http://aroundotown.blogspot.com/2009/06/youre-missing-point-jon-boy.html

Here is an excerpt:

“Jon Bon Jovi also did a concert earlier this year to try and help raise money for Hillary Clinton so that she could pay off her campaign debt, which most likely indicates that he also voted for “change”. Ponder the surrealism of that for a moment.”

You cna read the rest at the above link.

Freedom is won with blood, not celebrity songs and bumper stickers.

Just like a Hummer with a “Choose Life” bumper sticker. Same exact thing.

Stop appeasing the ayatollahs

By Daniel Hannan World Last updated: July 3rd, 2009

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Last week, Iran committed an act of war against the United Kingdom. How else are we to describe the seizure of our embassy staff? Indeed, such outrages don’t usually occur even in wars. If, say, Venezuela and Colombia were to initiate hostilities tomorrow, we could reasonably assume that diplomatic personnel would be safely evacuated through neutral countries. It happened even during the Second World War, when mutually hostile ideologies sought to extirpate each other.

How did Her Majesty’s Government respond to this unprovoked attack? It called in the Iranian Ambassador for a jolly severe ticking off. There was a time when Britain would have sent gunboats to the Gulf. Oh, hang on: we already have gunboats in the Gulf. The Iranians attacked one of them last year – the deployment of coercive force against uniformed British Servicemen on HMS Cornwall was an even clearer act of war – and, once again, we let them get away with it.

That’s the thing about nasty regimes: concessions embolden them. Do you remember the very first act of the Islamic Revolution thirty years ago? It was the seizure of another embassy, that of the US. The mullahs were deliberate in their choice of target: by signalling their disregard for territorial jurisdiction, they were announcing that they answered to a higher authority than international law.

They got away with it, too. At the same moment, an anti-revolutionary group seized the Iranian legation in London. Our response? To take the building back, our SAS men sliding down its sides like spiders on their threads, and then return it with a cheque covering the damages incurred during the siege. Unsurprisingly, the ayatollahs concluded that they could have it both ways, being accorded the courtesies of a sovereign state without having to reciprocate.

They have comported themselves accordingly ever since, backing militia groups from the Balkans to the Silk Road khanates, arming Hamas and Hezbollah, sponsoring terrorism as far afield as Buenos Aires. All revolutions tend to spill out from behind their boundaries, to seek to replicate themselves abroad. The Iranian Revolution is going the way of the French and Russian Revolutions, disregarding national frontiers, playing by a different set of rules.

Diplomats purr and soothe and mutter about “the dangers of escalation”. But what about the dangers of non-escalation? We tried humouring the mullahs, sending Jack Straw to Teheran every other week. But they showed little sign of softening, seizing our Royal Marines and, later, supplying the insurgent groups shooting at our forces in Basra. If anything, the Iranian regime is becoming more bellicose, more paranoid and more repressive. Oh, and it’s three years away from acquiring the Bomb.

It costs you nothing, makes you feel good and proves you’re a Good Person.

In the end, Tibet and Iran are still under the jack boot of tyrants.

Freedom is won with blood, not celebrity songs and bumper stickers.

A pop star, as much as a politician,(at least these days), needs to remain relevant in order to avoid becoming a one-hit wonder…That’s their currency…You can put a money value on it, in life and in death, (see Michael Jackson)Thus there is an inherent fiduciary motive to invest their interests into politics…….if not to create such relevancy, (see U2 and Springsteen’s participation in Obama’s inauguration, hocking their new albums), then to have first shot and a wider scope of information concerning such relevant opportunities where they may occur. Insider trading. Wall Street 101.
The fanatical, meglo-maniacal prone pop stars will tack that course with moral impunity…Rational ones see the enmity in the trade-off an’ take their bows to the bargain bin…They say to themselves…”America was good to me…I got a little sumethin”….They don’t demand more…They aren’t in it for “e’rything”.

Praising the worm-like effort of a middle aged hair band ’singer’? And doing cover no less! Wow, maybe he and the atrocious band that picked up in the 90’s where Bon Jovi led, Goo Goo Dolls can do a cover of ‘We Are the World’.

Apparently Giovanni’s (his real name.. sad excuse for a fellow paison) arena football team isn’t making enough dividends and is doing this for ‘The Greater Good’ (thank you ala ‘Hot Fuzz’).

Jon, with his big, feathery hair who helped ruin MTV’s Headbanger’s Ball eons ago. Now he’s pimping supposed do-gooderism for the unfortunates?

Hmmmm, why not sell all but one of the houses you own and provide that money to these poor souls? What a joke..

Better yet, Jon should have 100% of the proceeds from his next album bequethed to these folks. This way were inundated with great, lyrical works such as, ‘Have A Nice Day’, ‘Dead or Alive’ and myriad of other garbage this poser/ opportunist has released.

Oh well, never underestimate people’s bad taste in music, bloviated admiration of celebs. Mr. Mauro, you’ve succumbed to being in the latter camp.