A musical interlude for your Wednesday.
With Chris Christie-sized apologies to Simon and Garfunkel, submitted for your entertainment is an adaptation of their classic, “Bridge Over Troubled Waters”, dedicated to New Jersey’s current governor and future convict.
BRIDGE INTO TROUBLED WATERS
When you’re Christie
Stealing all
When schemes are in your eye
(The FB)I will find them allTime’s not on your side
When crimes get rough
And alibis just won’t come
Like a bridge into troubled water
I will play me dumb
Like a bridge into troubled water
I will play me dumbWhen you’re bound to run
When you’re in the lead
When polling falls so hard
(The FB)I will come for youYou’ll take the fall
When subpoenas come
And claims made by a chum
Like a bridge into troubled water
I will play me dumb
Like a bridge into troubled water
I will play me dumbRail on Surrogate Guys,
Rail on by
Your time is done to shill
The Fed teams are on their waySee how they smile
If you need false hope
Fox’s sailing right behind
But like a bridge into troubled water
It’s downhill this time
Like a bridge into troubled water
It’s downhill this time
Oops!
Christie’s campaign, NJ GOP face federal subpoenas
http://news.yahoo.com/christie-39-campaign-nj-gop-face-federal-subpoenas-072804886.html
Thanks for the link, Kalima, and the
subpoenas couldn’t come to a more
“deserving” bully and thug,
masquerading as an honest man
and governor!
Is that rumbling sound the coming avalanche about to fall on Christie…or Christie’s shredder? My prediction now is that he’s going to be nailed.
Sorry CCR!
I see a Fat Man Writhing,
I see trouble on the way,
Traffic jams to the horizon,
I see bad times all day.
He’s so round tonight,
But he’s in a lot of strife,
There’s a Fat Man on the writhe!
When Sandy Hurricane was blowin’,
He took credit for the fix,
Unless you didn’t quite endorse him,
Well then, the funds for you are NIX!
Chorus.
Good morning,pinkpantheroz,
I was thinking of trying my hand at adapting the lyrics of a popular song to reflect the woes of the bridge-blocking, strong-arm, bullyboy tactics of the Christie Cabal — but no more.
You’ve just done it to perfection, and you can’t be topped. To attempt it now would be to bring coals to Newcastle or, more to the point, like blocking the remaining open approach lane from Fort Lee to the George Washington Bridge.
Wow, pinkpanther, just WOW! 🙂
EDIT:
And you don’t need to say “Sorry” to Creedence Clearwater Revival — they would be in awe and applaud your version!
You are incredibly kind, noman. Blush!
Thank you for the compliment,
pinkpantheroz. But I just call them
as I see ’em, and you’re incredibly
talented.
And BTW, if you haven’t noticed it
yet, please see the edit to my original
accolade to you above.
You’re even more generous! Maybe we can meet in Vox Pop tomorrow? It is a pleasure writing here, in comparison to that Site That Has No Name! Hope you’re enjoying it as well.
Well, it has just gone 2.00 am here in Melbourne, so I’m off to bed. Cheerio everyone for now.
Thank you again. I’ll look for you on Vox Pop tomorrow; but when its 2:00 AM in Melbourne, it’s 9:00 AM the day before where I am, close to the geographical center of the Continental U.S., so I’m not sure if we’ll make contact there!
I certainly am also enjoying writing here in comparison to “that Site That Has No Name”
…and Dares Not Say It!
I don’t think we met there. I was No Man Is An Island there as well. What, if I may ask, was
your screen name?
Good on you, and cheerio!
I don’t know if you saw my post of 8:37 AM U.S. CST yet,
but being on opposite sides of
the International Date Line
may be causing a mix up for us
in regard to Vox Pop.
It’s Saturday afternoon in the U.S., and it appears Vox Pop starts at 7:00 PM PST on Fridays. So if I don’t catch
you before then, I hope to see
you there NEXT Friday night, our time!
Noman, I’m replying to your query here, because there wasn’t a reply button on your last post. Yes, I saw you You-know-where, and had my handle, pinkpantheroz, the same there.
Maybe we didn’t share interests, but I do remember your handle coming up.
Thanks. It was fine to reply
here, and I’ve run into the no-reply button situation myself a number of times and done as you just did!
I don’t think I saw your handle
coming up you-know-where, but I might have in the 11 months I posted.
At any rate, I’m very glad to meet you now. Who said clouds
never have silver linings?
Unless you’re a very early bird
— it’s 3:35 A.M. in Melbourne
as I type these words — you’re
not up yet, but good morning
to you when you are, and I’ll
try to see you on Vox Pop
— I know about it but haven’t
been there yet.
PPO – that’s wonderful, too! I’m going to be humming all these songs all day long.
Ah, kudps pink. The “Dude,” would be proud.
Brilliant and hilarious, PPO!
If anyone would have a bad moon, it would be Christie.
UGH! (Don’t know what you call it there, but mooning here means showing your bare butt to someone, and Christies, would be HUGE!)
Over here we call it the same thing — our language differences aren’t THAT great.
And by the way, CCR’s “Bad Moon Rising” is one
of my favorite pop songs of all time!
PPO – That was my joke, it means the same here.
It would eclipse the moon, in fact!
Perfect lyrics for an incredible event presided over by someone who thought he walked on that water.
Thanks, Ad Lib. And thanks for the Lt.Gov’s speech – I saw it when it ran on the news and was whomperjawed at her “performance” that, yes, was clearly scripted and untrue.
Scandal after scandal on the Right, all of them federal charges so they’re not just walking away unscathed as state charges might allow. These folks are taking their medicine, and to quote another song, no “Spoonful of Sugar” will help them.
Hubris is a terrible thing.
Very well said, choicelady — and I’m in complete agreement
with you save for “These folks are taking their medicine.”
As they continue to pile lie upon lie and expect us to believe them, they aren’t taking their medicine at all. But if they
come to trial on federal corruption charges and are convicted
and sent up the river, THEN they will take their medicine, and
poetic justice will be theirs and ours, too.
NoMan, that is what they do. Lie until people start to believe it. They believe that if you tell a lie enough times it becomes truth. We know better though.
Of course that’s what they do, Nirek. While they’re too young to have studied at the club foot of the late and very unlamented Joseph Goebbels, nevertheless they have proved apt students and users of his Big Lie technique.
We certainly do know better, and so will
many federal juries — which will be kept
busy for some time hearing the cases of
official corruption that should soon come cascading down on Christie and his
cowardly cronies.
CL – Nothing but hubris and deceit spilling out of the Christie Admin, a preface to collapse, methinks.
“Wronger Than The Storm” works for me!
Thanks NoMan! I’d charge Christie for coming up with it but he’d insist in starring in the advertisement for it.
Okay, we’ve all been around the block. We’ve seen children, adults and politicians (a combination of both) lie. We know the forced and awkward clues of lying and liars.
Listen to Christie’s Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno. Have you ever heard a more rehearsed, more forced and less genuine sounding denial from a politician?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzZp2HdQVBU#t=97
IMO and with years of experience in seeing people lie, she is so obviously lying it’s kind of absurd. This means that there will continue to be corroborating statements and evidence showing her participation in extortion of Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer. Whether it rises to guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and can be prosecuted and won, remains to be seen but it does mean there is doubtless a trail of extortion and corruption that will continue to be uncovered and one if not more may stick to her and Christie.
Even if not, the preponderance of instances where corruption and abuse of power are alleged will grow and stain Christie and Guadagno indelibly.
Christie’s presidential hopes are over now, even though he won’t allow himself to accept it. He and his administration will be the poster child for Republican politicians as corrupt leaders and no way would the party want that to be the face of their party.
Can you imagine the attack ads that would pummel him? He’d be destroyed in a GE for sure, let alone the GOP primary.
Sometimes there is justice and this over-inflated bully is getting his.
I particularly liked the way she said “whole heartedly”. Wow. Send that woman some $$ for acting lessons, will ya? – AB
AB, same here, the delivery of “wholeheartedly” was no-heartedly, the phoniest delivery of that word I’ve ever heard.
How someone can lie so plainly and hugely is astounding. Sure hope there’s enough evidence to put her wholeheartedly in prison.
She should be made to take a lie detector test!
Or speak under oath like the Mayor.
I had to sort of settle myself down before I could even respond to that video clip, AdLib. Because for some unknown reason, I have a very visceral negative reaction to women like this. She’s in the Sarah Palin/Michelle Bachmann mould, and they tend to really hit a nerve with me.
Forced is the word for it. Rehearsed. You can tell that she’s taken lessons in public speaking that emphasized diction, pitch, intonation and volume level over honesty and sincerity. And like virtually all of Christie’s associates, she comes across as a patronizing, preachy, condescending bully.
The question that always seems so logical to me in situations like this is: What would the mayor of Hoboken stand to gain from making this up? Maybe I’m not getting something, but to me the answer seems to be — nothing but a lot of headaches. Which leads me to think that she’s telling the truth.
We’ve all had bad bosses, teachers, family members, flight attendants and tour guides who’ve acted like this. They assume that they’re speaking to malicious idiots and address everyone as though that’s what they are. (Possibly too much time spent looking in the mirror?)
Maybe her next job will be as a lecturer in a third-rate wax museum in Somalia? We can only hope.
very well said, Kesmarn! As Sir Walter Scott said in “Marmion,”
Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
As for Guadagno’s next job: rather than a lecturer in a third-rate wax museum in Somalia, I’d suggest an EXHIBIT in said museum!
Heh! She looks like she’s already half-way there, NoManIsAnIsland. In fact, I’ve seen wax figures and animatronics that looked more animated than she is!
Right you are, kesmarn. A wax
figure with a speaker in its
mouth would have looked more
animated, and made a more
convincing liar, than the real
Guadagno did.
It’s a fair cop, kesmarn. I could watch only a minute and twenty-five seconds of Guadagno’s prevaricating before rising tides of nausea made me stop.
Before she even said a word, the droop of her head gave her away, and her hangdog expression and sepulchral delivery — not to mention the mournful and intimidated expressions of the undoubtedly dragooned mayors standing behind her — only confirmed she was lying through her teeth!
I have only one word to add: Yuck!
Spot on, AdLib!
I have no doubt she’s lying, Ad. All the clues are there in spades.
I love how she emphasizes that NO QUESTIONS will be allowed. I would want to ask, why would the mayor lie about this whole thing? I would also ask where is the money that was withheld by Captain Chubbs and his merry band of misfits.
KT, the reason she doesn’t allow any questions is because it took all of her brainpower to learn the script she trotted out. Having to think of replies – well, too much! I must say I do love the way pollies refuse to answer or take questions and the media meekly complies. She works for US! WE should demand that they answer, and if the answer is a proven lie, great! Gotcha!
Excellent point pink. You are absolutely right. How can the press just buckle under her “command,” that there will be no questions allowed? As you say, she works for us, not the other way around.
A real journalist would have asked questions regardless of her dictates.
She reminds me of a librarian reading a story to little children. What does she keep looking down at?
Hi, escribacat,
I don’t think it’s so much what she keeps looking down at as what she keeps looking down because OF. She’s a miserable liar and knows it; and whatever vestige of a conscience she has is forcing her to look down in shame at her decision to stick with Christie rather than cop to her share of the blame of George Washington Bridgegate and associated crimes.
The notes scribbled on her palms?
Just had a chance to watch this and wonder if she practiced this often in front of a mirror before she spilled out her obvious lies. I have a built in bs detector, ask AdLib. It’s starts with a burning sensation at the back of my throat, and then moves like a small electric shook to the back of my neck. It was going off at full speed from beginning to end of this video.
The last thing I read about this is that the mayor had paper proof and had handed it to the investigating authorities. This bad actress has just called the mayor a barefaced liar in public, can’t wait for the fallout of doing this on top of everything else now surrounding Christie. Should be quite a show.
By the way, in the main graphic is that Christie claiming his portion at the snack table?
Absolutely precious AdLib, and as clever and astute as always. Loved it and thank you for the laugh. 😆
Thanks so much, Kalima! Always enjoy making you smile!
Very well said, AdLib! I hope we’ll see soon if Christie can take it
as well as he dishes it out, though I rather doubt he will.
Thanks so much, NoManIsAnIsland!
Agreed, like most bullies, they can only dish it out. His cowardly acts of throwing his staff under the bus and squirming every which way he can to avoid responsibility tells me that if he’s nailed as I think he eventually will be, he will break down like a 5 year old caught stealing from the cookie jar.
You’re very welcome, AdLib! It’s been quite I while since we talked, and it’s good to do it again.
It would be really pathetic, but I think I could
steel myself into watching Christie’s maudlin confession!
And BTW, I’m completely sure Christie WILL be nailed eventually, or my name isn’t Genghis Khan. Well, my name really isn’t Genghis Khan — but Christie will be found out.
While I know I’m probably the last person Christie would take advice from, at some point he should realize he’s dug himself into such deep trouble already, the last thing he needs is to keep shoveling!
It has been a while and very nice to chat again, indeed!
Since he is that bully/coward combination, I don’t think we’ll ever see him step up courageously and admit what he’s done just to end the madness, he will cling to his lies till the end and even then, blame others including those who caught him and were victimized by him.
So if your name isn’t Genghis Kahn, doesn’t that mean he will be caught? The logic works for me!
YES, it does mean he will be
caught — and I’m glad the
logic works for you! 🙂
Pretty funny Ad.
Another line may be, “A lap band round a troubled waistline.”
KT – Very funny!
BTW, my alternative line for the ending was:
“Like a bridge into troubled waters,
You will do some time.”
Now, after hearing on Maddow that the FBI is interviewing aides of the Mayor of Hoboken on the Christie Admin trying to extort her into approving a development for a Christie donor in order to get Sandy funds.
If this is proven, it is a major and federal crime and Christie could be wearing an XXXXL orange jumpsuit. Fascinated to see how this develops.
AdLib, I like your alternative ending line MUCH
MORE!
And BTW, I think Christie will, not “would,” look
great in Federal Orange — much more in keeping
with his true character. 😉
NoManIsAnIsland, I would have stuck with that original wording had the news come out earlier that the FBI was investigating the charge by the Hoboken mayor.
My only concern about Christie being convicted of corruption is how much money the taxpayers of NJ will have to pay for making a prison jumpsuit with that much fabric.
I take your point, AdLib. But since
a conviction on charges of
corruption — not to mention his
imprisonment — would put a rather
large dent in Christie’s presidential
ambitions (like scotching them
forever — as convicted felons can’t
run for the presidency), I think
grateful citizens from coast would
be more than happy to contribute
towards the cost of Christie’s
prison ten– I mean jumpsuit, of
course — thereby lessening the
financial burden on New Jerseyans
or New Jerseyites, whichever you
prefer!
But think how many families could be housed with the material used to make Christie’s prison jumpsuit.
Sill, you’re right, I would be happy to contribute to that fund and help bail out NJ on this natural disaster called Superstorm Christie.
What catchphrase should we use for this? Wronger Than The Storm?
Noman, I’ve a nice used dayglo orange Spinnaker from my old 37foot racer that might just be enough. I’ll gladly donate it! AND, there might be enough left for her as well.
Now that Christie’s apparently had his bariatric surgery, the spinnaker could just fit him.
But it might be a stretch — literally — for it to still fit Kim Guadagno, too!
Christie: “what are you doing in my orange jumpsuit?”
Sandy Survivor: ‘I live here!”
LOL, pinkpantheroz!
Well, if it is dark orange, he’d look like a basketball with a thyroid problem! 😉
Coming from a woman with a few to lose herself, does this mean “Fat is the New Orange”? Just the image alone…how does one tell the inmate from the outfit in this situation?
Heh! Or maybe, “Orange is the New Blackmail”?
Oh, Christie will standout in prison, especially when they try to find a cell that he’ll fit in.
Ad, I would love to see Christie do some time. His goose is already cooked as far as any presidential possibilities go.
Love it, AdLib! Hey this is fun.
Can I try one for Ohio’s own John Boehner?
Let’s stick with the Simon and Garfunkel theme. How about “59th Street Bridge Song”? Otherwise known as “Feelin’ Groovy”?
LOL! Very well done kes. Kudos.
You nailed it, Kesman, and you nailed Boozener — I meant Boehner. Yeah, that’s the ticket, I meant Boehner!
😉
Hey Kes, I think you’ve got a hit there! Number one with a Boehner!
Really well done and funny, Kes! Loved it!
Kes, that was great. I sang it in my head and it works great!
Thanks so much for the kind words, Nirek and friends. It was fun.
Priceless, AdLib! Beats the Bachmann Tenament Symphony all ends up!
PPO – Maybe for her we should do a Bachmann Teabag Overdrive song, “Not Takin’ Care of Business”.
Too funny!
“I will play me dumb”
Simon and Garfunkle would be proud.
Thanks Nirek! A big compliment, indeed! Wonder if they’d like the theme song I’ve picked for Christie’s Presidential run, “The Sounds of Silence”?