
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Exactly what I've read about him, in fact, just read Pattie Boyd's autobiography a few weeks ago and she's another who confirmed the above.

I don't hate Yoko but she creeps me out. I've always wondered if she loved John or just loved what John's celebrity brought her.
 
christiefan915 said:
Exactly what I've read about him, in fact, just read Pattie Boyd's autobiography a few weeks ago and she's another who confirmed the above.

I don't hate Yoko but she creeps me out. I've always wondered if she loved John or just loved what John's celebrity brought her.
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She is weird and I have never liked her, she broke the Beatles up!
 
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